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The 1972 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1972 season. The 69th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. The Athletics won in seven games for their sixth World Series championship .
December 31 – Roberto Clemente, 38, Pittsburgh Pirates' right fielder since 1955 and a national hero of Puerto Rico; a lifetime .317 hitter, 12-time All-Star and winner of 12 Gold Gloves who was a four-time batting champion and the NL's 1966 MVP; collected his 3,000th regular-season hit September 30; two-time (1960, 1971) World Series ...
This was the first postseason meeting between the Tigers and Athletics. Despite blowing a 2–0 series lead, the Athletics narrowly defeated the Tigers to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1931, when the team was still based out of Philadelphia (in the process denying a rematch of the 1940 World Series between the Tigers and Reds).
22 April - Czechoslovakia defeats the Soviet Union to win the 1972 Ice Hockey World Championships. 11 May - The Boston Bruins defeat the New York Rangers 3–0 to win the 1972 Stanley Cup Finals four games to two. 14 May - The Cornwall Royals defeat the Peterborough Petes to win the 1972 Memorial Cup Canadian amateur ice hockey junior men's ...
The 1977 World Series marked the first time that the participating teams' local announcers were not featured [22] as booth announcers on the network telecast of a World Series. 1977 was also the first year in which one announcer (in this case, ABC's Keith Jackson) provided all of the play-by-play for a World Series telecast. In previous years ...
The 1972 Big League World Series took place from August 14–19 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Orlando , Florida defeated Inglewood , California in the championship game. Teams
Ole Miss swept Oklahoma to claim its first ever Men's College World Series title.
The 1943 World Series between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals was the first to have an accompanying World Series highlight film. Initially, the films were created as gifts to troops fighting in World War II, to give them a brief recap of baseball action back home.