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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 .
Head coach Doug Barkley won just 3 of the first 11 games before being replaced by Johnny Wilson. [1]During his first season for Detroit in 1971–72, Marcel Dionne set an NHL record for scoring by a rookie with 77 points.
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).
While the network had occasionally aired a limited number of Monday night games in past seasons, 1972 was the first year that NBC signed a contract for a regular slate of Monday Night Baseball. [28] The network continued to air the weekend Game of the Week, the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series.
October 2: The Tigers and Red Sox started a three-game series in Detroit with Boston ahead by a half game. In the first game, Mickey Lolich struck out 15 Red Sox batters. Detroit won, 4–1, in front of a crowd of 51,518 at Tiger Stadium. Al Kaline and Aurelio Rodríguez both hit home runs, and the Tigers moved ahead of the Red Sox by a half game.
It was twelve years until Detroit returned to the postseason, when they won the 1984 World Series in five games. Since this 1972 ALCS, the Tigers and Athletics have met three times in the postseason, with Detroit winning all three: a four-game sweep in 2006 , and winning a pair of decisive fifth games in Oakland in 2012 and 2013 .
Darryl Glen Sittler (born September 18, 1950) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1970 until 1985 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Detroit Red Wings.