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The 1989 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1989 season. The 86th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants. The Series ran from October 14 through October 28 ...
The playoffs began on October 3, 1989, and concluded on October 28, 1989, with the Athletics sweeping the Giants to win their first World Series title since 1974. The series became marred by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which caused major damage to both Oakland and San Francisco, as well as Candlestick Park where Games 3 and 4 were played.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
The 1989 World Series featured the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants in the first cross-town World Series since 1956. Game 3 of the series was scheduled to begin at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17 at 5:35 PDT, and American television network ABC began its pre-game show at 5:00 PDT.
The 1989 American League Championship Series was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 1989 postseason played between the Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays from October 3 to 8. A dominant Oakland team took the Series four games to one, en route to a sweep of their cross-bay rivals, the San Francisco Giants , in a World Series ...
October 17 – Game 3 of the World Series is postponed due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, which struck immediately before the game was set to begin. It would be rescheduled for ten days later, on October 27. October 28 – The Oakland Athletics complete a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, the first Series sweep ...
The biggest companies in 1989 by market capitalization. 1. Industrial Bank of Japan: $104.3 billion ... Six of the 10 biggest companies in the world at the time were Japanese. ... But if history ...