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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 .
Winner, 1972 Thomas Austin Preston Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim , was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets . He won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.
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]
In 1972, the A's won their first league pennant since 1931 and faced the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. The A's seven-game victory over the heavily favored Reds gave the team its first World Series Championship since 1930. Of the four wins against the Reds, three of them occurred in Cincinnati, and all four Series victories were by a ...
Amarillo Slim, winner of 1972 WSOP main event. The 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held during May 1972 at the Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, Nevada. [1] It was the third annual installment of the World Series of Poker, and also the second one to feature the freezeout structure.
The A's won three consecutive World Series titles, including in 1973, with Reggie Jackson leading the charge. The Warriors were NBA champions in 1975, and the Raiders won the Super Bowl in 1977 ...
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 ...
The contrast between the Athletics and their opponents, the Cincinnati Reds, in the 1972 World Series led to it being dubbed "The Hairs vs. the Big Squares" (with Oakland referred to as the former). Cincinnati, later dubbed the Big Red Machine, was making its second World Series appearance in three years, having played in 1970 Fall Classic. In ...