Your favorite World Series moment is undoubtedly different from your friend's. Or ours. The team you root for has a lot to do with making an October moment memorable. Few World Series highlights transcend rooting interest, but NBCSports.com has tried to find 10 that are indisputable.
It still was a tough list to compile, but here are our choices, in chronological order. It will take something special from the 2008 Fall Classic to crack this Top 10.
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Mine is 2006, when Adam Wainwright struck out Brandon Inge of Detroit to win the World Series for St. Louis. A close second is the NLCS of that same year, when he struck out Carlos Beltran of the Mets with the bases loaded to get them into the Series
Adam Wainwright strikes out Brandon inge to record the final out in Game Five, 2006. The way the whole team piled on him as they celebrated is undoubtedly my favorite moment. Close second is also in 2006, in the NLCS, when Wainwright struck out Carlos Beltran with a wicked curveball (with the bases loaded) to send St. Louis to the World Series.
Ann, are you a relative of Adam Wainwright? :)
No, just a die hard St. Louis Cardinals fan. Like everybody else, my favorite World Series moment is tied to my home team, and these were the two moments in 2006 that stuck out the most. Wainwright just happened to be on the mound for both of them.
This was not a single "great moment", but it was perhaps the greatest demonstration of pitching prowess in Series history...when the Dodgers swept the Yankees in the 1963 Series, with Drysdale-Koufax-Drysdale-Koufax pitching four complete games back-to-back, against the likes of a Yankees lineup that still included both Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, as well as a host of other fencebusters some of whom were even warming the bench! As I recall, no team got more than two runs in any game of the series, and the final game ended 2-1 Dodgers, with all three runs being home runs; the lone Yankees run was hit by Mantle.
The greatest thing I ever saw was in the 1960 World Series, when Bill Mazeroski cinched the title for Pittsburgh with a game-winning home run off New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry. It was the first time a World Series had ever been ended by a home run, and remains the Championship's only Game 7 walk-off. The 13 year-old fan who caught the ball traded it to Mazeroski for two cases of beer, after which the ball was placed in the Hall of Fame. The video link from the Baseball Hall of Fame is enclosed:
Sorry if anyone is offended but this is idiotic. The World Series is the World Series no matter if it is 2008 or 1908.
Relegating pre-1969 incidents to Honorable Mention is a disgrace.
Gotta stick with Mazeroski's Homer in 1960. Yanks bludgeoned the Pirates 3X and the big underdog Bucs squeaked out 4 wins.
I was 5 years old when Don Larsen tossed his PERFECT GAME in 1956 and in 1960 Bill Mazeroski broke my heart along with the hearts of every Yankee fan on the planet. I can't believe that these World Series or any of the pre-1969 games gets only an Honorable Mention. Baseball history encompasses every game ever played not some pre-selected handful of games. You guys need to do your homework. EVERY WORLD SERIES STANDS ON IT'S OWN AS EXCITING AND UNIQUE. THAT'S WHY WE FANS LOVE THE GAME.