The 1923 baseball season saw the opening of Yankee Stadium, the 100th career shutout for Walter Johnson while Ty Cobb was taking the top spot on the all-time runs scored list, and the recently-proud Philadelphia Athletics suffering the dual indignities of being no-hit twice in a span of four days and being defeated for the twenty-fourth consecutive time by pitcher Carl Mays. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion New York Yankees (98-54) face off (again) against the National League Champion New York Giants (95-58) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1959
The regular season of 1959 ended a bit late, as it required the fourth pennant tiebreaker in the game's history, but there was certainly enough going on to justify a few extra days on the schedule: the White Sox scored eleven runs in an inning, on a single hit; a record 93,000 fans (a mark which would stand for almost fifty years) packed the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles for "Roy Campanella Night"; Harvey Haddix pitched perfect ball into the 13th inning; and the Red Sox became the last big-league team to break the color barrier when Pumpsie Green appeared in a game in July. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Chicago White Sox (94-60) face off (again) against the National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers (88-68) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1993
The final season of two-division play brought expansion to Denver and Miami (and almost 4.5 million fans through the turnstiles in the former), a four-homer 12-RBI game from Mark Whiten, a record-tying four five-hit games from Tony Gwynn, saw Dave Winfield become the first player to reach the 3000-hit club at an indoor venue and witnessed a legendary NL West divisional race. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Toronto Blue Jays (95-67) face off (again) against the National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies (97-65) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1937
Joe Medwick became the game's fourth Triple Crown winner in five seasons, Augie Galan became the first NL player to ever homer from both sides of the plate in the same game, and Carl Hubbell completed a streak of 24 consecutive winning decisions that had begun the previous season. Less auspiciously, the Cincinnati Reds ended the season with a fourteen-game losing streak, and on May 6th the airship Hindenburg flew over ballgames at Ebbets Field and Polo Grounds just hours before exploding in Lakehurst, New Jersey with the loss of 36 lives. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion New York Yankees (102-52) face off (again) against the National League New York Giants (95-57) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1925
The game continued its transition from the dead ball to the live ball and, boy, had things become lively - overall batting averages had climbed above .290 in both Leagues and teams were now averaging more than five runs per game (despite Babe Ruth missing the first quarter of the season following an emergency ulcer operation). In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Washington Nationals (96-55) face off (again) against the National League Pittsburgh Pirates (95-58) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 2010
The 2010 baseball season was something of a "Year of the Pitcher", with six no-hitters (including two perfect games, and one that should have been), the most shutouts in forty years, and a record-tying fifteen pitchers notching at least 200 strikeouts. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Texas Rangers (90-72) face off (again) against the National League Champion San Francisco Giants (92-70) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1963
It was a momentous year of change outside of baseball - the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the civil rights movement march on Washington in search of a "Dream" and Beatlemania sweeping the UK on its way across the world - but on the diamond, two old and familiar foes found their way to the Fall Classic once again, as the American League Champion New York Yankees (104-57) face off (again) against the National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers (99-63) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1941
It was a summer of legends - Joe DiMaggio hit safely in an unthinkable 56 consecutive games and Ted Williams hit .406 with a 6-for-8 performance on the season's final afternoon. Two one-hundred win behemoths also powered their way to pennants, as the American League Champion New York Yankees (101-53) face off (again) against the National League Champion Brooklyn Dodgers (100-54) in the first-ever Subway Series between the two New York clubs . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1973
The big story of the 1973 season was the advent of the designated hitter in the American League, as MLB tried to hasten the game's recovery from the pitching-dominated environment of the late 1960s. After both League Championship Series went to a do-or-die fifth game, the American League Champion Oakland Athletics (94-68) face off (again) against the National League Champion New York Mets (82-79), and the grip that hurlers held on the game wasn't going to be loosened quite so easily . . .
AC Milan 2023/24 replay - 13a giornata
25 November 2023: Fiorentina, now firmly established as a top-half club in Serie A, come to Milan looking for a signature win while the rossoneri would simply settle for putting two wins back-to-back. It won't be a first-choice side for Milan, with both Leao and Giroud missing from the attack, so where will the goals come from? Pulisic, Reijnders and Chukwueze will be expected to make up the slack . . .
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