The 2002 baseball season saw Shawn Green become the 14th player to hit four home runs in a major-league game (with a record 19 total bases), Mike Bordick set the all-time record for consecutive errorless games and chances by a shortstop, and the sudden, tragic death of pitcher Darryl Kile. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Anaheim Angels (99-63) face off (again) against the National League Champion San Francisco Giants (95-66) . . .
World Series Time Machine: 1923
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) . . .
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