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The 1982 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1982 season. The 79th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals and the American League (AL) champion Milwaukee Brewers. The Cardinals won the series, four games to three.
A new documentary about the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers — to date, still the only Brewers team to play in a World Series — will have its big-screen debut exclusively at 12 Marcus Theatres in ...
A new documentary on the only Milwaukee Brewers team (so far) to make it to the World Series shows that there are still new stories to tell. 7 things you might not know about the 1982 Brewers ...
This was the first World Series since 1968 to not feature a team from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, or California. This was the first time the World Series was played in the state of Wisconsin since 1958, when the then-Milwaukee Braves, the defending World Series champions, were defeated by the New York Yankees in seven games. It was ...
The St. Louis Cardinals win the 1982 World Series over the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games. Catcher Darrell Porter is selected the Series MVP, making him the first player to be chosen as the MVP in both the LCS and World Series in the same season. This was the Cardinals' first World Series championship since 1967.
In the summer of 1982, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” led the box office, “Dallas” topped the Nielsen rankings and Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n ...
On May 6, 1982, Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners became the fifteenth pitcher to win three hundred games when Seattle defeated the NY Yankees 7–3 at the Kingdome. On May 30, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays the first of what would become a record-breaking 2,632 consecutive games by starting at third base against the Toronto ...
Paul Molitor set a World Series record with his fifth hit in the 9th inning of Game 1. Robin Yount would set another record in the 7th inning of Game 5 by becoming the first player in Series history to have two four-hit games in one Series. Cardinals catcher Darrell Porter was given the Series MVP award.