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The 1975 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1975 season. The 72nd edition of the World Series , it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds .
This was the first postseason meeting between the Red Sox and Athletics. The Red Sox shockingly swept the three-time defending World Series champion Athletics to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1967. Luis Tiant pitched a complete game for the Red Sox as they blew out the Athletics, 7–1, in Game 1. In Game 2, the Athletics ...
Carlton Fisk's 1975 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series on October 21, 1975, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6, forcing a deciding seventh game, when Carlton Fisk hit a home run in the 12th inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever play
This was the last season that NBC was the exclusive national TV broadcaster of MLB, airing the weekend Game of the Week, Monday Night Baseball, the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series. Beginning in 1976, MLB would split the TV rights between NBC and ABC.
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On September 1, 1975, NBC's last Monday Night Baseball game, in which the Montréal Expos beat the host Philadelphia Phillies 6–5. In the aftermath of the thrilling 1975 World Series, [1] attendance figures, television contracts (this time including two networks, NBC and now ABC), and player salaries all soared.
The 1975 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1975 postseason between the Boston Red Sox and the three-time defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics for the right to advance to the World Series.
In June 1975, Doyle was traded to the Boston Red Sox. [2] That season, Doyle batted a career-high .310 in 89 games with the Red Sox. [5] He also had a league-best 22-game hitting streak. [10] He was Boston's starting second baseman in the 1975 American League Championship Series and 1975 World Series, [11] the only postseason appearances of his ...