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The 1973 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1973 season.The 70th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion (and defending World Series champion) Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
The 1973 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1973 season.The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The 1973 Major League Baseball season was the first season of the designated hitter rule in the American League. [ 1 ] American League umpires began wearing burgundy blazers with blue pants, a change from the navy blue coats and gray pants worn the previous five seasons ( 1968 – 1972 ).
March 12 – Frankie Frisch, 74, Hall of Fame second baseman for the New York Giants (1919–1926) and St. Louis Cardinals (1927–1937) who scored 100 runs seven times, led the NL in steals three times, and was the 1931 MVP; a lifetime .316 hitter, he twice batted .400 in the World Series; managed the "Gas House Gang" Cardinals to the 1934 ...
The 1977 World Series marked the first time that the participating teams' local announcers were not featured [22] as booth announcers on the network telecast of a World Series. 1977 was also the first year in which one announcer (in this case, ABC's Keith Jackson) provided all of the play-by-play for a World Series telecast. In previous years ...
In Game 7 of the 1973 World Series against the New York Mets, both he and Reggie Jackson hit two-run home runs in the third inning off Jon Matlack—the only two home runs Oakland hit the entire series. The A's took a 4–0 lead and went on to win to repeat as world champions; Campaneris caught Wayne Garrett's
Ole Miss swept Oklahoma to claim its first ever Men's College World Series title.
2× World Series champion (1973, 1974) Darold Duane Knowles (born December 9, 1941) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach , [ 1 ] who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 through 1980 , most notably as a member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 ...