1975 World Series

[orangecat]

Was surfing this morning, found a program on ESPN classic called 'the way it was". Had Curt Gowdy and members from both teams, had Joe Morgan, and a couple of others. From Boston they had Fred Lynn and a couple of others.

They left us hanging about the series, analyzed and told opinions from both teams only through game 4.

Curious about what other people think. Was it interference? Morgan kind of made a pretty good point, that he had been roughed up plenty more than that and interference had never been called. Sparky Anderson said watch the moment the catcher actually starts to throw the ball, there is no one touching him.

And was this the best World Series ever?

 

[cochamps]

I don't know if that was the best one ever, but I enjoyed the 1975 College World Series, when The Horns topped the South Carolina Gamecocks.

 

[Orangesweat]

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[texascoder]

As a life-long RedSox fan (I was 11 in 1975)... No matter what Sparky Anderson or Joe Morgan say, HELL YES it was interference

Also, not sure how many people are aware but there's a funny story about the camera shot from the left field wall that showed Carlton Fisk jumping around near home plate when he hit the homer in game 6. Apparently the cameraman was stationed inside the Green Monster and his assignment *should* have been to follow the flight of the ball as it went over the left field wall, but just before Fisk hit the ball, the cameraman was spooked by a rat near his feet and he momentarily jumped away from his camera to avoid the rat. His camera stayed in place, focused on Fisk at the plate and he ended up capturing one of the most famous baseball scenes of all time with Fisk waving the ball fair and then jumping several times before he started his homerun trot.

 

[BigWill]

If I were the cameraman, the rat would have instantly drowned in liquid ****.

They scare the **** out of me.

 

[Captain Call]

mickey Reichenbach ftw.

 

[cochamps]

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[Horn87]

I, too, thought it was about the 'Horns and Hooten, etc....

 

[Texanne]

Two of my favorite World Series ever, although I attended neither. As a Reds fan, the 1975 WS was very sweet, and as a Horn, 1975 was magical.

The NCAA had the South Central Regional in Arlington, and we went to every game (I was a high school senior). My dad refused to take us to Omaha, though. So the night of the final game against South Carolina, a bunch of Longhorn fan families met at my Uncle Don's home in Euless, and Don called his brother Bud, who lived in Austin. He instructed Bud to just put the receiver next to the radio and let it play. On our end, people took turns listening to the broadcast and relaying the play-by-play to everyone; everyone took a half-inning each. It was very strange, because there was no chit-chat going on at all in the room during the game -- everyone was focused, listening hard to the person on the phone, and no one wanted to distract him or her from the broadcast. Commercial breaks between innings were the only time people talked.

When the game was over, after we'd screamed and hollered and jumped up and down, Don called the phone company to see how much the call was, then he passed the hat to cover the cost of the call. I still consider it one of the best times I've ever had enjoying a game.

 

[topwater]

hooten wasn't on the '75 horns team