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Babe Ruth's called shot,
"The Catch" by Willie Mays,
Larson's perfection, Mazeroski's
Walk-off, Carlton Fisk uses the
force to keep a home run fair, Kirk
Gibson's fist pumping limp around
the bases, or Schilling's Bloody
Sock, Post Season tickets bear
witness to legendary games.
Baseball history lives on forever,
as told through the ticket stub.
This
1918 game 3 ticket stub
is from the last World Series the
Red Sox would win for 86 years,
until 2004, when the "The Curse of
the Bambino" was lifted. The Red
Sox, winners in the first World
Series in 1903,
were also World Champions in 1912, 1914,
1915, and 1918. After the 1919,
season Red Sox owner Harry Frazee
was looking for money to finance a
Broadway musical "No, No Nanette,"
and sold Babe Ruth's contract to
the New York Yankees for $125,000.
and the curse would begin.
Babe Ruth was the winning pitcher in games 1 and 4. Those ticket stubs
sell at a premium. Game 3 was
played to a crowd of 27,054, on
Sept. 7, 1918 at Comisky Park. The
Red Sox won the game 2-1, and took
the World Series from the Chicago
Cubs in 6 games (4-2). The Cubs
already started their own drought,
and then in 1945, had to deal with
"The Curse of the Billy Goat" which
lasted 71 years, from 1945 to 2016,
totaling 108 years after their last
World Series Title.
This ticket stub is from Game 1 of
the 1921 World Series, between the
New York Giants, and the New York
Yankees. It was the first
appearance in the World Series for
the Yankees, and for New York the
first "Subway Series" in World
Series history. In 1921, two years
before Yankee Stadium was built,
the Yankees shared the Polo Grounds
with the Giants. The entire 1921
World Series was played at the Polo
Grounds.
Game 1 the Giants were the home
team as they were in every other
game in this eight game series. The
Series was the last of the
experimental best of nine series,
which the Giants won, five games to
three. It was also the first World
Series to be broadcast on the
radio.
The 1932 World Series showcased a
four game sweep by the New York
Yankees over the Chicago Cubs.
Game
3, played at Wrigley Field,
featured Babe Ruth's legendary
"called shot," home run, in his
10th and last World Series
appearance. A record 13 future Hall
of Famers played in this Series:
Yankees; Earle Combs, Bill Dickey,
Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Red Ruffing,
Babe Ruth, and Joe Sewell. Cubs:
Kiki Cuyler, Billy Herman, Burleigh
Grimes, and Gabby Hartnett.
The teams were also managed by Hall of Famers; Yankees Joe McCarthy
and the Cubs Rogers Hornsby who was
elected as a player. It was the
first World Series in which both
teams wore uniforms with numbers on
the backs of their jerseys.
A rematch of the 1955 World Series,
the 1956 World Series was played
between the New York Yankees, and
the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the
last New York City Subway Series
until 44 years later in 2000; when
the Mets and Yankees were featured
in the Fall Classic.
The big ticket for this series was
game 5, when Don Larsen pitched the
first and only perfect game In
World Series history. On October 8,
1956 the Yankee Stadium crowd of
64,519 watched Don Larson, and the
Yankees beat the Dodgers 2-0
against losing pitcher Sal Maglie.
Mickey Mantle hit a 4th inning solo
home run. The second run, an RBI
single by Hank Bauer.
The
1960 World Series featured the
New York Yankees, and the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Game 7 has been
rated as one of the most exciting
games in World Series history.
The lead and momentum changed several times during this classic baseball
game that was ultimately won by a
spectacular walk-off home run by
Pirate second baseman Bill
Mazeroski. The first walk-off home
run in World Series history. The
Yankees Bobby Richardson won the
World Series MVP, the only time in
history that the award had been
given to a member of the losing
team.
The
1965 World Series featured the
NL champion Los Angeles Dodgers
beating the AL champion Minnesota
Twins, in 7 games. Minnesota, five
years removed from Washington,
(Senators) it was the franchises
first pennant since 1933. Games 1,
2, 6, and 7 were played at
Metropolitan Stadium.
Game 7 featured Dodgers Pitcher and
World Series Series MVP Sandy
Koufax throwing a 10 strikeout
complete game shutout for the
clincher. Koufax did not pitch in
Game 1, as it fell on the Jewish
holy day of Yom Kippur, but pitched
in Game 2 and then tossed shutouts
in Games 5 and 7, with only two
days of rest in between, to win the
championship.
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This is a
full ticket from
game 5 of the 1969 World Series,
played at Shea Stadium, when the Amazin' New York Mets clinched the
World Series Championship, from the
heavily favorite Baltimore Orioles.
This was the "Miracle Mets" first
National League pennant, and first
of two World Series championships,
in franchise history. It was also
the first World Series of Major
League Baseball's Divisional Era.
The 1969 World Series tickets were
the first to depict the Official
MLB 100th Anniversary of baseball
logo
 "Touch 'em all, Joe, you'll never hit a bigger home run in your life!"
-Blue Jays announcer Tom Cheek's
Home Run Call.
The 1993 World Series was played between the defending champions Toronto
Blue Jays and the Philadelphia
Phillies. The Blue Jays defeated
the Phillies, four games to two.
Going into game six, Toronto was
ahead in the series three games to
two.
Toronto trailing in the game by a score of 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth
inning, Joe Carter hit a
game-winning three-run home run to
clinch Toronto's second consecutive
championship. This was only the
second World Series concluded by a
walk-off home run. The first was
the walk-off home run by the
Pirates second baseman Bill
Mazeroski, against the New York
Yankees in the 1960 World Series.
The wild card was established for
Major League Baseball's playoffs in
1994. Both the American and
National Leagues were restructured,
from two divisions each to three.
The team with the best record in
the league, that did not win their
division advanced to the play-offs.
The First Wild Card game would have
to wait until 1995 because of the
player strike, due the post season
being canceled, on September 14,
1994.
The
"Game A" 1995 American League
Division Series ticket stub
above was used for the first
American League Wild Card game in
baseball history. The game was
played at Yankee Stadium, on
October 3, 1995, vs the Seattle
Mariners. The Mariners would go on
to win the best of five playoff
series in game 5, played at
Seattle's Kingdome. In the first
National League Division Series
Colorado Rockies lost to the
Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 1.
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David Ortiz's 12th inning
walk-off home run in game 4, and
Curt Schilling's bloody sock in
game 6 highlighted the 2004 ALCS.
After the Yankees took a two game
lead at Yankee Stadium, then the
first game at Fenway Park 19-8, the
Red Sox found themselves facing a
sweep at the hands of the Evil
Empire. The
Home Game 2 ticket
(series game 4) witnessed the start
of the greatest comeback in Post
Season history.
Down in the game 4-3 in the ninth, with Yankees HOF closer Mariano Rivera
on the mound, Boston's Kevin Millar
led off with a single. Pinch-runner
Dave Roberts stole second base, and
Bill Mueller game tying hit sent
the game into extra innings. After
Manny Ramirez led-off the 12th with a single, David Ortiz
gave the Red Sox the win with a
two-run walk-off home run.
Schilling had suffered a tendon
injury to his right ankle, and
underwent a procedure prior to game
6, to suture the tendon in his
ankle. He went on to pitch seven
innings, allowing only one run on
four hits, but during the game one
of the sutures had come loose. The
growing blood stain on his right
sock added to the drama.
After "The Bloody Sock Game" (Yankees Home Game 3 ticket) the
Red Sox won Game 7, to become the
first team to ever come back in a
seven game series, down 3-0. The Red
Sox would then sweep the St. Louis
Cardinals (4-0) in the World
Series, ending "The Curse of the
Bambino" |
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