Hail the current champion, 103 wins, (11-2) in the ‘offs Milwaukee Brewers, who already have lost Bauers to free agency and though with a Misiorowski hurling they could, but likely will not repeat.
It seems at least somewhat justified that their blown lead in #4 of the World Series kept them from joining the great ’76 Reds, as the only teams to sweep both an LCS and World series in a title season.
Those Reds were not only far better than these Brewers, a team by the way I truly like and would have no problem with them repeating, but in my opinion the best team I have seen, being a bit too young to have experienced the ’61 Yankees.
Other great ones, especially the three straight crowns (’72-’74) A’s come close, however, “Cincy” with its “Great Eight,” pictured below, takes the cake.
A little difficult to ascertain, however, left to right: John Bench, Ken Griffey (Senior if you will), Pete (Rose), Joe Morgan, “Doggy” the great Tony Perez, George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Davey Concepcion, who as with Pete ought to be in the “Hall.”
The Oakland A’s middle of the three straight titles (’72-’74) in ’73, had some big contributions from lesser known players such as Deron Johnson, Ted Kubiak and Jesus Alou among others.
A great player Bert “Campy” Campaneris, pictured above, arguably was even more “clutch” than Reggie (Jackson) as his solo won game 3 of a (1-1) best of 5 ALCS vs the Baltimore Orioles.
“Campy’s” 2 run homer that got “Oak” off (2-0) in #7 World Series, behind Ken Holtzman, meant more than Reggie’s clout that increased the lead to (4-0) in the A’s 4 run fourth inning on the way to a (5-2) home win and a second straight title.
Click below to view and hear Campaneris and Reggie each hit 2 run homers to key the A’s game 7 win. The great A’s announcer, Monte Moore, working on the NBC national telecast, makes each call.
Monte turned 96 on July 26th this year.
Today, a great episode of What’s My Line with mystery guest Eva Marie Saint, a true great.
Panelists were Dorothy Kilgallen, Tony Randall, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf.
John Charles Daly is the program’s host.
Randall was going to Hollywood, a career well under way.
Last night in a clash between (going in) (6-1) teams, each with (0-4) Super Bowl records, the Buffalo Bills won a pretty dull one, (23-6) at Minnesota, vs the Vikings.
Barring the truly unforeseen (note the spelling–I had to), “Buff” will win a 6th AFC East title in 7 seasons after being denied by New England (currently (4-5) and all with Brady/Belichick AFC East winners in all but 2002 and 2008 –that year Brady played only in the opening game—during a nineteen year span (2001-2019)– last season.
Meanwhile Minnesota at (6-2) trails the (7-2) “Chi” Bears, is tied with Detroit (Lions) and leads (6-3) Green Bay (Packers) by ‘un’ half game in the so competitive and relatively superior, NFC North.
In an unscheduled playoff between a pair of (7-6-1) teams in late December ’63 (ode to The Four Seasons), played the day before that season’s NFL title tilt, Parilli hit just 40 percent of his 35 passes, however, threw 2 TD’s to running back, Larry Garron, as the then Boston Patriots, (26-8’d) the Bills at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo.
Vito “Babe” was Joe Namath’s back up on the Jets’ ’68 title team.
The Chargers (0-8) this season routed the Patriots in the subsequent ’63 AFL title game.
Today marks 56 years since a memorable NFL day, that featured three memorable field goals.
Tom Dempsey’s 63 yard field that lifted New Orleans (19-17) vs Detroit (Lions) was the highlight.
Additionally, a Pete Gogolak 54 yard FG was instrumental as the Giants upset the Dallas Cowboys.
Finally, a late day game field goal by George Blanda gave the Raiders a win over the Cleveland Browns.
Click below to view Dempsey’s incredible field goal accompanied by Don Criqui’s great television call.
The cities of Milwaukee, its baseball Brewers “semi swept” and then supplanted the L.A. Dodgers as champions, with a 5 game World Series triumph vs the Tampa Bay Rays, and Los Angeles have clashed six times in semis or virtual ones, with a trip to their sport’s final round at stake.
Five times the winner of that entity went on to take the league title in the subsequent championship round.
Another time for “quarters” notes but recall “Road Runner” Travis and Green Bay/Milwaukee in ’67.
In 1969-1970, the New York Knicks, currently the NBA champions after a 53 year title drought, broke the Boston Celtics’ record of 17 straight wins and then won it all.
Ditto the 1970-1971 Milwaukee Bucks, who won 20 straight, breaking the Knicks’ mark of 18 and then went (12-2) in the ‘offs led by greats the then Lew Alcindor, before becoming Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, to win the crown.
“My” beloved 1971-1972 Los Angeles Lakers won a still major North American sports league 33 straight contests and took the first of what is now, 12 L.A. titles, half with me as a fan.
The ’71 Bucks “semi’d” the Lakers while in a clash between two great teams, the ’72 Lakers won a 6 game semi, that ended on a Saturday AFTERNOON at Milwaukee, vs the Bucks, each then as cited above, winning that season’s NBA title.
This year’s Brewers semi win vs L.A. (Dodgers) a reversal of last year’s semi and an unscheduled one in 1959, all were followed by the L.A./Milw winner taking the top prize.
Only in 2018, when L.A. 7’d Milwaukee in the NLCS/”semi” did the winner of a Milwaukee vs Los Angeles semi-final entity, fail to win the subsequent championship round.
In addition to winning and saving two games each, accounting for the needed four victories in the ’59 World Series for the Dodgers, Larry Sherry, pictured below, was the winning pitcher in game 1 of the unscheduled Dodgers/Braves best of 3 playoff in Game 1, at Milwaukee’s County Stadium.
Sherry was toasted for his efforts by Frank Sinatra.
Von Miller, pictured above, was the MVP when Denver beat Carolina for 2015 season title.
This ninth week of Pro football, passing the halfway point, has three Super Bowl rematches and perhaps most telling, one between two current (6-1) teams, that are each (0-4) in Supes.
Those teams are the Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings, with the latter hosting the Monday night clash.
In the actual rematches, one is from ’70 when the Colts, then in Baltimore beat Dallas, another, ’15 when the Denver Broncos beat Carolina (Panthers), and the other thirty years ago, when Green Bay which won by 14 then, visiting New England (Patriots) in the late afternoon N.E. fall weather.
Desmond Howard, pictured above, took MVP honors nearly thirty years ago when Green Bay won the ’96 season Super Bowl vs New England (Patriots).
The Golden State Valkyries, in just their second season of existence won a home game seven vs the Atlanta Dream to win the WNBA title, which concluded three nights after the Milwaukee Brewers won a first title, theirs in the 56th completed Milwaukee season.
Gabby Williams, pictured above playing for France, in her first season with the Valkyries, was the game seven star, hitting for 30 points, 28 scored in the second half.
Williams was named final round MVP.
A similar team A/Team B game configuration, though in a 2-3-2, not 2-2-1-1-1 format manifested in the 1960, 1964 and 2014–the latter with another S.F. team, the Giants winning a third crown in 5 seasons with no subsequent ones.
Twice a game 5 World Series winner.
The recent World Series ended and clips of the last play from 1943-2026, some with great audio, became available.
Among the most compelling, certainly to me, was Jerry Koosman, an excellent pitcher, getting future Mets title winning manager Dave Johnson to fly out to LF Cleon Jones, clinching the ’69 crown for the 100 win(s) “Miracle” Mets.
Won #’s 2 and 5 ’69 W.S. and #3 ’73 NLCS and #5 ’73 W.S.
Curt Gowdy, a superb TV announcer made the call and added “look at this scene,” as fans poured onto the field.
After a great Baltimore Orioles team, who came back to title led by the great Brooks Robinson, the next season, won game 1 (Don Buford, his name called in the second “Godfather” film as a U.S.C. back, homering leading off vs 25 game winner Tom Seaver), it was Mr. Koosman who pitched 8 and two thirds/one run yielded innings and getting the (2-1) win, that sent the Series to Shea Stadium even. (Dr.) Ron Taylor got the save.
Subsequently, though yielding homers to opposing pitcher Dave McNally and the great Frank Robinson, giving “Balti” a (3-0) lead, “Koos” allowed no more.
Home runs by Donn Clendenon and Al Weis tied it and two Mets runs sans a home run, B8, set the stage for the seminal, not to be forgotten Johnson fly to “Clee.”
View it below as Koosman, who won 222 big league games and had a (4-0) post-season mark, gets the last out, coincidentally hit by relatively recently deceased Johnson, who 17 years later, guided the Mets to their only other title.
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