World Series Similarities Ninety Years Apart

At this time I will indulge in my penchant for looking back and seeing “things” that likely will interest some and be decried far too trivial by others. For better or borderline boring, as President John F. Kennedy once said regarding the infinitely more important goal of peace or at least understanding, “let us begin.”

Ninety years ago in the 1925 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates won their second World Series title, beating a team (the Washington Senators and that 1924 title is the only one in Washington baseball history and that includes Seattle, Washington), that had won the previous year’s World Series in seven games.

That World Series ended on a called third strike, “Red” Oldham striking out future Hall of Fame player, Goose Goslin, who by chance was born on October 16, 1900, exactly 69 years before the New York Mets won the 1969 World Series.

Ninety years later, the Kansas City Royals won their second title, dispatching the New York Mets in 5 games, having lost the World Series in seven games the year before. The 2015 World Series also ended on a called third strike.