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The 1991 World Series was the second in five seasons where the home team won all seven games. The previous time was in 1987, which the Twins won against the St. Louis Cardinals. It happened again in the 2001 World Series when the Arizona Diamondbacks won Game 7 with a walk-off bloop hit.
- ‘I Honestly Can’T Even Explain Why It Happened’
- ‘You Felt A Little Bad That This Had to End’
- ‘Come on and Sit Down, Have A Drink’
- ‘What’s Gonna Happen Tonight?’
- A Special Legacy
“And now we’re seeing something that we rarely see in a World Series: Terry Pendleton, leading a group of Atlanta Braves out to congratulate the Minnesota Twins.” — Braves radio announcer Pete Van Wieren, moments after Game 7 ended Terry Pendleton had been close before, having played in two previous seven-game World Series as a member of the Cardin...
“Why don’t we play all winter and make it a best of 90?” — MLB commissioner Fay Vincent to Braves owner Ted Turner during the 1991 World Series, as reported by The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 The compulsion to connect with the opponent wasn’t limited to Pendleton and the Braves. Twins manager Tom Kelly felt the pull too. The emotions are hard to de...
“If this Game 7 is not the greatest finale in Series history, it is close. If this Series is not the greatest in history, then it is close. At the least, it can be remembered in a single word: excruciating. Joy for Minnesota. Pain for Atlanta. Tension for us all.” — John Rawlings, The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 After pitching a 10-inning shutout i...
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hitter shake hands with a catcher before the first pitch — in any game,” CBS analyst Tim McCarver before the first pitch of Game 7 It might be reasonable to assume that all the talk of respect and cutting trophies in half after Game 7 was fueled mostly by the game itself, just nice things professional athletes say af...
“Minnesota and Atlanta, last-place teams a season ago, had been transformed, as if by divine touch, into champions who gave us a World Series so good that it can be called the best ever.” — Dave Kindred, The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 Ask the men who played in the 1991 World Series to describe their feelings 30 years later, and they’ll offer varia...
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Sep 28, 2022 · 1991 World Series recap. Twins defeat Braves, 4 games to 3. September 28th, 2022. It was almost certainly the most unlikely World Series matchup ever, as the Twins and Braves became the first two teams in Major League Baseball history to go from last to first in the space of one season.
Oct 31, 2016 · The Series' greatest star—Twins centerfielder Kirby Puckett, who forced Game 7 by winning Game 6 almost single-handedly—has been dead for 10 years now. The two stadiums in which the Series was...
1991 World Series - Minnesota Twins over Atlanta Braves (4-3) series statistics and schedule on Baseball-Reference.com.
The 1995 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1995 season. The 91st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians.
Aug 15, 2021 · The 1991 team and Tom Kelly, their manager, shared memories of what some consider the best World Series ever at a reunion at Target Field this weekend.
