The most memorable moment in baseball history

steve B · #1 01-06-2023, 11:46 AM

Strange there's no love for Disco demolition or ten cent beer night.
Very memorable, if not the most pleasant memories.

I may be a bit odd in enjoying promotions gone awry.

Snapolit1 · #2 01-07-2023, 10:33 AM

While I was bit too young to appreciate the momentous nature of the moment, Aaron breaking Ruth's HR record seems to me to have been easily the most significant baseball moment in the last 50-75 years. Front page next morning on every single newspaper in the country. Not true of most of the things identified above.

Peter_Spaeth · #3 01-07-2023, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Snapolit1

While I was bit too young to appreciate the momentous nature of the moment, Aaron breaking Ruth's HR record seems to me to have been easily the most significant baseball moment in the last 50-75 years. Front page next morning on every single newspaper in the country. Not true of most of the things identified above.

How many moments have a whole social context layered onto their baseball significance? Not many. Remember, this was an America only 6 years removed from the King assassination and the summer of 1968 riots, and this was a Black man in the deep South breaking the most sacred record of all. Listening to the Vin Scully call should be mandatory.

Casey2296 · #4 01-10-2023, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by steve B

Strange there's no love for Disco demolition or ten cent beer night.
Very memorable, if not the most pleasant memories.

I may be a bit odd in enjoying promotions gone awry.

Brought to you by the great baseball promoter/owner Bill Veeck, the last owner to purchase a baseball franchise without an independent fortune, owned at different times the Indians, Browns, and White Sox. As owner of the Indians he signed Larry Doby in 1947 beginning integration in the American League and winning a World Series the following year.

lampertb · #5 01-13-2023, 09:36 AM

1 in my lifetime... Kirby Puckett hitting the homer to send the Twins to Game 7 in the 1991 World Series. I was 15 years old, living in St. Paul, and a baseball maniac at the time. When Kirby hit that homer was probably the single moment of purest joy in my entire childhood. "And we'll see ya'... tomorrow night!"

1 from before my lifetime... I have always loved the story of Grover Cleveland Alexander coming out of the bullpen with a hangover, as told by Ken Burns, in Game 7 of the '26 Series to strike out Lazzeri with the bases loaded. I picture him moving like Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars.

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