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Remembering NY Baseball Giants History: The 1933 World Series

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Travis Jackson & Bill Terry The 1933 Giants (91-61) won the National League pennant five games ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates & six games ahead of the Chicago Cubs. The team featured three Hall of Famers including player / manager Bill Terry.  Bill Terry was the protege of the legendary manager John McGraw (who was now GM). McGraw had retired the previous year after thirty years as the teams manager. McGraw attended the Series & sadly passed away four months later. Bill Terry had led the team with a .322 average. At age 35 Terry was beginning to wind down his career. Terry was the last NL player to date to hit over .400 (1930) & had hit .310 or better in his last ten seasons. The second Hall of Famer on the Giants was Mel Ott, one of the games top HR hitters of all time (511 career HRs) had had an off year that season hitting 23 HRs & driving in 103 runs. Ott led the NL in HRs & RBIs six times, with seven 30+ HR seasons. H e was in a stretch of driving in o...
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Remembering Mets History (1988) NLCS- Dodgers Upset Heavily Favored Mets in Seven Games

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  Tuesday October 4th, 1988, NLCS Game #1 - Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California:   Davey Johnson's New York Mets had won their second divisional title in three years & were the heavy favorite going into the post season. The Mets had won 100 games (100-60) finishing 15 games in front of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Mets offense was led by Darryl Strawberry who led the NL in HRs (39) & drove in 100 RBIs. Kevin McReynolds hit 27 HRs with 99 RBIs 30 doubles & hit .288.  Howard Johnson hit 24 HRs &  Wally Backman was the only Met in the starting lineup that had hit over .300.  Rookie Greg Jefferies was the new star as in 29 games he hit .321 with 6 HRs & 17 RBIs. By now the All-Star veterans Gary Carter & Keith Hernandez were entering the twilights of their careers. The '88 Mets staff was led by twenty game winner, David Cone (20-3 / 2.22 ERA / 213 Ks) as well as Dwight Gooden (18-9 / 3.19 ERA) Ron Darling (17-9 / 3.25 ERA) Sid Fe...
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