The Repeat Drive Of The 1993 Toronto Blue Jays
In the bottom of the ninth, Henderson got aboard to start the inning. With one out, Molitor ripped a line drive single to center…Carter came to the plate against erratic Phillies’ closer Mitch Williams
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1993 Chicago White Sox: An MVP, A Cy Young & A Division Title
One of the big surprises with this team is that they never made it back to October with the current group, though they did lead the AL Central one year later when the strike that wiped out the rest of the season hit. The playoffs wouldn’t return to the South Side until 2000 and not until 2005 would they finally win the World Series, by which time Guillen was in the dugout rather than at short. But no one knew this in October of 1993 and the future looked brigh
The Epic Season Of The 1993 San Francisco Giants
The 1993 San Francisco Giants hold a place in history. It’s a place that’s worthy of honor and respect, but also one that the players and fans surely wish they didn’t have. The ’93 Giants are baseball’s last great team to be left out of the playoffs. Major league baseball was at the end of […]
1993 St. Louis Cardinals: Another Year Of Coming Up Short
The early 1990s St. Louis Cardinals were looking to regain the mojo of the 1980s, when they won three National League pennants and the World Series in 1982. After a decline at the end of the decade, the great Whitey Herzog retired as manager and Joe Torre took over. Torre turned out winning teams in […]
A Contending Season For The 1993 Texas Rangers
The 1993 Texas Rangers were the heirs to a franchise history that was something less than stellar. Since they relocated from Washington in 1972, the Rangers had never reached postseason play. Even allowing the more stringent standards of the era, Texas had just two seasons where they finished with one of the top four records […]
The Seasonal Narrative Of The 1986 Detroit Tigers
Sparky Anderson had brought consistent winning baseball to Detroit. Since his arrival in 1980, the Tigers had posted a winning record every year. The highlight of the run was a dominant run to the 1984 World Series title. The 1986 Detroit Tigers were squarely in that tradition, with only the more stringent standards of the […]
1985 Detroit Tigers: A Repeat Bid Turns Into Disappointment
1984 had been Detroit’s year. After four years of winning baseball under Sparky Anderson, the Tigers hit a crescendo in the manager’s fifth season, winning 104 games and rolling to a World Series title. The 1985 Detroit Tigers were looking to build on that success and start a dynasty. But in a tough division, in […]
A Contending Season For The 1989 San Diego Padres
When the San Diego Padres won the National League pennant in 1984 there were high hopes for an enduring run of success. Those hopes had not panned out. The team slipped to a distance third place in 1985 and parted ways with manager Dick Williams. Two other managers didn’t work out either. Early in 1988, […]
1983 Detroit Tigers: Setting The Stage For Greatness
The 1983 Detroit Tigers were building momentum in pursuit of their first division title since 1972 and their first World Series championship since 1968. After a string of losing seasons, the Tigers had started playing winning baseball again in 1978 and were consistently over .500 for the next five years. Sparky Anderson arrived in 1980 […]
The Seasonal Narrative Of The 1992 Minnesota Twins
The state of Minnesota had been electrified in 1991 when their beloved Twins completed a magical worst-to-first turnaround by winning a dramatic World Series, their second title in five years. The 1992 Minnesota Twins didn’t achieve those same heights—but even though they lost some key performers from that ’91 team, this ’92 edition of the […]
Forgotten Contender: The 1989 Kansas City Royals
After winning the World Series in 1985 and capping off a decade of dominance in the old AL West, the Royals slipped over the next three years. They suffered through a losing season in 1986 and were barely over .500 in 1987 and 1988, although what was then the weakness of the division kept them […]
2000 Chicago White Sox: A Division Title That Came From Nowhere
The South Side of Chicago had seen mostly mediocre baseball since winning a division title in 1993 and then being a contender in 1994 at the time the players union went on a season-ending strike. The White Sox weren’t awful, but they were rarely relevant and the one time they were—in 1997 when a mediocre […]