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With St. Louis leading Detroit three games to one and 3-2 in game five, the Cards' Lou Brock is thrown out at homeplate trying to score on a base-hit by Julian Javier. The defensive play sparks the Tigers. They rally and comeback to win game five, and subsequently the series.

1968. Tiger left-fielder Willie Horton's throw to catcher Bill Freehan was right on the money. Freehan stood his ground and when Brock failed to slide his foot missed the plate by the smallest of margins. Later in the game, the Tigers overcame the one-run deficit to win and never again trailed in the series.

Toronto Blue Jay outfielder Joe Carter hits a homerun off Philly reliever Mitch Williams to clinch the series.

1993. Carter belted the "Wild Thing"'s pitch into the left field stands giving the Jays back-to-back World Series championships.

In the final game of this series, Kirk Gibson hits a homerun off one of baseball's best-ever relievers clinching victory for his team.

1984. Sorry if you guessed 1988. Gibson's famous homerun off Dennis Eckersley in 1988 did help his Dodger team win game one (and eventually the series) against Oakland. But it was 1984, when as a Detroit Tiger, he blasted two dingers in the series finale against San Diego. His second homer that game was a three-run blast off Goose Gossage in the bottom of the eighth inning. Those three runs upped the Tigers' lead to 8-4 and squashed any comeback hopes of the Padres. The Tigers win the series four games to one.

During the regular season, Reggie Jackson was an All-Star. But in the World Series, he did not get even one hit. His teammates however, still prevailed. They bested their National League opponent in seven games.

1972. Reggie didn't have a bad series as the question hinted. He actually had been injured during the American League Championship and did not play in the Series at all. In his absence, his teammates led by Series MVP Gene Tenance, topped the Cincinnati Reds four games to three.

Between 1949 and 1963, this is the only World Series that did not feature a team from New York.

1959. The 1959 Series featured the L. A. Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox. If you chose the 1965 Series; Gotcha! Even though the '65 Classic did not have a New York representative (L. A. Dodgers vs. Minnesota Twins), the question asked for dates "...Between 1949 and 1963...".

Of the years listed, it is the only one in which the two Series opponents did not hail from the same city.

1925. Chicago (Cubs & White Sox) faced-off in 1906; New York (Giants & Yankees) met in 1921; and St. Louis (Cardinals & Browns) played in 1944. It was in 1925 that the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Washington Senators four games to three.

It was the first time that both teams that Hall-of-Famer Sparky Anderson would eventually manage met in the World Series.

1940. Did the Sparky reference throw you into the wrong time frame? Although Sparky eventually would manage the Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers in the 70's, 80's and 90's; it was decades earlier that those two franchises first met in the Series. In 1940, the Reds defeated the Tigers in seven games.

The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees five games to three. It is the last best five-out-of-nine series in the 20th century.

1921. The series format was switched to best four-out-of-seven in 1922. The Giants and Yanks met again that year and a third straight time in 1923. The Giants won the first two meetings and the Yankees prevailed in 1923 for their first-ever World Series title.

The Brooklyn Dodgers first seven appearances in the Fall Classic all resulted in losses. In which year did they lose for the seventh consecutive time?

1953. Prior to finally winning the Championship in 1955 versus the Yankees, the Dodgers had lost to the Red Sox (1916), the Indians (1920), and to those dreaded Yanks five times. (1941,1947,1949,1952 & 1953)

"Pops" Stargell leads his Pirates back from a three games to one deficit as Pittsburgh defeats Baltimore in seven games.

1979. "We are Family" by Sister Sledge was the theme song for the Bucs. They used timely hitting, clutch pitching and those god-awful, ugly, yellow and brown uniforms to beat the Orioles. (Editorial opinion on those uniforms-Sorry Pirate fans!)