I've limited interest in modern day baseball but, as an onlooker, it appeared to be a fascinating season with many great stories including 3 perfect games, 7 no-hitters, Hamilton's 4 home run game, Rodriguez tying with Gehrig for most career Grand Slams, Moyer becoming oldest pitcher to win a game, Fister striking out 9 consecutive batters and many more incidents and stories that have slipped my mind.


It would be rather ironic were the A's to win the World Series given the recent Moneyball film. Some have made reference to a movie about the Red Sox being released shortly before they won the World Series in 2004.


Personally, although they haven't been very impressive recently, I hope that the Yankees can do it, especially as this year is the 80th anniversary of Babe Ruth's "called shot" in the 1932 Series rout of the Chicago Cubs.


More so, following on the back of Moneyball, I'm very much looking forward to the release of "42", the movie about Jackie Robinson who, of course, was the first black player to play in the major leagues:





Also, whilst on the subject of movies, as some of you likely know, I am a strong collector of original vintage baseball photography. This is one of the photos I picked up when in the United States over recent weeks. It's an original photo during the filming of one of the greatest ever baseball films of all time, Slide Kelly Slide (1927).

It shows Hollywood actor William Haines as a baseball player, pictured with a number of real life baseball legends of the era, Tony Lazzeri, my favourite player of all-time, Bob Meusel and, his brother, Irish Meusel. For the purpose of the film, all these players are pictured here in NY Yankees uniforms, even though Irish was actually a NY Giants player !!


http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/a...llyslide-1.jpg

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http://i46.tinypic.com/nej71w.jpg

i hated to see the reds go. i've always loved cal ripken jr. i'm hollerin' real loud for the orioles lol. not a yankee fan, so that gives me extra hollers.

Great to see the Yankees make it through - the way it should be every year.

Now for revenge against Detroit after last year's defeat.

Let's go Orioles over the Yankees. Yeahhhh Boiiiissss!

yeah those yankees won. puh! and they will not get these tigers by the tail! :)

i didn't get to watch the nationals/cardinals. i like both of those teams. so i'm going with the cardinals/tigers ... tigers to win it!

guess I'm out of the loop. Thought the Orioles were still in it and hoping they would kick the Yankees out. :|

I'll go for the Cardinals or Giants for the win!

The way it should be every year is the Indians in the postseason, but was not to be.:eyebat:

Seriously, I have no favorites, but since the Yankees, Giants and Cards have all won in the last three years, I say it's the Tigers' turn.

This lifelong, die-hard Tigers fan cannot wait to see a lot of this in the ALCS:



That would be A-Rod striking out. And this was shot at Yankees Stadium, so those are Yankees fans booing him.

Tigers have superior starting pitching, but a weaker bullpen. It's going to come down to who brings the bats. And we already know that won't be A-Rod.

:huhlaugh:



The good thing is that baseball doesn't work in that egalitarian way .... if it did, the Red Sox wouldn't have had to wait 86 years to win the series :D

Yankees will win it this year.

what the hell kobi! detroit had it won LOL. good freakin' grief charlie brown lol.

what a trade raul ibanez has been from the phillies. was it last year or this year he was traded to the yankees?

goodnight. i'm not going yet lol.

Cardinals all the way! We won it all last year.... and looking for a repeat in '12!