1975 World Series

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The 1975 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1975 season. The 72nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds narrowly defeated the Red Sox in seven games to win their first World Series title since 1940. Reds third baseman Pete Rose was named World Series MVP, with a batting average of .370, 10 hits, and two RBIs while scoring 3 runs. The sixth game of the World Series was a 12-inning classic at Boston's Fenway Park, which culminated with a walk-off home run by Carlton Fisk to extend the series to seven games. The Reds rallied from a 3–0 deficit to win the seventh and deciding game of the series on a ninth-inning single by Joe Morgan after being seven outs away from elimination. None of the six umpires in this World Series worked a previous Fall Classic, and two, Art Frantz and George Maloney, would not...

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