1987 World Series

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The 1987 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1987 season. The 84th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins defeated the Cardinals in seven games to win their first championship since 1924, when the team was still known as the Washington Senators. Twins pitcher Frank Viola was named as the 1987 World Series MVP. It was the first World Series to feature games played indoors, and the first in which the home team won every game; this would happen again in 1991 (also a Twins championship, over the Atlanta Braves) and in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees. This was the third of six World Series played entirely on artificial turf, with the others in 1980, 1985, 1993, 2020, and 2023. This is the first World Series in which the series logo appeared on the jerseys; only the Cardinals...

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