This Date in Baseball

"No matter who wins, this World Series will be remembered more for tragedy than for triumph. The real heroes are the survivors and those who helped, not the ballplayers." -BRETT BUTLER, Giant center fielder speaking about the 1989 World Series

1964 Despite a 99-63 record, the Yankees fire Yogi Berra after losing the 1964 World Series to the Cardinals in seven games.
1964 Manager Johnny Keane of the World Champs Cardinals resigns unexpectedly. The former St. Louis skipper will take Yankee job which opens as the result of the firing of Yogi Berra which also occurs today.

1978 At Dodger Stadium, the Yankees beat Los Angeles, 7-2, to take their twenty-second World Championship. New York's shortstop Bucky Dent is named the World Series MVP.
1982 In Game 5 played at County Stadium, Robin Yount becomes the first player in World Series history to have two four-hit games. In addition to today's 4-for 4 performance, the Brewers' third baseman collected 4 hits in 6 at-bats in the opening game of the Fall Classic helping Milwaukee to beat the Cardinals, 10-0.
1985 Lou Pinella is named Yankee manager replacing Billy Martin. 'Billy the Kid' had piloted the Bronx Bombers to second place finishing with a 91-54 record.
1989 As the Giants and A's get ready to play Game 3 of the World Series, the Bay Area is hit by a massive earthquake. The game is quickly postponed by Commissioner Fay Vincent, and he wisely orders the evacuation of Candlestick Park.

2000 In a come-from-behind victory over the Mariners, 9-7, David Justice's three-run homer propels the Yankees to their record 37th American League pennant setting up the for the first time in 44 years a Subway Series in New York
2000 Mariner Dan Wilson snaps the longest hitless streak in postseason history by ending his 0-for-42 skid with an opposite field single. Tiger Marv Owen had gone 0-for-31 in the 1934 and 1935 World Series.
2002 The legal suit against the fan who caught Barry Bond's record breaking 73rd home run at Pac Bell Park, brought three friends, claiming a promise, in exchange for a ticket to the game to split the ball's value if caught, is settled when Jay Arsenault agrees to sell the ball and divide the money. Arsenault's lawyer said had his client initially eluded the friends because of being overwhelmed by the situation.
2003 Early editions of the N.Y. Post include an editorial claiming the Yankees lose to Boston and couldn't get the job done in Game 7 of the ALCS. Although the Bronx Bombers did trailed the Red Sox , the team rallies to beat their arch rival in 11 innings, 6-5.

2005 The juiced Minute Maid Park crowd, anticipating the Astros first National League crown after the first two batters are retired, is ‘pulperized’ as Albert Pujols hits a two out three-run ninth inning homer . A two-strike single stroked by David Eckstein and a walk worked out by Jim Emmonds set the stage for the Cardinals dramatic 5-4 comeback.