What do you think is the most historical moment in the history of Baseball?

Question

I think it's the 1961 season when Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees were slugging away for Babe Ruth's home run record, and the great finale when Maris beat it (even though it didn't really count until 1996).

Answer 1

for me was when wade boggs hit his 3,000 hit bc i was there

Answer 2

There are so many dats it's hard to pinpoint, and it really depends on which team you root for.

One date that was historical was 4/15/47, Jackie Robinson playing his first game, and from a Dodgers perspective, the day the won the World Series in 1955 was as well.

For the Mets, 4/11/62 was their first game, and 10/15/69 was their first Worlds Championship. Both historical dates for them.

Boston's winning Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS was historical.

Answer 3

Babe Ruth =]

He's my boyfriend! hahaha I love that man!

Answer 4

Probably Jackie Robinson's first major league game on April 15, 1947.

For a single historical batting moment, a little remembered game on April 23, 1999, between the Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, where Fernando Tatis hit two grand slam home runs off of the same pitcher, Chan Ho Park, in the same inning. For a single historical pitching moment, the game in 1959, where the Pirates' Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings, but lost 1-0 to the Braves, on an error, a walk, and a double in the 13th inning.

Answer 5

There's a couple I can;t really decide which one I'd choose. Lou Gehrig's speech, Hank Aaron's 715th, Kirk Gibson's walk-off HR with an injured leg in the playoffs, there's too many to chose one.

And to CHIEN, Jackie Robinson wasn't the only black player that played that season in the MLB. Another black player was in the MLB about 2-3 months after Jackie. Still have a ton of respect for Jackie though.

Answer 6

i think when Lou Gherig made that speach at Yankee Stadium

Answer 7

got to be Jackie Robison (sp) playing professional baseball

Answer 8

Records and performances have nowhere near the historical significance compared to Jackie Robinson coming to MLB and what he had to endure.  I will second the response of Chipmaker, bdough and others.

Answer 9

I would say that it would be Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.

Answer 10

Redsox coming back 3 down against yankees

Answer 11

Again!  I thought that we had settled this question last week or was it yesterday?

I know, we'll ask Buzz Jockingston.

He is YAB's expert on repetitious questions.

Answer 12

I think it will be the demolition of Yankee stadium the most historic landmark in all of major leauge baseball!

Answer 13

The time I will actually attend a basebal game.

Answer 14

1998 when Mark Mcguire and Sammy Sosa saved baseball after the strike. That homerun chase was amazing.

Answer 15

Jackie Robinson  cause most other events would nt hae happend with out him. ex hank aaron 754, willie mays 714 or catch, bonds, griffy, satchel paige ect

Answer 16

Jackie Robinson trotting onto the field to play first base, 15-April-1947.

Answer 17

That's an impossible question to answer. Baseball has been around for more than 100 years, there have been multiple eras. Here's a handful of great moments:

1909 - Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb face off in the world series, two of the early toughest opponents.

1919 - White Sox throw the World Series, out of the ashes Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis is established as the first commissioner. Baseball is singlehandedly saved by him and Babe Ruth.

1955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the Yankees in one of the most intense stories of world series history.

1991 - Game 7 of the world series, arguably the greatest game 7 of all time.

2004 - Boston comes back from 3 games down to win 8 straight, proving the unpredictablity of baseball.

And I haven't even hit on moments like the shot heard round the world, bucky fn dent, don larsen's perfect game, etc.

Answer 18

I have to give respect to several moments before defining the single greatest.  First Jackie Robinson was important because it opened the gates for Blacks, hispanics and most any other race to come in, Hank Greenberg opened the leagues to Jewish players years before Jackie (also of great historic significance), Cal Ripken breaking the reocrd brought baseball back after the strike (Very important), Hank Aaron showing that a man of color can own a hallowed record also important.

The most important though was the appointment of Landis as Commissioner and the actions that he took to restore the people's faith in the game, it still resonates today with people like Pete Rose being affected, with players going to long meeting each spring to explain to them the effect it will have on their life should they decide to go to the dark side.  Without Landis (even though he was a rotten human being) the game of Major League Baseball would not have survived the Black Sox scandel, the American people would have turned their back on them from giving them a product that was rigged and never trusted them again, but Landis put those fears to bed by banishing the players and coming down hard on anyone who may have remotely involved.  That was pretty darn important to the history of Major league baseball.

Answer 19

I'd have to say when Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak. It was right after a strike year and it brought the fans back to the game that were still peeved about the strike cancelling half the season and the World Series the year before.

Answer 20

Hank Aaron hitting #715

Answer 21

Joe Carters walk-off homer to clinch the World Series...Nobodys said that yet just i'd say that.