The series was tied 2-2 when Larsen took the hill for the Yankees in Game 5 of this subway series. Larsen, who couldn't get out of the second inning in an earlier start in the series, proceeded to do what no one had ever done before or has done since. Larsen threw a perfect game, retiring all 27 Dodgers in order. The Yankees went on to win the series in seven games.

With one out and two runners on, Carter stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth of Game 6 with the Blue Jays facing a two-run deficit and Phillies closer Mitch Williams on the hill. A deciding Game 7 appeared likely to stand in the way of the Blue Jays bid to win back-to-back world championships. Instead, Carter sent the Skydome into delirium as he launched an inside slider into the left field seats for the walk-off series clincher. At the time, Carter's home run was just the second in history to end a World Series.

The Yankees had won three straight World Series titles. Mariano Rivera had converted 22 straight post-season save opportunities. No team had ever come back to win a Game 7 of the World Series in the bottom of the ninth inning. So what do you think happened when Rivera took the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning with 2-1 lead? He blew it. The Diamondbacks only had one hard hit ball (a double by Tony Womack), but two weak singles and a Rivera throwing error sealed the Yankees' fate.

The Yankees were heavily favored against the Pirates and scored more than twice as many runs than the Pirates during the series. Nevertheless, the Yankees and Pirates entered the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 at Forbes Field tied 9-9. That was when Mazeroski, considered by many to be the greatest fielding second basemen of all time, launched a one-out offering from Ralph Terry into the seats for a series-winning home run.

With the Red Sox trailing the series 3-2 and the game tied at 6 in the bottom of the 12th inning, Fisk led off and ripped Pat Darcy's first offering down the left-field line. If it stayed fair, it was gone, and Fisk did everything he could to make sure it was, wildly waving his hands to will the ball fair. Most people forget that the Red Sox ultimately lost the series. That's because Fisk's Game 6 heroics capped off what many believe to be one of the greatest World Series games ever played and provided one of the most indelible images in baseball history.

The Dodgers entered the bottom of the ninth in the series opener trailing 4-3 against the heavily favored A's. With two outs and a runner on first, the conventional wisdom had the game's best reliever, Dennis Eckersley, finishing the Dodgers off. Instead, Gibson, who was supposed to be out for the series with a bum knee, stepped up to the plate as a pinch hitter. Gibson worked the count full before launching an Eckersley offering into the right-field seats for the walk-off win. After limping around the bases, Gibson didn't play again in the series. But the big hit propelled the Dodgers to a five-game series win.

Twenty-one years after Larsen pitched his perfect game, the Yankees and Dodgers resumed their Fall Classic rivalry. Up 3-2 in the series, the Yankees returned to the Bronx looking to finish off their first championship season in 15 years. Mr. October single-handedly made sure the Yankees would not be denied, clubbing home runs in three straight at bats to become the only player other than Babe Ruth to hit three long balls in a single World Series game.

Another Game 1 miracle, Mays made his famous over-the-shoulder catch with no outs in the eighth inning of a tie game with two runners on base. Indians outfielder Vic Wertz drove the ball at least 450 feet to dead center in the gigantic Polo Grounds, but Mays caught it on a dead sprint and later claimed he "had it the whole time." The Giants squeezed out of the jam, won the game in extra innings, and ultimately swept the series.

Another Red Sox heartbreaker. Tied 3-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning of the series' deciding game, future Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter scored all the way from first base on a double (that most observers believe should have been ruled a single) off the bat of Harry Walker. Slaughter took off with the pitch and ran through his third base coach's stop sign en route to the winning run of the game and series.

Making his third start of the series, Jack Morris simply outlasted the Braves. He pitched masterfully, working his way out of trouble several times on his way to a complete game ten-inning, series clinching shutout. As Sports Illustrated noted, on that night, Morris "would have outlasted Methuselah." The Twins' victory marked the first time in nearly 70 years that the World Series ended with an extra-inning seventh-game, and the teams played more innings (69) than were played in any previous seven-game World Series.

The Red Sox appeared ready to exorcise the long-standing curse that had plagued the franchise when they took a 3-2 lead over the Mets in their best of seven series. With the scored tied at 5 in the bottom of the 10th inning in Game 6, Red Sox first basemen Bill Buckner allowed a Mookie Wilson grounder to pass through his legs, scoring Ray Knight and tying the series. The Mets won the next game and the Red Sox curse continued for nearly 20 more years. Buckner's error remains the most memorable in World Series history.

The Cardinals were up 1-0 and only three outs away from winning the World Series against their in-state rival when Cardinals closer Todd Worrell got Jorge Orta to lead off the bottom of the ninth with a routine ground ball to first-basemen Jack Clark, who tossed the ball to Worrell for what appeared to be the first out. There has never been any question that umpire Don Denkinger blew the call by calling Orta safe. But the Cardinals simply could not recover. The Royals plated two runs to win Game 6, and then Bret Saberhagen shut out the Cardinals, 11-0, to close out the series.

One of the most famous World Series of all-time, the 1919 series ended with a whimper when Shoeless Joe Jackson grounded out to second with two runners on base. Jackson led all hitters, batting .375 during the eight-game series, and he had homered in the third inning of that final game. But Jackson’s seemingly healthy offensive numbers obscured the truth – that member of the White Sox had conspired with gamblers to throw several games of the World Series. Jackson's conduct led to his permanent banishment from the game.