Mazeroski’s walk-off homer neatly won the 1960 World Series, of course.
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I forget what the third was actually (as I recall, it was something I’d never heard of).

Lacrosse was huge at W&L. I’d never seen a game before heading south for college, and discovering that lacrosse was possibly bigger than football there.
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Mazeroski being the other, right?

I remember Gibson’s HHR very well. Remember who else had a big hit in that game? Jose Canseco’s grand slam became a footnote to Gibson.

And then another vivid memory in 89 with the SF earthquake right at game time.

Lacrosse looks like a lot of fun. My wife caught me watching a pro lacrosse game a few years ago and gave me a strange look. The midwest totally ignores lacrosse,
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- Various Phillies World Series wins, including the clinching games in 1980 and 2008, as well as the two winning games I attended in person – Game 1 in 1980 (Bake McBride with a home run), and Game 4 in 2008 (Joe Blanton with a pitching performance and a home run).

- The “Rollins game”- I was at Game 4 of the 2009 NLCS, one of only 3 postseason games in history that ended with an extra base hit with two outs in the 9th (Kirk Gibson’s HR was one of the others). I’ve never been in a mass of humanity that erupted like that- just a wave of people bouncing and yelling and hugging and high-fiving. That hit illustrated the beauty of geometry in baseball. Me and everyone else were doing the calculations in our heads as the ball shot towards the gap and the outfielders converged on it, cheering when our brains calculated that the outfielders weren’t going to get to the ball before it hit the ground. A second calculation was made watching the two base runners circle the bases as the outfielders chased the ball down at the fence, and we erupted when it dawned on us “holy cow, they’re all going to score!”

- I was at Game 1 of the 1993 NLCS, won with a hit in extra innings by Kim Batiste, whose error in the 9th allowed the game to go to extra innings anyway.

- I was also at Game 6 of the 93 NLCS, where the Phillies finished off the Braves.

- I remember well the Phillies’ division-clinching game in Montreal in 1980 in a rain-extended game that took forever, and featured many stuff you’ll only see once in a lifetime.

- I remember visiting my cousin (a Philly native) in California in 2007, getting teary-eyed as my wife, my cousin, and I huddled around my laptop watching MLB.tv to see the Phils clinch their first division title in 14 years (only to lose to those darn Rockies)

- Turning a triple play as a kid

- I wasn’t much of an offensive powerhouse, but I remember well a Babe Ruth game where I
tripled, doubled, singled, and made a few key plays in the field.

- In a high school game, I remember my coach nearly kissing me after I made a tough play in the final inning to lock down a win.

- A college lacrosse game I attended back at my college, Washington and Lee, in the 90s, where W&L game back from about 4 or 5 goals down in under two minutes, to send the game into OT. I don’t even remember whether we won or lost in OT.
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