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THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS WERE NOT ABOUT to stand pat after their inexplicable loss in the 1988 World Series. They took a team that had won 104 games and added the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history, Rickey Henderson, who joined the A's in mid-season. Henderson's .425 on-base percentage and 72 runs scored in half a season enabled the A's to overcome an injury to Jose Canseco and still win 99 games. That was six more than the next-best team in baseball. The A's beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the playoffs and entered the World Series heavily favored to beat their rivals from across the bay, the San Francisco Giants Tickets. It was the first time since the Dodgers left Brooklyn that two teams from the same metropolitan area had faced each other in the World Series. And with an all-Bay Area World Series, perhaps it was inevitable that the most Californian of natural disasters-an earthquake-would turn this sweep into one of the longest World Series ever played.

Most fans bought Giants Tickets to get to the games on the BART the Bay Area's ubiquitous subway system. but six brave Giants fans found a more creative mode of transportation. They swain across San Francisco Bay, twelve miles in 55-degree water, to get to the Oakland Coliseum for the opening game. The team they went to see featured some fearsome hitters. San Francisco's Kevin Mitchell was the National League MVP, but Will Clark was the man the Giants counted on most. He had tortured the Cubs with a .650 average in the National League playoffs, enjoying the kind of hot streak that few other players have ever had. But Clark lost the magic as quickly as he had found it, batting a pedestrian .250 with no runs batted in during the World Series. San Francisco Giants Ticketsare in our stocks. Dave Stewart was a twenty-game winner for Oakland three consecutive years, and he showed why in the first game as he shut out San Francisco on five hits, 5-0. It was all Oakland in Game 2, too, as Henderson collected three hits, stole a base, and scored the first run in a 5-1 A's win.

The Series moved across the bay to Candlestick Park on October 17, where sixty-two thousand fans were ready for Giants Tickets and for the first World Series game in San Francisco in a quarter of a century. At 5:04 p.m., twenty-one minutes before the scheduled first pitch, players were busy preparing for the game, doing wind sprints and the like, when they felt the ground begin to move beneath them. It was an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. Players who moments earlier were honing their killer instincts suddenly turned into husbands and fathers. Many brought their families out into the middle of the playing field-the safest place in the concrete stadium-and tried to comfort them. when you buy San Francisco Giants Tickets, we'll give you other good deals for other teams as well. The tremors were violent enough to topple buildings in San Francisco's marina district and even destroy a section of the Bay Bridge. The quake killed 67 people, caused $6.8 billion in damage, and delayed Game 3 of the World Series for ten days. Candlestick Park held up remarkably well, suffering only a few serious cracks in the cement in Section 53. An 83-year-old woman who had been in her pregnant mother's womb during the last serious San Francisco earthquake in 1906 was sitting in that section when the quake hit. "If I have to go," she said, "this is the way to do it."
As if the earthquake itself hadn't done enough damage to San Francisco, it also enabled the Athletics to come back after the ten-day layoff with Stewart, who had spent most of the downtime visiting with earth-quake victims in Okland. He threw a solid game while holding the Giants to three runs and five hits over seven innings. The unstoppable Oakland offense, meanwhile, scalded five Giants pitchers for thirteen runs. \eterans Carney Lansford and Dave Henderson combined for six hits, six runs scored, and six RBI to give Oakland a 3-0 lead in the Series.

With the Athletics looking for a sweep, Giants manager Roger Craig decided to start Don Robinson, who had pitched only 1% innings over the previous 32 days. Robinson showed his rust immediately as Rickey Henderson homered to lead off the game. Henderson later added a triple and a single as the A's romped to the champi¬onship. It turned out to be one of the most lopsided World Series ever, as Oakland outscored the Giants 32-14. None of the four games were close. But the A's knew their dominance would be remembered by few. The 1989 World Series would always be known as the series interrupted by an earthquake. "I'm happy," Dennis Eckersley said, "but I feel kind of guilty being happy." THE 1962 WORLD SERIES WAS SOMETHING of an anticlimax for the San Francisco Giants. They had endured one of the most hotly contested pennant races in baseball history, playing to a 162-game tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Then they won the three-game pennant playoff by coming from behind in the ninth inning of the third game, in the process becoming one of the most unlikely-and exhausted-pennantwinning teams in baseball history. "The way the season ended, and the way the playoffs went, it took away a lot of the excitement of the World Series," pitcher Billy O'Dell said. "You win the pennant, and then you have to go out the very next day and play the Yankees," Orlando Cepeda groused. The Yankees won the first game behind Whitey Ford, but things were not all bad for San Francisco Giants Tickets purchases. Willie Mays collected three hits and scored the run that ended Ford's World Series scoreless streak at 33;4 innings. The next day at Candlestick Park, the Giants', Jack Sanford, pitching with a cold on two days' rest, threw a three-hit shutout, as Willie McCovey's titanic homer helped the Giants win 2-0.