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World Series - Money, Power, and Revolution

World Series - Money, Power, and Revolution

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Episode two of The World Series covers nineteen seventy through two thousand, a revolutionary period that transformed baseball from sport into big business. This episode explores the Oakland Athletics colorful dynasty, the Big Red Machine Reds, and Carlton Fisk's iconic home run. Free agency arrives and changes everything, leading to labor wars including the devastating nineteen ninety four strike that canceled the World Series. Witness Reggie Jackson becoming Mister October, the nineteen eighty nine earthquake interrupting the Battle of the Bay, Bill Buckner's tragic error, and the Yankees late nineties dynasty. Marty Sinclair chronicles expansion teams, the wild card system, and the steroid era's shadow over baseball's most turbulent decades.
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