By Sylvia Gurinsky
It was a bittersweet final week of the baseball season in 2010, with the San Francisco Giants getting it off to a happy start with their first World Series Championship in the City By the Bay (The last time they won, in 1954, they were in New York.).
But events turned sad on Thursday with the announcement of the death of Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson.
It's a good time, then, to go back and savor World Series of seasons past.
Last year, "The Official World Series Film Collection" was released on DVD, featuring highlights of all World Series from 1943 to 2008. It includes 20 discs, and familiar memories for baseball fans everywhere.
Want individual games? It's still possible to find "Baseball's Greatest Games," released on VHS during the 1990s. They include the thrilling, 12-inning Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, which Anderson's Cincinnati Reds lost to the Boston Red Sox on Carlton Fisk's foul pole home run; Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, when a ground ball hit by New York Met Mookie Wilson went between Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs, allowing the Mets to win ; and Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, another thriller that the Los Angeles Dodgers' injured Kirk Gibson ended with a home run that beat the Oakland A's.
Add "The Tenth Inning," Ken Burns' new sequel to "Baseball," to your collection as well. And have a great offseason!
See you next week. Until then, Happy Viewing!
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