1970 World Series
| 1970 World Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 10–15 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Brooks Robinson (Baltimore) | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Ken Burkhart (NL), Red Flaherty (AL), Tony Venzon (NL), Bob Stewart (AL), Billy Williams (NL), Emmett Ashford (AL) | ||||||||||||
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Orioles: Earl Weaver (mgr.), Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson. Reds: Sparky Anderson (mgr.), Johnny Bench, Tony Pérez. |
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| ALCS | Baltimore Orioles over Minnesota Twins (3–0) | ||||||||||||
| NLCS | Cincinnati Reds over Pittsburgh Pirates (3–0) | ||||||||||||
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| Television | NBC | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Curt Gowdy, Jim McIntyre (Games 1–2) and Chuck Thompson (Games 3–5) | ||||||||||||
| Radio | NBC | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jim Simpson, Chuck Thompson (Games 1–2) and Jim McIntyre (Games 3–5) | ||||||||||||
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Baltimore Orioles (4) | Earl Weaver | 108–54, .667, GA: 15 | |
| Cincinnati Reds (1) | Sparky Anderson | 102–60, .630, GA: 14½ |
The 1970 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles (108–54 in the regular season) against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds (102–60), with the Orioles winning in five games.
In this series Emmett Ashford became the first African American to umpire in the Fall Classic. It also featured the first World Series games to be played on artificial turf, as Games 1 and 2 took place at Cincinnati's first-year Riverfront Stadium.
This was the last World Series in which all games were played in the afternoon. Also this was the third time in a World Series where a team leading 3–0 in the series would fail to complete the sweep by losing game 4 but still win game 5 to win the series. 1910 and 1937 were the others.
The Baltimore Orioles won the American League East division by 15 games over the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds won the National League West division by 14 1⁄2 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Coming into the World Series, the Orioles had won 14 straight including the final 11 during the regular season then defeated the Minnesota Twins, three games to none, in the American League Championship Series for the second straight year. The Reds went 32–30 in their last 62 regular season games, but swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, three games to none, in the National League Championship Series.
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