1975. As a kid I'd get sent to bed and would then secretly listen to Dodgers games & Kings (hockey) on a small radio (Vin & Bob Miller will always be like family). And then even though the '75 Dodgers were too injured to challenge the hated (by me) Reds (a lot of family members were big Reds fans), it was the Epic '75 Series (El Tiante, Bernie's two pinch-hit 3-run blasts, MVP/ROY Freddie Lynn, rain-rain-rain, some catcher hitting a long-forgotten game-winning homer off a foul pole
... and of course Lee throwing one too many bloopers, Johnson bringing in Burton instead of Cleveland, Jim Rice's unfortunate & likely-series-altering injury, the villain Larry Barnett, Yaz so disappointingly ending it with a weak pop-out...) where I really got hooked. And while the Dodgers were (and are still) my favorite team, for many years the Red Sox were second...
At any rate, I can totally identify with...
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Originally Posted by DreamTeams
1981
Strange, I know, to select that weird strike year. But, after those heartbreaking defeats in '77 and '78 at the hands of the Yanks, it was so sweet to watch my Dodgers exact revenge in '81 to take the Series.
Would have to give the 1988 (Improbable Dodgers over the might, mighty A's) season a very close second, though.
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