JCBA Volume 19 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION

Baseball historians generally cite the 1903 season as the beginning of the modern World Series. Since that time the World Series has been played every year with two exceptions: 1904 and 1994. The Fall Classics played in 1903, 1919 and 1921 consisted of eight game contests. Of the remaining World Series, 35 have included a seventh and deciding game. The table below itemizes those seventh games and provides the winning team and league (NL-National League; AL-American League). In addition, the actual day the seventh game was played is provided. Finally, we have included a non-baseball historical event occurring on the day the seventh game was played.

Year	Result	7th Game Date	Other Historical Event on day of 7th Game
1909	Pittsburgh-NL beats Detroit-AL	16-Oct	US President Taft meets Mexican President Diaz in El Paso, TX.
1912	Boston-AL defeats New York-NL	16-Oct	Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orlean, LA.
1920	Cleveland-AL defeats Brooklyn-NL	12-Oct	USSR signs truce with Poland.
1924	Washington-AL defeats New York-NL	10-Oct	Composer Wendy (nee William) Carlos is born.
1925	Pittsburgh-NL defeats Washington-AL	15-Oct	Dolores Jimenez y Muro, Mexican socialist, dies in Mexico City
1926	St. Louis-NL defeats New York-AL	10-Oct	A fire burns down the eastern portion of the town of Douglas, Alaska.
1931	St. Louis-NL defeats Philadelphia-AL	10-Oct	"Shiver My Timbers" a Hal Roach 2-reel OUR GANG comedy is released.
1934	St. Louis-NL defeats Detroit-AL	09-Oct	King Alexsandr I of Yugoslavia is killed in Marseilles, France.
1940	Cincinnati-NL defeats Detroit-AL	08-Oct	Excess Profits Tax Act signed into law in the United States.
1945	Detroit-AL defeats Chicago-NL	10-Oct	In an example of the race war in the US, Jesse Payne is shot to death by a mob in Madison, Florida.
1946	St. Louis-NL defeats Boston-AL	15-Oct	Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisons himself shortly before he was to be hung.
1947	New York-AL defeats Brooklyn-NL	06-Oct	US Atomic Energy Commission begins research on the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
1952	New York-AL defeats Brooklyn-NL	07-Oct	A Russian jet bomber shoots down a US B-29 over Hokkaido, Japan.
1955	Brooklyn-NL defeats New York-AL	04-Oct	Texas Ranger, Clarence Nordyke from Company E is killed in a car/train accident.
1956	New York-AL defeats Brooklyn-NL	10-Oct	The French-built night bomber Vautour IIN makes its first flight.
1957	Milwaukee-NL defeats New York-AL	10-Oct	First telecast of the US television series "Zorro."
1958	New York-AL defeats Milwaukee-NL	09-Oct	Pope Pius XII dies after serving 19 years as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1960	Pittsburgh-NL defeats New York-AL	13-Oct	Third television debate between presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy.
1962	New York-AL defeats San Francisco-NL	16-Oct	The Cuban missile crisis between the US and Russia begins.
1964	St. Louis-NL defeats New York-AL	15-Oct	Russian leader Nikita Khruschev is removed from office.
1965	Los Angeles-NL defeats Minnesota-AL	14-Oct	Rock group The Yardbirds give a live concert in Queen's Hall in Barnstable, England.
1967	St. Louis-NL defeats Boston-AL	12-Oct	Italian astronomer Antonio Giordanna, using his telescope, discovers nitrogen on the Moon.
1968	Detroit-AL defeats St. Louis-NL	10-Oct	The Freddie Hubbard Quintet records "Hub-Tones" in New York City.
1971	Pittsburgh-NL defeats Baltimore-AL	17-Oct	Maximillian Kolbe is beatified by the Catholic church.
1972	Oakland-AL defeats Cincinnati-NL	22-Oct	Henry Kissinger is in Vietnam for peace talks with South Vietnam's President Thieu.
1973	Oakland-AL defeats New York-NL	21-Oct	The "Saturday Night Massacre" associated with the US political scandal called "Watergate" occurs.
1975	Cincinnati-NL defeats Boston-AL	22-Oct	Russian space ship Venera 9 enters orbit around the planet Venus.
1979	Pittsburgh-NL defeats Baltimore-AL	17-Oct	Mother Teresa receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
1982	St. Louis-NL defeats Milwaukee-AL	20-Oct	Korczak Ziolkowski, maker of the Crazy Horse Memorial dies.
1985	Kansas City-AL defeats St. Louis-NL	27-Oct	The United Auto Workers approve a contract with the Chrysler Corporation.
1986	New York-NL defeats Boston-AL	27-Oct	US President Ronald Reagan signs Executive Order #12571, "Implementation of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act."
1987	Minnesota-AL defeats St. Louis-NL	25-Oct	Three firefighters die during a training exercise in Milford, Michigan.
1991	Minnesota-AL defeats Atlanta-NL	27-Oct	The Republic of Chechnya elects a President and deputies to its governing body.
1997	Florida-NL defeats Cleveland-AL	27-Oct	Dow Jones Industrial Average declines 554.26 points setting a record.
2001	Arizona-NL defeats New York-AL	4-Nov	Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba with 135 mph winds; more than a half-million people from low-lying areas were evacuated. .

LIU AIMAN is a Senior Fellow at the Cosmic Baseball Research Alliance (COBRA). She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University where she studied Philosophy and Linguistics. She plays an occasional secondbase for the Asian Snakes, a women's softball team in Northern Virginia.