Baseball in 2002. Bud Selig was Main League Baseball’s commissioner, and Barry Bonds simply broke the single-season house run document the prior season. The All-Star Recreation led to an embarrassing tie. The Expos had been nonetheless in Montreal, and the Houston Astros had been nonetheless within the Nationwide League.
This was post-9/11 and pre-Congressional hearings into PEDs in baseball. Nobody knew what a defensive shift was, and analytics was referred to as Moneyball. And we ended with a World Collection that noticed the Anaheim Angels face the San Francisco Giants in an epic 7-game sequence the place two franchises who spent many years craving a World Collection championship would lastly get an opportunity to carry one house.
Loads has modified in baseball since then, however this sequence does not appear to have occurred that way back. The crisp California nights had been an attractive backdrop for one of the vital fascinating Collection in current reminiscence. Let’s look again on the 2002 World Collection.Â
