Product Details

• Actors: Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram USA Video
• VHS Release Date: May 26, 1998
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304964692
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,737 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

The young writer squirmed in his chair while the producer looked over his script. It was the story of two last-place baseball teams who, one year later, found themselves playing in perhaps the greatest World Series of all time, one in which both teams were underdogs. The story told how the two teams battled through seven nail-biting games, three of them extra-inning games. It told how four of those games were decided on the final pitch, a distinction no other Series could lay claim to. It told a tale of two cities and how they got caught up in the excitement of living of the American baseball dream. How they responded with thunderous ovations, deafening chants, tomahawk chops, and fluttering homer hankies. It told of an undersized second baseman bidding to earn the MVP Award, an honor that eventually went to the hometown hero of the winning team. The script was filled with game-saving catches against the centerfield wall, bone-crunching collisions at home plate, controversial calls, game-ending home runs, and a sequence of Seventh Game doubleplays that defied belief. And in the end, it told of the climactic Seventh Game, a pitcher's duel between a fresh-scrubbed youngster and the aging veteran he idolized as a boy. How they battled inning after inning until finally in the 10th, a broken bat double and a lazy-flyball single scored the only run of the game and sent the hometown fans into a frenzy.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still on the edge of my seat watchin this one....., November 2, 2001

By	"pm_number8" - See all my reviews

I watch this one, even now, ten years after the fact, and I still am on the edge of my seat every time. Remarkable....Hollywood could not have written a better script.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Years later - Still an edge of the seat series, February 25, 2004

By	Inform Me-Us "informmeus" (Robbinsdale, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This has got to be the best World Series of all time. Even now, years later, playing the tape instantly brings back all the names, the excitement and adrenaline. This is a baseball fan's classic. This series is America's classic sport in it's finest hour.

This item is still not available on DVD, (as of 7/2009). I recently rented a similar DVD but the excitement just wasn't there. It was narrated by a sports news caster for one of the big networks but just not as exciting as listening to the Twins play-by-play man yelling, "touch a ball Kirby Puckett!"

Currently, the only way to see this if off a VHS tape. The one copy in our family has been played many times. Looking forward to seeing this on DVD. If DVD is considered old technology then I hope this item, right here, is preserved in Blu-ray Disk format for younger generations to refer back to when told about the greatest World Series of all time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Twins and Braves played a classic 7 game World Series, December 8, 2001

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

In 1991 the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves in seven games during on of the greatest World Series ever played. Although these were a pair of small market teams the match-up was intriguing because what both clubs had finished in last place the previous year, making this the first meeting of "worst to first" teams in postseason history. It would be a gross understatement to simply point out the home team won all seven games in this series, especially since the Twins had done that in their previous Series five years earlier. Three of the games were decided by a single run in extra innings, including the last two. The teams split a couple of 3-2 home victories as well.

The trio of extra inning games were all extremely pivotal and equally dramatic. Atlanta won Game 3 at home 5-4 in 12 innings to stop the Twinkies from going up 3 games to love. Kirby Puckett won Game 6 with a home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to force the greatest Game 7 in World Series history. John Smoltz pitched for the Braves and Jack Morris for the Twins and at the end of nine innings the game was still scoreless. Dan Gladden started the Twins' half of the inning with a double and was sacrificed to third by Chuck Knoblauch. Intentional walks to Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek followed, loading the bases with one out. Then Pinch-hitter Gene Larkin drove the ball to left-center, over a drawn-in outfield, and the Twins were 1-0 winners and World Series champions. With his two key wins for the Twins Jack Morris ended up being the MVP and then bolted the team in the post season for greener pastures.

Final note: If you think this series was good, go back and check out the 1972 Series between the A's and Reds. That year SIX of the seven games were decided by one run, including the deciding final game. But in 1972 the home team only won twice. On paper, at least, that would seem to be more exciting. But the 1991 Fall Classic was still very, very special and NOTHING could top that seventh game, not even what happened in Arizona this year.