Product Details

• Actors: Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram USA Video
• VHS Release Date: May 26, 1998
• Run Time: 65 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304964714
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #77,500 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

The Toronto Blue Jays--the defending champions--sleek, corporate, efficient--featuring an offensive arsenal that hit a collective .311 in the six-game series. The Philadelphia Phillies--a last-to-first success story--with their long hair, beards, and blue-collar work ethic--a softball team in pinstripes. This was a World Series that won't soon be forgotten. A six-game slugfest that sent pitchers scurrying to the showers. The heroes were named Dykstra, Molitor, Schiling, and Alomar. The games were unforgettable. The sheer drama of Game Four--with its runs, hits, and duration--all records. The surgical precision of Curt Schilling's shutout in Game Five. And Joe Carter's incredible three-run blast to win Game Six--just the second time in history a home run has ended a World Series. Plus extensive highlights from the last League Championship Series featuring just four teams--the Blue Jays' deft elimination of Chicago--the Phillies amazing upset of the mighty Atlanta Braves. For fans everywhere the 1993 World Series was a hard-fought, grind-it-out tribute to baseball--a Series as memorable as the heroes and characters who took part in it.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Toronto Blue Jays make it two championships in a row, November 29, 2003

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

The David and Goliath roles in the 1993 World Series were obvious to everyone. The Toronto Blue Jays were the defending World Champions, back to become the first team since the 1978 New York Yankees to win two titles in a row. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Phillies had finished last the previous year, so making the World Series was something of a surprise, led by young ace Curt Shilling, wildman reliever Mitch Williams, and sparked by Mets castoff Lenny "Nails" Dykstra, who hit four World Series home runs for Jim Fregosi's club. The series MVP was Paul Molitor, who batted .500 and had 8 runs batted in during the six games.

The signature moments of this series were Game 4, the longest game in World Series history at four hours and fourteen minutes, won by the Blue Jays 15-14, which also made it the highest-scoring game in postseason history. At the end of three innings it was 7-6 Toronto, with both starters gone, but by the end of seven Philadelphia was up 14-9. Then the Blue Jays shelled two Phillies relievers for 6 runs. Of course the next game was a pitching duel won 2-0 by Schilling to stave off the end for the Phillies. In Game 6 Joe Carter hit the Series-winning home run on a 2-2 pitch off of the Williams with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the first championship walk-off homer since Bill Mazeroski for the Pirates in 1960.

Blue Jays fans will want both the 1992 and 1993 World Series videos, and they will see that the common denominator is their team's two championships is scoring runs late in the game. Unfortunately the 1994 World Series was never played, so Cito Gaston's team never had the chance to go for the three-peat. For Phillies fans, losing a World Series they were never supposed to be in is certainly worth remembering.

4.0 out of 5 stars IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT PRODUCT, October 23, 2004

By	G. Fisher - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

No one says here that this is not the actual games. This is a synopsis. I was confused because there is another product for sale called the World Series Review. This is the same thing. Was disappointed that I did not recieve a video with the World Series games, but it is still a good tape. I wish someone else would have written this before, and not just summarized what was on the video case.