World Series Time Machine: 1925

The game continued its transition from the dead ball to the live ball and, boy, had things become lively - overall batting averages had climbed above .290 in both Leagues and teams were now averaging more than five runs per game (despite Babe Ruth missing the first quarter of the season following an emergency ulcer operation). In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Washington Nationals (96-55) face off (again) against the National League Pittsburgh Pirates (95-58) . . .

World Series Time Machine: 2010

The 2010 baseball season was something of a "Year of the Pitcher", with six no-hitters (including two perfect games, and one that should have been), the most shutouts in forty years, and a record-tying fifteen pitchers notching at least 200 strikeouts. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Texas Rangers (90-72) face off (again) against the National League Champion San Francisco Giants (92-70) . . .

World Series Time Machine: 1963

It was a momentous year of change outside of baseball - the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the civil rights movement march on Washington in search of a "Dream" and Beatlemania sweeping the UK on its way across the world - but on the diamond, two old and familiar foes found their way to the Fall Classic once again, as the American League Champion New York Yankees (104-57) face off (again) against the National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers (99-63) . . .

World Series Time Machine: 1941

It was a summer of legends - Joe DiMaggio hit safely in an unthinkable 56 consecutive games and Ted Williams hit .406 with a 6-for-8 performance on the season's final afternoon. Two one-hundred win behemoths also powered their way to pennants, as the American League Champion New York Yankees (101-53) face off (again) against the National League Champion Brooklyn Dodgers (100-54) in the first-ever Subway Series between the two New York clubs . . .

World Series Time Machine: 1973

The big story of the 1973 season was the advent of the designated hitter in the American League, as MLB tried to hasten the game's recovery from the pitching-dominated environment of the late 1960s. After both League Championship Series went to a do-or-die fifth game, the American League Champion Oakland Athletics (94-68) face off (again) against the National League Champion New York Mets (82-79), and the grip that hurlers held on the game wasn't going to be loosened quite so easily . . .

AC Milan 2023/24 replay - 13a giornata

25 November 2023: Fiorentina, now firmly established as a top-half club in Serie A, come to Milan looking for a signature win while the rossoneri would simply settle for putting two wins back-to-back. It won't be a first-choice side for Milan, with both Leao and Giroud missing from the attack, so where will the goals come from? Pulisic, Reijnders and Chukwueze will be expected to make up the slack . . .

AC Milan 2023/24 replay - 12a giornata

11 November 2023: Getting away from the jeers that saw them off the pitch at the Giuseppe Meazza last weekend may be a blessing in disguise. While away successes are always hard-won in Serie A, a trip to Puglia to face Lecce (who just avoided banishment back to Serie B in their first year back in the top flight last season) might provide Milan a chance to both reset and accumulate some points . . .

World Series Time Machine: 1980

An eight-day strike during Spring Training may have been an ominous portent of things soon to come, but the 1980 season also saw three tight divisional races, George Brett flirt with .400 into the schedule's final two weeks and Nolan Ryan notch his 3000th career strikeout. As the season comes to its conclusion, the American League Champion Kansas City Royals (97-65) face off (again) against the National League Champion Philadelphia Phillies (91-71) . . .

World Series Time Machine: 1990

Hang on tight for the era of Beanie Babies, Boy Bands and Britney - yup, the World Series Time Machine is headed back to the 1990s! 1990, to be exact - the final year to feature a team wearing a pullover uniform jersey - as the Bash Brothers and the American League Champion Oakland Athletics (103-59) face off (again) against the Nasty Boys and the National League Champion Cincinnati Reds (91-71) . . .

AC Milan 2023/24 replay - 11a giornata

4 November 2023: A poor showing in Naples last week, and now what seems to be an annual banana skin as Udinese come calling at the San Siro. Milan have only won one of the last five meetings between the clubs, and they aren't exactly firing on all cylinders at the moment . . . .