"When the scoreboard clock in Yankee Stadium passed midnight, World Series play in November began. Derek Jeter hit an opposite field walk-off home run on a 3–2 pitch count from Kim. This walk-off home run gave the Yankees a 4–3 victory and tied the Series at two, making Jeter the first player to hit a November home run and earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. November."

The best I can remember are from the 70s, the Reds (Perez, Morgan, Concepcion, Rose) and Dodgers (Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Cey). The 1964 Cardinals (White, Javier, Groat, Boyer) got a lot of attention when all were named to the All-Star team, but I'd say they're a notch below. Same with the Orioles of Powell, Johnson, Belanger, and Robinson.

( i feel like the games for these dates have been repeated )

i also am missing those dates from a list that i started during the first Christmas contest. i was missing about 100 games from my list but i have filled it in with the help of your lists.

I HUMBLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR LISTS !!

do you know if the 4 - 27 -2004 game of the day # 1103292 is the first game of the day sponsored by this website? or is it just the oldest one that has not been repeated?

1) I know I had the game for May-07-04 (#1283538) on the list, since I have started compiling indexes by player and pun and it was there then. I must have erased it somehow. Thanks for bringing it back.

2) As for the Aug-19-04 situation, chessgames.com made a note on #1286144 explaining the situation. Perhaps I should still include the game, though, since it does have a header.

3) As for May-08-04, Oct-22-04, Apr-30-05, and Oct-25-05, you could be right that they were later used as repeats. I don't know how to find them without going through kibitzing for later days, and I decided I wasn't going to hold the collections until I got around to doing that.

Another possibility, which I found several times, is that a GOTD is later found to be a duplicate and merged with another without transferring the "Game-of-the-Day" header to the new number.

Thanks for the kind words! As you find other mistakes, please don't hesitate to bring them to my attention. (By the way, if you want to find them quickly do "gameoftheday" as a search onthe collections page.)

Back in 1977, I actually served as a Delegate from Michigan during the USCF meetings at the US Open. I then made the mistake of trying to play chess immediately afterward.

I was playing White, and got up from the board to take a stretch. When I returned, my opponent had made his move to reach this position:

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"That's interesting", I thought. "I can take his queen. But he's rated 1972, so he must have something up his sleeve. Let me think about it."

It didn't take long to see the point: after 21.cxb3, Black plays 21...Nd4+. I can play 22.Kd2, but he plays 22...Rc2+ and indeed regains the queen. But that gets sort of complicated; I wonder if his pieces will get tangled up and I can win one of them.

After a few minutes, I realized that wasn't going to work. Then I had to decide whether to even take the queen. "Let's see; 20.c3 Nd4--no, that could get hairy. Or maybe..."

Finally I remembered something. When I had left the board for my stroll, I had a knight on b3. <It took me fifteen minutes to realize I was a piece down.>

<It took me fifteen minutes to realize I was a piece down.>

Conflicting records in the cerebral catalog, but most probably I never saw the pun. Can't remember when my memory last worked.

Secondly, these things go in cycles. The AL started by winning 12 of 16 up till 1949. Then the NL won 33 of 42, including one stretch of 19-1 between 1963-1982. Now the AL is doing fairly well again. Overall, the NL still holds a two game lead.

The game was played in the late afternoon in Anaheim, so the lighting wasn't great for hitters. But Ed Runge had to ice his right arm afterward from calling so many batters out on strikes, including Clemente four times and Dick Allen three. Runge decided the outside corner extended six inches farther and just kept ringing guys up like eating potato chips.

Also using team statistics of 5 years ago when very few of those playing today were on that team.

Also is there REALLY a difference in a post season game as opposed to a regular season game? Aren't players always trying to win?

In a seven game series, as opposed to a 162 game season, there are no days off. If you're dinged up, you play instead of resting. If you pitched yesterday, be ready to pitch today. If you've got a broken ankle, you still sit on the bench and pose a threat the other manager has to take into account.

Managers are more likely to play conservatively. They know both teams have good pitching, so one run will mean a lot. If a pitcher shows any weakness, he'll get yanked a lot quicker than he would in the regular season. (Unless his name is Bob Gibson and the manager wishes to live through the series.)