The 1971 World Series, Game 7 (Camden Chat’s version)

Inspired by Taylor Swift re-releasing her own songs as (Taylor’s version), Camden Chat writers will be spending the rest of 2023 re-releasing some Orioles game recaps and giving them better endings. Let’s come up with a more pleasant finale for the 1971 World Series, because how it actually ended was far less enjoyable.

You guys. They did it! Again!!

Rejoice, O’s fans. For the second year in a row, the Baltimore Orioles are the kings of Major League Baseball.

On this glorious afternoon — Oct. 17, 1971 — the Birds became back-to-back World Series champions with a 3-2 comeback victory in the winner-take-all Game 7 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. In front of a capacity crowd of 47,291 at Memorial…