At the tail-end of the first installment of Back To The Future, Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown mentions, “I guess I’ll get to see who wins the next 25 World Series”. I’m guessing the Delorean that I employ for this column is tired of baseball, because for the second consecutive week the time circuits are set to a Steeler game that took place on the same day as the final game of that year’s Fall Classic.
With that being stated as such, let’s go back to the day that a former Pirate manager, Jim Leyland, finally won the World Series as his Florida Marlins outlasted the Cleveland Indians 4-3 in extra innings of the seventh game.