Oct. 23, 1993 - Joe Carter’s homerun wins the World Series for the Blue Jays

Joe Carter of the Blue Jays hit a game-winning, three-run homer off Mitch Williams of the Philadelphia Phillies, giving Toronto an 8-6 victory in Game 6 of the World Series and a second straight world championship.

Carter became only the second player to end the World Series with a homerun. The first was in 1960, when Bill Mazeroski’s leadoff homer in bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 10-9 victory over the New York Yankees.

“I actually dreamed of that moment many times,” Carter says today. “I dreamed of that moment when I was a little kid. I’d be sitting at my father’s garage and daydreaming about that moment. I even wrote it down a few times: ‘My dream is to hit a home run to win the World Series.’”

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July 24, 1983 - George Brett’s Pine Tar Bat

It is a legendary moment in baseball history. Upon hearing that his game-winning home run would be wiped away, Royals third baseman George Brett races out of the dugout and into one of the most famous player-umpire arguments ever.

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July 14, 1968 - Hank Aaron hit his 500th career home run.

Curt Simmons once said, “Trying to throw a fastball by Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.” Someone forgot to tell San Francisco pitcher Mike McCormick that and during the third inning Hank Aaron made him pay, smacking his 500th career home run to become the eighth player in history to reach the milestone.

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Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron (born February 5, 1934), nicknamed “Hammer,” or “Hammerin’ Hank,” is a retired American baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1954 through 1976. Aaron is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on their “100 Greatest Baseball Players” list.

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