1974 World Series

1974 World Series
Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season Oakland Athletics (4) Alvin Dark 90–72, .556, GA: 5 Los Angeles Dodgers (1) Walter Alston 102–60, .630, GA: 4
Dates	October 12–17
Venue	Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles) Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland)
MVP	Rollie Fingers (Oakland)
Umpires	Tom Gorman (NL), Don Denkinger (AL), Doug Harvey (NL), Bill Kunkel (AL), Andy Olsen (NL), Ron Luciano (AL)
Hall of Famers	Umpire: Doug Harvey Athletics: Rollie Fingers Catfish Hunter Reggie Jackson Dodgers: Walter Alston (manager) Don Sutton Tommy Lasorda (3rd base coach)
Broadcast
Television	NBC
TV announcers	Curt Gowdy Vin Scully (in Los Angeles) Monte Moore (in Oakland) Tony Kubek
Radio	NBC
Radio announcers	Jim Simpson Monte Moore (in Los Angeles) Vin Scully (in Oakland)
ALCS	Oakland Athletics over Baltimore Orioles (3–1)
NLCS	Los Angeles Dodgers over Pittsburgh Pirates (3–1)
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The 1974 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1974 season. The 71st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion (and two-time defending World Series champion) Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Athletics won the series, four games to one; after splitting the first two in Los Angeles, Oakland swept their three home games to close it out.

Rollie Fingers figured in three of the four Oakland victories, posting a win and two saves, and was honored with the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. Oakland became the first team to win three consecutive Series since the New York Yankees won five straight (1949–1953); the win secured the Athletics' status as one of the truly dominant teams of the 1970s. (The other "team of the decade," the Cincinnati Reds, won consecutive World Series in 1975 and 1976, after falling short in 1970 and 1972.)

This was the first all-California World Series; these two teams met again fourteen years later, with a different result.