With the pennant races heating up, and the Little League World Series starting Friday, we thought it was a great time to rank the baseball events on The Ultimate Sports List. Sixteen baseball events/venues (with their overall rank in parenthesis) made the main list, with five more added that were honorable mentions. The Ultimate Baseball List: The World Series  (#8 Overall) Wrigley Field (#26) Fenway Park (#33) The MLB Championship Series (#37) The MLB All Star Game (#39) New York Yankees vs. Boston ...

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It was the summer of 1970, and I was nine years old. The Big Red Machine had arrived on the scene, and Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and crew were tearing up the National League.  The Reds had closed their old ballpark – Crosley Field – at the end of June and moved their show downtown to Riverfront Stadium, which would soon be hosting the MLB All Star Game.  And I was pestering my Dad on a daily basis as to whether he had – or would be able to score – some tickets.  At the ripe old age of nine, I had already begun my list of the world’s ...

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