The Reds swept the Pirates in three games to win the 1975 National League Championship Series, and defeated the Boston Red Sox in a memorable seven game World Series.

Jones became the first San Diego pitcher to win 20 games in 1975, going 20 – 12 in 37 outings as the Padres finished in fourth place with a 71 – 91 record, 37 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.

* October 21 – 1975 World Series: The Cincinnati Reds are defeated by the Boston Red Sox in Game Six off Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever played.

The Reds have not lost a World Series game since Carlton Fisk's extra inning home run in 1975, a span of 9 straight wins.

What tends to get overlooked was that in 1975 and 1976, it was the successful changing of Rose's primary position from the outfield to fill the void at third base ( 3B ) that seemed to solidify the Reds team for these 2 championship seasons as this move enabled the Reds to use power hitting outfielder George Foster more.

He managed the National League's Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League.

Over the course of these two seasons, Anderson's Reds compiled an astounding 14 – 3 record in postseason play against the Pirates, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees, winning their last eight in a row in the postseason after triumphing against the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 1975 World Series, and then winning seven straight games in the 1976 postseason.

* In 1975, the Red Sox won the pennant and met the dynastic Cincinnati Reds in the World Series.

* At WrestleMania XIV in 1998, guest ring announcer Pete Rose taunted the Boston crowd about the curse ( Rose was on the Cincinnati Reds team that beat Boston in the 1975 World Series ).

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

After that the team used the name of the major league franchise it affiliated with: the Cardinals ( 1965 – 1972 ), the Astros ( 1973 – 1974 ), the Giants ( 1975 – 1979 ), and the Reds ( 1980 – 1992 ).

From 1963 through 1974 they were a farm team of the Kansas City ( later Oakland ) A's ; subsequent affiliations included the Brewers ( 1975 – 81 ), the Rangers ( 1982 – 85 ), the Expos ( 1986 – 87 and 1993 – 94 ), the Braves ( 1988 – 90 ), the Astros ( 1991 – 92 ), the Giants ( 1995 – 96 ), the Reds ( 1997 – 98 ), and the White Sox ( 1999 – 2000 ).

The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds.

* 1975 Cincinnati Reds at baseballlibrary. com

Although the Reds won four pennants in the 1970s, all of them came against both teams ( Pirates in 1970, 1972, and 1975, and Phillies in 1976 ).

He started two games in the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.

In the 1975 Fall Classic, which Boston lost to the Cincinnati Reds, Petrocelli hit. 308 with four RBI and three runs, and played errorless defense.

He won two World Series championships with the Reds in 1975 and 1976 and was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in those years.

During the nine-part series, a red-sweater-wearing Okrent delivered a detailed analysis of the cultural aspects of the national pastime, including a comparison of the dramatic Game 6 of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds to the conflict and character development in Russian novels.

The World Series had visited the Reds ' previous home, Crosley Field, just three times in its final 31 years, ( 1939, 1940, 1961 ) but it came to Riverfront in its first year ( 1970 ) and a total of four times in the stadium's first seven years, with the Reds winning back-to-back championships in 1975 and 1976.

By 1975 Concepción joined Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Ken Griffey, Sr., George Foster and César Gerónimo in the famous " Great Eight " starting lineup of The Big Red Machine that would help the Reds win the next two World Series titles.

Finally, early in the 1975 season, Reds manager Sparky Anderson moved Rose to third base to fill a void at a position that was a revolving door since Tony Perez was moved to first base in 1972.

Comoros finally became independent in 1975.

In 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam, Kim Il-sung began to feel that the US had shown its weakness and that reunification of Korea under his regime was finally possible.

Later, in 1972, he began managing Anni-Frid Lyngstad, and finally in 1976 Agnetha Fältskog ( until December 1975, Fältskog was still bound to Cupol / CBS Records under a contract ).

It was only when the FCC returned an hour to the networks on Sundays ( for children's / family or news programming ), taken away from them four years earlier, in a 1975 amendment to the Access Rule that CBS finally found a viable permanent timeslot for 60 Minutes.

After the fall ( April 1974 ) of the fascist regime in Portugal, widespread unrest forced the government to negotiate with the PAIGC, and on July 5, 1975, Cape Verde finally gained independence from Portugal.

When Vietnam finally won the war in 1975, Lê and his associates were overly optimistic about the future.

She then taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, first as a Lecturer ( 1974 ), then as Assistant Professor ( 1975 ), Associate Professor ( 1977 – 1987 ), and finally as Associate Professor and Associate Dean ( 1987 ).

Greer began working on his code to implement Tenex-style file name completion in September 1975, finally merging it into the C shell in December 1981.

The remains were finally discovered in 1975.

The Sydney Hartbour National Park was finally gazetted in 1975, with Nielsen Park at Shark Bay being added in 1978.

It was completed on February 25, 1886 which made it the oldest operating lighthouse in the Caribbean until 1975, when the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard finally closed the facility.

However, in 1975 the Phelps Dodge Corporation finally halted its Bisbee copper-mining operations.

In approximately 1975, the last portions of Interstate 35 were completed and all traffic finally started to move around ( and not through ) Faribault.

The treaty was never ratified by Britain and carried no legal force in New Zealand for over a century, finally receiving limited recognition in 1975 with the passage of the Treaty of Waitangi Act.

In the August 1975, interracial tensions between blacks and whites erupted in a riot that resulted in broad vandalism and burnt buildings and shops particularly in the southern and western portions of the town, finally brought under control by State Guard troops.

Between 1975 – 76 and 1979 – 80, ties would still be replayed, but a penalty shoot-out would be used to settle ties that could not be decided after a replay ; replays of two-legged matches were finally abolished for 1980 – 81, with the away goals rule and penalties being adopted instead.

After more than 57, 000 dead and many more wounded, American forces withdrew in 1973 with no clear victory, and in 1975 South Vietnam was finally conquered by communist North Vietnam and unified.

On October 22, 1975, a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, finally ruled Jones Eshlimar's marriage was valid and that half of Williams's future royalties belonged to her.

The extra " e ," according to Dionne, " was the worst thing I could have done in retrospect, and in 1975 I finally got rid of that damn ' e ' and became ' Dionne Warwick ' again.

They finally disbanded in 1975.

Dash worked on Daughters of the Dust since 1975, finally getting financing in 1988 from PBS so that she could proceed.

This was finally carried out by the Whitlam government in 1975.

This state was finally absorbed by the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1975 ; since then, Niteroi lost its condition of the state's capital in favor of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Smith returned to Warwickshire in 1970 and did well enough to be recalled against Australia in 1972 before finally retiring in 1975.