He has lived in Atlanta for years and was one of the more popular Braves of the 1980s, but the night Chris Chambliss will remember most was a date at Yankee Stadium in 1976 against Kansas City in the fifth and deciding game of the American League Championship Series. Royals Hall of Famer George Brett had tied the score at 6-6 in the top of the eighth on a three-run home run and up stepped Chambliss to open New York’s ninth.
A clutch hitter his entire career, Chambliss drove the first pitch over the right-field wall, unleashing such pandemonium among Yankees fans that he never made it to home plate.