Jack Buck and Vin Scully, two of the best baseball broadcasters ever, had memorable calls of Kirk Gibson’s epic two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1 in the 1988 World Series. That’s when he hobbled out of the trainer’s room to win the game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4 over Oakland.
This year the Dodgers are selling tickets to the seat where the ball ended up, along with one next to it, for $300 per game, with $200 of that to be given to charity — the Kirk Gibson Foundation that raises money and awareness for Parkinson’s disease research.