NEW YORK -- When I think of the Kansas City Royals, I go to of one of my earliest baseball memories: Chris Chambliss hitting the home run to win the 1976 ALCS for the New York Yankees. I think of Freddie Patek crying in the dugout after another playoff loss and of George Brett going yard off Goose Gossage to finally exorcise those Yankee demons in 1980. That team lost the World Series but the 1985 team, with a few aging leftovers -- Brett, Frank White, Hal McRae -- and a young rotation led by 21-year-old stud Bret Saberhagen won that infamous Game 6 and then Game 7 to finally give Kansas City a World Series title.
Game 5 Top 5: Royals are World Series champions
