27 wins in today's major league game is unheard of. Some guys don't even reach that number in two seasons.

Remember watching this series as a kid. Arguably the greatest upset in World Series history!

Greatest Upset Ever!

I remember it well. I was in college that year.

Love late 80s and early 90s baseball. These two teams were SOLID!!!!

I remember getting this VHS for Christmas in 1990. I probably watched that thing a hundred times throughout my childhood lol. Haven’t seen it in 20+ years! When I was in 1st grade, my Mom and I went to Cincy, to go to King’s Island and visit her friend that lived in town. That was early Oct 1990. Looking back on it, it was right in the middle of the NLCS. When we got there, I found out that one of the Reds was her next door neighbor. Then learned it was Hal Morris. He wasn’t exactly the biggest star on the team, and was still early in his career, but he was the very first athlete that I ever met. I was 6 years old, so my sports knowledge was limited. Like I knew who Sabo, Larkin, Dibble, Myers, and Davis were, but I didn’t know who Hal was. It didn’t matter, because I loved the Reds. Gets this… I saw Hal go out to his mailbox, ran over to him, and asked him if he’d get me Chris Sabo’s autograph. How rude was that?! LOL He chuckled and told me Chris wasn’t keen on signing autographs, but Hal gave me HIS autograph and took a picture with me. From then on, Hal was always my favorite ball player. Met him a couple more times before he left Cincy. Super nice guy. Anyhow, thanks for the upload! Brings back a ton of memories!

Pat O'Brien gets me more relaxed with the narration on the 1990 world series baseball. :)

Sabo or Hatcher could've also been MVP of this series.

Total team effort. Between the NLCS and WS, virtually ever Reds player, whether in the regular line-up, on the bench, in the rotation or in the bullpen, had some meaningful contribution to this championship. Winningham, Braggs, Bates, Oester, Armstrong....everybody did something. A couple of years later, I talked to Herm Winningham, and he said that his bunt single on an 0-2 count in the 8th inning of Game 4 was not called by Piniella. Winningham did that on his own. Good thing it worked, or he would've really caught it when he got back to the dugout.

Ricky Henderson always played like a champion.

I'm from Cincinnati and seen the Big Red Machine. The ninety Reds were awesome.

As a kid, I went to one of the WS games in Oakland. Since I was a life-long A's fan, this series was very painful for me to watch.

The Coliseum sure was pretty back then. Loved that Ice Plant beyond the bleachers. It was always a site to see.

This WS victory by the Reds, is/was arguably the most "one sided" WS victory by a team, who were the consensus pick to lose it...

Last time Cincinnati won a world series and last time the Oakland A's won a pennant.

Great video. This is the first series I ever watched as a kid.

I was a year old when they went wire to wire and won the title

Being from Ohio and a big REDS fan.. this was Awesome!!!!

I will always remember this series. Sitting in a hospital watching Game 4 on a small tv waiting room. After watching the Reds storm the field after winning, I was thinking, how did Cincinnati sweep the mighty Oakland so easily? Anyway, two smaller market teams matching up for the greatest prize. I love old baseball.

Well done, thanks for posting, brings back very nice memories 😃

47:03 was the final straw to Eric Davis line of injuries & it was the most crushing his HOF talent was ruined by injuries.

Wild that over 10 years later lou piniella and Tony larosa would manage the Cubs and cardinals

@ 10:17 Pat O'Brien worked with CBS at the time and tells the CBS sports World series tv commentators

after nlcs game 1 lost, the 2nd game Big O'Neill had a great game that got the reds rolling

As a Giants fan, I love to remind A's fans of 1990 when they gloat about 1989. I was 13 yrs old when I watch the heavily favored Oakland A's get their asses cooked like a thanksgiving turkey. The A's haven't been back since. Ha ha congrats Cincinnati!

Doing the lord's work, thank you!

Of all the big series Dave Stewart had throughout his career, this was not one of them.

i love the ad at the start, god i miss the 90s

I was three years old. My first memory of this World Series came about the time I was eight or 9. How do you not call this a Cinderella story?

I was at game two with my extremely pregnant wife who gave birth to my daughter 5 days later.

44:41 It's funny hearing Rickey bring up that Pittsburgh said that Cincinnati got all of the breaks. Champions make their own breaks and you can tell thought that as well with the "must be their year" comment

them mullets were big in the oakland ball park

The last title in any of the Big 4 leagues for an Ohio-based team until the Cavs won the NBA title in 2016.

41:30 "He corks another one to left field", the A's announcer said about Sabo. That was a reference about Sabo corking his bat. Savage! Lol

At 22:13 that's me running up the steps... lol.

@ 19:18 Davis stuns Goliath

Eric Davis was never the same after he suffer that kidney injury he was suppose to be the next Willie Mays.

The look on larussas face throughout said it all...

i savor every moment of this, last time reds were good.

Great video!!!!

Thank God the Reds won Game 4 with Hatcher & Davis down Herm Winningham & Glenn Braggs they were nice players but they were bench players not as good at Davis & Hatcher.

Lou may take the credit for winning that year but alot of people need to be reminded that was the team Pete Rose built !!

Ha. I still have this on VHS 🤣

41:30 Well that was an ironic way to describe a Sabo hit :)

@ 20:22 'sweet' LOUUUUUUUUUU piniella living up to his name here

"Why...you would think they just won the World Series."...because they did!

I remember this series. I made a bet with my jr. high school history teacher. We both bet a KC Strip on the series. He picked Oakland to win and not onlty to win but to sweep them as well. Safe to say who won that bet lmao.

The wire to wire Reds and the NASTY boys

this was an OK world series, but not the best. the 91 world series was epic, both Twins, Braves were worst to first teams.

Payback for 1972!!

A's should have won game 2.

33:00 Wanna feel old?? Lil Tucker Browning is knocking on 30

Was Canseco always a terrible fielder, or was he just having a bad week? Seems like the whole series would have been different if a real RF was out there.

33:00 that nurse is rough as hell with that baby lmao.

Look at the Oakland A's from 1988-1992 and look at them in 2023, how sad

it it me or is it wierd that oakland a only trips to the world series been 3 peating as al champs

@ 32:53 game 2's hot topic & 1990 world series Strangest moment @ 34:32 Commentators start haveing their own relay calls @ 34:48 there's Tim McCarver who not only comentated That 89 fall classic on ABC but the following 4 world series on CBS aswell

Would have been very interesting to see how this WS would have gone if the WS HFA didn't alternate. If the WS started in Oakland instead of Riverfront- not saying the A's win, but I don't know if it's a sweep.

Dumbfounded to this day. Baines, Canseco, Henderson, Henderson, McGee, McGwire, Lansford, Eck, Randolph, Stewart, Welch. This team had everything lined up to sweep Cincy and yet Oak fell flat beyond comprehension.

12:55 I still believe to this day that the Series was over. Broke the A's back

I wonder, how it was for Pete Rose to see the Reds winning, without any kind of involvement from him.

@ 48:57 ehhh.... Pat O'Brien. Too pumped I'll say

@ 31:21 the (rosie reds) skeptics rating

I wanted bad eyesight so bad as a kid so I could get Rec Specs.

@ 25:37 the kind hearted member of the reds bullpen

5:56 the bucs took a (Bob) Walk on the losing side

A's Line-Up P Bob Welch P Dave Stewart P Mike Moore P Dennis Eckersley P Gene Nelson 1B Mark McGwire OF Jose Conseco 2B Rickey Henderson OF Willie McGee OF Dave Henderson DH Carney Lansford SS Walt Weiss C Terry Steinbech 3B Harold Baines 2B Willie Randolph Reds Line-up P Danny Jackson P Tod Browning P Jose Rijo P Randy Myers 3B Barry Larkin 2B Eric Davis OF Paul O'Neill SS Chris Sabo OF Mariano Duncan OF Billy Hatcher 1B Todd Benzinger

3:53 name that tune

geodeuce kind of shows why the marriage ended a couple years later.

Is it just me or is it super weird that Rijo's wife calls him "Rijo"?

6:15 the buccos end the reds 3 game win streak by winning game 5

@ 3:53 name that tune

Love Willie McGee

I hope to see an Ohio World Series someday

Wanna know why the Yankees weren't in a World Series between 1981 and 1996? Trading away guys like Jose Rijo. And the Reds wouldn't have won anything without future Yankee Paul O'Neil.

Barry Larkin should've been the MVP

55:25

Why does Rijo's wife keep referring to him by his last name?

Tina wears the same outfit in I Just Love Bugs Michael wears the same outfit in 1 2 3 4 5 Senses Luci wears the same orange shirt in Eat Drink And Be Healthy Min wears the same pink shirt in A Splash Party Please

I know [edit] -Joe- Jack Buck is widely regarded as a legendary announcer, but in this series....I just didn't see it. Maybe he wasn't as sharp as he once had been, I dunno. But his calls on pivotal plays seemed flat, and his incessantly informing the viewers how many consecutive outs each pitcher had recorded drove me absolutely nuts all series long. "...aaaand that's 4 straight outs for Rijo.....pop up....Gallego's retired, and that's five straight outs for Rijo..." Like anybody cared. I have no idea why he deemed that meaningful. This was the first exposure I'd had to him, and I found it difficult to correlate his reputation as a great broadcaster with his play-by-play in this series.

41:31 HE CORKS ANOTHER

Ball was foul - 32:24

Only losers say that the winners get all the breaks.

“Hitters on cheating” finding the sweet “a” steroid spot

It sickens me to the core that Cincinnati not only won this Series , but swept it . Say what you want about Canseco and McGwire, but this Oakland ballclub was STACKED as defending champions and couldn't do a damn thing ! To make matters worse , Marge Schott was a racist and a bigot ! At least when the Dodgers won it in 1988, they won it with class !