Published 10/15/2008
at L.A. Times - Baseball News
Several members of the 1988 team share their recollections of the home run voted the greatest moment in L.A. sports history in a poll conducted by the Los Angeles Sports Council in 1995.
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Twenty years ago today, Kirk Gibson hit his legendary pinch-hit home run off of Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the World Series. It was voted the greatest moment in L.A. sports history in a poll conducted by the Los Angeles Sports Council in 1995. And it will probably take something similar for the Dodgers to overcome a 3-1 series deficit to the Philadelphia Phillies and advance to the World Series this year.
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