Talk:Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run

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Is this article even needed? It was game 1 of a series that ended in 5 games. Its pretty meaningless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.150.92.91 (talk) 17:39, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The event has received considerable coverage in reliable, nontrivial sources. This is not just fan trivia, and is not a recap of game 1 - it is meant to be an article on the home run as an independent, notable event. KuyaBriBri^Talk 17:56, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I remember it vividly to this day; and appreciate the announcer commentary quoted in this article. WELL DONE .!. -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 11:32, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

How about a relevant picture?

Given that this specific home run took place while Gibson was a Dodger -- and has been, in fact, voted the greatest sports moment in Los Angeles history -- shouldn't the pic at LEAST have him in a Dodgers uni instead of the much more recent D-back one?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.106.219.2 (talk) 02:31, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

• Support agreed, that recent and rather crummy image is on all the Kirk Gibson articles on Wikipedias around the world!!! Roberticus (talk) 22:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
• SUPPORT The current picture is good and should remain, IMHO, but the second picture could be an action picture of him at bat in a Dodgers uniform. -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 11:37, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support The Diamondbacks weren't even a team in 1988. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.58.131 (talk) 00:16, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support. The current picture is inappropriate for this situation. -- BullRangifer (talk) 02:12, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 05:08, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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Kirk Gibson 1988 World Series home run → Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run – The article's current name is grammatically awkward-sounding and sounds very weak. --67.180.161.183(talk)_{19:39, 28 July 2011 (UTC)}

• Support. Fair enough reasoning by the nom. Jenks24 (talk) 07:56, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
• Support as article creator. Logical reasoning by the nominator and no sane reason to oppose. Only point of comparison I can think of offhand is the articles in Category:MLB perfect games, in which all the article titles are in the possessive form. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 14:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

 Done -- Looks good; TNKS, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 11:39, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

New Additional Paragraph for the "Aftermath" Section

I don't want to, and can't, add an additional note or entry into the Aftermath portion of this article because I am not complete on the facts of it. But what I do know for sure is that there was a commercial that aired during the MLB season of 2011 towards the end of the season. I just don't know exactly who's commercial it was. But what it did feature was little league players re-enacting some of the greatest moments in MLB history. Two of them being Carlton Fisk's moment of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, and the other being Kirk Gibsons's in the 1988 World Series. One little league player was doing Fisk's "waving fair" movement, while another was doing Gibson's fist pump as he rounded the bases.

While submitting this, I did a little research and found out that it was Chevrolet's Diamond & Dream's Program, and it was their commercial that highlighted some of baseball's greatest moments. Here is the link to the actual video, please feel free to remove the link if you feel it is necessary. For I am not sure if it is okay to post that here. But now that I know the full facts on the commercial, I can add it to the Aftermath section if you'd like me to. Otherwise, those responsible for this page can add it. I am not seeking any credit for the addition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9rfUfppHd0 --Aidensdaddy2k9 (talk) 17:41, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Be bold and add it yourself. If there's a problem with formatting, grammar, encyclopedic tone, etc., I'll take care of it. By the way, even though I created this article and am responsible for many of its edits, I do not "own" it and am no more "responsible" for it than you are. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 14:25, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Done. Aidensdaddy2k9 (talk) 20:35, 7 April 2012

Dennis Miller

This bit may need another subheading name to stick it under . .

--Comedian Dennis Miller made comic reference to the Gibson home run later that night in his "Weekend Update" segment on the television program NBC's Saturday Night Live. The show was delayed due to the length and lateness of the World Series game. While reading his stories, a baseball rolled into view on Miller's news desk, prompting him to say, "Wow, Gibson really got ahold of that one, didn't he?"--

Artaxerxes (talk) 17:02, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Helpful source?

This has some good quotes from people involved or who observed the home run: Gibson in '88: It's a good story - 25th anniversary oral history by Arash Markazi ESPN, 10/18/2013. --Artaxerxes 11:25, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Tagging second base

I just watched a YouTube video ([1]) of this amazing event, and it seems clear (at around 8:38) that Gibson didn't tag second base. He missed it by more than a foot. So, if I understand the rules correctly, if the A's had mounted a timely appeal, the home run could have been invalidated, turning the play from one of the greatest in baseball history into one of the more ridiculous. Am I wrong about the rule?

Surely I'm not the first person to have ever noticed this. Does the issue deserve to be addressed in the article? Eleuther (talk) 20:11, 28 April 2018 (UTC)