1972 World Series

DatesOctober 14–22Venue(s)Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati)
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland)MVPGene Tenace (Oakland)UmpiresChris Pelekoudas (NL), Bill Haller (AL),
Mel Steiner (NL), Frank Umont (AL),
Bob Engel (NL), Jim Honochick (AL)Hall of FamersAthletics :
Dick Williams (manager)
Reggie Jackson (DNP)
Catfish Hunter
Rollie Fingers
Reds:
Sparky Anderson (manager)
Johnny Bench
Joe Morgan
Tony PérezBroadcastTelevisionNBCTV announcersCurt Gowdy
Al Michaels (in Cincinnati)
Monte Moore (in Oakland)
Tony KubekRadioNBCRadio announcersJim Simpson
Monte Moore (in Cincinnati)
Al Michaels (in Oakland)ALCSOakland Athletics over Detroit Tigers (3–2)NLCSCincinnati Reds over Pittsburgh Pirates (3–2)

The 1972 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1972 season. The 69th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. The Athletics won in seven games for their sixth World Series championship and first since 1930, when the team was still based in Philadelphia. This was the first major professional sports championship ever won by a San Francisco Bay Area-based team.

This was the first World Series in which both teams wore pullover jerseys, a style that would remain the norm until 1982, after which at least one team in the Fall Classic would wear them each year through 1990, after which traditional button-front jerseys once again predominated. Coincidentally, both this World Series and the 1990 World Series featured the same two teams, the Athletics and the Reds, though with far different results; the Athletics won this one in a hard fought seven games, while the Reds swept the defending champion Athletics in four games in 1990.