Topic summary
1974 World Series
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum (Oakland)
Doug Harvey
Athletics:
Rollie Fingers
Catfish Hunter
Reggie Jackson
Dodgers:
Walter Alston (manager)
Don Sutton
Tommy Lasorda (3rd base coach)
Vin Scully (in Los Angeles)
Monte Moore (in Oakland)
Tony Kubek
Monte Moore (in Los Angeles)
Vin Scully (in Oakland)
The 1974 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1974 season. The 71st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion (and two-time defending World Series champion) Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers in an all-California matchup. The Athletics won the series in five games; after splitting the first two in Los Angeles, Oakland swept their three home games to close it out. As of 2026, this is the last time the Athletics won the World Series at home.
Rollie Fingers pitched in three of the four Oakland victories, posting a win and two saves, and was honored with the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. Oakland became the first team to win three consecutive Series since the New York Yankees won five straight (1949–1953); the win secured the Athletics' status as one of the truly dominant teams of the 1970s. (The other "team of the decade," the Cincinnati Reds, won consecutive World Series in 1975 and 1976, after falling short in 1970 and 1972.) Since 1974, only the Yankees have won three consecutive titles, having done so in 1998, '99, and 2000.
This was the first all-California World Series, the first World Series since 1956 to feature two teams from the same state, and the first with an official World Series logo; these two teams met again fourteen years later, but with a different result with the underdog Dodgers defeating the heavily favored Athletics in five games.