TORONTO (AP) -All these years later, Joe Carter has only one complaint about the home run he hit to win the 1993 World Series: It doesn’t draw the attention it deserves.
The former Toronto slugger said baseball fans and historians rank his Game 6, bottom-of-the-ninth, three-run homer off Philadelphia closer Mitch Williams below moments such as Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit homer off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
Highlights of big home runs by Bill Mazeroski and Bobby Thomson often get shown far more than Carter’s shot, too.
“Mine, it will make the top 10 but it’s never No. 1, it’s never been No. 2, it’s always been in the middle of the pack,” Carter said Thursday. “Had it been for the Yankees or the Dodgers, then I think it would have been No. 1. But because it was in Toronto, it has not gotten the respect that I think it really should deserve.”
ms of 1992 and 1993 with a reunion weekend Aug. 7-9. More than 30 players and coaches will attend, including current manager Cito Gaston, who also guided the World Series teams.
Carter said fans on both sides of the border still ask about his home run, telling him where they were when he hit it. He said he also gets letters from teenage fans who were born that year and named Carter in his honor.
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