⚾Great Matches

Baseball's landmark games are remembered differently from those in other sports. With no clock, outcomes usually compress into one pitch, one swing, one throw — so the coordinates of decisive moments stay unusually sharp: an 0–1 count at the Polo Grounds in 1951, a 1–0 fastball in Atlanta in 1974, the first at-bat of the twelfth inning at Fenway in 1975. The ten games below were not chosen by titles alone, but because what baseball does — or how people watch it — changed afterward.

The list runs chronologically from the first World Series in 1903 to the night the Chicago Cubs ended a 108-year wait in 2016. Two games outside the United States — the 2008 Beijing Olympic final and the 2009 World Baseball Classic final — are included because nothing else marks as clearly the sport's centre of gravity beginning to shift from North America toward East Asia.