MLB Showdown Obsession

 History was made in 1961 and '62, when baseball expanded for the first time. One of those new teams were the Angels. None of the expansion teams were very good, but the journey to relevance in baseball must always start with mediocrity. While the Mets would shock the baseball world with a miracle in 1969 , the other expansion teams needed a bit more time to get their acts together to make a proper postseason run. A decade after the Mets, the Angels were ready to make a run of their own. For 1979, the Angels had an ensemble of all stars to compliment their HoF pitcher Nolan Ryan, but the offseason trade for Rod Carew put them over the top in the AL West. Jim Fregosi was in his first full season as Manager for the team he used to star for, and it seemed that at last all the stars had aligned for the Angels as they put up an 88-74 record to claim the West by 3 games over the Kansas City Royals. Playoff baseball had finally come to Anaheim, but unfortunately their opponent wasn't ...