1985 World Series (Game 6): Fan-Tube!

Fans from Dartmouth recount the unusual Game 6 of the '85 World Series (Royals-Cardinals) in a time when American sports dazzled!

A short fan-nod to the iconic Game 6 of the amazing 1985 World Series (Royals-Cardinals) of American baseball.

DISCLAIMER: I have no official ties/relations to the actual organization, so this fan-diorama is simply a 'detention' portrait for YouTube fans. 

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Kansas City is the home of the famed Royals baseball team which won the World Series in 2015 and before that, 30 years prior, in the mid-1980s, when the team boasted the hot pitcher Brett Saberhagen and striking 3rd-baseman George Brett.

Three fans in the modern era recount that iconic 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the ever-hot St. Louis Cardinals, and the pivotal key game recounted is Game 6. The series went to a decisive final 7 Games, and Game 6 was in Kansas City! The first modern era fan recounting the game is Algerian-American Amlan Satan ('AS'), a professor of sociology at Dartmouth.

The second modern era fan recounting this iconic Game 6 of the awesome 1985 World Series (Royals-Cardinals) is Amlan's girlfriend, fellow Dartmouth socio-prof Emelie Pointe ('EP'). She, like Amlan, considers that 1985 Royals team as great as any other American baseball team in modern sports history!

The third modern era fan recounting Game 6 of the '85 World Series (baseball) is EP's cousin and assistant-prof at Dartmouth Hanna Rai ('HR'). All three of these fans collect Royals fan memorabilia and like watching past Royals games on YouTube today, but HR (Hanna Rai) likes specifically collecting these YouTube vids to compose online blogs about Royals spirit, which she calls Fan-Tube at Dartmouth.

AS: I have a collector's Game 6 '85 Series game-ticket!

EP: Cool; this should be a great socio-exercise, sweetie.

HR: That Game 6 was pivotal for that Series and for baseball too.

The Cardinals took Game 1 (3-1) in Kansas City and Game 2 (4-2) in Kansas City before the Royals stormed back in Game 3 (6-1) in St. Louis but lost Game 4 (3-0) in St. Louis, taking a 3-1 deficit to the Cards. However, the Royals stormed back again in Game 5 (6-1) in St. Louis, sending the series once again back to Kansas City for the pivotal/iconic Game 6, the subject of this fan-diorama/vignette!

ROYALS COACH: We've got a great team this year and no reason to lose the title really!

CARDINALS COACH: We may be hyped or under-appreciated, but we've got all it takes!

AS: Game 6 went through arduous innings scoreless because of pitching.
EP: Both pitching staffs were excellent that night in Kansas City!
HR: It was a pitching memory-book, really.

However, in the 8th inning, the Cardinals finally scored thanks to a pinch hitter named Brian Harper, though tensions on the field remained.

With the Cardinals leading 1-0, the game came down to the bottom-9th when Royals pinch-hitter Dane Lorg hit a dinger-single which sent the pinch-runner of the Royals home as well as Royals base-runner Jim Sundberg, snatching a final 2-1 triumph in Game 6. It was one for the books, and it would force the decisive Game 7.

AS: It's this Game 6 that embosses my Topps '85 Royals card-collection, darlings.

EP: It was one for the books; Dane Lorg the hero, and great hero-runners at home!
HR: Royals card-collectors often boast of their 1985 collection...but is Topps supreme?

AMLAN: I have no doubt in my mind that Topps '85 Royals cards are supreme...something for Fan-Tube!

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