Interstate World Series games
Lepidopteran
Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
I recall that the contest between the Baltimore Orioles and the
Philadelphia Phillies was a "Metroliner Series", a la the Amtrak
route, rather than I-95. Now if a NY team or the Red Sox were
involved, could you still call it an I-95 series before the infamous
NJ gap is filled?
A Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds would
be an "I-71 Series", though I have a feeling it would be called an
"Ohio Series".
How about a "Pennsylvania Turnpike Series" between the Pirates and the
Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
Scott M. Kozel
>
> The World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis
> Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
> named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
>
> I recall that the contest between the Baltimore Orioles and the
> Philadelphia Phillies was a "Metroliner Series", a la the Amtrak
> route, rather than I-95.
It was also called the "I-95 World Series", I recall.
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Jeff Kitsko
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> The World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis
> Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
> named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
I thought I recalled them calling it a "Turnpike Series." So much so, the
first road atlas I saw I tried to find the "Missouri Turnpike" but just saw
a blue line.
> I recall that the contest between the Baltimore Orioles and the
> Philadelphia Phillies was a "Metroliner Series", a la the Amtrak
> route, rather than I-95. Now if a NY team or the Red Sox were
> involved, could you still call it an I-95 series before the infamous
> NJ gap is filled?
>
> A Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds would
> be an "I-71 Series", though I have a feeling it would be called an
> "Ohio Series".
>
> How about a "Pennsylvania Turnpike Series" between the Pirates and the
> Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
No, it does not. The only Pennsylvania Turnpike System highway that will
enter will be the Mon-Fayette Expressway, in another 10-15 years.
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william lynch
Lepidop...@aol.com wrote on 10/20/04 5:26 PM:
1989 was called the "Bay Bridge Series", until October 18. Then it
became simply the Earthquake Series.
Rich Piehl
> "Lepidopteran" <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1098318318.H9YEbc3St1lIMHGsABP84w@teranews...
>
>>The World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis
>>Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
>>named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
>
>
> I thought I recalled them calling it a "Turnpike Series." So much so, the
> first road atlas I saw I tried to find the "Missouri Turnpike" but just saw
> a blue line.
>
>
Nope. Definitely the I-70 series...
...when Don Denkinger blew the call at first base and opened the floodgates.
Take care,
Rich
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between the Detroit Tigers and the San Diego Padres?
Charles W. Finley
was naming series after Roads in 1940, the 1940 World Series would had been
the US-25 Series.
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william lynch
joe....@gmail.com at joe....@gmail.com wrote on 10/20/04 7:46 PM:
> Well, who could forget the 1984 "I-75/I-80/I-76/I-70/I-15 Series"
> between the Detroit Tigers and the San Diego Padres?
Why did they need the I-76 and I-70 parts? I-80 meets I-15.
william lynch
c...@gatecom.com wrote on 10/20/04 8:19 PM:
So what highway connection could we have made between the possible
"End of the World" Series between the Cubs and Red Sox in 2003?
Steve
90
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Keith
> Well, who could forget the 1984 "I-75/I-80/I-76/I-70/I-15 Series"
> between the Detroit Tigers and the San Diego Padres?
Joe, that was totally lame and gay.
Kevin Flynn
> "Lepidopteran" <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1098318318.H9YEbc3St1lIMHGsABP84w@teranews...
> > How about a "Pennsylvania Turnpike Series" between the Pirates and the
> > Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> > league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
>
> No, it does not. The only Pennsylvania Turnpike System highway that will
> enter will be the Mon-Fayette Expressway, in another 10-15 years.
Nor does the turnpike actually enter the city and county of
Philadelphia, IIRC. No matter on either end IMO because the point is
that the fans would by preponderance likely use the TP and the
principal trunk to get from one venue to the other.
Kevin Flynn
Because not only is it shorter (by 63 miles) to use I-76/I-70 through
Colorado and more beautiful to boot, you get the bonus of nhot having
to go through Wyoming at all ;-}
Andrew Tompkins
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> news:1098318318.H9YEbc3St1lIMHGsABP84w@teranews...
> > The World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis
> > Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
> > named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
>
> I thought I recalled them calling it a "Turnpike Series." So much so, the
> first road atlas I saw I tried to find the "Missouri Turnpike" but just saw
> a blue line.
>
I, sometimes, hear this one referred to as the "Missouri Mule Series", also for the
rail line between the cities.
>
> > I recall that the contest between the Baltimore Orioles and the
> > Philadelphia Phillies was a "Metroliner Series", a la the Amtrak
> > route, rather than I-95. Now if a NY team or the Red Sox were
> > involved, could you still call it an I-95 series before the infamous
> > NJ gap is filled?
> >
> Jeff Kitsko
>
--Andy
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Let's try THIS! What would you name a series between the Toronto Blue
Jays and the Montreal Expos? Hmmm?
Scott M. Kozel
>
> "Jeff Kitsko" <webm...@tollspahighways.com> wrote:
> > "Lepidopteran" <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote:
> < (snip)
> > > How about a "Pennsylvania Turnpike Series" between the Pirates and the
> > > Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> > > league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
> >
> > No, it does not. The only Pennsylvania Turnpike System highway that will
> > enter will be the Mon-Fayette Expressway, in another 10-15 years.
>
> Nor does the turnpike actually enter the city and county of
> Philadelphia, IIRC. No matter on either end IMO because the point is
> that the fans would by preponderance likely use the TP and the
> principal trunk to get from one venue to the other.
--
Scott M. Kozel
>
> "Jeff Kitsko" <webm...@tollspahighways.com> wrote:
> > "Lepidopteran" <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> > > league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
> >
> > No, it does not. The only Pennsylvania Turnpike System highway that will
> > enter will be the Mon-Fayette Expressway, in another 10-15 years.
>
> Nor does the turnpike actually enter the city and county of
> Philadelphia, IIRC. No matter on either end IMO because the point is
> that the fans would by preponderance likely use the TP and the
> principal trunk to get from one venue to the other.
Correct, the PA Turnpike does not enter the city and county of
Philadelphia; the I-76 Schuylkill Expressway connects the PA Turnpike to
central Philadelphia and comes within a mile of the sports complex.
Likewise the I-376 Penn-Lincoln Parkway connects the PA Turnpike to
central Pittsburgh and comes within a mile of their sports complex.
So, the Turnpike and urban freeway branches effectively connect the
Pirates and the Phillies.
Scott M. Kozel
>
> Lepidopteran <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > How about a "Pennsylvania Turnpike Series" between the Pirates and the
> > Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> > league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
>
> Let's try THIS! What would you name a series between the Toronto Blue
> Jays and the Montreal Expos? Hmmm?
There won't be one... in 2005 and onward the Montreal Expos will be
located in Washington, D.C., and it was announced that the team will be
renamed.
Hopefully they will not reuse the "Senators" name since two failures
(leaving the area) are associated with D.C. MLB baseball teams by that
name.
bad...@inc.org
<989...@msn.com> wrote:
>Let's try THIS! What would you name a series between the Toronto Blue
>Jays and the Montreal Expos? Hmmm?
You've got me stumped on this. I canuck think of anything.
Mitsguy2001
>From: Lepidopteran Lepidop...@aol.com
>Date: 10/20/2004 8:26 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <1098318318.H9YEbc3St1lIMHGsABP84w@teranews>
>
>The World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis
>Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
>named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
>
>I recall that the contest between the Baltimore Orioles and the
>Philadelphia Phillies was a "Metroliner Series", a la the Amtrak
>route, rather than I-95. Now if a NY team or the Red Sox were
>involved, could you still call it an I-95 series before the infamous
>NJ gap is filled?
I don't think they would call it the I-95 series, especially if the Red Sox are
involved. Even after the I-95 / PA Turnpike connection is completed, I doubt
that anyone would take I-95 all the way from Baltimore to NY or Boston; most
would probably use the Delaware Memorial Bridge and New Jersey Turnpike, rather
than I-95 through Wilmington and Philly. Also, I-95 doesn't actually go
through Boston, it only goes into the suburbs, and I don't think very many
people would use it to get to Fenway Park. Even if you wanted a
mostly-Interstate route, and were going through the Bronx to get to Boston,
most traffic would use I-95 to I-91 to I-84, to I-90 (Mass Pike), to Storrow
Drive. Using I-95 would go pretty far out of the way. I doubt that Bostonians
really relate to I-95 at all.
Mitsguy2001
>From: william lynch x@y.z
>Date: 10/21/2004 1:41 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <BD9C9A05.3E32%x@y.z>
That would be the I-90 series. I-90 goes through Boston (and right behind
Fenway Park),and I beleive I-90 also goes through Chicago.
Pete Jenior
> be an "I-71 Series", though I have a feeling it would be called an
> "Ohio Series".
>
There was lots of "what if" talk, and I did hear "I-71 Series" used quite a
bit. There were even t-shirts made showing an outline of Ohio with a Reds
logo in the SW corner and an Indians logo in the NE, connected by a line
with an I-71 shield on it.
-Pete
Patrick Lee Humphrey
If the score at Busch stands up tonight (2-1 Astros, end of top 4th), we can
have the I-10/95/90 Series. (I-90 is within spitting distance of Fenway, and
is closer than I-93. I-10 is about six blocks up Crawford from the Orange
Grove.)
--
Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (pat...@io.com) Houston, Texas
www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
Marc Fannin
Conversely, whenever the Indians and Reds have played interleague games
the past few years, the only phrase I've heard (at least on the
northeast end) is "the Battle of Ohio", no mention of I-71 at all.
(BTW, for all reading, we had a thread very similar to this one long
about, oh, this time last year ;)
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7a61bdd990dedabf - and one in June
2002, for some odd reason
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b452f383961c9afd )
________________________________________________________________________
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Marc Fannin
In the same vein you could drop the "Pennsylvania" and call a Cleveland
Indians/Pittsburgh Pirates series the "Turnpike Series".
Side note: The only single route directly connecting the two cities is
OH-14/PA-51, which of course changes route numbers. On OH-14 in the
1926 Rand McNally there is a US-121 shield implying a single numbered
route between the two (it apparently was omitted from the official
AASHO proposal - see note on
http://www.us-highways.com/1925bpr.htm ), so had things gone another
way it possibly could have been the "121 series".
Steve
> "Pete Jenior" <gtg...@prism.gatech.eduFILTER> writes:
>
>
>>"Lepidopteran" <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote in message
>
>
>>>A Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds would
>>>be an "I-71 Series", though I have a feeling it would be called an
>>>"Ohio Series".
>
>
>>In 1995 the Indians were in the World Series and the Reds lost the NLCS.
>>There was lots of "what if" talk, and I did hear "I-71 Series" used quite a
>>bit. There were even t-shirts made showing an outline of Ohio with a Reds
>>logo in the SW corner and an Indians logo in the NE, connected by a line
>>with an I-71 shield on it.
>>-Pete
>
>
> If the score at Busch stands up tonight (2-1 Astros, end of top 4th), we can
> have the I-10/95/90 Series. (I-90 is within spitting distance of Fenway, and
> is closer than I-93. I-10 is about six blocks up Crawford from the Orange
> Grove.)
>
In terms of access, though, it's a wash between 90 and 93. Actually,
you might call it the US 1/... wait a minute, now it's 4-2 Cards.
Scratch that. Let's start with I-70 now.
Mitsguy2001
>Date: 10/21/2004 10:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <417870c3$0$557$b45e...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
But, US 1 no longer runs along the Fenway, Storrow Drive, and the other
"parkways" in that area.
Kurumi
<koz...@attbi.com> wrote:
> 989...@msn.com wrote:
> >
> > Lepidopteran <Lepidop...@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How about a "Pennsylvania Turnpike Series" between the Pirates and the
> > > Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> > > league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
> >
> > Let's try THIS! What would you name a series between the Toronto Blue
> > Jays and the Montreal Expos? Hmmm?
>
> There won't be one... in 2005 and onward the Montreal Expos will be
> located in Washington, D.C., and it was announced that the team will be
> renamed.
>
> Hopefully they will not reuse the "Senators" name since two failures
> (leaving the area) are associated with D.C. MLB baseball teams by that
> name.
Some names on the inside track are "Lobbyists", "527s", and "Swift Base
Runners for Ruth".
The Expo relocation has been an open secret for some time now, ever
since the August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing ("Montreal Franchise
Determined to Relocate Inside U. S.")
(I thought the NLCS could have been a US 59 series, but of course that's
the wrong side of Missouri)
--
Kurumi http://www.kurumi.com/
3di's, Conn. Roads, maps, interchanges
Arrow
> The World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis
> Cardinals was called an "I-70 Series". Were any other World Series
> named for Interstates? Or for that matter US or State highways?
>
> I recall that the contest between the Baltimore Orioles and the
> Philadelphia Phillies was a "Metroliner Series", a la the Amtrak
> route, rather than I-95. Now if a NY team or the Red Sox were
> involved, could you still call it an I-95 series before the infamous
> NJ gap is filled?
>
> be an "I-71 Series", though I have a feeling it would be called an
> "Ohio Series".
>
> Phillies? That would be nice except for (a) they're in the same
> league, and (b) does the PATP even enter Pittsburgh proper?
This current World Series is going to be the
I-90/I-84/I-380/I-81/I-80/I-76/I-71/I-70 Series! I'd like to hear Joe
Buck rattle that one off.
--
Justin P.
Jeff Kitsko
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Or just shortened to I-90/I-71/I-70.
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Ohio Highways: http://www.ohhighways.com/
Tropicsprite
yes, I have WAY to much time on my hands!
I-75 Series:
Detroit/Florida
Atlanta/Detroit
Cincinatti Detroit
I-70 Series
Baltimore/St. Louis
St. Louis/Kansas City
Colorado/Kansas City
Colorado/Baltimore
I-95 Series
New York Yankees/Philly
Florida Marlins/New York Yankees
Baltimore/Philly
Florida/Baltimore
I-10 Series
Houston/Anaheim
Arizona/Anaheim
I-5 Series
LA/Seattle
San Diego/Seattle
I-80 Series
Oakland/San Fran
I-94 Series
Cubs/Twins
White Sox/Cubs
Cities that could not (technically) be given Interstate series nicknames:
St. Petersburg (Tampa Bay) - I-275
Pittsburgh - I-376/579
Washington - I-295
New York Mets - Grand Central Parkway/I-678
Texas Rangers - I-820
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SP Cook
>
> Let's try THIS! What would you name a series between the Toronto Blue
> Jays and the Montreal Expos? Hmmm?
That will never happen, since the Expos will move to DC, but HWY 401.
And yes, I know that it changes to a Quebec Autoroute number in
Quebec, but may Ontarians just call the whole thing 401. I even heard
a Conservative Canadian politician use the phrase "HWY 401 Canadians",
which meant "people between Windsor and Quebec City" as it "this
government is good for HWY 401 Canadians but not for the rest of us".
Which sort of translates into "Red" vs "Blue" in US terms.
SP Cook