Who were the Giants playing during the earthquake?
Who were the Giants playing during the earthquake?
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989, baseball fans expected nothing more than a high-stakes game between the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants, when a terrible disaster struck.
What caused the Oakland Athletics World Series in 1989?
Just prior to game 3 on Oct. 17th, the Loma Prieta earthquake (magnitude 7.1) struck the San Francisco/Oakland area. Due to the destructive nature of this earthquake, the game was postponed and the series did not resume for ten days.
Who was playing in the World Series during the earthquake?
It was 5:04 p.m. PDT on Oct. 17, 1989, and Clark, then an AL umpire, was 21 minutes from working game three of the 86th World Series — featuring the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics — when Mother Nature flexed her muscles, ravaging the Bay area with an earthquake that measured 7.1 on the Richter scale.
What game of the 1989 World Series was the earthquake?
Game 3
Oakland-San Francisco World Series game postponed because of earthquake. On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocks northern California during Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics at Candlestick Park, forcing postponement of the matchup.
Has there ever been an earthquake during a NFL game?
2011 NFL playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints.
What happened Billy Bean?
The 59-year-old Beane is the current executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland Athletics — an organization he has spent the last 31 years with, first joining as a scout in 1990 before he was named general manager after the 1997 season. He was promoted to executive vice president in 2015.
Has there ever been an earthquake during a football game?
The Earthquake Game was a college football game in which the crowd reaction after an important play registered on a seismograph. Played in front of a crowd of 79,431 at Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium on October 8, 1988, the LSU Tigers upset No. 4 Auburn 7–6.