Cuba's Tony Perez and American Carlton Fisk, both heroes of the 1975 World Series, will be among five players inducted to the United States Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Sunday.
It was Fisk who slammed a memorable 12th-inning homerun off the left field foul pole to give Boston a 7-6 victory over Cincinnati and level the Major League Baseball best-of-seven championship series at three victories each.
But it was Perez who smacked a two-run homer to spark a Reds rally from a 3-0 deficit in game seven for a 4-3 victory, extending the Red Sox infamous "Curse" of not winning the Series since sending Babe Ruth to the rival New York Yankees.
Joining them in the induction ceremony will be Sparky Anderson, the number three all-time winning manager in major league history; John McPhee, a 19th Century star for the Cincinnati Reds, and the late Negro League standout Tom "Turkey" Stearns.
Anderson, 66, has a 2,194-1,834 managerial record and is the only man to guide World Series champions from both the National and American leagues. He won titles in 1975 and 1976 with the NL Reds and 1984 with Detroit of the AL – (AFP)
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