Eric “Last Word” Roberts By Brian Pauley
Eric Roberts Photo by Corby Dayhoff
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here are times where sports deliver stories that not even Hollywood can script. In the bottom of the ninth inning of game 1 of the 1988 World Series an injured Kurt Gibson came to the plate with one runner on base to pinch hit. He was not scheduled to play in game 1, or any game of the 1988 World
Series. On a full count, Kurt hit a walk off home run off of soon to be hall of famer Dennis Eckersley. The crowd erupted and while Gibson limped around the bases, Jack buck spoke the now famous line, “I don’t believe what I just saw!” Gibson did not play another game in the series and that was his only at bat. 78
