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The World Series is the culmination of excellence for an entire season. The best teams with the best hitting, the best hitting, and the best fielding bring each season to a close in dramatic fashion. The Rays and the Phillies bring that this season, and though not many baseball fans though they would have an interest in seeing teams from Tampa and Philadelphia playing.

Most thought the Chicago Cubs would pick this season to give a story book ending to their century of bad luck. The team was as talented and as balanced as many of the great teams in history, but in the end the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ batting lineup caught up with Manny Ramirez and swept the Cubbies. This broke plenty of people’s hearts, but inspired a hilarious SNL moment (the best comedy has its roots in tragedy, right).

Over in the American League everybody was sure that the Tampa Bay Rays playoff tickets would just be a fad. The team was less than compelling at the plate, relying on a couple of home run hitters to give their great pitching a thin lead all season long. The Chicago White Sox, the Boston Red Sox or the Los Angeles Angels (the team with the best record in baseball) were supposed to stop the Cinderella season.

Instead, the Rays found a groove and destroyed the White Sox and set the major league record for home runs in the ALCS while taking out the Red Sox (who were trying to become the first team to repeat as champions since the New York Yankees in the late ‘90s).

At the end of this season of great storylines and greater surprises World Series tickets have landed in Philadelphia and Tampa. In celebration of the unexpected and the unappreciated, we are celebrating the top ten catches (sometimes truly unbelievable, with good reason) from every league that uses a ball and a leather glove. Enjoy, be amazed, and trick yourself into believing you could actually make some these plays with breaking something in the process.
 

Ten of the Best Catches in Baseball