When October sets in, baseball fans from every corner of the globe gather to witness the grand spectacle—the World Series. This event is an epic battleground where legends are born, and stories that will be told for generations to come. It’s during these pressure-cooker matchups where many people turn to free sports picks.

Flashback to 1986. In Game 6, with the Red Sox a strike away from triumph, Mookie Wilson hit a slow roller that danced its way past Bill Buckner’s glove. Like Cinderella in a sporting dress, the Mets rose from the ashes, forcing a Game 7 and ultimately snagging the championship. The unpredictability and heartbreak encapsulated the essence of baseball’s magic.

Fast-forwarding to 1975, one cannot overlook Carlton Fisk’s legendary home run. As Fisk hit a long fly ball strafing toward the foul pole, he danced down the first baseline, waving his arms, willing it fair. It was as if Fisk could bend time and space with sheer willpower alone. The ball curved right, and the Red Sox stayed alive. Sometimes in baseball, sheer determination writes its own screenplay.

Talking about moments etched for eternity, who could forget the “Shot Heard ‘Around the World” in 1951? Although technically a playoff to reach the World Series, Bobby Thomson’s walk-off homer against the Brooklyn Dodgers is still a celestial memory in the baseball cosmos.

The 2016 championship presented the formidable Cubs and the relentless Cleveland Indians, both desperate to end long-standing droughts. The series went to seven games, and tensions hung in the air like thick fog. As if scripted by a dramatist, the final showdown was electric. A rain delay intervened, lending dramatic suspense, before the Cubs seized the day, snapping their 108-year World Series curse. It was an emotional cocktail of relief, ecstasy, and redemption.