text: The 1987 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1987 season. The 84th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins defeated the Cardinals four games to three to win the Series, their first in Minnesota and the first since last winning as the Washington Senators in 1924. Twins pitcher Frank Viola was named as the 1987 World Series MVP.
  It was the first World Series to feature games played indoors, and the first in which the home team won every game; this would happen again in  (also a Twins championship, over the Atlanta Braves) and in  with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees.
  This was the third of six World Series played entirely on artificial turf, with the others in , , , , and .
  This is the first World Series in which the series logo appeared on the jerseys; only the Cardinals wore it. Both contestants in the following year's World Series wore a patch. It was also the last World Series in which any games were played during the day as opposed to in the evening.