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	1975 American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1975 American League Championship Series faced the Boston Red Sox and the 3-time defending world champion Oakland Athletics for the right to advance to the 1975 World Series.
		Lynn took most of the headlines by playing a flawless center field, hitting.331 with 21 home runs and 105 RBI, and becoming the first major league player to win the MVP and Rookie of the Year awards in the same season.
		After winning three consecutive championships, the A's dynasty comes to an end as they are defeated and eliminated by the Red Sox, 5-3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1975_American_League_Championship_Series (430 words)

	American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series (ALCS), played in October, is a playoff round that determines the winner of the American League pennant.
		The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.
		In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five playoff round, known as the American League Division Series or ALDS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_League_Championship_Series (812 words)

	Boston Red Sox
		Since the gutting of the championship team, the Red Sox have never won a World Series, and Red Sox fans often speak of the Curse of the Bambino -- a play on one of Ruth's nicknames.
		They lost the series, breaking the hearts of their fans; but the events of 1967 are cherished by the team's historians.
		The Red Sox won the American League East in both 1988 and 1990, only to get swept 4-0 by the Oakland Athletics both times.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Boston_Pilgrims.html (920 words)

	Back 2 Base-ics - Baseball Plate Served on a Platter
		Since the gutting of their championship team, the Red Sox have never won a World Series, and many in the media speak of the Curse of the Bambino - a play on one of Ruth's nicknames.
		Serious fans consider the curse to be a lot of nonsense, and take little note of such thoughts.
		They then faced the Yankees in the 2003 American League Championship Series, and had a 5-2 lead over the Yankees in the 8th inning of game 7, but lost the game 6-5 in 11 innings, on a home run by Yankee third baseman Aaron Boone, disappointing Red Sox players and fans.
	www.back2baseics.com /archive (1537 words)

	Boston Red Sox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Since the gutting of championship team the Red Sox have never a World Series and many in the speak of the Curse of the Bambino - a play on one of nicknames.
		The Sox won the AL pennant in 1975 this time with Yaz surrounded by stars such as rookie outfielders Jim Rice and Fred Lynn (who won both the AL Rookie of the Year and MVP awards) veteran OF Dwight C Carlton Fisk and pitchers Luis Tiant and the junkballer Bill Lee.
		They then faced the Yankees the 2003 American League Championship Series and had a 5-2 lead over Yankees in the 8th inning of game but lost the game 6-5 in 11 on a home run by Yankee third baseman Aaron Boone disappointing Red Sox players and fans.
	www.freeglossary.com /Boston_Red_Sox (1964 words)

	ESPN.com - Major League Baseball - Capsule look at the candidates
		Selected American League Rookie of the Year by the BBWAA and The Sporting News in 1972...
		American League Cy Young votes in 1973 (T7th), 1984 (3rd), 1985 (T3rd) and 1989 (4th)...
		Led American League in shutouts three times (1968, 1974, tied in 1966) and in ERA twice (1969, 1972)...
	espn.go.com /mlb/s/2000/0111/282910.html (1512 words)

	WEEI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The exception is for Red Sox games, Major League Baseball rules prevent flagship stations like WEEI from streaming their broadcasts of MLB games through their websites.
		During game broadcasts, WEEI is also made available through the Major League Baseball webpage (for a fee), and (for home games) on XM Satellite Radio (as part of the standard service) for those outside the Boston listening area.
		He was a notorious New York Yankees fan originally from Connecticut who would often call to taunt Boston sports fans with their lack of a championship since the Celtics in 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WEEI (2304 words)

	Boston Red Sox - BaseballWiki
		With the series returning to Yankee Stadium for Game Six, the improbable comeback continued with Curt Schilling pitching on an ankle that had three sutures wrapped in a bloody (literally red) sock.
		In 1876, the National League was formed and the Boston Red Stockings became a charter member, but changed their nickname to "Red Caps".
		In 1901, the American League was formed by Ban Johnson to compete with the National League, and a new Boston club was formed.
	baseball.wikia.com /wiki/Boston_Red_Sox (5328 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / No wonder it was over so quickly
		Vladimir Guerrero's grand slam off Mike Timlin, besides informing the local populace of his MVP worthiness, also served as a vivid reminder of the perils of this ride to the ultimate prize.
		Last night's starter, Kelvim Escobar, was gone with one out in the fourth, with five runs in on five hits and five walks, and a 91-pitch yield that should have taken him much deeper into the night.
		With the Yankees winning, 8-4, last night in the swing game in the Twins series, it looks as if the Sox will be headed back to the Bronx, with a chance for a breather before Armageddon redux.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/09/no_wonder_it_was_over_so_quickly?pg=full (566 words)

	SI.com - MLB - Red Sox stun Yankees 10-3 to reach World Series - Thursday October 21, 2004 1:39AM
		Just three outs from getting swept in the AL championship series three nights earlier, the Red Sox finally humbled the Evil Empire, winning Game 7 in a 10-3 shocker Wednesday night to become the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason series deficit.
		Ortiz, the series MVP, started it with a two-run homer in the first off broken-down Kevin Brown, and Damon quieted Yankee Stadium in the second inning with a grand slam on Javier Vazquez's first pitch.
		The wild-card Red Sox became only the third of 239 teams in the four major North American leagues to overcome a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series and win, joining the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2004/10/21/bc.bba.alcs.ap (1589 words)

	Anaheim Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kennedy's third homer was a three-run blast in the seventh inning and gave the Angels the lead as they went on to win their first American League pennant.
		The Los Angeles Angels were the first American League team in California, and the third California team, after the Dodgers and Giants.
		The Angels won their first post-season series on October 5, 2002, when they defeated the New York Yankees 9-5 to win the American League Division Series, three games to one.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /teams/AL/angels.htm (900 words)

	Fenway Park : Boston Red Sox Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Outfielder Ted Williams became one of the finest hitters in the history of baseball and the last major league contender to accumulate a batting average of.400 or greater in a single season.
		Yaz led the team to the World Series and won the American League Triple Crown and put on one of the greatest displays of hitting.
		Though the series started tragically but they managed to crush their arch-rival and went on to become the first team in baseball history to rally from a 3-0 loss to win a best-of-seven series.
	www.fenwayinfo.com (668 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		After closing the regular season with a record-breaking 59 consecutive scoreless innings and then racking up one victory and a save in four National League Championship Series appearances, the Dodgers' Hershiser was the recipient of a well-deserved rest when the World Series got under way at Dodger Stadium on the night of October 15.
		Howell, coming off a fine season but trying to rebound from a rough Championship Series in which he drew a suspension for having a foreign substance (pine tar) in his glove, exacted revenge against McGwire the next night.
		It was the second homer of the Series for Hatcher, who wound up as the leading hitter in the classic with a.368 average.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1988.html (967 words)

	1975 World Series by Baseball Almanac
		After steamrolling over the ational League West with a twenty game lead, the Reds swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Championship Series and won a ticket to their seventh Fall Classic.
		The Boston Red Sox had shocked the American League after ending the defending champion Oakland's A's three year reign with a sweep of their own.
		As the Series shifted back to Boston, it ran into a drenching New England rain that postponed the contest for an excruciating seventy-two hours.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /ws/yr1975ws.shtml (1260 words)

	Dave L's All-time American Soccer Team - list and bios
		Under his guidance the Nationals won the American League championship in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953 and the Lewis Cup in 1949, 1951 and 1952.
		After spending the 1976 season coaching the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League, he was back in the NASL in 1977 as coach of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and built that club into one of the most powerful in the league.
		When Major League Soccer started operating in 1996 he was appointed to coach the Kansas City Wizards and remained with them until early in the 1999 season.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/alltime.html (5626 words)

	Carolina League
		Like the other books in this series, the text portion is a little lighter than I'd like for a complete team history, but it does cover all the important points, and includes a number of novel facts.
		This book is up to date, right through the 11th inning of last year's American League Championship Series, when another Red Sox season ended as so many have, in disappointment.
		The NBC cameraman was startled by a rat as Fisk made contact with the ball, and instead of following the track of the ball, the camera remained fixed on Fisk and his now-famous reaction.
	www.carolinaleague.com /books.php?book_id=135 (295 words)

	Boston Red Sox auction - an AuKT.net auctions page
		In 1998 they won the wild card, but again lost the American League Division Series to the Indians, this time 3-1, despite winning Game 1 11-3 behind Martinez.
		Although no team in professional baseball history had ever forced a tie in a seven game series after losing the first 3, the Red Sox were working against history and fate to not only tie, but win the series.
		Joe Castiglione, a longtime radio broadcaster for the Red Sox, narrated, "Foulke to the set, the 1-0 pitch, here it is, swing and a ground ball stabbed by Foulke, he has it, he underhands to first, and the Boston Red Sox are the World Champions.
	www.aukt.net /auction/boston-red-sox.htm (2560 words)

	Major League Baseball : DDS : Digital Download Service
		When they met for Game 7 of the American League Championship Series at a juiced-up Yankee Stadium, it seemed impossible that the Red Sox and Yankees could live up to a game that was hyped like few others.
		The Yankees seized control of the first Subway Series in 44 years with a 6-5 victory, but the buzz of the game was the "Clemens vs. Piazza Incident." Shattering Mike Piazza's bat with a first-inning fastball, Clemens bounded off the mound, fielded the bat, and oddly flung the broken piece in Piazza's direction.
		OCTOBER 15, 1988 -- The Dodgers, already serious underdogs against the A's and Bash Brothers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, are given even less of a chance with injured star Kirk Gibson on the shelf.
	orioles.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/video/dds_sell.jsp?cat=classics (4551 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| US Sport \| Red Sox seal series sweep
		Ortiz went four-for-six with three RBI and his game-winning homer off Jarrod Washburn caused a sellout Fenway Park crowd of 35,547 to erupt in celebration as Boston cruised into the second round of the play-offs.
		It was Boston's first post-season sweep since beating Oakland 3-0 in the 1975 American League Championship Series.
		Vladimir Guerrero, the odds-on favorite to be named this year's American League Most Valuable Player, broke out of a series slump to club a grand slam and tie the game 6-6 in the seventh frame.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/sport1/hi/other_sports/us_sport/3728630.stm (427 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		Coming off a 20-game romp in the National League West race and a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Championship Series, the Reds were primed to wrap up their first Series crown in 35 years.
		The Red Sox, who had ended Oakland's three-year reign as major-league baseball's kingpin by sweeping the A's in the American League Championship Series, were eager to send Tiant to the mound for the third time in this Series as they eyeballed a chance to square the Series.
		Darcy, Cincinnati's Series record-tying eighth pitcher of the game, went head-to-head against Fisk to begin the bottom of the 12th.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1975.html (1314 words)

	AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES / Catching up on the play that saved White Sox
		Paul, who insisted he caught the ball cleanly, rolled the ball back to the mound and walked toward the dugout without trying to tag Pierzynski.
		The Yankees were down to their final out, trailing the Dodgers 4-3, when Tommy Henrich was struck out by Hugh Casey.
		In the bottom of the ninth, Royals batter Jorge Orta hit a sharp grounder to Cardinals first baseman Jack Clark, who tossed the ball to the covering pitcher, Todd Worrell.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/14/SPGRSF8D2E1.DTL (1294 words)

	Boston Red Sox : History : Red Sox Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He won 18 games in 1975 when the Sox won the AL pennant.
		His three-hitter in Game 1 of the 1975 American League Championship Series beat Oakland, 7-1.
		Tiant's last Red Sox start was a 5-0 two-hitter vs. Toronto on Oct. 1, 1978 at Fenway, paving the way for the one-game playoff vs. the Yankees the next day.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/history/bos_history_redsoxhalloffame_more.jsp?content=tiant (206 words)

	George Maloney -- American League umpire -- HistoricBaseball.com
		George Maloney, who was a former Major League umpire, died on July 29, 2003, while he was traveling to observe Pioneer League umpires.
		He was an American League umpire from 1969-84 and worked the 1975 World Series, three league championship series and three All-Star games.
		He was a minor league umpire from 1952-69 and he was the commissioner of the South Florida College Baseball Umpire Association from 1986-93.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/m/maloney_george.html (89 words)

	Major League Baseball : Video : Baseball's Best
		For the Cardinals, this was their first appearance in the Fall Classic since they won the 1946 World Series over the Red Sox on Enos Slaughter's "Mad Dash." The Yankees, on the other hand, were old hands at October baseball, appearing in their fifth straight Series and fifteenth since that Cards' victory in 1946.
		In the ninth inning, Ken's brother Clete Boyer hit a solo shot for the Yankees and Phil Linz followed with a solo shot of his own, but it was too little, too late as Gibson retired Bobby Richardson on a pop to Dal Maxvill for the final out, and made the Cardinals champions once again.
		The Series was the last hurrah for the Mantle-era Yankees who fell out of contention for the next decade.
	washington.nationals.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_64ws_gm7_nyystl (531 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Baseball Perspectives
		Brad Lidge was one strike away from putting the Houston Astros in the World Series for the first time in the 44-year history of the franchise.
		The question of the NLCS now is whether the Astros, one of the more resilient teams in baseball, have enough spring to bounce back from such a crushing defeat.
		Lidge also echoed his teammates' sentiments in that he doesn't give any credence to the idea that this was a momentum-turner in the series.
	houston.astros.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article_perspectives.jsp?ymd=20051018&content_id=1253510&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp (955 words)

	Best Sports Apparel - Officially Licensed Sports Gear from the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR and XFL at the best prices ...
		Mitchell & Ness The Baltimore Orioles were a charter member of the American League in 1901.
		Mitchell & Ness The Orioles were a charter member of the American League in 1901.
		The Orioles had won three World Series titles since their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 and entered the 1984 season as defending champions.
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