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Topic: 1977 American League Championship Series

	World Series - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The first contests resembling the World Series were held during the 1880s, when the leading baseball clubs of the two major leagues—the National League and the American Association—agreed to play in exhibition games following their regular seasons.
		The American League was founded in 1901 and became the chief rival of the National League.
		The first World Series was held in 1903, when Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the NL champion Pittsburgh Pirates, challenged Henry Killilea, owner of the AL champion Boston Americans (later renamed the Boston Red Sox), to a best-of-nine-games series.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761563019___0/World_Series.html (2068 words)

	1977 American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1977 American League Championship Series was a 5-game series played between October 5 and October 9, 1977, at Yankee Stadium (Games 1-2), and Royals Stadium (3-5).
		The Yankees took the series 3-2, and would later go on to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1977 World Series to take the title.
		This series, they would again win it in their last at bat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1977_American_League_Championship_Series (824 words)

	World Series
		In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of the North American Major League Baseball, played between the American League and National League champions, after the end of the regular season in October.
		Of course major league teams do not consist entirely of US nationals, and the famed Cuban team (which was beaten by the Americans in 2000) has defeated Major League teams in some confrontations.
		The 1904 Series[?] was supposed to be between the AL's Boston Pilgrims and the NL's New York Giants.
	www.fastload.org /wo/World_Series.html (3010 words)

	American League - BaseballWiki - A Wikia wiki
		With the demise of the American Association after the 1891 season, the National League expanded to become a 12-team circuit with monopoly status for the rest of the decade.
		The American League consisted of the same eight teams from 1903 through 1954, when the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and were rechristened the Baltimore Orioles.
		With the addition of these teams, the league reorganized into two divisions of six teams (East and West), with the division champions meeting in the American League Championship Series, an additional round of postseason competition, for the right to advance to the World Series.
	baseball.wikia.com /wiki/American_League (1426 words)

	The Year in American Soccer - 1977
		As the 1977 season approached, all eyes were on the Brazilian to see if, in the final year of his contract and his career, he could weave his patented magic one last time.
		Bob Rigby, holder of the league record for lowest goals against average in a season, was shell-shocked en route to an uncharacteristic 2.46 average in 1977.
		Although the American Soccer League’s West Coast expansion was not particularly successful-Oakland, Tacoma, and Utah had all folded-the circuit endeavored to maintain its "national" status, adding the California Sunshine and Santa Barbara Condors to the Western Division.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/year/1977.html (3675 words)

	NBA.com: Walton, Lucas Ignite 'Blazermania'
		The NBA was beginning its 31st season in the fall of 1976.
		Yet those dreams went largely unfulfilled because of a series of foot injuries that hampered and frustrated him and eventually ended his career.
		In the 1977 playoffs, Walton and his teammates found a chemistry that enabled them to confuse and humiliate one of the most talented pro teams ever assembled.
	www.nba.com /history/finals/19761977.html (1963 words)

	League Championship Most Valuable Player Award on Baseball Almanac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The winner of this series specific most valuable honor is selected by a committee of writers and executives in attendance and announced at the conclusion of the League Championship Series.
		Livan Hernandez and Orlando Hernandez are the first set of brothers to win the the League Championship Most Valuable Player Award, Steve Garvey is the first player to win it twice, and Dave Stewart is the first pitcher to win it twice.
		1988 was the first season in which a pitcher dominated each league championship series and won both (American and National League) of the possible awards and 1990 was the first season where the award was split between two players (N.L.).
	www.baseball-almanac.com /awards/aw_mvpl.shtml (199 words)

	yankee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Over the last century, the World Series has been woven into the fabric of America's culture evolving far beyond a mere baseball tournament.The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff, except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff, and is awarded the World Series Trophy.
		In the 1951 World Series win was when Joe DiMaggio bowed out as a Yankee, while rookies Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle made their series debuts.
		The 1958 World Series was again an affair between the Yankees and the Braves, this time the Yankees won it 4 games to 3.
	www.bronxbaseballpark.com /worldseries.html (947 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)

	Baseball Almanac - Year In Review : 1977 American League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On April 6, 1977, the Seattle Mariners played their first Major League game as 57,762 fans watched them lose to the California Angels 7-0 at the Kingdome.
		The first home run hit by an American League player on Canadian soil went to Richie Zisk of the Chicago White Sox, but the Toronto Blue Jays shot back and won 9-5.
		On May 30, 1977, Dennis Eckersley of the Indians no-hit the Angels and won 1-0 in Cleveland.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /yearly/yr1977a.shtml (817 words)

	Tommy Athletics News Item
		He was a Royals bench coach from 1976-1979 and was part of teams that lost in the American League Championship Series to the Yankees in 1976, 1977, and 1978.
		Hiller, a native of McHenry, Ill., graduated from St. Thomas in 1956 and was inducted into the St. Thomas Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977 and the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1963.
		Hiller later was a Kansas City Royals coach from 1976-79 and was part of manager Whitey Herzog's teams that lost in the American League Championship Series to the Yankees in 1976, 1977 and 1978.
	www.stthomas.edu /tommies/news.cfm?ArticleID=3035 (1730 words)

	American Heroes
		Traded to the Angels in 1961, colorful "Daddy Wags" blasted 37 homers, third highest in the American League.
		In 1977, McRae blasted 54 doubles, 21 HR's and scored 104 runs, which helped the Royals win the AL West.
		Against the Yankees in the Championship Series, McRae batted.444 in five games and set an ALCS record with 6 runs in a five game series.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=101 (1310 words)

	National League Championship Series
		In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ('''NLCS''') determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to baseball's championship, the World Series.
		In 1981, a divisional series was held due to split-season caused by strike action.
		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, the National League Division Series (NLDS).
	national-league-championship-series.kiwiki.homeip.net (319 words)

	JackHammerBaseball.com -- Joliet JackHammers News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reuschel began his major league career in 1972 with the Cubs, and played with the Cubs until 1984 except for a short stint with the New York Yankees in 1981.
		Rick was a part of the 1981 American League Champion New York Yankees and the 1989 National Champion San Francisco Giants.
		In that 1977 season, he had 20 wins which was third in the league and also had a 2.79 ERA which was sixth in the league.
	www.jackhammerbaseball.com /news.asp?id=980 (403 words)

	It's About Doing What You Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1969, he was named the Phillies greatest second baseman ever during major league baseball's centennial, and from 1970 through 1975, he and Kansas City teammate Fred Patek, were considered the American League's top double-play combination.
		A career.263 hitter over 1,822 games, Rojas hit for a.303 average with the Phillies in 1965,.300 with the Royals in 1971, and batted.308 (four-for-13) in two league championship series against the New York Yankees in 1976 and 1977.
		After his team came up short in the 1977 American League Championship Series, Rojas decided to call it a day as a player and began his second life in baseball as a coach.
	www.antonnews.com /westburytimes/1998/08/14/sports (1203 words)

	World Series Quizzes and World Series Trivia -- FunTrivia
		These post-season series between the pennant winners ended when the AA was absorbed by the NL in 1891 (there were no end of season play-offs that year).
		The modern day World Series started in 1903 when the pennant winners of the NL and the AL agreed to a series play off for the World Championship (the World Series was not played in 1904 or 1994).
		With the IV series being cancelled, this is the last in a series of 10 multiple choice questions pertaining to World Series happenings as of the end of the 2000 season.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/sports/baseball/world_series.html (1166 words)

	American League Championship Series Results
		The League Championship Series (LCS) was started in 1969 when the American League was split into two divisions, the East and West.
		The East and West winners met in the LCS (sometimes referred to as the "Playoffs") from 1969 to 1993.
		In 1994 the league was split into three, adding a Central Division.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /stats/postseason/al_lcs.htm (396 words)

	Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1931, the American Association Columbus franchise joined Rochester of the International League as the top farm teams of the St. Louis Cardinals, riding the wave of the future.
		He was a fixture in the American Association for 11 years (1926-36) six with St. Paul and six with Columbus, sandwiched around a brief 1932 stint with the White Sox (.250 in six games).
		The franchise was turned back to the league and Columbus was without baseball until it returned to the International League in 1977.
	www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=43 (3786 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		The l0-day postponement and 12-day gap in games were the longest in World Series history and marked the first interruption for anything other than inclement weather.
		While some observers called for cancellation of the remainder of the Series in deference to the earthquake victims, most favored its continuation and even viewed the competition and resumption of all other normal events (sports and otherwise) as crucial to the area's healing process.
		Rickey Henderson belted a game-opening home run and Moore, in a rare batting appearance for the American League pitcher, stroked a 0-2 pitch from Don Robinson for a two-run double to highlight the Athletics' four-run outburst in the first two innings.
	tsn.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1989.html (892 words)

	Their Comeback Complete, the Yankees Win the Series
		The last time either of New York's baseball franchises had captured the world title was a decade ago, when the Mets mounted their improbable comeback over the Boston Red Sox.
		Perhaps it was fitting that the clinching game of this dramatically scripted series came in historic Yankee Stadium, whose very future as the home field for the Yankees remains in question.
		The Yankees seized the American League Eastern Division lead in late April and held it until the end, although they frittered away most of a seemingly insurmountable 12-game lead over the Baltimore Orioles.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/baseball/1027-series-comeback.html (1648 words)

	OCTOBER, 1977 \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In the opener of the American League Series, home runs by Hal McRae, John Mayberry, and Al Cowens lead the Royals to a 7—2 triumph over the Yankees.
		The Dodgers clinch the National League flag with a 4—1 win in front of an LCS-record crowd of 64,924 at Philadelphia.
		Sparky Lyle becomes the first American League reliever to win the Cy Young Award.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/chronology/1977OCTOBER.stm (768 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		After having a poor Championship Series against the Kansas City Royals (two hits in 16 at-bats), he was enjoying a fine World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
		Jackson had made his 18th World Series game one of the most memorable in the history of the fall classic, becoming only the second player in history to smash three home runs in one Series game (Babe Ruth achieved the feat twice, in 1926 and 1928).
		The strong-willed Jackson and Martin bruised each other's egos right and left in 1977, but they patched up their differences long enough to work together in the common quest of bringing a World Series championship back to Yankee Stadium.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1977.html (815 words)

	The Baseball Analysts: League Championship Series ~~Predictions~~
		Get rid of leagues and divisons altogether, give everyone an equal amount of games against each team, and let the two top teams sock it out at the end of the season.
		Posted by: John at October 10, 2006 01:31 PM The current format rewards the team that is playing best at the end of the season, regardless of its overall season performance.
		Posted by: Rob McMillin at October 13, 2006 06:33 AM There was basically zero interest in any of the three division races and the wild card in the American League in 2002.
	baseballanalysts.com /archives/2006/10/league_champion.php (3511 words)

	1977 World Series by Baseball Almanac
		After an embarrassing sweep by baseball's newest dynasty, the Cincinnati Reds, the American League champion New York Yankees returned to the Fall Classic determined to make amends for the previous year's disappointing finale.
		Game 6 was certainly the most memorable in the 1977 World Series thanks a spectacular performance at the plate by Reggie Jackson.
		In addition, the five home runs in one Series and four consecutive blasts over a two Series-game period was unprecedented.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /ws/yr1977ws.shtml (843 words)

	Seattle Mariners Team Page
		The Mariners have never won a league or World Series championship.
		1977: Under threat of an antitrust lawsuit, major league baseball awards a franchise to Seattle to replace the Pilots, who had departed after one season to become the Milwaukee Brewers.
		The team would advance to the ALCS before losing to Cleveland in six games in the championship series.
	www.diamondfans.com /mlb-sea.html (488 words)

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		The city celebrated the Subway Series with a ticker-tape parade that was held on Monday, October 30th, 2000.
		All New Yorkers were invited to view the festivities as the first championship team of the new millennium made their way up the Canyon of Heroes.
		On October 17th, 24 hours 38 minutes after the Mets secured their spot in the Subway Series, the Yankees, behind a dramatic 3-run home run by David Justice, won their 37th American League pennant and a trip to their 14th Subway Series.
	www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/yankees-worldseries.html (486 words)

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