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	Wikinfo \| Boston Red Sox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Louis Cardinals, in part because of the employ of the "Williams Shift", in which the shortstop would move to the right side of the infield to make it harder for the left-handed-hitting Williams to hit to that side of the field.
		Yaz won the American League Triple Crown and put on one of the greatest displays of hitting down the stretch in baseball history.
		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 collapsed to lose the game 6-5 in 11 innings, and Red Sox players and fans were left disappointed once again.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Boston_Red_Sox (1667 words)

	1998 World Series by Baseball Almanac
		In 1998, the perennial champion New York Yankees set a new standard for excellence in baseball outplaying the 1927 franchise considered by most expert analysts as the greatest team ever to play the game.
		Hitchcock (and three relievers) were given the unenviable task of turning the Series around, but failed to overcome the power trio of Cone, Mendoza and Rivera who maintained the 5-4 advantage.
		On the brink of elimination, the National League champions had one last opportunity to prevent a sweep and extend their "Cinderella" season for another day.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /ws/yr1998ws.shtml (978 words)

	Boston Red Sox - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The Red Sox may have lost to the National League champions in the World Series, but their true rivals were the New York Yankees, who after the Babe Ruth trade in 1919 would go on to win 26 World Series championships.
		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.
		They became the first team in baseball history (and the third in North American professional sports history, after the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders of the NHL) to rally from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-7 series.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4339 (3136 words)

	Boston Red Sox - BaseballWiki
		The division crown would be decided on the last weekend of the season, with the Yankees coming to Fenway Park with a one game lead in the standings.
		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 Red Sox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Red Sox won the American League in both 1988 and 1990 only to get swept 4-0 by Oakland Athletics each time.
		In 1998 the Red Sox traded for Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez and signed him to a long-term Martinez would have several spectacular seasons for Red Sox.
		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)

	American Association of Independent Professional Baseball
		Miles Wolff, the American Association commissioner, founded the first modern independent league when six cities in the Upper Midwest and Canada began play in the Northern League in 1993.
		Wolff served as the commissioner of the Northeast League from 2003-2004 and the Central League from 2002-2005.
		Moushon began his professional baseball career for a South Atlantic League franchise in Charleston, S.C., in 1988, moved to the Springfield (Ill.) Cardinals of the Midwest League in 1989 and got his first general manager post with the Watertown (N.Y.) Indians of the New York-Penn League in 1992.
	www.americanassociationbaseball.com /staff.html (960 words)

	Anaheim Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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)

	Open Directory - Sports:Baseball:Major League:Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Orioles can trace their lineage to 1901, where they were a charter member of the American League as the Milwaukee Brewers.
		The Tigers are a charter member in the American League, and 2000 will be both their first year in Comerica Park and their 100th season as a Major League Franchise.
		American League franchise began in 1901 as the Milwaukee Browns.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Baseball/Major_League/Teams/desc.html (772 words)

	A Study of Suppression of Information
		Hattan is central to the debate on the safety/toxicity of MSG, being Deputy Director for the Division of Toxicological Review and Evaluation, at the FDA, and the FDA liaison to FASEB relative to the 1995 FASEB analysis of adverse reactions to monosodium glutamate (MSG).
		On May 4-5, 1998, the NIH hosted a conference designed to explore the evidence that the glutamate cascade appears to be associated with several seemingly diverse disease processes of the central nervous system.
		On July 13, 1998, J. Samuels wrote to the EPA, alerting the EPA to the fact that a grievous error had been made in approving the use of a neurotoxic amino acid in a spray for use on food.
	www.truthinlabeling.com /l-manuscript.html (11687 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
		The Mariners won the American League West over the Angels in the old Kingdome in 1995; the Cubs vanquished the San Francisco Giants at Wrigley Field for the National League's Wild Card berth in 1998; and a year later, the Mets ousted the Reds to win the NL's Wild Card spot.
		Each year, the powers that be in Major League Baseball toss coins in the weeks before the end of the season to determine who would host those games.
		MLB has determined that it would not be fair for a team that's tied for a division title at the end of the regular season to be displaced in the postseason by a second-place team.
	boston.redsox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050925&content_id=1223384&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (689 words)

	Major League Baseball : World Series
		World Series MVP Jermaine Dye snapped a 0-0 tie in the eighth with a two-out RBI single off Astros closer Brad Lidge, giving the White Sox their first title since 1917.
		Geoff Blum's homer in the 14th drove in the decisive run as the White Sox outlasted the Astros in the longest game in World Series history.
		The adage says, home is where the heart is. But for the Astros, home is where the winning is, something they'll need to erase their 2-0 deficit.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/ps/y2005/index.jsp (380 words)

	Boston Red Sox auction - an AuKT.net auctions page
		The Sox finally became the last Major League team to sign an African American player when they signed mediocre infielder Pumpsie Green in 1959.
		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.
		In Game 4 of the playoff, down 4-3 in the ninth with Yankees closer Mariano Rivera on the mound, the Sox rallied thanks to a stolen base by Roberts, then an RBI single by Bill Mueller to tie the game.
	www.aukt.net /auction/boston-red-sox.htm (2560 words)

	Major League Baseball : History : World Series History
		The Yankees entered the World Series as overwhelming favorites, having set an American League record by winning 114 regular-season games.
		Their opponents would be the San Diego Padres, who rebounded from a last-place finish in 1997 to win the National League pennant in 1998.
		The Yankees completed their sweep with a 3-0 victory in Game 4, thanks to a number of infield singles and missed opportunities for the Padres, who stranded eight baserunners.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1998 (446 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
		It was his lowest batting average since he hit.232 in 69 at-bats with the Dodgers in 1992, his first season in the big leagues.
		He was acquired by the Mets in a trade with Florida in May 1998, eight days after he was shipped from the Dodgers to the Marlins in a blockbuster deal that also included Gary Sheffield, Bobby Bonilla, Charles Johnson and Todd Zeile.
		Piazza led the Mets to the 2000 World Series, which they lost to the crosstown rival Yankees.
	mlbplayers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060129&content_id=1303170&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (561 words)

	St. Louis Cardinals : News : St. Louis Cardinals News
		Today in Busch Stadium history: On Sept. 5, 1998, Mark McGwire became the first player since 1961, and only the third in history, to reach 60 home runs in a single season.
		Ankiel finished the Minor League season with 21 home runs in 321 at-bats, hitting.259 in a year split between Springfield and Quad Cities.
		This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
	cardinals.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050905&content_id=1197844&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl (990 words)

	The Pinstripe Press
		As in the previous year's contest, all teams participating in the American League Divisional Series were entering familiar territory.
		The Bombers win column had represented the most "Ws" by any team in one hundred, twenty-three years of Major League baseball and most felt that a trip to the Fall Classic, over the Texas Rangers, was a foregone conclusion.
		Tom Gordon, who had set a major league record during the regular season with 43 consecutive saves, was brought in to finish the job, but stumbled after David Justice hit a two-run double in the eighth that resulted in a 2-1 victory and another shot at the American League title.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/pinstripepress/DivSeries98A.htm (407 words)

	Seattle Mariners : News : Seattle Mariners News
		Names in the game: Minor League pitching coordinator Pat Rice, in his seventh year in his position with the Mariners, pitched in the Mariners organization from 1986 to 1992.
		Rice made his Major League debut May 18, 1991, in Yankee Stadium and was a 4-1 winner.
		Jones, the team's 2003 pick out of high school, will start in center at either Double-A or Triple-A. Reliever Matt Thornton (1998) is a likely addition to the Major League bullpen and Gil Meche (1996) is in the Mariners' starting rotation.
	seattle.mariners.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060305&content_id=1335767&vkey=spt2006news&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea (550 words)

	Tampa Bay Devil Rays News
		He threw a no-hitter in 1996 at Colorado before being dealt to the Mets in 1998.
		Nomo returned to the Dodgers in 2002 and went 16-6 with a 3.39 ERA that season and 16-13 with a 3.09 ERA in 2003.
		Nomo has compiled a Major League record of 118-101 with a 4.05 ERA in 301 games (299 starts) over his 10-year career.
	tampabay.devilrays.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/tb/news/tb_news.jsp?ymd=20050127&content_id=935549&vkey=news_tb&fext=.jsp (445 words)

	Major League Baseball : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Only players who were on the Major League roster on or before midnight on Aug. 31 are eligible for postseason play, which means contending teams have one month to deal for that key player who might make the difference between playing in October or not.
		Teams out of the race with high-priced veterans to move have equally as much time to get what they can for the players they are seeking to move.
		In 1998 the San Diego Padres put in a waiver claim for reliever Randy Myers on the assumption Toronto was about to trade the left-hander to Atlanta.
	yankees.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20020731&content_id=93358&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp (848 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
		With the future of the organization at a crossroads, the Marlins are in the midst of drastically reducing payroll to prevent losing millions of dollars a season.
		The Marlins went on to lose 108 games in 1998, and turned a couple of more deals after that season.
		And on Feb. 1, 1999, Lowell was acquired from the Yankees in a trade that sent Mark Johnson to New York.
	stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051129&content_id=1273905&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (978 words)

	Major League Baseball : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After being released by the Montreal Expos in Spring Training, the 37-year-old Canseco was signed to a minor league deal last month by the Chicago White Sox, who assigned him to Triple-A Charlotte.
		After winning the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1986, Canseco went on to win the 1988 AL MVP and lead Oakland to the 1989 World Series title.
		Canseco's career was briefly resurrected last season when the White Sox signed him to be their designated hitter after Frank Thomas was lost for the season.
	oakland.athletics.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20020513&content_id=24381&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp (482 words)

	Major League Baseball : News
		The game, at Boston's Fenway Park, is a rematch of the two teams that came down to the last pitch of the American League Championship Series when Aaron Boone won Game 7 and the pennant for the Yankees with his 11th-inning home run.
		As compensation for losing the April game from their local television packages, Fox returned a game each to the Yankees and Red Sox later in the season -- New York at Baltimore on July 31 and Boston at the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 6 -- to be broadcast by their own affiliates.
		The Yankees won last year's regular-season series between the two teams, 10-9, before coming back from a 5-2 deficit in Game 7 at Yankee Stadium to win, 6-5, on Boone's homer off knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
	pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040302&content_id=644087&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp (620 words)

	Major League Baseball : News : Baseball Perspectives
		PHOENIX -- The last time the words "World Series champs" and "Blue Jays" were placed in the same sentence, Joe Carter and Rickey Henderson were in the outfield, Dave Stewart was pitching for them and Mitch Williams was pitching for the other guys.
		The strike had more of an impact on Major League Baseball in Canada than anywhere in the U.S. The Expos were in first place that season when the players pulled the plug.
		But neither could the 2002 Angels, who defeated the Yankees in an AL Division Series and went on to beat the Giants in the World Series.
	toronto.bluejays.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article_perspectives.jsp?ymd=20060302&content_id=1331286&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp (891 words)

	SocioSite: FAMOUS SOCIOLOGISTS
		Jane Addams was one of the vice presidents of the Chicago Liberty Meeting that led to the formation of the Central Anti-Imperialist League in Chicago.
		She is also remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Price.
		On the Division of Labor - From: Emile Durkheim [1947] The Division of Labor in Society (Translated by George Simpson).
	www.sociosite.net /topics/sociologists.php (7322 words)

	baseballguide.com: Boston Red Sox
		The Boston Red Sox surprised many by winning the 1998 American League wild card, finishing second in the American League East behind the Yankees, the 1998 World Champions.
		The Red Sox lost the Division Series with AL Central champion Cleveland 3-1, but ended their streak of 13 straight postseason losses that stretched back to the infamous Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
		Lower bleacher seats are $12 ($10 in 1998) and upper bleacher seats $14 ($12 in 1998).
	www.klx.com /guide/boston.html (716 words)

	SIL \| Press Room \| Featured Items
		Crouch is senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and in 2002, he received the Smithsonian Distinguished Lecturer Award.
		The Art and Antique Dealers League of America opened its five-day annual Connoisseur's Fair on Wednesday, November 16 at the Gramercy Armory on Lexington Avenue and 26th Street in New York.
		This lecture was the last in the series related to the Libraries' exhibition, "Chasing Venus: Observing the Transits of Venus, 1631-2004," which ended its run September 5 at the Libraries' Exhibition Gallery in the American History Museum.
	www.sil.si.edu /press/index.cfm (2732 words)

	Major League Baseball : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With the Giants leading the best-of-five series thanks to Wednesday's 8-5 victory, Rueter's name will be in headlines.
		In his first, a no-decision against Florida in Game 1 of the 1997 NL Division Series, he allowed one run on four hits in seven innings.
		He was disappointed he did not get a start in the 2000 NL Division Series, which the Giants lost to the New York Mets, but he did pitch 4 1/3 scoreless innings of relief.
	giants.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20021002&content_id=144844&vkey=ds2002news&fext=.jsp (587 words)

	Major League Baseball News - MLBeat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aaron Boone made his first career start at shortstop, where he had appeared as a substitute only nine times since 1998.
		Larkin is expected to return to the lineup for Friday's series opener at St. Louis.
		Boone made a wide throw past first base while trying to double off Jon Lieber in the fourth inning, but was not charged with an error and was credited with three putouts and two assists.
	cincinnati.reds.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_mlbeat_story.jsp?team=cin (580 words)

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