Series co-star Hugh O ' Connor committed suicide 2 months before the series finale actually aired.

The role earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, but lost to co-star Željko Ivanek.

Between herself and co-star Sharon Gless, they took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series six years in a row, a winning streak unmatched in any major category by a show.

Series writer Jane Espenson credited Groener's performance and his chemistry with co-star Eliza Dushku with propelling his character to greater importance and making their relationship a central focus of the season.

Levi and his Chuck co-star, Yvonne Strahovski, were both nominated for Best Action Actor and Actress Choice TV Series for the Teen Choice Awards 2010 where they both won and presented.

Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.

On December 5, 1990, McGriff was traded to the San Diego Padres with Tony Fernández in exchange for Roberto Alomar and Joe Carter – two players who would be integral in Toronto's back-to-back World Series titles in the early 1990s.

Joe Carter hit the second ever walk-off home run to end the 1993 World Series, the first by an American League player.

The Carter Family Song " Wayworn Traveller " was covered by a young Bob Dylan, who wrote his own words to the melody and named it " Paths Of Victory "; this recording is featured on Bootleg Series Vol.

Carter is most famous for hitting a walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Carter hit two home runs and recorded the final out of the Series, taking a throw to first base from reliever Mike Timlin to nab Otis Nixon of the Atlanta Braves.

On a 2 – 2 count, Carter hit a three-run walk-off home run off Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams ( against whom he was 0 – 4 career ) to win the World Series, only the second time a Series has ended with a home run ( the other being in 1960, when Bill Mazeroski did it for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the New York Yankees ), and the only time the home run has been hit by a player whose team was trailing in the bottom of the 9th inning in a potential championship clinching game.

Carter has the unique honor of being the first person to score a run in a World Series outside of the United States ( Game 3, 1992 World Series ) and the last person to do so ( Game 6, 1993 World Series ), a distinction that will remain in place until Toronto wins the American League pennant again ( in 1993 there were two Canadian teams, but the Montreal Expos never reached a World Series and exist today as the Washington Nationals ).

Carter was also involved in the final plays of four games in which the Blue Jays clinched a championship: 1 ) The game-winning single to clinch the 1991 American League East division championship, 2 ) catching the final out at first base in the 1992 World Series, 3 ) catching the final out on a fly ball to right field in the 1993 American League Championship Series, and 4 ) the walk-off home run in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series.

On August 7, 2009, Carter, along with many of his 1992 and 1993 Toronto Blue Jay World Series alumni teammates, attended a reunion / pre-game ceremony at the Rogers Centre.

The event was organized by Carter himself and included three dozen players, coaches and athletic trainers from the 1992 and 1993 World Series Champion Toronto Blue Jay roster.

Because of this, the Series was a big ordeal in the early twenties-Amon Carter and other fans would arrange special trains to ensure the avid fans had transportation to these games.

* October 23-The Toronto Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series, the first on Canadian soil, as Joe Carter hit the series-winning home run, becoming the second person ever to do so.

His career came to an end moments later when Carter homered to win the World Series for Toronto.

Glavine gave up a home run to Joe Carter in the fourth for the first run of the Series, while Morris shut the Braves out for five innings.

With Toronto ahead three games to two in the Series, Joe Carter hit a game-winning three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6 to win the series for Toronto, its second consecutive championship ( the first repeaters since the 1977 – 78 Yankees ).

Joe Carter came up next and, with the count 2 – 2, he hit a three-run home run to win the game and the World Series crown.

Just before the fifth and final pitch to Joe Carter, CBS Sports announcer Tim McCarver commented that Carter ( relatively unproductive in the Series to date ) looked awkward and uncomfortable at the plate.

In 1920, as the startling news that the 1919 White Sox had conspired to lose the World Series leaked out, fans grew disillusioned and disinterested in baseball.

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

* Brazilian War of Independence ( 1822 – 1824 ): Series of military campaigns that had as objective to cement Brazilian sovereignty and end Portuguese resistance.

As acting commissioner, Selig represented MLB during the 1994 players strike and cancelled the World Series, marking the first time the annual event had not been staged since 1904.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.

They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

Green had managed the 1980 Phillies to the World Series title.

In the 1982 World Series the St. Louis Cardinals of the NL had home field advantage.

In the 1983 World Series the Baltimore Orioles of the AL had home field advantage.

Until then, the Brewers had a rivalry with the White Sox, which had become known as The I-94 Series, as both teams are just a short drive from Interstate 94.

Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

It was there that Young had pitched the first game of the 1903 World Series, as well as the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

In Series 1, it had been implied that it was destroyed along with the Dalek Empire, by the Doctor during the Time War.

On August 21, 2012 the Jaguars announced they had finalized a deal to play one regular season home game each year between 2013 and 2016 at London's historic Wembley Stadium as part of the NFL International Series.

Bench had another strong year in 1972, again winning the Most Valuable Player Award and leading the National League in home runs ( 40 ) and RBI ( 125 ), to help propel the Reds to another National League West Division title, and a five-game victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1972 National League Championship Series.

Previously, the Twins had narrowly beat out the Royals for the 1987 American League West pennant, in which the Twins later took the World Series versus the St. Louis Cardinals.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

The seventh game was tied 0 – 0 after the regulation nine innings, and marked only the second time that the seventh game of the World Series had ever gone into extra innings.

The 1977 season would go on to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, to add to the awards it had won in 1975 and 1976.