The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.

In the series, the Indians defeated the Boston Braves four games to two for their first championship in 28 years.

The Rockies became the first team ever to sweep both the division series and league championship series in the same postseason.

The Pilgrims, led by twenty-eight game winner Cy Young, trailed the series three games to one but then swept four consecutive victories to win the championship five games to three.

The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the Formula One championship.

Brabham spun the new car out of the next championship race, the Monaco Grand Prix, but then embarked on a series of five straight victories.

Inducing oversteer is easy and very controllable, thus making the MX-5 a popular choice for amateur and stock racing, including, in the US, the Sports Car Club of America's Solo2 autocross and Spec Miata race series, and in the UK, the Ma5da racing championship.

Instead the UIM took over the series ' management and renamed it Powerboat GPS ( Grand Prix of the Sea ), continuing the championship.

The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games.

All championship series were cancelled.

After becoming the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's, they met in a fourth world series in, the most recent championship for the A's.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

The Mud Hens have won the Governors ' Cup, the championship of the IL, 3 times, and played in the championship series 4 times.

Top teams from the championship series compete in semi-annual world championships regulated by the WFDF ( alternating between Club Championships and National Championships ), made up of national flying disc organizations and federations from about 50 countries.

** The New York Knicks win their first NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 113-99 in Game 7 of the world championship series at Madison Square Garden.

The Frenchman raced in the Andros ice race series in 2003, finishing second in the championship behind Yvan Muller ; he also became an Ambassador for Uniroyal, a position he would keep until May 2006.

In 1903, the two leagues began to meet in an end-of-year championship series called the World Series.

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

In 2011 Volvo also entered the championship, fielding a one-car team as an evaluation for a possible heavier commitment to the series.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

Though a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

An early season in which Roma made a large mark was the 1930 – 31 championship, the club finished as runners-up behind Juventus.

Grandmaster ( GM ) Raymond Keene writes that Nimzowitsch " was one of the world's leading grandmasters for a period extending over a quarter of a century, and for some of that time he was the obvious challenger for the world championship.

In 1992, he wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year.

The NABBP was the first organization to govern the sport and to establish a championship.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

The most recent parade in the Canyon of Heroes was on February 7, 2012 for the New York Giants in honor of their Super Bowl XLVI championship.

The 1965 season was less successful, with no championship wins.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

The 24 – 17 loss was the Browns ' first in a championship game.

It was Graham's last game ; the win capped a 10-year run in which he led his team to the league championship every year, winning four in the AAFC and three in the NFL.

The first world championship for curling was limited to men and was known as the " Scotch Cup ", held in Falkirk and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1959.

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

On May 24, Kazuo Matsui, former Rockies second baseman during the 2007 championship season, was resigned to the club following his unconditional release from the Houston Astros.

Pan-American Cheerleading Championships ( PCC ): The PCC was held for the first time in 2009 in the city of Latacunga, Ecuador and is the continental championship organised by the Pan-American Federation of Cheerleading ( PFC ).

The 1996 championship was held in the Indian subcontinent for a second time, with the inclusion of Sri Lanka as host for some of its group stage matches.