The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager.

Bill Mazeroski, the World Series hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Casey Stengel, the former manager of the Yankees.

( Farrell did -- and Maris led the team to victory in the Little World Series.

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.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

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 ).

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

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.

Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

During World War 2,, he was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Prior to World War 2, there was a higher percentage of endogamous marriages than after World War 2.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

The battle of Jutland was the major naval engagement of the First World War and marked a turning point in the naval war.

Following the end of World War II in the 1940s, the following decade, the 1950s, marked a ' Golden Age ' for non-English world cinema, especially for Asian cinema.

The shift to the peaceful development of Finnish society was facilitated by the outcome of World War I, the marked post-war economic progress and recovery, and by the pre-1918 cultural and national unity of the majority of the nation.

The Revolutionary War-era " American Gothic " story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in Washington Irving's story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( published in 1820 ), marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic story-telling.

Game 3 marked the first Fall Classic in Texas and was the longest game in World Series history, lasting 5 hours and 41 minutes.

Toward the end of the 20th century, the advent of the World Wide Web marked the first era in which most individuals could have a means of exposure on a scale comparable to that of mass media.

1991 also marked the first time that any team that finished in last place in their division would advance to the World Series the following season.

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.

In many ways, his governorship was one of the most humane in the Spanish New World at that time, and it marked the transition among the settlers from conquerors to landowners.

This marked the second occasion that Clemente had won a World Series with the Pirates.

The Giants ' victory in Super Bowl XXI marked the second time in four months that the New York metropolitan area had won a championship in a major professional sport ; three months before, the New York Mets had won the 1986 World Series.

The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on unexpectedly humiliating terms.

Germany's defeat in World War I – marked by the armistice with the Allies on 11 November 1918 at Compiègne – made it possible for Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Poland to become independent sovereign states.

Tours was also marked by the Second World War.

One World was a best-seller that marked his transformation into a major spokesman for internationalism and made him a controversial figure within the Roosevelt administration and among his Republican colleagues, but it helped move public opinion from isolationism to internationalism.

The international political scene in the late 1930s was marked by growing intolerance between the principal figures, by the aggressive attitude of the totalitarian regimes and by the certainty that the order set up after World War I was losing its strongholds and its sponsors were losing their strength.

The Siege of Sarajevo ( 1992 – 1995 ) marked the most violent urban warfare in Europe since World War II at that time as Serb forces bombard and attack Bosniak controlled and populated areas of the city.

This is the first major attempted terrorist attack by Al Qaeda on U. S. soil since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and marked the beginning of a series of attempted terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda against the U. S. that would continue into the 21st century.

It was marked by a wave of revolutions in the Arab World known as the Arab Spring, including the beginnings of several unresolved protest movements and armed conflicts.

The strike on Balboa Harbor by Task Unit Whiskey is notably marked in SEAL history as the first publicly acknowledged combat swimmer mission since the Second World War.

Liechtenstein gave asylum to approximately five hundred soldiers of the First Russian National Army ( a collaborationist Russian force within the German Wehrmacht ) at the close of World War II ; this is commemorated by a monument at the border town of Hinterschellenberg which is marked on the country's tourist map.

The period that followed the promulgation Optatam Totius was marked by a severe drop in the number of priestly vocations in the Western World.

The period that followed the promulgation of Presbyterorum Ordinis was marked by a severe drop in the number of priestly vocations in the Western World.