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.

On 10 April 2007 Lara confirmed his retirement from one day cricket post the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Lara during his lap of honour, 2007 Cricket World Cup | CWC.

He announced before the 2007 Cricket World Cup that this would be his last appearance in One Day Internationals.

The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders.

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International ( ODI ) cricket.

The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975.

A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.

The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other nations that qualify through the World Cup Qualifier.

The 2011 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka from 19 February to 2 April 2011.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

The success and popularity of the domestic one-day competitions in England and other parts of the world, as well as the early One-Day Internationals, prompted the ICC to consider organising a Cricket World Cup.

The inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at that time.

At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event.

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.

The 2011 Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The number of teams selected through the ICC Trophy has varied throughout the years ; currently, six teams are selected for the Cricket World Cup.

The World Cricket League ( administered by the International Cricket Council ) is the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify. The name " ICC Trophy " has been changed to " ICC World Cup Qualifier ".

Under the current qualifying process, the World Cricket League, all 91 Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC are able to qualify for the World Cup.

The commercial " Supertests " organised by Kerry Packer as part of his World Series Cricket enterprise and played between " WSC Australia ," " WSC World XI " and " WSC West Indies " from 1977 to 1979 have never been regarded as having official Test match status.

The World Scout Conference ( WSC ) is the governing body and meets every three years, preceded by the World Scout Youth Forum.

For coastal communications, after World War I, the station operated under the callsign WSC.

For coastal communications, after World War I, the station operated under the callsign WSC.

He did not play in any of the " Supertests ", but was regular for the World XI and WSC Cavaliers in the one day games, hitting 42 and taking 3 / 30 to help win the final against Australia at Canberra in 1977-78.

The NA World Service Conference ( WSC ) is a bi-annual service meeting made up of the Regional Delegates of the seated Regions of the world and the members of the NA World Board.

The WSC through the World Board is responsible for the NA World Service Office located in Chatsworth, CA, USA.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

Gregory Stephen Chappell MBE ( born 7 August 1948 in Unley, South Australia ) is a former cricketer who captained Australia between 1975 and 1977 and then joined the breakaway World Series Cricket ( WSC ) organisation, before returning to the Australian captaincy in 1979, a position he held until his retirement 1984.

But the most significant occurrence of this match occurred off-field: Chappell was approached to sign with a proposed break away competition, later to be known as World Series Cricket ( WSC ).

Shortly after, he signed a contract with World Series Cricket ( WSC ) and then toured England.

In 1977, the breakaway professional competition World Series Cricket ( WSC ) signed many players who were then banned from first-class and Test cricket, thus leaving many vacancies in the Australian team.

World Series Cricket ( WSC ) divided the Australian team into two camps ; those that had signed lucrative contracts with Kerry Packer's rebel group and those, like Hughes, who had remained with the establishment Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ).

These three organizations together comprise the World Standards Cooperation ( WSC ) alliance.

When media giant Kerry Packer failed to obtain the television broadcast rights for cricket, he bought the top 30 – 40 players in the world and staged his own competition, World Series Cricket ( WSC ).