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The 1998 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees sweeping the San Diego Padres in the World Series, after they had won a then AL record 114 regular season games. The Yankees finished with 125 wins for the season (regular season and playoffs combined), which remains the MLB record.
The 1998 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1998 season. The winners of the League Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series. This was the first postseason in which teams were seeded by their ...
December 15 – Johnny Riddle, 93, catcher, manager and coach with unusual 33-year career; played from 1927 through 1930 in the minors, then with five MLB teams in parts of seven seasons between 1930–1948; in between, spent all or parts of three seasons as a player-manager in the minors (1942–1944); later worked for 10 1 ⁄ 2 years as a ...
The 1998 National League Championship Series (NLCS), to determine the champion of the National League in Major League Baseball’s 1998 postseason, was played from October 7 to 14 between the East Division champion and top-seeded Atlanta Braves and the West Division champion and third-seeded San Diego Padres.
1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan. Germany wins the most medals (29), and the most gold medals (12) Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand; 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [2] Central American and Caribbean Games held in Maracaibo, Venezuela; Summer Goodwill Games held in New York City, United States
Event Athlete Nation Performance Meeting Place Date One hour run: Tegla Loroupe Kenya 18,340m Borgholzhausen, Germany : 7 August Pole vault: Emma George Australia 4.57 m North Shore, NZL
The basketball action at the 2024 Paris Olympics kicks off on Saturday with a bronze medal match between Germany and Serbia, setting the stage for the highly anticipated gold medal showdown ...
The total of six games were played in the Olympic Hall. In addition to the host Greek national team the national teams from Poland and Japan also took part. The field of participants completed one NCAA-Selection from the United States. For Japan and Poland, the 1998 Acropolis tournament was the first participation in the competition. [1]