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The 1987 Major League Baseball season ended with the American League Champion Minnesota Twins winning the World Series over the National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three, as all seven games were won by the home team.
Players' League champion World Series / Temple Cup champion 1890: Brooklyn Bridegrooms: Louisville Colonels: Boston Reds: Tie, Louisville Colonels and Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1891: Boston Beaneaters: Boston Reds – – 1892 – – Boston Beaneaters 1893 – – – 1894: Baltimore Orioles – – New York Giants 1895 – –
The 1987 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1987 season. The winners of each division advanced to the postseason and faced each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that faced each other in the World Series.
The Detroit Tigers finished the 1987 regular season with the best record in all of baseball, at 98–64 (.605). They won the American League East by two games in thrilling fashion over the Toronto Blue Jays, overcoming a 3½-game deficit with a week to go, and clinching the division—and their second postseason appearance in four years—on the last day of the season with a 1–0 win over ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
When the 1987 ACC Tournament ended, it was all Wolfpack red on one end of the court at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, a Washington, D.C. suburb. The nets came down, Valvano winning a ...
April 2, 1987: Jeff Calhoun was traded by the Houston Astros to the Philadelphia Phillies for Ronn Reynolds. [7] June 2, 1987: 1987 Major League Baseball draft. Craig Biggio was drafted by the Astros in the 1st round (22nd pick). Player signed June 8, 1987. [8] Darryl Kile was drafted by the Astros in the 30th round. Player signed May 18, 1988. [9]
July 22 – Don McMahon, 57, All-Star relief pitcher who played for seven teams over 18 seasons spanning 1957–1974, leading the National League with 15 saves in 1959, while winning two World Series rings with the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the 1968 Detroit Tigers; also a pitching coach for three MLB clubs for a dozen years between 1972 and 1985.