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The postseason began on October 9, 2001, and ended on November 4, 2001, with the Diamondbacks shocking the three-time defending World Series champion Yankees in seven games in the 2001 World Series. It was the first major league championship won by a team from Arizona .
The 2001 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 2001 postseason.It was a rematch of the previous year’s ALCS between the second-seeded New York Yankees, who had come off a dramatic comeback against the Oakland Athletics in the Division Series after being down two games to zero, and the overall top seed Seattle Mariners, who also rallied ...
The 2001 Major League Baseball season finished with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees in seven games for the World Series championship. The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. pushed the end of the regular season from September 30 to October 7. Because of the attacks, the World Series was not ...
Championship programs abound among high school baseball teams in the Elmira-Corning region of Section 4.
February 20 – Bill Rigney, 83, All-Star infielder (1948) who played for the New York Giants from 1946 to 1953 and appeared in the 1951 World Series; as a manager between 1956 and 1976, he was the last pilot of the Giants in New York and their first in San Francisco, the first manager in history of the MLB Los Angeles Angels franchise, and ...
When the League Championship Series was first instituted in 1969, the Major League Baseball television contract at the time allowed a local TV station in the market of each competing team to also carry the LCS games. So, for example, Mets fans in New York could choose to watch either the NBC telecast or Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph ...
INVESCO Field at Mile High opens up on September 10, 2001, as the Denver Broncos defeated the New York Giants 31–20. September 30 – New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady , a 6th round, 199th pick from the 2000 NFL draft , makes his first professional start after 8-year quarterback Drew Bledsoe suffered a severe injury in a Week 2 game ...
The Tides traveled back to Bristol for Game 4, dropping the contest 4–3, before returning home to Eastern Connecticut State University's baseball field for a decisive Game 5, where the team crushed Bristol 11–2. [permanent dead link ] University of New Haven catcher Bill Buscetto was the championship series MVP, batting .409 with 4 RBI ...