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The National Baseball Congress World Series or NBC World Series is an annual collegiate and semi-pro baseball tournament held in Wichita, Kansas. Satchel Paige , Don Sutton , Tom Seaver , Ozzie Smith , Tony Gwynn , Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are just a few of the Major League Baseball stars who have played in the tournament.
The World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) is the most recent expansion of World Series of Poker-branded tournaments outside the United States. On April 30, 2012, WSOP owner Caesars Entertainment and Australian casino Crown Melbourne announced that the first WSOP APAC would be launched with five bracelet events in April 2013.
The current NASCAR Cup Series trophy, the Bill France Cup. The NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race results.
The winner receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The contest is held in an American city, chosen three to four years beforehand, [ 1 ] usually at warm-weather sites or domed stadiums . [ 2 ] Since January 1971, the winner of the American Football Conference (AFC) Championship Game has faced the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC ...
The 1979 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1979 season.The 76th edition of the World Series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates (98–64) and the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles (102–57).
In 1996, John Wetteland won the World Series MVP, setting a World Series record with four saves. [102] In 2000, Derek Jeter won the World Series MVP and the All-Star Game MVP in the same season, the only player to do so. Stephen Strasburg (2019) is the only first overall draft pick to win the award. [103]
The 1964 World Series, and the season leading up to it, later became the subject for the David Halberstam New York Times bestseller October 1964.The Series is seen as a bellwether point in baseball history as it was the last hurrah for the 1950s Yankee Dynasty of Mantle, Maris, Ford and Berra, among others, and it demonstrated that the National League's growing enthusiasm to sign black and ...
The Riders' World Championship is awarded to the most successful rider over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. The constructors listed in this table are the bike that the world champions rode during that winning season and are not necessarily the winner of the constructors' world championship in that season.