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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 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1998 season. The 94th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion San Diego Padres. The Yankees swept the Padres in four games to win their second ...
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 ...
1998 Seattle Mariners season; Summer of '98; T. 1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season; Major League Baseball on television in the 1990s; 1998 Texas Rangers season;
New York end the season with a major league record 125 combined regular season and postseason wins. October 28 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Curt Flood Act of 1998 , named for former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood , who never played baseball again after refusing a trade to the Philadelphia Phillies and challenging the ...
McGwire crossing home plate on May 18, 1998 for his 17th home run of the season. Speculation on the potential of McGwire or Griffey breaking Roger Maris' home run record was a popular story heading into spring training, and was even promoted by MLB, in an effort to draw fans back to the game who felt disenfranchised by the 1994 strike that prematurely ended the season and led to the ...
The 1998 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the establishment of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 29th and 30th teams beginning play for the 1998 season.After initiating an expansion committee in March 1994, 27 groups representing nine cities submitted bids for the proposed expansion teams.
The 1998 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 1998 postseason, began on Tuesday, September 29, and ended on Saturday, October 3, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series.