Headline Events of The Year
- The Florida Marlins become World Series champions, holding off a dynastic New York Yankees team, 4 games to 2.
- The Detroit Tigers had one of the worst records in baseball history, going a dismal 43-119, a .265 winning percentage.
- The Chicago Cubs just missed advancing to their first World Series since 1945, as they blew a 3 games to 1 lead against the Marlins in the 2003 NLCS.
- The Oakland Athletics blew a 2 games to none lead against the Boston Red Sox in the 2003 ALDS, making it four straight years they lost the ALDS in 5 games, including an 0-9 mark in games in which they could have clinched the series.
- The Yankees beat the Red Sox in 7 games in a thrilling ALCS, highlighted by Aaron Boone's walk-off home run in the 11th inning in game 7 off Tim Wakefield.
Read more about this topic: 2003 In Baseball
Famous quotes containing the words headline, events and/or year:
“Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)