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The Toronto Blue Jays Joe Carter hit a three-run home run in bottom of the ninth to win the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.

The 2017 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race at the Circuit of the Americas was the seventeenth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship, it was won by Lewis Hamilton.

Volleyball legends Nikola Grbic, Danielle Scott-Arruda, beach players Misty May-Treanor and Emanuel Rego and coach Man-Bok Park inducted in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.

At the FIG Congress in Antalya, gold medalist Nellie Kim was elected President of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee.

Corey Dillon rushed for 278 yards on 22 carries in a Cincinnati victory over Denver to break Walter Payton's single-game rushing record.

Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet Jones, was taken to a Manhattan hospital with a concussion after being struck by a pane of treated glass that fell from the boards during the Rangers' game at Madison Square Garden.

In game 4 of the 1998 World Series Yankee pitcher Andy Pettite threw shut out ball to complete the 4 game sweep of the Padres for another Yankee World Series victory.

The Phillies faced Kansas City in the 1980 World Series, Philadelphia was lead by the hitting of Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose to win their first ever MLB world championship.

Carlton Fisk hit a 12th-inning home run, which he famously waved into fair territory, as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cincinnati Reds, at Fenway Park in Game 6 of the World Series.

The Confédération Européenne de Volleyball or CEV, the continental governing body for volleyball, beach volleyball and snow volleyball in Europe was founded.