High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England from 18–22 March 1970.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team`s 89th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 79th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 76-86 during the season and finished fourth in the National League East, 13 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The season was also the first of 26 seasons for AstroTurf at Busch Memorial Stadium.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Oakland Athletics season involved the A`s finishing second in the American League West with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses. In 1970, owner Charlie Finley officially changed the team name from the Athletics to the "A`s". An "apostrophe-s" was added to the cap and uniform emblem to reflect that fact.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Canadian-American Challenge Cup season was the fifth season of the Can-Am auto racing series. It consisted of FIA Group 7 racing cars running two-hour sprint events. It began June 14, 1970 and ended November 1, 1970 after ten rounds.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Davis Cup was the 59th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men`s tennis. 53 teams would enter the competition, 31 in the Europe Zone, 11 in the Americas Zone, and 11 in the Eastern Zone.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing first in the American League East with a record of 108 wins and 54 losses, 15 games ahead of the runner-up New York Yankees. The Orioles swept the Minnesota Twins for the second straight year in the American League Championship Series. They then went on to win their second World Series title over the National League champion Cincinnati Reds in five games, thanks to the glove of third baseman Brooks Robinson.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1970 college football season. The team`s head coach was Bo Schembechler. The Wolverines played their home games at Michigan Stadium.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 TVW Channel 7 Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance race for Sports Cars, Improved Production Touring Cars & Series Production Touring Cars. The event was held at the Wanneroo Park circuit in Western Australia on 1 June 1970 with forty cars lining up for the modified Le Mans type start. Results for the race are shown below.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the twelfth running of the Bathurst 500 touring car race. It was held on 4 October 1970 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was open to standard production sedans competing in five classes based on the purchase price of the vehicle (in Australian dollars).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Milwaukee Brewers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League West with a record of 65 wins and 97 losses, 33 games behind the Minnesota Twins. This was the team`s inaugural season in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after spending its first year of existence in Seattle, Washington.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1970 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 29th season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Margaret Court was the defending champion, and she successfully defended her title, defeating Rosie Casals in the final. With this win, Court followed in the foot steps of Don Budge, Rod Laver and Maureen Connolly, completing the fifth-ever Calendar Grand Slam, the second for a woman player.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Targa Florio was an auto endurance race held on a 44.6 mi (71.8 km) anti-clockwise circuit made up entirely of public roads on the mountainous Italian island of Sicily. It was the fifth round of the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 NFL season was the 51st regular season of the National Football League, and the first one after the AFL-NFL Merger.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Houston Women`s Invitation (also known as the Virginia Slims Invitation for sponsorship reasons) was a women`s only tennis tournament. The tournament was the first women only tournament and was created by Gladys Heldman.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds, with the Orioles winning in five games.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Pittsburgh Steelers improved from a league-worst 1–13 record the previous year, finishing with a 5–9 record and third place in the newly formed AFC Central. It was the NFL`s weakest division that season, as the Steelers finished three games behind the division-winning Cincinnati Bengals--a team that was only in its third year of existence that season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 World Ice Hockey Championships was the 37th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. 21 nations participated in three different divisions or pools:
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1970 Federation Cup was the 8th edition of what is now known as the Fed Cup. 22 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Freiburg Tennis Club in Freiburg, West Germany, from 19–24 May. Australia defeated West Germany in the final.