High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 Chicago White Sox season was a season in American baseball. It involved the White Sox winning the American League West championship. It marked their first postseason appearance since the 1959 World Series. It was the city of Chicago`s first baseball championship of any kind (division, league, or world), since the White Sox themselves reached the World Series twenty-four years earlier.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 James Hardie 1000 was the 24th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was an endurance race for Touring Cars complying with CAMS Group C regulations. It was held on October 2, 1983 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst and was Round 4 of the 1983 Australian Endurance Championship. The race distance was 163 laps x 6.172 km = 1006.036 km.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Martina Navratilova defeated Kathy Jordan 6–2, 7–6 in the final to win the Women`s Singles title at the 1983 Australian Open.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 Los Angeles Raiders season began with the team trying to improve on their 8–1 record from 1982. The 1983 season was the second season in Los Angeles. The 1983 season is also the Raiders third Super Bowl winning season. To date, it was the team`s most recent NFL championship season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 IBF World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1983. Following the results of the women`s doubles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 67th Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 29, 1983. After finishing second three times (1977, 1978, 1980), and winning the pole position twice (1977–1978), Tom Sneva finally shook his "bridesmaid" status and won his first Indianapolis 500.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1983 WJHC) was the seventh edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 26, 1982 and January 4, 1983. The host Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 7–0 record.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas in the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Disch-Falk Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 17th season at Texas.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 51st Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 18 and 19 1983. It was also the fourth round of both the World Endurance Championship and European Endurance Championship. The win was fought right down to the line between the Rothmans Porsche 956s of Al Holbert (#3 car) and Derek Bell (#1). Bell was able to un-lap himself as the Holbert car was slowed by overheating (engine damage caused by an airflow blockage to the radiator that cooled the heads)and finally seized up on the last lap; luckily for Holbert it re-fired and made it to the end with smoke trailing from the exhaust. Holbert crossed the finish line 17 seconds ahead of a fast closing Bell.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 IBF World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1983. Following the results of the mixed doubles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 Philadelphia Phillies season involved the Phillies winning the National League East Division title with a record of 90-72, six games over the Pittsburgh Pirates. As the Phillies were celebrating their centennial season, they defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, three games to one in the National League Championship Series, before losing the World Series to the Baltimore Orioles, four games to one. The Phils were managed by Pat Corrales (43-42) and Paul Owens (47-30), as they played their home games at Veterans Stadium.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 IBF World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1983. Following the results of the men`s doubles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group C Touring Cars. The title, which was the 24th Australian Touring Car Championship, was contested over a series which began on 6 February 1983 at Calder Park Raceway and ended on 19 June at Lakeside International Raceway after eight rounds.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles against the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies, with the Orioles winning four games to one. "The I-95 Series"—like the World Series two years later, also took its nickname from the Interstate that it took for the teams and fans to travel on—I-95 in this case.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 NCAA Men`s Division I Basketball Tournament involved 52 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men`s NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 2, 1983, and ended with the championship game on April 4 at The Pit, then officially known as University Arena, on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. A total of 51 games were played.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1983 NatWest Trophy was the 3rd NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 29 June and 3 September 1983. The tournament was won by Somerset County Cricket Club who defeated Kent County Cricket Club by 24 runs in the final at Lord`s.