High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 National League Championship Series was played between the National League West champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the National League East champion New York Mets. The Dodgers won the Series four games to three, en route to defeating the Oakland Athletics in five games in the 1988 World Series.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Suzuka Circuit, Japan, on October 30, 1988. It was the fifteenth and penultimate race of the 1988 season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group 3A Touring Cars. It was the 29th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. Promoted as the “1988 Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship”, it began on 6 March at Calder Park Raceway and ended on 17 July at Oran Park Raceway after nine rounds. The 1988 Australian Manufacturers` Championship was contested over the same nine round series.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Tooheys 1000 was the 29th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 2 October 1988 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was also part of a short lived South Pacific Touring Car Championship in 1988.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with sixteen teams on April 6, 1988. It concluded on May 26, with the Edmonton Oilers defeating the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 NCAA Men`s Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men`s NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 17, 1988, and ended with the championship game on April 4 returning to Kansas City, Missouri for the 10th time. A total of 63 games were played.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 NBA Expansion Draft was the eighth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on June 23, 1988, so that the newly founded Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat could acquire players for the upcoming 1988–89 season. Charlotte and Miami had been awarded the expansion teams on April 22, 1987. In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. In this draft, each of the twenty-three other NBA teams had protected eight players from...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 56th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 11 and 12 1988. It was also the fifth round of the World Sports-Prototype Championship season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Season began February 7 and ended November 20. Bill Elliott of Melling Racing won the championship.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions and won in the final 6–0, 7–5 against Chris Evert and Wendy Turnbull.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Japanese Formula 3000 season was contested over 8 rounds. 18 different teams, 24 different drivers, 5 different chassis and 3 different engines competed.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 World Series matched the Oakland Athletics against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers upsetting the heavily favored A`s to win the Series in five games (the exact opposite result of their 1974 meeting, which also went five games). The most memorable moment of the 1988 World Series occurred when injured Dodgers MVP Kirk Gibson, who could barely walk due to injuries suffered during the National League Championship Series, hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run against Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley in Game 1.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1988 Superbike World Championship season was the inaugural F.I.M. Superbike World Championship season. The season started on April 3 at Donington Park, and finished on October 3 at Manfeild Autocourse after 9 rounds.