High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New York Yankees` 1997 season was the 95th season for the Yankees. New York was managed by Joe Torre and played at Yankee Stadium. The team finished with a record of 96-66 finishing 2 games behind of the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East. They entered the postseason as the American League Wild Card, but lost the Division Series in 5 games to the Cleveland Indians.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 18, 1997. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-five series for division semifinals and best-of-seven series for division finals and conference finals. The conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on June 13, 1997, with the Hershey Bears defeating the Hamilton Bulldogs four games to one to win the eighth Calder Cup in team history. Hershey`s Mike McHugh won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as AHL playoff MVP.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Rhein Fire season was the third season for the team in the World League of American Football. Under the direction of third-year head coach Galen Hall, Rhein recorded the first winning season in team history, finishing in first place with a record of 7–3. The Fire lost to the Barcelona Dragons in World Bowl `97, 24–38. Quarterback T. J. Rubley earned all-World League honors and was named the league`s offensive most valuable player.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Australian Formula Ford Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title for drivers of Formula Ford racing cars. It was 28th national series to be held in Australia for Formula Fords and the fifth to be contested under the Australian Formula Ford Championship name. The championship, which was promoted as the Ford Motorsport / Slick 50 Australian Formula Ford Championship, was won by Western Australian Garth Tander, driving a Van Diemen RF95.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Seattle Mariners 1997 season was their 21st since the franchise creation, and ended the season finishing 1st in the American League West, finishing with a record of 90-72. For the second straight regular season, they led the AL in runs scored (925) and shattered the all-time record for most home runs hit by a team in one season (set at 257 by the Baltimore Orioles just one season earlier) with 264. Five Mariners scored at least 100 runs and six hit at least 20 home runs. In addition, the Mariners pitching staff struck out 1,207 batters during the regular season: more than any other AL team.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye into the second round.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Tournament of the Americas, known now as the FIBA Americas Championship, was a basketball championship hosted by Uruguay from August 21 to August 31, 1997. The games were played in Montevideo. This FIBA Americas Championship was to earn the four berths allocated to the Americas for the 1998 FIBA World Championship in Athens, Greece. The United States won the tournament, the country`s third Americas championship.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye into the second round.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Group D of the 1997 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II is one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 1997 Fed Cup. Seven teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team advancing to Group I for 1998.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1997 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Friday, October 3, with the champions of the three NL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 10th IBF World Championships (Badminton) were held in Glasgow, Scotland, between 24 May and 1 June 1997. Following the results of the women`s singles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 10th IBF World Championships (Badminton) were held in Glasgow, Scotland, between 24 May and 1 June 1997. Following the results of the men`s singles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 IIHF World U20 Championship were held in Geneva and Morges, Switzerland. The tournament was won by Canada who won their record fifth straight gold medal with a 2-0 victory over the United States in the gold-medal match. Mike York of the United States was the top scorer in the tournament with 5 goals and 5 assists for 10 points.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.