The title came in the first year of the Yankees' new Japan's Hideki Matsui was voted the Series' Most Valuable Player after he hit 615 with three home runs and eight runs batted in (RBI), including a World Series record-tying 6-RBI performance in Game 6.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

But by the end of my first year in the city, I had become an expert with the microscope.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

The Federal Housing Finance Agency said home prices fell seven percent in the first three months of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

That was in nineteen eighty-seven, a year after the first induction ceremony, which took place at a hotel in New York.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

On Thursday JPMorgan Chase reported more than two billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Mattel agreed to change it. That was back in nineteen ninety-two, the same year as the first Barbie for President doll.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

A report this year from the EF Education First company listed Spain is a "low proficiency" country in English.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

I was a first-year student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and was relaxing between classes at the student union building.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

At first, nineteen-year-old Kevin Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

(JIMMY BUFFETT - "VOLCANO") The first European to see the Florida Keys was Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in the year fifteen-thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The first test of the new government's popularity may come next year in upper house elections in Japan.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The year before,he first played with the United States National Team in a victory over Costa Rica.

VOA: special.2010.06.02