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On June 18, 1986, 41 year old Don Sutton crushed the Texas Rangers for his 300th career victory which guaranteed him a one-way ticket to Cooperstown.

The Anaheim Angels Baseball team withdrew Nolan Ryan's number 30 on June 16 at Anaheim Stadium. Ryan posted a 138-121 record and a 3.06 ERA in 291 games with the Angels.
Garret Anderson wins the Player of the Month Award for July once he hit .410 with 22 runs scored, 8 doubles, 7 homers and 35 RBI in 25 games. He was the first rookie to be honored with the award since it is inception.

Angels open brand-new Edison International Field facing 43,311 fans. The Halos pounded on the Yankees to come to an out of 4-1 over the Yankees.

It was a wild, crazy and enormously wonderful 2002 season for the Anaheim Angels, who began the year stuck with the worst record in team history and finished up a delightful recovery with the best mark after the regular season. It lined the way for a historic, memorable run through the postseason that culminated with a striking World Series championship, the first in the history of the franchise. Here is a month by month breakdown of Anaheim's title run from the pages of MLB.com.

With the off season acquisitions of outfielders Vladimir Guerrero and Jose Guillen and pitchers Bartolo Colon and Kelvim Escobar, the Angels had high hopes for a turnaround season under new owner Arte Moreno.

Injuries to key players Troy Glaus, Darin Erstad, Troy Percival, Garret Anderson and many others-- along with Colon's subpar start --slowed that plan. But Guerrero hammered opposition pitchers all season long, Chone Figgins became a crucial player at several positions and Francisco Rodriguez stepped into Percival's closer's role, allowing the Angels to stay afloat.

When Colon started the second half on a shred, and the injuries began to repair, the Angels got red-hot through August and into September. They went on a 7-1 burst on the road against American League West rivals Oakland and Texas in the final two weeks of the season, beating the Oakland A's on the second to last day to wrap up their first division title in 18 years.

The Angels lost in the American League Division Series to the eventual World Series champion Boston Red Sox, but that couldn't front a terrific regular season. They had 45 comeback wins in their 92-70 record, playing before a franchise record 3,375,677 fans at Anaheim Angels Stadium. Colon had a sterling 18-12 record, becoming the star the Angels knew he'd be. Erstad won a Gold Glove at first base to become the first player in Major League history to win one as an infielder and outfielder.

But the MVP of the club was Guerrero, who took the Angels down the stretch to win American League September Player of the Month honors and sling them into the postseason. Overall, he led the club in nearly every offensive category -- .337 average, 39 home runs, 126 RBIs, 124 runs, 206 hits and 39 doubles -- in an MVP-caliber season.