Grand Slam

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Grand Slam or Grand slam may refer to:

Games and sports

Auto racing

  • Grand slam (Formula One)
    , winning from pole position, leading every lap, and setting the fastest lap in a Grand Prix
  • Grand Slam (NASCAR)
    , winning all NASCAR Cup Series majors in a calendar year

Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Baseball

  • Grand slam (baseball), a home run with all bases occupied
  • Grand Slam Single (October 17, 1999), the hit that ended Game 5 of the 1999 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, at Shea Stadium

Equestrian

Golf

Judo

  • Grand Slam series, international judo tournaments held by the International Judo Federation

Tennis

Wrestling

Other games and sports

Entertainment, arts and media

  • Grand Slam (G.I. Joe), a character
  • Grand Slam of Hollywood show business, winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards in an American entertainment career (see
    List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
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  • Grand Slam of Philippine film industry, winning category awards from four major film award-giving bodies in a year (see List of people who won the Philippine movie grand slam)

Films

Music

Albums

Television

Video games

Military

  • Grand Slam (bomb), a 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
  • Exercise Grand Slam, a 1952 NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Grand Slam Installation
    , a modification of the B-36 bomber to add nuclear weapons delivery capability
  • Operation Grand Slam, a Pakistan Army offensive plan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
  • Operation Grand Slam, the US espionage mission which triggered the 1960 U-2 incident

Other uses

  • Grand Slam breakfast, a dish at Denny's restaurants

See also