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1981 American League Championship Series
The 1981 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff baseball series in Major League Baseball's 1981 postseason played between the American League East champion New York Yankees and the American League West champion Oakland Athletics from October 13–15 to determine the American League champion for the 1981 Major League Baseball season. The Yankees swept the Athletics three games to none to win their 33rd American League pennant in franchise history. New York advanced to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, but lost in six games. Background The 1981 Major League Baseball season had been interrupted by a players' strike from June 12 to August 10, forcing the cancellation of 713 regular-season games, or 38 percent of the schedule. As a result of this unique situation, the MLB team owners met at the O'Hare Hilton in Chicago on August 6 and decided to split the season into two halves. The teams that finished in first place in their respective divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 New York Yankees Season
The 1981 New York Yankees season was the franchise's 79th season. Games were suspended for 50 days due to the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, causing a split season. The Yankees competed as members of the American League East, finishing first in the first half of the season, and tying for fifth in the second half of the season; overall, they won 59 games while losing 48. The team advanced to the postseason due to their first-half first-place finish, where they defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League Division Series and the Oakland Athletics in the American League Championship Series, capturing the Yankees' only pennant of the 1980s. The Yankees then lost the World Series in six games to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium and were managed by Gene Michael until September 5, and by Bob Lemon thereafter. Offseason * November 18, 1980: Brad Gulden was traded by the New York Yankees with $150,000 to the Seattle Mariners fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Gowdy
Curtis Edward Gowdy (July 31, 1919 – February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster. He called Boston Red Sox games on radio and TV for 15 years, and then covered many nationally televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports and ABC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s. He coined the nickname "The Granddaddy of Them All" for the Rose Bowl Game, taking the moniker from Cheyenne Frontier Days in his native Wyoming. Early years The son of Ruth and Edward "Jack" Gowdy (Curt's father was a manager and dispatcher for the Union Pacific railroad ), Curtis Edward (Curt) Gowdy was born in Green River, Wyoming, and moved to Cheyenne at age six. As a high school basketball player in the 1930s, he led the state in scoring. He also showed an early interest in journalism, serving as sports editor of his high school newspaper. He enrolled at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he was a starter on the basketball team and played varsity tennis, lettering three years in both sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American League West
The American League West is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. The division has five teams as of the 2013 season, but had four teams from 1994 to 2012, and had as many as seven teams before the 1994 realignment. Although its teams currently only reside along the West Coast of the United States, West Coast and in Texas, historically the division has had teams as far east as Chicago and Minnesota. From 1998 (when the NL West expanded to five teams) to 2012, the AL West was the only MLB division with four teams. History When MLB split into divisions for the season, the American League, unlike the National League (baseball), National League, split its 12 teams strictly on geography. The six teams located in the Eastern Time Zone were all placed in the AL East, and the remaining six were placed in the AL West. When the second incarnation of the Washington Senators announced their intention to move to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth area for the 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American League East
The American League East is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. MLB consists of an East, Central, and West division for each of its two 15-team leagues, the American League (AL) and National League (baseball), National League (NL). This division was created before the start of the along with the American League West. Before that time, each league consisted of 10 teams without any divisions. Four of the division's five teams are located in the Eastern United States, with the other team, the Toronto Blue Jays, in Eastern Canada. It is currently the only division that contains a non-American team. At the end of the Major League Baseball season, the team with the best record in the division earns one of the AL's six Major League Baseball postseason, playoff spots. History Baseball writers have long posited that the American League East is the toughest division in MLB; during its 50-year existence, an AL East team has gone on to play in the World Series 28 times, and 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional baseball league in the world. Each team plays 162 games per season, with Opening Day traditionally held during the first week of April. Six teams in each league then advance to a four-round Major League Baseball postseason, postseason tournament in October, culminating in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions first played in 1903. MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Formed in 1876 and 1901, respectively, the NL and AL cemented their cooperation with the National Agreement in 1903, making MLB the oldest major professional sports league in the world. They remained le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Major League Baseball Postseason
The 1981 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1981 season. The season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves. Teams that won their division in each half of the season advanced to the playoffs. Teams faced each other in a League Division Series for the first time, a round of the postseason that did not return until 1995, where it became a permanent addition. The winners of the LDS moved on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series. This was the only postseason where MLB used a divisional-based playoff structure instead of a conference-based one. In the American League, the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals both made their fifth appearances in the past six years, the Oakland Athletics returned to the postseason for the first time since 1975, and the Milwaukee Brewers made their first postseason a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American League Championship Series
The American League Championship Series (ALCS) is a best-of-seven playoff and one of two League Championship Series comprising the penultimate round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) postseason. The winner of the ALCS wins the AL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the National League's (NL) Championship Series. The ALCS began in 1969 as a best-of-five playoff and used this format until 1985, when it changed to its current best-of-seven format. History Prior to 1969, the American League champion (the " pennant winner") was determined by the best win–loss record at the end of the regular season. There was one ''ad hoc'' single-game playoff held, in , due to a tie under this formulation. The ALCS started in 1969, when the AL reorganized into two divisions, East and West. The winners of each division played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series. In 1985, the format chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Milwaukee Brewers Season
The 1981 Milwaukee Brewers season was the franchise's 13th overall season and 12th season based in Milwaukee. The Brewers finished first in American League East during the second half of the split season (caused by the 1981 Major League Baseball strike) and compiled an overall record of 62 wins and 47 losses. The team advanced to the postseason for the first time in franchise history due to their second-half first-place finish, but lost to the New York Yankees in the ALDS. Rollie Fingers became the first relief pitcher in the history of the American League to win the MVP Award. Offseason * December 12, 1980: Sixto Lezcano, David Green, Lary Sorensen and Dave LaPoint were traded by the Brewers to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ted Simmons, Rollie Fingers and Pete Vuckovich. * January 13, 1981: Ernest Riles was drafted by the Brewers in the 3rd round of the 1981 Major League Baseball draft (Secondary phase). * February 21, 1981: Paul Hartzell was signed as a free agent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Kansas City Royals Season
The 1981 Kansas City Royals season was their 13th in Major League Baseball. The 1981 season was interrupted by a players strike from June 12 to July 31, and resumed on August 10. Major League Baseball officials decided to split the season, and the division winners of both halves would advance to the playoffs. The Royals were 20–30 and in fifth place in the American League West when the strike began, but won the second half with a 30–23 mark. Dick Howser replaced Jim Frey as manager on August 31. Kansas City's overall 50-53 record made the Royals the first team in MLB history to reach the postseason with a losing mark. Kansas City lost to the first half American League West winner Oakland Athletics 3–0 in the ALDS. Offseason *January 6, 1981: Derek Botelho was signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Royals. Regular season * August 10, 1981: Cal Ripken Jr. made his major league debut for the Baltimore Orioles in a game against the Royals. Season standings Recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Voltaggio
Vito Henry "Vic" Voltaggio (born March 17, 1941) is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1977 to 1996. Voltaggio umpired 2,118 major league games in his 20-year career. He umpired in a World Series, an All-Star Game, and three American League Championship Series. He was one of the last umpires to join the American League using the outside chest protector, which he used in 1977 and 1978. He wore uniform number 26 when the league adopted uniform numbers in 1980. Notable games He umpired in the 1989 World Series, the 1987 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and the American League Championship Series in 1981, 1985 and 1990. Voltaggio was the home plate umpire for the 20-strikeout performance of Roger Clemens against the Seattle Mariners on April 29, 1986. He was also behind the plate when the 1989 World Series, known as the Bay Bridge Series, was struck by an earthquake at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Voltaggio also called balls and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durwood Merrill
Edwin Durwood Merrill (March 12, 1938 – January 11, 2003) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB) who worked in the American League for 23 seasons (1977–1999). Merrill was born in Cloud Chief, Oklahoma. In 1998 he wrote a collection of his experiences called ''You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!''. Career Merrill served as football coach and athletic director at Hooks High School in Hooks, Texas in the 1960s. In 1970, he coached the minor-league Texarkana Titans of the Texas Football League, leading them to a 7-3 record and a playoff appearance. The following year, the Titans played in the re-branded ''Trans-America Football League'', but he coached only one game before quitting. In 1972, Merrill decided to try a new sport: baseball. He attended the Bill Kinnamon umpiring school; among his classmates that year were future MLB umpires Ed Montague, Dallas Parks and Steve Palermo. He graduated third in his class and was immediately assigned to the Class-A Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Springstead
Martin John Springstead (July 9, 1937 – January 17, 2012) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1966 to 1985 and had since worked as an umpire supervisor. He was the youngest umpire ever to serve as crew chief in the World Series, heading the staff for the 1973 Series at the age of 36 years and 3 months. Early life and career Springstead was born in Nyack, New York. Springstead graduated from Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx, where he played basketball and ran track''1975 American League Red Book'', p. 79. as well as playing baseball. He then attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, majoring in advertising.''1985 American League Red Book'', p. 97. After a brief playing career as a catcher for American Legion and semi-pro teams, he attended the Al Somers Umpire School and began his career in the Class "C" Northern League in 1960. In 1961–1962 he served in the Army's 2nd Armored Division at Fort H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
