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The 1980 All-Star Game

There have been 87 All-Star games in major league history. Exactly one of them took place at Dodger Stadium. Watching…

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Jimmy Piersall Loses It… Again

The summer of 1980 was brutal. A heatwave swept across the southeast which resulted in nearly 150 deaths across seven states. From…

8 years ago

That Time I Met George Brett

NOTE: This is a guest post from Tim Harms. Manners matter. More on that in a moment as I share…

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The weirdest day of the 1980 season

"Is it a full moon or somethin'?" That's what my mother-in-law says when weird stuff happens. June 20th, 1980 must…

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Schmidt & Brett in 1971

The most important day of the 1980 baseball season may very well have taken place in June of 1971. June…

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1980’s Longest Hitting Streak

DiMaggio: 56 Other DiMaggio: 34 Landreaux: 31 Wait... what? From 1941 through 1980, the three longest hitting streaks in the…

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Billy Martin vs. the Marshmallow Man Part II

The story of how Billy Martin lost his job with the Yankees after a fight with a marshmallow salesman in…

9 years ago

Send in the Qs

April 13th, 1980 began like just another day. But by the end of the evening, some 17,000 plus baseball fans…

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Desperado: The Jerry Terrell Story

967-1. That was the vote. On April 1st, 1980, players across the major leagues voted on whether or not to…

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John Wathan and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad May

A great month can make a season. In July of 1980, George Brett hit an amazing .494, en route to…

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