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The 1981 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1981 season. The 78th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. It marked their third Series meeting in five years and ...
World Series MVP (1981) Ronald Charles Cey ( / ˈ s eɪ / ; born February 15, 1948), nicknamed " the Penguin ", is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1971 through 1987 , most notably as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers teams that won four National League ...
Willie Stargell was named MLB MVP, LCS MVP, and World Series MVP in 1979. Six pitchers have won the Cy Young Award and the World Series MVP in the same season: Bob Turley (1958), Whitey Ford (1961), Koufax (1963, 1965), Bret Saberhagen (1985), Orel Hershiser (1988), and Johnson (2001). The Cy Young Award was initiated in 1956, as one award for ...
The 1981 Major League Baseball season culminated with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the New York Yankees in the World Series, capturing the franchise's fifth World Series title. 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 ...
With the Dodgers and Yankees playing in the World Series for the first time in 43 years, the memories of that 1981 series and a great October rivalry have come flooding back, especially for Reuss ...
Former Dodger All-Star Steve Garvey recalls the team's victory over the New York Yankees in 1981, but his bid for U.S. Senate against Rep. Adam Schiff won't end as happily.
Baker earned the National League Championship Series MVP with the Dodgers in 1977. He played in four postseasons, including three Fall Classics with Los Angeles, winning the 1981 World Series.
July 8 – "Wild Bill" Hallahan, 78, southpaw hurler and three-time World Series champion (1926, 1931, 1934) for the St. Louis Cardinals; went 2–0 with two complete-game wins and a save in three appearances during the 1931 Fall Classic, helping the Cards dethrone the favored Philadelphia Athletics; also pitched for the Cincinnati Reds and ...