1980s Baseball

A celebration of an unsung and great baseball decade

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10/4/80 The #Royals put an exclamation point on the AL West title with a 17-1 win over the #Twins on the season's penultimate day.

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The 1980 Oakland #A's played 15 home games in front of fewer than 5,000 fans including announced attendance of 2,836 on 9/24/80

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9/16/72 1980 NL MVP Mike Schmidt homers off #Expos Balor Moore. It's the first of his 548 career homers. https://t.co/7kSXA3z74g

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9/12/72 1980 MVP Mike Schmidt makes his #MLB debut going 1-3 against the #Mets

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8/31/80 KC #Royals walkoff 4-3 win over #Rangers caps a 23-7 month and runs their division lead to 20 games https://t.co/XdRGCsfjzV

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8/10/80 Oakland A's use 2 pitchers over 23 innings in a DH against #Mariners. Steve McCatty (14) & Rick Langford both throw CGs

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8/10/80 Steve McCatty goes 14 innings in Oakland's 2-1 loss to #Mariners https://t.co/K1sG1hvLIZ McCatty is the 4th starter to go 14 for A's

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8/2/73 1980 AL MVP George Brett makes his MLB debut, going 1-4 against the #WhiteSox

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7/6/80 Dave Kingman goes 0-9 in a 20 inning #Cubs loss to the #Pirates

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6/11/80 #OaklandAs beat #Orioles 6-2 in 14 innings. Mike Norris goes the distance for Oakland. https://t.co/VTTgI96DJG

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6/8/71 Perhaps the most important day of the 1980 baseball season.

#Royals draft Brett 29th overall
#Phillies draft Schmidt 30th overall

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6/8/71 #Royals select George Brett in the 2nd round of the #MLB draft, one slot ahead of Mike Schmidt.

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5/31/80 Mike Schmidt hits his 11th & 12th HR of May in a 7-0 win over the #Cubs. Schmidt hits .305 in May with 29 RBI

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5/23/80 Clint Hurdle goes 3-4 with a HR as #Royals beat #Angels 13-9. The Royals grab first place, which they would never relinquish

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5/17/80 A's beat Toronto 4-2 in 14 innings. A total of 3 pitchers appear in the game. Matt Keough goes 14 for A's. https://t.co/4xC3Hg9HwC

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4/22/80 Mike Schmidt homers twice and drives in 6 as the #Phillies beat the #Mets 14-8.

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1980 Oakland #A's played six games of 14 innings. Their pitchers went the distance in four of them.

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Happy Birthday, Lefty!

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Happy 80's Birthday to Phillies shortstop Larry Bowa, who hit .375 in the 1980 World Series.