Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last year, Al home run king Mark McGwire and NL long-baller Andre Dawson clubbed 49 round-trippers each. Can you name the last American and National League sluggers to hit 50 homers in a season? (Take three points per hitter and one point for the number they hit.) Eight points...
...amazing season (49 HRs, 137 RBIs, .287 B.A.) Dawson was awarded the NL Most Valuable Player Award, while George Bell of the Blue Jays was honored with the AL award. The two outfielders are going to have a tough time winning the award again this year. There have only been nine players who have won the coveted award in back-to-back seasons. Oddly enough, they correspond to each field position (i.e. three outfielders, one pitcher, one catcher, one first baseman, one second baseman, one third baseman and a shortstop). Can you name them? (Take two points for each player...
...Roger Clemens of the Red Sox was named the AL MVP, the third time in this decade that the AL award went to a hurler (Willie Hernandez won it in 1984, while Rollie Fingers nabbed it in '81). Can you name the last National League pitcher to win the MVP award? (Take three points for the hurler and two for the year.) Five points...
...believed there are still 53 people aboard the Kuwait Airways Boeing 747, including three members of Kuwait's ruling Al-Sabah family and at least six hijackers...
...sparks a visceral response in Democratic voters. "There has been no real focus, no consistency," says an official of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group sympathetic to Gore's candidacy. "He has been lurching from issue to issue and lacking an encompassing theme that would tell you who Al Gore is and what his principles...