Word: championships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard fans tolerated her. Although the woman in the yellow sweater may have been an anomaly in the Harvard crowd, she was the norm in the arena. Of the more than 15,000 fans who attended the NCAA hockey championship game, easily 90 percent were Minnesota fans. The University of Minnesota is located 10 miles from the Civic Center...
...Philadelphia Phillies captured their second National League title in the 1980s. The Phils won the championship by defeating the Dodgers, but lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. 1983 was also a controversial year for Philadelphia. Pat Corrales, the manager who started the season with the Phils, didn't end the season with them. He was fired on July 18. Can you name who replaced Corrales and led Philadelphia to a National League pennant...
...what a great year for upsets. In the 1969 World Series, the New York Mets shocked the baseball world by defeating the Baltimore Orioles to capture the world championship. Many thought the O's would roll through the Metsies. The Orioles had the pitching and the offense. Baltimore had two 20-game winners (Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally), while the Mets had one (Tom Seaver). The Orioles had Boog Powell (37 HRs, 121 RBI) and the Mets had only... What Mets player led New York in both...
...title went to Princeton each of those three seasons. It wasn't until 1980 that Fish won his first national championship...
...Houdini/Handel man of the squash world. One time, I believe, in the early '70s, he took a team comprised of three football players, two basketball players and four dancers--all of whom have never touched a squash racquet before--all the way to a national championship. In a nutshell, Dave, 'How the heck...