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...Willie Randolph home run, the New York Yankees captured their 33rd American League pennant yesterday, capping a three game sweep of the Oakland A's with a 4-0 win in the Oakland Coliseum...
...celebration had to wait. Playing with the concentration of condemned men, the North Stars wrestled a 4-2 win from the Islanders. While equipment managers packed up the champagne for the return trip to home ice, the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, L.I., the New Yorkers brooded about their loss. "Of course we wanted the sweep," Coach Al Arbour admitted. "But I know my team, and they'll be ready for the next one." They were ready all right, crushing Minnesota 5-1 to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup. The Islanders were never really in trouble. They scored three...
...were all but moved to Denver in 1979 when a threatened lawsuit over Finley's lease with the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum halted the sale. During that time, he ran the franchise down to the material left in his hardscrabble farm system and went through every manager out of captivity, some of them twice. Then, five months before he was to find a hometown buyer for his team, he brought in Billy Martin, a 51-year-old Bay Area boy, to manage his sinking ball club...
...serves on corporate and charity boards. In a limited partnership with Son Walter J., 30, and Son-in-Law Roy Eisenhardt, 42, he acquired a team that was a smouldering shambles. Finley lost or traded away its talent. The farm system had gone to seed. The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum had fallen into such disrepair that the scoreboard did not always work, and functioning concession stands were hard to find. Last year the A's sold only 75 season tickets...
Enter Haas. The team payroll, formerly $1.3 million, one of the majors' lowest, has tripled to $3.8 million. The farm and scouting systems have also been infused with cash. The coliseum has received $1 million worth of lights, new seats and other renovations. The anemic public-address system is now an audio marvel. The left-field Scoreboard even tells the score. The clubhouse was TIME chart by redecorated, a recreation room was added for the players, and Billy Martin's office was enlarged. He has a new color TV, a refrigerator and a dressing room...