Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth week of the 1984 campaign, no less than five teams have a legitimate shot at wearing the Ivy crown...
...combined that with a 9-3 won-lost record and a 1.92 earned run average as the Tigers coasted to the AL East crown, then went on to win the playoffs over Kansas City and World Series over San Diego. Hernandez saved the third and deciding game of the playoffs, then added two more saves in the World Series, in which he had a 1.69 ERA. The voting was based on regular-season performances...
...killed hopes of a run for the 1984 Ivy title. With the loss, Harvard fell to 1-3 in the league and two-and-a-half games behind Dartmouth; which with a 1-1 tie Saturday at Brown assured itself of at least a tie for its first Ivy crown since...
Even the win, however--the Crimson's eighth in its last nine games--wasn't enough to secure an elusive and coveted Ivy League crown...
Lord Porchester, the Queen's racing manager, says that she is "an absolutely first-rate judge of horseflesh." Among the stallions trotted out for her at Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...