Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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East W I Pct. GB Baltimore 59 40 .596 -- Detroit 60 42 .588 1/2 Yankees 56 43 .565 3 Toronto 57 44 .564 3 Milwaukee 56 44 .560 3 1/2 Boston 51 51 .500 9 1/2 Cleveland 42 60 .412 18 1/2 WEST W L Pct GB Chicago 54 48 .529 529 Kansas City 47 50 50 .485 4 1/2 Texas 49 53 .480 5 1/2 Oakland 48 57 .457 7 1/2 Minnesota 44 62 .415 12 Seattle...
...Detroit 6 Seattle...
...that the evidence is suspect that the Soviets are spraying "yellow rain"--particularly the prohibited chemical trichothecene mycotoxin. And now, he has an alternative theory to what's going on. At the end of May, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Detroit, he and a few other scientists dropped the widely publicized' "be" bombshell. Essentially, Meselson and his colleagues are arguing that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the government as evidence of yellow rain may well be nothing more than bee excrement. Samples of bee feces collected at Harvard...
...clubhouse scuffle, Johnson wrecked Reliever Goose Gossage for 13 weeks in 1979. Mindful that the Yankees represent their primary opposition (along with the Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers), the Blue Jays have loaded up with embarrassing symbols. Toronto is defraying Pitcher Doyle Alexander's guaranteed Yankee contract ($400,000 this year, $500,000 next year, $850,000 the year after that) by just $22,500 in the delicious hope that releasing Alexander will turn out to be a more expensive mistake for New York than signing...
...Blue Jays. Before Brooklyn or Los Angeles ever knew of Walter Alston, he managed the Dodgers Triple A team in Montreal, and Jackie Robinson played there in 1946. "Those were happy summers," says Al Campanis, the Montreal shortstop then, the Dodger general manager now. Before Cincinnati or Detroit ever heard of Sparky Anderson, he managed in Toronto. When Toronto grew past the point of accepting the minor leagues of anything, baseball left town for nine years. It returned to a faint but polite recognition...