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Graig Nettles delivered the New York Yankees to the World Series in a suitably Yankee way. When he was through batting out the Oakland A's in three straight play-off games for the American League pennant, the third baseman scuffled with Teammate Reggie Jackson for good measure...
...year of the asterisk finally reaches the play-off stage...
Most embarrassing, the Royals, twelve games out of first at the time of the strike, managed to get their act together well enough to capture the second-half crown. Perhaps fortunately for the game, Oakland eliminated the unworthy Royals in three straight last week. As it was, the play-off games had an oddly perfunctory character. "I should be excited, but I'm awfully relaxed," said Oakland Infielder Wayne Gross, after hitting a three-run homer in the A's opening victory. "Somehow this mini-series seems devalued...
...clubs that finished with the second-best records in their divisions won play-off spots, as did three with the third-best records and Kansas City with its appalling fourth-place finish. In the playoffs, the Phillies lost twice to the Expos in Montreal, then evened the series at home on George Vukovich's tenth-inning homerun...
...runs broke in strong of 23 consecutive shut-out innings in play-off competition by Reuss...