Word: postseason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until one Sunday a security guard noticed it took more fans to carry it in than out, and investigating, found a keg of beer inside). After last January's narrow play-off loss in Miami, the 8-8 Browns were plainly getting better but were still 17 years between postseason victories...
...third with 4 first-place votes and 241 points in the balloting by two writers in each of the 14 league cities. Each writer lists 10 players with 14 points for each first-place vote, 9 for second, 8 for third, and so forth. The vote was taken before postseason play began...
Baseballs routinely bounced out of gloves and over walls, including the well-oiled one of Boston Rightfielder Dwight Evans. Of 20 World Series veterans involved in the postseason, only Evans was found at his old stand, a commentary on the baseball business that even the Mets players might contemplate. Before the series, when casually asked about the Game 3 home run he hit eleven years ago off Cincinnati, Evans looked up in astonishment. "Nobody remembers that," he insisted. "That was the greatest thrill of my career. I'm the only one who remembers that." Now he has hit two more...
...postseason was a time for little errors, big hits, great pitching, bad pitching and everything else that makes for interesting entertainment over a three-week stretch...
Even though the scoreboard gave Harvard an impressive win over the only team in New England to earn a postseason bid last year, Coach Bob Scalise was not entirely satisfied with his squad's showing--especially a first-half letdown which enabled Springfield to come back from a 3-0 deficit...