1981 Season

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1981 Season

The 1981 season was a complete disaster. First, there was a player strike that wiped out the middle third of the season. Then the ill-conceived idea of the split-season left the team with the best record, the Cincinnati Reds, out of the postseason entirely. Not to mention a few cases where a team was better off losing a game than winning it. The AL would have had a close pennant race, with no fewer than 7 teams finishing within 5 games of the top. And the NL had 3 teams within 5 games. We ended up with a World Series matching the 4th place Yankees against the 3rd place Dodgers. We will play the Oakland - Cincinnati series, and then we'll play the games eliminated by the strike, and replay the Series again if the pennant winners change.

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FINAL STANDINGS

AMERICAN LEAGUE	W	L	Pct	GB	NATIONAL LEAGUE	W	L	Pct	GB
Oakland	64	45	.587	--	Cincinnati	66	42	.611	--
Milwaukee	62	47	.569	2	St. Louis	59	43	.578	4
Baltimore	59	46	.562	3	Los Angeles	63	47	.573	4
New York	59	48	.551	4	Montreal	60	48	.556	6
Detroit	60	49	.550	4	Houston	61	49	.555	6
Boston	59	49	.546	4½	Philadelphia	59	48	.551	6½
Texas	57	48	.543	5	San Francisco	56	55	.505	11½
Chicago	54	52	.509	8½	Atlanta	50	56	.472	15
Cleveland	52	51	.505	9	Pittsburgh	46	56	.451	17
Kansas City	50	53	.485	11	New York	41	62	.398	22½
California	51	59	.464	13½	San Diego	41	69	.373	26
Seattle	44	65	.404	20	Chicago	38	65	.369	25½
Minnesota	41	68	.376	23
Toronto	37	69	.349	25½

Data source The Sporting News Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2000 Edition

PENNANT RACE

AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

WORLD SERIES
The Oakland A's defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 3. Details.

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