Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IRONICALLY, I will always remember Yaz for one of those "moments." It was The Game--the 1978 American League East one-game playoff between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and I watched it amid cartons in the empty living room of the house my family had moved into. The first thing I unpacked was the television so that I could watch the game...
...baseball team sweeps Dartmouth, extending its winning streak to 13 games and forcing a playoff with Princeton for the EIBL title...
March 6: The icemen's win over Dartmouth clinches their first ECAC playoff berth since...
February 28: The women's ice hockey team receives its first-ever EAIAW playoff bid, but declines it the same day, protesting against prospective-opponent Potsdam State's entrance into the EAIAW the week before...
...season proves both these mythic profiles to be absolutely accurate. That year the pennant race between the two teams came down to the very last game. Of course the Sox lost it. They had done the same thing against the Cleveland Indians in a sudden-death playoff game the year before. Both teams were hobbled by injuries. But the Yankees had the poise and power...