CINCINNATI- UNDATED 1981: Tom Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds pitches during an MLB game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Seaver played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1977-1982. (Photo by Ron ...

After a two-month strike in '81, anger was up, crowds were down and chaos (not to mention Pete Rose) reigned. World wars, earthquakes, civil unrest, terrorist attacks, military threats, infectious ...

The last time two of baseball's most storied franchises -- the Yankees and Dodgers-- faced each other in New York came in the 1981 World Series. So in honor of that matchup finally taking place ...

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It was not the worst of times for baseball fans. That would come in 1994, when there was a work stoppage and no World Series. But the 1981 baseball season was the first season to be interrupted by a ...

The 1981 baseball season stands as the great outlier in baseball history. It was the first season when Major League players would go on strike. It was the first and still the only season with a first ...

For 97 years, the Phillies would begin each season uncertain that they would ever become champions of the baseball world. Then came the 98th, the season that would carry no doubts. Months earlier, the ...

It’s fun to play on the internet and encounter treasures like the full television broadcast of the 1981 World Series. Pearl Bailey sang the anthem. The lead play-by-play voice belonged to a man better ...

A commemorative sign hanging on the backside of the third-base dugout at Boone High’s baseball field bears a peculiar slogan that was once a rally cry for perennial underdogs. Above it, there’s an ...

Former Florida Southern All-American first baseman Mark Angelo, a member of the Moccasins’ 1981 national championship team and one of the most accomplished hitters in FSC’s baseball history, died ...

In 1979, the Oakland Athletics hit rock bottom, winning only 54 games and at one point drawing a mere 653 fans to a midsummer game. The team responded by hiring fiery field manager Billy Martin in ...