BigEd76 wrote:Here's a random question for the people that followed baseball in the 80s:

Before 1985, the playoff format was 2-3 and home field advantage was simply alternated between divisions each year, just like the World Series.

In 1983, the Phils (NL East) and White Sox (AL West) had HFA, and the AL had HFA in the WS.
In 1984, the Padres (NL West) and Tigers (AL East) had HFA, and the NL had HFA in the WS.

In 1985, when they expanded to 7-game series and went to the 2-3-2 format, the NL West and AL East still had HFA instead of rotating as usual.
In 1986, it was still NL West and AL East with HFA for a third consecutive year.
In 1987, they finally continued the rotation.

Was an explanation ever given as to why they didn't rotate HFA in 1985 when they switched formats? I did some searching and couldn't find anything. KC ended up winning game 7 at Toronto, but they could've been screwed that year.

BigEd76 wrote:Was an explanation ever given as to why they didn't rotate HFA in 1985 when they switched formats?

In 1969, Angelino and Hillman were members of Ted Williams’s Young Senators fan club. The 25-cent dues came with 11 general admission tickets to select games, a bumper sticker, a team schedule, a membership card and a photo of Williams, who was in his first season as the manager in Washington. Members of the club, which was co-sponsored by Sears Roebuck and the Washington Daily News, were also entered in a raffle to win tickets to the 1969 All-Star Game in D.C.

Angelino, whose maiden name is Buskirk, was climbing a fence in the yard of her Silver Spring home when her mother came outside to tell her a man from Sears was on the phone. Barbara was ecstatic to learn she was one of two winners of the tickets, but the 12-year-old tomboy with three older brothers resented the title that the contest’s organizers bestowed upon her.

“I was the honorary ‘princess,’ which appalled me,” Angelino said. “I was horrified.”

joe table wrote:Unreal relay throw out of Correa here to nail franimal + the piano on his back

Two other stros plays are nice too

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BigEd76 wrote:Dodgers 2016 draft pick James Turlington announced his retirement to become a full-time model

Ramon Gris wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:Dodgers 2016 draft pick James Turlington announced his retirement to become a full-time model

That's fantastic.