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	World Almanac for Kids
		Baseball is played by amateurs of all ages, including numerous sandlot clubs and athletic associations, virtually every high school and college in the U.S., and scores of junior leagues.
		Most early variations of baseball were played on a square field, with stakes at the corners serving as stations and a striker’s box situated about midway between the first and fourth stations.
		Much controversy surrounded baseball’s reserve clause, which bound a player to one team until the player retired or was traded; if a player’s contract expired, and no new agreement was reached, the clause allowed the team to renew the contract annually.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/baseball.html (2274 words)

	1981 in baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following are the baseball events of the year 1981 throughout the world.
		Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson is the only person elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
		The 1981 Midsummer Classic becomes the second All-Star Game ever played during the month of August, the first having taken place on August 3, 1959.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1981_in_baseball (1185 words)

	Diamond Mind Baseball
		But baseball is supposed to be fun, so we're going to have a little fun with the numbers to see what we can learn about the chances of each of this year's contenders.
		In the 1981 Bill James Baseball Abstract, Bill introduced the log5 method to answer the question, "how often should team A be expected to beat team B?" It took him several pages to describe and justify the method, so we won't take the space to do all of that again here.
		In other words, because almost all baseball teams fall into this range of.400 and.600, and because the differences are smallest when A and B are close to each other, the straight-line formula is a handy alternative that works for the vast majority of matchups.
	www.diamond-mind.com /articles/playoff2002.htm (2397 words)

	Rich's Weekend Baseball BEAT: Abstracts From The Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James opens the 1981 Abstract with a two-page “Dear Reader” letter entirely on the subject of sabermetrics, including what is sabermetrics, the definition of sabermetrics, and the difference between sportswriting and sabermetrics.
		Although Barry Bonds was only 16 years old when James wrote the 1981 Abstract, I thought it would be interesting to compare Bonds’ and Aaron’s home run totals from age 35-on.
		On the subject of pitching, James refutes the belief that “pitching is 75% of baseball” and suggests “about 35%” as the correct weighting.
	www.all-baseball.com /richbeat/archives/014749.html (2957 words)

	Baseball Almanac - Year In Review : 1981 National League
		The lanky right-hander with the handlebar mustache went on to become one of the greatest relief artists in all of baseball, lasting seventeen years and compiling the record for most career saves (three-hundred forty-five) as well as World Series saves (seven).
		Due to the two-month strike, Major League owners elected to split the 1981 season into two halves, with the first-place teams from each half in each division meeting in a best-of-five divisional playoff series.
		As a result, the Oakland A's, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers were guaranteed playoff spots as first-half league champions.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /yearly/yr1981n.shtml (811 words)

	July 2001 Boston Baseball: Lessons from the Strike of 1981
		Baseball is the most historically-minded sport, and the “Today in Baseball History” column is a common fine-print feature.
		Before the 1994-95 meltdown, the 50-day labor stoppage that split the 1981 season marked the lowest point in modern baseball history.
		The owners and players resolved every other issue in 1980; the one and only issue in the 1981 talks was the owners’ insistence that teams losing a free agent should be compensated with a player off the signing club’s major league roster.
	roadsidephotos.com /baseball/bb01-4.htm (855 words)

	Rich's Weekend Baseball BEAT: August 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the meantime, Baseball America is reporting that Stephen Drew has been offered a four-year major league contract by the Arizona Diamondbacks for “close to the $4.79 million package Rickie Weeks got from the Brewers” as the second overall pick in the 2003 draft.
		The Bill James Baseball Abstract took a major step forward in 1982 when Ballantine Books won a bidding war to publish “The One Book All Real Baseball Fans Must Have!” The price of the soft-cover, 213-page book was $5.95 in the USA and $7.25 in Canada.
		Playing hard in baseball is so much admired that people make up lists of players who play hard, with the implication that this is a good to be sought after in its own right.
	www.all-baseball.com /richbeat/archives/2004_08.html (8990 words)

	Baseball Quotes and Sayings
		Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray
		Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974
		Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. ~Richard Gilman
	www.quotegarden.com /baseball.html (3650 words)

	Misc. 1981 News Compared -- April 6, 2005 -- Collinsville, OK -- www.cvilleok.com
		Dial was convicted years later for the 1981 death of Kelly Hogan (a 1971 Collinsville High School graduate).
		While in the 1981 archive copies of the Collinsville News I found several other stories (below) that are also of interest today.
		Another October 1981 news story had the CHS band in trouble for "disturbing the peace" with their 7am practices in the city park.
	www.cvilleok.com /2005AprNews/Misc1981.html (365 words)

	Baseball always had haves, have nots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Baseball is splurging on players' salaries, because baseball has the money to do it.
		There is baseball's boost from last year's dream season, when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa ripped their way past Babe Ruth and Roger Maris in the record books.
		From 1969 to 1981, when baseball went to divisional play and still wasn't affected much by free-agency, Koppett determined that four teams won 81 percent of the AL division titles and four teams won 77 percent of the NL division titles.
	www.bouldernews.com /sports/baseball/a161873a.html (514 words)

	Player Bio: Larry Giangrosso :: Baseball
		The first Blazer baseball head coach to have earned a degree from UAB, Giangrosso was inducted into the Alabama Baseball Coaches' Hall of Fame on Jan. 12, 2001.
		Berry was a five-time AHSAA regional baseball titleist (1981, '84, '85, `86, '89) and also captured four Jefferson County baseball titles (1984, '86, '88, '90) under Giangrosso.
		Giangrosso played baseball at UAB from 1973-74, on teams that were sponsored by the physical education department (prior to the school's entry into NCAA intercollegiate athletics with the 1978-79 school year).
	uabsports.cstv.com /sports/m-basebl/mtt/giangrosso_larry00.html (828 words)

	The End of Varsity Baseball at the UO
		The End of Varsity Baseball at the UO After months of deliberations, University President Paul Olum announced on Thursday, May 7, 1981 that baseball, along with men’s gymnastics and two women’s sports—golf and soccer—would be eliminated from the school’s athletic program because of budget reductions.
		According to Krause, the major causes of baseball’s demise were inflation and Title IX.
		Howe Field, which last hosted varsity baseball in 1981, continues to serve as the home of the varsity softball team.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /exhibits/archive/baseball/uo-end.html (146 words)

	Dan's Baseball Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Baseball: The History, Statistics, and Romance of the American National Pastime.
		Professional Baseball Franchises - From the Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians.
		Baseball and the Cold War - Being a Soliloquy on the Necessity of Baseball.
	www.kypris.com /Baseball/dan-bb.html (1381 words)

	Eastern League Baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The President's Trophy is Minor League Baseball's top award, presented annually to honor the complete baseball franchise--based on franchise stability; contributions to league stability; contributions to baseball in the community; and promotion of the baseball industry.
		Baseball America is the nation's leading baseball resource, with in-depth coverage of every level of the game and a particular focus on up-and-coming players.
		Founded in 1981, Baseball America quickly established itself as the foremost baseball-only publication and has grown into a full-service media company with a 26 times a year publication, a total of five annual reference book titles, a radio show, and a popular Website, BaseballAmerica.com.
	www.easternleague.com /release.taf?release=357 (452 words)

	American Heroes
		It is recognized everywhere not only as baseball's ultimate blow but as the American symbol of power, glamour, and dynamic achievements.
		In 1968 he was hired to manage the Mets and a year later performed the "miracle" that was still fresh in Shea Stadium when he succumbed to a fatal heart attack in the spring of 1972".
		The first year it was used for baseball, 1958, there were more home runs hit in Walter O'Malley's china shop than in any other park in the majors.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=40 (4490 words)

	1981: Baseball strikes out - Playing Hardball: Sports Labour Disputes - CBC Archives
		A dispute over free agency in professional baseball has turned into the longest strike in American sports history, and both Canadian cities are losing millions.
		A system known as the "reserve clause" gave owners exclusive rights to re-sign their players to contracts on a "take it or leave it" basis, with little room for negotiation.
		To finish the 1981 season, baseball owners split the season into two halves.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-1430-9212/sports/sports_disputes/clip1 (672 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
		Since money appeared to be at the root of the greed reflex that paralyzed Major League Baseball in 1981, the early members of the Cosmic Baseball Association viewed things commercial as unpalatable.
		The investors would provide capital and management resources for the new company, which was to be called "Cosmic Baseball Collectibles, LLC." A Limited Liability Corporation with this name was incorporated in the State of Delaware on April 2, 2001 (See CBC Historical Document No. 1).
		An explanation for the closure of the e-store and the apparent end to the Cosmic Baseball Association's experiments with its "commercial potential" will have to wait to be written until the fog of the moment clears.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /jcba20_forsale.html (1220 words)

	NO BASEBALL? NO PROBLEM; LIFE GOES ON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Baseball will always be important to our culture, and not just as a vehicle for George Will columns.
		Instead, he thumbed his nose at caring baseball fans by whiling away what is left of this summer at a football game.
		A nation of fans has discovered that a life without baseball does not have to be such a terrible thing.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940914/09140607.htm (532 words)

	Baseball Songs A
		This volume was released in mid-July 1999, as the Baseball Hall of Fame was preparing for its biggest inductions since its opening year and the baseball world was enjoying another great homerun year.
		It is jam-packed with 21 entertaining songs featuring such baseball greats as Maris and Mantle, Cal Ripken, Pedro Guerrero and Dizzy Dean, as well as featuring such baseball themes as T-Ball, opening day and dreams of becoming a big leaguer.
		It not only displays their immense talents, but also their shared interest in baseball, that is made unmistakably clear by the titles of the other eight original tunes, such as the title song, Double Play, plus Fungo, Batter Up and so on.
	www.cooperstownmusic.com /songs.htm (1756 words)

	Johnny Brown (Track and Field/Football/Baseball) :: 1981 Hall of Fame
		Johnny Brown, one of the greatest natural athletes in the South in the early 1940's, was compared to Jim Thorpe because of his prowess and versatility in track, football and baseball.
		He excelled for the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary before winning acclaim on a star-studded Army team packed with All-Americans and then competing for William and Mary.
		A high scoring tailback, a leading hitter in baseball, and top scorer on the track team, Brown scored six firsts in one track meet and set a state AAU long jump record of 22'11" in 1940.
	odusports.cstv.com /genrel/080102aad.html (347 words)

	Just the Proof - Nolan Ryan Autographed 1981 All-Star Baseball (#/120)
		He was the most dominant pitcher that Major League Baseball has ever seen.
		He carried a consistently hot baseball in his pocket for over 20 years...often topping 100 MPH with his fastball...then frightening even veterans with his stifling curve.
		Nolan threw 7 no-hitters in his Hall-of-Fame tenure, while setting the record for most strikeouts in a career.
	justtheproof.com /Proof_BaseballRyanNolan81AS.html (137 words)

	Ernie Shore Perfect Game? - Baseball Fever
		Baseball Fever > General Baseball > History of the Game
		Here is what my 1981 official Baseball Record Book says about this game played in Boston on June 23, 1917:
		He didn't retire all 27 men, so it is not a perfect game.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=28073 (546 words)

	The Baseball Analysts: Abstracts From The Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Posted by: Jordan Lyall at August 2, 2004 07:15 PM There are several copies of the 1983-1986 and the 1988 Baseball Abstracts for sale through Amazon.com right now.
		Posted by: tangotiger at August 10, 2004 02:10 PM Yes, the pitch code project was first introduced in 1981.
		Posted by: Richard at August 10, 2004 06:45 PM Yes, James published 40 issues of The Baseball Analyst newsletter from June 1982 through February 1989.
	baseballanalysts.com /archives/2004/08/abstracts_from_16.php (3165 words)

	BaseballAmerica.com: Store: Free Trial Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Baseball America is available at most Barnes and Noble and Borders bookstores as well as many newsstands across the country.
		Since 1981, Baseball America has been finding the prospects and tracking them from the bushes to the big leagues.
		Copyright © 1999-2006 Baseball America Inc. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
	www.baseballamerica.com /store/freeissue.html (213 words)

	Eastern Illinois University Panther Baseball
		The 1981 baseball Panthers will celebrate a 25th reunion Saturday (April 29) at Eastern Illinois’ Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader against Southeast Missouri at Coaches Stadum.
		One of the greatest baseball teams in school history, the 1981 Panthers finished second in the nation in the NCAA Division II World Series.
		A large number of EIU baseball players performed well in their respective summer wood bat leagues following the completion of the 2005 season.
	www.eiu.edu /~sprtinfo/sports/baseball/1st.htm (5130 words)

	1981 Donruss Baseball Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		1981 Donruss # 56B Steve Garvey (P2 - 21 HR)
		1981 Donruss #326B Gorman Thomas (P2 - '30 HR mark 3rd')
		1981 Donruss #601B Checklist (#1-120) Unnumbered (P2 Corr.
	www.baseball-cards.com /vintage/1981-donruss.htm (718 words)

	The Baseball Analysts: As the (Dodgers) World Turns...
		The team I grew up rooting for in Vero Beach and later was employed by for three years from 1988 to 1991 while working with quality baseball people in the minors is one I hardly recognize.
		The Dodgers can't ignore the fact that they're vying with the Angels for the loyalty of LA area baseball fans.
		But as a baseball fan, I'm suggesting this is not only an important baseball and hire for the Dodgers...
	baseballanalysts.com /archives/2005/10/as_the_dodgers.php (2811 words)

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