MLB Baseball's Seasons: 1980

[Music] [Applause] welcome to baseball seasons 1988 corner champions [Applause] [Music] every World Series showcases the best baseball has to offer the 1980 Fall Classic was no different featuring two of the greatest third baseman of all time at the height of their powers Bret the Kansas City franchise woke up America while both of these future hall-of-famers possessed awards and accolades one common goal eluded them both a world championship in 1980 something had to give we get a habit the busbar outside a home plate run the first even if we're out it sets a pattern for the Phillies of 1980 and while springtime usually insurer's optimism throughout baseball in Clearwater Florida lady there was a far more ominous climate in the mid 70s we had a tough time closing the deal in the National League Championship Series [Music] the city was just starved for winning baseball we lost the National League championship three years in a row that team had had so much disappointment and the fans were getting tired of them not being able to succeed they needed to get to the World Series that year because they had the disappointment since 76 77 78 this year there's probably more pressure on our ballclub than ever because we've been told by the Accounting Office that if they don't do it this year they're gonna have to break up the ballclub a year earlier free agent Pete Rose had been brought in I know when we put him in 76 they had a lead against us in a couple of games in the playoffs they just like that killer instinct despite Pete's 331 average in 79 the three-time defending NL East champs finished a disappointing fourth prompting another move at the end of the season they fired Danny Ozark and they brought in Dallas Green to evaluate the team the last month of the season all the club really loved Danny Ozark they didn't care for Dallas green at all I made things a little tough for him Dallas looked at that group and thought they were way too comfortable way too satisfied for a team that had never won a postseason series and that's what he set out to change like the Phillies perennial playoff failures seem to be haunting the Kansas City Royals always the bridesmaid never a bride I guess from 1976 to 78 the Royals were ALCS participants it was kind of like David and Goliath as far as small-market Kansas City against the big bad Yankees I was irritated because I knew that we weren't that far away Yankees winning American League pennant and what their joy PopTech is down a lot of the first-place live they beat us all three times and so by 1980 it was a big rivalry they didn't like us we didn't like them so the overriding mantra of the Royals spray was quite similar to that of a Phillies I need to clear their respective hurdles we knew to get the respect we needed as an organization that sooner or later we had to beat the Yankees feeling a need for more pop in their lineup KC traded for Angels slugger Willie Mays Aikens and in another parallel to the fillings fine to me the Royals replaced manager Whitey Herzog with rookie manager Jim Frey we're looking forward to playing our new Jim Frey he knows the game he's been in the game a long time so we won a championship in Kansas City if the Royals were to improve on their second place seventy-nine finish and perhaps get to a World Series they need George Brett to continue to carry them on his back a challenge can you feel ready to tackle I would like to start the season hot and end it hot and see what kind of year I could put together you always read about the Jim Rice's and the Fred lens and the rod Carew's which is great they're great ballplayers but someday I'd like to pick up a paper and read about George Brett for bread and the Royals to make the World Series they would need to decode the secret of the defending al Campion success in 79 we went to the World Series lost to the we are family pirates and so coming into 1980 we felt pretty good about ourselves as a team and why not winners of a hundred two games in 79 the O's were returning a combined 60 homers and 210 RBIs from their switch hitting power tandem of Ken singleton and Eddie Murthy I can't remember any more powerful switch-hitting combinations than any singleton and Eddie Murray as usual the Orioles had top-shelf pitching which included the winningest pitcher of the Senators Jim Palmer in 1979 sa Young Award winner Mike Flanagan the Orioles will be there the Orioles are winning tradition so was the IDI season was set to begin Earl Weaver's checklist for success was punched Earl loved the three-run home run and we had guys that could hit 3 run home runs we had pitchers that could pitch complete games and Burrell was smart enough to realize he had a really well-rounded ballclub in stark contrast the 80 Yankees appeared vulnerable coming off a subpar fourth place finish the Yankees had to replace their catcher and captain Thurman Munson whose death the previous summer had shocked baseball we thought we could come back in 79 like we did in 78 and then when that happened we couldn't make a comeback like we had planned on doing but there just it was devastating coming over in an off season trade with Toronto young catcher Rick Cerrone since the void would be tough to fill I hope people don't think I can step right in and replace people that have been there I'm not capable of doing that yeah and I'm 25 and I think I'm still improving Reggie Jackson was looking to improve on his 29 homers and 89 RBIs in 79 both team highs and with new manager Dick Howser providing stability after the Billy Martin Bob lemon merry-go-round the Yanks hoped to give the O's a run for their money in 80 the Bucs skipper fired a spring salvo at those hoping to dethrone his world champion pirates they say uneasy lies the man that wears the crown well I always say uneasy lies the man that tries to catch the man that wears the crown just like the 70s the 1980s version of the Bucs also look to be lumber company scary Madlock Easler Parker and the heart of it and pops okay he's 40 years old but he also swung a 40 ounce bat sorry you had that honor that the rest of the division was hoping that the family that indeed aged and was now ready for that taking we knew that the club was getting older obviously Willie was getting over but when you're coming off a World Series championship you're gonna try to make another run and that's what we thought we were going to do that's how 30 games over 579 the youthful Expos finished two games behind the world champion pirates making a strong statement as an up-and-coming team by 1979 we had become a contending team primarily because of everyone coming together that had started in the minor league system Steve Rogers Gary Carter Andre Dawson Ellis Valentine and Larry parish made for an explosive and formidable core and looking at the division high as it's going to be we figured to be right in it to the last day again this year after missing the playoffs in 79 by a game and a half the Houston Astros were not on the fence concerning expectations for 1980 Wood idea to wind up in the World Series going in we felt like we had a chance they'd made a couple additions that made just a little deeper one sex change was free agent Joe Morgan highly credentialed with two MVP awards and World Series rings with the Big Red Machine we hadn't won and Joe was a proven winner I think more than anything he brought the winning way to our ballclub while the morgan signing added stability the addition of nolan ryan as the first-ever million dollar-a-year player brought big-time credibility to the emerging Astros put him with junior Richard you got to the best stores in the business Junior along with Nolan Ryan were the two great power pitchers in Major League Baseball and junior might have had the larger fear factor coming off four consecutive seasons of at least 18 wins and two straight years with more than 300 strikeouts [Applause] Richard indeed cast a long shadow I think I would have struck out 300 batters next for a year because I was increasingly getting better my control was getting better and I was learning how to pitch it a lot better with 21 game winner Joe Niekro and his knuckle ball between flame throwers Richard and Ryan the Astros starting pitching appeared to be top-flight la was coming off an uncharacteristic subpar season as they finished eleven and a half games off the NL West pace that didn't sit well with the Dodgers I'm looking forward to 1980 I want to dismiss 79 from my mind and my memory the Dodgers were hopeful that their ten-year didn't fielder Steve Garvey Davey Lopes Bill Russell and Ron Cey now entering their seventh straight full year together would anchor another drive to the pennant the one thing I remember from 1918 was extraordinarily talented team with a great blend of veterans with a lot of young talent coming in of that young talent 22 year old relievers Steve house stood out the most due to his electrifying stuff Steve came from Republic all 1979 to spring training and I don't think anyone had a loud foul ball off him at Spring Training it was unbelievable how jumped out of the gate with a win and three saves in April on his way to an eventual Rookie of the Year award but that performance paled in comparison to what Junior Richard's opening month would produce when we faced the Dodgers and juniors pitching we knew it was going to be an easy game for him because Tommy kept all those right-handers in a lineup and it was like a hot knife going through butter he threw a one-hitter at him one time the one hitter was Richards second April win versus LA for the month he had 48 strikeouts in just 37 and 2/3 innings he was on back to have his best season yet which is really saying something another pitcher making a loud statement was the Phillies Steve Carlton when you're ace your horse your number one starter is on the mound everybody feels good about winning May of 80 had many winning days for coffee as he went six in one for the month to up his record to nine and to a mark that ballooned to 14 and four by the all-star break joining him on the pitching staff was the team's emotional leader and relief ace tug mcgraw he what hit his heart with his glove and smile and he had a twinkle in his eye and he was very successful success was contagious in eighty and Mike Schmidt found a way to take his punishing offense to yet another level that was the point after about seven years in the league that might became actually a good hitter understanding his strengths not just the homeruns made was especially sweet for Mike Schmidt 12 homers and 29 RBIs to give him major league lead despite the individual efforts the Phills trailed the Pirates at the end of May by a game in a division that would go down to the wire as the calendar flipped from May to June in the American League West the Royals were having a great year as they were on a fast track to success we utilized our ballpark tremendously with the doubles or triples who were never a power team because of the Kauffman Stadium it was critical for us to have a lot of Jackrabbits the first guy you know was Willet Wilson who was the the fastest guy in baseball known as one of the game's most disruptive baserunners Wilson would go on to steal 79 bags and a while leading the league in hits triples and runs scored well it was the person that set the table force and the job of closing out the opposition went to Dan Quisenberry an emerging star in just his first full season but as great as quizes year was it was a teammate who was having a season for the ages it kept telling myself that I was the best player in the game even though I wasn't but I tried to convince myself that I was following a lackluster April brat batted 329 in May and in nine games in June before suffering a leg injury Breck for shadowed a memorable summer by hitting for 72 [Applause] he was our club you know we lived and died by George so not coincidentally after bread warmed with the weather the Royals had opened the 18 lead by the end of June as baseball paused for its Midsummer Classic the eyes of the nation focused on the game's most dominant pitcher the radar guns at all start time had him up over 100 miles an hour Junior just lit up the guns he lit up the world of everything going on Major League Baseball wise at the time when I went out that little jittery first time today in our game then I began to relax as the game progressed and I felt a lot better the fact that jr. felt good after his all-star appearance added more uncertainty to Richard's earlier claims of not feeling well physically he uses the word fatigue to describe it on may he started mentioning that his arm was starting to feel dead and he was losing the feeling of the ball in his hand at times beginning in mid-june richard began pulling himself out of games with varying complaints leading to some lingering questions people are saying that he was jaqen on us but I knew jr. wanted to be a big part of our winning I'm sure he wanted to be out there for us and it was a shame to see what happened jr. made his next and what proved to be his final start of 1980 six days after the all-star game he exited in the fourth inning and two days later joined the disabled list with a tired arm said to myself what is wrong what is wrong so I just continued to thought about and it just kept getting increasingly worse on July 30th while testing his condition Jay Richard collapsed suffering a life-threatening stroke it was just devastating to the team everybody thought the world of jr. he was our ace and we just felt I was a dagger to the heart at the all-star break the Yankees possessed baseball's best record that really felt good because it given he got us back to getting a chance to be the team that we will put together to be New York seven and a half game lead had their fans thinking postseason once again to Oakland up a league like we did everything was cooking replacing Munson Rick Cerrone surprised with season-ending numbers of 14 homers and 85 RBIs being on a pennant contender like the Yankees has probably made me have a better year having his best year as a Yankee Reggie Jackson put up gaudy numbers ranted was a great lady no red to came out there and Reggie played the whole year all the way up even when he was hurt he played Jackson's 41 homers and 111 RBIs in Asia with both his season highs as a Yankee I believe reg was locked in as well as a hitter could be that maybe Yankees the team that they've always meant it seemed as if the fourth place Orioles had little chance to catch the Yanks as they trailed by nine games at the all-star break we were as far back as 11 Eames end of July and we had eight games to play with them in a fairly short period of time for three game series in their ballpark and a five game series in our ballpark beginning August days the now scorching Orioles were hoping for a sweep and the bronze came in five games out in the last column it could be a disastrous situation mission accomplished as the OS wept the Yanks in the Bronx highlighted by one of Steve stains we need in twenty five wins which earns in his soul so young the Orioles are a team that notoriously has not beaten themselves so it certainly helped my performance to be with his club when the scene shifted to Baltimore four days later the O's crept closer to the sputtering acts taking three or five at home further shrinking the deficit to two and a half games when your championship team and you go out there have known what your responsibilities are somewhere along the line it's all gonna kick in the Orioles would win 100 games we wound up closing that gap to a half game I got our attention and never got any closer that year so when goose Gossage closed out Detroit for Yankee win number 102 E the Yanks were division champs [Applause] this guy makes consistent contact as well as anybody I know that he is capable of hitting somewhere around 400 maybe over 400 could George Brett become the first player in nearly four decades to hit 400 in a single season that was the question consuming baseball throughout the summer of 80 how about that George Brett this man has gotten more hits since the all-star break found a lot of players to get offseason everything he swung at he hit his batting average since the all-star break 520 here's the matter George Brett he was a Superman the big story in baseball this week George Brett is now fighting 404 from June on Breton ever dipped below 300 but when he returned from injury after the all-star break and hit 494 in July his assault began Brett now sit safely in 14 ball games my mind was in the game was very sharp I was very confident obviously I was doing a lot of things right fundamentally one of the most consistent with damage done seasons I've seen from an offensive standpoint beginning July 18th we're at ripped off a 30 game hitting streak which included 18 multi-hit games the run lifted him over the 400 mark I'd never hit over 333 in my life and all of a sudden I'm at 400 was six weeks to go so I didn't know what to expect there was so much media attention and what ultimately became pressure for him from the media with two weeks to go in the season and I'm still over 400 they did the one thing I shouldn't have done I went out and tried to hit 400 despite the fact that Brett fell short in his quest to be the first since Ted Williams to Eclipse 400 he was still the talk of the league the fact that you can go through a full season flirt with 400 and get there for a while only to slip back to 390 he deserves to be the MVP that year the best player on a team that won its division by a whopping 14 games in the NL East the world champion pirates played the entire season wearing a bull's-eye on their back I'm greater two champions of the world because they're in the Eastern Division of national league and that makes what I think is the best division in baseball when you go against the Pirates or the Phillies the teams that you're contending with for the division title you have to play them even up if not better but if we're there in the end you're gonna have to take it from us because it's ours right now prophetic covenants indeed as proven by September 1st standings unfortunately for the aging pirates a 10 and 17 September not them from contention we just couldn't finish the deal our tanks were empty on September 1st as late as September 16th the Expos were in first place by 2 and a half games the question was with a fightin Phils capable of fighting back the 80 team really didn't love each other the hitters didn't like pitchers pitchers didn't like the hitters so it was kind of a Peyton Place in the clubhouse and Dallas Green had a very firm hand we had a lot of ups and downs in August and Dallas read the riot act a few times during that six-week period I was irate because the guys really never bought into the fact that they had the talent but they were talking to talk and they just weren't walking to walk I was convinced that unless something drastic happened we were going to back into the doldrums again I wasn't about to let that happen the fact that with a week to go in the season Dallas Green could bench Greg Lozinski Bob Boone and Gary Maddox was incredible he was gonna do whatever he felt he needed to do to win case in point was September call-up Marty by string green started him five times and was rewarded as the rookie went five and all with a one point five zero ara he brought that to the table in September and we would not have won without Marty bytes from pitching away pitch the same could be said about Mike Schmidt in August in September he belted 17 homers raising his total of 44 and fulfilling the expectations that Pete Rose had for him he started talking about me as the greatest player he had ever played against and with because he knew that that made me feel like Superman and the more he can take me feel like Superman the better Clair I become and obviously the better the team would become as predicted all along the NL East did come down to October a deciding series between the deadlocked Phillies and Expos winner-take-all we felt like we had it where we needed it that it was in our hands and it was in our Park the feeling that you have it's almost like it's a World Series you know that if you beat them two out of three games you go on for me it was sort of a defining series in terms of playing under pressure and coming through [Applause] we went to Montreal to have to win these two games and I went six for 11 won the first game with a home run on the second game with a home run to win that game the way they won that game [Applause] [Music] the National West so the Astros and Dodgers battle into October the Astros held a three-game lead on the Dodgers with the final three games of the year slated for Dodger Stadium we knew it was gonna be tough for us in LA but we didn't think that we could lose despite the odds the playoff tested Dodgers felt up to the task number one we thought we were better than in first place and number two we had heard they had champagne on ice they think they got this one already and with ken Forsch vying for a complete game two to one with the Astros just about did the Astros are two outs away from the National League West championship [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] worn out later in a do-or-die situation [Applause] yung sing dude [Applause] which opened the door for Jill Ferguson's Tintin in hemorrhoids [Applause] back to the warning track and [Music] once that game turned LA's way the momentum really started to build for the Dodgers and it had the sense that these guys are not going to cough up a game Elaine Hale had the momentum as they would sweep the three-game series we actually had the lead in all three games and it was kind of devastating we had to play an extra game game 163 the fifth nationally playoff ever did nothing to rattle the sliding Astros Luxy was our pitcher we all felt great with Lexie who's going for number 20 that day and for the second straight year he got it as Negro closed out the Dodgers with a 7 to 1 complete [Applause] somehow the tension of the one-game playoff which simply serve as a prelude to the drama that would unfold in the National League Championship Series the greatest confrontation in my life of watching sports was the 1980 League Championship Series between the Phillies in Houston the best LCS of all time back and forth back and forth back and forth one-run extra innings back and forth four straight extra inning games with that pressure [Applause] that whole series was exhaust who was emotionally and physically exhausted just to watch it was a knock-down drag-out series they'll go to the stretcher and that will be off or Cedeno a battle of wills who wanted it the most this series began innocently enough as he used to learn to split in Philly winning Game two in extra innings coming home 1-1 and we felt like we were in the driver's seat Joey crows ten scoreless innings in Game three paved the way for an Astros won nothing the living in the end but Houston's you for it it was fleeting when Game four swung affiliates way in the 10th Charlie hustle living up to his nickname was kind of bent on breaking up three all times [Applause] that the series wasn't tight enough decisive game 5 would be a real nail-biter you see things sometimes that really can't happen and then they happen the way that game ended was one of those things let's see if there's any comeback now left in the fields they have to do it against one of the great pitches down five to two in the eighth inning with nolan ryan on the mound you're not supposed to win that game Petros was right there next to me said if you get on we're gonna win this game today and it happened so fast Bob Boone hit a ball back at Ryan that would have been a double play ball Gregg gross bunted the first pitch and before you even turn around we have the bases loaded and nobody out [Applause] they rallied a little bit with him and I thought he'd got a little bit tired I ended up taking him out that didn't work either by now in this classic everyone expected an Astros answer it came and their neck stood back [Applause] as complex as this series was it came down to Gary Maddux's 10th inning two out simplified approach to hitting I had a reputation as a first ball hitter so it was easy pitch game was first pitch I always swing at it and I ended up hitting the line drive and when Maddux squeezed the final out of the scintillating series one thing became quite clear in Philadelphia [Applause] the ALCS murdered its National League counterpart as one of its participants was haunted by the recent playoff failures that endured having lost to them in 76 77 and 78 three great playoff series had we lost to them in 80 as well yeah there have been a lot more what-ifs and I'm not really sure you the Royals or their fans know that they can beat the Yankees it was frustrating losing to the Yankees and 77 I thought our team was equivalent if not better and really when we got to 1980 if nothing else the odds are in our favor that we can win one out of four it was a huge barrier to be broken by the Kansas City Royals in the organization we needed to go out play the New York Yankees we need to do their part as well as ours and I knew in 1980 we were ready if the NLCS was defined by intensity the ALCS was rooted in animosity everybody had a rival and Kansas City was ours at that time I hate the Yankees I still hate them that you know what they still hate me but Royals fans adore George and rec gave them renewed hope in Game one with a familiar playoff occurrence [Applause] a game one route coupled with game twos three-two to win world Royal reviews but back in the Bronx edginess prevailed I really thought going back to Yankee Stadium if we didn't win that game it would really be tough to beat him trailing 2 to 1 in the 7th Brett came to bat with two men on to face Yankee Willy face goose Gossage I knew he was gonna be throwing ball 95 to 100 miles an hour I just told myself be quick try to pull the ball if you get it in the air it's a bonus percentage on the noise of that bat meeting at ball was the loudest I've ever heard contact with the ball and that in my whole life and not only did I get in the air was one of the farthest homeruns I ever hit my life [Applause] you could have heard a pin drop and it was sitting a neat feeling didn't know that you were finally going to be in a World Series person dairy-free toothpicks that's the only time I've ever cried in baseball we finally beat the Yankees and that was a big relief for us nobody picked us to win our division nobody picked us to beat the Yankees we surprised everybody again what a year that made up for a lot of the pain I think from seventy six seven eight the biggest thrill coming into that series was finally making it to the World Series going into that World Series we knew we had to win but we also knew that the history of the Phillies was you know you can't win the big one this town has been waiting for it a long time what the dictor's had predicted us to win the World Series in the six games and I feel like we had the best team man-for-man that advantage seemed evident in Game one as the rest of y'all started twenty year winner Dennis Leonard while Philly's best Steve Carlton was being rested due to his LCS stint in Game four [Music] right into Worcester letters and a breaking ball is black going back to the warning [Applause] it wasn't Steve Carlton on the Mount it was Bob walk and I remember all the home runs flying out there and I was going in a wins this can stop one ball in two sites Aegon McCray does not go and Aiken but lava weed seemed daunting - they're scarred fanbase these fellows had a newfound confidence born during their dramatic NLCS we were good come-from-behind team we knew get a couple guys on steel base [Applause] pop the ball the ballpark and we could catch them luzinski proved prophetic as the Phillies scored two runs and had two aboard [Music] he's batting cleanup despite having hit only nine home runs the entire season [Music] every game is a big game especially when you open a series at home the finishing touches on a five the phils extended the lead to three before Tuggy who sealed a narrow victory [Applause] game-2 will always be remembered for George Brett's most unusual ailment his condition well he has a blockage of blood vessels forcing a protrusion of tissue from the rectum in layman's language he has hemorrhoids Brett would still go two for two in an abbreviated stent but for his team the trooper in their saddle would be the never-say-die Phillies who trailed 4 to 2 in the eighth Wiz have been money closing all year long so we were confident we'd win with a history of Dan Quisenberry and what he had done you keep thinking he's gonna get out of this he's gonna get a ground ball we're gonna get a double fight whatever but just didn't happen yeah [Applause] it's double put the fills up to stay with their 6-4 win continuing a late-game trend it's great feeling to have when you're down in a ball game to feel like five games in a row you've overcome the lead it's a real feeling of confidence [Music] while hosting their first ever World Series game was fun narrowing the Philly lead was of greater importance Willie Mays Aikens had even more incentive my mom was up in the stands it was the first time in my whole life that my mom had had a chance to see me play not only did her son respond with the first triple of his career with in extra innings he gave mom a memory she never forget [Applause] single-handedly put us back into the world series one game down now the dramatic walked off I mean that's the thing kids dream about if Aikens Game three was a dream then his game four was definitely a recurring nightmare for Philly Early's beginning in the first then in the second an Aikens encore I didn't like to watch home runs when I hit him off me but he at this one so far I turned around and admired it hitting like newly Mays Aikens second homer of the day made the score 5 to 1 and helped the Royals even a series at two games apiece Casey fans flocked to 1980s final home game at Royals Stadium Game five of a deadlocked World Series we feel this is an important ballgame but we also feel even if we lose we still gonna win it because we got the best ball club 18 game winner Larry gurus' resume figure to trump that of Philly's September call-up Marty by strim surprisingly though experience flinched first - nothing Philly's little quiet here in royal stadium as Mike Schmidt hits his second home run of this series in a role reversal it would now be the Royals trying to play catch-up they got one in the fifth and looked for more with the red-hot Amos Otis up in the sixth the Royals would add on the go-ahead run later in the NA and when quiz came on to get the last eight outs for the save KC seemed destined for a home sweep Dan Quisenberry walked out in the ninth inning to that mound and the Kansas City Royals were going to win because Dan Quisenberry never Lewis safe that's maybe what the traumatized faithful felt but these fellows had come too far and were too close to winning their first ever title and they would show their resilience once again still see that ball at del unser hit one strike pitch popping in the right field and the way everything changed [Applause] once the Phillies won that game they were going home they were gonna hand the ball to Steve Carlton and Steve Carlton was not going to let them lose the World Series I don't think I've ever gone into an important game feeling that the Phillies were gonna win but I had this feeling in that sixth game what I remember was it was our time we were back in Philadelphia the fans wanted it we wanted it and Steve Carlton wanna do Carlton was superb allowing four hits and one run over seven innings meanwhile it was also time for the Phillies offensive leader to correlate his superb season when he had the chance to break the scoreless tie in the third trailing four to one in the top of the ninth the royals loaded the bases against tug mcgraw we had used tug until he had nothing left but there he was in that tight situation I had all the faith in the world and tug I knew something good was gonna happen he had that type of personality where special things always happen it's baseball gods were looking after me then yes sir Reba [Applause] at that point you figure while things are really going your way exactly for the first time in 97 seasons things went the way of the fillings twenty-nine and because of that the celebration was unforgettable why did this filly team women [Applause] unless you've been through what we've been through in September in the playoffs and World Series a lot of three years later the Phillies returned to the World Series but it would be another quarter of a century before Philadelphia could celebrate another time Royals fans had only to wait five years for World Series glory beating the 1985 Cardinals in the seventh the iconic closers who angered their respective teams in 1980 continued to amaze and entertain tragically tug mcgraw and Dan Quisenberry both succumb to brain cancer poised at the age of 45 in 1998 and tug six years later at the age of 59 Mike Schmidt would become a three-time MVP and George Brett the only player ever to win batting titles in three different decades fittingly both were first-ballot Hall of Famers there's truly the finishing touch on what was an extremely rewarding career [Music] you

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