1979 American League Championship Series
11th edition of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1979 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five series that pitted the East Division champion Baltimore Orioles against the West Division champion California Angels, who were making their first postseason appearance. The Orioles won the Series three games to one and lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1979 World Series.
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Dates | October 3–6 | |||||||||
Umpires | Larry Barnett Dale Ford Jim Evans Don Denkinger (crew chief) Al Clark Greg Kosc | |||||||||
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Television | NBC KTLA (Angels' broadcast) WMAR-TV (Orioles' broadcast) | |||||||||
TV announcers | NBC: Dick Enberg, Wes Parker and Sparky Anderson KTLA: Don Drysdale, Ron Fairly and Al Wisk WMAR-TV: Chuck Thompson and Brooks Robinson | |||||||||
Radio | CBS | |||||||||
Radio announcers | Ernie Harwell and Bill White | |||||||||
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This was the only ALCS between 1971 and 1981 that did not feature either the Oakland Athletics or the Kansas City Royals.[1]