APRIL 1980- PART II As the Masters teed off, Major League Baseball also began its regular season, so in honor of that event, the 1980 Remix Replay brings you three Opening Day contests, the always interesting New York Yankees playing the Rangers in Arlington, my beloved and beknighted Red Sox
APRIL 1980 I am not a fan of private clubs with exclusive membership rolls. But as the comedian Janeane Garofalo once said, I'm not made of stone, here, people, and the Masters is, well, the Masters. So I'm willing to set aside the actual horror show
MARCH 1980 (Again, I told you I might change my mind. While engaging in the cardmaking process for the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, I was just having too much fun, so I decided to add in the two losing semi finalists, Purdue, featuring giant center Joe Barry Carroll,
FEBRUARY 1980 The first human being received an implantable defibrillator at Johns Hopkins A hotline between North Korea and South Korea reopened for the first time since 1976. Newsman Walter Cronkite announced his retirement. AC/DC singer Bon Scott died. US skater Eric Heiden became the first person to win
FEBRUARY 1980 (I fear I may have made the Super Bowl teams too strong. I probably should have consulted the 80-81 set as a reference point and smoothed some of the edges, but I was anxious to get going, so I Rumsfelded it, going with the teams I had, not
JANUARY 1980 (A parenthetic addition to the introduction. I plan, at this time, to restrict myself to major championships and league or tournament championships. I reserve the right to take detours into things like Red Sox Opening Day in April, maybe, or Jerry Reuss' no hitter in June, or
1980 Remix is an attempt, perhaps foolhardily, to relive, from a sports perspective, the major events of 1980. Each month will have at least one post, sometimes more than one, describing the events of the time- hit movies and TV shows and pop songs, events from politics and the world,
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