The pressure was on for the 1989 Toronto Blue Jays. The franchise had become one of baseball’s most consistently successful, with winning seasons each year going back to 1983 and an AL East title in 1985. But they were also getting a reputation as a team that kept coming up short. Collapses in the ’85 […]
Toronto would succumb to the steamroller that was the 1989 Oakland A’s of Tony LaRussa, Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire in the American League Championship Series. But both the Blue Jays and the Orioles gave baseball fans a terrific September stretch run, the most exciting regular season race in the 1989 MLB season.
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1989 sports, a year that saw an amazing sequence of events unfold for Michigan basketball, the World Series marred by an earthquake and Wayne Gretzky changing sides