what year is it? (answered)

[Pogotheostrich]

Earl Weaver got his one-thousandth career win as a Major League skipper.

St. Louis Cardinal Gary Templeton became the first player in Major League history to have one-hundred hits from each side of the plate in the same season.

Disco Demolition Night

Writer Daniel Okrent drew up the first set of official rules for a new pastime based on the actual day-to-day statistical play of real major leaguers. The "rotisserie league" would eventually evolve into the phenomenon known as "Fantasy Baseball".

Thurman Munson, the team captain of the New York Yankees, died when the Cessna Citation twin-engine jet he was piloting crashed outside of Canton, Ohio two-hundred feet short of the Akron Airport runway.

[bigken117]

Time: 9.21 seconds

78

[utterchaos]

Time: 14.11 seconds

1979<br><br><span class=gensmall>Accepted as answer by Pogotheostrich on Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:39 am EST.</span>

[warrick95]

Time: 27.51 seconds

1979

[AT]

Time: 30.47 seconds

1978

[LooseCannon]

Time: 32.40 seconds

79

[giants!]

Time: 36.28 seconds

1978

[go_jays_go]

Time: 44.80 seconds

1979

[POSADA is KING]

Time: 53.77 seconds

1978 RIP Thurman

[Red Stripe]

Time: 1 minutes, 11.72 seconds

1979