High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Seattle Mariners 1981 season was their fifth since the franchise creation, and ended the season finishing 6th in the American League West, finishing with a record of 44-65. Due to the 1981 player`s strike, the division`s were split in half, pre-strike and post-strike results. The Mariners finished 6th with a 21-36 record in the first half and 5th with a 23-29 record in the second half.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group C Touring Cars. The championship, which was the 22nd running of the Australian Touring Car Championship, began at Symmons Plains Raceway and ended at Lakeside International Raceway after 8 rounds.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wendy Turnbull and Marty Riessen were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Wendy White and Mike Bauer.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Betsy Nagelsen and Martina Navratilova were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Nagelsen with Candy Reynolds and Navratilova with Pam Shriver.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 San Francisco 49ers season was their 32nd season in the National Football League. Under third-year head coach Bill Walsh, the team finished the regular season with a 13–3 record.The season would be one of the franchise`s most successful seasons to that point.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 Davis Cup (also known as the 1981 Davis Cup by NEC for sponsorship purposes) was the 70th edition of the tournament between national teams in men`s tennis. This was the first year that the tournament moved to a tiered system, with the creation of the 16-team World Group. Teams that reached the Zonal semifinals in the previous year`s tournament were chosen for the inaugural World Group. Teams who lose in the first round played each other in the Relegation Play-off, with the four losers relegated to their Zonal competition. Winners of the Zonal competitions earned promotion into the next year`s World Group. 53 teams would enter the competition, 16 in the World Group, 23 in the Europe...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rod Frawley and Geoff Masters were the defending champions but only Frawley competed that year with Chris Lewis.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 United States Grand Prix West was a Formula One race held on March 15, 1981 at Long Beach, California.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 NASCAR Winston Cup Series began on Sunday, January 11 and ended on Sunday, November 22. Darrell Waltrip won his first Winston Cup championship by 53 points over Bobby Allison. Ron Bouchard was crowned NASCAR Rookie of the Year.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 NCAA Men`s Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men`s NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12, 1981, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A total of 48 games were played, including a national third place game (the last in the NCAA tournament).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1981 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 6, and ended on Sunday, October 11. The Division Series were created on August 6 in response to the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, which caused the cancellation of roughly one-third of the regular season between June 12 and August 9; by the time play was resumed, it was decided that the best approach was to have the first-half leaders automatically qualify for postseason play, and allow all the teams to begin the second half with a clean slate.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team represented Arizona State University in the 1981 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Sun Devils played their home games at Packard Stadium. The team was coached by Jim Brock in his 10th season at Arizona State.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New York Yankees` 1981 season was the 79th season for the Yankees. In the ALCS, the Yankees swept the Oakland Athletics for their only pennant of the 1980s. However, they lost in the World Series in 6 games to the Los Angeles Dodgers. New York was managed by Gene Michael and Bob Lemon. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1981 Ice Hockey World Championships took place at the Scandinavium arena in Gothenburg, Sweden from 12 April to the 26 April. Eight teams took part, firstly splitting into two groups of two, with the best two from each group advancing to the final group. These teams then play each other in the final round. This was the 47th World Championships, and also the 58th ice hockey European Championships. The Soviet Union became World Champions for the 17th time, and also won their twentieth European title. Considered the advent of the "KLM" line (Krutov, Larionov, Makarov), Don Cherry commented, "This is the best Russian team I`ve ever seen."