North Fort Myers High School - Lance Yearbook (North Fort Myers, FL)

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l World of Sports This year was a year of great controversies in pro- fessional sports. The 1981 baseball players' strike over free agent compensation lasted for seven weeks and closed down the national pastime halfway through the season. When play resumed, new controversy arose as to the method of naming league champions. It was finally decided that the winner of the first half of the season would play the winner of the second half for the right to compete in the World Series. After six grueling games, the Los Angeles Dodgers were victorious over the New York Yankees and crowned World Champions. The year's professional football season was ac- cented with upsets and surprises. New faces ap- peared in Detroit for Super Bowl XVI, the San Fran- cisco Forty-Niners and the Cincinnati Bengals. This great contest on Ianuary 23 saw the Forty-Niners take control early and successfully fight off a comeback by the Bengals, defeating them 26-21. This year's most bizarre happening took place at the Indianapolis 500. Bobby Unser had apparently won the race, when charges were filed by fellow driver Mario Andretti, stating Unser had illegally passed 7 cars under the yellow flag. Andretti was then named winner, only to have this decision reversed by the courts after four months of legal proceedings. 1981-82 saw professional athletes achieve great suc- cesses and go down in humiliating defeats. It was -V ...C above all, a year not soon forgotten by sport fans. Simi bnsffvaff My Lift us , Web! Found F PIHCC Tv dWEU ,lb We tl dfmsmfr vw 33 sfzser . 5,4 35,1 the awzvfns HELL I- ' H Wm bm sv lonely Gzfbhu 15 f ..,.,,,. Neve been S0 Lonlfly Uris been S0 Q We Could C . f , .71 . . ' .. f ,rf M... . ki 3 1 - 1981 World Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, had reason to be proud of their pitching ace Fernando Valenzuela who was acclaimed Rookie of the Year. 2 - Sugar Ray Leonard holds his hands high after stopping Thomas Hearns with a fourteenth round TKO on September 16 and gaining the undisputed world Welterweight championship title. 3 - Fans protest the 1981 baseball players' strike that halted play from mid-Iune until August. Athletics X 223

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