1981 Major League Baseball postseason

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The 1981 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1981 season. The season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves. Teams that won their division in each half of the season advanced to the playoffs. Teams first faced each other in a League Division Series for the first time, a round of the postseason that did not return until 1995, where it became a permanent addition. The winners of the LDS moved on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series. This was the only postseason where MLB used a divisional-based playoff structure instead of a conference-based one. In the American League, the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals both made their fifth appearances in the past six years, the Oakland Athletics returned to the postseason for the first time since 1975, and the Milwaukee Brewers made their first postseason appearance...

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