1970 American League Championship Series
The 1970 American League Championship Series was a match-up between the East Division champion Baltimore Orioles and the West Division champion Minnesota Twins. Like the year before, the Orioles swept the Twins three games to none. The Orioles went on to win the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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| Dates | October 3–5 | |||||||||
| Umpires | Johnny Stevens, Bill Deegan, Darold Satchell, Charlie Berry (Game 1) Bill Haller, Jim Odom, Jerry Neudecker, Jim Honochick, Russ Goetz, Marty Springstead (Games 2–3) | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC WJZ-TV (Orioles' broadcast) WTCN-TV (Twins' broadcast) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC: Jim Simpson and Sandy Koufax (in Minnesota) Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek (in Baltimore) WJZ-TV: Chuck Thompson, Bill O'Donnell and John Gordon WTCN-TV: Herb Carneal, Halsey Hall and Ray Christensen | |||||||||
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(Note: Owing to a one-day strike by major league umpires, the series was begun using AL supervisor Berry, veteran umpire Stevens—who had been used in a substitute capacity in 1970—and minor league umpires Deegan and Satchell, with the regularly assigned crew returning for Games 2 and 3.)
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