| 1980 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 8–10 | |||||||||
| MVP | Frank White (Kansas City) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Steve Palermo Joe Brinkman Larry McCoy Bill Haller (crew chief) Ken Kaiser George Maloney | |||||||||
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| Television | ABC WDAF-TV (KC) WPIX (NYY) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | ABC: Al Michaels, Billy Martin and Jim Palmer WDAF-TV: Al Wisk and Denny Trease WPIX: Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer and Bill White | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS WIBW (KC) WINS (NYY) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | CBS: Ernie Harwell and Curt Gowdy WIBW: Denny Matthews and Fred White WINS: Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bill White and Fran Healy | |||||||||
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The 1980 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff that featured the American League West champion Kansas City Royals against the American League East champion New York Yankees. This was the fourth matchup between the two teams in the past five seasons, and Kansas City got a measure of revenge by beating the Yankees in three straight to advance to their first ever World Series.