| 1981 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 13–15 | |||||||||
| MVP | Graig Nettles (New York) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Nick Bremigan Russ Goetz Jerry Neudecker Marty Springstead Durwood Merrill Vic Voltaggio | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC KPIX (OAK) WPIX (NYY) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC: Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek KPIX: Bill King and Wayne Walker WPIX: Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto and Bill White | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Ernie Harwell and Curt Gowdy | |||||||||
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The 1981 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff baseball series played between the American League East champion New York Yankees and the American League West champion Oakland Athletics from October 13–15 to determine the American League champion for the 1981 Major League Baseball season. The Yankees swept the Athletics three games to none to win their 33rd American League pennant in franchise history. New York advanced to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, but lost in six games.