* 1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.

The 1982 campaign saw Baltimore eliminated on the final weekend of the season by the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Brewers went to the 1982 World Series and won seven organization of the year awards during his tenure.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

The Brewers faced the California Angels in the 1982 American League Championship Series and lost the first two games in California, but then rallied to win the next two games back in Milwaukee, setting up the pivotal Game 5, with the winner being the American League Champions.

The Brewers had many individual accomplishments during their two playoff years, as both in 1981 and 1982, Brewer players won both the AL MVP and Cy Young awards, with Rollie Fingers winning both awards in 1981, and Robin Yount winning the MVP and Pete Vuckovich winning the Cy Young in 1982.

In 1992, reminiscent of the resurgence which greeted Trebelhorn's arrival in 1987, the Brewers rallied behind the leadership of rookie manager Phil Garner and posted their best record since their World Series year in 1982, finishing the season 92 – 70 and in second place, four games behind that year's eventual World Champion Toronto Blue Jays.

In 2003, the Brewers hired Doug Melvin as General Manager, who in turn brought in Ned Yost, coach with the Atlanta Braves and a former member of the 1982 American League Champion Brewers, as manager.

To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.

This was the first time the Brewers reached the playoffs since 1982.

It was the first time since 1982 that the Brewers had five pitchers with 10 or more wins in a season.

Many Brewer fans welcomed facing the Cardinals with the National League pennant at stake, with the Brewers and Cardinals having a growing rivalry, and also a chance for the Brewers to avenge their 1982 World Series defeat, which was at the hands of the Cardinals.

Just as Herzog had predicted when he told Smith the Cardinals would win the pennant with him on the team, Smith found himself as the team's starting shortstop in the best-of-seven 1982 World Series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Molitor was part of a young Milwaukee Brewers team that lost the 1982 World Series in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals.

In 1982 the league expanded to 12 teams by adding the Beloit Brewers, the Danville Suns, the Madison Muskies, and the Springfield Cardinals.

He saved 29 games for the 1982 Brewers, but he pitched most of the season in pain and was forced to miss the Brewers ' first ( and to date, only ) trip to the World Series — where they were beaten in seven games by the Cardinals — and any prospect of a showdown or two with Bruce Sutter, who proved vital to the Cardinals ' winning effort.

The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers, winners of the American League pennant, were nicknamed " Harvey's Wallbangers ," because of the team's power hitting ( wall banging ) under mid-season manager Harvey Kuenn.

# Paul Molitor: 48 ( Milwaukee Brewers 1982 )

Donnie Ray Moore ( February 13, 1954 – July 18, 1989 ) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs ( 1975, 1977 – 79 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1980 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1981 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1982 – 84 ) and California Angels ( 1985 – 88 ).

* In 1982 14 men of the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed to Grenada during the Operation Urgent Fury.

However, sales of production cars were now at an all time low of 30 cars produced in 1982.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

When Canada achieved formal independence with the passage of the Canada Act 1982, no reception statutes were necessary for the decolonialisation process.

The military also suffered several setbacks in its fight against the guerrillas, when several of its rural bases began to be overrun and a record number of soldiers and officers were taken prisoner by the FARC ( which since 1982 was attempting to implement a more " conventional " style of warfare, seeking to eventually defeat the military in the field ).

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

The stadium's end zones and midfield were not painted until the 1982 season.

The first organization to call themselves all stars and go to competitions were the Q94 Rockers from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1982.

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

Released with a catalog of 12 launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 145 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.

Prior to the charter, there were various statutes which protected an assortment of civil rights and obligations, but nothing was enshrined in the constitution until 1982.

In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

There were several serious confrontations between the U. S. and Denmark on security policy in the so-called " footnote era " ( 1982 – 88 ), when an alternative parliamentary majority forced the government to adopt specific national positions on nuclear and arms control issues.

Another US $ 200 million were spent during the 1982 to 1986 advertising campaigns, where the " Datsun, We Are Driven!

* Player names on jersey backs, which appeared in 1970, were originally in block-letter style ; from 1982 onward the names were slightly smaller and in footed, " serif " style.

In 1982, Construction activities were transferred from the Seabees to a consortium of civilian contractors, and the majority of the projects were completed by 1988.

On 26 March 1982, Barbara Shuping and five other women were assigned to the NSF.

Another important government intervention was the designation in 1982 of an enterprise zone, an area in which businesses were exempt from property taxes and had other incentives, including simplified planning and capital allowances.

In 1980, Kaye hosted and sang in the 25th Anniversary of Disneyland celebration, and hosted the opening celebration for Epcot in 1982 ( EPCOT Center at the time ), both of which were aired on prime-time American television.

In 1982, having looked into a wide variety of faiths and religious movements, she became a Christian and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sinful.

When released in 1982, the Camira initially generated good sales, which later declined because buyers considered the 1. 6-litre engine underpowered, and the car's build and ride quality below-average.

Wabash College won the Men's Division III NCAA Championship in 1982 and their 1905 24-0 team was considered World Champions ; DePauw University and Manchester College were Div III National Finalists.

During the United States v. Sun Myung Moon in 1982, federal prosecutors argued that the word " Moonie " be banned during the jury selection process because they said it was considered " a negative term ," and prejudicial in nature.

In 1981, after the series had long been considered one of the most important works of modern science fiction, Asimov was persuaded by his publishers to write a fourth book, which became Foundation's Edge ( 1982 ).

Later agreements in the period of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl ( from 1982 through German reunification in 1990 ), although dealing with similar issues and having similar goals, are not considered to be " Ostpolitik ".

The Islamic Republic's effort to spread the revolution is considered to have begun in earnest in March 1982, when 380 men from more than 25 Arab and Islamic nations met at the former Tehran Hilton Hotel for a " seminar " on the " ideal Islamic government " and, less academically, the launch of a large-scale offensive to cleanse the Islamic world of the satanic Western and Communist influences that were seen to be hindering the Islamic world's progress.

Professor Diaconis received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, and in 1992 published ( with Dave Bayer ) a paper entitled " Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair " ( a term coined by magician Charles Jordan in the early 1900s ) which established rigorous results on how many times a deck of playing cards must be riffle shuffled before it can be considered random according to the mathematical measure total variation distance.

Released in 1982, it was widely considered to be one of the worst video games ever made.

While Marvel editor-in-chief in 1982, Shooter detailed what he considered the necessary qualities for a good comic book story:

In North America, the oldest game retrospectively classified as real-time strategy by several sources isThe Ancient Art of War ( 1984 ), designed by Evryware's Dave and Barry Murry, followed by the sequel The Ancient Art of War at Sea in 1987, although Dani Bunten Berry's ( of M. U. L. E fame ) Cytron Masters ( 1982 ), developed by Ozark Softscape and released by SSI, also has been considered the earliest game of the genre.

In 1982 the board considered closing Prairie Street Elementary School in Northridge.

Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982 ) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of American music.

The test ran for seven months from 1982 to 83, and was considered a success, so much so that AT & T publicly announced plans to introduce a commercial system in 1984.

In 1982 about 92 percent of the land in Upton County was in farms and ranches, but less than 1 percent of the county was considered prime farmland, and only 2 percent of the county was cultivated.

In 1982, 88 percent of all land in the county was considered farmland and ranches, but only 2 percent of the farmland was under cultivation, and most of that was irrigated.

In 1982, 91 percent of the land was in farms and ranches, with 52 percent of the farmland under cultivation and 85 percent irrigated ; 51 to 60 percent of the county was considered prime farmland.

In 1982 it received the E. Urner Goodman Award for the second time, a feat considered quite rare.

In the US, where synthpop is considered a sub genre of New Wave and was described as " technopop " by the press at the time, the genre became popular due to the cable music channel MTV, which reached the media capitals of New York City and Los Angeles in 1982.

It made heavy use of style-conscious New Romantic synthpop acts, with " I Ran ( So Far Away )" ( 1982 ) by A Flock of Seagulls generally considered the first hit by a British act to enter the Billboard Top Ten as a result of exposure through video.

During this time they released several EPs and singles and, with Only's brother Doyle as guitarist, the albums Walk Among Us ( 1982 ) and Earth A. D ./ Wolfs Blood ( 1983 ), both considered touchstones of the early-1980s hardcore punk movement.

1982 saw the incorporation of the City of Draper, a town once situated at the south-east end of the Salt Lake Valley, their incorporated boundaries, uncontested by Riverton, took area all of the area eastward from the Jordan River to the I-15 freeway, an area that was once " loosely " considered or referred to as Riverton or " Riverton Siding ".

The tobacco company moved its headquarters to RJR Plaza in 1982, and the 1929 building continued to be used for some company offices until 2009 ; the older building currently stands vacant and has been considered for renovation as an upscale hotel.