Prelude
For the second straight season, the Royals and the Yankees squared off in the American League Championship Series. Kansas City, one year older and wiser and still stinging from the Chris Chambliss walk off that ended the 1976 ALCS, came in with the best record in baseball at 102-60. They also came in as one of the hottest teams in baseball history, having won sixteen games in a row from August 31st to September 15th. “The streak” as it is still known to Royal fans, was just part of a larger sample of excellent baseball which saw the Royals win thirty-eight of their final forty-seven games (an .