We are now down to the Elite 8

​Gents,

The Elite 8 round of the Holiday Festival.  We've dwindled down from 64 teams to 8.

This is the final round where we will play best of 5.  Just wanted to make note of that.

Here are our matchups for the right to make the Final 4 !!!

In the Leo Durocher Bracket:

Al Lopez Region:  1946-DET (Tom Davis) vs 1993-SFG (Joe Pryweller)

Alvin Dark Region:  2012-BAL (Mark Nixon) vs 1964-PHI (Gary Mauer)

In the Walter Alston Bracket:

Davey Johnson Region:  1965-SFG (Larry Reeves) vs 1973-LAD (Marc Weiss)

Billy Martin Region:  1964-CHW (Dan Holm) vs 1963-STL (Jim Williams)

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​For those keeping score of interesting trends:

1.  We have 4 teams from the 1960's left in the Elite 8

2.  We have no #16 (= to a #1) seeds left after the 1909 Cubs went down last night.

3.  All 9 NYC teams (NYM/NYY/BKO)​ are gone from the tournament.

4.  Five of the 8 remaining managers are active KOD managers.
5.  7 of 8 have at one time participated in KOD

6.  Only 1 city has two entries left (San Francisico)

7.  There is only 1 AL DH era team (2012-BAL) left

Click here to access the tournament website, brackets and blog