1979 IN BASEBALL

Champions

Major League Baseball

★ World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Baltimore Orioles (4-3); Willie Stargell, MVP

★ American League Championship Series MVP: None.

★ National League Championship Series MVP: Willie Stargell

★ All-Star Game, July 17 at the Kingdome: National League, 7-6; Dave Parker, MVP

Other champions

★ Caribbean World Series: Navegantes del Magallanes (Venezuela)

★ College World Series: Cal State-Fullerton

★ Japan Series: Hiroshima Toyo Carp over Kintetsu Buffaloes (4-3)

★ Little League World Series: Pu-Tzu Town, Hsien, Taiwan

★ Cuban National Series: Sancti Spíritus

Awards and honors

★ 'Most Valuable Player'

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★ Don Baylor, California Angels, OF (AL)

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★ Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1B and Keith Hernandez, St. Louis Cardinals, 1B (NL)

★ 'Cy Young Award'

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★ Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles (AL)

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★ Bruce Sutter, Chicago Cubs (NL)

★ 'Rookie of the Year'

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★ John Castino, Minnesota Twins, 3B and Alfredo Griffin, Toronto Blue Jays, SS (AL)

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★ Rick Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Dodgers, P (NL)

MLB Statistical Leaders

	'American League'		'National League'
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Fred Lynn BOS	.333	Keith Hernandez STL	.344
HR	Gorman Thomas MIL	45	Dave Kingman CHC	48
RBI	Don Baylor CAL	139	Dave Winfield SDP	118
Wins	Mike Flanagan BAL	23	Joe Niekro HOU Phil Niekro ATL	21
ERA	Ron Guidry NYY	2.78	J.R. Richard HOU	2.71

Major League Baseball final standings

'American League'
Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
'East Division'
1st	Baltimore Orioles	102	57	.642	--
2nd	Milwaukee Brewers	95	66	.590	8.0
3rd	Boston Red Sox	91	69	.569	11.5
4th	New York Yankees	89	71	.556	13.5
5th	Detroit Tigers	85	76	.528	18.0
6th	Cleveland Indians	81	80	.503	22.0
7th	Toronto Blue Jays	53	109	.327	50.5
'West Division'
1st	California Angels	88	74	.543	--
2nd	Kansas City Royals	85	77	.525	3.0
3rd	Texas Rangers	83	79	.512	5.0
4th	Minnesota Twins	82	80	.506	6.0
5th	Chicago White Sox	73	87	.456	14.0
6th	Seattle Mariners	67	95	.414	21.0
7th	Oakland Athletics	54	108	.333	34.0

'National League'
'Rank'	'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
'East Division'
1st	Pittsburgh Pirates	98	64	.605	--
2nd	Montreal Expos	95	65	.594	2.0
3rd	St. Louis Cardinals	86	76	.531	12.0
4th	Philadelphia Phillies	84	78	.519	14.0
5th	Chicago Cubs	80	82	.494	18.0
6th	New York Mets	63	99	.389	35.0
'West Division'
1st	Cincinnati Reds	90	71	.559	--
2nd	Houston Astros	89	73	.549	1.5
3rd	Los Angeles Dodgers	79	83	.488	11.5
4th	San Francisco Giants	71	91	.438	19.5
5th	San Diego Padres	68	93	.422	22.0
6th	Atlanta Braves	66	94	.413	23.5

Events

★ January 23 - Willie Mays receives 409 of 432 votes in the Baseball Writers Association of America election to earn enshrinement in the Hall of Fame.

★ February 3 - The Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to the California Angels. He will help the Angels reach the post season for the first time, batting over 0.300 for the next five seasons while appearing in six more All-Star Games.

★ March 7 - The Special Veterans Committee selects Warren Giles and Hack Wilson for the Hall of Fame.

★ April 7 - In the earliest no-hitter in major league history, the Houston Astros' Ken Forsch shuts down the Atlanta Braves 6-0. Together with Bob Forsch, who hurled a no-hitter in 1978, the brothers become the first to pitch no-hit games.

★ May 17 - Dave Kingman of the Cubs hits three home runs and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies hits two, the second of which proves to be the game winner in the tenth inning, as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs, 23-22 at Wrigley Field. Bill Buckner had a grand slam and seven RBIs for Chicago. The game included a then Major League record 11 home runs and 50 hits.

★ June 8 - The Kansas City Royals use their fourth overall pick to draft Dan Marino. In the seventeenth round, they select Stanford's John Elway. Niether player would sign with the Royals, though they would go on to record breaking carrers in the National Football League.

★ June 12 - The Detroit Tigers hire Sparky Anderson as their new manager.

★ June 24 - In a 5-1 loss to the Texas Rangers (baseball), Rickey Henderson debuts for the Oakland Athletics. He singles and doubles; the first of his over 3,000 career hits, and steals the first of his over 1,400 bases.

★ July 12 - The Detroit Tigers win the first game of a scheduled doubleheader, 4-1, on Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. Thousands of young fans swarm onto the field between the games, damaging the field and causing mayhem throughout the stadium. The Chicago White Sox are forced to forfeit the second game.

★ July 17 - The National League wins its eighth straight All-Star Game, 7–6, at Seattle. Lee Mazzilli hit a home run to tie the game in the 8th, and walks in the 9th to bring in the winning run. Dave Parker, with two outstanding throws, is named the MVP, and Pete Rose plays a record five All-Star positions. The Boston Red Sox provide the starting outfield for the American League with Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice and Fred Lynn.

★ July 24 - The Boston Red Sox' Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th home run off Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Morgan in the 7th inning of the Red Sox' 7-3 win over the Athletics at Boston's Fenway Park.

★ August 2 - The Chicago White Sox announce that Don Kessinger has been fired as manager, and that he will be replaced by rookie manager Tony La Russa.

★ August 3 - Over 51,000 mourners attend a memorial service for New York Yankees captain Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium. Munson had been killed the day before in a plane crash.

★ August 5 - Fred Lynn hits 100th career home run helping Boston Red Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers 7-2.

★ August 13 - The St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock slashes his 3,000th hit off the hand of Chicago Cubs pitcher Dennis Lamp in a 3-2 Cardinals win at Wrigley Field.

★ September 12 - Carl Yastrzemski records his 3000th career hit with a single off of New York Yankees' pitcher Jim Beattie.

★ September 15 - As part of a 10-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles, the Red Sox's Bob Watson hits for the cycle. Having done it for the Houston Astros on June 24, 1977, he is the first player to do this in both leagues.

★ September 17 - George Brett hits his 20th triple of the season. He is the first player since Willie Mays in 1957 in baseball to join the 20-20-20 Club.

★ September 23 - Lou Brock steals the 938th base of his career, breaking Billy Hamilton's all-time National League record. Brock's St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Mets 7-4 in ten innings.

★ September 24 - Pete Rose collects his 200th hit of the season, giving him ten seasons with at least 200 hits. This breaks the record set by Ty Cobb.

★ September 26 - Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves earns his 20th win of the season in a win over the and Gaylord Perry asthe only brothers to both win 20 games in the same season.

★ September 28 - Garry Templeton of the St. Louis Cardinals collects his 100th hit of the season while batting right-handed. Having already collected 100 hits while batting left-handed, Templeton is the first player in history to accomplish this. He had batted right handed, exclusively, for the last week of the season to get the needed hits.

★ October 17 - In Game Seven of the World Series, Willie Stargell hits his third home run of the Series to send the Pittsburgh Pirates to their third straight win over the Baltimore Orioles, to win the World Series Championship. Stargell wins Series MVP honors. The Pirates came back from a deficit of 3 games-to-1.

★ November 13 - For the first time ever, there will be League co-MVPs as Keith Hernandez of the St. Louis Cardinals shares the National League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award with Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Stargell is the oldest person to win this award (since broken by Barry Bonds in 2004. The Pirates have thus won (or shared) all four "Most Valuable Player" awards for the season (All-Star Game, National League Championship Series, World Series, and National League regular season). This is the first such sweep in Major League history (Stargell had won the awards for the NLCS, World Series, and National League regular season, while teammate Dave Parker won the All-Star Game award).

Movies

★ ''Bleacher Bums'' (TV)

Births

Deaths

★ February 7 - Warren Giles, 82, president of the National League from 1951 to 1969, and of the Cincinnati Reds from 1937 to 1951

★ February 8 - Art Williams, 44, the first black umpire in the National League, working from 1972 to 1977 including the 1975 NLCS

★ March 2 - Dale Alexander, 75, first baseman who batted .331 in five seasons with the Tigers and Red Sox, winning the 1932 batting title, before an injury ended his career; later a scout

★ March 29 - Luke Easter, 63, first baseman in the Negro Leagues who had 100 RBI in each of his first two seasons with the Cleveland Indians

★ April 3 - Harry Simpson, 63, outfielder and first baseman who led the AL in triples twice

★ June 17 - Duffy Lewis, 91, left fielder for the Boston Red Sox who starred on three champions and mastered Fenway Park's sloping left field

★ June 18 - Hal Trosky, 66, first baseman for the Indians who batted .302 lifetime and had six 100-RBI seasons

★ July 22 - Amos Strunk, 90, a center fielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox between 1908 through 1924 and a member of four World Series champion teams

★ August 2 - Thurman Munson, 32, 7-time All-Star catcher for the New York Yankees since 1969 who batted .300 five times and won the 1976 MVP award; 1970 Rookie of the Year won three Gold Gloves and batted .357 in 30 postseason games

★ August 9 - Walter O'Malley, 75, owner of the Dodgers franchise since 1950, during which time the team won four World Series titles; he moved the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and constructed Dodger Stadium

★ September 4 - Turkey Stearnes, 78, center fielder in the Negro Leagues who led the Negro National League in home runs six times while batting .350

★ October 22 - John Drebinger, 88, sportswriter for ''The New York Times'' for 41 years

★ November 18 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, 78, knuckleball pitcher who won 217 games for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers

★ December 15 - Stan Hack, 70, 5-time All-Star third baseman for the Chicago Cubs who batted .301 lifetime and posted a .394 career on-base percentage, the highest of any 20th-century third baseman; scored 100 runs seven times and led NL in hits and steals twice each

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