1980 IN BASEBALL

Champions

Major League Baseball

World Series: Philadelphia Phillies over Kansas City Royals (4-2); Mike Schmidt, MVP

★ American League Championship Series: Frank White, MVP

★ National League Championship Series Manny Trillo, MVP

★ All-Star Game, July 8 at Dodger Stadium: National League, 4-2; Ken Griffey, MVP

Other champions

★ Caribbean World Series: Tigres de Licey (Dominican Republic)

★ College World Series: Arizona

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

★ Little League World Series: Long Kuong, Hua Lian, Taiwan

Awards and honors

★ 'Most Valuable Player'

★
★ George Brett (AL)

★
★ Mike Schmidt (NL)

★ 'Cy Young Award'

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★ Steve Stone (AL)

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★ Steve Carlton (NL)

★ 'Rookie of the Year'

★
★ Joe Charboneau (AL)

★
★ Steve Howe (NL)

MLB Statistical Leaders

	'American League'		'National League'
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	George Brett	.390	Bill Buckner	.324
HR	Reggie Jackson & Ben Oglivie	41	Mike Schmidt	48
RBI	Cecil Cooper	122	Mike Schmidt	121
Wins	Steve Stone	25	Steve Carlton	24
ERA	Rudy May	2.46	Don Sutton	2.20

Major League Baseball final standings

'American League'
Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
'East Division'
1st	New York Yankees	103	59	.636	--
2nd	Baltimore Orioles	100	62	.617	3.0
3rd	Milwaukee Brewers	86	76	.531	17.0
4th	Boston Red Sox	83	77	.519	19.0
4th	Detroit Tigers	84	78	.519	19.0
6th	Cleveland Indians	79	81	.494	23.0
7th	Toronto Blue Jays	67	95	.414	36.0
'West Division'
1st	Kansas City Royals	97	65	.599	--
2nd	Oakland Athletics	83	79	.512	14.0
3rd	Minnesota Twins	77	84	.478	19.5
4th	Texas Rangers	76	85	.472	20.5
5th	Chicago White Sox	70	90	.438	26.0
6th	California Angels	65	95	.406	31.0
7th	Seattle Mariners	59	103	.364	38.0

'National League'
'Rank'	'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
'East Division'
1st	Philadelphia Phillies	91	71	.562	--
2nd	Montreal Expos	90	72	.556	1.0
3rd	Pittsburgh Pirates	83	79	.512	8.0
4th	St. Louis Cardinals	74	88	.457	17.0
5th	New York Mets	67	95	.414	24.0
6th	Chicago Cubs	64	98	.395	27.0
'West Division'
1st	Houston Astros	93	70	.571	--
2nd	Los Angeles Dodgers	92	71	.564	1.0
3rd	Cincinnati Reds	89	73	.549	3.5
4th	Atlanta Braves	81	80	.503	11.0
5th	San Francisco Giants	75	86	.466	17.0
6th	San Diego Padres	73	89	.451	19.5

Events

January-March

★ January 9 - Al Kaline and Duke Snider are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Kaline is the 10th player to be elected in his first year of eligibility, while Snider is making his 11th appearance on the ballot.

★ February 12 - The Board of the Oakland Coliseum and the Oakland City Council both reject an attempt to buy out the remainder of the Oakland Athletics' lease to the stadium. This blocks an attempt to sell the team and a possible move to Denver.

★ March 8 - Rookie Joe Charboneau of the Cleveland Indians is attacked outside a Mexico City hotel. A fan seeking his autograph stabs him in the chest with a pen. Charboneau misses the start of the year, but goes on to bat 0.289, hitting 23 home runs, while driving in 87 RBI in 131 games. He will be elected American League Rookie of the Year.

★ March 12 - Slugger Chuck Klein and former Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. Yawkey is the first club owner selected who never served as a player, manager, or general manager.

April-December

★ May 23 - Texas Rangers pitcher Fergie Jenkins wins his 250th game against the Oakland Athletics. Jenkins pitched a complete game for the Rangers, striking out eight batters in the victory.

★ July 4 - Houston Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out César Gerónimo of the Cincinnati Reds, to become the fourth major league pitcher ever to reach 3,000 career strikeouts. Gerónimo was also Bob Gibson's 3,000th career strikeout victim six years earlier. Despite the milestone, Ryan allows six runs in four 1/3 innings and Houston loses, 8–1.

★ July 6 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton becomes the major leagues' lefthanded strikeout king, fanning seven Cardinals in an 8–3 Phillies win to bring his career total to 2,836. Mickey Lolich had held the record with 2,832.

★ July 8 - At Dodger Stadium, the National League battles back to win its ninth consecutive All-Star Game over the American League, 4-2. Ken Griffey goes 2-for-3 with a solo home run to win the MVP honors.

★ July 30 - The Houston Astros suffer a tragedy as one of their star pitchers J. R. Richard suffers a stroke during his first attempt to pitch since being hospitalized for tests weeks earlier. His career is over.

★ September 10 - Bill Gullickson strikes out 18, the most by a major league rookie pitcher, as the Montreal Expos beat the Chicago Cubs 4–2.

★ September 20 - George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his batting average under 0.400. It will not climb above 0.400 again. He will finish the season with a 0.390 batting average, the closest any player had come to a 0.400 batting average since Ted Williams in 1941. Only Tony Gwynn will come closer than that before the twentieth century ends.

★ September 24 - The Atlanta Braves reach the 1,000,000 mark in attendance. It marks the first time that every National League team has drawn at least 1,000,000 fans for a season.

★ October 4 - In a 17–1 rout of the Minnesota Twins, Willie Wilson of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first major league player ever to be credited with 700 at-bats in a single season, and ends the year with 705 at bats. He also sets the AL record for singles in a season with 184, eclipsing the mark Sam Rice set in 1925. Wilson also becomes only the second player in major league history to collect 100 hits from each side of the plate, matching the feat accomplished by Garry Templeton in 1979.

★ October 4 - Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt hits a 2-run home run in the top of the 11th inning to give the Phillies a 6-4 win over the Montreal Expos at Olympic Stadium, clinching the National League East title. The home run is Schmidt's 48th of the season, breaking Eddie Mathews' single-season record for third baseman set in 1953.

★ October 5 - On October 3, the Los Angeles Dodgers had been down three games to the Houston Astros to tie for the National League West Division title. Needing a sweep of the Astros, the Dodgers complete just such a sweep today; each of the wins by a single run. They will play a one game playoff tomorrow.

★ October 6 - After suffering through the three game sweep of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers] the last three days, Joe Niekro wins his twentieth game of the season to earn a win for the Houston Astros 7-1. It is the Astros' first Division Title.

★ October 10 - In Game 3 of the 1980 American League Championship Series, and with the Yankees leading 2-1, Kansas City's George Brett deleivered a 3-run home run off New York's reilef pitcher Rich Gossage, and with it total revenge for the Royals, who won the pennant after being second best to the Yankees in the ALCS in 1976, 1977 and 1978. The Royals won the pennant in, of all places, Yankee Stadium.

★ October 12 - The Phillies capture their first National League pennant since 1950 with a 10-inning 8-7 win over the Houston Astros at the Astrodome, in the 5th and final game of the National League Championship Series. Each of the last four games was decided in extra innings. The Phils, down by 3 runs to Nolan Ryan in the 8th inning, rally and go ahead on Garry Maddox's double in the 10th inning.

★ October 21 - The Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series, the first World Series Championship in their 98-year history, by beating the Kansas City Royals 4–1 in Game Six. Steve Carlton earns the win, though the most memorable moment may be Tug McGraw on the mound jumping for joy as he earns the save after loading the bases with no outs. Another equally memorable moment comes with one out in the bottom of the ninth when Frank White's pop-up is bobbled by Bob Boone, only to be tipped into the glove of Pete Rose. Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt is named MVP, hitting .381 with two home runs and seven RBI, while KC's Willie Wilson is the "goat", striking out a WS-record 12 times, including the final out of the Series with the bases loaded, and hitting only .154. Of the original 16 Major League franchises from 1901, the Phillies are the last to win their first World Series.

★ November 3 - An era ends for the Oakland Athletics as the sale of the team is finalized. The flamboyant Charlie O. Finley sells the team to Walter Hass, ending his relationship with the team.

★ November 4 - Sadaharu Oh announces his retirment as a player from Japanese baseball. His 868 documented career home runs remain an unapproached world record among professional baseball players.

★ December 9 - The Chicago Cubs trade relief pitcher Bruce Sutter to their arch-rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals for first baseman Leon Durham. Sutter will go on to save many more games for the Caridnals, while Durham's critical error in Game 5 of the 1984 National League Championship Series will doom the Cubs.

Births

Deaths

★ January 10 - Hughie Critz, 79, second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants who led NL in fielding four times and double plays three times

★ March 1 - Emmett Ashford, 65, the major leagues' first black umpire, who worked in the American League from 1966 to 1970 and in the 1970 World Series

★ April 7 - Buck Canel, 74, Spanish-language broadcaster of 42 World Series, as well as many years of New York Yankees games

★ April 21 - Ray Dobens, 73, pitcher for the 1929 Boston Red Sox

★ April 21 - Joe Page, 62, All-Star relief pitcher for the New York Yankees who set single-season record with 27 saves in 1949, led AL in saves and appearances twice each

★ April 28 - Bob Porterfield, 56, All-Star pitcher who was named ''The Sporting News'' AL Pitcher of the Year in 1953 after a 22-10 season with the Senators

★ June 1 - Rube Marquard, 93, Hall of Fame pitcher who retired with 201 wins and the NL record for career strikeouts by a lefthander (1593); had 19 consecutive wins for the Giants in 1912 for a modern major league record

★ June 3 - Fred Lieb, 92, sportswriter who covered every World Series from 1911 to 1958

★ September 24 - Ernie Shore, 89, pitcher who relieved Babe Ruth with a man on first in a 1917 game and proceeded to retire the runner and all 26 remaining batters

★ October 1 - Pat Veltman, 74, utility player best known for his 1928 season, where his only hit was a triple

★ December 14 - Elston Howard, 51, 9-time All-Star catcher for the New York Yankees who was that team's first black player and the AL's 1963 MVP; later a coach

★ December 31 - Bob Shawkey, 90, pitcher who had four 20-win seasons for the Yankees, later was coach at Dartmouth

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