1981 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | April 8 – June 12, 1981 August 10 – October 28, 1981 |
Draft | |
Top draft pick | Mike Moore |
Picked by | Seattle Mariners |
Regular season | |
Season MVP | AL: Rollie Fingers (MIL) NL: Mike Schmidt (PHI) |
League postseason | |
AL champions | New York Yankees |
AL runners-up | Oakland Athletics |
NL champions | Los Angeles Dodgers |
NL runners-up | Montreal Expos |
World Series | |
Champions | Los Angeles Dodgers |
Runners-up | New York Yankees |
Finals MVP | Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero & Steve Yeager (LAD) |
The 1981 Major League Baseball season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, 1981, and split the season in two halves.
The All-Star Game was originally to be played on July 14, but was cancelled due to the strike. It was then brought back and played on August 9, as a prelude to the second half of the season, which began the following day.[1]
American League
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National League
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Statistic | American League | National League | ||
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AVG | Carney Lansford BOS | .336 | Bill Madlock PIT | .341 |
HR | Tony Armas OAK Dwight Evans BOS Bobby Grich CAL Eddie Murray BAL |
22 | Mike Schmidt PHI | 31 |
RBI | Eddie Murray BAL | 78 | Mike Schmidt PHI | 91 |
Wins | Dennis Martínez BAL Steve McCatty OAK Jack Morris DET Pete Vuckovich MIL |
14 | Tom Seaver CIN | 14 |
ERA | Dave Righetti NYY | 2.05 | Nolan Ryan HOU | 1.69 |
SO | Len Barker CLE | 127 | Fernando Valenzuela LAD | 180 |
SV | Rollie Fingers MIL | 28 | Bruce Sutter STL | 25 |
SB | Rickey Henderson OAK | 56 | Tim Raines MTL | 71 |
Template:8TeamBracket-MLB NOTE: Due to a strike in mid-season, the season was divided into a first half and a second half. The division winner of the first half (denoted E1, W1) played the division winner of the second half (denoted E2, W2).
Network | Day of week | Announcers |
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ABC | Monday nights Sunday afternoons |
Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, Don Drysdale, Al Michaels, Jim Palmer, Bob Uecker |
NBC | Saturday afternoons | Joe Garagiola, Tony Kubek, Dick Enberg, Tom Seaver, Merle Harmon, Ron Luciano |
USA | Thursday nights | Jim Woods, Nelson Briles, Monte Moore, Wes Parker |