Baseball
- World Series – Toronto Blue Jays won 4 games to 2 over the Atlanta Braves. The Series MVP is Pat Borders, Toronto.
- The Toronto Blue Jays became the first Canadian team to play in a World Series and the first non-American team to win the World Series.
AWARDS and HONORS
- Most Valuable Player
- Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics (AL)
- Barry Bonds, Pittsburgh Pirates (NL)
- Cy Young Award
- Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics (AL)
- Greg Maddux, Chicago Cubs (NL)
- Rookie of the Year
- Pat Listach, Milwaukee Brewers (AL)
- Eric Karros, Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)
- Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award
- Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics (AL)
- Lee Smith, St. Louis Cardinals (NL)
- Manager of the Year
- Tony La Russa, Oakland Athletics (AL)
- Jim Leyland, Pittsburgh Pirates (NL)
*College World Series Pepperdine Waves defeat Cal State Fullerton Titans 3-2
- Phil Nevin of Cal State Fullerton Titans is named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player and awarded the Golden Spikes Award for college player of the year
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Compared to football, baseball is almost an Oriental game, minimizing individual stardom, requiring a wide range of aggressive and defensive skills, and filled with long periods of inaction and irresolution. It has no time limitations. Football, on the other hand, has immediate goals, resolution on every single play, and a lot of violence—itself a highlight. It has clearly distinguishable hierarchies: heroes and drones.”
—Jerry Mander, U.S. advertising executive, author. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, ch. 15, Morrow (1978)
“When Dad can’t get the diaper on straight, we laugh at him as though he were trying to walk around in high-heel shoes. Do we ever assist him by pointing out that all you have to do is lay out the diaper like a baseball diamond, put the kid’s butt on the pitcher’s mound, bring home plate up, then fasten the tapes at first and third base?”
—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)