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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The 1980 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1980 season. The 77th edition of the World Series , it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies and the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals .
January 21 – Clyde Barnhart, 84, Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder and third baseman (1920–1928); member of 1925 world champions whose 114 regular-season runs batted in, and five World Series RBI, helped lead Bucs to the title. January 21 – Gene Rye, 73, outfielder for the 1931 Boston Red Sox.
The 1980 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1980 season.The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The 1980 Major League Baseball season concluded with the Philadelphia Phillies winning their first World Series championship.. A strike during April 1–8 caused the final eight days of spring training to be canceled, but did not impact the regular season schedule.
The name of the event, initially known as the World's Championship Series, was gradually shortened in common usage to "World's Series" and, by the 1930s, to "World Series". The list of postseason rules evolved over time. From 1919 to 1921, the best-of-nine format first used in 1903 was employed.
When the modern-day World Series began in 1903, the National and American Leagues each had eight teams. With their victory in the 1980 World Series, the Phillies became the last of the "Original Sixteen" franchises to win a Series. [citation needed] The 1980 World Series was the first World Series to be played entirely on artificial turf. Prior ...
0–9. 1884 Providence Grays season; 1885 Chicago White Stockings season; 1886 Chicago White Stockings season; 1887 Detroit Wolverines season; 1888 New York Giants season