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The following poll makes up the 1980 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.
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 1980 season marked the thirty fourth NCAA baseball tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska . The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Arizona claiming their second championship with a 5–3 win over Hawaii in the final.
The NCAA college baseball rankings consist of a series of human polls which rank the top teams in college baseball from the preseason until after the College World Series. The Coaches Poll is voted by a panel of 31 coaches, all of whom are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association , and is published by USA Today beginning in the ...
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 New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
In baseball, earned run average (ERA) is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers, calculated as the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. A pitcher is men by a baserunner who reached base while batting against that pitcher, whether by hit, base on balls or "walk", or being hit by a pitched ball; [1] an earned run can be charged after the pitcher is relieved if he ...
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.