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This was the first full season for Peter Ueberroth as commissioner. There was a brief interruption during the regular season. The 1985 Major League Baseball strike occurred August 6 and 7, lasting only two days. The 25 cancelled games were for the most part made up later on in the season on open dates or parts of doubleheaders.
The 1985 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1985 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.
August 6 & 7 – All parks go dark for a brief strike. 23 of the 25 missed games are made up before the season ends. August 10 - Dave Kingman became the 21st player in Major League Baseball history to hit 400 home runs when he hit a two-run home run in the first inning that helped the Oakland A's beat the Seattle Mariners 11–5. It took him 17 ...
1985 California Angels season; The Call (Kansas City Royals) 1985 Chicago Cubs season; 1985 Chicago White Sox season; 1985 Cincinnati Reds season; 1985 Cleveland Indians season; Major League Baseball collusion
As it stands now, the MLB All-Star Game is headed down an unpredictable path. Mostly out from underneath the baggage of the so-called Steroid Era, the league has struggled to market its brightest ...
The 1985 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1985 season. The 82nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Royals upset the heavily favored Cardinals in ...
In 1985, Dwight Gooden became MLB's youngest 20-game winner at just 20 years old. ... 9 months, 9 days old, Gooden became the youngest pitcher in MLB history to win 20 games in a season, bypassing ...
Beginning in 1982, however, they played increasingly solid seasons, achieving their first winning season in 1983 and finishing second in the American League East in 1984 behind Detroit. 1985 proved to be a breakout year for Toronto, as they rode strong offense and pitching to the second-best record in Major League Baseball, at 99–62 (.615 ...