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The 2019 Major League Baseball season began on March 20, while the regular season ended on September 29. It was the 150th anniversary of professional baseball, dating back to the 1869 foundation of the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The postseason began on October 1.
Aided by Major League Baseball's decision to allow All-Star voting in Japan, Suzuki was the first rookie to lead all players in voting for the All-Star Game. That winter, he won the American League Most Valuable Player and the Rookie of the Year awards, becoming only the second player in MLB history (after Fred Lynn ) to receive both honors in ...
September 13 – Alex Grammas, 93, who spent more than 40 years in Major League Baseball as a player, coach and manager, playing as an infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs during ten seasons from 1954 through 1963, later coaching for the Pirates, Reds, Braves and Tigers over 26 seasons between 1965 and 1991 ...
Xavier Nady is the most recent non-pitcher to go directly to MLB. Bob Horner is the only player to go directly to MLB and win a Rookie of the Year Award. Tim Conroy and Brian Milner are the most recent players to go straight from high school to MLB, having debuted on the same day in 1978. [2]
The 2019 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2019 season. The 115th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Houston Astros and the National League champion Washington Nationals. The series was played from October 22 to October 30. [2]
The 2019 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball’s 2019 postseason between the two winners of the 2019 National League Division Series, the third-seeded St. Louis Cardinals and the fourth-seeded Washington Nationals, for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2019 World Series.
Despite the win, no MLB team from the nation's capital had won a home game in the World Series since 1933. Along with the Washington Capitals winning the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals, the Nationals and Capitals brought the first major league championships to D.C. since 1992, when the Washington Redskins won Super Bowl XXVI.
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada. It comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.