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The deal earned Major League Baseball less than $500,000, but led to a new two-year contract for 40–45 games per season. [33] [34] ABC aired Monday Night Baseball and the World Series. NBC televised the weekend Game of the Week, the All-Star Game, and both League Championship Series.
The 1979 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1979 season. The 76th edition of the World Series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates (98–64) and the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles (102–57). The Pirates won in seven games, becoming the ...
This was the fourth postseason meeting of the Pirates–Reds rivalry this decade. The Reds won in 1970, 1972, and 1975.This time, the Pirates would return the favor, sweeping the Reds and returning to the World Series for the second time in nine years (in the process denying a rematch of the 1970 World Series between the Reds and Orioles).
At the unofficial half-way point of the MLB season there are three close divisional races. The Texas Rangers (47–34) and California Angels (48–35), expansion teams born in 1961 who've never made the postseason in the 19 years of their existence, are in a virtual tie at the top of the American League West Division , while the Minnesota Twins ...
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The 1979 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five series that was the semifinal on the American League side of the 1979 postseason, which pitted the East Division champion Baltimore Orioles against the West Division champion California Angels, who were making their first postseason appearance.
1979 Major League Baseball season (36 P) N. 1979 Nippon Professional Baseball season (2 P) Pages in category "1979 in baseball" The following 14 pages are in this ...
This is a list of seasons of Major League Baseball 1870s. Year National League champion 1876: Chicago White Stockings ... 1979: Baltimore Orioles: Pittsburgh Pirates ...