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This marked the first time that both teams from the San Francisco Bay Area made the postseason. The playoffs began on October 2, 1971, and concluded on October 17, 1971, with the Pittsburgh Pirates defeating the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in the 1971 World Series. It was the Pirates' fourth championship in franchise history.
The 1971 Major League Baseball season was the final season for the Senators in Washington, D.C., before the team's relocation to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Arlington for the following season, as the Texas Rangers, leaving the nation's capital without a baseball team of its own until 2005.
The 1971 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1971 postseason between the East Division Champion Baltimore Orioles and the West Division Champion Oakland Athletics. The Orioles swept the A's in three games, despite the fact that each team had won 101 games.
May 6 – NBC Sports and Major League Baseball agree to a four-year, $72 million contract, running through 1976, for 26 Saturday "Game of the Week" telecasts, ten Monday night games, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, both the AL and NL League Championship Series, and the World Series. Part of the agreement stipulates that all World ...
Roger Brown, a starter on Kansas’ 1971 Final Four team, a squad that went 14-0 in the Big Eight Conference and 27-3 overall, died Wednesday at the age of 73. ... KU went 20-7 and played in the ...
The 1971 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series in Major League Baseball’s 1971 postseason that pitted the East Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates against the West Division champion San Francisco Giants. The Pirates won the Series three games to one and won the 1971 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.
The 1971 World Series was the championship round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1971 season and featured the first night game in its history. The 68th edition of the Fall Classic was a best-of-seven playoff between the defending World Series and American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pages in category "1971 Major League Baseball season" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... 1971 Major League Baseball postseason;