1966

1966 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1966.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Yomiuri Giants (CL) over the Nankai Hawks (PL), 4 - 2 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yomiuri Giants (Details)
    • Pacific League: Nankai Hawks (Details)
• Claxton Shield: South Australia

Europe

• European Cup: Haarlem Nicols, Hoofdklasse (Details)
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: VFR Mannheim
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Sparta Rotterdam
  • Serie A1: Europhon Milano

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Baltimore Orioles (AL) over the Los Angeles Dodgers (NL), 4 - 1 (Details)
    • American League: Baltimore Orioles (Details)
    • National League: Los Angeles Dodgers (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • Appalachian League: Marion Mets
  • California League: Modesto Reds
  • Carolina League: Rocky Mount Leafs
  • Eastern League: Elmira Pioneers
  • Florida State League: Leesburg Athletics
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Yankees
  • International League: Toronto Maple Leafs (Details)
  • Mexican Center League: Guanajuato Tuzos
  • Mexican Southeast League: Puerto Mexico Portenos
  • Midwest League: Fox Cities Foxes
  • New York-Penn League: Auburn Mets
  • Northern League: St. Cloud Rox
  • Northwest League: Tri-City Atoms
  • Pacific Coast League: Seattle Angels (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Ogden Dodgers
  • Southern League: Mobile Athletics
  • Texas League: Austin Braves
  • Western Carolinas League: Spartanburg Phillies

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Tigres Capitalinos defeated the Diablos Rojos del México in the finals, 4 - 2

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Industriales (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: The league did not hold a season due to political unrest
• Winter League of Sonora: Ciudad Obregón
• Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Indios de Mayagüez
• Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Tiburones de La Guaira defeated the Industriales de Valencia in the finals, 4 - 1

Amateur

• College World Series (National Collegiate Athletic Association): Ohio State University defeated Oklahoma State University in the best-of-three finals, 8 - 2 (Details)
• NAIA College World Series: Linfield College over the Lewis College, 15 - 4 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Nassau Community College
• Community College League of California: Cerritos College over City College of San Francisco in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Boulder Collegians (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Nihon University defeated the Kinki University in the final, 3 - 2 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Chukyo University Senior High School (Aichi) defeat Tosa High School (Kochi), 1 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Chukyo University Senior High School (Aichi) defeat Matsuyama Commercial High School (Ehime), 3 - 1 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Westbury American (Houston, TX) defeat American (West New York, NJ), 8 - 2 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Central American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Puerto Rico (Silver); Panama (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• American Baseball: From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System, by David Quentin Voigt
• The Glory of Their Times, by Lawrence Ritter
• My Life In and Out of Baseball, by Willie Mays and Charles Einstein
• The Silent Season of a Hero, by Gay Talese

Births

Further information: Births in 1966

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1966

Further Reading

• David Krell: Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2023. ISBN 978-1-5381-5943-9