1973

1973 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1973.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Yomiuri Giants (CL) over the Nankai Hawks (PL), 4 - 1 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yomiuri Giants (Details)
    • Pacific League: Lotte Orions (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Victoria

Europe

• European Cup: Amaro Montenegro Bologna, Serie A1 (Details)
  • Division Élite: Paris Université Club
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Sparta Rotterdam
  • Serie A1: Glent Grant Nettuno

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Oakland Athletics (AL) over the New York Mets (NL), 4 - 3 (Details)
    • American League: Oakland Athletics (Details)
    • National League: New York Mets (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • Junior World Series: Pawtucket Red Sox (IL) over the Tulsa Oilers (AA), 4 - 1 (Details)
  • American Association: Tulsa Oilers (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Kingsport Royals
  • California League: Lodi Lions
  • Carolina League: Winston-Salem Red Sox
  • Eastern League: Reading Phillies
  • Florida State League: St. Petersburg Cardinals
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Rangers
  • International League: Pawtucket Red Sox (Details)
  • Mexican Center League: Zacatecas Tuzos
  • Midwest League: Wisconsin Rapids Twins
  • New York-Penn League: Auburn Phillies
  • Northwest League: Walla Walla Padres
  • Pacific Coast League: Spokane Indians (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Billings Mustangs
  • Southern League: Montgomery Rebels
  • Texas League: Memphis Blues
  • Western Carolinas League: Spartanburg Phillies

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Diablos Rojos del México defeated the Saraperos de Saltillo in the finals, 4 - 3

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Industriales (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Caracas, Venezuela; Tigres del Licey (Dominican Republic) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Tigres del Licey defeated the Estrellas Orientales in the finals, 5 - 2
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Yaquis de Obregón
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Cangrejeros de Santurce
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Águilas del Zulia in the finals, 4 - 1

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): The University of Southern California defeated Arizona State University in the finals, 4 - 3 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: The University of California, Irvine over the Ithaca College, 9 - 6 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: United States International University over the Eastern Connecticut State University, 7 - 2 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Ranger College
• Community College League of California: Cerritos College over the College of San Mateo in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Alaska Goldpanners (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Chuo University defeated the Aichi Gakuin University in the final, 3 - 0 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Yokohama High School (Kanagawa) defeat Hiroshima Shogyo High School (Hiroshima), 3 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Hiroshima Shogyo High School (Hiroshima) defeat Shizuoka High School (Shizuoka), 3 - 2 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Tainan City (Tainan City, Taiwan) defeat Cactus (Tucson, AZ), 12 - 0 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in Cuba (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Puerto Rico (Silver); Venezuela (Bronze)
• Baseball World Cup in Nicaragua (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Nicaragua (Silver); Puerto Rico (Bronze)
• Intercontinental Cup in Italy (Details)
  • Japan (Gold); Puerto Rico (Silver); United States (Bronze)
• Asian Championship in Manila, The Philippines (Details)
  • Japan (Gold); South Korea (Silver); Chinese Taipei (Bronze)
• European Championship in Haarlem, Netherlands (Details)
  • The Netherlands (Gold); Italy (Silver); Spain (Bronze)
• Bolivarian Games in Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá (Details)
  • Colombia (Gold); Venezuela (Silver); Panama (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• "Baseball Canto", by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, by William Brashler
• The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, by Brendan C. Boyd and Fred C. Harris
• The Great American Novel, by Philip Roth
• Long Gone, by Paul Hemphill
• The Man Who Invented Baseball, by Harold Peterson

Song

• Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry), by Bill Slayback and Ernie Harwell
• There Used to Be a Ballpark, by Frank Sinatra

Film

• Bang the Drum Slowly

Births

Further information: Births in 1973

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1973

Further Reading

• Donald Hall et al.: Playing around: the million-dollar infield goes to Florida, Little, Brown, New York, NY, 1974. ISBN 978-0316339605
• John Rosengren: Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year That Changed Baseball Forever, Sourcebooks, Inc., Naperville, IL, 2008. ISBN 9781402209567 (Reissued in 2023 as The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: How the '73 Season Changed Us Forever)
• Matthew Silverman: Swinging '73: Baseball's Wildest Season, Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7627-8060-0