1974

1974 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1974.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Lotte Orions (PL) over the Chunichi Dragons (CL), 4 - 2 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Chunichi Dragons (Details)
    • Pacific League: Lotte Orions (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Victoria

Europe

• European Cup: Haarlem Nicols, Hoofdklasse (Details)
  • Division Élite: Nice Université Club
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Sparta Rotterdam
  • Serie A1: Montenegro Bologna

North America

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

• Minor League Baseball
  • American Association: Tulsa Oilers (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Bristol Tigers
  • California League: Fresno Giants
  • Carolina League: Salem Pirates
  • Eastern League: Thetford Mines Pirates
  • Florida State League: West Palm Beach Expos
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Cubs
  • International League: Rochester Red Wings (Details)
  • Mexican Center League: Durango Alacranes
  • Midwest League: Danville Warriors
  • New York-Penn League: Oneonta Yankees
  • Northwest League: Eugene Emeralds
  • Pacific Coast League: Spokane Indians (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Idaho Falls Angels
  • Southern League: Knoxville Knox Sox
  • Texas League: Victoria Toros
  • Western Carolinas League: Gastonia Rangers

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Diablos Rojos del México defeated the Algodoneros de Gomez Palacio in the finals, 4 - 0

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Habana (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Hermosillo, México; Caguas-Guayama (Puerto Rico) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Tigres del Licey defeated the Águilas Cibaeñas in the finals, 5 - 2
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Venados de Mazatlán
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Caguas-Guayama
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: the season was canceled due to a player's strike

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): The University of Southern California defeated the University of Miami in the finals, 7 - 3 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: The University of California, Irvine over the the University of New Orleans, 14 - 1 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Lewis University over the Sam Houston State University, 3 - 2 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Meramec Community College
• Community College League of California: Cerritos College over San Diego City College in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Alaska Goldpanners (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Waseda University defeated the Komazawa University in the final, 3 - 2 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Hotoku Gakuen High School (Hyogo) defeat Ikeda High School (Tokushima), 3 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Choshi Shogyo High School (Chiba) defeat Hofu Shogyo High School (Yamaguchi), 7 - 0 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Kao Hsiung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) defeat Red Bluff (Red Bluff, CA), 12 - 1 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in United States (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Nicaragua (Silver); Colombia (Bronze)
• Central American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Dominican Republic (Silver); Puerto Rico (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, by Robert Creamer
• No Cheering in the Press Box, by Jerome Holtzman
• Playing Around, by Donald Hall et al.

Births

Further information: Births in 1974

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1974

Further Reading

• Randy Louis Cox: 715 at 50: The Night Henry Aaron Changed Baseball and the World Forever, Summer Game Books, South Orange, NJ, 2024. ISBN 978-1-955398-28-2