1978

1978 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1978.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Yakult Swallows (CL) over the Hankyu Braves (PL), 4 - 3 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yakult Swallows (Details)
    • Pacific League: Hankyu Braves (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Western Australia

Europe

• European Cup: Germal Parma, Serie A1 (Details)
  • Division Élite: BC Nippon/Nice Université Club
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Wera Kinheim Haarlem
  • Serie A1: Biemme Giocattoli Bologna

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: New York Yankees (AL) over the Los Angeles Dodgers (NL), 4 - 2 (Details)
    • American League: New York Yankees (Details)
    • National League: Los Angeles Dodgers (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • American Association: Omaha Royals (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Elizabethton Twins
  • California League: Visalia Oaks
  • Carolina League: Lynchburg Mets
  • Eastern League: Bristol Red Sox
  • Florida State League: Miami Orioles
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Rangers
  • International League: Richmond Braves (Details)
  • Mexican Center League: La Barca (MCL)
  • Midwest League: Appleton Foxes
  • New York-Penn League: Geneva Cubs
  • Northwest League: Grays Harbor Loggers
  • Pacific Coast League: Albuquerque Dukes/Tacoma Yankees (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Billings Mustangs
  • Southern League: Knoxville Knox Sox
  • Texas League: El Paso Diablos
  • Western Carolinas League: Greenwood Braves

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Rieleros de Aguascalientes defeated the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna in the finals, 4 - 2

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Vegueros (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Mazatlán, México; Indios de Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Águilas Cibaeñas defeated the Tigres del Licey in the finals, 5 - 2
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Tomateros de Culiacán
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Indios de Mayagüez
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Águilas del Zulia in the finals, 4 - 3

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): The University of Southern California defeated Arizona State University in the finals, 10 - 3 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: Florida Southern College over the Delta State University, 7 - 2 in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: Rowan University over the Marietta College, 5 - 3 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Emporia State University over the Missouri Southern State College, 8 - 6 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Ranger College
• Community College League of California: Los Angeles Harbor College over the College of San Mateo in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Boulder Collegians (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Meiji University defeated the Senshu University in the final, 5 - 0 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Hamamatsu Shogyo High School (Shizuoka) defeat Fukui Shogyo High School (Fukui), 2 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: PL Gakuen (Osaka) defeat Kochi Shogyo High School (Kochi), 3 - 2 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Pin-Kuang (Pin-Tung, Taiwan) defeat San Ramon Valley (Danville, CA), 11 - 1 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in Italy (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); United States (Silver); South Korea (Bronze)
• Central American Games in Medellin, Colombia (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Nicaragua (Silver); Puerto Rico (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Baseball Magic, by George Gmelch

Song

• Baseball Card Lover, by Rockin' Richie Ray

Film

• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
• One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

Births

Further information: Births in 1978

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1978

Further Reading

• Will Leitch: "'78: Yanks' wild journey, Seaver's no-no, Rice rakes", mlb.com, June 5, 2020. [1]
• Lincoln A. Mitchell: San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2019. ISBN 978-1-9788-0734-1