1982

1982 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1982.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Seibu Lions (PL) over the Chunichi Dragons (CL), 4 - 2 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Chunichi Dragons (Details)
    • Pacific League: Seibu Lions (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization: OB Bears defeated the Samsung Lions in the Korean Series (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Queensland

Europe

• European Cup: cup not held
  • Division Élite: Paris Université Club
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Mannheim Tornados
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Haarlem Nicols
  • Serie A1: Parmalat Parma

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) over the Milwaukee Brewers (AL), 4 - 3 (Details)
    • American League: Milwaukee Brewers (Details)
    • National League: St. Louis Cardinals (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • American Association: Indianapolis Indians (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Bluefield Orioles
  • California League: Modesto A's
  • Carolina League: Alexandria Dukes
  • Eastern League: West Haven A's
  • Florida State League: Fort Lauderdale Yankees
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Yankees
  • International League: Tidewater Tides (Details)
  • Midwest League: Appleton Foxes
  • New York-Penn League: Niagara Falls Sox
  • Northwest League: Salem Angels
  • Pacific Coast League: Albuquerque Dukes (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Medicine Hat Blue Jays
  • South Atlantic League: Greensboro Hornets
  • Southern League: Nashville Sounds
  • Texas League: Tulsa Drillers

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Indios de Ciudad Juárez defeated the Tigres Capitalinos in the finals, 4 - 0

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Vegueros (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Hermosillo, México; Leones del Caracas (Venezuela) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Leones del Escogido defeated the Estrellas Orientales in the finals, 5 - 1
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Naranjeros de Hermosillo
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Leones de Ponce
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Cardenales de Lara in the finals, 4 - 1

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): The University of Miami defeated Wichita State University in the finals, 9 - 3 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: The University of California, Riverside over the Florida Southern College, 10 - 1 in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: Eastern Connecticut State University over the California State Stanislaus, 11 - 6 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Grand Canyon College over the Lewis-Clark State College, 10 - 6 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Middle Georgia College
• Community College League of California: Los Angeles Valley College over College of the Canyons 3 - 1 in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Santa Maria Indians (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Hosei University defeated the Toyo University in the final, 3 - 2 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: PL Gakuen High School (Osaka) defeat Nishogakusha High School (Tokyo), 15 - 2 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Ikeda High School (Tokushima) defeat Hiroshima Shogyo High School (Hiroshima), 12 - 2 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: National (Kirkland, WA) defeat Putzu (Chiayi County, Taiwan), 6 - 0 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in South Korea (Details)
  • South Korea (Gold); Japan (Silver); United States (Bronze)
• World Junior Championship in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Japan (Silver); Australia (Bronze)
• Central American Games in Havana, Cuba (Details)
  • Dominican Republic (Gold); Cuba (Silver); Netherlands Antilles/Panama (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Aaron to Zuverink: Baseball Players of the 1950s, by Rich Marazzi and Len Fiorito
• Baseball's 10 Greatest Teams, by Donald Honig
• How Life Imitates the World Series, by Thomas Boswell
• Late Innings, by Roger Angell
• The Seventh Game, by Roger Kahn
• Shoeless Joe, by W.P. Kinsella
• The Umpire Strikes Back, by Ron Luciano and David Fisher
• Voices from Cooperstown, by Anthony J. Connor

Song

• Pressure, by Billy Joel

Births

Further information: Births in 1982

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1982

Further Reading

• Daniel Okrent: Nine Innings, Ticknor and Fields, New York, NY, 1985. ISBN 9780899193342
• Bruce Weber: All-Pro Baseball Stars '82, Scholastic Book Services, New York, NY, 1982. ISBN 059032392X