1983

1983 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1983.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Seibu Lions (PL) over the Yomiuri Giants (CL), 4 - 3 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yomiuri Giants (Details)
    • Pacific League: Seibu Lions (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization: Haitai Tigers defeated the MBC Blue Dragons in the Korean Series (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Queensland

Europe

• European Cup: Parmalat Parma, Serie A1 (Details)
  • Division Élite: Paris Université Club
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Mannheim Amigos
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Haarlem Nicols
  • Serie A1: Papà Barzetti Rimini

North America

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

• Minor League Baseball
  • Triple-A World Series: Tidewater Tides (Details)
  • American Association: Denver Bears (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Paintsville Brewers
  • California League: Redwood Pioneers
  • Carolina League: Lynchburg Mets
  • Eastern League: New Britain Red Sox
  • Florida State League: Vero Beach Dodgers
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Dodgers
  • International League: Tidewater Tides (Details)
  • Midwest League: Appleton Foxes
  • New York-Penn League: Utica Blue Sox
  • Northwest League: Medford A's
  • Pacific Coast League: Portland Beavers (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Billings Mustangs
  • South Atlantic League: Gastonia Expos
  • Southern League: Birmingham Barons
  • Texas League: Beaumont Golden Gators

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Piratas de Campeche defeated the Indios de Ciudad Juárez in the finals, 4 - 3

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Villa Clara (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Caracas, Venezuela; Lobos de Arecibo (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: Tomateros de Culiacán
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Lobos de Arecibo
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Tiburones de La Guaira defeated the Leones del Caracas in the finals, 4 - 2

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): The University of Texas at Austin defeated the University of Alabama in the finals, 4 - 3 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona over the Jacksonville State University, 9 - 7 in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: Marietta College over the Otterbein College, 36 - 8 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Lubbock Christian University over the Lewis-Clark State College, 12 - 9 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: McLennan Community College
• Community College League of California: College of the Canyons over Los Angeles Harbor College in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Grand Rapids Sullivans (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Komazawa University defeated the Kinki University in the final, 5 - 1 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Ikeda High School (Tokushima) defeat Yokohama High School (Kanagawa), 3 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: PL Gakuen High School (Osaka) defeat Yokohama High School (Kanagawa), 3 - 0 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: National (Marietta, GA) defeat Liquito Hernandez (Barahona, DR), 3 - 1 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Intercontinental Cup in Belgium (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); United States (Silver); Taiwan (Bronze)
• World Junior Championship in Johnstown, PA, United States (Details)
  • Chinese Taipei (Gold); United States (Silver); Canada (Bronze)
• Asian Championship in Seoul, South Korea (Details)
  • Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea (Gold-tied)
• European Championship in Florence, Italy (Details)
  • Italy (Gold); The Netherlands (Silver); Belgium (Bronze)
• Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Nicaragua (Silver); United States (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• All-Time All-Stars of Black Baseball, by James Riley
• American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age, by David Quentin Voigt
• Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, by Jules Tygiel
• The Celebrant, by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
• Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues, by Donn Rogosin
• Suder, by Percival Everett

Song

• A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request, by Steve Goodman
• Ballad to Pine Tar, by Red River Dave

Film

• Blue Skies Again

Births

Further information: Births in 1983

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1983

Further Reading

• Will Leitch: "Pine tar, 'Winning Ugly' and ... birds? '83 was weird", mlb.com, April 11, 2020. [1]