1988

1988 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1988.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Seibu Lions (PL) over the Chunichi Dragons (CL), 4 - 1 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Chunichi Dragons (Details)
    • Pacific League: Seibu Lions (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization: Haitai Tigers defeated the Binggrae Eagles in the Korean Series (Details)
• Claxton Shield: New South Wales

Europe

• European Cup: World Vision Parma, Serie A1 (Details)
  • Division Élite: Paris Université Club
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Mannheim Tornados
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Opel Nicols Haarlem
    • Holland Series: series not held
  • Serie A1: Ronson Lenoir Rimini

North America

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

• Minor League Baseball
  • Triple-A Classic: Indianapolis Indians (AA) over the Rochester Red Wings (IL), 4 - 2 (Details)
  • American Association: Indianapolis Indians (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Kingsport Mets
  • Arizona League: AZL Brewers
  • California League: Riverside Red Wave
  • Carolina League: Kinston Indians
  • Eastern League: Albany-Colonie Yankees
  • Florida State League: St. Lucie Mets
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Yankees
  • International League: Rochester Red Wings (Details)
  • Midwest League: Cedar Rapids Reds
  • New York-Penn League: Oneonta Yankees
  • Northwest League: Spokane Indians
  • Pacific Coast League: Las Vegas Stars (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Great Falls Dodgers
  • South Atlantic League: Spartanburg Phillies
  • Southern League: Chattanooga Lookouts
  • Texas League: Tulsa Drillers

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Diablos Rojos del México defeated the Saraperos de Saltillo in the finals, 4 - 1

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Vegueros (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Leones del Escogido (Dominican Republic) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Leones del Escogido defeated the Estrellas Orientales in the finals, 4 - 3
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Potros de Tijuana
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Indios de Mayagüez
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Tigres de Aragua in the finals, 4 - 2

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): Stanford University defeated Arizona State University in the finals, 9 - 4 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: Florida Southern College over the California State University, Sacramento, 5 - 4 in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: Ithaca College over the the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, 7 - 5 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Lewis-Clark State College over the Grand Canyon College, 9 - 3 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Hillsborough Community College
• Community College League of California: Sacramento City College over Rancho Santiago College 8 - 4 in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Everett Merchants (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Kinki University defeated the Tohoku Fukushi University in the final, 3 - 1 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Uwajima Higashi High School (Ehime) defeat Toho High School (Aichi), 6 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Hiroshima Shogyo High School (Hiroshima) defeat Fukuoka Daiichi High School (Fukuoka), 1 - 0 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Tai Ping (Taichung, Taiwan) defeat Pearl City (Pearl City, HI), 10 - 0 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in Italy (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); United States (Silver); Chinese Taipei (Bronze)
• Olympics (Demonstration Sport) in Seoul Special City, South Korea (Details)
  • United States (First); Japan (Second); Puerto Rico (Third)
• World Junior Championship in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Cuba (Silver); Chinese Taipei (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Award Voting, by Bill Deane
• Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers', by John Holway
• Catfish: My Life in Baseball, by Catfish Hunter and Armen Keteyian
• The Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter, by Matt Christopher
• The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt, by W.P. Kinsella
• John McGraw, by Charles C. Alexander
• Season of Glory: The Amazing Saga of the 1961 New York Yankees, by Robert Creamer and Ralph Houk
• Season Ticket, by Roger Angell
• Short Season and Other Stories, by Jerry Klinkowitz
• Wheat That Springeth Green, by J.F. Powers

Film

• Bull Durham
• Eight Men Out
• The Naked Gun
• Stealing Home

Births

Further information: Births in 1988

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1988

Further Reading

• Zander Hollander, ed.: The Complete Handbook of Baseball: 18th Edition 1988, Signet Books, New American Library, New York, NY, 1988. ISBN 0-451-15237-9