1989

1989 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1989.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Yomiuri Giants (CL) over the Kintetsu Buffaloes (PL), 4 - 3 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yomiuri Giants (Details)
    • Pacific League: Kintetsu Buffaloes (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization: Haitai Tigers defeated the Binggrae Eagles in the Korean Series (Details)

Europe

• European Cup: Ronson Lenoir Rimini, Serie A1 (Details)
  • Division Élite: Paris Université Club
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Mannheim Tornados
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Opel Nicols Haarlem
    • Holland Series: Haarlem Nicols defeated the SC Neptunus in the series, 4 - 3 (Details)
  • Serie A1: Mamoli Robinetterie Grosseto

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Oakland Athletics (AL) over the San Francisco Giants (NL), 4 - 0 (Details)
    • American League: Oakland Athletics (Details)
    • National League: San Francisco Giants (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • Triple-A Classic: Indianapolis Indians (AA) over the Richmond Braves (IL), 4 - 0 (Details)
  • American Association: Indianapolis Indians (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Elizabethton Twins
  • Arizona League: AZL Brewers
  • California League: Bakersfield Dodgers
  • Carolina League: Prince William Cannons
  • Eastern League: Albany-Colonie Yankees
  • Florida State League: Charlotte Rangers
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Yankees
  • International League: Richmond Braves (Details)
  • Midwest League: South Bend White Sox
  • New York-Penn League: Jamestown Expos
  • Northwest League: Spokane Indians
  • Pacific Coast League: Vancouver Canadians (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Great Falls Dodgers
  • South Atlantic League: Augusta Pirates
  • Southern League: Birmingham Barons
  • Texas League: Arkansas Travelers

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos defeated the Leones de Yucatán in the finals, 4 - 2

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Santiago de Cuba (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Mazatlán, México; Águilas del Zulia (Venezuela) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Leones del Escogido defeated the Tigres del Licey in the finals, 4 - 0
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Águilas de Mexicali
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Indios de Mayagüez
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Águilas del Zulia defeated the Tigres de Aragua in the finals, 4 - 3

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): Wichita State University defeated the University of Texas at Austin in the finals, 5 - 3 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo over the the University of New Haven, 9 - 5 in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: North Carolina Wesleyan College over the California State Stanislaus, 8 - 7 (13 inn.) in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Lewis-Clark State College over the the College of St. Francis, 5 - 2 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: San Jacinto College North
• Community College League of California: Cerritos College over Sacramento City College 7 - 5 in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Wichita Broncos (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Kinki University defeated the Senshu University in the final, 10 - 7 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Toho High School (Aichi) defeat Uenomiya High School (Osaka), 3 - 2 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Teikyo High School (East Tokyo) defeat Sendai Ikuei High School (Miyagi), 2 - 0 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: National (Trumbull, CT) defeat Kang-tu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), 5 - 2 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Intercontinental Cup in Puerto Rico (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Japan (Silver); Puerto Rico (Bronze)
• World Junior Championship in Trois-Rivières , Québec, Canada (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Cuba (Silver); Australia (Bronze)
• World Youth Championship in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan (Details)
  • Japan (Gold); Chinese Taipei (Silver); China (Bronze)
• Asian Championship in Seoul, South Korea (Details)
  • Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea (Gold-tied)
• European Championship in Paris, France (Details)
  • Italy (Gold); The Netherlands (Silver); Spain (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Baseball Lives, by Mike Bryan
• Black Diamonds, by John Holway
• The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, by Paul Dickson
• The Heart of the Order, by Thomas Boswell
• If I Never Get Back, by Darryl Brock
• Joy in Mudville, by Gordon McAlpine
• The Mental Game of Baseball, by Karl Kuehl and Harvey Dorfman
• On a Clear Day, They Could See Seventh Place, by George Robinson and Charles Salzberg
• The Pitch That Killed, by Mike Sowell
• Remembrances of Swings Past, by Ron Luciano
• Summer of '49, by David Halberstam
• Take Time for Paradise, by Bart Giamatti
• Total Baseball, by John Thorn and Pete Palmer
• You Gotta Have Wa, by Robert Whiting

Song

• Where's That Hit?, by the Hoodoo Gurus

Film

• Field of Dreams
• Major League
• Night Game

Births

Further information: Births in 1989

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1989

Further Reading

• Zander Hollander, ed.: The Complete Handbook of Baseball: 19th Edition 1989, Signet Books, New American Library, New York, NY, 1989. ISBN 0-451-15850-4