1990

1990 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1990.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Seibu Lions (PL) over the Yomiuri Giants (CL), 4 - 0 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yomiuri Giants (Details)
    • Pacific League: Seibu Lions (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization: LG Twins defeated the Samsung Lions in the Korean Series (Details)
• Chinese Professional Baseball League: Wei Chuan Dragons defeated the Mercuries Tigers in the Taiwan Series (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Waverly Reds, Australian Baseball League (Details)

Europe

• European Cup: Haarlem Nicols, Hoofdklasse (Details)
  • Division Élite: Paris Université Club
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Köln Cardinals
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Tas Detach Pirates Amsterdam
    • Holland Series: Amsterdam Pirates defeated the SC Neptunus in the series, 3 - 0 (Details)
  • Serie A1: Scac Nettuno

North America

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

• Minor League Baseball
  • Triple-A Classic: Omaha Royals (AA) over the Rochester Red Wings (IL), 4 - 1 (Details)
  • American Association: Omaha Royals (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Elizabethton Twins
  • Arizona League: AZL Brewers
  • California League: Stockton Ports
  • Carolina League: Frederick Keys
  • Eastern League: London Tigers
  • Florida State League: Vero Beach Dodgers
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Dodgers
  • International League: Rochester Red Wings (Details)
  • Midwest League: Quad Cities Angels
  • New York-Penn League: Oneonta Yankees
  • Northwest League: Spokane Indians
  • Pacific Coast League: Albuquerque Dukes (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Great Falls Dodgers
  • South Atlantic League: Charleston Wheelers
  • Southern League: Memphis Chicks
  • Texas League: Shreveport Captains

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Bravos de León defeated the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna in the finals, 4 - 1

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Henequeneros (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Miami, Florida; Leones del Escogido (Dominican Republic) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Leones del Escogido defeated the Águilas Cibaeñas in the finals, 4 - 1
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Naranjeros de Hermosillo
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Senadores de San Juan
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Cardenales de Lara in the finals, 4 - 3

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): The University of Georgia defeated Oklahoma State University in the finals, 2 - 1 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: Jacksonville State University over the California State University, Northridge, 12 - 8 in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: Eastern Connecticut State University over the Aurora University, 8 - 1 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Lewis-Clark State College over the Auburn University Montgomery, 9 - 4 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: San Jacinto College North
• Community College League of California: Los Angeles Harbor College over Chabot College 5 - 2 in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Wichita Broncos (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Asia University defeated the Tohoku Fukushi University in the final, 2 - 1 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Kindai University High School (Osaka) defeat Nitta High School (Ehime), 5 - 2 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Tenri High School (Nara) defeat Okinawa Suisan High School (Okinawa), 1 - 0 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Sanhua (Tainan County, Taiwan) defeat Shippensburg (Shippensburg, PA), 9 - 0 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in Canada (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Nicaragua (Silver); South Korea (Bronze)
• World Junior Championship in Havana, Cuba (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Chinese Taipei (Silver); United States (Bronze)
• World Youth Championship in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico (Details)
  • Japan (Gold); Brazil (Silver); Cuba (Bronze)
• Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico City, Mexico (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Puerto Rico (Silver); Dominican Republic (Bronze)
• Asian Games (Demonstration Sport) in Doha, Qatar (Details)
  • Chinese Taipei (Gold); South Korea (Silver); Japan (Bronze)
• Central American Games in Tegucigalpa (Details)
  • El Salvador (Gold); Nicaragua (Silver); Honduras (Bronze)
• Goodwill Games in Seattle, WA United States (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Japan (Silver); United States (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Baseball: The People's Game, by Harold Seymour and Dorothy Jane Mills
• Baseball's Canadian-American League, by David Pietrusza
• Behind the Mask, by Dave Pallone
• The Curse of the Bambino, by Dan Shaughnessy
• Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, by Ray Robinson
• Men at Work, by George Will
• Prophet of the Sandlots, by Mark Winegardner
• Squeeze Play, by Jane Leavy
• The World Series, by David Neft and Richard Cohen
• The Year I Owned the Yankees, by Sparky Lyle and David Fisher

Film

• Pastime
• Taking care of Business

Births

Further information: Births in 1990

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1990

Further Reading

• Steve Fireovid and Mark Winegardner: The 26th Man: One Minor League Pitcher's Pursuit of a Dream, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1996 (first published in 1991).
• Zander Hollander, ed.: The Complete Handbook of Baseball: 20th Anniversary Edition 1990, Signet Books, New American Library, New York, NY, 1990. ISBN 0-451-16449-0
• Will Leitch: "1990: The Oakland A's and the dynasty that wasn't", mlb.com, May 22, 2020. [1]