2015

2015 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 2015.

Events

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeated the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, 4 games to 1 (Details)
    • Central League: Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Details)
    • Pacific League: Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization:
• Chinese Professional Baseball League:
• China Baseball League: Jiangsu Pegasus
• Australian Baseball League: Perth Heat defeated the Adelaide Bite in the final, 2-1 (Details)

Europe

• European Cup: Curaçao Neptunus (Details)
  • French Division I: Rouen Huskies
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Heidenheim Heideköpfe
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Curaçao Neptunus
    • Holland Series: Curaçao Neptunus defeated Corendon Kinheim, 4 games to 1 (Details)
  • Italian Baseball League: ASD Rimini (Details)

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Kansas City Royals (AL) over the New York Mets (NL), 4-1 (Details)
    • American League: Kansas City Royals (Details)
    • National League: New York Mets (Details)
• Minor League Baseball
  • Triple-A National Championship: Fresno Grizzlies (PCL) over the Columbus Clippers (IL), 7-0
  • International League: Columbus Clippers
  • Pacific Coast League: Fresno Grizzlies
• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Tigres de Quintana Roo over Acereros de Monclova, 4-2
• Cuban Serie Nacional: Ciego de Ávila over Isla de la Juventud, 4-3 (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Puerto Rico; Pinar del Río (Cuba) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Gigantes del Cibao defeated the Estrellas Orientales in the finals, 5-3
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Tomateros de Culiacán defeated the Charros de Jalisco in the finals, 4-1
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Cangrejeros de Santurce defeated the Indios de Mayagüez in the finals, 4-2
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Caribes de Anzoátegui defeated the Navegantes del Magallanes in the finals, 4-1

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): University of Virginia (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: University of Tampa (Details)
  • Division III Baseball Championship: SUNY Cortland (Details)
• NAIA College World Series: Lewis-Clark State College (Details)
• National Junior College Athletic Association
  • Division I Baseball World Series: Northwest Florida State College (Details)
  • Division II Baseball World Series: Louisiana State University at Eunice (Details)
  • Division III Baseball World Series: Tyler Junior College (Details)
• Community College League of California: Orange Coast College
• Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges: Lower Columbia College (Details)
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Seattle Studs (Details)
• National Club Baseball Association:
• Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association/Association de Baseball Inter-Universitaire Canadienne: McGill University
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series:
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Tsuruga Kehi High School (Fukui) defeat Tokai University Sapporo High School (Hokkaido), 3 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Tokai University Sagami High School (Kanagawa) defeat Sendai Ikuei High School (Miyagi), 10 - 6 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Tokyo defeats Lewisberry, PA in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Premier 12 in several locations Taiwan and Japan (Details)
  • South Korea (Gold); United States (Silver); Japan (Bronze)
• Pan American Games in Toronto, ON, Canada (Details)
  • Men - Canada (Gold); United States (Silver); Cuba (Bronze)
  • Women - United States (Gold); Canada (Silver); Venezuela (Bronze)
• Asian Championship in Taichung, Taiwan (Details)
  • South Korea (Gold); Taiwan (Silver); Japan (Bronze)
• South American Championship in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Details)
  • Colombia (Gold); Brazil (Silver); Peru (Bronze)
• U-18 Baseball World Cup in Osaka, Osaka Japan (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Japan (Silver); South Korea (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius, by Bill Pennington
• The Game, by John Pessah
• The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, by Norman L. Macht
• The Grind, by Barry Svrluga
• Mashi, by Robert K. Fitts
• The Negro Southern League, by William J. Plott
• Scandal on the South Side, by Jacob Pomrenke
• Split Season: 1981, by Jeff Katz
• Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, by Charles Leehrsen

Song

• Angels of Fenway, by James Taylor

Film

• Ghost Town to Havana

Births

Further information: Births in 2015

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 2015

Further Reading

• Kevin Cowherd: When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4962-1329-7