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Recent Events
2024
- November 26: Kensuke Kondo is named the 2024 Pacific League MVP while Tomoyuki Sugano wins the 2024 CL MVP, his third time winning the honor. The PL Rookie of the Year goes to Natsuki Takeuchi and Hiromasa Funabasama wins the CL Rookie of the Year.
- November 26: Do-yeong Kim wins the 2024 KBO MVP and Taek-yeon Kim gets the Rookie of the Year.
- November 24: Taiwan wins the 2024 Premier 12. The MVP is Chieh-Hsien Chen.
- November 23: Argentina wins the 2024 South American Championship.
- November 21: Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are unanimous winners of the MVP Award in the American League and National League respectively
- November 20: The Cy Young Award in the National League goes to Chris Sale, while in the American League, Tarik Skubal is the winner.
- November 19: Pat Murphy wins the Manager of the Year Award in the 2024 NL while the AL award goes to Stephen Vogt.
- November 18: The Rookie of the Year Award goes to Paul Skenes in the National League and to Luis Gil in the American League.
- November 14 Ryan Helsley wins the Trevor Hoffman Award while Emmanuel Clase takes the Mariano Rivera Award.
- November 7: Daisuke Miura wins the Matsutaro Shoriki Award for 2024.
- November 4: Rui-Yang Gu Lin wins the CPBL MVP for 2024. Tzu-Yu Tseng is the Rookie of the Year.
- November 3: The Yokohama BayStars win the 2024 Japan Series. Masayuki Kuwahara wins Series MVP.
- October 30: The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees, four games to one, to win the 2024 World Series; Freddie Freeman wins the World Series Most Valuable Player Award.
- October 28: The KIA Tigers win the 2024 Korean Series. Sun-bin Kim wins Korean Series MVP.
- October 26: Markus Solbach is named the Bundesliga-1 north MVP for the second time while Alex Schmidt wins the MVP for the south.
- October 26: The Huskies de Rouen win their 18th French Division I title.
- October 25: The CTBC Brothers win the 2024 Taiwan Series. Sung-En Tseng is the Series MVP.
- October 20: The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Mets in the NLCS; Tommy Edman win the NLCS MVP Award.
- October 19: The New York Yankees win the 41st American League pennant of their history by defeating the Guardians in the ALCS. Giancarlo Stanton is named ALCS MVP.
- October 12: Neptunus win the 2024 Holland Series. Christian Diaz is named MVP.
- October 12: The Hoboken Pioneers win the Belgian First Division championship.
- October 1: Heidenheim Heideköpfe defends their Bundesliga title successfully.
- September 27: The Chicago White Sox set a new modern major league record with their 121st loss of the season.
- September 26: The Oakland Athletics play their final home game in the city that has been their home for the past 57 years.
- September 21: The Rättvik Butchers win their third straight Elitserien championship.
- September 19: Shohei Ohtani becomes the first member of the 50-50 club - hitting 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases in the same season.
- September 19: Draci Brno wins their 25th Extraliga title.
- September 9: The Sultanes de Monterrey win the Mexican League title. José Marmolejos is the finals MVP.
- September 4: Three pitchers for the Chicago Cubs led by Shota Imanaga, combine to pitch a no-hitter over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- August 31: Parma wins the 2024 Italian Series. Alex Liddi is the MVP.
- August 26: Lake Mary, FL wins the 2024 Little League World Series.
- August 3: Japan wins the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup. Miu Shiraishi wins the MVP.
- August 3: The Astros Valencia win their third Spanish Baseball League title, all of them four years apart.
- August 2 Blake Snell pitches the third no-hitter of the season.
- July 25: Dylan Cease pitches the second no-hitter in San Diego Padres history.
- July 24: The Central League wins 2024 NPB All-Star Game 1 behind MVP Shugo Maki, while the Pacific League takes Game 2 with Toshiya Satoh being named MVP. In a high-octane set of games, numerous offensive records get broken.
- July 16: The American League defeats the National League, 5 - 3, in the 2024 All-Star Game; Jarren Duran wins the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP.
- July 14: The Cleveland Guardians select 2B Travis Bazzana of Oregon State University as the first overall pick in the 2024 amateur draft, making the highest-ever selection for an Australian.
- July 13: The National League defeats the American League in the 2024 Futures Game; Cam Collier wins the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.
- June 28 Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda passes away at 86.
- June 24 The University of Tennessee wins the 2024 College World Series for the first title in school history; Dylan Dreiling is the Series MVP.
- June 18 Hall of Famer Willie Mays, one of the greatest players ever, passes away at age 93.
- June 8 The University of Tampa wins the 2024 Division II College World Series.
- June 6 Misericordia University wins the 2024 Division III College World Series.
- May 19 Yu Darvish joins the meikyukai by earning his 200th win between NPB and MLB.
- May 15 I-Chung Hong becomes the first CPBL manager to 1,000 wins.
- April 15 Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog dies at age 92.
- April 1: Ronel Blanco of the Houston Astros pitches a no-hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- February 9: The Tiburones de La Guaira win their first ever Caribbean Series title; Ricardo Pinto in named Caribbean Series MVP.
- February 8: Jesús Feliciano, César Tovar, Odell Jones, Francisco Campos and Julian Tavarez are inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
- February 7: Ángel Padrón of La Guaira becomes only the second pitcher in the history of the Caribbean Series to pitch a no-hitter in defeating Rivas, 9-0.
- February 6: Howard Birnie, Paul Godfrey, Rod Heisler, Jimmy Key, Russell Martin and Ashley Stephenson are elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
- February 4: The Adelaide Giants win the 2023-2024 Australian Baseball League. Todd Van Steensel wins finals MVP.
- January 28: The Tiburones de la Guaira take their first Venezuelan League title in 38 years.
- January 27: The Tigres del Licey win their record 24th Dominican League championship.
- January 26: Lachlan Wells wins the Helms Award for 2023-2024.
- January 24: The Naranjeros de Hermosillo sweep the Mexican Pacific League finals, the first team to do so in 11 years.
- January 23: Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer are elected to the Hall of Fame.
- January 21: The Criollos de Caguas win the Puerto Rican League title for a record 21st time.
- January 18: Hiroki Kuroda, Motonobu Tanishige and Tomoichi Tanimura are voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in the 2024 voting.
- January 12: Chien-Ming Wang, Cheng-Hao Peng, Hyotaro Kondo, Keng-Yuan Chen and Kuei-Hsing Lin are named to the Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame.
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