1979 MLB Season in Review - The Baseball Cube

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A high-level summary of the 1979 Major League Baseball Season. The page includes standings, team totals and leaderboards. There is a lot more information on the season in various sub-sections such as the player register, team pages and boxscore-related pages.

Season Information

Season

1979

World Series Champions

Pittsburgh Pirates

Runner Up

Baltimore Orioles

Most Valuable Players

AL: Don Baylor NL: Keith Hernandez

Cy Young Winners

AL: Mike Flanagan NL: Bruce Sutter

Rookies of the Year

AL: John Castino NL: Rick Sutcliffe

Managers of the Year

AL: NL:

#1 Draft Pick

Al Chambers (Seattle Mariners)

All-Star Game

Seattle,Washington

Teams

Players

898

Attendance

43,550,398

Payroll

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1979 Major League Baseball Standings

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Grid Filters		Playoff Team
American League East
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	1	Baltimore Orioles	T - S - R - L	159	102	57	.642	--	757	582	175	Lost World Series (Pirates)	1,681,009	11	Hank Peters	Earl Weaver	Memorial Stadium
2	2	4	Milwaukee Brewers	T - S - R - L	161	95	66	.590	8.0	807	722	85	dnq	1,918,343	9	Harry Dalton	George Bamberger	County Stadium
3	3	5	Boston Red Sox	T - S - R - L	160	91	69	.569	11.5	841	711	130	dnq	2,353,114	6	Haywood Sullivan	Don Zimmer	Fenway Park
4	4	7	New York Yankees	T - S - R - L	160	89	71	.556	13.5	734	672	62	dnq	2,537,765	3	Cedric Tallis	Billy Martin, Bob Lemon	Yankee Stadium I
5	6	11	Detroit Tigers	T - S - R - L	161	85	76	.528	18.0	770	738	32	dnq	1,630,929	13	Jim Campbell	Sparky Anderson, Les Moss, Dick Tracewski	Tiger Stadium
6	10	16	Cleveland Indians	T - S - R - L	161	81	80	.503	22.0	760	805	-45	dnq	1,011,644	22	Phil Seghi	Jeff Torborg, Dave Garcia	Cleveland Stadium
7	14	26	Toronto Blue Jays	T - S - R - L	162	53	109	.327	50.5	613	862	-249	dnq	1,431,651	19	Pat Gillick	Roy Hartsfield	Exhibition Stadium
American League West
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	5	9	California Angels	T - S - R - L	162	88	74	.543	--	866	768	98	Lost ALCS (Orioles)	2,523,575	4	Buzzie Bavasi	Jim Fregosi	Anaheim Stadium
2	7	12	Kansas City Royals	T - S - R - L	162	85	77	.525	3.0	851	816	35	dnq	2,261,845	7	Joe Burke	Whitey Herzog	Royals Stadium
3	8	14	Texas Rangers	T - S - R - L	162	83	79	.512	5.0	750	698	52	dnq	1,519,671	15	Eddie Robinson	Pat Corrales	Arlington Stadium
4	9	15	Minnesota Twins	T - S - R - L	162	82	80	.506	6.0	764	725	39	dnq	1,070,521	21	Calvin Griffith	Gene Mauch	Metropolitan Stadium
5	11	19	Chicago White Sox	T - S - R - L	160	73	87	.456	14.0	730	748	-18	dnq	1,280,702	20	Roland Hemond	Don Kessinger, Tony La Russa	Comiskey Park
6	12	22	Seattle Mariners	T - S - R - L	162	67	95	.414	21.0	711	820	-109	dnq	844,447	23	Lou Gorman	Darrell Johnson	The Kingdome
7	13	25	Oakland Athletics	T - S - R - L	162	54	108	.333	34.0	573	860	-287	dnq	306,763	26	Charlie Finley	Jim Marshall	Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
National League East
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	2	Pittsburgh Pirates	T - S - R - L	162	98	64	.605	--	775	643	132	Won World Series (Orioles)	1,435,454	18	Hardy Peterson	Chuck Tanner	Three Rivers Stadium
2	2	3	Montreal Expos	T - S - R - L	160	95	65	.594	2.0	701	581	120	dnq	2,102,173	8	John McHale	Dick Williams	Olympic Stadium
3	5	10	St. Louis Cardinals	T - S - R - L	162	86	76	.531	12.0	731	693	38	dnq	1,627,256	14	John Claiborne	Ken Boyer	Busch Stadium II
4	6	13	Philadelphia Phillies	T - S - R - L	162	84	78	.519	14.0	683	718	-35	dnq	2,775,011	2	Paul Owens	Danny Ozark, Dallas Green	Veterans Stadium
5	7	17	Chicago Cubs	T - S - R - L	162	80	82	.494	18.0	706	707	-1	dnq	1,648,587	12	Bob Kennedy	Herman Franks, Joey Amalfitano	Wrigley Field
6	12	24	New York Mets	T - S - R - L	162	63	99	.389	35.0	593	706	-113	dnq	788,905	24	Joe McDonald	Joe Torre	Shea Stadium
National League West
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	3	6	Cincinnati Reds	T - S - R - L	161	90	71	.559	--	731	644	87	Lost NLCS (Pirates)	2,356,933	5	Dick Wagner	John McNamara	Riverfront Stadium
2	4	8	Houston Astros	T - S - R - L	162	89	73	.549	1.5	583	582	1	dnq	1,900,312	10	Tal Smith	Bill Virdon	Astrodome
3	8	18	Los Angeles Dodgers	T - S - R - L	162	79	83	.488	11.5	739	717	22	dnq	2,860,954	1	Al Campanis	Tom Lasorda	Dodger Stadium
4	9	20	San Francisco Giants	T - S - R - L	162	71	91	.438	19.5	672	751	-79	dnq	1,456,402	17	Spec Richardson	Joe Altobelli, Dave Bristol	Candlestick Park
5	10	21	San Diego Padres	T - S - R - L	161	68	93	.422	22.0	603	681	-78	dnq	1,456,967	16	Bob Fontaine	Roger Craig	San Diego Stadium
6	11	23	Atlanta Braves	T - S - R - L	160	66	94	.413	23.5	669	763	-94	dnq	769,465	25	Bill Lucas	Bobby Cox	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
26 record(s)

Glossary:
Rank If team context, indicates Divisional Rank LgRank Rank within a League. For MLB, refers to AL or NL MLBRank Rank in all of Major League Baseball for the season Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. G Games Played (or Pitched) W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L)) GBL Games behind leader. ((Team A Wins-Team B Wins) + (Team A Losses-Team B Losses))/2 RF Runs For RA Runs Against Diff Run Differential. RF-RA Playoffs Playoff participation description. Attendance Number of people paying for tickets for games Att Rank Attendance rank within the league Ballpark Team or School's ballpark for the season

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