This article is about the 1976 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1976 in baseball.
Sports season
1976 MLB season
League
Major League Baseball
Sport
Baseball
Duration
April 8 – October 21, 1976
Number of games
162
Number of teams
24
TV partner(s)
ABC, NBC
Draft
Top draft pick
Floyd Bannister
Picked by
Houston Astros
Regular season
Season MVP
AL: Thurman Munson (NYY) NL: Joe Morgan (CIN)
Postseason
AL champions
New York Yankees
AL runners-up
Kansas City Royals
NL champions
Cincinnati Reds
NL runners-up
Philadelphia Phillies
World Series
Champions
Cincinnati Reds
Runners-up
New York Yankees
World Series MVP
Johnny Bench (CIN)
MLB seasons
← 1975
1977 →
The 1976 Major League Baseball season ended with the Cincinnati Reds winning their second consecutive World Series championship.
This was the last season of the expansion era (dating back to 1961) until 1993 in which the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) had the same number of teams.
A lockout occurred during March 1–17, but it did not impact the regular season.[1]
The All-Star Game, held at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, was a 7–1 victory for the NL over the AL.
The Reds won the 1976 World Series by sweeping the New York Yankees in four games; the Reds remain the only team to go undefeated in the postseason since the advent of the divisional era in 1969. It was the Reds' last title until Lou Piniella led the team to a championship in 1990. This was the second time that the Yankees were swept in a World Series, the first having been by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1963 World Series.
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