This article is about the 1981 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1981 in baseball.
Sports season
1981 MLB season
League
Major League Baseball
Sport
Baseball
Duration
April 8 – June 12, 1981 August 10 – October 28, 1981
Number of games
162 (scheduled) 103–111 (actual)[1]
Number of teams
26
TV partner(s)
ABC, NBC, USA
Draft
Top draft pick
Mike Moore
Picked by
Seattle Mariners
Regular season
Season MVP
AL: Rollie Fingers (MIL) NL: Mike Schmidt (PHI)
Postseason
AL champions
New York Yankees
AL runners-up
Oakland Athletics
NL champions
Los Angeles Dodgers
NL runners-up
Montreal Expos
World Series
Champions
Los Angeles Dodgers
Runners-up
New York Yankees
World Series MVP
Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, and Steve Yeager (LA)
MLB seasons
← 1980
1982 →
The 1981 Major League Baseball season culminated with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the New York Yankees in the World Series, capturing the franchise's fifth World Series title. The season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves. Teams that won their division in each half of the season advanced to the playoffs. This was the first split season in American League history, and second for the National League, which had played a split season in 1892.
The All-Star Game was originally scheduled for July 14, but was canceled due to the strike. It was ultimately played on August 9, as a prelude to the second half of the season, which began the following day.[2]
^"The 1981 Season". Retrosheet. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^Chronology of the Baseball Strike, Associated Press (The New York Times, archives), August 1, 1981.
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