1976 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1976 throughout the world.

Contents

Champions

Major League Baseball

League Championship Series
(ALCS, NLCS)
World Series
      
East NY Yankees 3
West Kansas City 2
AL NY Yankees 0
NL Cincinnati4
East Philadelphia 0
West Cincinnati 3

Other champions

Winter Leagues

Awards and honors

Statistical leaders

American League National League
AVG George Brett KCR.333 Bill Madlock CHC.339
HR Graig Nettles NYY32 Mike Schmidt PHI38
RBI Lee May BAL109 George Foster CIN121
Wins Jim Palmer BAL22 Randy Jones SDP22
ERA Mark Fidrych DET2.34   John Denny STL2.52  
Ks Nolan Ryan CAL327 Tom Seaver NYM235

Major league baseball final standings

Events

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February

March

April

May

June

Oakland fire sale

  • Before the June 15, 1976, trading deadline, Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley, anticipating the impact of free agency, contacts the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. He proposes a trade to the Red Sox that involves Joe Rudi, Rollie Fingers, Vida Blue, Gene Tenace and Sal Bando in exchange for Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk and minor league prospects. [4] In trade talks with the Yankees, Finley proposes sending Blue to the Bronx for Thurman Munson along with either Roy White or Elliott Maddox. Finley also offers Rudi for Munson. [4]
  • On June 14, Finley is unable to make any trades. He starts contacting other teams about selling his players' contracts. Joe Rudi, Vida Blue, Don Baylor, and Gene Tenace are valued at $1 million each, while Sal Bando can be acquired for $500,000. Red Sox general manager Dick O'Connell is in Oakland, because the Red Sox are due to play the Athletics on June 15. Field manager Darrell Johnson has declared that he is interested in Rudi and Fingers. On June 15, the Red Sox purchase both contracts for $1 million each. Rudi and Fingers cross the field, put on Red Sox uniforms, and sit in the Boston dugout to watch the Athletics beat the Red Sox, 3–2, on Tenace's walk-off home run. In the end, Fingers never plays an official game for Boston; Rudi will appear in 49 games for the 1981 Red Sox and bat only .180. [5]
  • O'Connell contacts Detroit Tigers general manager Jim Campbell about purchasing Blue for $1 million to block the Yankees from getting him. [4] Gabe Paul, president/general manager of the Yankees, tells Finley he will pay $1.5 million to acquire Blue, and Finley offers Blue a three-year extension worth $485,000 per season to make the sale more attractive to the Yankees. [4] With the extension, the Yankees agree to purchase Blue.
  • Finley also contacts Bill Veeck of the Chicago White Sox about purchasing Sal Bando and the Texas Rangers, who are interested in Don Baylor. [4]
  • On June 18, Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn voids the Rudi, Fingers and Blue transactions in the "best interests of baseball." Amid the turmoil, the A's will still finish second in the AL West, 2½ games behind the Kansas City Royals.

July

August

September

October

November

December

Movies

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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References

  1. The Associated Press (January 9, 1976). "Baseball Giants Sold to Group in Toronto". nytimes.com. The New York Times . Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  2. "Giants Moving: Toronto". St. Petersburg Times. 1976-01-09.
  3. The Associated Press (June 1, 1976). "Blyleven Goes to Texas". timesmachine.nytimes.com. The New York Times . Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Green, G. Michael; Launius, Roger D. (2010). Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman. New York: Walker Publishing. p. 247-249. ISBN   978-0-8027-1745-0.
  5. Coffey, Alex. "Rollie Fingers' Three Days With the Red Sox". baseballhall.org. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  6. Bush, Frederick C. "Dodgers' Steve Yeager Suffers Near-Fatal On-Field Accident". sabr.org. The Society for American Baseball Research . Retrieved August 31, 2024.
  7. Putterman, Alex (June 4, 2017). "The Forgotten Legacy of the Atlanta Braves' Bill Lucas". theatlantic.com. The Atlantic . Retrieved September 2, 2024.