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The 1969 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1969 season. It was the first edition of the new playoff system introduced by MLB, coinciding with the beginning of the "Divisional Era." Each league expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams and was divided into two 6-team divisions.
The 1969 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five match-up between the East Division champion New York Mets and the West Division champion Atlanta Braves.It was the opening semifinal round on the National League side of the inaugural edition of the MLB postseason.
MLB called for a four-team expansion to take place in 1971 at the 1967 Winter Meetings, the first expansion since 1962. However, there was a complication: influential U.S. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri was irate over the American League's approval of Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley 's arrangement to move his team to Oakland ...
The 1969 American League Championship Series was the first ALCS held after Major League Baseball adopted the two-division format that season. It was the opening semifinal round on the American League side of the inaugural edition of the MLB postseason .
April 8 – Win Noyes, 79, pitcher in 49 MLB games for the Boston Braves (1913), Philadelphia Athletics (1917, 1919) and Chicago White Sox (1919). April 9 – Frank Scanlan, 78, Philadelphia Phillies southpaw and former Notre Dame baseballer, who pitched in six MLB games during August and September of 1909; brother of Doc Scanlan.
The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1969 season.The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
MLB playoff picture: Wild card standings, latest 2024 division standings. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 2024 MLB playoff schedule: Dates and bracket for fall classic.
The Major League Baseball postseason is an elimination tournament conducted after the regular season, by which MLB determines its World Series champion for a given year.. The MLB postseason format has evolved throughout its history, with the number of participating teams increasing from two (for its first six-plus decades) to the current 12, with a special format in 2020 having 16.