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 …

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Check out the 1981 MLB Season History, featuring league standings, postseason results, no-hitters, and baseball's leaders in Home Runs, ERA, and more.

Standings Overall First Half Second Half Monday Oct 05 1981 Division Standard Expanded Glossary

League NoteDue to a mid-season players' strike, the season was divided into a first half and a second half. The division winner of each half played each other in a five-game divisional series.

The Stats Crew collects statistics from professional baseball leagues, and uses them to tell baseball's best stories from 1981.

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The postseason began on October 6, 1981, and ended on October 28, 1981, with the Dodgers defeating the Yankees in six games in the 1981 World Series. It was the fifth title for the Dodgers overall and …

Lasting 50 days and wiping out a third of the regular season, the 1981 strike—and its resulting side effects—would create one of the game’s most unpleasant, if not strangest, years on record. Only one …

Due to the two-month strike, Major League owners elected to split the 1981 season into two halves, with the first-place teams from each half in each division meeting in a best-of-five divisional playoff series.