Headline events of the year
As a result of a players' strike, the
MLB season ends prematurely on
August 11,
1994. No
postseason (including the
World
Series) is played. Minor League Baseball is not affected.
During the shortened Major League Baseball season, the league
adorns uniforms and stadiums to announce its celebration of the
125th anniversary of baseball's first professional team, the
Cincinnati Red Stockings.
The
Yomiuri Giants celebrate their
sixtieth anniversary with their eighteenth championship in the
Japan Series.
Considered by some to be among history's greatest athletes,
Michael Jordan suits up for the
Birmingham Barons, the Class AA
affiliate of the
Chicago White
Sox. He plays in his first game on
April
9, going 0-for-3.
Champions
Top Professional League
Minor League Baseball in the United States -- AAA Leagues
Trivia
- Games 1 and 2 of the Albuquerque-Vancouver PCL Championship
Series were seven innings. Because of a rainout September 13, the
game was made up as one of two seven-inning games the next day, in
compliance with minor league rules regarding doubleheaders.
- Three players in the 1994 Japan Series -- Dan Gladden (Yomuiri), Mike Pagliarulo (Seibu),
and Hideki Matsui (Yomiuri) -- played
in a World Series (Gladden 1987 and 1991, Pagliarulo 1991, Matsui
2003 and 2009). Gladden, who retired after the season, finished his
career by becoming another player to win both the World Series and
the Japan Series.
- Both Gladden and Matsui have won a World Series and a Japan
Series, and both are regarded as world champions from this season.
Both players have won a World Series title. Gladden did his in
1987 and 1991, while Matsui completed his double in
2009, winning with the New York
Yankees.
- With the influx of American media at the Japan Series, and the
Chicago White Sox broadcast crew, the coverage of the championship
was Matsui's first brush with American media, and was a breakout
year for the player known as "Godzilla," in his second year as a
pro.
Other champions
Awards and honors
Statistical leaders
Major League Baseball final standings
- On September 14, the remainder of the major league season was
canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig
after 34 days of the players' strike.
Events
- February 15 - Ila Borders becomes the first woman to pitch in
a college game. Appearing for Southern California College of Cosa
Mesa, she throws a 5-hit game against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps,
12-1.
- April 3 - The Cincinnati Reds forego an opening day for an
opening evening; the first time in Major League history that a
season opened with a night game instead of a day game.
- July 28 - Kenny Rogers of the Texas
Rangers throws the fourteenth perfect
game in Major League history.
- August 11 - The final games of the
Major League season are played on this date. The next day, the
players' strike begins. Minor League Baseball games are not
affected.
- September 14 - The owners of the
Major League clubs vote 26-2 to officially cancel the remainder of
the 1994 season, including the playoffs and World Series. There
will be no World Series for the first time since 1904.
- September 20 - Albuquerque ends the
professional baseball season in the United States, winning the
Pacific Coast League championship.
- October 22 - The Japan Series begins
as baseball's professional championship. Reporters from major
American newspapers arrive in Japan for their Fall Classic
coverage. Ken Harrelson, the
play-by-play announcer for the Chicago White Sox, calls the Japan
Series for US audiences on regional sports networks under the Prime
SportsChannel banner.
- October 29 - The Yomiuri Giants win
Game 6 of the Japan Series to become professional baseball's world
champions. Legend says this is the luckiest of all championship
years, as it was the team's sixtieth anniversary, as they are
deemed World Champions by some baseball media.
Movies
Deaths
- January 8 - Harvey Haddix, 68, All-Star pitcher best
remembered for a 1959 game with the Pirates in which he threw 12
perfect innings before losing in the
13th; won 20 games for 1953 Cardinals and earned three Gold
Gloves
- January 9 - Johnny Temple, 66, All-Star second baseman,
primarily for the Cincinnati Reds, who batted .300 three times
- January 10 - Chub Feeney, 72, National League president from
1970 to 1986
- January 24 - Pat Crawford, 91, infielder for
three different National League teams from 1929 to 1934, including
the 1934 World Champions Cardinals
- February 12 - Ray Dandridge, 80, Hall of Fame third baseman
of the Negro Leagues who often batted over .350
- March 16 - Eric
Show, 37, pitcher who won 100 games for the San Diego Padres
and surrendered Pete Rose's record 4,192nd
hit
- March 23 - Roger
Wolff, 82, knuckleball pitcher for the Athletics, Senators,
Indians and Pirates from 1941-47
- May 9 - Ralph
Brickner, 69, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in the 1950s
- June 12 - Jim
Brock, 57, coach at Arizona State since 1972 who led the school
to two College World Series titles
- June 23 - Marv Throneberry, 62, first baseman for the
Yankees, Orioles, Mets and Kansas City A's
- July 13 - Jimmie
Reese, 93, infielder for the Yankees, Angels, Cardinals and
Padres; later a minor league manager and a long-time coach for the
Angels
- July 14 - César Tovar, 54, outfielder for the
Minnesota Twins who in 1968 became the second major leaguer to play
all nine positions in a game; had his team's only hit on five
occasions
- July 26 - Roland
Gladu, 83, Canadian third baseman for the 1944 Boston
Braves
- August 25 - Cliff Garrison, 88, pitcher for the 1928
Boston Red Sox
- September 5 - Hank Aguirre, 63, All-Star pitcher who led AL
in ERA in 1962 with the Detroit Tigers
- November 5 - Gene Desautels, 87, spent 19 years as a
catcher, including 13 major league seasons with the Detroit Tigers,
Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Athletics
- December 4 - Russ Scarritt, 91, left fielder for the Boston
Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies from 1919 to 1932, who in 1929
set a still-standing record for a Red Sox rookie with 17 triples in
a season
- December 26 - Allie Reynolds, 77, 6-time All-Star pitcher,
mainly with the Yankees, who led AL in ERA in 1952 and in
strikeouts and shutouts twice; in 1951 was first AL pitcher to
throw two no-hitters in same year, and was MVP runnerup in 1952;
career .630 winning percentage
, Venezuela
by the Baseball Writers
Association of America, receiving almost 96% of the
vote. Orlando Cepeda falls
seven votes short of the 75% required for election.
, Chicago Cubs outfielder Tuffy
Rhodes blasts three home runs on Opening Day victimizing
New York Mets pitcher Dwight
Gooden. Rhodes becomes the first player in major league
history to hit home runs in his first three at-bats of the season. In spite of Rhodes’
unexpected home run barrage, the Cubs lose the game, 12–8.
, Kent Mercker of the
Atlanta Braves no-hits the Los
Angeles Dodgers 6-0.
Humphrey Metrodome
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