1969 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1969 throughout the world.

Four expansion teams joined Major League Baseball for this season: the San Diego Padres, the Kansas City Royals, the Seattle Pilots, and the first MLB team in Canada, the Montreal Expos. To accommodate the additional teams, the two leagues were split into two divisions of East and West. For the first time, extra post-season playoff series were added prior to the World Series, at this juncture best-of-five series between the East and West division leaders in each league.

The most notable part of the 1969 season were the Miracle Mets

The save is introduced as an official statistic this year. Ron Perranoski leads the majors with 31.

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