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1984 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1984 throughout the world.

See also: 1984 Major League Baseball season and 1984 Nippon Professional Baseball season

: Detroit Tigers over San Diego Padres (4–1); Alan Trammell, MVP

World Series

Baseball Hall of Fame

Most Valuable Player

Cy Young Award

Rookie of the Year

Manager of the Year Award

Woman Executive of the Year (major or minor league): Mildred Boyenga, , Midwest League

Waterloo Indians

Gold Glove Award

January 5 - The New York Yankees signed , who had spent the previous 25 seasons with the Atlanta Braves.

Phil Niekro

January 10 – , Don Drysdale and Harmon Killebrew are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Luis Aparicio

Ty Cobb

The Natural

January 3 –

Neil Wagner

January 4 –

John Raynor

January 6 –

Jimmy Barthmaier

January 7 –

Carlos Corporán

January 7 –

Jon Lester

January 8 –

Jeff Francoeur

January 8 –

Kevin Whelan

January 9 –

Dustin Richardson

January 10 –

Hunter Jones

January 12 –

Scott Olsen

January 14 –

Erick Aybar

January 14 –

Mike Pelfrey

January 16 –

Matt Maloney

January 18 –

Justin Thomas

January 21 –

Robert Ray

January 22 –

Ubaldo Jiménez

January 24 –

Scott Kazmir

January 25 –

Tyler Graham

January 30 –

Jeremy Hermida

January 31 –

Josh Johnson

January 1 – , 58, Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its 1946 season.

Hazel Measner

January 6 – , 89, who appeared in 25 games, chiefly as an outfielder, for the 1914–1915 St. Louis Browns.

Billy Lee

January 18 – , 54, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in the 1950s, who in 1957 set two PCL records with 20 wins in relief, 14 of them in consecutive games, and also became the first major leaguer to play in Japanese Baseball, for the Mainichi Orions, in 1953.

Leo Kiely

January 22 – , 86, outfielder who played in 1921 and 1922 for the Pittsburgh Keystones of the Negro National League and the barnstorming Homestead Grays.

Johnny Spencer

January 28 – , 71, pitcher who worked in 119 total games over six seasons spanning 1935 to 1945 for five National League clubs, principally the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies.

Ray Harrell

January – , 62, second baseman, third baseman and outfielder for the Baltimore Elite Giants of the Negro National League (1943–1944, 1946, 1948).

Frank Russell