1986 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1986 throughout the world.
See also: 1986 Major League Baseball season and 1986 Nippon Professional Baseball seasonBaseball Hall of Fame
Most Valuable Player
Cy Young Award
Rookie of the Year
Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award
Manager of the Year Award
Gold Glove Award
Butch Wynegar
January 28 - signs with the Texas Rangers after spending much of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Darrell Porter
January 1 –
Nick Hagadone
January 5 –
J. P. Arencibia
January 8 –
James Russell
January 16 –
Reid Brignac
January 16 –
Mark Trumbo
January 20 –
David Lough
January 24 –
Andy Dirks
January 24 –
Tyler Flowers
January 24 –
Franklin Morales
January 27 –
Yohan Flande
January 28 –
Brandon Guyer
January 28 –
Nate Jones
January 29 –
Jair Jurrjens
January 30 –
Nick Evans
January 30 –
Jordan Pacheco
January 30 –
Mark Rogers
January 1 – , 57, backup catcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates over part of three seasons spanning 1954–1958.
Bill Hall
January 2 – , 70, catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies during the 1943 and 1944 seasons.
Bob Finley
January 2 – , 71, principal owner of the Cleveland Indians (1946–1949), St. Louis Browns (1951–1953) and Chicago White Sox (1959–1961 and 1976–1980); broke the American League's color barrier by signing Larry Doby in 1947 and brought Cleveland its second-ever World Series title in 1948; perhaps best remembered for the wacky promotions he used to draw crowds and entertain fans at the ballpark, which included using midget Eddie Gaedel in a 1951 Browns game, and installing fireworks in the Comiskey Park scoreboard; elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.
Bill Veeck
January 3 – , 70, Cuban backup catcher who played from 1942 to 1943 for the Chicago Cubs.
Chico Hernández
January 4 – , 96, a five-sport star at Dartmouth College and Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1913, who later became a prominent coach of football and baseball at the Lowell Technological Institute, Middlebury College, Auburn University, Fordham University and Bates College in the period between 1916 and 1939.
Dave Morey
January 7 – , 85, catcher who played eight games for the 1924 Chicago White Sox.
Joe Burns
January 10 – , 90, pitcher in ten games for 1918 Philadelphia Athletics who became a minor league manager; longtime employee of the Chicago Cubs as a coach (1935–1939, 1944–1953) and scout; interim manager of Cubs for one game (May 3, 1944).
Roy Johnson
January 11 – , 70, minor-league player and manager who was an MLB coach for the Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and California Angels for all or part of seven seasons between 1966 and 1976.
Grover Resinger
January 12 – , 34, trustworthy relief pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox over ten seasons spanning 1973–1982.
Eddie Solomon
January 13 – , 62, three-time All-Star pitcher who played for three teams in 14 seasons from 1948 to 1961, mostly with the Cleveland Indians in a span of 12 years, winning 142 games for the Indians, including 20 or more wins and leading the American League in earned run average twice each, being also a member of their storied 'Big Four' pitching rotation in its 1954 season, along with Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Early Wynn, as they started 147 of the 156 games of the team, while posting a collective record of 93–36 and 2.85 ERA, guiding the Indians to the World Series for the first time in six years and the third in 34 years.[3]
Mike Garcia
January 15 – , 93, third baseman for three American League clubs from 1918 to 1920, who was also a member of the 1918 World Series Champion Red Sox and a World War I veteran.
Fred Thomas
January 24 – , 47, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies over seven seasons between 1962 and 1969, who has the distinction of being one of only four Major League Baseball pitchers to be ejected from a game for violation of the spitball rule.
John Boozer
January 28 – , 91, pitcher who played for the New York Giants in its 1920 season.