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1971 MLB Season Overview

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The 1971 Major League Baseball season was the final season for the Senators in Washington, D.C., before the team's relocation to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Arlington for the following season, as the Texas Rangers, leaving the nation's capital without a baseball team of its own until 2005. This was the final season the majority of MLB teams wore wool flannel uniforms. The Pirates and Cardinals wore double knit uniforms of nylon and rayon throughout 1971, and the Orioles gradually phased out flannels, going all-double knit in time for the ALCS. By 1973, flannel uniforms completely disappeared from the MLB scene.

The 1971 Major League Baseball season was the final season for the Senators in Washington, D.C., before the team's relocation to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Arlington for the following season, as the Texas Rangers, leaving the nation's capital without a baseball team of its own until 2005. This was the final season the majority of MLB teams wore wool flannel uniforms. The Pirates and Cardinals wore double knit uniforms of nylon and rayon throughout 1971, and the Orioles gradually phased out flannels, going all-double knit in time for the ALCS. By 1973, flannel uniforms completely disappeared from the MLB scene.

1971 MLB champion Pittsburgh Pirates

1971 Pittsburgh Pirates

1971 MLB Season
Pittsburgh Pirates

24 teams competed during the regular season

Pittsburgh Pirates defeated Baltimore Orioles for the championship

Commissioner

Bowie Kuhn

NL President

Chub Feeney

AL President

Joe Cronin

Union Director

Marvin Miller

1971 MLB Draft

Pick Player Team

1 Danny Goodwin / C White Sox

2 Jay Franklin / P Padres

3 Tommy Bianco / SS Brewers

4 Condredge Holloway / SS Expos

5 Roy Branch / P Royals

View Entire 1971 MLB Draft

1 Comment

Davan S. Mani says:

April 17, 2020 at 11:36 pm

what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.

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