This article is about the 1984 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see
1984 in baseball .
The 1984 Major League Baseball season started with a 9-game winning streak by the eventual World Series champions Detroit Tigers who started the season with 35 wins and 5 losses and never relinquished the first place lead.
On March 3, 1984, Peter Ueberroth was elected by the owners as the sixth commissioner of baseball (replacing retiring commissioner Bowie Kuhn ) and officially took office on October 1 of that year. As a condition of his hiring, Ueberroth increased the commissioner's fining ability from US$5,000 to $250,000. His salary was raised to a reported $450,000, nearly twice what Kuhn was paid.
Just as Ueberroth was taking office, the Major League Umpires Union was threatening to strike the postseason. Ueberroth managed to arbitrate the disagreement and had the umpires back to work before the League Championship Series were over.
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Home field attendance
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Team name
Wins
%±
Home attendance
%±
Per game
Los Angeles Dodgers [ 1] 79
−13.2%
3,134,824
−10.7%
38,702
Detroit Tigers [ 2] 104
13.0%
2,704,794
47.8%
32,985
California Angels [ 3] 81
15.7%
2,402,997
−5.9%
29,667
Chicago White Sox [ 4] 74
−25.3%
2,136,988
0.2%
26,383
Toronto Blue Jays [ 5] 89
0.0%
2,110,009
9.3%
26,049
Chicago Cubs [ 6] 96
35.2%
2,107,655
42.4%
26,346
Philadelphia Phillies [ 7] 81
−10.0%
2,062,693
−3.1%
25,465
Baltimore Orioles [ 8] 85
−13.3%
2,045,784
0.2%
25,257
St. Louis Cardinals [ 9] 84
6.3%
2,037,448
−12.1%
25,154
San Diego Padres [ 10] 92
13.6%
1,983,904
28.8%
24,493
New York Mets [ 11] 90
32.4%
1,842,695
65.6%
22,749
New York Yankees [ 12] 87
−4.4%
1,821,815
−19.3%
22,492
Kansas City Royals [ 13] 84
6.3%
1,810,018
−7.8%
22,346
Atlanta Braves [ 14] 80
−9.1%
1,724,892
−18.6%
21,295
Boston Red Sox [ 15] 86
10.3%
1,661,618
−6.8%
20,514
Milwaukee Brewers [ 16] 67
−23.0%
1,608,509
−32.9%
19,858
Montreal Expos [ 17] 78
−4.9%
1,606,531
−30.8%
19,834
Minnesota Twins [ 18] 81
15.7%
1,598,692
86.1%
19,737
Oakland Athletics [ 7] 77
4.1%
1,353,281
4.5%
16,707
Cincinnati Reds [ 19] 70
−5.4%
1,275,887
7.2%
15,752
Houston Astros [ 20] 80
−5.9%
1,229,862
−9.0%
15,183
Texas Rangers [ 21] 69
−10.4%
1,102,471
−19.1%
13,781
San Francisco Giants [ 22] 66
−16.5%
1,001,545
−20.0%
12,365
Seattle Mariners [ 23] 74
23.3%
870,372
7.0%
10,745
Pittsburgh Pirates [ 24] 75
−10.7%
773,500
−36.9%
9,549
Cleveland Indians [ 25] 75
7.1%
734,079
−4.5%
9,063
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