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.
New commissioner
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.
June 23: On a broadcast of
NBC's Game of the Week between the
Chicago Cubs and
St. Louis Cardinals, Cubs second baseman
Ryne Sandberg hits two crucial, game tying home runs off of Cardinals closer
Bruce Sutter in both the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings. The Cubs would go on to win the game in eleven innings, by the score of 12–11.
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.
New commissioner
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.
June 23: On a broadcast of
NBC's Game of the Week between the
Chicago Cubs and
St. Louis Cardinals, Cubs second baseman
Ryne Sandberg hits two crucial, game tying home runs off of Cardinals closer
Bruce Sutter in both the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings. The Cubs would go on to win the game in eleven innings, by the score of 12–11.