The 1979
Nippon Professional Baseball
or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''.
Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation ...
season was the 30th season of operation for the league.
Regular season standings
Central League
Pacific League
Pacific League Playoff
The Pacific League teams with the best first and second-half records met in a best-of-five playoff series to determine the league representative in the Japan Series.
''Kintetsu Buffaloes won the series 3-0.''
Japan Series
''Hiroshima Toyo Carp won the series 4-3.''
See also
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1979 Major League Baseball season
The 1979 Major League Baseball season. None of the post-season teams of 1977 or 1978 returned to this year's postseason. In a rematch of the 1971 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in the 1979 World ...
References
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1979 in baseball
1979 in Japanese sport