1971 Major League Baseball season

1971 MLB season
LeagueMajor League Baseball
SportBaseball
DurationApril 5 – October 17, 1971
Number of games162
Number of teams24
TV partner(s)NBC
Draft
Top draft pickDanny Goodwin
Picked byChicago White Sox
Regular season
Season MVPAL: Vida Blue (OAK)
NL: Joe Torre (STL)
Postseason
AL championsBaltimore Orioles
  AL runners-upOakland Athletics
NL championsPittsburgh Pirates
  NL runners-upSan Francisco Giants
World Series
ChampionsPittsburgh Pirates
  Runners-upBaltimore Orioles
World Series MVPRoberto Clemente (PIT)
MLB seasons

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.