This article is about the 1959 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1959 in baseball.
The 1959 Major League Baseball season saw the Los Angeles Dodgers, free of the strife produced by their move from Brooklyn the previous season, rebound to win the National League after a two-game playoff against the Milwaukee Braves, who themselves had moved from Boston in 1953. The Dodgers were to win the World Series against a Chicago White Sox team that had not played in the “Fall Classic” since 1918 and was interrupting a Yankees’ dynasty over the American League between 1949 and 1964.
The season is notable as the only one between 1950 and 1981 where no pitcher pitched a no-hitter.[1][a]