1933 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1933 throughout the world.  

Contents 1 Headline Event of the Year 2 Champions 2.1 Major League Baseball 2.2 Other champions 3 Awards and honors 4 MLB Statistical Leaders 5 Major League Baseball final standings 5.1 American League final standings 5.2 National League final standings 6 Negro League Baseball final standings 6.1 Negro National League final standings 7 Events 8 Movies 9 Births 9.1 January-March 9.2 April-June 9.3 July-September 9.4 October-December 10 Deaths 11 References

[edit] Headline Event of the Year

• First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game.

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

• World Series: New York Giants over Washington Senators (4-1)
• First All-Star Game, July 6 at Comiskey Park: American League, 4-2

[edit] Other champions

• First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, September 10 at Comiskey Park: West, 11-7

[edit] Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player
  • Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics, 1B (AL)
  • Carl Hubbell, New York Giants, P (NL)

[edit] MLB Statistical Leaders

American League National League Type Name Stat Name Stat AVG Jimmie Foxx PHA .356 Chuck Klein PHI .368 HR Jimmie Foxx PHA 48 Chuck Klein PHI 28 RBI Jimmie Foxx PHA 163 Chuck Klein PHI 120 Wins Alvin Crowder WSH Lefty Grove PHA 24 Carl Hubbell NYG 23 ERA Mel Harder CLE 2.95 Carl Hubbell NYG 1.66 SO Lefty Gomez NYY 163 Dizzy Dean STL 199 SV Jack Russell WSH 13 Phil Collins PHI 6 SB Ben Chapman NYY 27 Pepper Martin STL 26

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	Washington Senators	99	53	.651	--
2nd	New York Yankees	91	59	.607	7.0
3rd	Philadelphia Athletics	79	72	.523	19.5
4th	Cleveland Indians	75	76	.497	23.5
5th	Detroit Tigers	75	79	.487	25.0
6th	Chicago White Sox	67	83	.447	31.0
7th	Boston Red Sox	63	86	.423	34.5
8th	St. Louis Browns	55	96	.364	43.5

[edit] National League final standings

Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	New York Giants	91	61	.599	--
2nd	Pittsburgh Pirates	87	67	.565	5.0
3rd	Chicago Cubs	86	68	.558	6.0
4th	Boston Braves	83	71	.539	9.0
5th	St. Louis Cardinals	82	71	.536	9.5
6th	Brooklyn Dodgers	65	88	.425	26.5
7th	Philadelphia Phillies	60	92	.395	31.0
8th	Cincinnati Reds	58	94	.382	33.0

[edit] Negro League Baseball final standings

[edit] Negro National League final standings

Negro National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Indianapolis American Giants	36	17	.679
Pittsburgh Crawfords	49	31	.613
Homestead Grays	14	9	.609
Detroit Stars	18	12	.600
Nashville Elite Giants	29	22	.569
Columbus/Akron/Cleveland Blue Birds	22	28	.444
Baltimore Black Sox	13	18	.419

• Homestead was expelled for raiding players.
• Several games were included in the standings against non-League teams.

Post-season:

• Indianapolis and Pittsburgh won the first half.
  • Indianapolis beat Pittsburgh in a one-game play-off.
• Nashville and Pittsburgh won the second half.
  • Pittsburgh beat Nashville in a 3-game play-off.
• Indianapolis and Pittsburgh tied in a one-game play-off.
  • Pittsburgh owner/League commissioner awarded the Pennant to Pittsburgh, over the objection of Indianapolis.

[edit] Events

• March 24 - Babe Ruth, another victim of the Great Depression, takes a pay cut of $23,000 from his previous salary of $75,000.

• May 30 - John Stone of the Detroit Tigers becomes the first player in major league history to collect six extra base hits in a regulation length doubleheader‚ as he hit four doubles and two home runs against the St. Louis Browns.

• July 6 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held in Comiskey Park, Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox. The American League defeated the National League, 4-2, highlighted by Babe Ruth's 3rd inning home run, the first home run in All-Star game history.

• October 1 - At Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth attracts 25‚000 fans as he takes the mound against the Boston Red Sox. Ruth hits a fifth inning home run and takes a 6–0 lead into the sixth inning‚ then hangs on for a 6–5, complete-game victory. The Yankees back the Babe with 18 outfield putouts. Today is his last pitching appearance‚ and he finishes his pitching career for New York with a 5-0 record. Boston pitcher Bob Kline takes the loss. Ruth now has 10 winning seasons in 10 years as a pitcher‚ a mark that will be matched in 2004 by Andy Pettitte.

• October 7 - The New York Giants defeat the Washington Senators, 4-3 in 10 innings, in Game 5 of the World Series to win their fourth World Championship, four games to one. This would be the last World Series the Senators franchise would play in the Nation's Capital.

• November 21 - Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Chuck Klein, who won the National League Triple Crown after hit .368 with 28 home runs and 120 RBI, is sold to the Cubs for $125,000 and three players. Klein, who also led the NL in hits (223), doubles (44), extra bases (79), total bases (365), slugging (.602), on-base % (.368) and OPS (1.025), and finished second in runs (102) and fourth in stolen bases (15), is the only player in major league history to be traded after a Triple Crown season.

• While playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 61 consecutive games.^[1]

[edit] Movies

• Elmer, the Great

[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

• January 4 - Ray Monzant
• January 6 - Lenny Green
• January 8 - Willie Tasby
• January 20 - Gene Stephens
• February 14 - Tom Borland
• February 26 - Johnny Blanchard
• March 6 - Ted Abernathy
• March 7 - Ed Bouchee
• March 20 - George Altman

[edit] April-June

• April 7 - Bobby Del Greco
• April 12 - Charlie Lau
• April 29 - Ed Charles
• May 13 - Johnny Roseboro
• May 9 - Ron Jackson
• May 18 - Carroll Hardy
• June 2 - Jerry Lumpe
• June 7 - Herb Score
• June 14 - Jim Constable
• June 19 - Ken Johnson

[edit] July-September

• July 26 - Norm Siebern
• July 1 - Frank Baumann
• July 27 - Johnny Kucks
• August 10 - Rocky Colavito
• August 18 - Jim Davenport
• September 2 - Marv Throneberry
• September 17 - Chuck Daniel
• September 27 - Jerry Casale

[edit] October-December

• October 21 - Johnny Goryl
• October 22 - Ron Jackson
• October 27 - Pumpsie Green
• November 4 - Tito Francona
• November 17 - Orlando Peña
• November 26 - Minnie Rojas
• December 31 - Ken Rowe

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - Kid Gleason, 66, who won 138 games as a pitcher and was second baseman for four teams from 1895-1906, twice batting .300; won AL pennant as rookie manager of White Sox in 1919, then watched as team threw World Series
• January 4 - Hal Deviney, 39, pitched for the 1920 Boston Red Sox
• January 31 - Beany Jacobson, 51, pitcher for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns and Boston Americans in the 1900s
• March 20 - Dan Burke, 64, catcher/outfielder who played from 1890 to 1892 for the Rochester Broncos, Syracuse Stars and Boston Beaneaters
• April 23 - Tim Keefe, 76, pitcher who won over 340 games, including six 30-win campaigns for the New York Metropolitans and Giants from 1883-88, with 40-win seasons in 1883 and 1886; led league in ERA three times and strikeouts twice, with career strikeout mark (2500+) being record until 1908; won 19 straight in 1888, leading Giants to first pennant, and was 4-0 with 0.51 ERA in championship series
• May 19 - Wes Curry, 73, umpire for six seasons between 1885 and 1898 who also pitched two games in 1884
• May 24 - Phonney Martin, 87, player and manager for the 1872 Brooklyn Eckfords, also played for the 1872 Troy Trojans, and 1873 New York Mutuals.
• June 3 - Jack O'Brien, 60, outfielder for four clubs, and the first player to pinch-hit in World Series history, as a member of the 1903 Boston Americans
• July 23 - Rip Williams, 51, versatile utility who appeared in 498 games for the Red Sox, Senators and Indians between 1911 and 1918
• September 16 - George Gore, 76, center fielder for the White Stockings and Giants who batted .301 lifetime and won 1880 batting title; led NL in walks three times and runs twice, and upon retirement was fifth all-time in runs and second in walks
• September 25 - Ring Lardner, 48, sportswriter for various newspapers, mainly in Chicago, since 1907; pioneered the satirical cynic's view of sports reporting
• October 5 - William Veeck, Sr., 55, president of the Cubs since 1919; previously a sportswriter
• October 10 - Joe Kostal, 57, pitched two games for the 1896 Louisville Colonels.

[edit] References

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