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The following are the baseball events of the year 1933 throughout the world.
[edit] Headline Events of the Year
[edit] Champions
[edit] Major League Baseball
[edit] Other champions
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] MLB statistical leaders
[edit] Major league baseball final standings
[edit] American League final standings
[edit] National League final standings
[edit] Negro League Baseball final standings
[edit] Negro National League final standings
- 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
[edit] January - June
- April 12 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Detroit Tigers, 4-1, in thirteen innings on opening day.
- May 16 - The Washington Senators beat the Cleveland Indians, 11-10, in twelve innings. Cleveland uses five pitchers; Washington uses six. The combined eleven pitchers used was at the time a record.
- 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.
[edit] July - September
- July 19 - Rick & Wes Ferrell become the first brothers on opposing teams to hit home runs in the same game, as Wes' Indians defeat Rick's BoSox, 8-7, in thirteen innings.
- July 22 - The Washington Senators and New York Yankees are tied for first with 55-32 records. Washington beats the Detroit Tigers, 4-3, while the Yanks fall to the Cleveland Indians, 2-1. Washington maintains sole possession of first place for the remainder of the season.
- August 3 - For the first time in two years (August 2, 1931), the New York Yankees are shut out by their opponent.
- August 4 - For the second game in a row, the New York Giants defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 18-1.
- August 22 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the Washington Senators, 10-8, snapping Washington's thirteen game winning streak.
- August 31 - Dutch Leonard makes his major league debut, pitching 7.1 innings and giving up three earned runs in the Brooklyn Dodgers' 10-3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
[edit] October - December
- 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. Boston pitcher Bob Kline takes the loss. The Yankees back the Babe with 18 outfield putouts. It is the final pitching appearance of his career. Ruth now has ten winning seasons in ten years as a pitcher‚ a mark that will be matched in 2004 by Andy Pettitte. Ruth's record on the mound for the Yankees is a perfect 5-0.
- At 57 years old, former Washington Senators pitcher and current coach Nick Altrock takes a pinch hit at-bat in the Senators' eleven inning 3-0 loss to the Philadelphia A's.
- October 4 - A six run sixth inning and superb pitching by Hal Schumacher carry the Giants to victory in game two of the World Series.
- October 5 - Earl Whitehill shuts the Giants out in game three of the World Series, as Washington takes game three, 4-0.
- October 6 - Blondy Ryan's eleventh inning single gives the Giants the 2-1 victory in game four of the World Series.
- October 7 - In Game 5 of the World Series, the New York Giants defeat the Washington Senators, 4-3 in ten innings, 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.
- December 20 - The Washington Senators trade Goose Goslin to the Detroit Tigers for John Stone.
[edit] Movies
[edit] Births
[edit] January–March
[edit] April–June
[edit] July–September
[edit] October–December
[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 (decade)
- 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
- June 13 - Gat Stires, 83, outfielder for the Rockford Forest Citys 1868 to 1871.
- July 23 - Rip Williams, 51, versatile utility who appeared in 498 games for the Red Sox, Senators and Indians between 1911 and 1918
- September 13 - Bill Brennan, 52, Umpire in the National League and Federal League
- 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.
- October 13 - Al Mannassau, 67, Umpire in the National League, American League, and the Federal League
[edit] References
- ^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.210, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
- ^ Buddy Myers at Baseball Reference
- ^ Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball Since 1921, Robert F. Burk, p.50, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-2592-1
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