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See also: 1941 Major League Baseball season

The following are the baseball events of the year 1941 throughout the world.

Headline events of the year

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Champions

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Major League Baseball

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Other champions

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Awards and honors

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Statistical leaders

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Any team shown in small text indicates a previous team a player was on during the season.
Any team shown in italics indicates a team a player was on from a different league. Any stat from said different league is not calculated to determine the league leader.

American League National League Negro American League Negro National League
Stat Player Total Player Total Player Total Player Total
AVG Ted Williams (BOS) .406 Pete Reiser (BRO) .343 Lyman Bostock (BBB) .466 Monte Irvin (NE) .387
HR Ted Williams (BOS) 37 Dolph Camilli (BRO) 34 Willard Brown (KCM)
Ted Strong (KCM) 		6 Buck Leonard (HOM) 13
RBI Joe DiMaggio (NYY) 125 Dolph Camilli (BRO) 120 Willard Brown (KCM) 32 Bill Hoskins (BEG/NBY/MEM) 50
W Bob Feller (CLE) 25 Kirby Higbe (BRO)
Whit Wyatt (BRO) 		22 Hilton Smith (KCM) 9 Terris McDuffie (HOM) 11
ERA Thornton Lee (CWS) 2.37 Elmer Riddle (CIN) 2.24 Gready McKinnis (BBB) 1.04 Bill Byrd (BEG) 2.23
K Bob Feller (CLE) 260 Johnny Vander Meer (CIN) 202 Hilton Smith (KCM) 57 Dave Barnhill (NYC) 109

Major league baseball final standings

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American League final standings

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National League final standings

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Negro league baseball final standings

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All Negro leagues standings below are per MLB and Seamheads.[1][2]

Negro American League final standings

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Negro National League final standings

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Independent teams final standings

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The Negro American League All Star team played against two league teams.

vs. All Teams
Independent Clubs W L T Pct. GB
NAL All Stars 1 1 0 .500 —

Events

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January

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Clark Griffith

February

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March

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Hugh Mulcahy

April

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Pete Reiser

May

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Joe DiMaggio in September 1941

June

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  • June 1 – Mel Ott's two-run homer, the 400th of his Hall-of-Fame career, and his 1,500th RBI gives the New York Giants a 3–2 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
  • June 2 – Upon arriving in Detroit by train for their series against the Tigers, members of the New York Yankees are gathered together and informed that Lou Gehrig has died in his sleep, age 37, at his home in Riverdale, Bronx. An estimated five thousand mourners will file past Gehrig's coffin tomorrow at a Riverdale church; they include Babe Ruth, who breaks down and weeps during the sombre procession.[17]
  • June 4 – Luke Sewell replaces Fred Haney as manager of the seventh-place St. Louis Browns. The Browns had entered 1941 with hopes of a rare winning season, but are only 15–29 under Haney and already 12½ games behind the front-running Cleveland Indians in the American League.[18] Sewell, 40, who spent 19 seasons as an MLB catcher, will lead a Brownie revival, going 55–55–3 for the rest of the campaign.
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  • June 9 – AL president Will Harridge announces that the circuit's eight clubs will permit people in the armed forces to attend their games free of charge for the remainder of the 1941 season.
  • June 13 – Three-time NL All-Star catcher Babe Phelps is suspended by the Brooklyn Dodgers after, citing health concerns, he refuses to accompany his teammates on a two-week "Western" road-trip; manager Leo Durocher, furious, vows, "I don't want him on my ball club."[19][20] Phelps, 33, has batted .315 in 581 games spanning 6½ seasons for Brooklyn, but has lost his regular job to Mickey Owen. His tenure with the Dodgers is over, he goes home to Maryland, and he'll be traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in December.
  • June 14 – A widely anticipated match between the top two teams in the American League sees the second-place New York Yankees defeat the league-leading Cleveland Indians, 4–1, before 44,161 in the Bronx, to cut Cleveland's margin to three full games. The Yanks' Atley Donald out-duels Bob Feller, whose personal winning streak is stopped at seven games; he's now 13–3 (2.53). Joe DiMaggio's double in the third inning drives home what proves to be the deciding run, and extends his hitting streak to 27 straight games.[21]
  • June 21 – The Detroit Tigers sign University of Michigan outfielder Dick Wakefield to an unprecedented $51,000 professional contract, the highest amount ever bestowed on an amateur free agent in MLB annals.[22] Wakefield, 20, will make his MLB debut as a pinch hitter June 26, but spend most of the summer in the Class B Piedmont League.
  • June 29 – Although he goes only two-for-nine in today's doubleheader against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium, Joe DiMaggio sets a new American League (and modern-era MLB) record consecutive-game hitting streak, with a "knock" in each contest, and helps his New York Yankees to a sweep, 9–4 and 7–5. With his skein now at 42 straight games, DiMaggio breaks George Sisler's old mark of 41, set in 1922. His next target is the all-time and NL mark of 44 games, held by Willie Keeler since 1897.[23]

July

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Ken Keltner

August

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September

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Ted Williams
  • September 1 — The season's final month begins with the St. Louis Cardinals (81–45–1) and Brooklyn Dodgers (82–46–2) separated by just .002 percentage points as co-leaders of the National League. In contrast, the American League race is all but over: the New York Yankees (88–44–2) are 19½ lengths ahead of the Boston Red Sox and 20 up on the Chicago White Sox.
  • September 4 – The Yankees win their 12th AL pennant in the past 21 seasons, defeating the Red Sox, 6–3, at Fenway Park. It's the earliest clinching game in Junior Circuit history.[33]
  • September 15 – In the National League's longest game, by innings, of the season, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds battle for 16 scoreless innings at Crosley Field, until Pete Reiser leads off the visitors' 17th with a home run off tiring starter Paul Derringer; aided by two Cincinnati errors, the Dodgers tally four more runs and ultimately win, 5–1, to gain a half-game in the pennant race.[11] Johnny Allen goes 15 scoreless innings as Brooklyn's starter, with bullpen ace Hugh Casey getting the victory.[34]
  • September 17 – Twenty-year old Stan Musial makes his major league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals in a contest against the Boston Braves at Sportsman's Park. In his second at bat, he drills a two-RBI double against knuckleballer Jim Tobin, and later adds another hit, as the Redbirds win, 3–2, to sweep a doubleheader and move to a single game behind front-running Brooklyn.[35]
  • September 25 – The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first NL pennant since 1920 and the sixth in their history, defeating the Boston Braves, 6–0, on the road behind the hurling of Whit Wyatt and hitting of Pete Reiser, setting up their first of seven "Subway Series" against the New York Yankees. Wyatt wins his 22nd game and Reiser bangs out two hits, to secure the Senior Circuit's batting title (.343).[36]
    • An estimated 10,000 delirious Brooklyn fans throng Grand Central Station to welcome the Dodgers home. But team president Larry MacPhail is not among them, nor is he on the train from Boston; he had spent the day in New York, and ordered the engineer to stop at 125th Street to enable him to board before it reached its mid-town terminus. Manager Leo Durocher overruled the order, not knowing it came from his volatile boss. As a result, an infuriated MacPhail, stranded at an uptown platform while his team is feted, fires Durocher on the night of the Dodgers' great triumph—only to "un-fire" his skipper the next morning.[37][38]
  • September 28 – Ted Williams enters the season's closing day hitting .3995, which would customarily be "rounded up" to a .400 average. However, Williams decides to play in both games of a doubleheader at Shibe Park against the Philadelphia Athletics to make his feat unquestioned; he goes six for eight in the two games and raises his average to .406—as of 2025, the last time any player has batted .400 or higher in a season.[39]
  • September 29 – The Fort Custer team wins the national amateur championship of the American Baseball Congress with a 3–2 victory over a Charlotte, North Carolina, team. It's the last time the amateur World Series was held until after World War II.
  • September 30 – In the major-league draft, held immediately following the regular season during this era, the New York Giants select 24-year-old right-handed pitcher Sal Maglie from the Detroit Tigers. Almost a decade later—after World War II service, a postwar stint in the "outlaw" Mexican League, and a prolonged suspension for "jumping" his "Organized Baseball" contract—a grizzled Maglie will become an ace starting pitcher for the early 1950s Giants. Other notable future big-leaguers who change teams today include Hi Bithorn, Russ Christopher and Clyde Kluttz.

October

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Mickey Owen

November

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  • November 4 – Dolph Camilli, hard-hitting Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman, is the BBWAA's landslide choice as Most Valuable Player in the National League for 1941. With 19 of 24 first-place votes and 300 points, he surpasses teammate Pete Reiser's three votes and 183 points. Camilli, 34, led the NL in home runs (34) and runs batted in (120); Reiser, 22, won the league's batting title (.343) and also led in runs scored (117) and slugging percentage (.558).[43]
  • November 11 – Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees is named 1941's American League MVP over Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox (15 of 24 first-place votes and 291 points for DiMaggio, 8/24 and 254 for Williams).[43][44] DiMaggio, who established his 56-game hitting streak as an MLB record between mid-May and mid-July, batted .357 with 30 home runs and led the AL in RBI (125), while Williams closed the season with a MLB-leading .406 average, while leading the AL in home runs (37), runs (135), on-base percentage (.553) and slugging (.735). Neither DiMaggio's 56-game streak nor a hitter attaining the .400 plateau have been equalled since.
  • November 24 – A week before minor league baseball's annual meetings, the International League comes to the aid of a flagship club, the Toronto Maple Leafs. A charter member of the IL that's played continuously since 1895, the Leafs have recently struggled in the standings and at the gate, play no Sunday home games due to local blue laws, and have been sold to new owners who've pledged to keep the team alive. Under the assistance plan, each of the seven other IL teams will offer the gate receipts of one Sunday home game to the Toronto club. In addition, the Leafs will switch parent teams from the talent-poor Philadelphia Athletics to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Even though they still finish below .500, the Leafs' attendance will jump from 57,815 to 178,327 in 1942, under their new general manager, 24-year-old Lee MacPhail.
  • November 25
    • Cleveland Indians shortstop Lou Boudreau is appointed the club's new manager at age 24—becoming the second youngest player to manage an MLB team in the 20th century. Coincidentally, he succeeds Roger Peckinpaugh at the Cleveland helm; Peckinpaugh is the century's youngest manager, directing the New York Yankees for 20 games at the close of the 1914 season at the age of 23. Now 50, he moves up to the Indians' front office as general manager,[45] replacing Cy Slapnicka.
    • Doc Prothro, who since 1939 had the misfortune of managing three of the worst teams in Philadelphia Phillies history (cumulative record of 138–320, an average of almost 107 losses a season), reveals that he does not expect to be invited back for 1942. Later this week, coach Hans Lobert will be named Prothro's successor.

December

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Johnny Mize
Arky Vaughan

Births

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Deaths

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January

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  • January 6 – Charley O'Leary, 58, shortstop for the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns between 1904 and 1913 (plus a one-game cameo in 1934), who coached for 21 years with the Cardinals (1913–1917), New York Yankees (1921–1930), Chicago Cubs (1931–1932) and Browns (1934–1937).
  • January 20 – Jack Lelivelt, 55, outfielder for the Senators, Highlanders, Yankees and Naps from 1909 to 1914, who also set an International League record with a 42-game hitting streak in 1912, which was broken by Brandon Watson in 2007.
  • January 24 – Tommy Bond, 84, Irish 19th century pitcher who posted a 234–163 record for six different clubs from 1874 to 1884, and also was the first Triple Crown winner in 1877, while leading the National League with 40 wins, 170 strikeouts, and a 2.11 ERA.
  • January 25 – Chris Lindsay, 62, first baseman who played from 1905 to 1906 with the Detroit Tigers.
  • January 28 – John Johnson, 71, pitcher for the 1894 Philadelphia Phillies.

February

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  • February 2 – Ambrose McGann, 73, infielder/outfielder for the 1895 Louisville Colonels.
  • February 8 – Frank Beck, 79, pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and Baltimore Monumentals during the 1884 season.
  • February 10 – Eddie Boyle, 66, catcher for the Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1890s.
  • February 17 – Happy Iott, 64, outfielder for the 1903 Cleveland Naps.
  • February 18 – Tom Connelly, 43, backup outfielder for the New York Yankees in 1920 and 1921.
  • February 21 – Frank Corridon, 60, pitcher who played from 1904 to 1910 for the Cubs, Phillies and Cardinals, who is credited with being the first major league pitcher to use the spitball.
  • February 23 – Lou Kolls, 48, American League umpire, 1933 until his death; worked 1,195 league games, 1936 All-Star Game and 1938 World Series; former pro football player.
  • February 28 – Wilson Collins, 51, outfielder for the Boston Braves from 1913 to 1914.

March

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  • March 1 – Ivey Wingo, 50, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds in part of 17 seasons spanning 1911–1929, who hit .571 as a member of the 1919 World Series Champions Reds.
  • March 3 – Doc Parker, 68, pitcher for the Chicago Colts and Cincinnati Reds between the 1893 and 1901 seasons.
  • March 8 – Buzz Wetzel, 46, pitcher for the 1927 Philadelphia Athletics and a minor league player/manager who in 1921 guided the London Tecumsehs to the Michigan-Ontario Baseball League championship.
  • March 10 – Doc Hazleton, 64, first baseman for the 1902 St. Louis Cardinals.
  • March 11 – Pi Schwert, 47, catcher for the New York Yankees from 1914 to 1915.
  • March 25 – Eddie Hickey, 68, third baseman for the 1901 Chicago Orphans.
  • March 31 – Kit McKenna, 68, pitcher who played from 1898 to 1899 for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Baltimore Orioles.

April

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  • April 4 – Alex Jones, 71, pitcher for the Alleghenys, Colonels, Senators, Phillies and Tigers from 1889 to 1903.
  • April 13 – Germany Schultz, 47, outfielder from 1912 to 1925 for every National League club with the exception of the New York Giants; later a minor league manager and MLB executive; son Joe Jr. was a major league coach with four clubs and manager of the 1969 Seattle Pilots.
  • April 16 – Howard Wakefield, 57, catcher who played from 1905 to 1907 with the Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators.

May

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  • May 1 – Roxy Snipes, 44, pinch-hitter for the 1923 Chicago White Sox.
  • May 8 – Bill Joyce, 75, third baseman for five teams in eight seasons from 1890 to 1898 and manager of the New York Giants from 1896 through 1898, who tied for the National League home runs title with Ed Delahanty in 1896 and finished second three times.
  • May 10 – Jim Pastorius, 59, pitcher from 1906 to 1909 for the Brooklyn Superbas.
  • May 13 – Henry Medicus, 76, Brooklyn businessman who was co-owner of the Superbas from 1905 to 1912.
  • May 15 – William Lackey, 70, pitcher for the 1890 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • May 16 – Art Williams, 63, first baseman/outfielder for the 1902 Chicago Orphans.
  • May 17 – Bill Husted, 74, pitcher for the 1890 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • May 19:
    • Joe Gedeon, 47, second baseman for the Washington Senators, New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from 1913 to 1920, who led the American League batters with 48 sacrifice hits in 1920, and was one of the eight players suspended for life as result of the Black Sox Scandal.
    • John Schulze, 75, catcher for the 1891 St. Louis Browns.
  • May 23 – Jack Clements, 76, left-handed catcher for six different teams between 1884 and 1900, who caught 1,073 games and also is credited with being the first catcher to wear a chest protector.
  • May 25 – Bob Higgins, 54, catcher who played from 1909 to 1912 for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers.

June

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Mourners at Lou Gehrig's wake
  • June 2 – Lou Gehrig, 37, Hall of Fame first baseman who played from 1923 through 1939 for the New York Yankees, a two-time Most Valuable Player and Triple Crown winner, as well as the second player to hit 400 home runs, who retired to end a record 2,130-game playing streak upon being diagnosed with ALS, the terminal illness that will be known to many as "Lou Gehrig's Disease."
  • June 3 – Andy Cooper, 43, pitcher for the Negro leagues' Detroit Stars and Kansas City Monarchs.
  • June 16 – Mike Flynn, 69, Irish catcher who played in one game with the Boston Reds of the American Association.
  • June 23 – Bill Nelson, 77, pitcher for the 1884 Pittsburgh Alleghenys.

July

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  • July 1 – Harry Adams, 78, umpire both in the National League and American League.
  • July 3 – Tom McCreery, 66, pitcher/outfielder for five different teams from 1895 to 1903, who is the only player in Major League history to hit three inside-the-park home runs in a single game.
  • July 4 – Bruce Petway, 55, Negro leagues catcher in the early 20th century who came to be known as having one of the best throwing arms in the league.
  • July 6:
    • Jack Theis, 49, pitcher for the 1920 Cincinnati Reds.
    • Lucky Wright, 61, pitcher for the 1909 Cleveland Indians.
  • July 7 – Jack Gilbert, 65, outfielder who played with the Washington Senators and New York Giants in the 1898 season and for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1904.
  • July 8 – Jack Wadsworth, 73, pitcher who played for the Cleveland Spiders, Baltimore Orioles and Louisville Colonels in part of four seasons spanning 1890–1895.
  • July 15:
    • Clarence Currie, 62, pitcher who played from 1902 to 1903 with the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs.
    • Frank Isbell, 65, valuable utility man who played in all nine positions for the Chicago White Sox during 10 seasons 1901 to 1909.
  • July 17 – Rube Kisinger, 64, pitcher for the 1902–1903 Detroit Tigers, who also led the Buffalo Bisons to their first Eastern League pennant in 1904.
  • July 20 – Ralph Kreitz, 55, catcher form the 1911 Chicago White Sox.
  • July 30:
    • Howie Shanks, 51, who played in all infield and outfield positions from 1912 through 1925 for the Washington Senators, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
    • Mickey Welch, 82, Hall of Fame pitcher and the third hurler in Major League history to reach 300 victories, preceded only by Pud Galvin and Tim Keefe, who on August 28, 1884, struck out the first nine batters he faced to set a record that has remained untouched, while collecting at least 20 wins in nine seasons, including 17 consecutive wins in 1885 en route to a 44–11 record.
  • July 31 – Jim Byrnes, 61, catcher for the 1906 Philadelphia Athletics.

August

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  • August 8 – Ralph Works, 53, pitcher who played from 1909 through 1912 for the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds.
  • August 15 – Jacob Doyle, 85, outfielder for the 1872 Washington Nationals.
  • August 26 – Stoney McGlynn, 69, pitcher for the 1906-08 St. Louis Cardinals.

September

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  • September 8 – Joe Boehling, 50, pitcher who posted a 55–50 record and a 2.97 ERA in part of seven seasons from 1912 to 1920 for the Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians.
  • September 23 – Tom Morrissey, 81, third baseman for the Detroit Wolverines in 1881 and the Milwaukee Brewers in 1884.
  • September 24 – Lou Castro, 64, Colombian second baseman for the 1902 Philadelphia Athletics, who is regarded as the first Latin player to appear in a Major League game.
  • September 27 – Monte Pfeffer, 49, infielder for the 1913 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • September 29 – John B. Foster, 78, sportswriter and editor of The Spalding Guide.
  • September 30 – John McPherson, 72, pitcher who played with the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1901 season and for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1904.

October

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  • October 3 – Bert Inks, 70, 19th century pitcher who played from 1891 to 1896 for six different clubs, mainly with the Louisville Colonels.
  • October 4 – Walt Justis, 58, pitcher for the 1905 Detroit Tigers.
  • October 13 – George Proeser, 77, who pitched with the Cleveland Blues in 1888 and served as an outfielder for the Syracuse Stars in 1890.
  • October 24 – Emmett Rogers, 71, catcher for the 1890 Toledo Maumees.
  • October 25 – Bill Phillips, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and the Cincinnati Reds of the National League in seven seasons between 1890 and 1903, who is best remembered for managing the 1914 Indianapolis Hoosiers to the Federal League pennant.
  • October 29:
    • Harvey Hendrick, 43, infielder/outfielder who hit .308 for seven different teams between 1923 and 1934.
    • Wilbur Murdoch, 66, outfielder for the 1908 St. Louis Cardinals.

November

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  • November 5 – Varney Anderson, 75, pitcher for the Indianapolis Hoosiers and Washington Senators from 1889 to 1896.
  • November 9 – Fred Worden, 47, pitcher for the 1914 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • November 12 – Ernie Koob, 49, pitcher for the St. Louis Browns from 1915 to 1919, who threw a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox on May 5, 1917.
  • November 15 – Bill Karns, 65, pitcher for the 1901 Baltimore Orioles.
  • November 18 – Charlie Kalbfus, 76, outfielder for the 1884 Washington Nationals.
  • November 19 – Davey Dunkle, 69, pitcher for the Phillies, Senators and White Sox from 1897 to 1904.
  • November 24 – John Henry, 51, catcher for the Washington Senators and Boston Braves from 1910 to 1918.
  • November 27 – Rudy Schwenck, 57, pitcher for the 1909 Chicago Cubs.
  • November 29 – Ed Hahn, 66, outfielder for the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox from 1905 to 1910.

December

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  • December 9 – Ed Mars, 75, pitcher for the 1890 Syracuse Stars of the American Association.
  • December 13 – Roy Witherup, 55, pitcher who played for the Boston Beaneaters and Washington Senators in a span of four seasons between 1906 and 1909.
  • December 14 – George Gillpatrick, 66, pitcher for the 1898 St. Louis Browns of the National League.
  • December 16 – Bill Garfield, 74, pitcher who played with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys in 1889 and for the Cleveland Spiders in 1890.
  • December 25 – George Bell, 67, pitcher who played from 1907 through 1911 for the Brooklyn Superbas and Dodgers clubs.
  • December 28 – Jack Hickey, 60, starting pitcher who appeared in two games for the 1904 Cleveland Naps.

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