1917 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1917

Champions

Major League Baseball

*World Series: Chicago White Sox over New York Giants (4-2)

Awards

*MLB Most Valuable Player Award
** None

MLB Statistical Leaders

Events

*April 14 - Eddie Cicotte of the Chicago White Sox tosses a no-hitter in an 11-0 victory over the St. Louis Browns.
*April 24 - George Mogridge pitches a no-hitter for the New York Yankees in a 2-1 win over the Boston Red Sox.
*May 2 - In one of the most outstanding pitching duel's in baseball history, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Fred Toney tosses a 10-inning no-hitter in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs. Opposing pitcher Hippo Vaughn did not surrender a hit until a one-out single in the 10th inning.
*May 5 - Ernie Koob pitches a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox as the St. Louis Browns defeat Chicago, 1-0.
*May 6 - In the second game of a double-header, St. Louis Browns pitcher Bob Groom makes it two no-hitters in three games against the Chicago White Sox in a 3-0 Browns victory.
*June 23 - In perhaps the most unusual no-hitter credited to a single pitcher, Ernie Shore lead the Boston Red Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Washington Senators. Babe Ruth started the game for Boston, walking the first batter, Ray Morgan. As newspaper accounts of the time tell it, the short-fused Ruth then engaged in a heated argument with apparently equally short-fused home plate umpire Brick Owens. Owens tossed Ruth out of the game, and the even-more-enraged Ruth then slugged the ump a glancing blow before being taken off the field; the catcher was also ejected. Shore was recruited to pitch, and came in with very few warmup pitches. With a new pitcher and catcher, runner Morgan tried to steal but was thrown out. Shore then proceeded to retire the remaining 26 Senators without surrendering a hit, earning the win. The game is sometimes erroneously referred to as a "perfect game in relief," and some baseball historians have argued that it should count as a no-hitter.
*October 15 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the New York Giants, 4-2, in Game 6 of the World Series to capture their second World Championship, four games to two. The White Sox were essentially dismantled following the by|1920 season by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis due to the Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series. The team would not win another World Series for 88 years.

Births

January-March

*January 13 - Stan Wentzel
*January 16 - Bob Ramazzotti
*January 20 - Joe Dobson
*January 22 - Huck Geary
*January 24 - Danny Doyle
*January 24 - Wally Judnich
*January 25 - Carl McNabb
*January 30 - Mickey Harris
*February 10 - Allie Reynolds
*February 12 - Dom DiMaggio
*February 14 - Augie Bergamo
*February 19 - Chuck Aleno
*February 20 - Jack Bolling
*February 27 - Rube Melton
*March 1 - Rankin Johnson
*March 2 - Jim Konstanty
*March 4 - Clyde McCullough
*March 8 - Bill Salkeld
*March 17 - Hank Sauer
*March 29 - Tommy Holmes

April-June

*April 8 - Nick Polly
*April 11 - Barney McCosky
*April 14 - Marvin Miller
*April 15 - Elmer Gedeon
*April 17 - Stan Andrews
*April 18 - Ty LaForest
*April 20 - Hal Peck
*April 23 - Tony Lupien
*April 25 - John Dagenhard
*April 26 - Sal Maglie
*April 26 - Virgil Trucks
*April 29 - Bob Whitcher
*May 1 - Johnny Berardino
*May 1 - Tommy Nelson
*May 5 - George Dockins
*May 5 - Lennie Merullo
*May 6 - Mike McCormick
*May 7 - Al Papai
*May 13 - Lou Stringer
*May 14 - Bob Thurman
*June 7 - Junior Thompson
*June 23 - Bubba Floyd

July-September

*July 4 - Mike Palagyi
*July 5 - Tommy Warren
*July 10 - Hugh Alexander
*July 17 - Lou Boudreau
*July 18 - Leo Wells
*July 23 - Ray Scarborough
*July 26 - Jimmy Bloodworth
*July 27 - Bill Sayles
*August 8 - Ken Raffensberger
*August 13 - Sid Gordon
*August 27 - Peanuts Lowrey
*August 31 - Frank Dasso
*September 7 - Roy Partee
*September 12 - Russ Christopher
*September 14 - John Douglas
*September 21 - Joe Haynes
*September 22 - Anse Moore
*September 25 - Phil Rizzuto
*September 25 - Johnny Sain
*September 26 - Thurman Tucker
*September 28 - Glen Moulder
*September 28 - Mike Ulisney

October-December

*October 8 - Danny Murtaugh
*October 25 - Lee MacPhail
*October 28 - Joe Page
*October 30 - Bobby Bragan
*October 11 - Vince Castino
*October 17 - Johnny Ostrowski
*November 1 - Pat Mullin
*November 3 - Len Gilmore
*November 11 - Pat Scantlebury
*November 20 - Mike Schemer
*December 1 - Marty Marion
*December 12 - Clyde Kluttz

Deaths

*February 7 - Tim Murnane, 64, first baseman and center fielder in the early years of professional baseball who became president of the New England League and went on to a distinguished tenure as sports editor of "The Boston Globe" for over 30 years, serving as one of the sport's leading advocates
*July 1 - Al Buckenberger, 56, manager for four teams, mainly for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Beaneaters. His career spanned from 1889 to 1904.