1933 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1933

Headline Event of the Year

* First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game.

Champions

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

Other champions

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

Awards and honors

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

MLB Statistical Leaders

Major League Baseball final standings

American 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.

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.

*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.

Movies

*"Elmer, the Great"

Births

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

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

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

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

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, 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, 55, president of the Cubs since 1919; previously a sportswriter