1932 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1932

Champions

*World Series: New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4-0)
*Negro League World Series: Pittsburgh Crawfords over Monroe Monarchs (5-1)

Awards and honors

*MLB Most Valuable Player Award
** Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics, 1B
** Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillies, OF

tatistical Leaders

Negro League Baseball final standings

East-West League final standings

† Pittsburgh and New York were not in the league but their games counted in the standings.

Events

*October 2 - The New York Yankees defeat the Chicago Cubs, 13-6, in Game 4 of the World Series to win their fourth World Championship, four games to none. Game 3 would see perhaps the most famous, and most controversial, home run in World Series history when Babe Ruth made his "called shot" in the 5th inning. This would be Ruth's tenth, and final, World Series appearance.

Births

*January 18 - Mike Fornieles
*February 10 - Billy O'Dell
*March 2 - Chico Fernandez
*March 9 - Ron Kline
*March 16 - Don Blasingame
*March 22 - Al Schroll
*March 25 - Woodie Held
*March 27 - Wes Covington
*May 2 - Eddie Bressoud
*May 17 - Billy Hoeft
*May 26 - Joe Altobelli
*June 27 - Eddie Kasko
*July 9 - Tex Clevenger
*July 26 - Dick Brodowski
*August 4 - Jim Coates
*August 24 - Hal Woodeshick
*September 30 - Johnny Podres
*October 2 - Maury Wills
*October 7 - Bud Daley
*November 7 - Dick Stuart
*November 16 - Harry Chiti

Deaths

*February 5 - Barney Dreyfuss, 66, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900 who was principal force in creation of the World Series; Pirates won six NL pennants and two World Series (1909, 1925) under his leadership; built Forbes Field, first modern steel and concrete stadium, in 1909
*February 21 - John Peters, 48, catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Phillies between 1915 and 1922
*March 3 - Ed Morris, 32, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox between 1922 and 1931, who won 19 games for the last place Red Sox in 1928
*March 23 - Charles F. Daniels, 83, one of the NL's original 1876 umpires; career of 25 years included ten major league seasons
*April 2 - Honest John Morrill, 79, first baseman and manager of Boston's 1883 NL champions who batted .300 twice and was among first ten players to reach 1000 hits
*April 10 - Fred Pfeffer, 72, second baseman for Chicago and Louisville who in 1884 was one of first players to hit 20 home runs; led league in putouts nine times and double plays seven times
*April 16 - Johnny Lucas, 29, outfielder for the Boston Red Sox from 1931-32
*April 23 - Lon Knight, 78, right fielder and manager of Philadelphia's 1883 American Association champions
*August 2 - Dan Brouthers, 74, first baseman who was 19th century's greatest slugger, winning five batting titles and retiring with a .342 lifetime average; .519 career slugging percentage was record until 1920s, led NL in HRs twice and doubles three times; third player to hit 100 home runs and fourth to reach 2000 hits; batted .338 with league-leading 153 runs for 1887 Detroit champions
*August 16 - Candy LaChance, 63, first baseman of the 1903 World's championship team Boston Americans
*September 19 - Otto Neu, 38, shortstop for the 1917 St. Louis Browns