1930 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1930

Champions

*World Series: Philadelphia Athletics over St. Louis Cardinals (4-2)

Awards and honors

*None

tatistical Leaders

¹Single season record for RBIs

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

†Louisville was not in the league but these games counted in the standings.
*St. Louis won the first half, Detroit won the second half.
*St. Louis beat Detroit 4 games to 3 games in a play-off.

East (independent teams) final standings

A loose confederation of teams were gathered in the East to compete with the West, however East teams did not organize a formal league as the West did.

Events

*October 8 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-1, in Game 6 of the World Series to win thier second consecutive World Championship, and fifth overall, four games to two. This would be the Athletics' last World Series championship in the city of Philadelphia.

Births

January-March

*January 4 - Don McMahon
*January 23 - Frank Sullivan
*January 30 - Sandy Amorós
*February 17 - Roger Craig
*February 28 - Frank Malzone
*March 5 - Del Crandall
*March 12 - Vern Law
*March 13 - Doug Harvey
*March 16 - Hobie Landrith
*March 25 - Rudy Minarcin

April-June

*April 3 - Wally Moon
*April 10 - Frank Lary
*April 12 - Johnny Antonelli
*June 2 - Bob Lillis

July-September

*July 4 - George Steinbrenner
*July 30 - Gus Triandos
*August 9 - Milt Bolling
*August 13 - Vinegar Bend Mizell
*August 14 - Earl Weaver
*September 17 - Jim Umbricht
*September 19 - Bob Turley

October-December

*October 12 - Joe Trimble
*November 4 - Dick Groat
*November 4 - Guy Morton
*November 10 - Gene Conley
*November 23 - Jack McKeon
*November 24 - Bob Friend
*December 4 - Harvey Kuenn
*December 7 - Hal Smith
*December 10 - Eddie O'Brien
*December 11 - Johnny O'Brien
*December 18 - Moose Skowron
*December 27 - Norm Larker

Deaths

*April 14 - John B. Sheridan, 61, sportswriter for St. Louis newspapers whose column "Back of the Home Plate" appeared in "The Sporting News" for many years
*April 18 - Jack Stivetts, 62, pitcher for St. Louis and Boston who had six 20-win seasons, including 30-win campaigns in 1891-92; in 1892, pitched no-hitter and won twice in championship playoff
*August 29 - Ben Sanders, 65, pitcher for five seasons, 1888-1892, threw no-hitter on August 22, 1892.
*September 1 - John Reccius, 70, pitcher and center fielder for the 1882-1883 Louisville Eclipse.
*September 25 - Joe Wilhoit, 44, right fielder for the Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants and Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1919, who posted the longest hitting streak in baseball history with 69 games in 1919, while playing for the Wichita Jobbers of the Western League
*November 20 - William Hanna, 68, sportswriter for various New York newspapers since 1888, known for his florid writing style
*December 9 - Rube Foster, 51, pioneer and driving force in the Negro Leagues who was owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants from 1911 to 1925; founded the first stable Negro League, the Negro National League, in 1920, and won its first three pennants; was black baseball's premier pitcher in the century's first decade
*December 9 - Dave Rowe, 76, center fielder and manager, career lasted seven seasons from 1877-1888.