1923 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1923

Champions

*World Series: New York Yankees over New York Giants (4-2)

Awards and honors

*League Award
** Babe Ruth, New York Yankees, OF

tatistical Leaders

Negro League Baseball final standings

Negro National League final standings

†Memphis was not in the league but their games counted in the standings.

Eastern Colored League final standings

Events

*July 22 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators founds the 3000 strikeout club.

*September 4 - Sad Sam Jones pitches a no-hitter for the New York Yankees in a 2-0 win over the Philadelphia Athletics.

*September 7 -- Boston Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke tosses a no-hitter in a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Athletics. It's the second time in four days Philadelphia is no-hit.

*September 17 - The New York Giants' George Kelly sets a major-league record by hitting home runs in three consecutive innings (3rd, 4th and 5th) against the Chicago Cubs' Vic Aldridge as New York rolls to a 13–6 win. Kelly adds a single and double to run his total bases to 15 for the game. Kelly has now hit a record six homers off cousin Aldridge this year, a mark off one pitcher that will be tied by Ted Williams in the 1941 season, off Johnny Rigney, and Ted Kluszewski in 1954, off Max Surkont.

*October 15 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants, 6-4, in Game 6 of the World Series to win their first World Championship, four games to two. The Yankees opened their new Yankee Stadium in April making it the third time that a team had inaugurated a new stadium with a World Series win. The three consecutive matchups between the Yankees and Giants (1921-1923) marked the only time, to date, that three straight World Series featured the same two clubs.

Births

*January 21 - Sam Mele
*January 23 - Cot Deal
*January 30 - Walt Dropo
*February 2 - Red Schoendienst
*May 6 - Earl Turner
*June 24 - Mel Hoderlein
*June 27 - Gus Zernial
*July 27 - Ray Boone
*October 25 - Bobby Thomson
*November 17 - Mike Garcia
*November 25 - Archie Wilson
*December 13 - Larry Doby

Deaths

*January 1 - Willie Keeler, 50, right fielder and prolific bunter who "hit 'em where they ain't" in compiling .341 lifetime batting average; two-time NL batting champion batted over .370 from 1894-99, including .424 mark and record 44-game hitting streak for 1897 Orioles; led league in singles seven times, hits three times and runs once, ranked second all-time in hits and runs upon retirement
*April 10 - Jay Faatz, 62, First baseman for 3 seasons, and was a player-manager for a short time, 1884-1890.
*May 23 - Willard Mains, 54, pitcher for three seasons from 1888-1896, and had a Win/Loss record of 16-17.
*October 26 - Jimmy Ryan, 60, center fielder for Chicago who batted .306 lifetime, led NL in hits, home runs, doubles and slugging in 1888; recovered from serious injury in 1893 train wreck to hit .361 the next year; ranked third all-time in hits, fourth in runs and home runs upon retirement
*December 9 - "Wild Bill" Donovan, 47, pitcher who had 25-win seasons with 1901 Brooklyn and 1907 Detroit teams; later managed Highlanders and Phillies