1912 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1912

Champions

*World Series: Boston Red Sox over New York Giants (4-3-1)

Awards and honors

*Chalmers Award
**Tris Speaker, Boston Red Sox, OF
** Larry Doyle, New York Giants, 2B

MLB Statistical Leaders

Events

*April 20 - The Boston Red Sox play the first game in the history of Fenway Park. The Red Sox open up with an 11-inning, 7–6 victory over the New York Highlanders, the predecessors to Boston's arch-rival, the New York Yankees. Tris Speaker delivers the game-winning RBI before a crowd of 27,000 fans. Minutes later, the Detroit Tigers christen their Navin Field with a 6–5 victory over the Cleveland Naps.
*June 28 - Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants becomes the eighth pitcher to record 300 career wins.
*July 4 - In the second game of a double-header, George Mullin of the Detroit Tigers tosses a no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns in a 7-0 Tigers win.
*August 30 - St. Louis Browns pitcher Earl Hamilton returns the favor to the Detroit Tigers. He tosses a no-hitter in a 7-1 Browns victory.
*September 17 - Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Casey Stengel makes an impressive major league debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates, collecting four hits with two RBI and two stolen bases in the Dodgers 7–3 win.
*October 16 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Giants, 3-2, in Game 8 of the World Series, ending one of the most exciting World Series in baseball history. The Red Sox win the World Championship four games to three (with Game 2 being declared a tie). Nearly all of the games were close. Four games in this Series were decided by one run. A fifth ended in a tie. A sixth was decided by two runs. Game 7 was the only one with a margin greater than three runs. Two games, including the decisive Game 8, went to extra innings. In Games 1 and 3, the losing team had the tying and winning runs on base when the game ended. This was the first time in which a World Series was decided in the last inning of the final game, in "sudden death" or "sudden victory" fashion. It was also the first Series where a team within one inning of losing came back to win. The next time a team that close to elimination recovered to win was Game 6 of the 1985 World Series.

Births

January-March

*January 3 - Cliff Melton
*January 4 - Joe Mack
*January 6 - Hal Warnock
*February 17 - Bruce Ogrodowski
*February 19 - Dick Siebert
*February 20 - Whitey Wistert
*March 5 - Jim Gleeson
*March 8 - Ray Mueller
*March 9 - Arky Vaughan
*March 17 - Whitey Ock
*March 20 - Al McLean
*March 20 - Clyde Shoun
*March 24 - Jud McLaughlin

April-June

*April 1 - Jake Wade
*April 12 - Jack Wilson
*April 22 - Pete Center
*April 30 - Chet Laabs
*May 11 - Del Young
*May 12 - Sid Gautreaux
*May 17 - Ace Parker
*May 21 - Monty Stratton
*May 23 - Augie Galan
*May 27 - Terry Moore
*May 31 - Dutch Fehring
*June 8 - Lew Krausse
*June 15 - Babe Dahlgren
*June 15 - Mem Lovett
*June 19 - Don Gutteridge
*June 30 - Johnny Hudson

July-September

*July 8 - Salty Parker
*July 16 - Milt Bocek
*July 19 - Ben Geraghty
*July 20 - Heinie Mueller
*July 21 - Billy Holm
*July 24 - Alex Carrasquel
*July 30 - Carl Doyle
*July 30 - Johnny Rizzo
*August 4 - Bill Schuster
*August 7 - Tom Drake
*August 9 - Tom Sunkel
*August 12 - Harlond Clift
*August 14 - Paul Dean
*August 21 - Woody Williams
*August 24 - Frank Secory
*August 25 - George Cisar
*August 28 - Goody Rosen
*September 4 - Gordon Maltzberger
*September 4 - Fred Walters
*September 6 - Vince DiMaggio
*September 9 - Johnny Lazor
*September 14 - Icehouse Wilson
*September 19 - Red Barkley

October-December

*October 9 - Mickey Haefner
*October 11 - Mike Guerra
*October 11 - Wayne Osborne
*October 12 - Al Unser
*October 15 - Nick Tremark
*October 18 - Guy Curtright
*October 30 - Xavier Rescigno
*November 10 - Birdie Tebbetts
*November 11 - Hal Trosky
*November 11 - Al Wright
*November 13 - Alex Kampouris
*November 15 - Kit Carson
*November 18 - Charlie Fuchs
*November 19 - Steve Gerkin
*November 19 - Stu Martin
*November 24 - Tony Giuliani
*November 27 - Tony York
*December 1 - Cookie Lavagetto
*December 3 - Charlie Wagner
*December 20 - Tommy Irwin
*December 23 - Pat Ankenman
*December 25 - Greek George
*December 25 - Quincy Trouppe
*December 27 - Jim Tobin
*December 28 - Otto Denning

Deaths

*April 20 - Sam Barkley, 53, second baseman for 4 different teams from 1884 to 1889.
*October 1 - Bill Boyd, 59, Third baseman/Right fielder for 4 seasons in the National Association, by|1872-by|1875.
*November 8 - Cupid Childs, 45, second baseman for the Cleveland Spiders who batted .306 lifetime; led American Association in doubles in 1890, NL in runs in 1892, ranked third all-time in walks upon retirement
*November 26 - John T. Brush, 67, part owner of the New York Giants since 1890, the last 10 years as majority owner and team president; also owner and president of the Reds from 1891-1902, and of the Indianapolis club in the late 1880s