Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over New York Giants (4–1) All-Star Game, July 7 at Griffith Stadium: American League, 8–3
Other champions Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: East, 7–2
Awards and honors Baseball Hall of Fame Morgan Bulkeley Ban Johnson Nap Lajoie Connie Mack John McGraw Tris Speaker George Wright Cy Young MLB Most Valuable Player Award American League: Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers, 2B National League: Joe Medwick, St. Louis Cardinals, OF The Sporting News Player of the Year Award Johnny Allen, Cleveland Indians The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award Bill McKechnie, Boston Bees
Statistical leaders American LeagueNational LeagueNegro American LeagueNegro National League Stat Player Total Player Total Player Total Player Total AVG Charlie Gehringer (DET) .371 Joe Medwick2 (STL) .374 Bill Carter (SLS/BBB) .390 Josh Gibson3 (HOM) .417 HR Joe DiMaggio (NYY) 46 Joe Medwick2 (STL)Mel Ott (NYG) 31 Willard Brown (KCM) 10 Josh Gibson3 (HOM) 20 RBI Hank Greenberg (DET) 184 Joe Medwick2 (STL) 154 Willard Brown (KCM) 60 Josh Gibson3 (HOM) 73 W Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) 21 Carl Hubbell (NYG) 22 Hilton Smith (KCM/CAG) 11 Ray Brown (HOM) 11 ERA Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) 2.33 Jim Turner (BSN) 2.38 Eugene Bremer (CT) 1.47 Roy Welmaker (HOM) 2.31 K Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) 194 Carl Hubbell (NYG) 159 Hilton Smith (KCM/CAG) 99 Ray Brown (HOM) 74 1 American League Triple Crown pitching winner
2 National League Triple Crown batting winner
3 Negro National League Triple Crown batting winner
Major league baseball final standings American League final standings
National League final standings
Negro leagues final standings All Negro leagues standings below are per Seamheads. Negro American League final standings
Kansas City awarded first-half championship, but Chicago American Giants had better record and disputed it. Detroit and St. Louis both serve as charter members of the League but also disband their teams after the season ends
Negro National League final standings
Independent teams final standings A loose confederation of teams existed that were not part of either established leagues. vs. All Teams Independent Clubs W L T Pct. GBBrooklyn Royal Giants201—Santo Domingo Stars420—Atlanta Black Crackers1080—Jacksonville Red Caps4602NNL All Stars2301½Cuban Stars (East)1412½
Events January–June January 5 – The New York Giants release shortstop Travis Jackson, who had played fifteen seasons with the team. January 6 – The New York Giants acquire infielder Tommy Thevenow from the Cincinnati Reds. Thevenow never plays a game for the Giants due to a trade months later to the Boston Bees for shortstop Billy Urbanski, who opts to retire instead (incidentally, his last plate appearance as a player was against the Giants). January 17 – The St. Louis Browns trade Ivy Andrews, Lyn Lary and Moose Solters to the Cleveland Indians for Oral Hildebrand, Bill Knickerbocker and Joe Vosmik. January 19 – Cy Young, Tris Speaker, and Nap Lajoie are elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, set to open in the next two years. January 27 – A flood strikes the city of Cincinnati that causes Mill Creek to overflow its banks. The flood affects Crosley Field by submerging parts of it under twenty feet of water. February 4 – The Philadelphia Athletics sign free agent Ace Parker, a future member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. February 17 – The New York Yankees purchase the contract of first baseman Babe Dahlgren from the Boston Red Sox. Dahlgren would later be best remembered for replacing Lou Gehrig at first base, ending the iron man's consecutive playing streak. March 20 – The Homestead Grays acquire Josh Gibson and Judy Johnson from the Pittsburgh Crawfords in exchange for Lloyd Bassett and Henry Spearman, along with $2,500 in cash. Johnson and Gibson would go on to become two of the top attractions in the Negro leagues and would be among the first Negro league players inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. April 4 – The Washington Senators purchase Al Simmons and his contract from the Detroit Tigers for $15,000. April 19 – On Opening Day, the Philadelphia Phillies sweep the Boston Bees in a double header, and the Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Washington Senators, 4–3, in the only games on the schedule. Vince DiMaggio makes his MLB debut, going 1-for-4 for the Philadelphia Phillies in a 2–1 loss to the Boston Bees. April 20 – In the Boston Red Sox's 11–5 victory over the Philadelphia A's, Bobby Doerr makes his major league debut at second base, going three-for-five with a run scored. Gee Walker becomes the first player to hit for a cycle on opening day when he accomplishes the feat for the Detroit Tigers in their 4–3 win over the Cleveland Indians. April 22 – Johnny Vander Meer makes his MLB debut not as a pitcher, but as a pitch runner for the Cincinnati Reds in their 14–11 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. April 25 – Cliff Melton of the New York Giants becomes the first rookie pitcher to strike out at least ten batters in his major league debut, having thirteen. It wasn't enough however, as the Giants dropped the game to the Boston Bees 3–1. The record would stand until 1954. May 3 – The New York Giants play an entire nine inning game with the Boston Bees without a single chance for their outfielders. The Bees outfield only had three chances themselves. Boston wins the game by a final score of 3–1. May 6 – Fans watching the Dodgers at Ebbets Field and the Giants at the Polo Grounds are treated to the sight of the Hindenburg as the zeppelin flew over both stadiums. Hours later, the Zeppelin explodes on a landing strip in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing all 36 people on board. May 7 – Spud Chandler makes his MLB debut for the New York Yankees, appearing as a relief pitcher in the Yankees 12–6 loss to the Detroit Tigers. May 9 – In the Cincinnati Reds' 21–10 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, Reds catcher Ernie Lombardi ties the modern Major League record with six hits in six consecutive times at bat. Pitcher Peaches Davis gives up ten hits, but pitches a complete game for the Reds. May 10 – Monte Pearson pitches a one hitter in the 6–0 New York Yankees victory over the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park. Joe DiMaggio hits his first two home runs of the season while George Selkirk connects his fifth homer. The only hit for Chicago is a one-out, first-inning single by Larry Rosenthal, who is erased on a double play. Pearson faces 28 batters, one more than the complete game minimum, striking out four and walking two. May 19 – In a pitchers' duel between St. Louis Cardinals' Dizzy Dean and New York Giants' Carl Hubbell, Dean is called for a balk in the sixth inning, resulting in a run for the Giants. Enraged, Dean begins throwing at New York batters, hitting Johnny McCarthy and inciting a bench-clearing brawl. Dean is fined $50. May 25 – Detroit Tigers player/manager Mickey Cochrane hits a third-inning home run to tie the ballgame with the New York Yankees, 1–1. In his next at-bat, Yankees pitcher Bump Hadley strikes Cochrane on the left side of the head with a fastball, ending his playing career. Del Baker assumes managerial duties, as Cochrane does not return to the helm until . The Yankees win the game, 4–3. May 27 – The New York Giants' Mel Ott's ninth-inning home run helps Carl Hubbell win a record 24th straight game in a 3–2 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field. June 1 – Bill Dietrich pitches a no-hitter in an 8–0 Chicago White Sox victory over the St. Louis Browns. June 4 – Gus Suhr of the Pittsburgh Pirates establishes a National League Record when he plays in his 822nd game. The streak ends the next day when he removes himself from the line-up to attend the funeral of his mother. June 8 – The Chicago White Sox defeat the New York Yankees 5–4, completing a ten-game winning streak, and moving into a first place tie with the Yankees. June 11 – The Boston Red Sox trade brothers Rick and Wes Ferrell, along with Mel Almada, to the Washington Senators for Ben Chapman and Bobo Newsom. June 12 – The Pittsburgh Pirates sell Waite Hoyt's contract to the Brooklyn Dodgers. June 15 – The New York Giants obtain Wally Berger from the Boston Bees for Frank Gabler and $35,000. June 25 – Augie Galan becomes the first player in the history of the National League to hit a home run from each side of the plate in the same game. The homers come at the expense of opposing pitchers Freddie Fitzsimmons and Ralph Birkofer of the Brooklyn Dodgers as the Chicago Cubs win 11–2.
July–September July 7 – The American League defeats the National League, 8–3, in the All-Star Game, held at Griffith Stadium, home of the Washington Senators. July 9 – The Detroit Tigers claim Charlie Gelbert off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds. July 15 – Philadelphia Athletics pitcher George Caster holds the Chicago White Sox to just four hits as the Athletics beat the White Sox 2–1, snapping a fifteen-game losing streak. July 25 – Washington Senators leadoff hitter Mel Almada ties a major league record by scoring five runs in the second game of a double header with the St. Louis Browns. He scored four runs in the first game, giving him nine for the day. August 3 – St. Louis Cardinals catcher Mickey Owen pulls off an unassisted double play in the 5–2 victory over the Boston Bees at Sportsman's Park. August 8 – John Whitehead and the Chicago White Sox shut out the Boston Red Sox 13–0 in the second game of a double header to end Boston's twelve-game winning streak (excluding one tie on August 1). August 14 – The Detroit Tigers score 34 runs in a double header with the St. Louis Browns. August 17 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Cincinnati Reds 8–6 in a lengthy game that went nine innings but ended two minutes after midnight, making it the first game in major league history to end after midnight. August 27 – Dodgers pitcher Fred Frankhouse pitches seven innings of no-hit ball versus Cincinnati. However, the game is called on account of rain. While recognized as a no-hitter at the time, it becomes one of many no hitters struck from the record books in 1991 when MLB redefines a no-hitter as being a game in which a pitcher goes nine or more innings without giving up a hit. August 31 – Rookie Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers hits two home runs in a game, giving him 18 in total for the month of August. This breaks the previous record held by Babe Ruth, which was set in September of 1927. September 2 – Boze Berger, Mike Kreevich, and Dixie Walker each homer, with Berger hitting two, as the Chicago White Sox defeat the Boston Red Sox 4–0, with all four White Sox runs coming via the home run. September 11 – The St. Louis Browns win the second game of a double header with the Cleveland Indians, 8–3, to snap a twelve-game losing streak. September 22 – The St. Louis Browns lose 4–1 to the New York Yankees for their 100th loss of the season. September 29 – After scoring fifteen runs in the first game of a double header, the New York Yankees manage just one hit off Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Eddie Smith in the second game, losing 3–0. It is only the second time all season the Yankees are shut out (May 8). September 30 – The Boston Bees sweep a double header from the Dodgers to bring Brooklyn's losing streak to fourteen games.
October–December October 3 – On the final day of the season, the Cincinnati Reds are swept in a double header by the Pittsburgh Pirates to end the season with a fourteen-game losing streak. The Detroit Tigers release outfielder Goose Goslin. October 4 – The Brooklyn Dodgers trade Jim Bucher, Johnny Cooney, Roy Henshaw and Joe Stripp to the St. Louis Cardinals for Leo Durocher. The Cincinnati Reds release Kiki Cuyler. October 5 – The St. Louis Browns draft George McQuinn from the New York Yankees as part of the Rule 5 draft.