1933 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1933 throughout the world.  

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

• World Series: New York Giants over Washington Senators (4-1)
• First All-Star Game, July 6 at Comiskey Park: American League, 4-2

[edit] Other champions

• First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, September 10 at Comiskey Park: West, 11-7

[edit] Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player
  • Jimmie Foxx (AL)
  • Carl Hubbell (NL)

[edit] MLB Statistical Leaders

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

[edit] National League final standings

[edit] Events

[edit] Movies

• Elmer, the Great

[edit] Births

• May 13 - Johnny Roseboro
• June 7 - Herb Score
• July 26 - Norm Siebern
• August 10 - Rocky Colavito

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - Kid Gleason, 66, who won 138 games as a pitcher and was second baseman for four teams from 1895-1906, twice batting .300; won AL pennant as rookie manager of White Sox in 1919, then watched as team threw World Series
• April 23 - Tim Keefe, 76, pitcher who won over 340 games, including six 30-win campaigns for the New York Metropolitans and Giants from 1883-88, with 40-win seasons in 1883 and 1886; led league in ERA three times and strikeouts twice, with career strikeout mark (2500+) being record until 1908; won 19 straight in 1888, leading Giants to first pennant, and was 4-0 with 0.51 ERA in championship series
• September 16 - George Gore, 76, center fielder for the White Stockings and Giants who batted .301 lifetime and won 1880 batting title; led NL in walks three times and runs twice, and upon retirement was fifth all-time in runs and second in walks
• September 25 - Ring Lardner, 48, sportswriter for various newspapers, mainly in Chicago, since 1907; pioneered the satirical cynic's view of sports reporting
• October 5 - William Veeck, 55, president of the Cubs since 1919; previously a sportswriter