1938 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1938 throughout the world.  

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Contents

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

[edit] Other champions

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] MLB Statistical Leaders

  American League National League
Type Name Stat Name Stat
AVG Jimmie Foxx BOS .349 Ernie Lombardi CIN .342
HR Hank Greenberg DET 58 Mel Ott NYG 36
RBI Jimmie Foxx BOS 175 Joe Medwick STL 122
Wins Red Ruffing NYY 21 Bill Lee CHC 22
ERA Lefty Grove BOS 3.08 Bill Lee CHC 2.66

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

Rank Club Wins Losses Win %   GB
1st New York Yankees 99   53 .651     --
2nd Boston Red Sox 88   61 .591   9.5
3rd Cleveland Indians 86   66 .566   13.0
4th Detroit Tigers 84   70 .545   16.0
5th Washington Senators 75   76 .497   23.5
6th Chicago White Sox 65   83 .439   32.0
7th St. Louis Browns 55   97 .362   44.0
8th Philadelphia Athletics 53   99 .349   46.0

[edit] National League final standings

Rank Club Wins Losses Win %   GB
1st Chicago Cubs 89   63 .586     --
2nd Pittsburgh Pirates 86   64 .573   2.0
3rd New York Giants 83   67 .553   5.0
4th Cincinnati Reds 82   68 .547   6.0
5th Boston Braves 77   75 .507   12.0
6th St. Louis Cardinals 71   80 .470   17.5
7th Brooklyn Dodgers 69   80 .463   18.5
8th Philadelphia Phillies 45   105 .300   43.0

[edit] Negro League Baseball final standings

[edit] Negro National League final standings

Negro National League
Club Wins Losses Win %   GB
Homestead Grays 27 10 .730 --
Baltimore Elite Giants 23 9 .719 1.5
Newark Eagles 28 17 .622 3
Pittsburgh Crawfords 24 16 .600 4.5
Philadelphia Stars 30 24 .556 5.5
New York Black Yankees 7 18 .280 14
Washington Black Senators 2 13 .133 14

[edit] Events

  • May 6 - OF Bob Seeds of the Newark Bears (IL) hits four home runs in four successive innings and drives in 12 runs against Buffalo. Tomorrow he will slam three more. His seven homers in the two-day barrage account for 17 RBI and 30 total bases. In his first 59 games‚ Seeds will clout 28 HR and drive in 95 runs.
  • June 26 - Carl Hubbell wins his 200th game‚ as the New York Giants beat the visiting Cubs 5–1 and stretch their lead over the second-place Reds to two games. Larry French takes the loss. Newly acquired Bob Seeds‚ up from Newark‚ leads the way with a 470-foot inside the park home run.
  • August 2 - The Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals used a yellow baseball in the first game of a doubleheader as an experiment. The twoteams went back to the white ball in the second game as the Dodgers swept the doubleheader 6-2 and 9-3.

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