1951 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1951 throughout the world.  

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Contents

[edit] Headline Event of the Year

Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games tiebreaker series over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

[edit] Other champions

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] Statistical Leaders

  American League National League
Type Name Stat Name Stat
AVG Ferris Fain PHA .344 Stan Musial STL .355
HR Gus Zernial PHA 33 Ralph Kiner PIT 42
RBI Gus Zernial PHA 129 Monte Irvin NYG 121
Wins Bob Feller CLE 22 Larry Jansen NYG
& Sal Maglie NYG		 23
ERA Saul Rogovin CHW 2.78 Chet Nichols BSB 2.88
Ks Vic Raschi NYY 164 Don Newcombe BRK &
Warren Spahn BSB		 164

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

American League
Club Wins Losses Win %   GB
New York Yankees 98 56 .636 --
Cleveland Indians 93 61 .604 5
Boston Red Sox 87 67 .565 11
Chicago White Sox 81 73 .526 17
Detroit Tigers 73 81 .474 25
Philadelphia Athletics 70 84 .455 28
Washington Senators 62 92 .403 36
St. Louis Browns 52 102 .338 46

[edit] National League final standings

National League
Club Wins Losses Win %   GB
New York Giants 98 59 .624 --
Brooklyn Dodgers 97 60 .618 1
St. Louis Cardinals 81 73 .526 15.5
Boston Braves 76 78 .494 20.5
Philadelphia Phillies 73 81 .474 23.5
Cincinnati Reds 68 86 .442 28.5
Pittsburgh Pirates 64 90 .416 32.5
Chicago Cubs 62 92 .403 33.5

[edit] Events

[edit] January-March

  • January 23 - Guido Rugo sells his interest in the Boston Braves to copartners Lou Perini and treasurer Joe Maney.

[edit] April-June

[edit] July-September

  • August 11 - Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants, 4-0, dropping the Giants 13.5 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.

[edit] October-December

  • October 10 - Hank Bauer's bases-loaded triple propels the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win over the Giants and with it their 3rd straight championship. The Yankees beat the New York Giants 4 games to 2. Just before the game, Giants manager Leo Durocher turns over a letter he received to Ford Frick that offer the Giants manager a $15,000 bribe "if the Giants managed to lose the next 3 games".
  • October 17 - the Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Series over the Nankai Hawks. Incredibly, they will win the pennant 19 times in the next 23 years, including 9 in succession (1965-1973).

[edit] Movies

[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

[edit] April-June

[edit] July-September

[edit] October-December

[edit] Deaths

  • January 26 - Bill Barrett, 50, outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators between 1921 and 1930
  • February 6 - Gabby Street, 68, manager of the Cardinals' 1931 World Series champions, previously a catcher for Walter Johnson
  • February 25 - Smokey Joe Williams, 64, fireballing Negro Leagues pitcher
  • March 25 - Eddie Collins, 63, Hall of Fame second baseman and career .333 hitter for the Athletics and White Sox, the 1914 AL MVP, the sixth player to make 3000 hits, and second to Ty Cobb in career steals
  • May 26 - George Winter, pitcher who won 82 games for the Boston Americans/Red Sox from 1901 to 1908, and the only member both of the original 1901 and 1908 teams
  • July 9 - Harry Heilmann, 56, right fielder and 4-time AL batting champion who batted .342 in his career, primarily with the Detroit Tigers
  • August 2 - Guy Cooper, 68, pitcher for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in the 1910s
  • August 4 - Tony Tonneman, 69, catcher who played briefly for the 1911 Boston Red Sox
  • August 10 - Win Kellum, 75, who in 1901 became the first Opening Day starting pitcher in Boston American League franchise's history
  • September 16 - Bill Klem, 77, named "father of baseball umpires", who worked in a record 18 World Series during a 37-year career, and introduced the inside chest protector
  • November 18 - Wally Mayer, 61, catcher who played from 1911 through 1919 for the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
  • November 19 - Marty Griffin, 50, pitcher for the 1928 Boston Red Sox
  • November 26 - Pete Hill, 71, baseball's first great black outfielder
  • December 5 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, 63, career .356 hitter who was the most prominent of the eight players banned from baseball after the Black Sox scandal
  • December 8 - Bobby Lowe, 86, second baseman for multiple Boston champions in the 1890s