1943 in baseball.html



The following are the baseball events of the year 1943 throughout the world.  

Champions

Major League Baseball

• World Series: New York Yankees over St. Louis Cardinals (4-1)
• All-Star Game, July 13 at Shibe Park: American League, 5-3

Other champions

• Negro League World Series: Homestead Grays over Birmingham Black Barons (4-3)
• Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: West, 2-1
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Racine Belles over Kenosha Comets

Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player
  • Spud Chandler (AL) - P, New York Yankees
  • Stan Musial (NL) - 1B, St. Louis Cardinals
• The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
  • Spud Chandler - P, New York Yankees
• The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award
  • Spud Chandler (AL) - P, New York Yankees
  • Stan Musial (NL) - 1B, St. Louis Cardinals
• The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
  • Joe McCarthy (AL) - New York Yankees

Statistical leaders

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro League Baseball final standings

Negro National League final standings

Events

• May 30 - The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League begins its first 108-game season with teams in Rockford, Kenosha, Racine, and South Bend; the league's total attendance for the year will be 176,612.

• July 13 - At Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, the American League defeats the National League, 5-3, in the All-Star Game. This is the first All-Star Game held at night.

• October 11 - The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0, in Game 5 of the World Series to win their tenth World Championship, four games to one. This would be Yankees' manager Joe McCarthy's final Series win.

• November 23 - Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis rules that Philadelphia Phillies owner William D. Cox is permanently ineligible to hold office or be employed for having bet on his own team. The Carpenter family of Delaware will buy the Philadelphia club and Bob Carpenter, at age 28, will become president. The Phillies, in an effort to change their image, will conduct a contest for a new name. The winning entry, the Philadelphia Blue Jays, submitted by a Mrs. John Crooks, will be the unofficial team name for 1944-45 until abandoned in 1946.

• December 2 - With only nine leagues operating during the season, the minor league convention in New York has an incipient revolt to oust longtime head William G. Bramham in favor of Frank Shaughnessy, president of the International League, who had five pledges. But Bramham rules that 15 non operating circuits which had paid dues are eligible to vote. Five of the leagues had given proxies. A later appeal to Commissioner Landis fails.

Births

January-April

• January 6 - César Gutiérrez
• January 7 - Dave Gray
• January 15 - Mike Marshall
• January 30 - Davey Johnson
• February 8 - Bob Oliver
• February 21 - Jack Billingham
• March 23 - Bruce Howard
• March 23 - Lee May
• April 3 - Barry Moore
• April 4 - Mike Epstein
• April 6 - Marty Pattin
• April 8 - John Hiller
• April 12 - Vicente Romo
• April 24 - Ivan Murrell

May-August

• May 22 - Tommy John
• June 6 - Merv Rettenmund
• June 20 - Andy Etchebarren
• June 26 - Bill Robinson
• June 27 - Rico Petrocelli
• July 5 - Curt Blefary
• July 8 - George Culver
• July 9 - Mike Andrews
• August 2 - Tom Burgmeier
• August 6 - Nelson Briles
• August 15 - Bobby Treviño
• August 21 - Félix Millán
• August 28 - Lou Piniella
• August 30 - Carmen Fanzone

September-December

• September 2 - Luke Walker
• September 4 - Bobby Guindon
• September 19 - Mike Derrick
• September 19 - Joe Morgan
• October 4 - Jimy Williams
• October 6 - Jim McGlothlin
• October 6 - Jerry Stephenson
• October 7 - José Cardenal
• October 19 - Sandy Alomar
• November 18 - Dick Joyce
• November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo
• December 3 - Jerry Johnson
• December 9 - Jim Merritt
• December 10 - Dalton Jones
• December 23 - Dave May
• December 27 - Roy White

Deaths

• January 3 - Bid McPhee, 83, second baseman for Cincinnati from 1882 to 1899 who was the last at his position to play without a glove; scored 100 runs ten times, set every career fielding mark at his position and was seventh player to reach 2000 hits
• January 3 - Jim Tyack, 83, outfielder for the 1943 Philadelphia Athletics
• March 6 - Jimmy Collins, 73, third baseman who batted .300 five times and led NL in home runs in 1898; led league in putouts five times and set career records for putouts, total chances and double plays at third base; after jumping to the American League, managed Boston to upset victory in inaugural 1903 World Series
• April 26 - Bob Emslie, 84, umpire who set records with 35 seasons of officiating and over 1000 games worked single-handedly; as pitcher, won 32 games for 1884 Baltimore Orioles
• May 6 - William Slocum, 59, sportswriter and editor for several New York newspapers since 1910
• May 23 - Pat Malone, 40, pitcher who led the National League with 22 wins in 1929, and with 20 wins and 166 strikeouts in 1930
• June 21 - Chet Chadbourne, 58, outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Packers and Boston Braves, who became a minor league institution after collecting 3.216 hits over 21 minors seasons, and later managed and umpired at the same level
• August 14 - Joe Kelley, 71, left fielder who batted .317 lifetime, including marks over .360 for the 1894-97 Baltimore Orioles; 194 triples ranked 4th all-time upon retirement, and had six seasons of 100 runs and five of 100 RBI
• August 27 - Frank Truesdale, 59, second baseman who played from 1910 to 1918 for the St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox
• September 1 - Joe Connolly, 59, Boston Braves left fielder, who was the offensive star of the 1914 "Miracle Braves" World Champions