1920 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1920 throughout the world.  

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See also

Baseball Major League Baseball Minor league baseball Negro league baseball Nippon Professional Baseball 1920 in sports

Sources

Baseball Hall of Fame Baseball Almanac Baseball Library Baseball Reference National Pastime The Deadball Era

Contents 1 Champions 2 Awards and honors 3 MLB Statistical Leaders 4 Major League Baseball final standings 4.1 American League final standings 4.2 National League final standings 5 Negro League Baseball final standings 5.1 Negro National League final standings 5.2 East (independent teams) final standings 6 Events 7 Births 7.1 January-March 7.2 April-June 7.3 July-September 7.4 October-December 8 Deaths

[edit] Champions

• World Series: Cleveland Indians over Brooklyn Robins (5-2)

[edit] Awards and honors

• MLB Most Valuable Player Award
  • None

[edit] MLB Statistical Leaders

American League National League Type Name Stat Name Stat AVG George Sisler .407 Rogers Hornsby .370 HR Babe Ruth 54 Cy Williams 15 RBI Babe Ruth 137 Rogers Hornsby & George Kelly 94 Wins Jim Bagby 31 Pete Alexander 27 ERA Bob Shawkey 2.45 Pete Alexander 1.91

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

American League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Cleveland Indians	98	56	.636	--
Chicago White Sox	96	58	.623	2
New York Yankees	95	59	.617	3
St. Louis Browns	76	77	.497	21.5
Boston Red Sox	72	81	.471	25.5
Washington Senators	68	84	.447	29
Detroit Tigers	61	93	.396	37
Philadelphia Athletics	48	106	.312	50

[edit] National League final standings

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Brooklyn Robins	93	61	.604	--
New York Giants	86	68	.558	7
Cincinnati Reds	82	71	.536	10.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	79	75	.513	14
Chicago Cubs	75	79	.487	18
St. Louis Cardinals	75	79	.487	18
Boston Braves	62	90	.408	30
Philadelphia Phillies	62	91	.405	30.5

[edit] Negro League Baseball final standings

[edit] Negro National League final standings

Negro National League (West)
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Chicago American Giants	31	15	.674
Detroit Stars	40	21	.656
Kansas City Monarchs	45	33	.577
Indianapolis ABCs	42	34	.553
St. Louis Giants	21	21	.500
Cuban Stars	22	26	.458
Dayton Marcos	10	18	.357
Chicago Giants	2	12	.143

[edit] East (independent teams) final standings

A loose confederation of teams were gathered in the East to compete with the West, however East teams did not organize a formal league as the West did.

East
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Brooklyn Royal Giants	5	4	.556
Philadelphia Hilldales	7	6	.538
Bacharach Giants	12	12	.500
Baltimore Black Sox	3	8	.273
Cuban Stars	1	4	.200
New York Lincoln Giants	0	4	.000

• Won-loss records were sporadically reported due to lack of interest by the press mainly in New York.
• Bacharach claimed the pennant, although Hilldale disputed it.

[edit] Events

• May 1 - In a kind of game you don't see anymore, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leon Cadore and the Boston Braves' Joe Oeschger pitched 26 innings in a 1-1 tie. A morning rain delayed the start of the game until 3:00 p.m. The Robins scored a run in the top of the fifth, a single by Ivy Olson driving in Ernie Krueger. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the sixth with a double by Walt Cruise and a single by Tony Boeckel. The game went into extra innings. No runs were scored for the rest of the game and it was called off in the 26th inning due to darkness.

• May 14 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators records his 300th win.

• August 16 - Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is struck in the head by a pitch from the Yankees' Carl Mays in a game at the Polo Grounds. He dies twelve hours later from a fractured skull, making it the only fatal field accident in major league history. His death leads to the banning of the spitball.

[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

• January 2 - Cliff Dapper
• January 4 - Walter Ockey
• January 6 - Early Wynn
• January 7 - Dixie Howell (P)
• January 8 - Bert Kuczynski
• January 10 - Max Patkin
• January 15 - Steve Gromek
• January 20 - Sammy Hairston
• February 2 - Zeb Eaton
• February 8 - Buddy Blattner
• February 11 - Boyd Bartley
• February 20 - Frankie Gustine
• February 20 - Roy Valdés
• February 26 - Danny Gardella
• February 27 - Connie Ryan
• March 18 - Mickey Rutner
• March 28 - Babe Martin
• March 31 - Dave Koslo

[edit] April-June

• April 8 - Dick Adams
• April 19 - John O'Neil
• April 24 - Dixie Howell
• April 26 - Ron Northey
• April 28 - Red Treadway
• May 3 - Dan Bankhead
• May 11 - Gene Hermanski
• May 16 - Dave Philley
• May 24 - Wally Shaner
• June 16 - Eddie Malone
• June 20 - Héctor Rodríguez
• June 22 - Walt Masterson
• June 26 - Jean-Pierre Roy
• June 28 - Bert Shepard

[edit] July-September

• July 1 - Paul Lehner
• July 3 - Paul O'Dea
• July 6 - Eddie Bockman
• July 16 - Larry Jansen
• July 18 - Eddie Kazak
• July 26 - Sibby Sisti
• July 29 - Erv Dusak
• August 3 - Jim Hegan
• August 3 - Vic Johnson
• August 4 - Bob Keegan
• August 18 - Bob Kennedy
• August 19 - Vern Bickford
• September 3 - Sandy Consuegra
• September 12 - Andy Seminick
• September 18 - Paul Gillespie
• September 22 - Bob Lemon
• September 24 - Otis Davis

[edit] October-December

• October 2 - Spec Shea
• October 8 - Catfish Metkovich
• October 20 - Pat McGlothin
• October 20 - Bill Ramsey
• October 23 - Vern Stephens
• October 26 - Bud Byerly
• November 2 - Dick Sisler
• November 8 - Wally Westlake
• November 9 - Dick Whitman
• November 21 - Stan Musial
• November 23 - Jake Jones
• November 27 - Johnny Schmitz
• November 28 - Mike Schultz
• December 6 - Gus Niarhos
• December 15 - Eddie Robinson
• December 21 - Bill Werle
• December 28 - Leslie Aulds

[edit] Deaths

• August 17 - Ray Chapman, 29, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians since 1912 who batted .300 three times, led AL in runs and walks in 1918
• September 11 - Bill Hallman, 53, second baseman, mainly with the Phillies, who batted .300 and scored 100 runs four times each