1954 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1954 throughout the world.  

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Contents 1 Champions 1.1 Major League Baseball 1.2 Other champions 2 Awards and honors 3 Statistical Leaders 4 Major League Baseball final standings 4.1 American League final standings 4.2 National League final standings 5 Events 5.1 January-March 5.2 April-June 5.3 July-September 5.4 October-December 6 Movies 7 Births 7.1 January-March 7.2 April-June 7.3 July-September 7.4 October-December 8 Deaths

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

• World Series: New York Giants over Cleveland Indians (4-0)
• All-Star Game, July 13 at Municipal Stadium: American League, 11-9

[edit] Other champions

• Caribbean World Series: Caguas Creoles [Criollos de Caguas] (Puerto Rico)
• College World Series: Missouri
• Japan Series: Chunichi Dragons over Nishitetsu Lions (4-3)
• Little League World Series: National, Schenectady, New York
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Kalamazoo Lassies

[edit] Awards and honors

• MLB Most Valuable Player Award
  • Yogi Berra, New York Yankees, C
  • Willie Mays, New York Giants, OF
• MLB Rookie of the Year Award
  • Bob Grim, New York Yankees, P
  • Wally Moon, St. Louis Cardinals, OF
• The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
  • Willie Mays New York Giants
• The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award
  • Bob Lemon Cleveland Indians
  • Johnny Antonelli New York Giants
• The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
  • Leo Durocher New York Giants

[edit] Statistical Leaders

American League National League Type Name Stat Name Stat AVG Bobby Avila CLE .341 Willie Mays NYG .345 HR Larry Doby CLE 32 Ted Kluszewski CIN 49 RBI Larry Doby CLE 126 Ted Kluszewski CIN 141 Wins Bob Lemon CLE & Early Wynn CLE 23 Robin Roberts PHI 23 ERA Mike Garcia CLE 2.64 Johnny Antonelli SFG 2.30

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

American League Club Wins Losses Win %   GB Cleveland Indians 111 43 .721 -- New York Yankees 103 51 .669 8 Chicago White Sox 94 60 .610 17 Boston Red Sox 69 85 .448 42 Detroit Tigers 68 86 .442 43 Washington Senators 66 88 .429 45 Baltimore Orioles 54 100 .351 57 Philadelphia Athletics 51 103 .331 60

[edit] National League final standings

National League Club Wins Losses Win %   GB New York Giants 97 57 .630 -- Brooklyn Dodgers 92 62 .597 5 Milwaukee Braves 89 65 .578 8 Philadelphia Phillies 75 79 .487 22 Cincinnati Reds 74 80 .481 23 St. Louis Cardinals 72 82 .468 25 Chicago Cubs 64 90 .416 33 Pittsburgh Pirates 53 101 .344 44

[edit] Events

[edit] January-March

• January 14 - Former New York Yankees great Joe Dimaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe in San Francisco.

[edit] April-June

• April 13
  • The brand new Baltimore Orioles open in Detroit and lose to the Detroit Tigers, 3-0. Don Larsen takes the loss against Steve Gromek. The Tigers start fast and will win 12 of their first 18 games.
    
  • First baseman Tom Alston becomes the first black player in St. Louis Cardinals history.
  • Second baseman Curt Roberts becomes the first black player in Pittsburgh Pirates history.

• April 15 - The Orioles Clint Courtney hits the first home run in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Following a 90-minute parade, they draw an opening day record of 46,354 in a 3-1 afternoon win over the Chicago White Sox. Bob Turley strikes out nine in besting Virgil Trucks. Vern Stephens and Clint Courtney homer for the O's.

• April 17 - OF/1B Nino Escalera becomes the first black player in Cincinnati Reds history.

• June 12 - Jim Wilson of the Milwaukee Braves pitches the only no-hitter thrown in the major leagues in 1954, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0.

[edit] July-September

• July 13 - The American League makes an 8th inning comeback to win the All-Star game, 11-9. Washington Senators rookie left-hander Dean Stone is the winning pitcher without officially facing a batter, as he throws out Red Schoendienst trying to steal home in the top of the 8th, ending that half of the inning.

• July 31 - Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves hits four home runs successfully in a game, one of only 15 times this has been done in major league history. The Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 15-7.

• September 6 - Outfielder Carlos Paula becomes the first black player in Washington Senators history.

• September 29 - In Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, Willie Mays of the New York Giants makes one of the greatest catches in history when he races back to deep center field in the Polo Grounds to make an over-the-head catch of Cleveland Indians' Vic Wertz's 462-foot drive in the 8th inning with the score tied 2-2. Wertz drove in the 2 runs in the first inning with a triple. Dusty Rhodes hits a pinch-hit, 3-run, 260-foot Home run off Bob Lemon to give the Giants a 5-2 victory.

[edit] October-December

• October 2 - In Game 4 of the 1954 World Series, The New York Giants sweep the Cleveland Indians with the best record in history, as they score 4 runs in the 5th to take a 7-0 lead. The final is 7-4 as Don Liddle defeats Bob Lemon.

• October 28 - The Major League owners vote down ths sale of the Athletics to a Philadelphia syndicate. A week later, Arnold Johnson buys a controlling interest in the Athletics from the Connie Mack family for 3.5 million dollars and moves the team to Kansas City.

[edit] Movies

• Roogie's Bump

[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

• January 16 - Dave Stapleton
• January 18 - Scott McGregor
• January 19 - Rich Gale
• February 2 - John Tudor
• February 10 - Larry McWilliams
• February 13 - Donnie Moore
• February 25 - Bob Brenly
• March 20 - Steve McCatty

[edit] April-June

• April 8 - Gary Carter
• May 2 - Keith Moreland
• May 19 - Rick Cerone
• May 25 - Bob Knepper
• June 19 - Johnnie LeMaster
• June 25 - Bob Shirley
• June 29 - Rick Honeycutt

[edit] July-September

• July 4 - Jim Beattie
• July 6 - Willie Randolph
• July 6 - Jason Thompson
• July 10 - Andre Dawson
• July 14 - Chuck Rainey
• July 27 - Brian Kingman
• July 30 - Ellis Valentine
• August 2 - Roger Lafrancois
• August 7 - Steve Kemp
• August 14 - Mark Fidrych
• August 21 - Bruce Berenyi
• August 31 - Claudell Washington
• September 2 - Rick Manning
• September 8 - Don Aase

[edit] October-December

• October 3 - Dennis Eckersley
• October 12 - Garth Iorg
• October 14 - Willie Aikens
• October 22 - Jamie Quirk
• October 23 - John Castino
• November 1 - Miguel Diloné
• November 8 - Gary Lucas
• November 10 - Bob Stanley
• November 14 - Willie Hernández
• November 30 - Juan Berenguer
• December 2 - Julio Cruz
• December 5 - Gary Roenicke
• December 6 - Mike Parrott
• December 26 - Ozzie Smith

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 - Rabbit Maranville, 62, rambunctious shortstop who set a career record with 2,153 games at the position and was MVP runner-up on the 1914 "Miracle Braves"
• January 20 - Bunny Madden, 71, catcher for the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies between 1909 and 1911
• February 16 - Red Parnell, 48, All-Star left fielder in the Negro Leagues, most notably with the Philadelphia Stars
• March 12 - Bob Quinn, 84, executive who owned the Boston Red Sox from 1923 to 1933 and also ran three other franchises
• May 22 - Chief Bender, 70, Hall of Fame pitcher who won 212 games, starring for 3 Philadelphia Athletics world champion teams
• July 13 - Ed Porray, 65, Pitcher for the 1914 Buffalo Buffeds, who is best known as being the only Major League player born at sea.
• July 13 - Grantland Rice, 73, sportswriter
• July 15 - Chris Mahoney, 69, pitcher/outfielder for the 1910 Boston Red Sox
• October 5 - Oscar Charleston, 57, star center fielder of the Negro Leagues
• October 19 - Hugh Duffy, 87, Hall of Fame center fielder who batted a record .438 in 1894
• October 22 - Earl Whitehill, 54, 200-game winning pitcher
• December 9 - Bill McGowan, 58, American League umpire since 1925 who worked in 8 World Series, and who did not miss a single inning from 1925 until 1942