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The following are the baseball events of the year 1927 throughout the world.
[edit] Headline Event of the Year
[edit] Champions
[edit] Awards
[edit] Statistical Leaders
[edit] Major League Baseball final standings
[edit] American League final standings
[edit] National League final standings
[edit] Negro League Baseball final standings
[edit] Negro National League final standings
- Chicago won the first half, Birmingham won the second half.
- Chicago beat Birmingham 4 games to 0 games in a play-off.
[edit] Eastern Colored League final standings
†Homestead was not in the league, but these games counted in the standings. Atlantic City won both first and second halves.
[edit] Events
- May 11 - In Detroit it's Ty Cobb day and more than 30,000 pay to see the former Tigers player in his first appearance at Navin Field in a Philadelphia Athletics uniform. With Eddie Collins on base in the first inning, Cobb drives a double into the overflow crowd to send home Collins for the first run of the game as the Athletics would eventually beat the Tigers 6–3.
- October 8 - In Game Four of the World Series, Babe Ruth's fifth inning home run gives the Yankees a 3-1 lead, but the Pittsburgh Pirates tie the game later. In the ninth inning, Earle Combs walks, Mark Koeing beats out a bunt, and Ruth walks to fill the bases. Two outs later, a wild pitch rolls far enough away for Combs to score the winning run. The Yankees win 4–3 for their second World Championship.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- February 24 - Charlie Bennett, 72, star catcher whose career was ended when a train accident cost him his legs
- March 4 - Horace Wilson, 84, American professor of English at Tokyo University during the modernization of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, who is credited with introducing baseball to Japan in either 1872 or 1873
- March 27 - Joe Start, 84, prominent first baseman of the 1860s and 1870s
- August 16 - Jerry Denny, 68, third baseman from 1881 to 1894
- September 6 - Lave Cross, 61, third baseman and catcher for over 20 seasons, captain of the 1902 and 1905 AL champion Philadelphia Athletics, and one of the first ten players to collect 2,500 hits
- September 27 - Ben Hunt, 38, pitched for the Red Sox and Cardinals in the early 1910s
- October 22 - Ross Youngs, 30, right fielder who batted .322 for the New York Giants over 10 seasons
- December 1 - Germany Smith, 64, shortstop most notably for the Brooklyn Grays/Bridegrooms.
