1939 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | April 17 – October 8, 1939 |
Number of games | 154 |
Number of teams | 16 |
Regular season | |
Season MVP | AL: Joe DiMaggio (NYY) NL: Bucky Walters (CIN) |
AL champions | New York Yankees |
AL runners-up | Boston Red Sox |
NL champions | Cincinnati Reds |
NL runners-up | St. Louis Cardinals |
World Series | |
Champions | New York Yankees |
Runners-up | Cincinnati Reds |
The 1939 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 17 to October 8, 1939. The Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Yankees then defeated the Reds in the World Series, four games to zero. The Yankees became the first team to win the World Series four years in a row.
The 1939 season saw the following rule change:
American League
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World Series | ||||
AL | New York Yankees | 4 | ||
NL | Cincinnati Reds | 0 |
American League
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Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
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Cincinnati Reds [2] | 97 | 18.3% | 981,443 | 38.9% | 12,117 |
Brooklyn Dodgers [3] | 84 | 21.7% | 955,668 | 44.1% | 12,252 |
New York Yankees [4] | 106 | 7.1% | 859,785 | -11.4% | 11,166 |
Detroit Tigers [5] | 81 | -3.6% | 836,279 | 4.6% | 10,722 |
Chicago Cubs [6] | 84 | -5.6% | 726,663 | -23.6% | 9,083 |
New York Giants [7] | 77 | -7.2% | 702,457 | -12.2% | 9,493 |
Chicago White Sox [8] | 85 | 30.8% | 594,104 | 75.6% | 7,716 |
Boston Red Sox [9] | 89 | 1.1% | 573,070 | -11.4% | 7,641 |
Cleveland Indians [10] | 87 | 1.2% | 563,926 | -13.5% | 7,324 |
St. Louis Cardinals [11] | 92 | 29.6% | 400,245 | 37.3% | 5,066 |
Philadelphia Athletics [12] | 55 | 3.8% | 395,022 | 2.5% | 5,198 |
Pittsburgh Pirates [13] | 68 | -20.9% | 376,734 | -41.2% | 4,893 |
Washington Senators [14] | 65 | -13.3% | 339,257 | -35.1% | 4,406 |
Boston Bees [15] | 63 | -18.2% | 285,994 | -16.2% | 3,918 |
Philadelphia Phillies [16] | 45 | 0.0% | 277,973 | 67.3% | 3,756 |
St. Louis Browns [17] | 43 | -21.8% | 109,159 | -16.3% | 1,399 |
The following are the baseball events of the year 1939 throughout the world.
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