| 1933 MLB season | |
|---|---|
| League | Major League Baseball |
| Sport | Baseball |
| Duration | April 12 – October 7, 1933 |
| Number of games | 154 |
| Number of teams | 16 |
| Regular season | |
| Season MVP | AL: Jimmie Foxx (PHA) NL: Carl Hubbell (NYG) |
| AL champions | Washington Senators |
| AL runners-up | New York Yankees |
| NL champions | New York Giants |
| NL runners-up | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| World Series | |
| Champions | New York Giants |
| Runners-up | Washington Senators |
The 1933 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 12 to October 7, 1933. The New York Giants and Washington Senators were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Giants then defeated the Senators in the World Series, four games to one.
The season featured eight players hitting for the cycle, tied for the most of any single major league season. It was also the last season before the Senators and Philadelphia Athletics became perennial American League cellar-dwellers. The Senators would have only four more winning seasons in Washington, D.C., and would not return to the World Series until 1965 as the Minnesota Twins, [1] while the Athletics would have only four winning seasons until moving to Oakland in 1968, winning only 40.2 percent of their games over 34 seasons. [2]
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1 American League Triple Crown Award Winner
2 National League Triple Crown Award Winner
American League
| National League
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| World Series | ||||
| AL | Washington Senators | 1 | ||
| NL | New York Giants | 4 | ||
| Team | Manager | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Red Sox | Marty McManus | |
| Chicago White Sox | Lew Fonseca | |
| Cleveland Indians | Roger Peckinpaugh and Walter Johnson | |
| Detroit Tigers | Bucky Harris and Del Baker | |
| New York Yankees | Joe McCarthy | Finished 2nd |
| Philadelphia Athletics | Connie Mack | Finished 3rd |
| St. Louis Browns | Bill Killefer, Allen Sothoron and Rogers Hornsby | |
| Washington Senators | Joe Cronin | Won AL pennant |
| Team | Manager | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Braves | Bill McKechnie | |
| Brooklyn Dodgers | Max Carey | |
| Chicago Cubs | Charlie Grimm | Finished 3rd |
| Cincinnati Reds | Donie Bush | |
| New York Giants | Bill Terry | Won World Series |
| Philadelphia Phillies | Burt Shotton | |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | George Gibson | Finished 2nd |
| St. Louis Cardinals | Gabby Street and Frankie Frisch |
| Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Yankees [3] | 91 | -15.0% | 728,014 | -24.3% | 9,707 |
| New York Giants [4] | 91 | 26.4% | 604,471 | 24.7% | 7,850 |
| Chicago Cubs [5] | 86 | -4.4% | 594,112 | -39.0% | 7,520 |
| Brooklyn Dodgers [6] | 65 | -19.8% | 526,815 | -22.7% | 6,585 |
| Boston Braves [7] | 83 | 7.8% | 517,803 | 2.0% | 6,725 |
| Washington Senators [8] | 99 | 6.5% | 437,533 | 17.8% | 5,757 |
| Chicago White Sox [9] | 67 | 36.7% | 397,789 | 70.6% | 5,166 |
| Cleveland Indians [10] | 75 | -13.8% | 387,936 | -17.3% | 5,038 |
| Detroit Tigers [11] | 75 | -1.3% | 320,972 | -19.2% | 4,115 |
| Philadelphia Athletics [12] | 79 | -16.0% | 297,138 | -26.7% | 3,910 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates [13] | 87 | 1.2% | 288,747 | 0.5% | 3,750 |
| Boston Red Sox [14] | 63 | 46.5% | 268,715 | 47.5% | 3,732 |
| St. Louis Cardinals [15] | 82 | 13.9% | 256,171 | -8.3% | 3,327 |
| Cincinnati Reds [16] | 58 | -3.3% | 218,281 | -38.8% | 2,763 |
| Philadelphia Phillies [17] | 60 | -23.1% | 156,421 | -41.8% | 2,173 |
| St. Louis Browns [18] | 55 | -12.7% | 88,113 | -21.7% | 1,144 |
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