1939 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1939 throughout the world.

Contents

Headline event of the year

Champions

Major League Baseball

Other champions

Awards and honors

Statistical leaders

Any team shown in small text indicates a previous team a player was on during the season.

American League National League Negro American League Negro National League
StatPlayerTotalPlayerTotalPlayerTotalPlayerTotal
AVG Joe DiMaggio (NYY).381 Johnny Mize (SLC).349 Henry Turner (CLB).393 Josh Gibson (HOM).402
HR Jimmie Foxx (BRS)35 Johnny Mize (SLC)28 Turkey Stearnes (KC)7 Josh Gibson (HOM)
Buck Leonard (HOM)
11
RBI Ted Williams (BRS)145 Frank McCormick (CIN)128 Willard Brown (KC)42 Buck Leonard (HOM)48
W Bob Feller (CLE)24 Bucky Walters 1 (CIN)27 Smoky Owens (CLB)
George Walker (KC)
8 Henry McHenry (PHS)11
ERA Lefty Grove (BRS)2.54 Bucky Walters 1 (CIN)2.29 Felix Evans (IND)1.86 Roy Partlow (HOM)1.74
K Bob Feller (CLE)246 Claude Passeau (CHC/ PHP )
Bucky Walters 1 (CIN)
137 Hilton Smith (KC)85 Neck Stanley (NYB)44

1 National League Triple Crown pitching winner

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro league baseball final standings

All Negro leagues standings below are per Seamheads. [1]

Negro American League final standings

Negro National League final standings

Events

January – May

June – July

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift – that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies – that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that's the finest I know. So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

August – September

October – December

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

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Barney Pelty

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

References

  1. "1939 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database". www.seamheads.com. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  2. "1939 NAL Championship Series - Kansas City Monarchs over St. Louis Stars (4-1) | Baseball-Reference.com".
  3. "1939 NN2 Playoffs - Homestead Grays over Philadelphia Stars (3-2) | Baseball-Reference.com".
  4. "1939 NN2 Playoffs - Baltimore Elite Giants over Newark Eagles (3-1) | Baseball-Reference.com".
  5. "1939 NN2 Championship Series - Baltimore Elite Giants over Homestead Grays (3-1-1) | Baseball-Reference.com".
  6. Retrosheet Box Score: New York Yankees 2, Boston Red Sox 0, Game played on April 20, 1939, at Yankee Stadium.
  7. Retrosheet Box Score: Philadelphia Athletics 12, Boston Red Sox 8, Game played on April 23, 1939, at Fenway Park.
  8. "History of Little League". Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  9. New York Yankees 2 at Philadelphia Athletics 3. June 26, 1936. Baseball Reference Box Score. Retrieved on June 26, 2017.
  10. MLB.com: Hall inductees White, O'Day have intertwined history
  11. Baseball Reference – Players who played for Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees
  12. SABR BioProject – Nick Allen Biography