The following are the baseball events of the year 1939 throughout the world.
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Negro American League | ||||
Club | Wins | Losses | Win % | GB |
Kansas City Monarchs | 25 | 13 | .658 | |
Memphis Red Sox | 12 | 13 | .480 | |
Cleveland Bears | 20 | 21 | .488 | |
Chicago American Giants | 16 | 20 | .444 | |
St. Louis Stars | 8 | 11 | .421 | |
Toledo Crawfords | 8 | 11 | .421 | |
Indianapolis ABCs | 2 | 10 | .167 |
Negro National League | ||||
Club | Wins | Losses | Win % | GB |
Washington Homestead Grays | 33 | 14 | .702 | |
Newark Eagles | 29 | 20 | .592 | |
Baltimore Elite Giants | 25 | 21 | .543 | |
Philadelphia Stars | 31 | 32 | .492 | |
New York Black Yankees | 15 | 21 | .417 | |
New York Cubans | 5 | 22 | .185 |
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.
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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 none. The Yankees became the first team to win the World Series four years in a row.