1951 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1951 throughout the world.

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See also
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1 Headline Event of the Year
2 Champions
- 2.1 Major League Baseball
- 2.2 Other champions
3 Awards and honors
4 Statistical Leaders
5 Major League Baseball final standings
- 5.1 American League final standings
- 5.2 National League final standings
6 Events
7 Movies
8 Births
9 Deaths

[edit] Headline Event of the Year

Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games tiebreaker series over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

World Series: New York Yankees over New York Giants (4-2)
All-Star Game, July 10 at Briggs Stadium: National League, 8-3

[edit] Other champions

Caribbean World Series: Cangrejeros de Santurce (Puerto Rico)
College World Series: Oklahoma
Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Nankai Hawks (4-2)
Little League World Series: Stamford, Connecticut
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: South Bend Blue Sox

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] Statistical Leaders

	American League		National League
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Ferris Fain PHA	.344	Stan Musial STL	.355
HR	Gus Zernial PHA	33	Ralph Kiner NYG	42
RBI	Gus Zernial PHA	129	Monte Irvin NYG	121
Wins	Bob Feller CLE	22	Larry Jansen NYG & Sal Maglie NYG	23
ERA	Saul Rogovin CHW	2.78	Chet Nichols BSB	2.88
Ks	Vic Raschi NYY	164	Don Newcombe BRK & Warren Spahn BSB	164

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

American League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
New York Yankees	98	56	.636	--
Cleveland Indians	93	61	.604	5
Boston Red Sox	87	67	.565	11
Chicago White Sox	81	73	.526	17
Detroit Tigers	73	81	.474	25
Philadelphia Athletics	70	84	.455	28
Washington Senators	62	92	.403	36
St. Louis Browns	52	102	.338	46

[edit] National League final standings

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
New York Giants	98	59	.624	--
Brooklyn Dodgers	97	60	.618	1
St. Louis Cardinals	81	73	.526	15.5
Boston Braves	76	78	.494	20.5
Philadelphia Phillies	73	81	.474	23.5
Cincinnati Reds	68	86	.442	28.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	64	90	.416	32.5
Chicago Cubs	62	92	.403	43.5

[edit] Events

[edit] January-March

January 23 - Guido Rujo sells his interest in the Boston Braves to copartners Lou Perini and treasurer Joe Many.

January 26 - The baseball writers vote Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx into the Hall Of Fame.

March 10 - The St. Louis Browns reveal plans to move the club to Milwaukee because of poor attendance.

March 21 - Pittsburgh Pirates' lefty first baseman Dale Long makes his first appearance as a catcher in an exhibition game against San Diego.

[edit] April-June

[edit] July-September

July 10 - Exploding for a record four home runs, the National League trounces the American League 8-3 at the annual All-Star Game, at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Pittsburgh Pirates' slugger Ralph Kiner hits a home run for the 3rd year in a row.

July 17 - After pitching for Bill Veeck in Cleveland in 1948, Satchel Paige rejions him with the St. Louis Browns.

[edit] October-December

October 10 - Hank Bauer's bases-loaded triple propels the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win over the Giants and with it their 3rd straight championship. The Yankees beat the New York Giants 4 games to 2. Just before the game, Giants manager Leo Durocher turns over a letter he received to Ford Frick that offer the Giants manager a $15,000 bribe "if the Giants managed to lose the next 3 games".

October 17 - the Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Series over the Nankai Hawks. Incredibly, they will win the pennant 19 times in the next 23 years, including 9 in succession (1965-1973).

[edit] Movies

Rhubarb
Angels in the Outfield

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

February 6 - Gabby Street, 68, manager of the Cardinals' 1931 World Series champions, previously a catcher for Walter Johnson
February 25 - Smokey Joe Williams, 64, fireballing Negro Leagues pitcher
March 25 - Eddie Collins, 63, Hall of Fame second baseman and career .333 hitter for the Athletics and White Sox, the 1914 AL MVP, the sixth player to make 3000 hits, and second to Ty Cobb in career steals
July 9 - Harry Heilmann, 56, right fielder and 4-time AL batting champion who batted .342 in his career, primarily with the Detroit Tigers
September 16 - Bill Klem, 77, "father of baseball umpires" who worked in a record 18 World Series during a 37-year career, and introduced the inside chest protector
November 26 - Pete Hill, 71, baseball's first great black outfielder
December 5 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, 63, career .356 hitter who was the most prominent of the eight players banned from baseball after the Black Sox scandal
December 8 - Bobby Lowe, 86, second baseman for multiple Boston champions in the 1890s

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