The following are the baseball events of the year 1927 throughout the world. [edit] Headline Event of the Year [edit] Champions [edit] Awards [edit] Statistical leaders [edit] Major league baseball final standings [edit] American League final standings [edit] National League final standings [edit] Negro League Baseball final standings [edit] Negro National League final standings - Chicago won the first half, Birmingham won the second half.
- Chicago beat Birmingham 4 games to 0 games in a play-off.
[edit] Eastern Colored League final standings †Homestead was not in the league, but these games counted in the standings. Atlantic City won both first and second halves. [edit] Events - May 11 - In Detroit it's Ty Cobb day and more than 30,000 pay to see the former Tigers player in his first appearance at Navin Field in a Philadelphia Athletics uniform. With Eddie Collins on base in the first inning, Cobb drives a double into the overflow crowd to send home Collins for the first run of the game as the Athletics would eventually beat the Tigers 6–3.
- October 8 - The New York Yankees defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–3, in Game 4 of the World Series, to win their second World Championship, four games to none. This was the first sweep by an American League team over the National League. Babe Ruth's fifth inning home run gives the Yankees a 3–1 lead, but Pittsburgh tie the game later. In the top of the ninth inning, Earle Combs walks, Mark Koenig beats out a bunt, and Ruth walks to fill the bases. Two outs later, a wild pitch rolls far enough away for Combs to score the winning run.
- November 28 - Billy Evans quits as American League umpire to becomes business manager of the Cleveland Indians, following the purchase of the club by a group headed by Alva Bradley, to become the first General Manager in major league history. Evans, who worked as an AL umpire from 1906 to 1927, became, at age 22, the youngest umpire in major league history, and later became the youngest to officiate in the World Series at age 25.
[edit] Births [edit] January-March [edit] April-June [edit] July-September [edit] October-December [edit] Deaths - February 24 - Charlie Bennett, 72, star catcher whose career was ended when a train accident cost him his legs
- March 4 - Horace Wilson, 84, American professor of English at Tokyo University during the modernization of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, who is credited with introducing baseball to Japan in either 1872 or 1873
- March 27 - Joe Start, 84, prominent first baseman of the 1860s and 1870s
- April 18 - Pop Smith, 70, infielder for 12 seasons from 1880 to 1891.
- August 16 - Jerry Denny, 68, third baseman from 1881 to 1894
- September 6 - Lave Cross, 61, third baseman and catcher for over 20 seasons, captain of the 1902 and 1905 AL champion Philadelphia Athletics, and one of the first ten players to collect 2,500 hits
- September 27 - Ben Hunt, 38, pitched for the Red Sox and Cardinals in the early 1910s
- October 22 - Ross Youngs, 30, right fielder who batted .322 for the New York Giants over 10 seasons
- October 25 - Tom Brown, 67, outfielder who played 17 seasons, had 1951 hits, managed two seasons for the 1897-1898 Washington Senators, and umpired 3 full seasons.
- November 30 - Jimmy Wood, 84, player/manager for the Chicago White Stockings, Troy Haymakers, Brooklyn Eckfords and Philadelphia White Stockings from 1871 to 1873, who hit .333 in 102 games and posted a 105-99 managerial record
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