The following are the baseball events of the year 1938 throughout the world. [edit] Champions [edit] Major League Baseball [edit] Other champions [edit] Awards and honors [edit] MLB 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 [edit] Events - May 6 - OF Bob Seeds of the Newark Bears (IL) hits four home runs in four successive innings and drives in 12 runs against Buffalo. Tomorrow he will slam three more. His seven homers in the two-day barrage account for 17 RBI and 30 total bases. In his first 59 games‚ Seeds will clout 28 HR and drive in 95 runs.
- June 26 - Carl Hubbell wins his 200th game‚ as the New York Giants beat the visiting Cubs 5–1 and stretch their lead over the second-place Reds to two games. Larry French takes the loss. Newly acquired Bob Seeds‚ up from Newark‚ leads the way with a 470-foot inside the park home run.
- August 2 - The Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals used a yellow baseball in the first game of a doubleheader as an experiment. The two teams went back to the white ball in the second game as the Dodgers swept the doubleheader 6–2 and 9–3.
- November 26 - National League president Ford Frick steps in and pays $350 for funeral services, including the cost of a coffin, for the unclaimed body of Hack Wilson. The former slugger, who had died probably of alcohol abuse a few days earlier in a Baltimore hospital, is identified only as a white male.
- December 14 - Major League Baseball teams adopt several resolutions. The National League allows the Cincinnati Reds to play their season opener one day before other teams, as a way of honoring the 100th anniversary of baseball and of the 1869 Red Stockings being the first professional team. In other news, Will Harridge is re-elected as American League president and given a 10-year term. The AL permits the Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Athletics to play night games. Finally, MLB agree on a standard ball but disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25 players. Judge Landis will eventually decide on 25.
[edit] Births [edit] January-March [edit] April-June [edit] July-September [edit] October-December [edit] Deaths - January 12 - Dupee Shaw, 78, pitcher who played six seasons. Won 30 games and struck out 451 batters in 1884.
- January 24 - Jim Mutrie, 86, manager who led New York Metropolitans to the American Association title in 1884, then won pennants in 1888-89 after moving to NY's NL franchise - which he renamed by marveling over his "Giants"; career .611 winning percentage was best of 19th century
- January 28 - Pop Rising, 56, outfielder for the 1905 Boston Americans
- January 31 - Charlie Chech, 59, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Naps and Boston Red Sox between 1905 and 1909
- February 22 - Mert Hackett, 78, catcher for five seasons, including the 1883 National League champions, the Boston Beaneaters.
- February 26 - Tex Jones, 53, played nine games for the Chicago White Sox in 1911
- March 18 - Hobe Ferris, 60, lowest ever career on base percentage; committed first ever error in a World Series game
- March 30 - Dasher Troy, 81, second baseman for five seasons, most notably for the 1884 American Association champs, the New York Metropolitans.
- April 3 - Count Campau, 74, outfielder for three seasons, and one-time manager for the St. Louis Browns in 1890.
- April 11 - Cristóbal Torriente, 44, All-Star Cuban right fielder in the Negro Leagues who batted .339 lifetime
- May 21 - Silver King, 70, pitcher who had three 30-win seasons for the 1887-89 St. Louis Browns, and another for the 1890 Chicago team in the Players League; first sidearm pitcher
- July 4 - Chief Roseman, 82, outfielder for seven seasons, from 1882-1890.
- October 3 - Morgan Murphy, 71, catcher and noted sign stealer for 11 seasons, from 1890 to 1901.
- October 16 - Joe Knight, 79, Canadian-born outfielder who finished sixth in the 1890 National League batting race with a .312 average
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