1920 IN BASEBALL

Contents

Champions

Awards and honors

MLB Statistical Leaders

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro League Baseball final standings

Negro National League final standings

East (independent teams) final standings

Events

Births

Deaths

Champions

★ World Series: Cleveland Indians over Brooklyn Robins (5-2)

Awards and honors

★ MLB Most Valuable Player Award

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MLB Statistical Leaders

'American League' 'National League' Type Name Stat Name Stat AVG George Sisler .407 Rogers Hornsby .370 HR Babe Ruth 54 Cy Williams 15 RBI Babe Ruth 137 Rogers Hornsby & George Kelly 94 Wins Jim Bagby 31 Pete Alexander 27 ERA Bob Shawkey 2.45 Pete Alexander 1.91

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

'American League'
'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
Cleveland Indians	98	56	.636	--
Chicago White Sox	96	58	.623	2
New York Yankees	95	59	.617	3
St. Louis Browns	76	77	.497	21.5
Boston Red Sox	72	81	.471	25.5
Washington Senators	68	84	.447	29
Detroit Tigers	61	93	.396	37
Philadelphia Athletics	48	106	.312	50

National League final standings

'National League'
'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
Brooklyn Robins	93	61	.604	--
New York Giants	86	68	.558	7
Cincinnati Reds	82	71	.536	10.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	79	75	.513	14
Chicago Cubs	75	79	.487	18
St. Louis Cardinals	75	79	.487	18
Boston Braves	62	90	.408	30
Philadelphia Phillies	62	91	.405	30.5

Negro League Baseball final standings

Negro National League final standings

'Negro National League (West)'
'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
Chicago American Giants	31	15	.674
Detroit Stars	40	21	.656
Kansas City Monarchs	45	33	.577
Indianapolis ABCs	42	34	.553
St. Louis Giants	21	21	.500
Cuban Stars	22	26	.458
Dayton Marcos	10	18	.357
Chicago Giants	2	12	.143

East (independent teams) final standings

A loose confederation of teams were gathered in the East to compete with the West, however East teams did not organize a formal league as the West did.

'East'
'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
Brooklyn Royal Giants	5	4	.556
Philadelphia Hilldales	7	6	.538
Bacharach Giants	12	12	.500
Baltimore Black Sox	3	8	.273
Cuban Stars	1	4	.200
New York Lincoln Giants	0	4	.000

★ Won-loss records were sporadically reported due to lack of interest by the press mainly in New York.

★ Bacharach claimed the pennant, although Hilldale disputed it.

Events

★ May 1 - In a kind of game you don't see anymore, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leon Cadore and the Boston Braves' Joe Oeschger pitched 26 innings in a 1-1 tie. A morning rain delayed the start of the game until 3:00 p.m. The Robins scored a run in the top of the fifth, a single by Ivy Olson driving in Ernie Krueger. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the sixth with a double by Walt Cruise and a single by Tony Boeckel. The game went into extra innings. No runs were scored for the rest of the game and it was called off in the 26th inning due to darkness.

★ May 14 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators records his 300th win.

★ August 16 - Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is struck in the head by a pitch from the Yankees' Carl Mays in a game at the Polo Grounds. He dies twelve hours later from a fractured skull, making it the only fatal field accident in major league history. His death leads to the banning of the spitball.

Births

★ January 6 - Early Wynn

★ January 10 - Max Patkin

★ April 8 - Dick Adams

★ May 16 - Dave Philley

★ June 28 - Bert Shepard

★ July 1 - Paul Lehner

★ August 3 - Jim Hegan

★ August 18 - Bob Kennedy

★ September 12 - Andy Seminick

★ September 22 - Bob Lemon

★ October 23 - Vern Stephens

★ November 21 - Stan Musial

★ December 15 - Eddie Robinson

Deaths

★ August 17 - Ray Chapman, 29, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians since 1912 who batted .300 three times, led AL in runs and walks in 1918

★ September 11 - Bill Hallman, 53, second baseman, mainly with the Phillies, who batted .300 and scored 100 runs four times each