The following are the baseball events of the year 1933 throughout the world.  

This year in baseball

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See also

Baseball Major League Baseball Minor league baseball Negro League baseball Japanese baseball

Sources

Baseball Hall of Fame Baseball Almanac Baseball Library Baseball Reference National Pastime The Deadball Era

Headline Event of the Year

• First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game.

Champions

Major League Baseball

• World Series: New York Giants over Washington Senators (4-1)
• First All-Star Game, July 6 at Comiskey Park: American League, 4-2. Babe Ruth hit the first All-Star Game home run.

Other champions

• First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, September 10 at Comiskey Park: West, 11-7

Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player
  • Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics (AL)
  • Carl Hubbell, New York Giants (NL)

MLB Statistical Leaders

American League National League Type Name Stat Name Stat AVG Jimmie Foxx .356 Chuck Klein .368 HR Jimmie Foxx 48 Chuck Klein 28 RBI Jimmie Foxx 163 Chuck Klein 120 Wins Alvin Crowder & Lefty Grove 24 Carl Hubbell 23 ERA Mel Harder 2.95 Carl Hubbell 1.66

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	Washington Senators	99	53	.651	--
2nd	New York Yankees	91	59	.607	7.0
3rd	Philadelphia Athletics	79	72	.523	19.5
4th	Cleveland Indians	75	76	.497	23.5
5th	Detroit Tigers	75	79	.487	25.0
6th	Chicago White Sox	67	83	.447	31.0
7th	Boston Red Sox	63	86	.423	34.5
8th	St. Louis Browns	55	96	.364	43.5

National League final standings

Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	New York Giants	91	61	.599	--
2nd	Pittsburgh Pirates	87	67	.565	5.0
3rd	Chicago Cubs	86	68	.558	6.0
4th	Boston Braves	83	71	.539	9.0
5th	St. Louis Cardinals	82	71	.536	9.5
6th	Brooklyn Dodgers	65	88	.425	26.5
7th	Philadelphia Phillies	60	92	.395	31.0
8th	Cincinnati Reds	58	94	.382	33.0

Events

• First All-Star game.

Movies

• Elmer, the Great

Births

• April 29 - Ed Charles (living)
• May 13 - Johnny Roseboro (d. 2002)
• June 7 - Herb Score (d. 2008)
• July 26 - Norm Siebern (living)
• July 27 - Johnny Kucks (living)
• August 10 - Rocky Colavito (living)
• September 2 - Marv Throneberry (d. 1994)
• November 4 - Tito Francona (living)

Deaths

• January 2 - Kid Gleason, 66, who won 138 games as a pitcher and was second baseman for four teams from 1895-1906, twice batting .300; won AL pennant as rookie manager of White Sox in 1919, then watched as team threw World Series. Gleason was one of the relatively few major leaguers to appear in a major league game in 4 different decades.
• April 23 - Tim Keefe, 76, pitcher who won over 340 games, including six 30-win campaigns for the New York Metropolitans and Giants from 1883–88, with 40-win seasons in 1883 and 1886; led league in ERA three times and strikeouts twice, with career strikeout mark (2500+) being record until 1908; won 19 straight in 1888, leading Giants to first pennant, and was 4-0 with 0.51 ERA in championship series
• September 16 - George Gore, 76, center fielder for the White Stockings and Giants who batted .301 lifetime and won 1880 batting title; led NL in walks three times and runs twice, and upon retirement was fifth all-time in runs and second in walks
• September 25 - Ring Lardner, 48, sportswriter for various newspapers, mainly in Chicago, since 1907; pioneered the satirical cynic's view of sports reporting
• October 5 - William Veeck, 55, president of the Cubs since 1919; previously a sportswriter