The following are the baseball events of the year 1933 throughout the world.
Headline Event of the Year
Champions
Major League Baseball
Other 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
- Homestead was expelled for raiding players.
- Several games were included in the standings against non-League teams.
Post-season:
- Indianapolis and Pittsburgh won the first half.
- Indianapolis beat Pittsburgh in a one-game play-off.
- Nashville and Pittsburgh won the second half.
- Pittsburgh beat Nashville in a 3-game play-off.
- Indianapolis and Pittsburgh tied in a one-game play-off.
- Pittsburgh owner/League commissioner awarded the Pennant to Pittsburgh, over the objection of Indianapolis.
Events
- March 24 - Babe Ruth, another victim of the Great Depression, takes a pay cut of $23,000 from his previous salary of $75,000.
- October 1 - At Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth attracts 25‚000 fans as he takes the mound against the Boston Red Sox. Ruth hits a fifth inning home run and takes a 6–0 lead into the sixth inning‚ then hangs on for a 6–5, complete-game victory. The Yankees back the Babe with 18 outfield putouts. Today is his last pitching appearance‚ and he finishes his pitching career for New York with a 5-0 record. Boston pitcher Bob Kline takes the loss. Ruth now has 10 winning seasons in 10 years as a pitcher‚ a mark that will be matched in 2004 by Andy Pettitte.
Movies
Births
January-March
April-June
July-September
October-December
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
- January 4 - Hal Deviney, pitched for the 1920 Boston Red Sox
- January 31 - Beany Jacobson, 51, pitcher for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns and Boston Americans in the 1900s
- March 20 - Dan Burke, 64, catcher/outfielder who played from 1890 to 1892 for the Rochester Broncos, Syracuse Stars and Boston Beaneaters
- 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
- May 19 - Wes Curry, 73, umpire for six seasons between 1885 and 1898 who also pitched two games in 1884
- June 3 - Jack O'Brien, 60, outfielder for four clubs, and the first player to pinch-hit in World Series history, as a member of the 1903 Boston Americans
- July 23 - Rip Williams, 51, versatile utility who appeared in 498 games for the Red Sox, Senators and Indians between 1911 and 1918
- 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
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