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1947 in baseball

See also: 1947 Major League Baseball season and 1947 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season

The following are the baseball events of the year 1947 throughout the world.

Years in baseball
1947 in sports

Champions

Major League Baseball

Other champions

Winter Leagues

Club tournaments

Awards and honors

Statistical leaders

Any team shown in small text indicates a previous team a player was on during the season.

American League National League Negro American League Negro National League
Stat Player Total Player Total Player Total Player Total
AVG Ted Williams1 (BRS) .343 Harry Walker (PHP/SLC) .363 Willard Brown (KC) .377 Henry Kimbro (BAL) .385
HR Ted Williams1 (BRS) 32 Ralph Kiner (PIT)
Johnny Mize (NYG) 		51 Hank Thompson (KC) 8 Monte Irvin (NWK) 11
RBI Ted Williams1 (BRS) 114 Johnny Mize (NYG) 138 Willard Brown (KC) 64 Butch Davis (BAL)
Henry Kimbro (BAL) 		52
W Bob Feller (CLE) 20 Ewell Blackwell (CIN) 22 Jim LaMarque (KC) 10 Max Manning (NWK) 12
ERA Joe Haynes (CWS) 2.42 Warren Spahn (BSB) 2.33 Gene Richardson (KC) 1.33 Lino Donoso (NYC) 2.30
K Bob Feller (CLE) 196 Ewell Blackwell (CIN) 193 Jim LaMarque (KC) 85 Bob Romby (BAL) 99

1 American League Triple Crown batting winner

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro league baseball final standings

All Negro leagues standings below are per Seamheads.[1]

Negro American League final standings

Negro National League final standings

Negro World Series

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League final standings

Rank Team W L Pct. GB
1 Muskegon Lassies 69 43 .616 –
2 Grand Rapids Chicks 64 46 .582 4
3 Racine Belles 65 47 .580 4
4 South Bend Blue Sox 57 54 .514 11½
5 Peoria Redwings 54 57 .487 14½
6 Rockford Peaches 48 63 .432 19½
7 Fort Wayne Daisies 44 66 .400 24
8 Kenosha Comets 43 69 .384 26

Events

Further information: 1947 Major League Baseball season, Baseball color line, and 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season

January

  • January 18 – The Pittsburgh Pirates purchase the contract of first baseman Hank Greenberg from the Detroit Tigers for $75,000. A future Baseball Hall of Famer and all-time Tiger great, Greenberg, now 36, led the American League in homers with 44 in 1946, but he has become estranged from Detroit's front office. The Pirates will pair him with sophomore Ralph Kiner, who led the National League with 23 home runs in 1946. They also will shorten the left-field dimensions in Forbes Field; the "porch" favoring the two right-handed sluggers will be initially nicknamed "Greenberg Gardens," then "Kiner's Korner."[2] The 1947 campaign proves to be Greenberg's last as an active player; he will hit 25 long balls for the Pirates, while Kiner's and Johnny Mize's 51 home runs set the pace for the majors.
  • January 20 – Less than three months before the start of the National League season, with Jackie Robinson poised to break the baseball color line, catcher Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays, known as "the black Babe Ruth", dies from a stroke in Pittsburgh at 35. Despite a prolonged period of declining mental and physical health, possibly due to a brain tumor,[3] Gibson passes away months after leading the Negro National League in homers in 1946—the 11th time he's done so in 13 seasons. Author of as many as 962 home runs overall,[3] and believed to have compiled a career batting average of as high as .373, he'll be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.[4] (See Deaths for this date below.)
Laraine Day and husband Leo Durocher in 1949

February

  • February 1 – Commissioner of Baseball Happy Chandler announces the creation of a pension plan for retired major leaguers. Any player with five years of experience will receive $50 a month at age 50 and $10 a month for each of the next five years. The plan extends to coaches, players and trainers active on Opening Day. The plan will be funded by $650,000‚ with the 16 teams providing 80% and the players the remaining 20%.
  • February 4 – The career of Hal Trosky comes to an end when he's released by the Chicago White Sox. Though overshadowed by fellow first basemen Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx, Trosky, 33, was one of the American League's most feared batsmen of the 1930s, once (in 1936) driving in 162 runs on the strength of 42 homers as a member of the Cleveland Indians. But debilitating migraine headaches impaired his durability, then caused him to miss three full seasons before attempting a final comeback with the 1946 Pale Hose.
  • February 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics deal right-handed pitchers Lum Harris and Lou Knerr to the Washington Senators for outfielder/first baseman George Binks.
  • February 19 – The Boston Red Sox sign free-agent catcher Frankie "Blimp" Hayes, released by the White Sox six days earlier. Former "iron-man" Hayes, 32, is only 2+ years removed from his remarkable 1944 season, in which he started all 155 of the Athletics' games behind the plate, and only missed 18 innings of action all season. He then followed that in 1945 by starting a combined 151 games for the Athletics and Indians. Hayes will be released by the Red Sox on May 21, 1947, after making only five appearances—ending his MLB career.
  • February 23–25 – The wildest pennant race in Cuban League annals sees the Alacranes del Almendares overcome a six-game, late-season deficit to defeat their archrivals, the Leones del Habana, in a three-game, season-concluding sweep. American left-hander Max Lanier, one of the players suspended indefinitely by MLB in May 1946 for "jumping" the reserve clause to sign with the "outlaw" Mexican League, wins two of the contests, including the clincher on a single day of rest.

March

April

Jackie Robinson, April 1947

May

June

Ewell Blackwell

July

Larry Doby

August

Phil Marchildon

September

October

The Yankees' "fireman," Joe Page
  • September 30–October 6 – The 1947 World Series, the 44th match between the pennant-winners of the American and National leagues, goes the limit before the New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5–2, in Game 7 to win their eleventh world championship, four games to three. The 1947 Fall Classic is notable on several fronts.
    • It's the first World Series to feature a team with a racially integrated roster: rookie Brooklyn first baseman Jackie Robinson, who broke the baseball color line on April 15, starts all seven games, collects seven hits, including two doubles, in 27 at bats (.259), scores three runs, drives in three, and steals two bases. In addition, Dodger pitcher Dan Bankhead pinch runs for Bobby Bragan in Game 6, and scores Brooklyn's seventh tally in an 8–6 win.
    • It's the first Series to be telecast, although coverage is limited to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Schenectady/Albany, New York. The TV industry is in its infancy, with only 44,000[31] to 100,000 sets in U.S. homes, retail store windows, and dining and drinking establishments. Billboard will estimate that 3.9 million viewers took advantage of the new medium to watch the action.[32]
    • It marks the return of the Yankees' 50-year-old manager, Bucky Harris, to the Fall Classic after an absence of 22 years; the "Boy Wonder" playing skipper of the Washington Senators had led his teams to the 1924 championship and a heart-breaking loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates the following season.
    • Above all, it features three memorable highlights.
      • In Game 4 on October 3 at Ebbets Field, the Yankees' Bill Bevens—though issuing ten bases on balls over 82⁄3 innings—comes within one out of the first no-hit game in World Series history, only to be foiled by pinch hitter Cookie Lavagetto's double that scores Brooklyn's tying and winning runs.
      • Then, in the sixth inning of Game 6 on October 5 at Yankee Stadium, Al Gionfriddo robs Joe DiMaggio of extra bases, perhaps a game-tying homer, when he makes a running catch of DiMaggio's deep drive to the bullpen fence, 415 feet (126 m) from the plate in left-center.
      • And in Game 7 on October 6, Bevens and left-handed bullpen ace Joe Page combine for 71⁄3 innings of three-hit, shutout relief to enable the Yankees to claw back from a 2–0 deficit and win the deciding contest by scoring five unanswered runs.
  • October 2 – The Pittsburgh Pirates hire longtime minor-league manager Billy Meyer, 54, as their new field leader, signing him to a two-year contract for the highest salary ever paid a Pirate skipper.[33] Meyer has compiled a highly successful record in the New York Yankees' organization, with his teams winning four championships and finishing second four times over the past decade. The Pirates today also unconditionally release first baseman Hank Greenberg, ending the future Hall-of-Fame slugger's playing career after 13 MLB seasons and 331 home runs.
  • October 6 – Minutes after winning the 1947 World Series, his first championship as an executive, New York Yankees' one-third-owner Larry MacPhail resigns as club president and general manager, then confronts fellow co-owner Dan Topping and farm system director George Weiss at the team's victory party. The following day, Topping and co-owner Del Webb acquire MacPhail's one-third interest in the Bombers, and promote Weiss to general manager. His bizarre departure from the Yankees marks the end of MacPhail's brilliant but erratic baseball career at age 57;[34] he'll be elected posthumously to the Hall of Fame in 1978. Topping and Webb will co-own the Yankees until they sell the franchise to CBS in 1964.
  • October 9 – The Washington Senators name former stalwart first baseman Joe Kuhel, 41, their manager for 1948. Kuhel retired from the playing ranks in May 1947; he batted .288 in 1,205 games over 11 seasons with Washington (1930–1937, 1944–1946). He succeeds Ossie Bluege, the club's manager since 1943, who becomes the Senators' farm system director.
  • October 24 – The Cleveland Indians release pitcher Mel Harder, a 20-year veteran who won 223 games in a Cleveland uniform. He remains with the club as its pitching coach.

November

December

Dixie Walker, left, with Ralph Kiner in 1948

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

  • January 2 – Joe Koukalik, 66, one of four Austrian players in Major League Baseball history, who pitched eight innings in one baseball game for the Brooklyn Superbas in the 1904 season.
  • January 15 – Jimmy Sheckard, 68, left fielder and leadoff hitter who played for eight different teams in a span of 17 seasons between 1897 and 1913, most notably for the Chicago Cubs from 1906 to 1912, a period in which the Cubs won four National League pennants and two World Series titles in 1907 and 1908.
  • January 20 – Josh Gibson, 35, Negro leagues All-Star catcher who is considered by baseball historians as one of the best power hitters and catchers in the history of any league, including Major League Baseball, becoming the second Negro league player to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame behind Satchel Paige.
  • January 21 – Jimmy Walsh, 60, third baseman who played from 1910 through 1915 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Terrapins and St. Louis Terriers.
  • January 29 – Del Gainer, 60, solid first baseman and line drive hitter who played for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals (1922) during ten seasons between 1909 and 1922.
  • January 31 – Johnny Kling, 71, catcher who was key part of the great Chicago Cubs dynasty from the early 1900s.

February

  • February 5 – Ed Callahan, 89, outfielder and shortstop who played in 1894 for the St. Louis Maroons, Kansas City Cowboys and Boston Reds clubs of the outlaw Federal League.
  • February 9 – Dan Barry, 60, American League umpire in 1928 who worked 132 games in his lone AL season; one of only six umpires to eject Lou Gehrig from a game; former sportswriter.
  • February 10 – Carney Flynn, 72, pitcher who played with the Cincinnati Reds in 1894 and for the New York Giants and Washington Senators in 1896.
  • February 10 – George Whiteman, 64, outfielder for the 1918 Boston Red Sox World Champions.
  • February 13 – Sam Shaw, 83, pitcher who played with the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association in 1888 and for the Chicago Colts of the National League in 1893.
  • February 19 – Hooks Warner, 52, third baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates in part of four seasons spanning 1916–1921.
  • February 23 – George Brickley, 52, two-sport athlete who played as an outfielder for the 1913 Philadelphia Athletics, and later played football as a tailback for the Cleveland Tigers and the New York Brickley Giants.
  • February 24 – Jack Glasscock, 89, flashy fielding shortstop of the 19th century, and the sixth player to collect at least 2,000 hits.
  • February 27:
    • Ensign Cottrell, 58, pitcher who played from 1911 to 1915 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Braves and New York Yankees.
    • Jack Calhoun, 67, third baseman the 1902 St. Louis Cardinals.
  • February 28:

March

  • March 2 – Dewey Metivier, 48, pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians from 1922 to 1924.
  • March 7 – Dan McGarvey, 57, left fielder who played for the Detroit Tigers in the 1912 season.
  • March 20 – Mike Mowrey, 62, outstanding third baseman during the Deadball Era, who played from 1905 through 1915 for five different National League clubs, and was a member of the Brooklyn Robins team who were defeated by the strong Boston Red Sox in the 1916 World Series.
  • March 22 – Tony Von Fricken, 77, pitcher for the 1890 Boston Beaneaters.
  • March 26 – Jim Bluejacket, 59, pitcher who played from 1914 to 1915 with the Brooklyn Tip-Tops and for the Cincinnati Reds in 1916.
  • March 27 – Pete Lister, 65, first baseman who played in 22 games for the Cleveland Naps during the 1907 season.
  • March 28 – Johnny Evers, 65, Hall of Fame second baseman who along shortstop Joe Tinker and first baseman Frank Chance formed the most famous double play combination in Major League history, which is memorialized in the legendary poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon, as the trio led the Chicago Cubs during the glory years of 1906–1910 to four National League pennants and two World Series.

April

  • April 2:
    • Charlie Jones, 72, a fine defensive outfielder with a strong arm, who played for the Boston Americans, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators and St. Louis Browns between 1901 and 1908.
    • Mike Lynch, 71, center fielder for the 1902 Chicago Orphans of the National League.
  • April 4 – Jot Goar, 77, pitcher who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1896 and for the Cincinnati Reds in 1898.
  • April 12 – Tom Sullivan, 87, pitcher for the Columbus Buckeyes and Kansas City Cowboys in parts of four seasons spanning 1884–1889.
  • April 20 – Jack Rothfuss, 75, first baseman for the 1897 Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • April 21 – Steamer Flanagan, 66, outfielder who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1905.
  • April 25 – John Walsh, 68, third baseman who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1903 season.

May

  • May 1:
  • May 2 – Ossie France, 88, pitcher for the 1890 Chicago Colts of the National League.
  • May 5 – Ty LaForest, 30, Canadian third baseman who played for the Boston Red Sox in 1945, one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II conflict.
  • May 6 – Ferdie Moore, 51, first baseman who played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1914 season.
  • May 7 – Michael McDermott, 83, pitcher who played for the Louisville Colonels of the American Association during the 1889 season.
  • May 18 – Hal Chase, 64, outstanding first baseman whose big league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, who was the most notoriously corrupt player in Major League history and was barred from baseball after a reputed long history of fixing games.
  • May 19 – Tex Hoffman, 53, third baseman for the 1915 Cleveland Indians.
  • May 23:
    • Harry Bemis, 73, catcher who played from 1902 through 1910 for the Cleveland Naps of the American League.
    • Goat Cochran, 56, pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1915 season.
  • May 27:
    • Ed Konetchy, 61, who led National League first basemen in fielding seven times and batted .281 in 2,085 games over 15 seasons (1907–1921); his 2,150 career hits included 181 triples, 17th all time.
    • Harry Sage, 83, catcher who played in 1890 for the Toledo Maumees of the American Association.
  • May 31 – Jimmie Wilson, 46, two-time All-Star catcher who played 1,525 games over 18 seasons (1923–1940) with three National League clubs; won World Series rings with the 1931 St. Louis Cardinals and 1940 Cincinnati Reds; managed Philadelphia Phillies (1934–1938) and Chicago Cubs (1941 to April 30, 1944) to a combined 493–735 (.401) record.

June

  • June 15 – Luke Stuart, second baseman who played in 1921 for the St. Louis Browns, also one of two players to hit an inside-the-park home run in their first Major League Baseball at bat, the other being Johnnie LeMaster, who did it with the San Francisco Giants in 1975.
  • June 18:
    • Neal Brady, 50, pitcher who played with the New York Yankees in the 1915 and 1917 seasons and for the Cincinnati Reds in 1925.
    • Jumbo Harting, 82, catcher who played in 1886 for the St. Louis Browns of the National League.
  • June 20 – Bob Ewing, 74, pitcher who played from 1902 through 1912 for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals.
  • June 30 – Mellie Wolfgang, 57, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox in five seasons from 1914 to 1918.

July

  • July 4 – Jeff Sweeney, 58, catcher for the New York Highlanders/Yankees in the early 1900s, who in 1914 stole 19 bases, the most ever by a Yankee catcher in a single season.
  • July 7 – Dick Egan, infielder who played from 1908 through 1916 for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves.
  • July 8 – William G. Bramham, 72, president of the Minor Leagues from 1932 to 1946.
  • July 14 – Orval Overall, 66, pitcher for the 1907/1908 World Champion Chicago Cubs; a right-handed curveball specialist who compiled a lifetime 108–71 record with a 2.23 earned run average, the eighth best ERA in Major League history.
  • July 16 – Bill Keen, 54, first baseman who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1911 season.
  • July 29 – George Bausewine, 78, pitcher for the 1889 Philadelphia Athletics, and later an umpire in the National League.
  • July 30:
    • Chick Robitaille, 68, Franco-American pitcher who had a solid career with the Athletics club of the Quebec Provincial League in the late 1890s, and later posted a 12–8 record with a 2.56 ERA in 26 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1904 to 1905.
    • Ed Seward, 80, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher who averaged 27 wins from 1887 to 1889, with a career-high 35 in 1888.

August

  • August 3:
    • Al Tesch, 56, second baseman who played for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops in the 1915 season.
    • Vic Willis, 71, Hall of Fame pitcher and an eight-time winner of 20 games, a key member of the pennant winning Boston Beaneaters as a rookie in 1898 and also a member of the 1909 world champion Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished with 249 wins, 1651 strikeouts and a 2.63 ERA in only a thirteen-year career.
  • August 6 – Gene Good, 64, outfielder for the 1906 Boston Beaneaters.
  • August 11 – Harry Davis, 74, first baseman and one of the most feared sluggers in the early 1900s, known today primarily for leading in home runs during four consecutive seasons, while guiding the Philadelphia Athletics teams who dominated the newly formed American League, winning six pennants and three World Series between 1902 and 1913, over a career that spanned more than thirty years as a player, coach, manager and scout.
  • August 14 – Woody Crowson, 28, pitcher for the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics of the American League.
  • August 15:
    • Bill Hall, 53, pitcher for the 1913 Brooklyn Superbas of the National League.
    • Carlton Lord, 47, third baseman who played for the Philadelphia Phillies during the 1923 season.
  • August 21:
    • King Brady, 66, who pitched with the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox and Boston Braves in a span of four seasons between 1905 and 1912.
    • Jacob Fox, 67, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies during the 1902 season.
  • August 26 – Hugh McQuillan, 51, pitcher who played from 1918 to 1927 for the Boston Braves and New York Giants, being also a member of the 1922 World Series champion Giants team.
  • August 27 – She Donahue, 70, infielder who played in 1904 for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies.

September

  • September 5 – Bill Ludwig, 65, catcher who played in 1908 for the St. Louis Cardinals.
  • September 6 – Joe Gingras, 53, pitcher who played for the Kansas City Packers of the outlaw Federal League in its 1915 season.
  • September 8 – Ralph Pond, 59, outfielder who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1910 season.
  • September 13 – Ed Lennon, 50, pitcher for the 1928 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • September 28:
    • Jim Cockman, 74, Canadian third baseman who played for the New York Highlanders in 1905.
    • Duke Kelleher, 53, catcher for the 1916 New York Giants.
  • September 29 – Ed Walker, 73, English pitcher who played for the Cleveland Bronchos and Naps clubs from 1902 to 1903.
  • September 30 – John Halla, 63, pitcher who played in 1905 for the Cleveland Naps.

October

  • October 1 – Hub Northen, 61, outfielder who played from 1910 through 1912 for the St. Louis Browns, Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • October 2:
    • Charles F. Adams, 70, co-owner, and briefly owner, of the Boston Braves from 1927 to 1935; most known as founder of Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.
    • Billy Hulen, 77, shortstop who played in 1896 with the Philadelphia Phillies and for the Washington Senators in 1899.
    • Jim Kane, 65, first baseman for the 1908 Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • October 10 – Slim Embry, 46, pitcher who played with the Chicago White Sox during the 1923 season.
  • October 11 – Doc Martel, 64, catcher and first baseman who played from 1909 to 1910 for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Doves.
  • October 15 – Pol Perritt, 56, pitcher who played 10 seasons from 1912 through 1921 for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Detroit Tigers, while helping the Giants win the National League pennant in 1917.
  • October 23 – Cy Rheam, 54, infield/outfield utility who played for the Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League in the 1914 and 1915 seasons.

November

  • November 2 – Dot Fulghum, 47, infielder for the 1921 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • November 7 – Cy Wright, 54, shortstop who played with the Chicago White Sox in the 1916 season.
  • November 14 – Jack Hoey, 66, outfielder who played from 1906 through 1908 for the Boston Americans and Red Sox clubs.
  • November 14 – Stub Smith, 73, shortstop who played for the Boston Beaneaters of the National League in 1898.
  • November 21 – Slow Joe Doyle, 53, pitcher who played from 1906 to 1910 for the New York Highlanders and Cincinnati Reds.
  • November 23 – Charlie Newman, 79, outfielder who played for the New York Giants and Chicago Colts in the 1892 season.

December

  • December 7 – Jud Smith, 78, third baseman who played with the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Browns, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Senators of the National League in a span of four seasons from 1893 to 1898.
  • December 9 – Bevo LeBourveau, 51, outfielder who played for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Athletics in all or parts of four seasons spanning 1919–1929.
  • December 17 – Lee Viau, 81, pitcher who played from 1888 through 1892 for the Cincinnati's Red Stockings and Reds, Cleveland Spiders, Louisville Colonels and Boston Beaneaters.
  • December 24 – Joe Cobb, 52, catcher who appeared in one game for the Detroit Tigers in the 1918 season.
  • December 26:
    • Roxey Roach, 65, shortstop who played from 1910 to 1912 with the New York Highlanders and Washington Senators of the American League, and for the Buffalo Buffeds/Blues of the Federal League in 1915.
    • Phil Stremmel, 67, pitcher who played for the St. Louis Browns of the American League in the 1909 and 1910 seasons.
  • December 29 – George Blaeholder, 43, pitcher for the St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Indians in 12 seasons between 1925 and 1936, who is most noted for popularizing the slider pitch.

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