1933 Major League Baseball season

The 1933 Major League Baseball season featured ballplayers hitting eight cycles, tied for the most of any single major league season; all eight cycles in each of those seasons were hit by different players. It would also prove the last season before the Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators would become perennial American League cellar-dwellers. The Senators would have only four more winning seasons in Washington D.C. and not return to the World Series until 1965 as the Minnesota Twins,[1] while the Athletics would have only four winning seasons until moving to Oakland in 1968, winning only 40.2 percent of their games over 34 seasons.[2]

This article is about the 1933 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1933 in baseball.
1933 MLB season
LeagueMajor League Baseball
SportBaseball
DurationApril 12 – October 7, 1933
Regular season
Season championsAL: Washington Senators
NL: New York Giants
Season MVPAL: Jimmie Foxx (PHA)
NL: Carl Hubbell (NYG)
World Series
ChampionsNew York Giants
  Runners-upWashington Senators

Awards and honors

Statistical leaders
 American LeagueNational League
TypeNameStatNameStat
AVGJimmie Foxx1 PHA.356Chuck Klein2 PHP.368
HRJimmie Foxx1 PHA48Chuck Klein2 PHP28
RBIJimmie Foxx1 PHA163Chuck Klein2 PHP120
WinsAlvin Crowder WSH
Lefty Grove PHA		24Carl Hubbell NYG23
ERAMel Harder CLE2.95Carl Hubbell NYG1.66
SOLefty Gomez NYY163Dizzy Dean SLC199
SVJack Russell WSH13Phil Collins PHP6
SBBen Chapman NYY27Pepper Martin SLC26

1 American League Triple Crown Award Winner

2 National League Triple Crown Award Winner

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
Washington Senators 9953 0.651 — 46–30 53–23
New York Yankees 9159 0.607 7 51–23 40–36
Philadelphia Athletics 7972 0.523 19½ 46–29 33–43
Cleveland Indians 7576 0.497 23½ 45–32 30–44
Detroit Tigers 7579 0.487 25 43–35 32–44
Chicago White Sox 6783 0.447 31 35–41 32–42
Boston Red Sox 6386 0.423 34½ 32–40 31–46
St. Louis Browns 5596 0.364 43½ 30–46 25–50

National League final standings
National League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Giants 9161 0.599 — 48–27 43–34
Pittsburgh Pirates 8767 0.565 5 50–27 37–40
Chicago Cubs 8668 0.558 6 56–23 30–45
Boston Braves 8371 0.539 9 45–31 38–40
St. Louis Cardinals 8271 0.536 9½ 47–30 35–41
Brooklyn Dodgers 6588 0.425 26½ 36–41 29–47
Philadelphia Phillies 6092 0.395 31 32–40 28–52
Cincinnati Reds 5894 0.382 33 37–42 21–52

Managers

American League
Team Manager Comments
Boston Red Sox Marty McManus
Chicago White Sox Lew Fonseca
Cleveland Indians Roger Peckinpaugh and Walter Johnson
Detroit Tigers Bucky Harris and Del Baker
New York Yankees Joe McCarthy
Philadelphia Athletics Connie Mack
St. Louis Browns Bill Killefer, Allen Sothoron and Rogers Hornsby
Washington Senators Joe Cronin

National League
Team Manager Comments
Boston Braves Bill McKechnie
Brooklyn Dodgers Max Carey
Chicago Cubs Charlie Grimm
Cincinnati Reds Donie Bush
New York Giants Bill Terry
Philadelphia Phillies Burt Shotton
Pittsburgh Pirates George Gibson
St. Louis Cardinals Gabby Street and Frankie Frisch

Events

On August 29, the Chicago Cubs team that played the Brooklyn Dodgers featured Billy Herman playing second base, Babe Herman playing right field and Leroy Herrmann pitching.[3]

References
  1. "Minnesota Twins Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball Reference.
  2. "Oakland Athletics Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball Reference.
  3. "Strange and Unusual Plays". www.retrosheet.org. Retrieved June 13, 2012.


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