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1951 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1951 throughout the world.  

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Contents

Headline Event of the Year

Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games tiebreaker series over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Champions

Major League Baseball

Other champions

Awards and honors

Statistical Leaders

  American LeagueNational LeagueType Name Stat Name Stat AVGFerris FainPHA .344 Stan MusialSTL .355 HRGus ZernialPHA 33 Ralph KinerPIT 42 RBIGus ZernialPHA 129 Monte IrvinNYG 121 WinsBob FellerCLE 22 Larry JansenNYG
& Sal MaglieNYG 23 ERASaul RogovinCHW 2.78 Chet NicholsBSB 2.88 KsVic RaschiNYY 164 Don NewcombeBRK &
Warren SpahnBSB 164

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

American LeagueClub Wins Losses Win %   GB New York Yankees98 56 .636 -- Cleveland Indians93 61 .604 5 Boston Red Sox87 67 .565 11 Chicago White Sox81 73 .526 17 Detroit Tigers73 81 .474 25 Philadelphia Athletics70 84 .455 28 Washington Senators62 92 .403 36 St. Louis Browns52 102 .338 46

National League final standings

National LeagueClub Wins Losses Win %   GB New York Giants98 59 .624 -- Brooklyn Dodgers97 60 .618 1 St. Louis Cardinals81 73 .526 15.5 Boston Braves76 78 .494 20.5 Philadelphia Phillies73 81 .474 23.5 Cincinnati Reds68 86 .442 28.5 Pittsburgh Pirates64 90 .416 32.5 Chicago Cubs62 92 .403 33.5

Events

January-March

  • January 23 - Guido Rugo sells his interest in the Boston Braves to copartners Lou Perini and treasurer Joe Maney.

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July-September

  • August 11 - Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants, 4-0, dropping the Giants 13.5 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.

October-December

  • October 10 - Hank Bauer's bases-loaded triple propels the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win over the Giants and with it their 3rd straight championship. The Yankees beat the New York Giants 4 games to 2. Just before the game, Giants manager Leo Durocher turns over a letter he received to Ford Frick that offer the Giants manager a $15,000 bribe "if the Giants managed to lose the next 3 games".
  • October 17 - the Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Series over the Nankai Hawks. Incredibly, they will win the pennant 19 times in the next 23 years, including 9 in succession (1965-1973).

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Deaths

  • January 26 - Bill Barrett, 50, outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators between 1921 and 1930
  • February 6 - Gabby Street, 68, manager of the Cardinals' 1931 World Series champions, previously a catcher for Walter Johnson
  • February 25 - Smokey Joe Williams, 64, fireballing Negro Leagues pitcher
  • March 25 - Eddie Collins, 63, Hall of Fame second baseman and career .333 hitter for the Athletics and White Sox, the 1914 AL MVP, the sixth player to make 3000 hits, and second to Ty Cobb in career steals
  • May 26 - George Winter, pitcher who won 82 games for the Boston Americans/Red Sox from 1901 to 1908, and the only member both of the original 1901 and 1908 teams
  • July 9 - Harry Heilmann, 56, right fielder and 4-time AL batting champion who batted .342 in his career, primarily with the Detroit Tigers
  • August 2 - Guy Cooper, 68, pitcher for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in the 1910s
  • August 4 - Tony Tonneman, 69, catcher who played briefly for the 1911 Boston Red Sox
  • August 10 - Win Kellum, 75, who in 1901 became the first Opening Day starting pitcher in Boston American League franchise's history
  • September 16 - Bill Klem, 77, named "father of baseball umpires", who worked in a record 18 World Series during a 37-year career, and introduced the inside chest protector
  • November 18 - Wally Mayer, 61, catcher who played from 1911 through 1919 for the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
  • November 19 - Marty Griffin, 50, pitcher for the 1928 Boston Red Sox
  • November 26 - Pete Hill, 71, baseball's first great black outfielder
  • December 5 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, 63, career .356 hitter who was the most prominent of the eight players banned from baseball after the Black Sox scandal
  • December 8 - Bobby Lowe, 86, second baseman for multiple Boston champions in the 1890s
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