The following are the baseball events of the year 1911 throughout the world.
Champions
Awards and honors
MLB Statistical Leaders
Major League Baseball final standings
American League final standings
National League final standings
Events
- July 29 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Smoky Joe Wood pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns in a 5-0 Boston Red Sox victory.
- August 27 - Chicago White Sox hurler Ed Walsh tosses a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox. Chicago defeats Boston, 5-0.
- September 12 - In the nitecap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston Rustlers' Cy Young and the New York Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000 fans, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three home runs and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9–0 lead, Giants' manager John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against the Cubs and Phillies. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other.
- October 22 - The World Series between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics was resumed after six days of rain, and Chief Bender beat Christy Mathewson, 4–2, to give the Athletics a 3-1 lead.
- October 26 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants, 13–2, in Game 6 of the World Series to win their second consecutive World Championship. Philadelphia wins the series, four games to two. The six consecutive days of rain between Games 3 and 4 caused the longest delay between World Series games until the 1989 earthquake-interrupted Series, which incidentally featured the same two franchises, albeit on the west coast.
- December 1 - Future Hall of Fame member Walter Alston is born in Venice, Ohio. Although Alston will come to bat only once during a brief major league career, he will have far greater longevity as the manager of the Dodgers from 1954 to 1976.
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July-September
October-December
Deaths
- February 18 - Buttons Briggs, 35, pitcher for the Chicago Colts/Orphans/Cubs 1896-1898, and 1904-1905.
- April 14 - Addie Joss, 31, pitcher for Cleveland who won 20 games four times (1905-08), led AL in ERA twice with career 1.89 mark; pitched 1-hitter in major league debut, and two no-hitters including 1908 perfect game
- April 25 - Jack Rowe, 54, catcher and shortstop for Buffalo and Detroit who batted .300 four times, led NL in triples in 1881; did not strike out in entire 1882 season, later a minor league manager
- August 5 - Bob Caruthers, 47, pitcher who compiled the highest career winning percentage among major leaguers with 250 decisions; led American Association with 40 victories in both 1885 and 1889, pacing St. Louis and Brooklyn to respective pennants; batted .300 twice, later an umpire
- August 31 - Will White, 56, pitcher who won over 200 games for Cincinnati teams in 10-year career, led league in wins and strikeouts twice each; first major leaguer to wear eyeglasses, and batterymate of brother Deacon from 1877-79
- October 10 - Bill Parks, 62, pitcher and left fielder for three teams from 1875 to 1876. Managed the 1875 Washington Nationals for eight games in 1875.
- November 8 - Oscar Bielaski, 64, right fielder for five seasons, from 1872 to 1876. Was on the 1876 National League champion Chicago White Stockings.
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