1935 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1935 throughout the world.  

Champions

Major League Baseball

• World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4-2)
• All-Star Game, July 8 at Municipal Stadium: American League, 4-1

Other champions

• Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, August 11 at Comiskey Park: West, 11-8 (11 innings)

Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player
  • Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tigers (AL)
  • Gabby Hartnett, Chicago Cubs (NL)

MLB statistical leaders

Hank Greenberg, Hall of Famer and 2-time MVP

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro League Baseball final standings

Negro National League final standings

*Source refers to the league as the "East-West League," but the league was more generally known as the "Negro National League."

Source: Holway, John B. (2001). The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History. Fern Park, FL: Hastings House Publishers. p. 316. ISBN 0-8038-2007-0. 

Post-season:

• Pittsburgh won one half, New York won one half.
• Pittsburgh beat New York 5 games to 2 games in a play-off.

Events

January - May

• January 19 - The St. Louis Browns trade Bump Hadley to the Washington Senators for Luke Sewell and cash, then sell Sewell's contract to the Chicago White Sox.

• February 26 - The New York Yankees release Babe Ruth. Later the same day, the Boston Braves sign him.

• April 1 - Dazzy Vance joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.

• April 15 - Johnny Mize, who originally signed with the St. Louis Cardinals, but was sold to the Cincinnati Reds on December 13, 1934, is returned to the Cards.

• April 16 - Opening day, Lefty Gomez holds the New York Yankees to just two hits as the Boston Red Sox win their season opener 1-0 at Yankee Stadium. In the National League, both the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers put up twelve runs in victories over the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, respectively.

• April 18 - Detroit Tigers lead-off hitter Jo-Jo White draws five walks in the Tigers' 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

• April 21
  • The Cleveland Indians open their season with three consecutive extra innings games, amassing 41 total innings.
  • After ten innings, the contest between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Giants at the Baker Bowl is called a 4-4 tie. The Phillies tie an NL record by turning six double plays, with Phillies shortstop Blondy Ryan tying the individual mark by being part of five of the double plays.

• May 8 - In the first game of a double header with the Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds catcher Ernie Lombardi ties a Major League record by hitting four consecutive doubles en route to a 15-4 victory. Lombardi logs just one at-bat in the second game, and gets a single.

• May 24 - At Crosley Field, the Cincinnati Reds and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies played the first night game, which Cincinnati won 2–1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt turns on the lights with a switch in the White House.^[1]

• May 25 - Babe Ruth of goes 4-for-4 with three home runs and six runs batted in. It is the last multi-homer game of Ruth's career, with the final home run, the 714th of his career, being the first ball ever hit to clear the roof at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.^[1]

• May 30 - Babe Ruth ends his playing career with the Boston Braves. A mathematical extrapolation made in 1990 shows that had Ruth been born five years later, in 1900, rather than in 1895 and begun his hitting career in 1919 - at the start of the Lively Ball Era - rather than in 1914 - he would have hit a career 1,115 home runs and garnered a career 4,120 hits including an 80-home run season in 1930 when the baseball was further "juiced."

June - September

• June 26 - The Pittsburgh Pirates sweep a double header with the Boston Braves. Pirates centerfielder Lloyd Waner sets a Major League record with eighteen put outs.

• July 7 - The Detroit Tigers complete a ten game winning streak that pulls them within one game of the first place Yankees.

• July 8 - At Cleveland Municipal Stadium, home of the Cleveland Indians, the American League defeats the National League, 4–1, in the All-Star Game.^[2]

• July 19 - Casey Stengel's Brooklyn Dodgers end the St. Louis Cardinals' fourteen game winning streak behind a shut out by Johnny Babich.

• July 22 - With a 4-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, the Boston Braves end a fifteen game losing streak.

• July 23 - With first place in the American League on the line, the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees split a double header. Detroit wins the following day, 4-0, to leave New York a half game up on the Yankees. They remain in first for the remainder of the season.

• August 10 - The New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia A's, 18-7. Right fielder George Selkirk hits two home runs and drives in eight.

• August 16 - Dizzy Dean and Hal Schumacher engage in a pitchers' duel at the Polo Grounds. Schumaker's Giants emerge with the 1-0 victory.

• August 27 - In the first game of a double header at Comiskey Park with the Chicago White Sox, Lou Gehrig goes three-for-five with two RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Yankees to a 13-10 victory. In the second game, Gehrig is walked five times. Chicago wins that game, 4-3.

• August 31 - Vern Kennedy pitches a no-hitter as the Chicago White Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 5–0. It is the first no-hitter in the American League since 1931, and the first ever at Chicago's Comiskey Park.^[2]

• September 12 - The Philadelphia Athletics sweep a double header from the Chicago White Sox to end a thirteen game losing streak.

• September 27 - The first place Chicago Cubs sweep a double header with the St. Louis Cardinals that brings their winning streak to 27 games. The Cubs were in third place, 2.5 games back of the Cards, when the streak began.

October - December

• October 2 - Schoolboy Rowe pitched effectively, however, his fielding error lead to two unearned runs in the first inning as the Chicago Cubs take game one of the 1935 World Series, 3-0.

• October 3 - Hank Greenberg's two run home run caps off a four run first inning for the Tigers as Detroit takes game two of the World Series, 8-3. In the bottom of the seventh, Greenberg is hit by a pitch that ends his season.

• October 4 - As part of a double switch, Freddie Lindstrom moves from centerfield to third base in the tenth inning of game three of the World Series. An inning later, he misplays Flea Clifton's ground ball to allow the Detroit Tigers to take the 6-5 victory.

• October 5 - Gabby Hartnett hits a second inning home run to put the Cubs on the board first, but the Tigers come back with two unanswered runs, and win 2-1.

• October 7 - With the score tied at three, Stan Hack leads off the ninth inning for the Cubs with a triple. He is left stranded by Bill Jurges, Larry French and Augie Galan fail to drive him in. In the bottom of the inning, Goose Goslin singles in Mickey Cochrane to give the Detroit Tigers their first World Championship, four games to two. This was Detroit's first Series victory after failing to win four previous times.^[2] Cubs skipper Charlie Grimm is widely second-guessed for letting the pitcher bat in the top of the inning.

• November 9 - Bob Gibson is born in Omaha, Nebraska. Gibson will make his major league debut in 1959, marking the start of a 17-year pitching career with the St. Louis Cardinals and an election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.

• November 26 - The National League assumes control of the bankrupt, Boston Braves franchise after several failed attempts to buy the last-place club. The league takes over only temporarily, until matters can be straightened out.^[1]

• December 9 - The New York Giants trade Roy Parmelee, Phil Weintraub and cash to the St. Louis Cardinals for Burgess Whitehead.

• December 10 - The Boston Red Sox acquire Jimmie Foxx and Johnny Marcum from the Philadelphia Athletics for Gordon Rhodes, minor leaguer George Savino and $150,000.

• December 12 - The Boston Braves trade Ed Brandt and Randy Moore to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Ray Benge, Tony Cuccinello, Al Lopez and Bobby Reis. They also sell the contracts of Flint Rhem and Johnny Vander Meer to the Cincinnati Reds.

• December 17 - The Boston Red Sox acquire Heinie Manush from the Washington Senators for Roy Johnson and Carl Reynolds.

Movies

• Alibi Ike

Births

January–April

• January 7 - Dick Schofield
• January 26 - Bob Uecker
• February 3 - Dick Tracewski
• February 11 - George Alusik
• February 19 - Russ Nixon
• March 22 - Gene Oliver
• March 28 - Jeanie Descombes
• April 13 - Bill Deegan
• April 14 - Katie Horstman
• April 19 - Don Gile
• April 21 - Dolores Lee
• April 28 - Pedro Ramos

May–August

• May 5 - José Pagán
• May 12 - Felipe Alou
• May 22 - Ron Piché
• May 26 - Eddie Haas
• May 27 - Jerry Kindall
• June 1 - Hal Kolstad
• June 1 - Jack Kralick
• June 25 - Don Demeter
• July 15 - Donn Clendenon
• July 21 - Moe Drabowsky
• July 25 - Larry Sherry
• July 27 - Sarah Jane Sands
• August 12 - Ken McBride
• August 13 - Mudcat Grant
• August 15 - Joey Jay
• August 19 - Bobby Richardson
• August 27 - Ernie Broglio
• August 31 - Frank Robinson

September–December

• September 18 - Jerry Mallett
• September 27 - Dave Wickersham
• September 29 - Earl Battey
• September 29 - Howie Bedell
• October 12 - Bobo Osborne
• October 28 - Bob Veale
• October 30 - Jim Perry
• November 9 - Bob Gibson
• November 30 - Steve Hamilton
• December 7 - Don Cardwell
• December 13 - Joe Christopher
• December 13 - Lindy McDaniel
• December 19 - Tony Taylor
• December 25 - Al Jackson
• December 25 - Joanne Weaver
• December 30 - Sandy Koufax

Deaths

• March 16 - Ed Fuller, 67, pitcher in 1886.
• April 19 - Jim Donahue, 73, catcher for five seasons from 1886-1891.
• April 22 - Charlie Blackwell, 40, outfielder in the Negro leagues from 1915 to 1929
• April 28 - Swede Carlstrom, 47, shortstop for the Boston Red Sox in 1911
• May 3 - Ted Breitenstein, 65, pitcher for the Browns and Reds whose 160 victories were the most by a 19th-century left-hander
• May 4 - Dory Dean, 82, Pitcher for 1876 Cincinnati Reds
• June 8 - Jay Parker, 60, pitcher for the 1899 Pittsburgh Pirates
• June 17 - Wiman Andrus, 76, played one game for the 1885 Providence Grays.
• July 2 - Hank O'Day, 72, National League umpire for 30 years between 1895 and 1927 who worked in ten World Series; won 22 games as pitcher in 1890 Players' League, and also managed the Reds and Cubs
• July 10 - Paul Hines, 83, center fielder who won the first Triple Crown in 1878, also led NL in doubles three times and ended career with lifetime average over .300; had more hits than any other player over NL's first five seasons, and was second player to collect 1500 hits
• October 22 - Tommy Tucker, 71, first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Beaneaters, Washington Senators, Brooklyn Bridebrooms, St. Louis Browns, and Cleveland Spiders between 1887 and 1899, who led the American Association hitters in 1889 with a .372 average
• November 6 - Billy Sunday, 72, outfielder who ended his baseball career to become a renowned evangelist
• November 13 - Frank Navin, 64, owner of the Detroit Tigers since 1908 who assembled the pennant-winning teams of 1907-09 and 1934–35
• December 21 - Cy Rigler, 53, National League umpire since 1906 who worked in ten World Series and the first All-Star game; created arm signals for balls and strikes
• December 28 - Jack Corcoran, 77, catcher for the 1884 Brooklyn Atlantics

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