1937 MLB season | |
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League | American League (AL) National League (NL) |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | Regular season:
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Number of games | 154 |
Number of teams | 16 (8 per league) |
Regular season | |
Season MVP | AL: Charlie Gehringer (DET) NL: Joe Medwick (SLC) |
AL champions | New York Yankees |
AL runners-up | Detroit Tigers |
NL champions | New York Giants |
NL runners-up | Chicago Cubs |
World Series | |
Champions | New York Yankees |
Runners-up | New York Giants |
The 1937 major league baseball season began on April 19, 1937. The regular season ended on October 3, with the New York Giants and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 34th World Series on October 6 and ended with Game 5 on October 10. In the fifth iteration of this World Series matchup (and a rematch of the previous year), the Yankees defeated the Giants, four games to one.
The fifth Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 7, hosted by the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., with the American League winning, 8–3.
The 1937 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place since the 1904 season (except for 1919) and would be used until 1961 in the American League and 1962 in the National League.
Opening Day, April 19, featured four teams across both leagues play. The final day of the regular season was on October 3 and featured all sixteen teams, the first since 1935. The World Series took place between October 6 and October 10.
An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at
Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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New York Yankees | 102 | 52 | .662 | — | 57–20 | 45–32 |
Detroit Tigers | 89 | 65 | .578 | 13 | 49–28 | 40–37 |
Chicago White Sox | 86 | 68 | .558 | 16 | 47–30 | 39–38 |
Cleveland Indians | 83 | 71 | .539 | 19 | 50–28 | 33–43 |
Boston Red Sox | 80 | 72 | .526 | 21 | 44–29 | 36–43 |
Washington Senators | 73 | 80 | .477 | 28½ | 43–35 | 30–45 |
Philadelphia Athletics | 54 | 97 | .358 | 46½ | 27–50 | 27–47 |
St. Louis Browns | 46 | 108 | .299 | 56 | 25–51 | 21–57 |
Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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New York Giants | 95 | 57 | .625 | — | 50–25 | 45–32 |
Chicago Cubs | 93 | 61 | .604 | 3 | 46–32 | 47–29 |
Pittsburgh Pirates | 86 | 68 | .558 | 10 | 46–32 | 40–36 |
St. Louis Cardinals | 81 | 73 | .526 | 15 | 45–33 | 36–40 |
Boston Bees | 79 | 73 | .520 | 16 | 43–33 | 36–40 |
Brooklyn Dodgers | 62 | 91 | .405 | 33½ | 36–39 | 26–52 |
Philadelphia Phillies | 61 | 92 | .399 | 34½ | 29–45 | 32–47 |
Cincinnati Reds | 56 | 98 | .364 | 40 | 28–51 | 28–47 |
World Series | ||||
AL | New York Yankees | 4 | ||
NL | New York Giants | 1 |
Team | Former Manager | New Manager |
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Brooklyn Dodgers | Casey Stengel | Burleigh Grimes |
Detroit Tigers | Del Baker | Mickey Cochrane |
Stat | Player | Total |
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AVG | Charlie Gehringer (DET) | .371 |
HR | Joe DiMaggio (NYY) | 46 |
RBI | Hank Greenberg (DET) | 184 |
R | Joe DiMaggio (NYY) | 151 |
H | Beau Bell (SLB) | 218 |
SB | Ben Chapman (BRS/WSH) Billy Werber (PHA) |
35 |
Stat | Player | Total |
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W | Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) | 21 |
L | Harry Kelley (PHA) | 21 |
ERA | Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) | 2.33 |
K | Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) | 194 |
IP | Wes Ferrell (WSH/BRS) | 281.0 |
SV | Clint Brown (CWS) | 18 |
1 American League Triple Crown pitching winner
Stat | Player | Total |
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AVG | Joe Medwick2 (SLC) | .374 |
HR | Joe Medwick2 (SLC) Mel Ott (NYG) |
31 |
RBI | Joe Medwick2 (SLC) | 154 |
R | Joe Medwick (SLC) | 111 |
H | Joe Medwick (SLC) | 237 |
SB | Augie Galan (CHC) | 23 |
2 National League Triple Crown batting winner
Stat | Player | Total |
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W | Carl Hubbell (NYG) | 22 |
L | Wayne LaMaster (PHP) | 19 |
ERA | Jim Turner (BSB) | 2.38 |
K | Carl Hubbell (NYG) | 159 |
IP | Claude Passeau (PHP) | 292.1 |
SV | Mace Brown (PIT) Cliff Melton (NYG) |
7 |
Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
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Detroit Tigers[1] | 89 | 7.2% | 1,072,276 | 22.4% | 13,926 |
New York Yankees[2] | 102 | 0.0% | 998,148 | 2.2% | 12,635 |
New York Giants[3] | 95 | 3.3% | 926,887 | 10.6% | 12,358 |
Chicago Cubs[4] | 93 | 6.9% | 895,020 | 28.0% | 11,475 |
Chicago White Sox[5] | 86 | 6.2% | 589,245 | 33.7% | 7,653 |
Cleveland Indians[6] | 83 | 3.8% | 564,849 | 12.9% | 7,242 |
Boston Red Sox[7] | 80 | 8.1% | 559,659 | −10.7% | 7,563 |
Brooklyn Dodgers[8] | 62 | −7.5% | 482,481 | −1.5% | 6,348 |
Pittsburgh Pirates[9] | 86 | 2.4% | 459,679 | 23.4% | 5,893 |
St. Louis Cardinals[10] | 81 | −6.9% | 430,811 | −3.9% | 5,385 |
Philadelphia Athletics[11] | 54 | 1.9% | 430,738 | 51.0% | 5,452 |
Cincinnati Reds[12] | 56 | −24.3% | 411,221 | −11.8% | 5,140 |
Washington Senators[13] | 73 | −11.0% | 397,799 | 4.8% | 4,972 |
Boston Bees[14] | 79 | 11.3% | 385,339 | 13.1% | 5,070 |
Philadelphia Phillies[15] | 61 | 13.0% | 212,790 | −14.6% | 2,876 |
St. Louis Browns[16] | 46 | −19.3% | 123,121 | 32.0% | 1,578 |