1935 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: Hank Greenberg (DET) NL: Gabby Hartnett (CHC) |
AL champions | Detroit Tigers |
AL runners-up | New York Yankees |
NL champions | Chicago Cubs |
NL runners-up | St. Louis Cardinals |
World Series | |
Champions | Detroit Tigers |
Runners-up | Chicago Cubs |
The 1935 major league baseball season began on April 16, 1935. The regular season ended on September 29, with the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 32nd World Series on October 2 and ended with Game 6 on October 7. The The Tigers defeated the Cubs, four games to two.
The third Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 8, hosted by the Cleveland Indians at the Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, with the American League winning, 4–1.
See also: Major League Baseball schedule |
The 1935 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 took place on April 16 and saw twelve teams across both leagues play. The final day of the regular season was on September 29 and featured all sixteen teams, continuing the trend which began with the 1930 season. The World Series took place between October 2 and October 7.
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AL | Detroit Tigers | 4 | ||
NL | Chicago Cubs | 2 |
Team | Former Manager | New Manager |
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Boston Red Sox | Bucky Harris | Joe Cronin |
Washington Senators | Joe Cronin | Bucky Harris |
Team | Former Manager | New Manager |
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Cleveland Indians | Walter Johnson | Steve O'Neill |
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Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
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Detroit Tigers[1] | 93 | -7.9% | 1,034,929 | 12.6% | 13,100 |
New York Giants[2] | 91 | -2.2% | 748,748 | 2.4% | 9,478 |
Chicago Cubs[3] | 100 | 16.3% | 692,604 | -2.1% | 8,995 |
New York Yankees[4] | 89 | -5.3% | 657,508 | -23.1% | 8,885 |
Boston Red Sox[5] | 78 | 2.6% | 558,568 | -8.5% | 7,070 |
St. Louis Cardinals[6] | 96 | 1.1% | 506,084 | 55.7% | 6,573 |
Brooklyn Dodgers[7] | 70 | -1.4% | 470,517 | 8.4% | 6,111 |
Chicago White Sox[8] | 74 | 39.6% | 470,281 | 98.8% | 6,108 |
Cincinnati Reds[9] | 68 | 30.8% | 448,247 | 116.8% | 5,898 |
Cleveland Indians[10] | 82 | -3.5% | 397,615 | 1.6% | 5,164 |
Pittsburgh Pirates[11] | 86 | 16.2% | 352,885 | 9.4% | 4,583 |
Washington Senators[12] | 67 | 1.5% | 255,011 | -22.7% | 3,312 |
Philadelphia Athletics[13] | 58 | -14.7% | 233,173 | -23.8% | 3,239 |
Boston Braves[14] | 38 | -51.3% | 232,754 | -23.2% | 3,103 |
Philadelphia Phillies[15] | 64 | 14.3% | 205,470 | 20.9% | 2,601 |
St. Louis Browns[16] | 65 | -3.0% | 80,922 | -29.8% | 1,065 |