1937 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | April 19 – October 10, 1937 |
Number of games | 154 |
Number of teams | 16 |
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 was contested from April 19 to October 10, 1937. The New York Giants and New York Yankees were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. In a rematch of the prior year's postseason, the Yankees then defeated the Giants in the World Series, four games to one.
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American League[edit]
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National League[edit]
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World Series | |||
AL | New York Yankees | 4 | |
NL | New York Giants | 1 |
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 |