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 | Manager | Comments |
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Boston Red Sox | Joe Cronin | |
Chicago White Sox | Jimmy Dykes | Finished 3rd |
Cleveland Indians | Steve O'Neill | |
Detroit Tigers | Mickey Cochrane, Del Baker and Cy Perkins | Finished 2nd |
New York Yankees | Joe McCarthy | Won World Series |
Philadelphia Athletics | Connie Mack | |
St. Louis Browns | Rogers Hornsby and Jim Bottomley | |
Washington Senators | Bucky Harris |
Team | Manager | Comments |
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Boston Bees | Bill McKechnie | |
Brooklyn Dodgers | Burleigh Grimes | |
Chicago Cubs | Charlie Grimm | Finished 2nd |
Cincinnati Reds | Chuck Dressen and Bobby Wallace | |
New York Giants | Bill Terry | Won NL pennant |
Philadelphia Phillies | Jimmie Wilson | |
Pittsburgh Pirates | Pie Traynor | Finished 3rd |
St. Louis Cardinals | Frankie Frisch |
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 |