The following are the baseball events of the year 1948 throughout the world.
Overview of the events of 1948 in baseball
Years in baseball
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1948 in sports
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- American football
- Aquatic sports
- Association football
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Chess
- Climbing
- Combat sports
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Equestrianism
- Esports
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Ice sports
- Modern pentathlon
- Motorsport
- Racquetball
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Snooker
- Squash
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
- Weightlifting
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Negro league baseball final standings
Negro American League final standings
Birmingham won the first half of the season while Kansas City won the second half.
- Birmingham won the first half, Kansas City won the second half.
- Birmingham beat Kansas City 3 games to 1 games in a play-off.
Negro National League final standings
This was the sixteenth and final season of the Negro National League (1933–1948). Homestead and Baltimore each won a half of the season. As such, they were matched against each other in the postseason. In the playoffs, Homestead won Games 1 and 2 before a curfew called Game 3 in the ninth inning. Game 4 went to Baltimore, but Homestead had protested that Game 3 should be played from where Game 3 had been stopped (8-4, bases loaded) rather than the start of the ninth inning (tied). The league agreed, but Baltimore refused to play and therefore forfeited.[1]
Negro league postseason
1948 was the 23rd and final time that there was a "Playoff Series" held between black baseball teams. 1913 is retroactively the only one not in the major league era of Negro league baseball (1920-1948). 1948 is the only time that saw both the American and National League hold a postseason series to determine the pennant (Major League Baseball would not hold such a format for 21 years).[2][3]
- Negro American League Championship Series: Birmingham Black Barons over Kansas City Monarchs 4–3 (one tie)
- Negro National League Championship Series: Homestead Grays over Baltimore Elite Giants 2–1 (one forfeit)
- 1948 Negro World Series: Homestead Grays over Birmingham Black Barons 4–1