1941 in baseball
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The following are the baseball events of the year 1941 throughout the world.
Contents
Headline events of the year
- Joe Dimaggio hits in 56 consecutive games.
- Ted Williams's ended the season with .406 batting average. No hitter has hit over .400 since that time.
Champions
Major League Baseball
- World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1)
- All-Star Game, July 8 at Briggs Stadium: American League, 7-5
Other champions
- Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: East, 8-3
Awards and honors
- MLB Most Valuable Player Award
- *Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees, OF
- *Dolph Camilli, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1B
- The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award
- *Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees, OF
- *Dolph Camilli, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1B
- The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
- *Ted Williams (AL) - OF, Boston Red Sox
- The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
- *Billy Southworth (NL) - St. Louis Cardinals
MLB Statistical Leaders
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Major League Baseball final standings
American League final standings
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National League final standings
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Events
January-March
- January 21 - Bob Feller signs with the Cleveland Indians for a reported $30,000.
April-June
- June 1 - Mel Ott's 2-run homer, the 400th of his career and his 1,500th RBI, gives the New York Giants a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
- May 15 - In the first inning, Joe DiMaggio singles against the Chicago White Sox to start his 56 game hitting streak.
July-September
- July 8 - At the All-Star Game at Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Boston's Ted Williams, hitting .405 at the break, homers off Chicago Cubs pitcher Claude Passeau with 2 outs and 2 on in the 9th inning to give the American League a dramatic 7-5 victory. Williams' 4 RBIs are matched by National League shortstop Arky Vaughan, who hits home runs in the 7th and the 8th.
- July 16 - Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak ends at 56 games against the Cleveland Indians.
October-December
- October 25 - Lou Boudreau is named player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. Boudreau, at 24 years, 4 months and 8 days, is the youngest manager appointed.
Births
- February 20 - Clyde Wright
- February 23 - Ron Hunt
- April 14 - Pete Rose
- May 21 - Bobby Cox
- June 1 - Dean Chance
- August 17 - Boog Powell
- October 16 - Tim McCarver
- November 29 - Bill Freehan
Deaths
- June 2 - Lou Gehrig, 37, Hall of Fame first baseman for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939, a 2-time MVP, the 1934 Triple Crown winner, and the second player to hit 400 home runs, who retired to end a record 2,130-game playing streak upon being diagnosed with the terminal illness that now bears his name
- June 3 - Andy Cooper, 43, pitcher for the Negro Leagues' Detroit Stars and Kansas City Monarchs
- July 4 - Bruce Petway, 55?, Negro League catcher
- July 15 - Frank Isbell, 65, White Sox first baseman, second baseman, and outfielder (1901-1909)
- July 30 - Mickey Welch, 82, the third pitcher to win 300 games, winner of 44 games in 1885 and over 30 in three other years
- September 29 - John B. Foster, 78, sportswriter and editor of The Spalding Guide
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