1933 Baseball Season Headlines
The 1933 baseball season marked the first-ever All-Star Game, held this year in Comiskey Park. Read about it and other headlines below.
1933 Senators Win American League Flag
The 1933 Washington Senators, owned by Clark Griffith,
won the American League flag. Contributing to the success of the team
was Alex McColl, a 39-year-old rookie pitcher who hurled two perfect
innings in the 1933 World Series.
Jimmie Foxx is 1933 American League MVP
Jimmie
Foxx earned the second of two Most Valuable Player Awards in 1933,
although he was just 25. Yet he still had not established himself
as the American League's premier first baseman and never would. It was
in no way Foxx's fault: He had to compete first with Lou Gehrig and
then with Hank Greenberg.
Rick Ferrell Catches 1933 All-Star Game
Rick Ferrell started for the American League behind the bat in the first All-Star Game in 1933. He caught all nine innings while Mickey Cochrane and Bill Dickey
sat on the bench. The following year, he began a string of five
straight seasons in which he and his brother Wes formed the best
sibling battery in American League history. On July 19, 1933, the two
became the first brothers on opposing teams to hit home runs in the
same game. To cap off his highlight-filled year, Ferrell tallied 77
RBI, the most in his career.
General Crowder Mounts Wins
General
Crowder is one of the few pitchers to lead the American League two
years in a row in both wins and most hits allowed (26 wins, 319 hits in
1932; 24 wins, 311 hits in 1933). Like Pete Alexander, another pitcher
who twice performed the feat, Crowder's strength was pinpoint control.
Although he gave up his share of walks, most came in an effort to get
one of the many great sluggers in the American League during the 1930s
to bite on a bad pitch.
1933 American League Wins First All-Star Game
The
gem of the first midsummer classic was the oldest player on the field,
Babe Ruth. At the age of 38, Ruth lined a two-run round-tripper in the
third inning. He then took away an extra-base hit in the eighth with a
running catch of Chick Hafey's line drive.
Pepper Martin Scores Big
When
asked what the Cardinals looked for, a scout on the staff replied,
"Hard guys. I don't care whether they can field or not. I want
strong-armed, strong-legged guys who can hit and run and throw. Guys
like -- well, like Pepper Martin." Martin tallied 122 runs scored in
1933, tops in the National League.
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