1952 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1952 throughout the world.

Champions

Major League Baseball

Other champions

Winter Leagues

Awards and honors

MLB statistical leaders

American League National League
AVG Ferris Fain PHA .327 Stan Musial SLC .336
HR Larry Doby CLE 32 Ralph Kiner PIT &
Hank Sauer CHC
37
RBI Al Rosen CLE 105 Hank Sauer CHC 121
Wins
Bobby Shantz PHA 24 Robin Roberts PHP 28
ERA Allie Reynolds NYY 2.06 Hoyt Wilhelm NYG 2.43
Ks Allie Reynolds NYY 160 Warren Spahn BSB 183

Major league baseball final standings

Events

January

February

April

May

  • May 13 – Ron Necciai of the Class-D Bristol Twins strikes out 27 batters while pitching a 7–0 no-hitter against the Welch Miners in an Appalachian League game. Four of the Welch hitters reach base on a walk, an error, a hit by pitch, and a passed ball charged to Twins' catcher Harry Dunlop on a swinging third strike. But 27 strikeouts are recorded on the night, including four in the ninth inning, as a result of Dunlop's miscue, while one batter is retired on a grounder in the second inning.
  • May 15 – After pitching four no-hitters in the minors, 33-year-old
    Briggs Stadium
    .
  • May 21 – At Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers set a Major League record by scoring 15 runs in the first inning of a 19–1 pounding of the Cincinnati Reds. All nine Dodgers in the starting lineup both score a run and bat in a run in that first inning.
  • May 29 – Boston Red Sox pitcher Mickey McDermott faces 27 batters and fire a one-hitter to beat the Washington Senators, 1–0, at Fenway Park. Mel Hoderlein's fourth-inning single is the only Washington hit and he is thrown out while trying to stretch the hit into a double.

June

July

August

  • August 15 – Detroit Tigers pitcher Virgil Trucks hurled his second no-hitter of the season, a 1–0 shutout over the host New York Yankees. Previously, Trucks held the Washington Senators without a hit on May 15. Besides, Trucks is one of five pitchers to throw two no-hitters in a season, being the others Johnny Vander Meer (1938), Allie Reynolds (1951), Nolan Ryan (1973) and Roy Halladay (2010), as one of his no-hitters came in the postseason.[1]

September

October

November

December

Movies

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

  • January   6 –
    Washington Senators
    over four seasons spanning 1906–1910.
  • January   8 – Art Evans, 40, pitcher for the 1932 Chicago White Sox.
  • January 10 – Bones Ely, 88, one of the top defensive shortstops of his generation and also a versatile two-way player, whose 19-season professional career included stints with eight major league teams in three different leagues in a span of fourteen seasons between 1884 and 1902.[3]
  • January 14 –
    Boston Doves
    in its 1910 season.
  • January 15 –
    Boston Rustlers and Braves
    from 1911 to 1912.
  • January 17 –
    Walter O. Briggs Sr.
    , 74, industrialist and co-owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1919 to 1935, and sole owner from 1935 until his death.
  • January 17 – Solly Salisbury, 75, pitcher who played in 1902 with the Philadelphia Phillies.
  • January 20 –
    Cleveland Blues on April 24, 1901.[4][5]
  • January 24 – Ángel Aragón, 61, third baseman for the New York Yankees in three seasons from 1914 to 1917, who was also the first Cuban and Latin American player to wear a Yankees uniform.[6]
  • January 24 – Dick Wright, 61, catcher who made four game appearances for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the outlaw Federal League in 1915.

February

March

  • March 11 – Pete Daglia, 46, pitcher for the 1932 Chicago White Sox.
  • March 13 –
    Vincent Maney
    , 65, shortstop for the Detroit Tigers in the 1912 season.
  • March 19 –
    Washington Senators
    .
  • March 20 –
    Cleveland Bronchos and Naps
    in a span of eight seasons from 1901 to 1908, who led the American League in stolen bases in 1903 and 1904.
  • March 23 –
    Washington Senators and St. Louis Browns over eight seasons spanning 1936–1946, as well as a member of the 1938 and 1939 World Series
    champion Yankees teams.
  • March 30 – John Gallagher, 60, second baseman who played in 1915 for the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League.
  • March 30 –
    decisions in the World Series are still a record for a pitcher.[8]

April

May

June

July

  • July   3 –
    slash line, including 2,231 hits, 1,134 runs scored and 688 runs batted in.[11]
  • July 11 – Dutch Leonard, 60, left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers over eleven seasons from 1913 to 1925, who earned two World Series rings with Boston in 1915 and 1916, while leading the major leagues with an earned run average of 0.96 in 1914, setting a modern-era season record that still stands.[12]

August

September

October

  • October   4 –
    Brooklyn Robins
    in 1915.
  • October   8 –
    1908 Spalding Guide.[17]
  • October 11 – Roy Beecher, 68, pitcher for the New York Giants from 1907 to 1908.
  • October 14 – Jim Banning, 87, 19th century catcher who played for the Washington Nationals of the National League in parts of two seasonsd from 1888 to 1889.
  • October 17 – Vince Shields, 51, Canadian pitcher for the 1924 St. Louis Cardinals.
  • October 22 – Howard McGraner, 63, pitcher who played with the Cincinnati Reds in 1912.
  • October 26 – Tom Angley, 48, backup catcher for the Chicago Cubs in its 1929 season.
  • October 26 – Mike Murphy, 64, catcher who played with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1912 and for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1916.
  • October 28 –
    Boston Beaneaters in 1901 and for the original Baltimore Orioles
    in 1902.

November

December

Sources

  1. ^ August 25, 1952: Virgil Trucks hurls his second no-hitter of the season. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on February 22, 2018.
  2. ^ "Frank Carswell Minor Leagues Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  3. ^ Bones Ely. Article written by Jacob Pomrenke. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 16, 2019.
  4. ^ Ollie Pickering. Cooperstown Expert website. Retrieved on June 16, 2019.
  5. ^ 1901 Chicago White Sox Regular Season Game Log. Retrosheet. Retrieved on June 16, 2019.
  6. ^ Mike Hopkins. Retrosheet. Retrieved on June 16, 2019.
  7. ^ Deacon Phillippe. Article written by Mark Armour. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 17, 2019.
  8. ^ Phenomenal Smith. Major and Minor League Statistics. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on June 17, 2019.
  9. ^ How Smith became "Phenomenal". Article written by Bob Lemke. Published on February 6, 2012. Retrieved on June 17, 2019.
  10. ^ Fred Tenney. Article written by Mark Sternman. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 6, 2019.
  11. ^ Dutch Leonard. Article written by David Jones. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 6, 2019.
  12. ^ Phil Douglas. Article written by Mike Lynch. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 6, 2019.
  13. ^ Military-related Major League Deaths. Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice. Retrieved on June 6, 2019.
  14. ^ Arky Vaughan. Article written by Ralph Moses. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 5, 2019.
  15. ^ Earl Sheely. Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. MiLB.com. Retrieved on June 6, 2019.
  16. ^ Spalding's official baseball guide. Page 227. Archive.org website. Retrieved on June 15, 2019.
  17. ^ Fred McMullin article. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on February 22, 2018.
  18. ^ Arlie Latham. Article written by Ralph Berge. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on June 5, 2019.

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