July 10 - Exploding for a record four home runs, the National League trounces the American League 8-3 at the annual All-Star Game, at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Pittsburgh Pirates' slugger Ralph Kiner hits a home run for the 3rd year in a row.
October 10 - Hank Bauer's bases-loaded triple propels the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win over the Giants and with it their 3rd straight championship. The Yankees beat the New York Giants 4 games to 2. Just before the game, Giants manager Leo Durocher turns over a letter he received to Ford Frick that offer the Giants manager a $15,000 bribe "if the Giants managed to lose the next 3 games".
October 17 - the Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Series over the Nankai Hawks. Incredibly, they will win the pennant 19 times in the next 23 years, including 9 in succession (1965-1973).
March 25 - Eddie Collins, 63, Hall of Fame second baseman and career .333 hitter for the Athletics and White Sox, the 1914 AL MVP, the sixth player to make 3000 hits, and second to Ty Cobb in career steals
July 9 - Harry Heilmann, 56, Hall of Fame right fielder and 4-time AL batting champion who batted .342 in his career, primarily with the Detroit Tigers
September 16 - Bill Klem, 77, "father of baseball umpires" who worked in a record 18 World Series during a 37-year career, and introduced the inside chest protector. Was one of first 2 umpires in Hall of Fame.
November 26 - Pete Hill, 71, baseball's first great black outfielder (Hall of Famer).
December 8 - Bobby Lowe, 86, second baseman for multiple Boston champions in the 1890s. Lowe 1st was 1st major league player to hit 4 home runs in one game (1894).
