1908 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1908 throughout the world.

Champions

 * World Series: Chicago Cubs over Detroit Tigers (4-1)

Births

 * February 2 - Wes Ferrell
 * February 17 - Red Barber
 * February 23 - Ray Brown
 * March 19 - Gee Walker
 * April 6 - Ernie Lombardi
 * May 9 - Billy Jurges
 * June 20 - Billy Werber
 * July 14 - Johnny Murphy
 * August 20 - Al Lopez
 * October 17 - Red Rolfe
 * November 21 - Paul Richards
 * November 26 - Lefty Gómez
 * December 25 - Ben Chapman
 * December 25 - Jo-Jo Moore

Deaths

 * April 10 - Mike Griffin, 43, center fielder for Baltimore and Brooklyn who batted .300 six times, scored 100 runs ten times; led league in runs and doubles once each
 * April 20 - Henry Chadwick, 83, the "Father of Baseball," who through his writings, analysis of statistics and service in developing the sport's rules played a principal role in establishing baseball as the "national pastime"; devised the box score, developed scoring system which enabled recording of every play, authored the first rule book in 1858, and created statistics including batting average and earned run average; worked to revise sport's rules so as to balance offense and defense, and to increase mental demands as well as physical ones
 * September 18 - Dickey Pearce, 72, shortstop in the sport's earliest era whose career spanned the years 1856 to 1877; introduced the bunt and pioneered defensive play at his position, later became an umpire