1933 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1933 throughout the world.

Major League Baseball

 * World Series: New York Giants over Washington Senators (4-1)
 * First All-Star Game, July 6 at Comiskey Park: American League, 4-2

Other champions

 * First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, September 10 at Comiskey Park: West, 11-7

Awards and honors

 * Most Valuable Player
 * Jimmie Foxx (AL)
 * Carl Hubbell (NL)

Movies

 * Elmer, the Great

Births

 * May 13 - Johnny Roseboro
 * June 7 - Herb Score
 * July 26 - Norm Siebern
 * August 10 - Rocky Colavito

Deaths

 * January 2 - Kid Gleason, 66, who won 138 games as a pitcher and was second baseman for four teams from 1895-1906, twice batting .300; won AL pennant as rookie manager of White Sox in 1919, then watched as team threw World Series
 * April 23 - Tim Keefe, 76, pitcher who won over 340 games, including six 30-win campaigns for the New York Metropolitans and Giants from 1883-88, with 40-win seasons in 1883 and 1886; led league in ERA three times and strikeouts twice, with career strikeout mark (2500+) being record until 1908; won 19 straight in 1888, leading Giants to first pennant, and was 4-0 with 0.51 ERA in championship series
 * September 16 - George Gore, 76, center fielder for the White Stockings and Giants who batted .301 lifetime and won 1880 batting title; led NL in walks three times and runs twice, and upon retirement was fifth all-time in runs and second in walks
 * September 25 - Ring Lardner, 48, sportswriter for various newspapers, mainly in Chicago, since 1907; pioneered the satirical cynic's view of sports reporting
 * October 5 - William Veeck, 55, president of the Cubs since 1919; previously a sportswriter