1925 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1925

Champions

*World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Washington Senators (4-3)
*Negro League World Series: Hilldale Daisies over Kansas City Monarchs (5-1)

Awards and honors

*League Award
** Roger Peckinpaugh, Washington Senators, SS
** Rogers Hornsby, St. Louis Cardinals, 2B

MLB Statistical Leaders

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

*Kansas City won the first half, St. Louis won the second half.
*Kansas City beat St. Louis 5 games to 3 games in a play-off.

Eastern Colored League final standings

Events

*May 5 - Everett Scott is benched by Yankees manager Miller Huggins‚ ending his record of 1‚307 consecutive games played. He is replaced by rookie Pee-Wee Wanninger at shortstop in the 6–2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics. His mark will be broken by Lou Gehrig on August 17, by|1933.
*May 17 - Cleveland's Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit, off Tom Zachary, in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators.
*June 6 - Eddie Collins of the Chicago White Sox records his 3000th career hit.
*July 23 - Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig hits the first of his major league record 23 grand slams to beat Firpo Marberry and the Senators, 11–7.
*September 13 - Dazzy Vance pitches a no-hitter for the Brooklyn Robins in a 10-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
*October 15 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Washington Senators, 9-7, in Game 7 of the World Series to win their second World Championship, four games to three. The Pirates became the first team in a best-of-seven Series to overcome a 3-1 Series deficit to win the championship.

Births

January-March

*January 4 - Tom Gorman
*January 12 - Ed Stevens
*January 22 - Bobby Young
*January 22 - Johnny Bucha
*January 30 - Brooks Lawrence
*February 3 - Harry Byrd
*February 5 - Jack Maguire
*February 9 - Vic Wertz
*February 13 - Mike Palm
*February 22 - Bob Wilson
*March 10 - Lou Limmer
*March 18 - Fred Hatfield
*March 20 - Al Widmar
*March 24 - Dick Kryhoski
*March 25 - George Eyrich

April-June

*April 6 - Hal Schacker
*April 28 - Cuddles Marshall
*May 2 - Ralph Brickner
*May 5 - Johnny Rutherford
*May 12 - Yogi Berra
*May 14 - Les Moss
*May 25 - Don Liddle
*June 4 - Dick Aylward
*June 8 - Del Ennis
*June 8 - Eddie Gaedel
*June 15 - Gene Baker
*June 24 - Jack Banta
*June 27 - Wayne Terwilliger
*June 29 - Nippy Jones

July-September

*July 18 - Windy McCall
*July 21 - Earl Mossor
*July 26 - Jackie Mayo
*July 30 - Bill Glynn
*July 31 - Harry Malmberg
*August 1 - Bobby Balcena
*August 16 - Willie Jones
*August 26 - Billy DeMars
*August 30 - George Wilson
*August 31 - Paul Hinrichs
*September 12 - Stan Lopata
*September 18 - Harvey Haddix
*September 25 - Ned Garver
*September 26 - Bobby Shantz

October-December

*October 3 - Chris Haughey
*October 25 - Roy Hartsfield
*October 28 - Luis Márquez
*November 4 - Spook Jacobs
*November 9 - Bill Bruton
*November 18 - Gene Mauch
*November 19 - Chuck Comiskey
*November 29 - Minnie Miñoso
*December 1 - Niles Jordan
*December 1 - Cal McLish
*December 3 - Harry Simpson
*December 8 - Hank Thompson
*December 14 - Toothpick Sam Jones
*December 21 - Bob Rush

Deaths

*February 15 - Duke Farrell, 58, catcher for eight teams who batted .300 four times, led American Association in home runs and RBI in 1891; later a scout
*March 4 - John Montgomery Ward, 65, pitcher who posted 164-102 record on the mound, including 47 wins for 1879 champion Providence and 1880 perfect game, then became shortstop, batting over .325 three times; fifth player to reach 2000 hits; organized first players' union in 1888, formed 1890 Players League
*May 31 - Harry Deane, 79, played two seasons, and managed one in the National Association.
*April 18 - Charles Ebbets, 65, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers franchise since 1897
*June 26 - Sam Crane, 71, player and manager who went on to a long career as a sportswriter.
*August 2 - Patrick T. Powers, 63, founder of the minor leagues' governing body who served as its first president from 1901 to 1909
*August 15 - Arthur Soden, 80, owner of the NL's Boston franchise from the 1870s to the 1900s; NL president in 1882
*October 7 - Christy Mathewson, 45, pitcher for the New York Giants whose 373 victories included two no-hitters and thirteen 20-win seasons, reaching 30 four times including modern NL record of 37 in 1908; led NL in ERA and strikeouts five times each, wins and shutouts four times; set NL career records for wins, strikeouts, games and shutouts; had ERA under 2.00 five times with career 2.13 mark; pitched three shutouts in six days as star of 1905 World Series
*November 7 - Sam Kimber, 73, Brooklyn pitcher who threw no-hitter in by|1884
*November 20 - John Coleman, 52, pitcher for the 1895 St. Louis Cardinals
*December 31 - Denny Sullivan, 67, third baseman for the Providence Grays 1879 National League champions and the 1880 Boston Red Caps