1935 In Baseball

Champions

Major League Baseball

*World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4–2)
*All-Star Game, July 8 at Municipal Stadium: American League, 4–1

Other champions

* Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, August 11 at Comiskey Park: West, 11–8 (11 innings)
*Central American and Caribbean Games: Cuba

Awards and honors

*Most Valuable Player
**Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tigers (AL)
** Gabby Hartnett, Chicago Cubs (NL)

Statistical leaders

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Negro leagues final standings

All Negro leagues standings below are per Seamheads.

Negro National League final standings

Post-season:
*Pittsburgh won one half, New York won one half.
*Pittsburgh beat New York 5 games to 2 games in a play-off.

Independent teams final standings

A loose confederation of teams existed that were not part of the Negro National League.

Events

January–May

*January 19 – The St. Louis Browns trade Bump Hadley to the Washington Senators for Luke Sewell and cash, then sell Sewell's contract to the Chicago White Sox.
*February 26 – The New York Yankees release Babe Ruth. Later the same day, the Boston Braves sign him.
*April 1 – Dazzy Vance joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.
*April 15 – Johnny Mize, who originally signed with the St. Louis Cardinals, but was sold to the Cincinnati Reds on December 13, , is returned to the Cards.
*April 16 – Opening day, Lefty Gomez holds the New York Yankees to just two hits as the Boston Red Sox win their season opener 1–0 at Yankee Stadium. In the National League, both the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers put up twelve runs in victories over the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, respectively.
*April 18 – Detroit Tigers leadoff hitter Jo-Jo White draws five walks in the Tigers' 5–4 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
*April 21:
**The Cleveland Indians open their season with three consecutive extra innings games, amassing 41 total innings.
**After ten innings, the contest between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Giants at the Baker Bowl is called a 4–4 tie. The Phillies tie an NL record by turning six double plays, with Phillies shortstop Blondy Ryan tying the individual mark by being part of five of the double plays.
*May 8 – In the first game of a double header with the Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds catcher Ernie Lombardi ties a Major League record by hitting four consecutive doubles en route to a 15–4 victory. Lombardi logs just one at-bat in the second game, and gets a single.
*May 24 – At Crosley Field, the Cincinnati Reds and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies played the first night game, which Cincinnati won 2–1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt turns on the lights with a switch in the White House.''Total Baseball V''; Thorn, John et al. editors; 1997; Viking Penguin; p. 2018
*May 25 – Babe Ruth of goes 4-for-4 with three home runs and six runs batted in. It is the last multi-homer game of Ruth's career, with the final home run, the 714th of his career, being the first ball ever hit to clear the roof at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
*May 30 – Babe Ruth ends his playing career with the Boston Braves.

June–September

*June 26 – The Pittsburgh Pirates sweep a double header with the Boston Braves. Pirates centerfielder Lloyd Waner sets a Major League record with eighteen put outs.
*July 7 – The Detroit Tigers complete a ten-game winning streak that pulls them within one game of the first place Yankees.
*July 8 – At Cleveland Municipal Stadium, home of the Cleveland Indians, the American League defeats the National League, 4–1, in the All-Star Game.''Total Baseball V''; Thorn, John et al. editors; 1997; Viking Penguin; p. 2020
*July 19 – Casey Stengel's Brooklyn Dodgers end the St. Louis Cardinals' fourteen-game winning streak behind a shut out by Johnny Babich.
*July 22 – With a 4–2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, the Boston Braves end a fifteen-game losing streak.
*July 23 – With first place in the American League on the line, the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees split a double header. Detroit wins the following day, 4–0, to leave Detroit a half game up on the Yankees. They remain in first for the remainder of the season.
*August 10 – The New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia A's, 18–7. Right fielder George Selkirk hits two home runs and drives in eight.
*August 16 – Dizzy Dean and Hal Schumacher engage in a pitchers' duel at the Polo Grounds. Schumaker's Giants emerge with the 1–0 victory.
*August 27 – In the first game of a double header at Comiskey Park with the Chicago White Sox, Lou Gehrig goes three-for-five with two RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Yankees to a 13–10 victory. In the second game, Gehrig is walked five times. Chicago wins that game, 4–3.
*August 31 – Vern Kennedy pitches a no-hitter as the Chicago White Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 5–0. It is the first no-hitter in the American League since , and the first ever at Chicago's Comiskey Park.
*September 12 – The Philadelphia Athletics sweep a double header from the Chicago White Sox to end a thirteen-game losing streak.
*September 27 – The first place Chicago Cubs sweep a double header with the St. Louis Cardinals that brings their winning streak to 21 games. The Cubs were in third place, 2.5 games back of the Cards, when the streak began.

October–December

*October 2 – Schoolboy Rowe pitched effectively, however, his fielding error lead to two unearned runs in the first inning as the Chicago Cubs take game one of the 1935 World Series, 3–0.
*October 3 – Hank Greenberg's two-run home run caps off a four-run first inning for the Tigers as Detroit takes game two of the World Series, 8–3. In the bottom of the seventh, Greenberg is hit by a pitch that ends his season.
*October 4 – As part of a double switch, Freddie Lindstrom moves from centerfield to third base in the tenth inning of game three of the World Series. An inning later, he misplays Flea Clifton's ground ball to allow the Detroit Tigers to take the 6–5 victory.
*October 5 – Gabby Hartnett hits a second-inning home run to put the Cubs on the board first, but the Tigers come back with two unanswered runs, and win 2–1.
*October 7 – With the score tied at three, Stan Hack leads off the ninth inning for the Cubs with a triple. He is left stranded by Bill Jurges, Larry French and Augie Galan fail to drive him in. In the bottom of the inning, Goose Goslin singles in Mickey Cochrane to give the Detroit Tigers their first World Championship, four games to two. This was Detroit's first Series victory after failing to win four previous times. Cubs skipper Charlie Grimm is widely second-guessed for letting the pitcher bat in the top of the inning.
*November 26 – The National League assumes control of the bankrupt, Boston Braves franchise after several failed attempts to buy the last-place club. The league takes over only temporarily, until matters can be straightened out.
*December 9 – The New York Giants trade Roy Parmelee, Phil Weintraub and cash to the St. Louis Cardinals for Burgess Whitehead.
*December 10 – The Boston Red Sox acquire Jimmie Foxx and Johnny Marcum from the Philadelphia Athletics for Gordon Rhodes, minor leaguer George Savino and $150,000.
*December 12 – The Boston Braves trade Ed Brandt and Randy Moore to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Ray Benge, Tony Cuccinello, Al López and Bobby Reis. They also sell the contracts of Flint Rhem and Johnny Vander Meer to the Cincinnati Reds.
*December 17 – The Boston Red Sox acquire Heinie Manush from the Washington Senators for Roy Johnson and Carl Reynolds.

Movies

*'' Alibi Ike''

Births

January

*January 5 – Earl Battey
*January 6 – Ed Bauta
*January 7 – Dick Schofield
*January 8 – Reno Bertoia
*January 9 – Bob Duliba
*January 10 – Ted Bowsfield
*January 17 – Dick Brown
*January 19 – Fred Valentine
*January 26 – Bob Uecker
*January 27 – Steve Demeter

February

*February 3:
** Don Kaiser
** Dick Tracewski
*February 10 – Sherman Jones
*February 11 – George Alusik
*February 17 – Whammy Douglas
*February 19 – Russ Nixon
*February 28 – Bill Haller

March

*March 13 – Joan LeQuia
*March 19 – Fritz Brickell
*March 22:
** Gene Oliver
** Frank Pulli
*March 28:
** Jeanie Descombes
** Garland Shifflett

April

*April 1 – Tom Qualters
*April 8 – Dick Luebke
*April 10 – Joe Gibbon
*April 13 – Bill Deegan
*April 14:
** Gene Hayden
** Katie Horstman
*April 19:
** Don Gile
** Héctor Maestri
** John Wyatt
*April 21:
** Mack Burk
** Dolores Lee
*April 23 – Ron Blackburn
*April 26 – Nate Smith
*April 28:
** Bob Botz
** Pedro Ramos

May

*May 5 – José Pagán
*May 9 – Joe Shipley
*May 12 – Felipe Alou
*May 13 – Bill Dailey
*May 18 – Ken Hamlin
*May 20 – Gloria McCloskey
*May 22 – Ron Piché
*May 26 – Eddie Haas
*May 27 – Jerry Kindall
*May 30 – Ed Rakow

June

*June 1:
** Hal Kolstad
** Jack Kralick
*June 8 – George Brunet
*June 12 – Bob Thorpe
*June 14 – Neil Wilson
*June 19 – Chet Boak
*June 24 – Charlie Dees
*June 25 – Don Demeter
*June 28 – Bob Blaylock
*June 29 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
*June 30 – Paul Toth

July

*July 3 – Mutsuo Minagawa

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