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The New York Yankees continued their dynastic run of the late 1930s with a third straight World Series championship. The Chicago Cubs won the NL pennant by two games over Pittsburgh but were no match for the mighty Yankees, outscored 22-9 in a four-game sweep. The 1938 Bronx Bombers had five players with at least 20 home runs and 90 RBI and seven starters with on-base percentages of .380 or better. Pitchers Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez won 39 games for the Yankees and finished second and third in the AL in ERA. Red Sox slugger Jimmie Foxx won his third AL MVP award as he led the league with a .349 average and 175 RBI while finishing second with 50 homers. Detroit 1B Hank Greenberg led the majors with 58 home runs, just two shy of Babe Ruth’s single-season record. Cincinnati C Ernie Lombardi (.342, 19 HR, 95 RBI) won the batting title and the Most Valuable Player award in the Senior Circuit. The St. Louis duo of Johnny Mize (.337, 27 HR, 102 RBI) and Joe Medwick (.322, 21 HR, 122 RBI) were feared by National League pitchers, but the effort was not good enough to keep the Cardinals out of the second division.\n\nMilestones and Moments from 1938:\nPitcher Pete Alexander plus pioneers Alexander Cartwright and Henry Chadwick were the three members of the 1938 Hall of Fame class…Reds lefty Johnny Vander Meer threw consecutive no-hitters on June 11th against the Braves and June 15th against the Dodgers…Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell won his 200th game on June 26th…Stolen base totals continued to fall as only two players (Frankie Crosetti and Lyn Lary) swiped even 20 bases.

World Series – New York Yankees AL over Chicago Cubs NL 4 games to 0

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October 1, 1938

1938 World Series Game 1 – Chicago Cubs vs New York Yankees

October 6, 1938

DiMaggio takes Dean deep to seal World Series Win

October 6, 1938

Dizzy Dean pitching for the Cubs gets Yankees’ Tommy Henrich to pop up in Game 2 of 1938 World Series at Wrigley Field. Joe DiMaggio on deck.

October 9, 1938

New York Yankees become the first team in major league history to win three consecutive World Championships

October 10, 1938

Yankees sweep Cubs 1938 World Series – Full Radio Broadcast

December 24, 1938

History of the World Series – 1938

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Jimmie Foxx Stats & Facts

Ernie Lombardi Stats & Facts

All-Star Game – July 6th – N.L. 4 over A.L. 1, played at Crosley Field (NL)
AL Starter Lefty Gomez  NL Starter Johnny Vander Meer

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July 6, 1938

1938 MLB All Star Game

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Crosley Field

National League All-Stars

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All-Star Game Ball Park

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January 10, 1938

Before a gathering of writers, players and executives in Baltimore, Jimmie Foxx, Chuck Klein and Charlie Keller, representing the American League, National League and International League respectively, try out the balls to be used in the new season. The Sporting News reports that “… regarding the dead ball, as adopted by the National League, and the lively ball, as retained by the American and International Leagues… the NL ball has a distinctly ‘dead’ sound coming off the bat, compared to the livelier AL ball.”

January 10, 1938

future Hall of Famer Willie McCovey is born in Mobile, Alabama

January 18, 1938

Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Hall of Fame

January 18, 1938

Curt Flood is born

January 19, 1938

Larry MacPhail is coaxed back into baseball by the Dodgers

January 21, 1938

Joe DiMaggio begins a contract holdout that will last for nearly three months

January 24, 1938

Ruth and DiMaggio meet for the first time

February 3, 1938

The University of Illinois suspends Lou Boudreau for taking illegal payments from the Indians

February 22, 1938

St. Louis Cardinals sign Washington Redskins star quarterback Sammy Baugh to a contract

March 8, 1938

Lou Gehrig rejects the latest contract offer from the New York Yankees-a one-year deal worth $39,000

March 18, 1938

1938 – In a trade of first basemen, the Washington Senators send slick-fielding Joe Kuhel to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for easy-going hitter Zeke Bonura.

March 22, 1938

Larry French. Spring training at Catalina Island, California – 1938.

March 23, 1938

 Commissioner Landis frees 74 St. Louis Cardinals minor leaguers, among them Pete Reiser

March 27, 1938

White Sox shortstop Luke Appling fractures his right leg in two places and will miss almost half the season

April 1, 1938

Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis grants free agency to a group of nine Cardinal minor leaguers that includes Pete Reiser

April 3, 1938

Goose Goslin returns to the Washington Senators for his third stint with the team

April 16, 1938

The St. Louis Cardinals trade pitcher Dizzy Dean to the Chicago Cubs for pitchers Curt Davis and Clyde Shoun and $200,000.

April 18, 1938

Red Sox take home opener 8-4 vs defending Champ’s (NY Yankees) 1938 – Full Radio Broadcast

April 19, 1938

Emmett Mueller of the Philadelphia Phillies and Ernie Koy of the Brooklyn Dodgers each hit a home run in their first major league at-bats

April 20, 1938

Bob Feller pitches the first of 12 career one-hitters

May 3, 1938

Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox defeats the Detroit Tigers, 4-3, marking the start of a personal 20-game winning streak at home

May 3, 1938

Gehrig scores on inside park homerun

May 5, 1938

Hal Kelleher of the Philadelphia Phillies faces 16 batters in the 6th inning as the Cubs score 12 runs. Both marks are National League records off one pitcher in a single inning. The Cubs win, 21 – 2, with Joe Marty collecting four hits, four runs, and four RBI. The loss goes to Wayne LaMaster, who throws just three pitches to leadoff batter Stan Hackbefore leaving the game with pain in his throwing arm.

May 9, 1938

Jimmie Foxx drives in five runs on a pair of homers to pace the Red Sox to a 15 – 3 drubbing of Cleveland

May 14, 1938

5/14/1938: The Cardinals hosted the Reds in St. Louis. Reds outfielder Dusty Cooke hit a drive in the sixth inning that hit the edge of the pavilion roof in deep right center field. The umpires ruled the ball in play and Cooke reached third base for a triple. After the ninth inning ended with the teams tied at 5-5, Reds manager Bill McKechnie announced that he was protesting the game based on that call in the sixth inning. The Cardinals had scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. The Reds scored once in the top of the tenth but the Redbirds won the contest with two in the bottom of the frame. NL president Ford Frick upheld the protest on June 3 and declared the game a tie. He also awarded Cooke with a homer, so it became “unlost.” The teams replayed the game on August 20.

May 18, 1938

Wes Ferrell of the Washington Senators pitches and bats to defeat Detroit, 5 – 1, at Tiger Stadium. Ferrell belts a mammoth home run, while his batterymate, brother Rick Ferrell, goes hitless.

May 21, 1938

The power-laden Yankees give little support to pitcher Spud Chandler, but he hits a home run in the 8th to gain a 1 – 0 victory over Thornton Lee and the White Sox.

May 22, 1938

White Sox pitcher Ted Lyons records his 200th career win, beating the Senators, 9 – 2.

May 22, 1938

The Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field. The first night game will be played there on June 15th.

May 23, 1938

The Cubs’ Bill Lee tops the Bees‚ 4 – 1‚ as the Bees score their only tally in the 4th when pitcher Lou Fette drives in the run. This is the only run that Lee will allow in 47 straight innings going back to the 19th‚ when he tossed a shutout. He will shut out Pirates‚ 5 – 0‚ on May 27th‚ the Reds‚ 3 – 0 on May 30th‚ and the Bees‚ 4 – 0‚ on June 3rd.

May 31, 1938

Lou Gehrig plays in his 2,000th consecutive game

June 4, 1938

1938 – Martin Dihigo strikes out a Mexican League-record 22 batters in a 13-inning game for the Veracruz Eagle against the Tigres de Comintra.

June 7, 1938

Bill McGowan orders Cleveland pitcher Johnny Allen to trim off the tattered sleeves of his undershirt because they distract opposing batters

June 10, 1938

Bill Lefebvre homers for only time in career

June 11, 1938

Johnny Vander Meer hurls the first of his record two consecutive no-hitters

June 11, 1938

Cardinals OF Terry Moore sustains a concussion after crashing into a wall at Sportsman’s Park. The game with the Giants ends in a [rainout|[rained out]] 8-inning 2 – 2 tie.

June 13, 1938

The Reds acquire Bucky Walters from the Phillies in exchange for catcher Spud Davis, southpaw Al Hollingsworth, and $50,000. Cincinnati’s new right-hander will play a major role in the team’s two consecutive National League pennants when he wins 27 games in 1939 and has another 22 victories in 1940.

June 15, 1938

Johnny Vander Meer pitches second consecutive no hitter

June 15, 1938

Future Hall of Fame outfielder Billy Williams is born

June 16, 1938

St. Louis Browns walk Red Sox star Jimmie Foxx all six times he comes to bat

June 18, 1938

Babe Ruth signs a contract to coach with the Brooklyn Dodgers

June 19, 1938

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Vander Meer continues his hitless innings streak

June 21, 1938

Red Sox 3B Pinky Higgins extends his consecutive hit string to 12, with eight hits in a doubleheader split with Detroit

June 22, 1938

Chicago’s Hank Steinbacher gets five singles and a double in six at bats as the White Sox pound Washington, 16 – 3.

June 23, 1938

1938 – The Cubs sweep two at home against the Giants, winning, 7 – 4 and 3 – 1. Bill Lee is the victor in the opener, topping Harry Gumbert, while Dizzy Dean bests Hal Schumacher in the second game.

June 25, 1938

The Reds’ Lonny Frey collects eight hits in a doubleheader split with the Phillies

June 26, 1938

Carl Hubbell wins his 200th major league game, pushing the New York Giants to a two-game lead in the National League pennant race

June 26, 1938

In the Phils-Reds split, Reds leadoff hitter Lonny Frey bangs out eight hits, just the third Red player to collect eight hits in a twinbill (after Dusty Miller, on October 9, 1898 and Kiki Cuyler, on July 30, 1936). Frey is 5 for 5 in game two as the Reds win 8 – 5 behind Paul Derringer. Claude Passeau wins the opener, 10 – 3 for the Phils. Buck Jordan has four hits and Phil Weintraub and Chuck Klein hit homers.

June 27, 1938

Jimmie Foxx belts the 400th homer of his career

June 30, 1938

Hank Leiber hits the last homer at the Baker Bowl

July 1, 1938

Dodgers C Babe Phelps fractures the thumb on his throwing hand for the second time this year.

July 4, 1938

The Phillies move into Shibe Park by splitting a twin bill with the Boston Bees, losing the first game, 10-5, and winning the nightcap, 10-2. The National League franchise decided to abandoned the Baker Bowl in the middle of the season to rent the newer and more spacious home of the A’s, citing the move to the ballpark, which is only five blocks away from where the team formerly played, will help cut expenses as stadium upkeep can be shared between the two clubs.

July 6, 1938

1938 MLB All Star Game

July 9, 1938

Carl Hubbell is routed when Boston’s hits three successive 4th-inning homers

July 11, 1938

The Dodgers buy former major-league hurler Whitlow Wyatt from Milwaukee (American Association).

July 12, 1938

The Pirates take the National League lead for the first time, beating the Cubs for their 12th straight win.

July 12, 1938

Robert Joyce kills 1 and wound’s another defending the Brooklyn Dodgers

July 14, 1938

In Toledo, OH the American Association All-Star squad becomes the first team to experiment with uniforms designed to be worn during night games. The red, white and blue shiny satin uniforms are believed to reflect the light during the evening contests.

July 15, 1938

Terry Moore returns to the St. Louis Cardinals lineup following his June 11th concussion. He gets 3 hits to help St. Louis snap an 8-game losing streak.

July 20, 1938

Johnny Mize of the Cardinals has three home runs in a game for the second time this season, in a game against the Giants.

July 20, 1938

Catcher Gabby Hartnett replaces Charlie Grimm as manager of the third-place Cubs.

July 24, 1938

1938 – 44-year-old Babe Ruth, roughly three years into his retirement and currently first base coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers, launches one 430 feet out of Sportsman’s Park to win the $50 grand prize in a pre-game distance-hitting contest featuring an otherwise active pool of contestants including Cardinals Joe Medwick (the runner-up at 425 feet), Johnny Mize and Don Padgett, as well as Brooklyn’s Dolph Camilli and Ernie Koy.

July 25, 1938

Cleveland’s Johnny Allen has his 12-game win streak snapped by the Red Sox.

July 27, 1938

 Hank Greenberg of the Tigers, who had hit home runs his last two at bats the day before, homers his first two times up to tie the major league record of four in a row. Greenberg has a record-setting eleven two-home run games during the season.

July 29, 1938

New York’s Spud Chandler pitches 15 innings as the Yankees beat the White Sox, 7 – 3.

July 29, 1938

Yankee outfielder Jake Powell is suspened for racial comments

August 1, 1938

Al Munro Elias, founder of the Elias Sports Bureau and for many years the official statistician of the National League and International League, dies in New York City at age 67.

August 2, 1938

Bright yellow baseballs designed by Frederick Rah, who believes the visibility of the dandelion-hue sphere will help players avoid getting hit by a pitch, are used in the first game of a doubleheader. The one-game experiment draws mixed reactions and the Dodgers complete their sweep of the twin bill from the Cardinals, 6-2 and 9-3, using the traditional white ball in the nightcap.

August 5, 1938

Forty-year-old Browns P Fred “Cactus” Johnson wins his first major-league game since 1923. He won 252 minor leagues games in his career.

August 6, 1938

Former American League P George Pipgras joins the league’s umpiring staff.

August 6, 1938

Mickey Cochrane is fired as Detroit manager.

August 6, 1938

Cincinnati has only one assist in a game with the Dodgers, tying the major-league record held by four clubs.

August 12, 1938

1938 – The Senators release Wes Ferrell‚ who despite struggling with shoulder problems‚ leads the Nats staff with a 13-8 record. Clark Griffith‚ who has had differences with Ferrell over money‚ says Wes wasn’t helping the club. The Yankees will sign him in two days.

August 18, 1938

When Detroit’s Billy Rogell walks his first time up, it is his seventh consecutive base on balls, a new American League record.

August 18, 1938

Carl Hubbell is forced to leave the mound in a 5 – 3 loss to the Dodgers when he experiences sharp elbow pains in his pitching arm.

August 20, 1938

Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees hits the 23rd and final grand slam of his career

August 20, 1938

At Union Terminal Tower, Frankie Pytlak and Hank Helf, catchers for the Indians, establish record for catching baseballs dropped from a high altitude. The balls fall an estimated 708 feet and travel an average speed of 140 mph during their 52-floor descent from Cleveland’s enduring landmark, the second-tallest building in the world.

August 20, 1938

In front of about 10,000 people attending a Saturday morning publicity stunt organized by the Come to Cleveland Committee, five members of the Indians attempt to set a record by catching a baseball thrown from the top of the 708-foot Terminal Tower. Twenty-four year-old rookie third string catcher Henry Helf, wearing his street clothes, catches a ball dropped from the 52-story structure, estimated to be traveling at the speed of 138 mph, to break Gabby Street’s mark for a vertical catch established when the Senator catcher snagged a sphere dropped 555 feet from the top of the Washington Monument in 1908.

August 21, 1938

1938 – The West wins the 1938 East-West Game, 5-4, when Neil Robinson hits a 3-run inside-the-park homer between the legs of East CF Sammy Bankhead. Hilton Smith and Double Duty Radcliffe allow only one run in eight innings of relief for a struggling Sug Cornelius.

August 22, 1938

Carl Hubbell has an arm operation for bone chips in his elbow and is finished for the season.

August 24, 1938

1938 – Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter – the highest season total in organized ball this century – for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game.

August 25, 1938

1938 – St. Louis Browns George McQuinn’s 34-game hitting streak is stopped seven short of George Sisler’s American League record.

August 27, 1938

In the first game of a twin bill at the Bronx ballpark, Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive triples. The Yankee Clipper’s offensive outburst helps the Bombers edge Cleveland, 8-7.

August 27, 1938

Monte Pearson becomes the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Yankee Stadium, beating the Indians, 13-0. Thanks to two double plays, the 29 year-old right-hander faces the minimum 27 batters when he records his tenth consecutive victory.

August 28, 1938

On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A’s win a doubleheader from the White Sox, setting a league record by playing their seventh successive twin bill in 8 days.

September 3, 1938

1938 – Rudy York of the Tigers hits his 4th grand slam, tying the major league season record.

September 5, 1938

For the third time this season, Dodger catcher Babe Phelps breaks a bone in his throwing hand. Although the injuries will limit his playing time to only 66 games and 208 at-bats this season, the southpaw-swinging backstop will hit .308 and was named to the National League All-Star team, the first of three consecutive games he’ll play in the Mid-summer classic.

September 9, 1938

1938 – Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has 4 hits to bring his average over .300.

September 10, 1938

1938 – Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox hits 2 home runs in a game for the 9th time this season, breaking a record held by Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson.

September 11, 1938

St. Louis Cardinals fire manager Frankie Frisch

September 11, 1938

Free admission as well as giveaways of small bats and bags of peanuts highlight Lefty O’Doul Day at Seals Stadium for youngster under 14. Between games of PCL doubleheader against the Oakland Oaks, the kids have a chance to scramble for autographed balls thrown by the San Francisco Seals players.

September 13, 1938

1938 – A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball’s Hall of Fame for originating the sport’s basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.

September 15, 1938

For the fifth time in a major league game, brothers homer in the same contest when Pirates teammates Lloyd and Paul Waner both go deep off Cliff Melton in the fifth inning in the fifth inning of the Bucs’ 7-2 victory over New York at the Polo Grounds. Although ‘Big and Little Poison’ have completed the deed twice before, they are the first siblings in history to hit the home runs in consecutive at-bats, a feat which will not be duplicated again until the Upton Brothers go back-to-back for the Braves in 2013.

September 16, 1938

Johnny Rizzo becomes the first Pirates player in franchise history to hit 20 home runs in a season. The 25 year-old rookie outfielder from Texas, who becomes hurt next season, never playing regularly for the Bucs again, finishes the campaign batting .301 with 23 round-trippers and 111 RBIs.

September 17, 1938

In the top of the seventh inning of the Cubs’ 4-0 victory over New York at the Polo Grounds, Ripper Collins hits his last career home run, finishing with 135 round-trippers during his nine-year tenure in the major leagues. The Chicago first baseman will remain the all-time switch-hitter home run leader for 18 years until Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle surpasses his total in 1956.

September 18, 1938

1938 – Although they drop a doubleheader to the Browns, the Yankees clinch the pennant.

September 27, 1938

1939 – The hometown White Sox play the first “day-night” doubleheader against Cleveland, but lose both games, 5 – 2 and 7 – 5. Fans are charged separate admissions for each game.

September 27, 1938

Dizzy Dean shuts out the Bucs for 8 innings. In the 9th Bill Lee relieves Dean, and the Cubs win, 2 – 1.

September 27, 1938

Hank Greenberg hits two home runs in a game for a record 11th time in a single season

September 27, 1938

An ailing Lou Gehrig hits his 493rd and final major league home run off Senators’ right-hander Dutch Leonard. On the same date 15 years earlier, the Yankee first baseman had gone deep off Bill Piercy at Fenway Park for his first career home run.

September 28, 1938

Gabby Hartnett – Walkoff Homerun in Gloamin

September 30, 1938

1938 – Jimmie Wilson resigns as manager of the Phillies. He will be replaced by Doc Prothro.

October 1, 1938

1938 World Series Game 1 – Chicago Cubs vs New York Yankees

October 2, 1938

Tommy Thevenow, playing in his final game of a 12-year career, establishes the longest homerless streak in major league history. The 35 year-old Pirates infielder, who hit two round-trippers during his rookie season in 1924 with the Cardinals, makes another 3,605 plate appearances without homering again.

October 2, 1938

Indians’ fireballer Bob Feller fans eighteen Tigers, establishing a modern major league record for strikeouts in a game. ‘Rapid Robert’ loses the Cleveland Stadium contest, 4-1.

October 2, 1938

Mel Ott establishes the record for the most games played before a 30th birthday with 1,739

October 6, 1938

DiMaggio takes Dean deep to seal World Series Win

October 6, 1938

Dizzy Dean pitching for the Cubs gets Yankees’ Tommy Henrich to pop up in Game 2 of 1938 World Series at Wrigley Field. Joe DiMaggio on deck.

October 9, 1938

New York Yankees become the first team in major league history to win three consecutive World Championships

October 10, 1938

Yankees sweep Cubs 1938 World Series – Full Radio Broadcast

October 26, 1938

The Gashouse Gang using their equipment as instruments. Stan Bordagaray, Bill McGee, former Cardinal Rip Collins, and Pepper Martin with Bob Weiland standing, 1938.

November 1, 1938

National League batting champ Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds is named the Most Valuable Player

November 2, 1938

Jimmie Foxx becomes the first player to win the Most Valuable Player award three times

November 6, 1938

The brothers Joe, Vince and Dom DiMaggio play together for the first time, making up an outfield for an All-Star team in a West Coast charity game.

November 6, 1938

Ray Blades is hired as the new manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.

November 6, 1938

Mack Jones born on November 6, 1938 in Atlanta, GA

November 7, 1938

Fred Haney is signed as manager of the St. Louis Browns.

November 29, 1938

Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton had his leg amputated

December 3, 1938

Guy Hecker, who once scored seven runs in a game, dies in Wooster, Ohio, at the age of 82

December 6, 1938

Larry MacPhail ends an agreement with the Yankees and Giants to ban broadcasts in the New York area and sells the radio rights of the Dodgers games to Wheaties.

December 6, 1938

The Giants and Cubs make a 7 player deal

December 11, 1938

The Giants get slugger Zeke Bonura from Washington for $20,000 and two minor league players.

December 12, 1938

1938 – The Tigers buy Pacific Coast League pitching sensation Fred Hutchinson from Seattle for cash and four players.

December 13, 1938

1938 – Fred Frankhouse returns to the Boston Bees, and Joe Stripp goes to Brooklyn in a player swap. In a separate transaction, the Dodgers send Buddy Hassett and Jimmy Outlaw to the Bees for Gene Moore and Ira Hutchinson.

December 14, 1938

Major league teams adopt several resolutions. The National League allows the Cincinnati Reds to play their season opener one day before other teams, as a way of honoring the 100th anniversary of baseball and of the 1869 Red Stockings being the first professional team. In other news, Will Harridge is re-elected as American League president and given a 10-year term. The AL permits the Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Athletics to play night games. Finally, the major leagues agree on a standard ball but disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25 players. Judge Landis will eventually decide on 25.

December 15, 1938

The Red Sox send Pinky Higgins and P Archie McKain to the Tigers for pitchers Elden Auker and Jake Wade, and OF Chet Morgan. The Sox also ship OF Ben Chapman to the Indians in exchange for P Denny Galehouse and SS Tom Irwin.

December 16, 1938

The Bees trade catcher Ray Mueller to the Pirates for Al Todd and Johnny Dickshot.

December 20, 1938

The White Sox sell veteran C Luke Sewell to Brooklyn.

December 29, 1938

Al Simmons moves to the National League when the Boston Bees buy him for $3,000 from the Washington Senators.

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