Chicago, the best team of the "West" and Hilldale, the best team of the "East Coast", engaged in a "postseason series" that was played over eleven days in three states (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey). It was the first postseason series between two Negro league teams in eight years and it would be the first of six held in the 1920s. Hilldale won three games against Chicago winning two while Game 4 ended in a tie.[3]
May 15 –Goose Goslin makes his MLB debut for theWashington Senators, going 1 for 3. Goslin would go one to become one of the few star players for the franchise and eventually be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
May 22 – In their first meeting of the season, thePittsburgh Pirates defeat the New York Giants 8–6 at the Polo Grounds, to improve their record to 25–6 and to increase their lead over the second-place Giants to 4.5 games. After trailing for most of the game, the Pirates scored twice in the eighth and six times in the ninth.
July 8 – Tigers right fielder Harry Heilmann hits a 610-foot home run
July 12 – Babe Ruth hits his 33rd and 34thhome run of the season. His 33rd home run gave him 136 career home runs, tyingRoger Connor's all-time mark. His 34th home run makes him the all-time home run king, a title he will hold until1974.
August 19 –Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers becomes the fourth player with 3000 career hits.
August 27 – With a 3–1 victory at the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants complete a five-game sweep of the visitingPittsburgh Pirates to move within 2.5 games of first-place Pittsburgh. The Giants outscored the Pirates 27–6 in the series.
September 9 – The Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox lock up in a slugfest[clarification needed] at Comiskey Park. The Tigers collect twenty hits and sixwalks on their way to scoring fifteen runs. However, the White Sox scored twenty runs on 22 hits, including a home run byEarl Sheely.
September 16
In the first game of a crucial three-game series for first place in theNational League, the New York Giants'Fred Toney holds the Pittsburgh Pirates to two hits in the Giants' 5–0 victory.
Hall of FamerGoose Goslin makes his major league debut in the Washington Senators' 2–0 loss to the Cleveland Indians.
September 17 – The New York Giants complete a ten-game winning streak that sees them go from a half-game back of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League to first place, 4.5 games up.
September 20 – With a 4–2 victory over the Detroit Tigers, and a 7–4 loss by theCleveland Indians at the hands of the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees capture first place in the American League, and hold it for the remainder of the season.
September 25 – The New York Yankees defeat the Cleveland Indians 21–7. Surprisingly, none of the 21runs scored are driven in by Babe Ruth, who goes on to compile one of the greatest single seasons of batting in Major League baseball history by hitting 59 home runs, driving in 171 runs, scoring 177 runs with 204 hits for a .378 batting average in only 540 At-Bats. His On-base percentage for the season is .510 and his slugging percentage is an astounding .846 mark. Ruth's 59 home runs are more than the other seven American League team home run totals combined.
October 2 – The Philadelphia Athletics lose 11–6 to the Washington Senators for their 100th loss of the season, giving bothPhiladelphia teams 100 losses for the season.
October 5 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants 3–0 in the firstWorld Series game in franchise history. The Series is the first to be broadcast on radio. Announcer Thomas Cowan recreated the game overWestinghouse-owned WJZ in Newark, listening to phoned-in reports from the stadium.
October 6 – The Yankees defeat the Giants in the second game of the World Series by the same score of the first game, 3–0.
October 7 – After having been outscored 10–0 in the World season, and falling behind 4–0 to the Yankees in game three, the Giants explode for thirteen runs, and defeat the Yankees 13–5.
October 9 – The New York Giants even the1921 World Series at two games apiece with a 4–2 victory. Babe Ruth homers in the bottom of the ninth.
October 10 – Babe Ruth catches the New York Giants'infield off guard as the Yankee sluggerbunts his way on to lead off the fourth inning. The strategy works, as Ruth scores the winning run in the Yankees' 3–1 victory.
October 11 – The New York Giants battle back from 3–0 and 5–3 deficits to beat the Yankees 8–5 in game six of the World Series.
October 13 – The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, 1–0, in Game eight of the World Series to capture their secondWorld Championship, five games to three. For the first time in World Series play, all games were held at one site: the Polo Grounds inNew York, with the home team alternating. The Yankees sub-leased thePolo Grounds from the New York Giants from1913 through1922.
March 30 –Frank Bancroft, 74, a manager who won the 1884 championship with Providence Grays, also managed six other teams; introduced baseball to Cuba in 1879, and was Reds executive for 30 years.
March 31 –John Fitzgerald, 50, pitcher for the 1891 Boston Reds.
April 3 –George Bechtel, 72, outfielder/pitcher for the 1876Louisville Grays, one of the inaugural franchises in the National League; previously played for five years in the NL's predecessor, theNational Association.
April 21 –Edmund C. Converse, 71, industrialist, financier and chief shareholder in 1880sPittsburgh Alleghenys who served as club president in 1883 and 1884.
April 21 –Tom O'Brien, 60, utility who played in each position except shortstop, while batting a .231 average for five different teams between 1882 and 1890.
July 16 –Arthur Irwin, 63, Canadian shortstop for six teams who managed Boston to the 1891 American Association pennant; later a scout and minor league manager.
October 27 –Bill Kuehne, 63, German third baseman for the Columbus Buckeyes, Pittsburgh Alleghenys & Burghers, Columbus Solons, Louisville Colonels, St. Louis Browns, and Cincinnati Reds during the 19th century.
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