1929 Major League Baseball season
# 1929 Major League Baseball season

The 1929 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 16 to October 14, 1929. The Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Athletics were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Athletics then defeated the Cubs in the World Series, four games to one.

Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run this season on August 11 at Cleveland. Game 4 of the World Series featured a historic 10-run rally by the Athletics, nicknamed "The Mack Attack," after the team's manager, Connie Mack.

This was the last of eight seasons that "League Awards", a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), were issued. Only a National League award was given in 1929.

## Schedule

Each team played 154 regular season games, which were all played within the team's respective league. With this schedule, 22 games were played with each team of the same league. This format had started in the 1920 season and lasted until 1961 (1962 in the National league).

## Awards and honors

* League Award
   * Rogers Hornsby, Chicago Cubs, 2B

## Statistical leaders

| | American League | | National League |
| - | - | - | - |
| Type | Name | Stat | Name | Stat |
| AVG | Lew Fonseca, CLE | .369 | Lefty O'Doul, PHP | .398 |
| HR | Babe Ruth, NYY | 46 | Chuck Klein, PHP | 43 |
| RBI | Al Simmons, PHA | 157 | Hack Wilson, CHC | 159 |
| Wins | George Earnshaw, PHA | 24 | Pat Malone, CHC | 22 |
| ERA | Lefty Grove, PHA | 2.81 | Bill Walker, NYG | 3.09 |
| Ks | Lefty Grove, PHA | 170 | Pat Malone, CHC | 166 |

## Postseason

### Bracket

| World Series | World Series | World Series |
| - | - | - |
| AL | Philadelphia Athletics | 4 |
| NL | Chicago Cubs | 1 |

## Managers

### American League

| Team | Manager | Comments |
| - | - | - |
| Boston Red Sox | Bill Carrigan | |
| Chicago White Sox | Lena Blackburne | |
| Cleveland Indians | Roger Peckinpaugh | Finished 3rd |
| Detroit Tigers | Bucky Harris | |
| New York Yankees | Miller Huggins Art Fletcher | Finished 2nd |
| Philadelphia Athletics | Connie Mack | World Series Champions |
| St. Louis Browns | Dan Howley | |
| Washington Senators | Walter Johnson | |

### National League

| Team | Manager | Comments |
| - | - | - |
| Boston Braves | Emil Fuchs | |
| Brooklyn Robins | Wilbert Robinson | |
| Chicago Cubs | Joe McCarthy | NL pennant winners |
| Cincinnati Reds | Jack Hendricks | |
| New York Giants | John McGraw | Finished 3rd |
| Philadelphia Phillies | Burt Shotton | |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | Jewel Ens | Finished 2nd |
| St. Louis Cardinals | Billy Southworth, Gabby Street and Bill McKechnie | |

## Home field attendance

| Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chicago Cubs | 98 | 7.7% | 1,485,166 | 29.9% | 19,041 |
| New York Yankees | 88 | -12.9% | 960,148 | -10.4% | 12,469 |
| Detroit Tigers | 70 | 2.9% | 869,318 | 83.3% | 11,290 |
| New York Giants | 84 | -9.7% | 868,806 | -5.2% | 11,283 |
| Philadelphia Athletics | 104 | 6.1% | 839,176 | 21.7% | 11,340 |
| Brooklyn Robins | 70 | -9.1% | 731,886 | 10.1% | 9,505 |
| Cleveland Indians | 81 | 30.6% | 536,210 | 42.6% | 7,055 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 88 | 3.5% | 491,377 | -0.7% | 6,465 |
| Chicago White Sox | 59 | -18.1% | 426,795 | -13.6% | 5,616 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 78 | -17.9% | 399,887 | -47.5% | 5,193 |
| Boston Red Sox | 58 | 1.8% | 394,620 | -0.6% | 5,059 |
| Boston Braves | 56 | 12.0% | 372,351 | 64.0% | 4,836 |
| Washington Senators | 71 | -5.3% | 355,506 | -6.1% | 4,558 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 66 | -15.4% | 295,040 | -39.8% | 3,783 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 71 | 65.1% | 281,200 | 54.4% | 3,700 |
| St. Louis Browns | 79 | -3.7% | 280,697 | -17.3% | 3,645 |

## Key events

* Babe Ruth: On August 11, Babe Ruth became the first player to hit 500 home runs.
* Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago Cubs: First season since 1912 that both pennant winners won by more than 10 games.
* Philadelphia Athletics: On October 12, during Game 4 of the World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics scored ten runs in the seventh inning to come back from an 8–0 deficit. This was soon dubbed "The Mack Attack," after long-time manager Connie Mack. He commented that it was "The greatest thrill [he] had in 29 years of managing." At the time, this was a record.

## Deaths

* Miller Huggins, the Yankees manager, died of blood poisoning on September 25.
