1926 Major League Baseball season
# 1926 Major League Baseball season

The 1926 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 13 to October 10, 1926. The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Cardinals then defeated the Yankees in the World Series, four games to three.

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

## Awards and honors

* League Award
   * George Burns, Cleveland Indians, 1B
   * Bob O'Farrell, St. Louis Cardinals, C

## Statistical leaders

| | American League | American League | National League |
| - | - | - | - |
| Type | Name | Stat | Name | Stat |
| AVG | Heinie Manush DET | .378 | Bubbles Hargrave CIN | .353 |
| HR | Babe Ruth NYY | 47 | Hack Wilson CHC | 21 |
| RBI | Babe Ruth NYY | 146 | Jim Bottomley SLC | 120 |
| Wins | George Uhle CLE | 27 | Ray Kremer PIT Lee Meadows PIT Flint Rhem SLC Pete Donohue CIN | 20 |
| ERA | Lefty Grove PHA | 2.51 | Ray Kremer PIT | 2.61 |
| SO | Lefty Grove PHA | 194 | Dazzy Vance BKN | 140 |
| SV | Firpo Marberry WSH | 22 | Chick Davies NYG | 6 |
| SB | Johnny Mostil CHW | 35 | Kiki Cuyler PIT | 35 |

## Postseason

### Bracket

| World Series | World Series | World Series |
| - | - | - |
| AL | New York Yankees | 3 |
| NL | St. Louis Cardinals | 4 |

## Managers

### American League

| Team | Manager | Comments |
| - | - | - |
| Boston Red Sox | Lee Fohl | |
| Chicago White Sox | Eddie Collins | |
| Cleveland Indians | Tris Speaker | Finished 2nd |
| Detroit Tigers | Ty Cobb | |
| New York Yankees | Miller Huggins | Won AL pennant |
| Philadelphia Athletics | Connie Mack | Finished 3rd |
| St. Louis Browns | George Sisler | |
| Washington Senators | Bucky Harris | |

### National League

| Team | Manager | Comments |
| - | - | - |
| Boston Braves | Dave Bancroft | |
| Brooklyn Robins | Wilbert Robinson | |
| Chicago Cubs | Joe McCarthy | |
| Cincinnati Reds | Jack Hendricks | Finished 2nd |
| New York Giants | John McGraw | |
| Philadelphia Phillies | Art Fletcher | |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | Bill McKechnie | Finished 3rd |
| St. Louis Cardinals | Rogers Hornsby | Won 1st NL pennant and World Series |

## Home field attendance

| Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New York Yankees | 91 | 31.9% | 1,027,675 | 47.4% | 13,702 |
| Chicago Cubs | 82 | 20.6% | 885,063 | 42.2% | 11,347 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 84 | -11.6% | 798,542 | -0.7% | 10,108 |
| Philadelphia Athletics | 83 | -5.7% | 714,508 | -17.8% | 10,063 |
| Detroit Tigers | 79 | -2.5% | 711,914 | -13.3% | 8,789 |
| Chicago White Sox | 81 | 2.5% | 710,339 | -14.6% | 8,992 |
| New York Giants | 74 | -14.0% | 700,362 | -10.1% | 9,215 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 87 | 8.8% | 672,987 | 44.8% | 8,740 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 89 | 15.6% | 668,428 | 65.1% | 8,461 |
| Brooklyn Robins | 71 | 4.4% | 650,819 | -1.3% | 8,563 |
| Cleveland Indians | 88 | 25.7% | 627,426 | 49.7% | 7,843 |
| Washington Senators | 81 | -15.6% | 551,580 | -32.5% | 7,454 |
| Boston Braves | 66 | -5.7% | 303,598 | -3.2% | 3,943 |
| Boston Red Sox | 46 | -2.1% | 285,155 | 6.5% | 3,703 |
| St. Louis Browns | 62 | -24.4% | 283,986 | -38.7% | 3,595 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 58 | -14.7% | 240,600 | -21.1% | 3,166 |

## Notable events

* August 26 - Dutch Levsen of the Cleveland Indians becomes the last pitcher to win both games of a doubleheader, hurling two 9 inning games back to back, winning 6-1 and 5–1. Levsen is also the last pitcher to throw two nine-inning complete games on the same day.
