1939 Season

The 1939 season in brief

No 1939 club finished with a better record than the New York Yankees at 106-45. Nobody in 1939 fared worse than the Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers (1-7). In the 1939 standings, Negro National League honors went to the Homestead Grays, whose 32-18 beat the Newark Eagles's 35-25, the Cincinnati Reds ran away with the National League at 97-57, the Kansas City Monarchs won the Negro American League going away, 38-22 against 32-31 for the Chicago American Giants, and the New York Yankees owned the American League with a 106-45 mark, the Boston Red Sox next at 89-62. Negro American League and Negro National League standings appear here too, as MLB counts those 1939 Negro Leagues seasons as major league. 1939's champions were the New York Yankees, World Series winners against the Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 0. Earlier rounds sent through the Kansas City Monarchs over the St. Louis Stars in the series the bracket labels ALC (4-1), the Baltimore Elite Giants over the Homestead Grays in the series the bracket labels NLC (3-1), the Baltimore Elite Giants over the Newark Eagles in the series the bracket labels NLP1 (3-1), and the Homestead Grays over the Philadelphia Stars in the series the bracket labels NLP2 (3-2). On the home run tile, Jimmie Foxx sat first with 35, ahead of Hank Greenberg with 33. Beyond the top five in each tile, the 1939 leaders page ranks the whole 1939 field.