1941 Season

The 1941 season in brief

The Kansas City Monarchs set the pace in 1941 with a 39-16 record. The weakest record belonged to the Philadelphia Phillies, 43-111. In the standings, the Negro National League ended with the Homestead Grays and the Baltimore Elite Giants level at 26-18, the Homestead Grays ranked first, the St. Louis Cardinals (97-56) chased the Brooklyn Dodgers (100-54) to the end in the National League, the Negro American League was not close, the Kansas City Monarchs finishing 39-16 to the Birmingham Black Barons's 30-20, and nobody in the American League came near the New York Yankees's 101-53. Negro American League and Negro National League standings appear here too, as MLB counts those 1941 Negro Leagues seasons as major league. The New York Yankees won the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 1. Before that, the bracket shows the Homestead Grays over the New York Cubans in the series the bracket labels NLC (3-1). The home run board is topped by Ted Williams at 37, ahead of Dolph Camilli with 34. Ted Williams's .406 is the best average on the qualified board, with Cecil Travis next at .359. Qualification for that 1941 board is 480 plate appearances at 155 team games. The batting tiles keep returning to Ted Williams, first in batting average, OPS, home runs, and runs. Full batting and pitching tables are on the 1941 leaders page.