1943 Season

The 1943 season in brief

No 1943 club finished with a better record than the Homestead Grays at 26-7. The New York Black Yankees finished at the bottom of the 1943 table at 2-21. Group by group, the Negro American League ended with the Kansas City Monarchs and the Cleveland Buckeyes level at 30-19, the Kansas City Monarchs ranked first, nobody in the Negro National League came near the Homestead Grays's 26-7, the American League was not close, the New York Yankees finishing 98-56 to the Washington Senators's 84-69, and the Cincinnati Reds (87-67) finished a distant second to the St. Louis Cardinals (105-49) in the National League. Negro American League and Negro National League standings appear here too, as MLB counts those 1943 Negro Leagues seasons as major league. The New York Yankees won the World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1. Earlier rounds sent through the Birmingham Black Barons over the Chicago American Giants in the series the bracket labels ALC (3-2) and the Homestead Grays over the Birmingham Black Barons in the series the bracket labels NWS (4-3). On the home run tile, Rudy York sat first with 34, ahead of Charlie Keller with 31. Stan Musial's .357 is the best average on the qualified board, with Billy Herman next at .330. Every 1943 hitter and pitcher past the display floor is on the 1943 leaders page.