1932 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1932 throughout the world.
See also: 1932 Major League Baseball seasonMLB Most Valuable Player Award
Jimmie Foxx
January 23 – The trade Hack Wilson to the Brooklyn Dodgers for a minor leaguer and $45,000.
St. Louis Cardinals
February 27 – joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Waite Hoyt
March 14 – The Brooklyn Dodgers trade , Babe Herman and Ernie Lombardi to the Cincinnati Reds for Tony Cuccinello, Joe Stripp and Clyde Sukeforth.
Wally Gilbert
April 11 – The first game of the season goes . Heinie Manush's tenth inning double carries the Washington Senators to a 1–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
extra innings
April 17 – First baseman Bill Terry ties a National League record with 21 putouts in the New York Giants' 6–0 victory over the Boston Braves.
New York Giants
May 12 – of the Chicago White Sox collects his ninth strikeout of the season. But it won't happen again. Selph will go another 89 games without striking out, to set a major league record, hitting a .283 average in 396 at-bats in his second and last season. Selph's record will last until 1958 when another White Sox, Nellie Fox, sets a new mark with 98 consecutive games without striking out.
Carey Selph
May 16 – The defeat the Cleveland Indians, 8–0, for their fourth shut out in a row.
New York Yankees
May 19 – With first place in the on the line, the Washington Senators sweep both games from the New York Yankees to advance to first place by half a game. The Yankees, however, win the following day's game, and both games of the May 21 double header to end the series up 2.5 games. They maintain first place for the rest of the season.
American League
May 20 – The Pirates' hits four doubles, tying a major league record held by many players.
Paul Waner
May 30 – The New York Yankees unveil a plaque dedicated to former manager . It is the first of what will eventually be a large number of plaques and other monuments to Yankee personnel.[4]
Miller Huggins
January 3 –
George Piktuzis
January 15 –
Georges Maranda
January 18 –
Mike Fornieles
January 24 –
Ernie Oravetz
January 1 – , 63, pitcher who played from 1893 through 1896 for the Chicago Colts, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Browns.
Tom Parrott
January 6 – , 62, pitcher for the Brooklyn Grooms between the 1893 and 1894 seasons.
George Sharrott
January 17 – , 42, backup catcher for the 1913 Cincinnati Reds.
Mark Stewart
January 22 – , 71, pitcher for the St. Louis Brown Stockings in the 1882 season.
Bob Hogan
January 27 – , 39, pitcher for the Brooklyn Robins in the 1915 and 1916 seasons.