1918

1918 in baseball
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American League
National League
Negro Leagues
<< 1917 1919 >>

Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1918.

Club competitions

Professional

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Boston Red Sox (AL) over the Chicago Cubs (NL), 4 - 2 (Details)
    • American League: Boston Red Sox (Details)
    • National League: Chicago Cubs (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • American Association: Kansas City Blues
  • Blue Ridge League: Cumberland Colts
  • Eastern League: New London Planters
  • International League: Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Pacific Coast International League: Seattle Giants
  • Pacific Coast League: Los Angeles Angels over Vernon Tigers, 5-2 - the season was suspended on July 14 due to wartime travel restrictions
  • Southern League: New Orleans Pelicans
  • Texas League: Dallas Submarines
  • Virginia League: Richmond Colts
  • Western League: Wichita Jobbers

Amateur

• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Championship: the tournament was canceled due to the Rice Riots (Details)

Births

Further information: Births in 1918

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1918

Further Reading

• Skip Desjardin: September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series, Regnery History, Washington, DC, 2018. ISBN 978-1-62157-620-4
• Jim Leeke: "The Delaware River Shipbuilding League, 1918", in Morris Levin, ed.: From Swampoodle to South Philly: Baseball in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, The National Pastime, SABR, 2013, pp. 58-63.
• Jim Leeke: Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2015. ISBN 978-0-7864-7870-5
• Tom Ruane: "A Retro-Review of the 1910s (the 1918 edition)", Retrosheet.org [1]