The following are the baseball events of the year 1921 throughout the world.
Years in baseball |
1921 in sports |
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American League | National League | Negro National League | ||||
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Stat | Player | Total | Player | Total | Player | Total |
AVG | Harry Heilmann (DET) | .394 | Rogers Hornsby (SLC) | .397 | Oscar Charleston1 (SLG) | .433 |
HR | Babe Ruth (NYY) | 59 | George Kelly (NYG) | 23 | Oscar Charleston1 (SLG) | 15 |
RBI | Babe Ruth (NYY) | 168 | Rogers Hornsby (SLC) | 126 | Oscar Charleston1 (SLG) | 91 |
Wins | Carl Mays (NYY) Urban Shocker (SLB) |
27 | Wilbur Cooper (PIT) Burleigh Grimes (BKN) |
22 | Dave Brown (CAG) Bill Drake (SLG) |
17 |
ERA | Red Faber (CWS) | 2.48 | Bill Doak (SLC) | 2.59 | Bullet Rogan (KC) | 1.72 |
K | Walter Johnson (WSH) | 143 | Burleigh Grimes (BKN) | 136 | Bill Holland (DES/CAG) | 140 |
1 Negro National League Triple Crown batting winner
American League final standings[edit]
National League final standings[edit]
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All Negro leagues standings below are per Seamheads.[1]
This was the second overall season of the first Negro National League. Chicago repeated as pennant champion.[2]
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Locations of teams for the 1921 Negro National League season
![]() Traveling team: Chicago Giants
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A loose confederation of teams were gathered in the West which were not in the Negro National League. These teams did not organize a formal league.
vs. All Teams | |||||
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Western Independent Clubs | W | L | T | Pct. | GB |
Cleveland Tate Stars | 21 | 24 | 1 | .467 | 1 |
Homestead Grays | 3 | 4 | 1 | .389 | — |
Pittsburgh Keystones | 12 | 18 | 2 | .406 | 2½ |
A loose confederation of teams were gathered in the East to compete with the West, however East teams did not organize a formal league as the West did.
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Eastern Independent Clubs | W | L | T | Pct. | GB |
Hilldale Club | 28 | 18 | 1 | .606 | — |
Atlantic City Bacharach Giants | 44 | 36 | 2 | .549 | 1 |
New York Lincoln Giants | 12 | 10 | 0 | .545 | 4 |
Cuban Stars (East) | 10 | 9 | 0 | .526 | 4½ |
Brooklyn Royal Giants | 5 | 8 | 0 | .385 | 6½ |
Baltimore Black Sox | 4 | 7 | 0 | .364 | 6½ |
All Cubans | 4 | 12 | 0 | .250 | 9 |
Chicago, the best team of the "West" and Hilldale, the best team of the "East Coast", engaged in a "postseason series" that was played over eleven days in three states (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey). It was the first postseason series between two Negro league teams in eight years and it would be the first of six held in the 1920s. Hilldale won three games to Chicago winning two while Game 4 ended in tie.[3]