- 1907 in baseball
Year in baseball
this year = 1907Champions
*World Series:
Chicago Cubs overDetroit Tigers (4-0-1)Awards and honors
tatistical Leaders
Major League Baseball final standings
American League final standings
National League final standings
Events
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Tigres del Licey is founded in theDominican Republic
*April 11 - Boston's American League team plays its first game with the name Red Sox. They beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 8-4, atColumbia Park .
*May 8 -Jeff Pfeffer tosses ano-hitter as theBoston Doves defeat theCincinnati Reds , 6-0.
*August 2 -Walter Johnson made his major league debut with the Washington Senators and lost 3-2 to theDetroit Tigers . The first hit he yielded was a bunt single byTy Cobb .
*August 11 - In the second game of adouble-header , shortened by agreement,Ed Karger of theSt. Louis Cardinals pitched a seven-inningperfect game , beating the Boston Braves, 4-0.
*September 20 - One week after recording a shutout in his major league debut,Pittsburgh Pirates pitcherNick Maddox pitches ano-hitter against theBrooklyn Superbas in a 2-1 Pirates win.
*October 12 - In Game 5 of the World Series theChicago Cubs would win their firstWorld Championship by defeating theDetroit Tigers , 2-0. The Cubs would take the final four games of the series after Game 1 was declared atie due to darkness with the score knotted at 3-3 in the 12th inning.Births
January-April
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January 2 -Red Kress
*January 14 -Chet Brewer
*January 16 -Buck Jordan
*January 23 -Bobby Burke
*February 27 -Hilton Smith
*March 2 -Jack Knott
*March 15 -Lou Fette
*March 20 -Vern Kennedy
*April 2 -Luke Appling
*April 7 -Oral Hildebrand
*April 30 -Jumbo Brown
*April 23 -Dolph Camilli May-August
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May 6 -Ivy Andrews
*May 11 -Rip Sewell
*May 28 -Marv Olson
*June 6 -Bill Dickey
*June 13 -Gene Desautels
*June 23 -Dusty Cooke
*June 24 -Rollie Hemsley
*June 26 -Debs Garms
*June 28 -Joe Cascarella
*July 5 -Bill Byrd
*July 10 -John Michaels
*July 17 - Hank Patterson
*July 27 -Ed Carroll
*August 11 - Jim Galvin
*August 11 -Woody Jensen
*August 11 -Bobo Newsom
*August 11 -Gordon Rhodes
*August 13 - George Susce
*August 17 -Ed Durham
*August 20 -Beau Bell
*August 31 -Ray Berres eptember-December
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September 8 -Buck Leonard
*September 12 -Spud Chandler
*September 15 -Fritz Ostermueller
*September 27 - Walter Murphy
*October 22 -Jimmie Foxx
*November 1 -Larry French
*November 8 -Tony Cuccinello
*November 22 -Dick Bartell
*December 21 -Freddie Muller Deaths
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March 28 -Chick Stahl , 34, outfielder for Boston teams in the NL and AL, and manager of the Red Sox since August, who batted .305 lifetime; had three triples in 1903 World Series, led AL in triples in 1904
*April 21 -Nat Hicks , 62,New York Mutuals catcher for 4 seasons.
*June 20 -Ezra Sutton , 56, third baseman for Boston who led NL in hits in 1884, was fifth player to collect 1000 hits; batted .300 three times in National Association and four times in NL
*September 23 -Charlie Buffinton , 46, pitcher for Boston and Philadelphia teams who won 233 games, including 48 for the 1884 Boston Beaneaters
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