The following are the baseball events of the year 1930 throughout the world.
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Stat | Player | Total | Player | Total | Player | Total |
AVG | Al Simmons (PHA) | .381 | Bill Terry (NYG) | .401 | Willie Wells3 (SLS) | .411 |
HR | Babe Ruth (NYY) | 49 | Hack Wilson (CHC) | 56 | Willie Wells3 (SLS) | 17 |
RBI | Lou Gehrig (NYY) | 173 | Hack Wilson2 (CHC) | 191 | Willie Wells3 (SLS) | 114 |
Wins | Lefty Grove1 (PHA) | 28 | Ray Kremer (PIT) Pat Malone (CHC) |
20 | Logan Hensley (SLS) | 19 |
ERA | Lefty Grove1 (PHA) | 2.54 | Dazzy Vance (BKN) | 2.61 | Ted Radcliffe (SLS) | 2.58 |
K | Lefty Grove1 (PHA) | 209 | Bill Hallahan (SLC) | 177 | Bill Foster (CAG) | 133 |
1 American League Triple Crown pitching winner
2 Single season record for RBIs
3 Negro National League Triple Crown batting winner
American League final standings edit
National League final standings edit
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This was the eleventh of twelve seasons of the original Negro National League. This was the sixth split-season and fifth season in which a playoff was held to determine the pennant, for which the first half leader would be matched against the second half winner. St. Louis won the first half while Detroit won the second half. As such, they met for a best-of-seven Championship Series. The playoff was held September 13–22 and would see St. Louis would win the series in seven games to win their second pennant, their second ever in three years.[1]
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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.[2]
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Club | Wins | Losses | Ties | Win % | GB |
Homestead Grays | 45 | 15 | 1 | .746 | — |
New York Lincoln Giants | 41 | 14 | 1 | .741 | 1½ |
Baltimore Black Sox | 24 | 20 | 2 | .543 | 13 |
Stars of Cuba | 5 | 13 | 0 | .278 | 19 |
Hilldale Club | 8 | 30 | 1 | .218 | 26 |
Brooklyn Royal Giants | 2 | 11 | 0 | .154 | 19½ |
By 1930, there had been no organized league for East Coast baseball in the Negro leagues (owing to the dissolution of the Eastern Colored League in 1928 and American Negro League in 1929). The remaining teams from the ANL and ECL played independent ball together, but they also played against teams from the Midwest. As such, the Homestead Grays challenged two teams from the NNL two distinct Series that were held over various stadiums and dates. The Grays challenged the St. Louis Stars in St. Louis on April 19 and April 22 and won twice. They challenged the Detroit Stars to four games held from August 21 to August 28 (two in Akron and two in Detroit), which Homestead won three. On August 30-September 3, they challenged the Stars to five games (all in St. Louis), and the Stars won four of five. At any rate, the independent East teams then had an "East Coast Championship Series", which matched the Grays and the New York Lincoln Giants (in that same month, the Negro National League had their Championship Series), with ten games spread out over Pittsburgh, New York, and Philadelphia.[3]