[Big Six]

October 24, 1937

NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS

NORTHERN        W   L    PCT  GB
New York G      92  62  .597  --
Pittsburgh      86  68  .558   6
New York Y      82  72  .532  10
Philadelphia    82  72  .532  10
Boston          72  82  .468  20
Brooklyn        68  86  .442  24

MID-EAST        W   L    PCT  GB
Detroit         86  68  .558  --
Washington      83  71  .538   3
Cleveland       72  82  .468  14
Baltimore       70  84  .455  16
Milwaukee       69  85  .448  17
Cincinnati      62  92  .403  24


AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS

CONTINENTAL     W   L    PCT  GB
Portland       103  51  .669  --
Chicago W       83  71  .539  20
Chicago C       78  76  .506  25
Kansas City     77  77  .500  26
Seattle         76  78  .494  27
St. Louis       71  83  .461  32

PACIFIC         W   L    PCT  GB
Hollywood       85  70  .548  --
San Francisco   84  71  .542   1
San Diego       80  74  .519   4.5
Sacramento      78  76  .506   6.5
Los Angeles     55  99  .357  29.5
Oakland         55  99  .357  29.5

• For the second straight season, the Portland Beavers won over 100 games, but failed to win the World Series.
  
  
• Beavers fans could take pride in the fact that their oustanding young catcher, Josh Gibson, won the American League Outstanding Batter Award. The 25-year-old slugger hit .360 with 37 homers and 139 RBI, finishing no worse than third in any Triple Crown category.
  
  
• Gibson's teammate, Chuck Klein, produced another superb season, hitting .350 with 41 HR and an American League-best 140 RBI. As we saw earlier, Beavers OF Roy Weatherly won the batting title, and yet another Beaver, 3B Roy Dandridge, put up outstanding numbers from the leadoff spot.
  
  
• Gene Schott of the Kansas City Athletics tied for the major league lead with 22 victories, and won the American League's Outstanding Pitcher prize. Schott, who posted a 2.70 ERA, is one of the league's best young hurlers.
  
  
• Like Schott, Pittsburgh's Johnny Broaca won 22 games, and he was recently named the National League's Outstanding Pitcher for 1937. Broaca pitched to a 2.57 ERA.
  
  
• Mike Crawford put the finishing touches on his unforgettable '37 season by capturing the National League ERA crown. Crawford, who turned 41 during the season, posted a 2.24 figure that was the best in baseball, just a little lower than the 2.30 recorded by Hollywood's Jesse Cooke.
  
  
• There's a great battle for the all-time lead in saves that is largely overlooked by all but the most stat-oriented fans. Seattle's long-time relief ace, Brennan Thomas, currently leads Oakland's venerable Ken Smith, 219-217. Brooklyn's Mike MacMoran is the only other pitcher to record 200 career saves; he has 203 to his credit.
  
  
• Nobody was surprised when Yankees first baseman Buck Leonard walked away with the National League's Outstanding Batter Award. Buck hit .367 with 50 homers and 151 RBI, and won the OBA for the fourth time in the last five years. He joins Lou Gehrig as the only National Leaguers to have won four OBAs; Chuck Klein has won the AL award six times.
  
  
• It took long enough, but the Cubs' Hal Trosky finally got a chance to show what he could do at the big league level, and he was good enough to win the American League Rookie of the Year Award. Trosky, 24, hit .323-34-136.
  
  
• The National League's top rookie was Jimmy Brown of the Pirates. The 27-year-old Brown, who didn't play pro ball until last year, hit .341 with seven homers and 77 RBI, and scored 109 runs.