The following are the baseball events of the year 1920 throughout the world.
Fans line up for hot dogs at Ebbets Field.
Champions
Awards and honors
MLB Statistical Leaders
Major League Baseball final standings
American League final standings
National League final standings
Negro League Baseball final standings
Negro National League final standings
East (independent teams) final standings
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.
- Won-loss records were sporadically reported due to lack of interest by the press mainly in New York.
- Bacharach claimed the pennant, although Hilldale disputed it.
Events
- May 1 - In a kind of game you don't see anymore, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leon Cadore and the Boston Braves' Joe Oeschger pitched 26 innings in a 1-1 tie. A morning rain delayed the start of the game until 3:00 p.m. The Robins scored a run in the top of the fifth, a single by Ivy Olson driving in Ernie Krueger. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the sixth with a double by Walt Cruise and a single by Tony Boeckel. The game went into extra innings. No runs were scored for the rest of the game and it was called off in the 26th inning due to darkness.
- August 16 - Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is struck in the head by a pitch from the Yankees' Carl Mays in a game at the Polo Grounds. He dies twelve hours later from a fractured skull, making it the only fatal field accident in major league history. His death leads to the banning of the spitball.
Births
Deaths
- August 17 - Ray Chapman, 29, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians since 1912 who batted .300 three times, led AL in runs and walks in 1918
- September 11 - Bill Hallman, 53, second baseman, mainly with the Phillies, who batted .300 and scored 100 runs four times each