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1941 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1941
misc	World Series champions
American League champions
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City, New York
record
league_place	1st
owners	Estate of Jacob Ruppert
general_managers	Ed Barrow
managers	Joe McCarthy

American League champions

The 1941 New York Yankees season was the 39th season for the team. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. The team finished with a record of 101–53, winning their 12th pennant, finishing 17 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. In the World Series, they beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in 5 games.

Books and songs have been written about the 1941 season, the last before the United States became drawn into World War II. Yankees' center fielder Joe DiMaggio captured the nation's fancy with his lengthy hitting streak that extended through 56 games before finally being stopped. A big-band style song called Joltin' Joe DiMaggio was recorded by the Les Brown orchestra and became a hit the following year.

Additionally, DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich and Charlie Keller became the only outfield trio in major league history to each hit 30 home runs in a season.

Regular season

May 15, 1941: In a game against the Chicago White Sox, Joe DiMaggio began his major league record 56-game hitting streak with a hit off Sox pitcher Eddie Smith.

During the hitting streak, DiMaggio had a batting average of .408, hit 15 home runs, and accumulated 55 runs batted in. After the streak ended, DiMaggio began a 16-game hitting streak. DiMaggio would hit safely in 72 of 73 games, another record.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1941 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	109	348	99	.284	7	71
1B	124	524	125	.239	3	36
2B	156	588	162	.276	24	87
3B	136	561	148	.264	8	42
SS	133	515	158	.307	3	46
OF	139	541	193	.357	30	125
OF	144	538	149	.277	31	85
OF	140	507	151	.298	33	122

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
67	209	60	.287	1	36
56	174	37	.213	1	26
70	164	36	.220	6	25
50	148	33	.223	1	22
36	73	19	.260	0	4
17	40	10	.250	1	4
1	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
28	209.2	14	10	3.09	105
23	185.2	15	6	3.54	60
28	163.2	10	4	3.19	60
22	159.0	9	5	3.57	71
23	156.1	15	5	3.74	76
1	2.0	0	1	13.50	1

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
26	141.0	9	7	4.09	77
23	126.2	10	6	2.98	43
17	80.0	4	2	5.06	18

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
35	8	3	15	1.98	29
27	5	1	2	2.87	28
22	3	3	0	5.63	21

1941 World Series

Main article: 1941 World Series

AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL Brooklyn Dodgers (1)

	Game		Score		Date		Location		Attendance
1
2
3
4
5

Awards and honors

Joe DiMaggio, AL MVP
Joe DiMaggio, Associated Press Athlete of the Year

Farm system

References

''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p.5, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN. 978-1-55365-507-7
[http://www.nndb.com/honors/906/000166408/ Associated Press Athlete of the Year (male)]
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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