Champions
Major League Baseball
World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4–2) All-Star Game, July 14 at Crosley Field: National League, 5–1
Other champions
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Grand Rapids Chicks
College World Series: Michigan
Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Nankai Hawks (4–2) Little League World Series: Southside, Birmingham, Alabama Winter Leagues 1953 Caribbean Series: Cangrejeros de Santurce Cuban League: Leones del Habana Dominican Republic League: Águilas Cibaeñas Mexican Pacific League: Venados de Mazatlán Panamanian League: Chesterfield Smokers Puerto Rican League: Cangrejeros de Santurce Venezuelan League: Leones del Caracas
Awards and honors
Baseball Hall of Fame
Ed Barrow
Chief Bender
Tom Connolly
Dizzy Dean
Bill Klem
Al Simmons
Bobby Wallace
Harry Wright
MLB Most Valuable Player Award
Al Rosen (unanimous), Cleveland Indians, 3B
Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodgers, C
MLB Rookie of the Year Award
Harvey Kuenn, Detroit Tigers, SS
Jim Gilliam, Brooklyn Dodgers, 2B
The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
Al Rosen, Cleveland Indians
The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award
Bob Porterfield, Washington Senators
Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves
The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
Casey Stengel, New York Yankees
Statistical leaders
Major league baseball final standings
American League final standings
National League final standings
Events
January
January 21 – The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean and former Philadelphia Athletics slugger Al Simmons.
February
February – Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch purchases the St. Louis Cardinals franchise, an ownership that would last until the start of , when William DeWitt, Jr. took over. Sportsman's Park is renamed Busch Stadium.
March
March 13 – Boston Braves owner, Lou Perini, announced he was moving the team to Milwaukee, where the Braves had their top farm club, in time for the 1953 season. March 28 – Jim Thorpe, famed American Indian athlete considered by many as the greatest athlete in recorded history, died in Lomita, California at the age of 64. A native of Prague, Oklahoma, Thorpe played six seasons of Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919, mostly for the New York Giants, in addition to his Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon competition, while playing and coaching for a long time in the National Football League.
April
April 13 – In Cincinnati over 30,000 see the Milwaukee Braves win their first game, 2–0, behind the pitching of Max Surkont April 17 – New York Yankees Mickey Mantle hit the longest home run in Griffith Stadium history, a 565-feet shot off Washington Senators Chuck Stobbs. The Yankees win, 7–3. April 29 – Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves hits the first home run ever hit over the center field wall of the Polo Grounds. The shot, measured 475 feet, comes off Jim Hearn in the third inning of the Braves' 3–1 victory over the New York Giants. April 30 – The Little-Bigger League changes its name to the Babe Ruth League.
May
May 6 – At Sportsman's Park, Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns no-hits the Philadelphia Athletics, 6–0, in his very first Major League start. Holloman will only post two more victories in his Major League career, in which his final appearance was on July 19 of this season.