| 1937 MLB season | |
| League: | American League (AL) National League (NL) |
| Sport: | Baseball |
| Duration: | Regular season:World Series: |
| No Of Games: | 154 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 (8 per league) |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Mvp: | AL |
| Mvp Link: | Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award |
| Conf1: | AL |
| Conf1 Champ: | New York Yankees |
| Conf1 Runner-Up: | Detroit Tigers |
| Conf2: | NL |
| Conf2 Champ: | New York Giants |
| Conf2 Runner-Up: | Chicago Cubs |
| Finals: | World Series |
| Finals Link: | 1937 World Series |
| Seasonslist: | List of MLB seasons |
| Seasonslistnames: | MLB |
| Prevseason Link: | 1936 Major League Baseball season |
| Prevseason Year: | 1936 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1938 Major League Baseball season |
| Nextseason Year: | 1938 |
The 1937 major league baseball season began on April 19, 1937. The regular season ended on October 3, with the New York Giants and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 34th World Series on October 6 and ended with Game 5 on October 10. In the fifth iteration of this World Series matchup (and a rematch of the previous year), the Yankees defeated the Giants, four games to one.
The fifth Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 7, hosted by the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., with the American League winning, 8–3.
See also: Major League Baseball schedule. The 1937 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place since the season (except for) and would be used until in the American League and in the National League.
Opening Day, April 19, featured four teams across both leagues play. The final day of the regular season was on October 3 and featured all sixteen teams, the first since . The World Series took place between October 6 and October 10.
An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at
| Team | Former Manager | New Manager | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Dodgers | Casey Stengel | Burleigh Grimes | |
| Detroit Tigers | Del Baker | Mickey Cochrane |
| Total | |||
| Charlie Gehringer (DET) | .371 | ||
| Joe DiMaggio (NYY) | 46 | ||
| Hank Greenberg (DET) | 184 | ||
| Joe DiMaggio (NYY) | 151 | ||
| Beau Bell (SLB) | 218 | ||
| Ben Chapman (BRS/WSH) Billy Werber (PHA) | 35 |
| Total | |||
| Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) | 21 | ||
| Harry Kelley (PHA) | 21 | ||
| Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) | 2.33 | ||
| Lefty Gomez1 (NYY) | 194 | ||
| Wes Ferrell (WSH/BRS) | 281.0 | ||
| Clint Brown (CWS) | 18 |
| Total | |||
| Joe Medwick2 (SLC) | .374 | ||
| Joe Medwick2 (SLC) Mel Ott (NYG) | 31 | ||
| Joe Medwick2 (SLC) | 154 | ||
| Joe Medwick (SLC) | 111 | ||
| Joe Medwick (SLC) | 237 | ||
| Augie Galan (CHC) | 23 |
| Total | |||
| Carl Hubbell (NYG) | 22 | ||
| Wayne LaMaster (PHP) | 19 | ||
| Jim Turner (BSB) | 2.38 | ||
| Carl Hubbell (NYG) | 159 | ||
| Claude Passeau (PHP) | 292.1 | ||
| Mace Brown (PIT) Cliff Melton (NYG) | 7 |
| Team name | Wins | Home attendance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Tigers[1] | 89 | 7.2% | 1,072,276 | 22.4% | 13,926 | |
| New York Yankees[2] | 102 | 0.0% | 998,148 | 2.2% | 12,635 | |
| New York Giants[3] | 95 | 3.3% | 926,887 | 10.6% | 12,358 | |
| Chicago Cubs[4] | 93 | 6.9% | 895,020 | 28.0% | 11,475 | |
| Chicago White Sox[5] | 86 | 6.2% | 589,245 | 33.7% | 7,653 | |
| Cleveland Indians[6] | 83 | 3.8% | 564,849 | 12.9% | 7,242 | |
| Boston Red Sox[7] | 80 | 8.1% | 559,659 | -10.7% | 7,563 | |
| Brooklyn Dodgers[8] | 62 | -7.5% | 482,481 | -1.5% | 6,348 | |
| Pittsburgh Pirates[9] | 86 | 2.4% | 459,679 | 23.4% | 5,893 | |
| St. Louis Cardinals[10] | 81 | -6.9% | 430,811 | -3.9% | 5,385 | |
| Philadelphia Athletics[11] | 54 | 1.9% | 430,738 | 51.0% | 5,452 | |
| Cincinnati Reds[12] | 56 | -24.3% | 411,221 | -11.8% | 5,140 | |
| Washington Senators[13] | 73 | -11.0% | 397,799 | 4.8% | 4,972 | |
| Boston Bees[14] | 79 | 11.3% | 385,339 | 13.1% | 5,070 | |
| Philadelphia Phillies[15] | 61 | 13.0% | 212,790 | -14.6% | 2,876 | |
| St. Louis Browns[16] | 46 | -19.3% | 123,121 | 32.0% | 1,578 |