This article is about the 1951 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1951 in baseball.
Sports season
1951 MLB season
League
Major League Baseball
Sport
Baseball
Duration
April 16 – October 12, 1951
Number of games
154
Number of teams
16
Regular season
Season MVP
AL: Yogi Berra (NYY) NL: Roy Campanella (BKN)
AL champions
New York Yankees
AL runners-up
Cleveland Indians
NL champions
New York Giants
NL runners-up
Brooklyn Dodgers
World Series
Champions
New York Yankees
Runners-up
New York Giants
Finals MVP
Phil Rizzuto (NYY)
MLB seasons
← 1950
1952 →
The 1951 Major League Baseball season opened on April 16 and finished on October 12, 1951. Teams from both leagues played a 154-game regular season schedule. At the end of the regular season, the National League pennant was still undecided, resulting in a three-game playoff between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. After splitting the first two games, the stage was set for a decisive third game, won in dramatic fashion on a walk-off home run from the bat of Giant Bobby Thomson, one of the most famous moments in the history of baseball, commemorated as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" and "The Miracle at Coogan's Bluff". The Giants lost the World Series to defending champion New York Yankees, who were in the midst of a 5-year World Series winning streak.
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