1955

1955 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1955.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Yomiuri Giants (CL) over the Nankai Hawks (PL), 4 - 3 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Yomiuri Giants (Details)
    • Pacific League: Nankai Hawks (Details)
• Claxton Shield: New South Wales

Europe

• Baseball-Bundesliga: Frankfurt Juniors
• Hoofdklasse Honkbal: OVVO Amsterdam
• Serie A1: Lazio

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Brooklyn Dodgers (NL) over the New York Yankees (AL), 4 - 3 (Details)
    • American League: New York Yankees (Details)
    • National League: Brooklyn Dodgers (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • Junior World Series: Minneapolis Millers (AA) over the Rochester Red Wings (IL), 4 - 3 (Details)
  • Alabama-Florida League: Panama City Fliers
  • American Association: Minneapolis Millers (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Salem Rebels / Johnson City Cardinals
  • Arizona-Mexico League: Cananea Mineros
  • Big State League: Corpus Christi Clippers
  • California League: Fresno Cardinals
  • Carolina League: Danville Leafs
  • Cotton States League: Monroe Sports
  • Eastern League: Allentown Cardinals
  • Evangeline League: Lafayette Oilers
  • Florida State League: Orlando C.B.s
  • Georgia State League: Douglas Trojans
  • Georgia-Florida League: Brunswick Pirates
  • International League: Rochester Red Wings (Details)
  • Kitty League: Paducah Chiefs
  • Longhorn League: San Angelo Colts
  • Mississippi-Ohio Valley League: Dubuque Packers
  • Northern League: St. Cloud Rox
  • Northwest League: Eugene Emeralds
  • Pacific Coast League: Seattle Rainiers (Details)
  • Piedmont League: Newport News Dodgers
  • Pioneer League: Magic Valley Cowboys
  • PONY League: Hamilton Cardinals
  • Provincial League: Quebec Braves
  • Sooner State League: Lawton Braves
  • South Atlantic League: Augusta Tigers
  • Southern Association: Mobile Bears
  • Texas League: Shreveport Sports
  • Three-I League: Keokuk Kernels
  • Tri-State League: Spartanburg Peaches
  • West Texas-New Mexico League: Pampa Oilers
  • Western League: Wichita Indians

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Tigres Capitalinos defeated the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo in the finals, 2 - 0

• Negro Leagues
  • East-West Game: The team representing the West defeated the team representing the East by a score of 2 - 0 at Comiskey Park (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Caracas, Venezuela; Cangrejeros de Santurce (Puerto Rico) (Details)
  • Cuban Winter League: Almendares
  • Panamanian League: Carta Vieja
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Cangrejeros de Santurce
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Navegantes del Magallanes
• Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: the league moved from a summer season to a winter season
• Mexican Pacific Coast League: Mazatlán

Amateur

• College World Series (National Collegiate Athletic Association): Wake Forest University defeated Western Michigan College in the best-of-three finals, 7 - 6 (Details)
• Community College League of California: West Contra Costa College beat Orange Coast College in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Boeing Bombers (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Meiji University defeated the Nihon University in the final, 1 - 0 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Naniwa Shogyo High School (Osaka) defeat Kiryu High School (Gumma), 4 - 3 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Yokkaichi High School (Mie) defeat Sakaide Commercial High School (Kagawa), 4 - 1 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Morrisville (Morrisville, PA) defeat Delaware Township (Merchantville, NJ), 4 - 3 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Asian Championship in Manila, The Philippines (Details)
  • Japan (Gold); Chinese Taipei (Silver); South Korea (Bronze)
• European Championship in Barcelona, Spain (Details)
  • Spain (Gold); Belgium (Silver); Germany (Bronze)
• Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico (Details)
  • Dominican Republic (Gold); United States (Silver); Venezuela (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• A Day in the Bleachers, by Arnold Hano
• Fear Strikes Out, by Jim Piersall and Al Hirshberg
• The Hot Stove League, by Lee Allen
• Man on Spikes, by Eliot Asinof
• My Own Particular Screwball, by Al Schacht

Song

• Heart, by Gwen Verdon
• Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song), by The Treniers
• Whatever Lola Wants, by Gwen Verdon

Film

• Strategic Air Command

Births

Further information: Births in 1955

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1955

Further Reading

• Chris Lamb: Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2022. ISBN 978-1-4962-1945-9
• Brian Murphy: "Why we're still talking about this Little League game from 1955", mlb.com, August 18, 2022. [1]