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31 teams in AL, EAS, ECL, NL, NNL · 1231 regular-season games · 1928-04-10 to 1928-09-30 · attendance 9,102,285

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World Series champion

New York Yankees

MVP

Mickey Cochrane AL
Jim Bottomley NL

Postseason

Round	Result	Games
World Series	New York Yankees 4–0 St. Louis Cardinals	4

Standings

AL

#	Team	W	L	Pct	GB	RA	Attendance	Manager
1	New York Yankees	101	53	.656	—	685	1,072,132	Miller Huggins	World Series
2	Philadelphia Athletics	98	55	.641	2.5	615	689,756	Connie Mack
3	St. Louis Browns	82	72	.532	19	742	339,497	Dan Howley
4	Washington Senators	75	79	.487	26	705	378,501	Bucky Harris
5	Chicago White Sox	72	82	.468	29	725	494,152	Ray Schalk, Lena Blackburne
6	Detroit Tigers	68	86	.442	33	804	474,323	George Moriarty
7	Cleveland Indians	62	92	.403	39	830	375,907	Roger Peckinpaugh
8	Boston Red Sox	57	96	.373	43.5	770	396,920	Bill Carrigan

NL

#	Team	W	L	Pct	GB	RA	Attendance	Manager
1	St. Louis Cardinals	95	59	.617	—	636	761,574	Bill McKechnie	Pennant
2	New York Giants	93	61	.604	2	653	916,191	John McGraw
3	Chicago Cubs	91	63	.591	4	615	1,143,740	Joe McCarthy
4	Pittsburgh Pirates	85	67	.559	9	704	495,070	Donie Bush
5	Cincinnati Reds	78	74	.513	16	686	490,490	Jack Hendricks
6	Brooklyn Robins	77	76	.503	17.5	640	664,863	Wilbert Robinson
7	Boston Braves	50	103	.327	44.5	878	227,001	Jack Slattery, Rogers Hornsby
8	Philadelphia Phillies	43	109	.283	51	957	182,168	Burt Shotton

EAS

#	Team	W	L	Pct	GB	RA	Attendance	Manager
1	Hilldale Club	35	28	.556	—	294		Otto Briggs
2	Homestead Grays	11	9	.550	2.5	104		Cum Posey

Eastern Colored League

#	Team	W	L	Pct	GB	RA	Manager
1	Baltimore Black Sox	5	2	.714	—	335	Ben Taylor
2	New York Lincoln Giants	5	2	.714	—	212	John Henry Lloyd
3	Philadelphia Tigers	2	3	.400	2	77	Bill Johnson
4	Cuban Stars East	2	4	.333	2.5	188	José María Fernández
5	Atlantic City Bacharach Giants	2	5	.286	3	304	Dick Lundy

Negro National League (I)

#	Team	W	L	Pct	GB	RA	Manager
1	St. Louis Stars	63	26	.708	—	381	Candy Jim Taylor	Pennant
2	Kansas City Monarchs	50	29	.633	8	294	Bullet Rogan
3	Chicago American Giants	56	37	.602	9	276	Dave Malarcher, George Harney
4	Detroit Stars	53	36	.596	10	445	Bingo DeMoss
5	Birmingham Black Barons	45	54	.455	23	430	Poindexter Williams, Charles Wesley
6	Memphis Red Sox	33	51	.393	27.5	381	Carl Glass
7	Cleveland Tigers	20	59	.253	38	418	Frank Duncan, Harry Jeffries, Sam Crawford
8	Cuban Stars West	13	41	.241	32.5	279	Tinti Molina

Leaders

AL

RBI

AVG

ERA

NL

RBI

AVG

ERA

EAS

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