1942 in sports

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See also: 1941 in sports, other events of 1942, 1943 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

Many sporting events did not take place because of World War II.

Contents 1 Baseball 2 Basketball 3 American Football 4 Football (Australian Rules) 5 Ice Hockey 6 Births 7 Deaths

Baseball

• January 4: Hall of Fame election: Rogers Hornsby is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, getting 78 percent of the vote. Further selections of 19th century players are delayed.

• January 15: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives baseball the go-ahead to play despite World War II. FDR encourages more night baseball so that war workers may attend. Ironically, the Cubs, who had signed contracts to install lights at Wrigley Field, drop their plans because of the military need for the material. There will be no lights at Wrigley for 46 more years.

• World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) defeat New York Yankees (AL), 4 games to 1.

• Negro League World Series: Kansas City Monarchs (NAL) defeat Homestead Grays (NNL), 4 games to none.

• The Winnipeg Maroons win the Northern League championship. It would also be their last.

Basketball

• The tenth South American Basketball Championship in Santiago is won by Argentina.

American Football

• 1 January. The Rose Bowl not being available for war-related reasons, the Oregon State Beavers played the Duke Blue Devils for that championship at the latter's venue of Durham, North Carolina, beating them 20-16.
• Washington Redskins 14-6 Chicago Bears at Washington, D. C. to win the NFL championship.

Football (Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League - Essendon wins the 46th VFL Premiership (Essendon 19.18 (132) d Richmond 11.13 (79))

Ice Hockey

• National Hockey League:
  • Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs won 4 games to 3 over the Detroit Red Wings
    • The Leafs won the series after losing the first three games, a feat that has only happened twice since then in North American professional sports.
  • NHL scoring leader: Bryan Hextall, New York Rangers
  • Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Tom Anderson, Brooklyn Americans

Births

• January 17 — Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Ali, American heavyweight boxing champion
• February 20 — Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
• February 23 — Paul Dearing, Australian field hockey player
• March 8 — Ann Packer, British sprinter, hurdler and long-jumper
• March 30 — Alva Colquhuon, Australian freestyle and butterfly swimmer
• May 13 — Pál Schmitt, Hungarian fencer and politician
• May 18 — Nobby Stiles, English football (soccer) player
• June 25 — Willis Reed, American Pro Basketball Player
• July 4 — Kevin Rigby, New Zealand field hockey player
• July 24 — Bengt Johansson, Swedish handball player and coach
• August 7 — Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer (d. 1995)
• August 26 — Hubert Raudaschl, Austrian sailor
• September 16 — Dennis Conner, American sailer
• September 22 — David Stern, Commissioner of the NBA
• September 25 — Oscar Bonavena, Argentinian boxer (d. 1976)
• October 22 — Giancarlo Ferrari, Italian archer
• November 8 — Angel Cordero Jr., Latin horse racing jockey
• December 20 — Bob Hayes, American Olympic track and field champion, American Football Player
• December 25 — Françoise Durr, French tennis player

Deaths

• January 4 — Mel Sheppard, American athlete (b. 1883)
• June 14 — Otto Herschmann (65), Austrian swimmer (b. 1877)
• December 28 — Alfred Flatow (73), German gymnast (b. 1869)

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