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. 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.
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