Joe Dimaggio of the New York Yankees put together an all-time record 56-game hitting streak.
Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox recorded a .401 batting average for the 1941 season becoming the last major leaguer to hit over .400.
Pete Rose, the all-time hit leader in MLB, was born on April 14.
The New York Yankees won the World Series, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers four games to one.
Weyburn Beavers defeated Radville to take the Southern League championship for the second straight season.
Cubs captured the Saskatoon City League title defeating the Tigers in the playoff final. Tigers had been the class of the field during the regular schedule finishing undefeated with eleven wins and a tie. Johnny Maroniuk was the pitching star of the final series.
The Bohemians were the elite senior squad of the Prince Albert Commercial League, but concentrated their efforts on exhibition games against outside competition.
Wiseton upset Neilburg to win the Saskatoon Exhibition Tournament.
The Canadian Ukrainian Athletic Club of Winnipeg won the Senior Baseball championship by defeating Transcona 4 to 2 and 7 to 5 in the seventh and eighth games of the series. The sweep for the Blues gave them the title by virtue of a four games to two advantage with two games tied.
In Alberta, the Picture Butte Royals were forced to give up a chance for a fifth straight provincial senior championship. In the middle of September the Royals announced they couldn't compete in a best of five series with Little Chicago.
Manager Jimmy Paul stated, "It is impossible for us to play the series now. It has been a month now since we defeated the Galt Miners in the Southern Alberta finals, and during that time we would have been more than anxious to play any club for the title." "Work starts in the sugar beet factory this week," he added, "and all our players will be too busy to even think of attempting a five game series."
After an absence of several years, senior amateur baseball returned to Calgary in 1941 as part of the Foothills Baseball League.
The Burrard Baseball League was the sole senior-level amateur circuit in operation within Vancouver during 1941. Diethers Fuel, with playing-skipper Ed Henry at the helm, clamed the league title by knocking off the Angelus Hotel nine in the finals. The spring and summer of 1941 would mark the final appearance of the Asahi baseball club on the diamonds of Vancouver. The bombing of Pearl Harbor in December subsequently led to the forced relocation of all Japanese-Canadians into various internment camps in the Interior of the province.
The Eagles prevailed a champions of the 1941 Victoria Senior Amateur circuit while, in the East Kootenays, Kimberley and the Michel-Natal Buffaloes tied for top spot in the Crow’s Nest Pass loop. A best-of-five showdown between the adversaries was never completed because of adverse weather conditions.