1948 in baseball

This was the sixteenth and final season of the Negro National League.

Homestead and Baltimore each won a half of the season.

The league agreed, but Baltimore refused to play and therefore forfeited.

1948 was the 23rd and final time that there was a "Playoff Series" held between black baseball teams.

1948 is the only time that saw both the American and National League hold a postseason series to determine the pennant (Major League Baseball would not hold such a format for 21 years).