1944 in sports

Years in sports:	1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947

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

[edit] Baseball

May 7 - Chucho Ramos made his major league debut as first baseman and outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds. He was the third baseball player from Venezuela to play Major League Baseball.
June 10 - 15-year old Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest baseball player to pitch a game in major league history.
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals defeats St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2.
Hall of Fame election: Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected by the Hall of Fame Committee in December following his death the previous month. The long-delayed selection of at least 10 players from the 19th century is promised the following year.

August 4- The "War Bonds Fight", $36m is raised to fund the war effort as Beau Jack wins a ten round decision over arch-rival Bob Montgomery at New York's Madison Square Garden. A few weeks later, they were both drafted on the same day by the U.S. Army.

Victorian Football League - Fitzroy wins the 48th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 9.12 (66) d Richmond 7.9 (51))

January 23 — Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player
January 25 — Jacinto João, Angola-born Portuguese football (soccer) player (d. 2004)
January 29 — Pauline van der Wildt, Dutch swimmer
February 22 — Khorloo Baianmunkh, Mongolian wrestler
February 23 — John Ryan, Australian swimmer
February 26 — Corrie Winkel, Dutch swimmer
March 13 — Nico van der Voet, Dutch water polo player
March 15 — Chi Cheng, Taiwanese track and field athlete
April 4 — Nelson Prudêncio, Brazilian athlete
April 6 — Washington Rodríguez, Uruguayan boxer
April 15 — Kunishige Kamamoto, Japanese football (soccer) player
May 9 — Laurence Richon Owen, U.S. figure skating champion (d. 1961)
June 23 — Clive Barker, South African football (soccer) coach
June 25 — Prince Amartey, Ghanaian boxer
June 28 — Luis Nicolao, Argentine swimmer
July 14 — Vic Faulkner, British wrestler
August 28 — Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
September 7 — Bora Milutinović, Serbian-Mexican football (soccer) coach
September 14 — Hans Parrel, Dutch water polo player
September 19 — Colin Dibley, Australian tennis player
October 2 — Willie Morgan, Scottish football (soccer) player
October 10 — Petar Zhekov, Bulgarian football (soccer) player
November 20 — Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player
December 4 — Héctor Chumpitaz, Peruvian football (soccer) player
December 17 — Ferenc Bene, Hungarian football (soccer) player (d. 2006)
December 25 — Jairzinho, Brazilian football (soccer) player