The 1932 major league baseball season began on April 11, 1932. The regular season ended on September 25, with the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 29th World Series on September 28 and ended with Game 4 on October 2. The Yankees swept the Cubs in four games, capturing their fourth championship in franchise history, since their previous in . Going into the season, the defending World Series champions were the St. Louis Cardinals from the season.
In the National League, the Brooklyn Robins reverted to their name, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The 1932 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place since the season (except for ) and would be used until in the American League and in the National League.
American League Opening Day took place on April 11 with the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators playing, while National League Opening Day took place the following day. The final day of the regular season was on September 25 and featured all sixteen teams, continuing the trend which began with the season. The World Series took place between September 28 and October 2.
An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at
5 tie games (3 in AL, 2 in NL), which are not factored into winning percentage or games behind (and were often replayed again) occurred throughout the season.
The postseason began on September 28 and ended on October 2 with the New York Yankees sweeping the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series in four games.
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Any team shown in indicates a previous team a player was on during the season.
Across 77 homes games, the Boston Red Sox played their Tuesday, April 19 doubleheader against the New York Yankees and their first four of their 16 Sunday games at the Boston Braves home field of Braves Field (the remaining 71 home games were played at Fenway Park). This was the last of four consecutive season playing some (mostly Sunday) games at Braves Field.
Following their July 30 game against the Philadelphia Athletics, the Cleveland Indians leave League Park after playing 45 home games, and play the rest of their 32 home games at Cleveland Stadium, with the hopes of permanently moving in, starting with a game against the Athletics on July 31 (due to falling attendance, the Indians would move back to League Park full-time in . The stadium was previously home of the single-season National Football League team that was also named the Cleveland Indians. This would be the 1st of 12 seasons since that saw the Indians play at both venues, occurring again in every season from to . To this point, the Indians played all 32 of their seasons since their inaugural 1901 season at League Park.