page_title: 1950 in Michigan
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: 1950 in Michigan / Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: An image of Major League Baseball hall of famer en:George Kell.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1950 in Michigan.
  In a poll taken by the Associated Press of newspaper and radio editors, the following stories were selected as the most important Michigan news stories of 1950:
  The gubernatorial election in which Republican former Governor Harry Kelly was declared the winner on election night, but the incumbent Democrat Governor G. Mennen Williams was declared the winner on December 13 after a statewide recount;
  A five-year contract signed May 23 between the United Auto Workers and General Motors, setting a national precedent for long-term contracts and wage increases, and which later became known as Reuther's Treaty of Detroit;
  A 100-day strike by the UAW against Chrysler, lasting from January to May and idling more than 100,000 workers in the Detroit area;
  The crash on June 23 of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 into Lake Michigan with the loss of 58 lives, making it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in U.S. history to that time;
  The destruction by fire of the University of Michigan's Haven Hall on June 6 and the subsequent arson conviction of teaching fellow Robert H. Stacy on December 16;
caption: George Kell
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