1945 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1945 throughout the world.  

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See also

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Contents 1 Champions 1.1 Major League Baseball 1.2 Other champions 2 Awards and honors 2.1 MLB Statistical Leaders 3 Major League Baseball final standings 3.1 American League final standings 3.2 National League final standings 4 Events 4.1 January-March 4.2 April-June 4.3 July-September 4.4 October-December 4.5 Date Unknown 5 Births 5.1 January-March 5.2 April-June 5.3 July-September 5.4 October-December 6 Deaths

[edit] Champions

[edit] Major League Baseball

• World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4-3)
• All-Star Game cancelled due to flight restrictions. However, inter-league games were played during the All-Star break.

[edit] Other champions

• Negro League World Series: Cleveland Buckeyes over Homestead Grays (4-0)
• Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: West, 9-6
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Rockford Peaches

[edit] Awards and honors

• Most Valuable Player
  • Hal Newhouser (AL) - P, Detroit Tigers
  • Phil Cavarretta (NL) - 1B, Chicago Cubs
• The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
  • Hal Newhouser - P, Detroit Tigers
• The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award
  • Eddie Mayo (AL) - 2B, Detroit Tigers
  • Tommy Holmes (NL) - OF, Boston Braves
• The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award
  • Hal Newhouser (AL) - Detroit Tigers
  • Hank Borowy (NL) - Chicago Cubs
• The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
  • Ossie Bluege - Washington Senators

[edit] MLB Statistical Leaders

Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Snuffy Stirnweiss NYY	.309	Phil Cavarretta CHC	.355
HR	Vern Stephens SLB	24	Tommy Holmes BSB	28
RBI	Nick Etten NYY	111	Dixie Walker BRO	124
Wins	Hal Newhouser DET	25	Red Barrett STL	23
ERA	Hal Newhouser DET	1.81	Ray Prim CHC	2.40
Ks	Hal Newhouser DET	212	Preacher Roe PIT	140

[edit] Major League Baseball final standings

[edit] American League final standings

American League Rank Club Wins Losses Win %   GB 1st Detroit Tigers 88   65 .575    -- 2nd Washington Senators 87   67 .565   1.5 3rd St. Louis Browns 81   70 .536   6.0 3rd New York Yankees 81   71 .533   6.5 5th Cleveland Indians 73   72 .503 11.0 6th Chicago White Sox 71   78 .477 15.0 7th Boston Red Sox 71 83 .461 17.5 8th Philadelphia Athletics 52 98 .347 34.5

[edit] National League final standings

National League Rank Club Wins Losses Win %   GB 1st Chicago Cubs 98   56 .636    -- 2nd St. Louis Cardinals 95   59 .617   3 3rd Brooklyn Dodgers 87   67 .565   11 3rd Pittsburgh Pirates 82   72 .532   16 5th New York Giants 78   74 .513 19 6th Boston Braves 67   85 .441 30 7th Cincinnati Reds 61 93 .396 37 8th Philadelphia Phillies 46 108 .299 52

[edit] Events

[edit] January-March

[edit] April-June

• May 17 - For the fourth time in four days, every American League game was postponed due to rain.

[edit] July-September

• August 1 - Mel Ott hits the 500th home run of his major league career.
• August 4
  • World War II amputee Bert Shepard pitches in a game for the Washington Senators.
    
  • Tom McBride of the Boston Red Sox ties a major league record with 6 RBI in the 4th inning of a game with the Washington Senators.
    
  • Senators pitcher Joe Cleary becomes the last native of Ireland to appear in a major league game.
• September 9 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Mickey Rocco leads the way to a doubleheader sweep of the New York Yankees with two home runs, two doubles, and two singles. A crowd of 72,252 is on hand at Yankee Stadium to see their team lose 10-3 and 4-3.
• September 29 - Chicago Cubs catcher Paul Gillespie homers in his final major league at bat. In 1942 he homered in his first major league at bat. He is the only player in MLB history to do both.

[edit] October-December

• October 23 - Jackie Robinson is signed by the Dodgers; he is later assigned to the Montreal Royals for the 1946 season.

[edit] Date Unknown

• The Mexican Winter League is born with the name Liga Invernal de Sonora

[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

• January 3 - Larry Barnett
• January 7 - Tony Conigliaro
• January 25 - Wally Bunker
• February 11 - John Paciorek
• February 12 - Don Wilson
• March 11 - Dock Ellis

[edit] April-June

• April 2 - Mike Kekich
• April 2 - Reggie Smith
• April 2 - Don Sutton
• April 11 - Mike Kilkenny
• April 15 - Ted Sizemore
• May 3 - Davey Lopes
• May 29 - Blue Moon Odom
• June 25 - Dick Drago

[edit] July-September

• July 7 - Bill Melton
• July 10 - Hal McRae
• August 6 - Andy Messersmith
• August 15 - Duffy Dyer
• August 21 - Jerry DaVanon
• September 8 - Ossie Blanco
• September 13 - Rick Wise
• September 16 - Ed Sprague
• September 25 - Steve Arlin
• September 26 - Dave Duncan

[edit] October-December

• October 1 - Rod Carew
• October 15 - Jim Palmer
• October 27 - Mike Lum
• November 3 - Ken Holtzman
• November 19 - Bobby Tolan
• November 20 - Jay Johnstone
• November 20 - Rick Monday
• December 6 - Larry Bowa
• December 12 - Ralph Garr
• December 19 - Geoff Zahn

[edit] Deaths

• June 18 - Sid Mercer, 64, sportswriter for New York newspapers since 1905, previously in St. Louis; also an official with the St. Louis Browns from 1903-05
• August 7 - Bobby Veach, 57, left fielder for the Tigers who batted .310 lifetime, led AL in RBI three times and doubles twice
• September 29 - George Van Haltren, 79, center fielder, primarily with the New York Giants, who batted .316 lifetime and ranked sixth all-time in both hits (2500+) and runs upon retirement; led NL in triples and steals once each, also won 40 games as pitcher, including a 6-inning no-hitter
• December 27 - Hugh Fullerton, 72, Chicago sportswriter who helped break the story of the Black Sox scandal; an early advocate of the value of statistics, he first gained wide attention for correctly predicting the White Sox' upset of the Cubs in the 1906 World Series, even getting right the winner of each game and the day of a rainout