Major League Baseball Season Recap 1946 Ted Williams started the 1946 baseball season on fire, after coming off four years of military service, as the Red Sox built a huge lead before coasting to a 12-game lead over Detroit at the wire. Even though Williams’s final stats look good (.342 average, 38 home runs, and 123…
After seven innings at Sportsman’s Park, the St. Louis Cardinals held a 3-1 lead over the Boston Red Sox. Cardinals righthander Murry Dickson, after giving up singles to the first two batters, Wally Moses and Johnny Pesky, had allowed only one hit since the first inning. In the fifth, Dickson had broken a 1-1 tie…
1946 – With the trade for Al Lopez, the Indians send young catcher Sherm Lollar and 2B Ray Mack to the Yankees for minor league P Gene Bearden, P Al Gettel, and OF Hal Peck. Peck never played for New York after they acquired him in June. Lollar will play just 33 games in two years, while Mack is swapped after one game. Bearden, as a rookie knuckleballer in 1948, will win 20 games and the lead the American League in ERA.
On December 10, 1946, Walter Johnson, one of the first five players elected to the Hall of Fame, dies at the age of 59 from brain cancer in Washington, D.C. Johnson won 417 games and tossed a record 110 shutouts in his brilliant career.
1946 – The Yankees sign veteran 1B George McQuinn, recently released by the A’s. The 36-year-old has two good years left in him and will hit .304 with 80 RBI next season.
1946 – The Indians send young OF Gene Woodling to Pittsburgh for veteran receiver Al Lopez. Lopez will play just 61 games next season‚ before taking over as manager of Indianapolis for three seasons. He will return to skipper the Indians in 1951.
1946 – The major leagues finally accept the contention that invasion of minor league territory will result in compensation for the entire league. The major league clubs also agree to return the selection of the All-Star teams, except for pitchers, to a fan ballot.
The Reds trade pitcher Ed Heusser to Brooklyn for veteran Augie Galan.
W.G. Bramham retires as head of the minors. George Trautman will replace him.
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