- Source: 1945 Major League Baseball season
The 1945 major league baseball season began on April 17, 1945. The regular season ended on September 30, with the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 42nd World Series on October 3 and ended with Game 7 on October 10. The Tigers defeated the Cubs, four games to three. It would prove to be the Cubs' last appearance in a World Series until the 2016 World Series.
The scheduled 13th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was cancelled due to wartime travel restrictions in World War II.
Schedule
The 1945 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 1904 season (except for 1919) and would be used until 1961 in the American League and 1962 in the National League.
Opening Day took place on April 17, featuring all sixteen teams, the first since the 1942 season. The final day of the regular season was on September 30, which saw fourteen teams play. In a scheduling oddity, the Washington Senators of the AL saw their season finish a week earlier on September 23, partly due to World War II travel restrictions, but also the need to convert Griffith Stadium's playing field to host its autumn football tenants, the NFL Washington Redskins and Georgetown University. The World Series took place between October 3 and October 10.
Teams
An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at
Standings
Postseason
= Bracket
=Managerial changes
= In-season
=League leaders
= American League
== National League
=Awards and honors
The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award went to Detroit Tigers third baseman Eddie Mayo; however, following a post-season vote, the official AL MVP Award was given to fellow Detroit Tiger Hal Newhouser, a pitcher. Newhouser ended the season with an ERA of 1.81, a record of 25 wins and 9 losses, and 212 strikeouts. Both of them helped lead the Detroit Tigers to a World Series win, and Newhouser remarked that Eddie Mayo was the driving force behind the 1945 pennant chase and that Mayo was a "take-charge kind of guy in our field."
The NL Most Valuable Player Award went to Chicago Cubs first baseman and outfielder Phil Cavarretta. He ended the season with an impressive batting average of .355 and an on-base-percentage of .455. The second-place finisher was Boston Braves player Tommy Holmes who finished the season with a batting average of .352 and an impressive slugging percentage of .577.
Baseball Hall of Fame
Roger Bresnahan
Dan Brouthers
Fred Clarke
Jimmy Collins
Ed Delahanty
Hugh Duffy
Hughie Jennings
King Kelly
Jim O'Rourke
Wilbert Robinson (manager)
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
Home field attendance
Events
On April 17, Pete Gray became the first (and so far, only) one-armed man to ever play in the Major Leagues. He batted .218 in 77 games with the St. Louis Browns.
This season would be the last World Series appearance for the Chicago Cubs until 2016.
See also
1945 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season
References
External links
1945 Major League Baseball season schedule at Baseball Reference
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