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1946 St. Louis Cardinals season

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	St. Louis Cardinals
season	1946
misc	World Series champions
National League champions
league	National League
ballpark	Sportsman's Park
city	St. Louis, Missouri
record	96–58 (.628)
league_place	1st
owners	Sam Breadon
general_managers	William Walsingham Jr.
managers	Eddie Dyer
radio	WIL
(Dizzy Dean, Johnny O'Hara)
WTMV/WEW
(Harry Caray, Gabby Street)
espntn	stl
brtn	stl

National League champions (Dizzy Dean, Johnny O'Hara) WTMV/WEW (Harry Caray, Gabby Street) The 1946 St. Louis Cardinals season was a season in American baseball. It was the team's 65th season in St. Louis, Missouri and their 55th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 96–58 during the championship season and finished tied with the Brooklyn Dodgers for first in the National League. St. Louis then won a best-of-three playoff for the pennant, two games to none. In the World Series, they won in seven games over the Boston Red Sox. They won on Enos Slaughter's "mad dash" that gave them a 4–3 lead in the eighth inning of game 7.

Offseason

Prior to 1946 season: Solly Hemus was signed as an amateur free agent by the Cardinals.

Regular season

First baseman Stan Musial won the MVP Award this year, batting .365, with 16 home runs and 103 RBIs.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

July 1946: Jim Gleeson was traded by the Cardinals to the Boston Red Sox for Don Lang and Bill Howerton.

Roster

1946 St. Louis Cardinals
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	74	211	50	.237	3	22
1B	156	624	228	.365	16	103
2B	142	606	170	.281	0	34
3B	142	519	156	.301	14	89
SS	146	498	116	.233	3	46
OF	112	346	82	.237	3	27
OF	100	275	66	.240	9	42
OF	156	609	183	.300	18	130

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
91	278	73	.263	3	2
83	235	61	.260	3	42
81	173	32	.185	5	22
55	139	38	.273	1	12
52	136	36	.265	0	14
23	93	18	.194	1	4
49	69	15	.217	0	6
22	57	7	.123	1	3
20	20	4	.200	0	3
15	14	2	.143	1	2
16	12	4	.333	0	1
6	5	0	.000	0	0
4	4	0	.000	0	0
1	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
40	266.0	21	10	2.10	107
36	231.0	15	15	2.49	117
19	103.0	7	5	4.46	36
25	100.0	6	3	2.88	32

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
23	67.0	3	2	4.03	22
6	56.0	6	0	1.93	36
10	48.2	2	2	3.33	28
6	28.2	2	1	4.08	19
16	27.1	1	0	3.29	14

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
47	15	6	1	2.88	82
37	11	10	1	3.29	58
40	8	0	1	3.41	40
15	0	2	0	6.75	3
13	1	2	0	3.95	11
3	0	0	0	9.00	2

1946 World Series

Main article: 1946 World Series

NL St. Louis Cardinals (4) vs. AL Boston Red Sox (3)

	Game		Score		Date		Attendance
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Awards and honors

Stan Musial, National League leader, Triples, (20).

Farm system

References

"Solly Hemus Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/howerbi01.shtml Bill Howerton page at Baseball Reference]
''Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures'', 2008 Edition, p. 95, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, {{ISBN. 978-0-451-22363-0
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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