1946 Philadelphia Phillies season – Wikipedia

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Major League Baseball season

Offseason[edit]

  • Prior to 1946 season: Stan Lopata was signed as an amateur free agent by the Phillies.[1]

Preseason[edit]

The Phillies held spring training in Miami Beach, Florida, returning to Flamingo Field where the team had trained from 1940 to 1942 before WWII travel restrictions kept teams close to home.[2] The team stayed at the Boulevard Hotel[3] at Dade Blvd and Meridian Ave.[4] The Phillies held minor league camp in Dover, Delaware.[5]

Regular season[edit]

For the first time in the 1946 season, the Philadelphia Phillies made use of airplanes to travel between cities in the regular season. The Phillies chartered two planes and returned to Philadelphia from Chicago following the scheduled June 12 game against the Cubs.[6]

In June 1946, the Cleveland American League club was sold to Bill Veeck and a note soon appeared in the Sporting News that the team was considering a spring training move to Tucson, Arizona for 1947. Paul Ficht, secretary of the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce, along with Mayor J.C. House, and City Manager F.L. Hendrix spoke with the St. Louis Browns, Newark Bears, Kansas City Blues, and Phillies about training in Clearwater in 1947. On July 27, 1946, Hendrix announced that the Phillies had accepted Clearwater’s invitation to train at Clearwater Athletic Field in 1947 on a one-year agreement.[7]

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Season standings[edit]

Record vs. opponents[edit]

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team BOS BR CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL
Boston — 5–17 12–9–1 15–7 13–9 14–8 15–7 7–15
Brooklyn 17–5 — 11–11 14–8–1 15–7 17–5 14–8 8–16
Chicago 9–12–1 11–11 — 13–9 17–5 12–10 12–10–1 8–14
Cincinnati 7–15 8–14–1 9–13 — 14–8 8–14–1 13–9 8–14
New York 9–13 7–15 5–17 8–14 — 12–10 10–12 10–12
Philadelphia 8–14 5–17 10–12 14–8–1 10–12 — 14–8 8–14
Pittsburgh 7–15 8–14 10–12–1 9–13 12–10 8–14 — 9–13
St. Louis 15–7 16–8 14–8 14–8 12–10 14–8 13–9 —

Roster[edit]

Player stats[edit]

Batting[edit]

Starters by position[edit]

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

Other batters[edit]

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

Pitching[edit]

Starting pitchers[edit]

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

Other pitchers[edit]

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

Relief pitchers[edit]

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

Farm system[edit]

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  1. ^ Stan Lopata at Baseball Reference
  2. ^ Dolson, Frank (April 2, 1986). “Baseball’s most magical spring”. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 4C.
  3. ^ Murrow, Art (April 2, 1946). “Phils Cut Squad to 39 Players”. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 26.
  4. ^ “The Boulevard Hotel”. mdpl.org. Miami Design Preservation League. 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  5. ^ “Phil Farm Hands Report at Dover”. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 2, 1946. p. 26.
  6. ^ “Phils to try planes from Chicago to here”. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 11, 1946. p. 24.
  7. ^ Lewis, Allen (March 1986). “Philadelphia ’47 ’86 Clearwater”. 1986 Phillies: Spring Training 40th Year in Clearwater. Clearwater, Florida: Philadelphia Phillies. pp. 4–5.
  8. ^ 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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