1946 Boston Red Sox

1946 Boston Red Sox / Franchise: Boston Red Sox / BR Team Page

Record: 104-50-2, Finished 1st in American League (1946 AL)

Clinched Pennant: September 13, 1946, at Cleveland Indians

Managed by Joe Cronin

Coaches: Del Baker, Tom Carey, Tom Daly and Larry Woodall

Ballpark: Fenway Park

Awards and Honors

• All-Stars: Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, Dave Ferriss, Mickey Harris, Johnny Pesky, Hal Wagner, Ted Williams and Rudy York
• AL MVP: Ted Williams

Standings

American League	W	L	Pct.	GB
Boston Red Sox	104	50	.675	--
Detroit Tigers	92	62	.597	12
New York Yankees	87	67	.565	17
Washington Senators	76	78	.494	28
Chicago White Sox	74	80	.481	30
Cleveland Indians	68	86	.442	36
St. Louis Browns	66	88	.429	38
Philadelphia Athletics	49	105	.318	55

Further Reading

• Eric Chesterton: "That time an umpire ejected 14 players from 1 team: Was a ventriloquist to blame?", mlb.com, May 2, 2020. [1]
• Jerome M. Mileur: The Stars Are Back: The St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, and Player Unrest in 1946, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8093-3271-7
• Robert Weintraub: The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age, Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 2013. ISBN 978-0316205917
• Bill Nowlin: "September 13, 1946: Ted Williams’s inside-the-park home run clinches AL pennant for Red Sox" SABR

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