Even the Browns: Baseball During World War II (Dover Baseball)

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    • The Junior World Series of that same year, partly hosted in Baltimore's converted football stadium, easily outdrew the "real" Series and attracted attention to Baltimore as a potential major league city. Ten years later, the Browns would relocate there and became the Baltimore Orioles. George Pipgras became the fourth person to appear in the World Series both as a player and as an umpire. Many of the games' best players were called away for the war, and the result was a seriously depleted pool of talent. The top team in the American League was the St.

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    Louis Browns, who collectively batted. They only had one. Part of the explanation for the low numbers is that the ball used during WWII was made of a denser material and did not travel as well. On the mound, the Browns boasted Nels Potter and Jack Kramer who combined for a mediocre thirty-six victories. The Browns squeaked into first place by winning eleven out of their final twelve games, including the last four in a row over the defending champion New York Yankees. The victory, combined with Detroit's loss to Washington, enabled St.

    Louis to finish one game ahead of the Tigers in the American League. Across town, the other Major League team from St. Louis was doing business as usual. Louis Cardinals 4 vs. Both teams had the same home field, Sportsman's Park.

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    The only other World Series in which both teams had the same home field were in and , between the New York Yankees and New York Giants , played entirely at the Polo Grounds ; Yankee Stadium opened the following year. The fans were rooting for the underdog, and I was surprised about that, but after you analyze the situation in St. Louis, the Browns in the old days had good clubs.

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    They had great players like George Sisler and Kenny Williams , and the fans who were there were older fans, older men, old-time Brownie fans. But it was a tough series. With one-hundred five victories, the St Louis Cardinals franchise became the first ever with three 3 consecutive one-hundred win seasons.

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