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The 1950 season saw the following rule changes: [5] Home team must bat second, in the bottom of the inning. This replaced the previous rule which would give the manager or captain of the home team preference to whether the home team would bat first or second. A major league game did not feature a home team in the top of the inning since 1914. [6]
Billy Martin, later to become one of baseball's most controversial figures as a player and eventual manager, makes his major league debut at age 21, getting hits in both of his at bats, and scoring a run, and driving in three for the New York Yankees in a 15–10 win over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park's Opening Day. [3]
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National League Champion American Association Champion Players' League Champion World Series / Temple Cup Champion 1890: Brooklyn Bridegrooms: Louisville Colonels: Boston Reds: Tie, Louisville Colonels and Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1891: Boston Beaneaters: Boston Reds – – 1892 – – Boston Beaneaters 1893 – – – 1894: Baltimore Orioles
The 1950 Carolina League was a Class B baseball season played between April 19 and September 14. Eight teams played a 154-game schedule, with the top four teams qualifying for the post-season. The Winston-Salem Cardinals won the Carolina League championship, defeating the Burlington Bees in the final round of the playoffs.
In 2020, Major League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: [2] Negro National League I (NNL I) (1920–1931) Eastern Colored League (ECL) (1923–1928) American Negro League (ANL) (1929) East–West League (EWL) (1932) Negro Southern League (NSL) (1932) Negro National League II (NNL II) (1933 ...
The 1950 World Series was the 47th World Series between the American and National Leagues for the championship of Major League Baseball.The Philadelphia Phillies as 1950 champions of the National League and the New York Yankees, as 1950 American League champions, competed to win a best-of-seven game series.
On August 11, 1951 WCBS-TV in New York City televised the first baseball game (in which the Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers by the score of 8–4) in color.On October 1 of that year, NBC aired the first coast-to-coast baseball telecast as the Brooklyn Dodgers were beaten by the New York Giants in the first game of a playoff series by the score of 3–1 featuring Bobby Thomson's two-run ...