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1948 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1948 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1948 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1948 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Baseball's Best: 1948 World Series; Audio: Game 5 radio broadcast, part 1; Audio: Game 5 ...
The teams returned to Birmingham for Game 5, a night game held on Tuesday, October 5. It was the last Negro World Series game, and the last game played by the Negro National League, which disbanded after the season. R.T. Walker was the starter for the Grays and Bill Powell for the Black Barons. Bill Greason relieved Powell in the sixth inning. [9]
Negro baseball did continue after 1948, but it was at a quality that was considered minor by news of the time and historians. Historical research has revealed the existence of 23 years in which there was a postseason series held between Negro league teams. Box scores exist for just a fraction of the games. [1]
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
October 6 – The 1948 World Series opens at Braves Field with the Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller throwing a two-hitter—but he loses the contest, 1–0, when Boston's Phil Masi is ruled safe at second base on a disputed pick-off play in the eighth inning. Masi then scores the game's only run on a single by Tommy Holmes.
Sep. 15—Major League Baseball's "unwritten rules of the game" have — without question — created a cult atmosphere within the game. Breaking any of the "codes" (many believe) is a sin against ...
The Indians won a one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox to determine the team to represent the AL in the World Series; it was the first time the team had won the pennant since the 1920 season. [2]: 201 Feller started Game One of the 1948 World Series against the NL-champion Boston Braves.
On Fox alone, the World Series in total averaged 15.20 million viewers, up 67% from last year (9.11 million) and the best five-game average since 2017 (16.42 million).