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The St. Louis Browns were a Major League Baseball team that originated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers.A charter member of the American League (AL), the Brewers moved to St. Louis, Missouri, after the 1901 season, where they played for 52 years as the St. Louis Browns.
The St. Louis Browns of the American League purchased his contract in 1945 from the Chicks for $20,000 (equivalent to $322,000 in 2024), and Gray signed for $4,000 (equivalent to $64,000 in 2024). Wearing uniform number 14, [7] Gray played left and center field for the Browns. He appeared in 77 games, batting .218 with a .958 fielding ...
The 1944 World Series was an all-St. Louis World Series, matching the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park.It marked the third time in World Series history in which both teams had the same home field (the others being the 1921 and 1922 Series, both played at the Polo Grounds in New York City).
The 1944 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball.It involved the Browns finishing first in the American League with a record of 89 wins and 65 losses. In the World Series, they lost to the team they shared a stadium with, the Cardinals, four games to two.
William Louis Veeck Jr. (/ ˈ v ɛ k / VEK; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill" [1] and "Wild Bill", [2] was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox.
St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1952 ... which had moved from St. Louis, ... Wertz was a World War II veteran. During and after his baseball career, Wertz ...
The St. Louis Browns won the American League pennant on the final day of the season by beating the New York Yankees 5-2. The Browns, who had never won a pennant in franchise history and would not win another as a St. Louis team, were helped immensely by the wartime roster depletion across baseball that happened to affect them less than the ...
Donald Lee Barnes (May 8, 1894 – July 20, 1962) [1] was the owner of the St. Louis Browns of the American League from 1936 through 1944.As a member of American Investment Company and Public Loan Corporation, he originally bought it as head of the syndicate of city sportsmen that bought the team in November 1936 for $325,000.