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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]
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.
Pages in category "1950 Major League Baseball season" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... 1950 Washington Senators season; Whiz Kids ...
Baseball Digest. pp. 34–36. Joe O'Loughlin (November 2002). "1950: when Philadelphia's Whiz Kids won the N.L. pennant; memories still rich for those who brought Phillies their first National League title in 35 years – Turn Back The Clock". Baseball Digest. Van Lindt, Carson (1998). Fire and spirit: the story of the 1950 Philadelphia ...
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
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Simmons missed the entire 1951 season while stationed in Korea with the military, but he returned in the 1952 season, winning 14 games, posting a 2.82 earned run average (ERA), and leading Major League Baseball with six shutouts. But the Phillies would never again contend for a championship during his tenure in Philadelphia, although Simmons ...