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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 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]
Due to the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians finishing with the same record of 96–58, a tie-breaker game was scheduled, to be considered an extension of the regular season. The Indians won the Game 163 tie-breaker on October 4. The World Series took place between October 6 and October 11.
Jul. 22—On Aug. 12, 1948, the Indians sat in their clubhouse at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, between games of a doubleheader against the Browns and following a loss. Little did they know what ...
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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.
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The 1948 Major League Baseball season was predicted to be a close race between the Yankees and Red Sox. In a United Press poll conducted just before the season started, the majority of sportswriters chose the Yankees, who had won last year's World Series, to face the Braves or St. Louis Cardinals that year, while others chose the Red Sox; only one sportswriter chose the Indians to reach the ...