1945 Cleveland Buckeyes season
Template:Infobox baseball season yearly The 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes baseball team competed in Negro American League (NAL) during the 1945 baseball season. The team compiled a 52–20–2 (.716) record.[1]
The team won the NAL pennant and defeated the Washington Homestead Grays in the 1945 Negro World Series, four games to none.[2][3][4]
Quincy Trouppe was the team's manager. Avelino Cañizares and Sam Jethroe were the leading hitters with batting averages of .365 and .339.[5] Gene Bremmer was the leading pitcher with a 6–1 record and 2.07 earned run average.[6]
References
- ^ "1945 Cleveland Buckeyes". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ^ Holway, John B. (2001), The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History, Fern Park, FL: Hastings House Publishers, pp. 426–427, ISBN 0803820070
- ^ "Cleveland Scores in First 2 Games of World Series", The Afro-American, p. 22, September 22, 1945, retrieved January 4, 2013
- ^ "Cleveland Captures 1945 World Baseball Crown", The Afro-American, p. 23, September 29, 1945, retrieved January 4, 2013
- ^ "1945 Cleveland Buckeyes Batting". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ^ "1945 Cleveland Buckeyes Pitching". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 7, 2020.