I've been listening to a rebroadcast of the 1946 World Series. St Louis vs Boston performed by John Rayburn.
I rented it on Hoopla.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/
You can get it on Audible too.
https://www.audible.com/pd/1946-St-...eativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c
It's interesting to hear some of the differences between the game in the 40's and today's game. Several times the team that was losing allowed their pitcher to bat in the 6th or 7th inning.
They never ever talked about pitch counts.
The winning pitcher in 5 of the first 6 games pitched a complete game. Howie Pollet pitched the full 10 innings in the first game. And lost. So a total of 6 CG games in the series. No closers of course.
It was more of a pitchers duel than I would have thought. 2 shutouts. A one run game. A two run game. 5 times one of the two teams scored three runs. Twice that was the winning team. Three times a team scored three runs. They won each time. There were only two blow outs sort of. Boston won 4-0. Cards 12-3
There were more errors than I expected. Pesky had 4. Marty Marion 2 Red Schoendienst had 1.
In tiny Fenway and Sportsman Park, there were only a combined 5 HRs. St Louis hit only 1.
Other interesting tidbits. Bill Zuber was the first (only?) Amish major league player. A lot of comments about players who miss time due to World War 2. One of the Boston players played for the Phil A's but he worked in a war time factory. He only played in games on weekends when the team was playing games that were "close".
I rented it on Hoopla.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/
You can get it on Audible too.
https://www.audible.com/pd/1946-St-...eativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c
It's interesting to hear some of the differences between the game in the 40's and today's game. Several times the team that was losing allowed their pitcher to bat in the 6th or 7th inning.
They never ever talked about pitch counts.
The winning pitcher in 5 of the first 6 games pitched a complete game. Howie Pollet pitched the full 10 innings in the first game. And lost. So a total of 6 CG games in the series. No closers of course.
It was more of a pitchers duel than I would have thought. 2 shutouts. A one run game. A two run game. 5 times one of the two teams scored three runs. Twice that was the winning team. Three times a team scored three runs. They won each time. There were only two blow outs sort of. Boston won 4-0. Cards 12-3
There were more errors than I expected. Pesky had 4. Marty Marion 2 Red Schoendienst had 1.
In tiny Fenway and Sportsman Park, there were only a combined 5 HRs. St Louis hit only 1.
Other interesting tidbits. Bill Zuber was the first (only?) Amish major league player. A lot of comments about players who miss time due to World War 2. One of the Boston players played for the Phil A's but he worked in a war time factory. He only played in games on weekends when the team was playing games that were "close".
