1946_Philadelphia_Phillies_season

The Phillies held spring training in Miami Beach, Florida, returning to Flamingo Field where the team had trained from 1940 to 1942 before World War II travel restrictions kept teams close to home.^[2] The team stayed at the Boulevard Hotel^[3] at the corner of Dade Boulevard and Meridian Avenue.^[4]

The Phillies held minor league camp in Dover, Delaware.^[5]

Regular season

For the first time in the 1946 season, the Philadelphia Phillies used airplanes to travel between cities during the regular season. The Phillies chartered two planes and returned to Philadelphia from Chicago following the scheduled June 12 game against the Cubs.^[6]

In June 1946, the Cleveland American League club was sold to Bill Veeck and a note appeared in the Sporting News that the team was considering a spring training move to Tucson, Arizona for 1947.

Paul Ficht, secretary of the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce, along with Mayor J.C. House, and city manager F.L. Hendrix spoke with the St. Louis Browns, Newark Bears, Kansas City Blues, and Phillies about training in Clearwater in 1947. On July 27, 1946, Hendrix announced that the Phillies had accepted Clearwater's invitation to train at Clearwater Athletic Field in 1947 on a one-year agreement.^[7]

Season standings

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v t e National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
St. Louis Cardinals	98	58	0.628	—	49–29	49–29
Brooklyn Dodgers	96	60	0.615	2	56–22	40–38
Chicago Cubs	82	71	0.536	14½	44–33	38–38
Boston Braves	81	72	0.529	15½	45–31	36–41
Philadelphia Phillies	69	85	0.448	28	41–36	28–49
Cincinnati Reds	67	87	0.435	30	35–42	32–45
Pittsburgh Pirates	63	91	0.409	34	37–40	26–51
New York Giants	61	93	0.396	36	38–39	23–54

Record vs. opponents

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1946 National League record v t e Sources:
Team	BOS	BR	CHC	CIN	NYG	PHI	PIT	STL
Boston	—	5–17	12–9–1	15–7	13–9	14–8	15–7	7–15
Brooklyn	17–5	—	11–11	14–8–1	15–7	17–5	14–8	8–16
Chicago	9–12–1	11–11	—	13–9	17–5	12–10	12–10–1	8–14
Cincinnati	7–15	8–14–1	9–13	—	14–8	8–14–1	13–9	8–14
New York	9–13	7–15	5–17	8–14	—	12–10	10–12	10–12
Philadelphia	8–14	5–17	10–12	14–8–1	10–12	—	14–8	8–14
Pittsburgh	7–15	8–14	10–12–1	9–13	12–10	8–14	—	9–13
St. Louis	15–7	16–8	14–8	14–8	12–10	14–8	13–9	—

Roster

1946 Philadelphia Phillies

Roster

Pitchers

7 Ben Chapman
30 Blix Donnelly
43 Don Grate
12 Eli Hodkey
22 Lefty Hoerst
28 Tommy Hughes
40 Johnny Humphries
20 Si Johnson
17 Oscar Judd
38 Al Jurisich
33 Andy Karl
-- Dick Koecher
32 Art Lopatka
15 Dick Mauney
39 Al Milnar
48 Hugh Mulcahy
10 Dick Mulligan
21 Ike Pearson
39,35 Lou Possehl
16 Ken Raffensberger
8 Charlie Ripple
19 Schoolboy Rowe
18 Charley Schanz
42 Charley Stanceu

Catchers

47,2 Rollie Hemsley
46 Dee Moore
24 Andy Seminick
23 Hal Spindel

Infielders

-- Bill Burich
41,47 Vance Dinges
37 Granny Hamner
40 Don Hasenmayer
6 Roy Hughes
23,49 Charlie Letchas
26 Frank McCormick
9 Danny Murtaugh
29 Skeeter Newsome
27 John O'Neil
2 Ken Richardson
5 Jim Tabor
50,9 Emil Verban

Outfielders

34 Vince DiMaggio
14 Del Ennis
21 Charlie Gilbert
30,4 Ron Northey
39 Lou Novikoff
3 Jimmy Wasdell
1 Johnny Wyrostek

Other batters

43 Glenn Crawford

Manager

7 Ben Chapman

Coaches

11 Benny Bengough
25 Benny Culp
31 Cy Perkins

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

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Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Andy Seminick	124	406	107	.264	12	52
1B	Frank McCormick	135	504	143	.284	11	66
2B	Emil Verban	138	473	130	.275	0	34
SS	Skeeter Newsome	112	375	87	.232	1	23
3B	Jim Tabor	124	463	124	.268	10	50
OF	Ron Northey	128	438	109	.249	16	62
OF	Del Ennis	141	540	169	.313	17	73
OF	Johnny Wyrostek	145	545	153	.281	6	45

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

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Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Roy Hughes	89	276	65	.236	0	22
Charlie Gilbert	88	260	63	.242	1	17
Rollie Hemsley	49	139	31	.223	0	11
Vance Dinges	50	104	32	.308	1	10
John O'Neil	46	94	25	.266	0	9
Jimmy Wasdell	26	51	13	.255	1	5
Lou Novikoff	17	23	7	.304	0	3
Ken Richardson	6	20	3	.150	0	2
Danny Murtaugh	6	19	4	.211	1	3
Vince DiMaggio	6	19	4	.211	0	1
Dee Moore	11	13	1	.077	0	1
Charlie Letchas	6	13	3	.231	0	0
Don Hasenmayer	6	12	1	.083	0	0
Granny Hamner	2	7	1	.143	0	0
Hal Spindel	1	3	1	.333	0	1
Glenn Crawford	1	1	0	.000	0	0
Bill Burich	2	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

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Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Ken Raffensberger	39	196.0	8	15	3.63	73
Oscar Judd	30	173.1	11	12	3.53	65
Schoolboy Rowe	17	136.0	11	4	2.12	51
Blix Donnelly	12	76.1	3	4	2.95	38
Charley Stanceu	14	70.1	2	4	4.22	23
Al Jurisich	13	68.1	4	3	3.69	34
Lou Possehl	4	13.2	1	2	5.93	4
Dick Koecher	1	2.2	0	1	10.13	2
Al Milnar	1	0	0	0	inf	0

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

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Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Charley Schanz	32	116.1	6	6	5.80	47
Tommy Hughes	29	111.0	6	9	4.38	34
Dick Mauney	24	90.0	6	4	2.70	31
Lefty Hoerst	18	68.1	1	6	4.61	17
Hugh Mulcahy	16	62.2	2	4	4.45	12
Dick Mulligan	19	54.2	2	2	4.77	16
Ike Pearson	5	14.1	1	0	3.77	6
Art Lopatka	4	5.1	0	1	16.88	4
Eli Hodkey	2	4.1	0	1	12.46	0

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

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Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Andy Karl	39	3	7	5	4.96	15
Johnny Humphries	10	0	0	0	4.01	10
Charlie Ripple	6	1	0	0	10.80	3
Don Grate	3	1	0	0	1.12	2
Si Johnson	1	0	0	0	3.00	2
Ben Chapman	1	0	0	0	0.00	1

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
A	Utica Blue Sox	Eastern League	Eddie Sawyer
B	Terre Haute Phillies	Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League	Ray Brubaker
B	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Interstate League	Jack Saltzgaver
C	Schenectady Blue Jays	Canadian–American League	Bill Cronin
C	Salina Blue Jays	Western Association	Ed Walls
D	Dover Phillies	Eastern Shore League	John Lehman
D	Americus Phillies	Georgia–Florida League	Jack Sanford
D	Bradford Blue Wings	PONY League	Leon Riley
D	Green Bay Bluejays	Wisconsin State League	Harry Griswold

Notes

[1]
Stan Lopata at Baseball Reference
[2]
Dolson, Frank (April 2, 1986). "Baseball's most magical spring". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 4C.
[3]
Murrow, Art (April 2, 1946). "Phils Cut Squad to 39 Players". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 26.
[4]
"The Boulevard Hotel". mdpl.org. Miami Design Preservation League. 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
[5]
"Phil Farm Hands Report at Dover". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 2, 1946. p. 26.
[6]
"Phils to try planes from Chicago to here". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 11, 1946. p. 24.
[7]
Lewis, Allen (March 1986). "Philadelphia '47 '86 Clearwater". 1986 Phillies: Spring Training 40th Year in Clearwater. Clearwater, Florida: Philadelphia Phillies. pp. 4–5.
[8]
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

References

1946 Philadelphia Phillies season at Baseball Reference

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