1945 Cleveland Buckeyes season

Negro American League team season
1945 Cleveland Buckeyes
LeagueNegro American League
BallparkLeague Park
CityCleveland
Record52–20–2 (.716)
League place1st
ManagersQuincy Trouppe
Seasons

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

  1. ^ "1945 Cleveland Buckeyes". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "Cleveland Scores in First 2 Games of World Series", The Afro-American, p. 22, September 22, 1945, retrieved January 4, 2013
  4. ^ "Cleveland Captures 1945 World Baseball Crown", The Afro-American, p. 23, September 29, 1945, retrieved January 4, 2013
  5. ^ "1945 Cleveland Buckeyes Batting". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  6. ^ "1945 Cleveland Buckeyes Pitching". Seamheads.com. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
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Cleveland Buckeyes 1945 Negro World Series champions
Buddy Armour
Earl Ashby
Gene Bremer
John Brown
Avelino Cañizares
Frank Carswell
Johnnie Cowan
Lloyd Davenport
Rosey Davis
Rayford Finch
Willie Grace
Lovell Harden
Billy Horne
Bill Jefferson
Jeff Jefferson
Sam Jethroe
Phelbert Lawson
George Provens
Quincy Trouppe
Archie Ware
Parnell Woods
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Quincy Trouppe
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