1945 Cleveland Buckeyes season
Negro American League team season
| 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes | ||||
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| League | Negro American League | |||
| Ballpark | League Park | |||
| City | Cleveland | |||
| Record | 52–20–2 (.716) | |||
| League place | 1st | |||
| Managers | Quincy Trouppe | |||
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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.
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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
- Manager
- Quincy Trouppe
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