More 1948 Baseball Season Highlights
Check out more highlights of the 1948 baseball season, including the signing of Satchel Paige and Stan Musial getting 429 total bases:
- Bob Feller leads majors in Ks with 164.
- Lou Boudreau is the first shortstop in American League history to hit over .350 and drive in more than 100 runs in the same season.
- In the American League playoff game, Lou Boudreau goes 4-for-4.
- Cleveland owner Bill Veeck signs Paige.
- Paige becomes the first black American to pitch in the American League and the first to pitch in a World Series game.
- Veeck holds a special night for a fan, Joe Early, after Early writes Veeck inquiring why players are always honored and not the fans.
- Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer.
- Casey Stengel, manager of the Oakland Oaks of the PCL, is hired to manage the Yankees in 1949.
- White Sox Pat Seerey hits four homers in an 11-inning game on July 18.
- Boston's Dom DiMaggio sets an American League record (since broken) with 503 outfield putouts.
- Musial gets 429 total bases, the most by any major league player since Jimmie Foxx's 438 in 1932.
- Musial gets five hits in a game four times during the season.
- Cleveland's Joe Gordon hits an American League record 32 homers by a second baseman.
- Snuffy Stirnweiss's .993 FA is a new major league record for second basemen.
- Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit on June 30.
- Brooklyn's Rex Barney no-hits the Giants on Sept. 9.
- The A's win 84 games, their best season between 1933 and 1969.
- Cardinal Harry Brecheen tops the National League in win pct. (.741), ERA (2.24), Ks (149), and shutouts (seven).
- Lemon leads the American League in innings (294), CGs (20), and shutouts (ten).
- Joe DiMaggio tops the American League in RBI (155), homers (39), and total bases (355).
- St. Louis' Bob Dillinger paces the American League in hits (207) and steals (28).
- Cleveland tops the American League in BA (.282), ERA (3.22), and FA (.982).
- Cleveland's four infielders have a combined 432 RBI and 97 homers.
- Braves manager Billy Southworth wins his fourth pennant as a helmsman.
- The Hall of Fame inducts Herb Pennock and Pie Traynor.
- Cleveland pitcher Don Black suffers a brain aneurysm while batting in a game and nearly dies.
- Frank "Trader" Lane is hired as the White Sox general manager.
- The White Sox send Eddie Lopat to the Yanks for Aaron Robinson, Bill Wight, and Fred Bradley.
- The White Sox trade Bob Kennedy to Cleveland for Pat Seerey and Al Gettel.
- The Browns trade Sam Zoldak to Cleveland for Bill Kennedy and cash.
- Cleveland swaps Eddie Robinson, Joe Haynes, and Ed Klieman to Washington for Mickey Vernon and Early Wynn.
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