1945 Season

The 1945 season in brief

No 1945 club finished with a better record than the Cleveland Buckeyes at 52-15. The weakest record belonged to the Memphis Red Sox, 15-60. Race by race in 1945, the Washington Senators (87-67) chased the Detroit Tigers (88-65) to the end in the American League, the St. Louis Cardinals (95-59) chased the Chicago Cubs (98-56) to the end in the National League, the Negro National League was not close, the Homestead Grays finishing 32-13 to the Baltimore Elite Giants's 25-17, and the Negro American League was not close, the Cleveland Buckeyes finishing 52-15 to the Kansas City Monarchs's 35-27. Negro American League and Negro National League standings appear here too, as MLB counts those 1945 Negro Leagues seasons as major league. The bracket ends with the Detroit Tigers taking the World Series from the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3. Before that, the bracket shows the Cleveland Buckeyes over the Homestead Grays in the series the bracket labels NWS (4-0). Tommy Holmes led the majors with 28 home runs, ahead of Chuck Workman with 25. The qualified batting-average board starts with Phil Cavarretta at .355, with Tommy Holmes next at .352. The board counts only hitters with 471 or more plate appearances, which is what 152 team games require. Tommy Holmes topped several batting tiles at once: OPS, home runs, and hits. Beyond the top five in each tile, the 1945 leaders page ranks the whole 1945 field.