1940s – Page 18 – Society for American Baseball Research

Dick Welteroth (TRADING CARD DB)

September 11, 1949: Four Senators pitchers set major-league record with 11 walks in one inning

September 13, 1949: Red Munger’s $50 night leads Cardinals to 1-0 win over Giants

Ted Williams (Trading Card Database)

September 14, 1949: Red Sox get 1-0 win over Tigers on a sixth-inning home run by Ted Williams

Ed Sanicki (courtesy of Jacob Pomrenke)

September 14, 1949: Ed Sanicki rips home run off Rip Sewell in his first big-league at-bat for Phillies

Ellis Kinder (Trading Card DB)

September 21, 1949: Red Sox win 19th consecutive game at Fenway Park

Ted Williams (Trading Card Database)

September 27, 1949: Ted Williams reaches base safely for a record 84th consecutive game

Ray Scarborough (Trading Card Database)

September 28, 1949: Washington’s Ray Scarborough stops Red Sox, ties up AL pennant race

Murry Dickson (Trading Card Database)

September 29, 1949: Former Cardinal Murry Dickson knocks St. Louis out of first place

October 2, 1949: Yankees come out on top in winner-take-all contest

Stan Musial (SABR-Rucker Archive)

October 2, 1949: Stan Musial slugs two homers on final day, but just misses capturing NL batting crown

October 2, 1949: Browns end season on high note with rookie Ed Albrecht’s 1-hitter

October 5, 1949: Allie Reynolds two-hitter, Tommy Henrich home run give Yankees a 1-0 win in World Series opener

October 6, 1949: Preacher Roe shuts out Yankees in Game 2 to even World Series

Johnny Mize

October 7, 1949: Johnny Mize’s first World Series was all right

Bobby Brown (TRADING CARD DB)

October 8, 1949: One highly productive inning not enough for Dodgers in Game 4

Bobby Brown (TRADING CARD DB)

October 9, 1949: Yankees ‘dumbfounded that they won it so easily’