1950 MLB Season in Review - The Baseball Cube

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A high-level summary of the 1950 Major League Baseball Season. The page includes standings, team totals and leaderboards. There is a lot more information on the season in various sub-sections such as the player register, team pages and boxscore-related pages.

Season Information

Season

1950

World Series Champions

New York Yankees

Runner Up

Philadelphia Phillies

Most Valuable Players

AL: Phil Rizzuto NL: Jim Konstanty

Cy Young Winners

AL: NL:

Rookies of the Year

AL: Walt Dropo NL: Sam Jethroe

Managers of the Year

AL: NL:

#1 Draft Pick

All-Star Game

Chicago,Illinois

Teams

Players

529

Attendance

17,462,977

Payroll

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1950 Major League Baseball Standings

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Grid Filters		Playoff Team
American League -
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	1	New York Yankees	T - S - R	154	98	56	.636	--	914	691	223	Won World Series (Phillies)	2,081,380	1	George Weiss	Casey Stengel	Yankee Stadium I
2	2	2	Detroit Tigers	T - S - R	154	95	59	.617	3.0	837	713	124	dnq	1,951,474	2	Billy Evans	Red Rolfe	Briggs Stadium
3	3	3	Boston Red Sox	T - S - R	154	94	60	.610	4.0	1027	804	223	dnq	1,344,080	4	Joe Cronin	Steve O'Neill, Joe McCarthy	Fenway Park
4	4	4	Cleveland Indians	T - S - R	154	92	62	.597	6.0	806	654	152	dnq	1,727,464	3	Hank Greenberg	Lou Boudreau	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
5	5	10	Washington Senators I	T - S - R	154	67	87	.435	31.0	690	813	-123	dnq	699,697	13	Calvin Griffith	Bucky Harris	Griffith Stadium
6	6	13	Chicago White Sox	T - S - R	154	60	94	.390	38.0	625	749	-124	dnq	781,330	12	Frank Lane	Red Corriden, Jack Onslow	Comiskey Park
7	7	14	St. Louis Browns	T - S - R	154	58	96	.377	40.0	684	916	-232	dnq	247,131	16	Bill DeWitt	Zack Taylor	Sportsman's Park
8	8	16	Philadelphia Athletics	T - S - R	154	52	102	.338	46.0	670	913	-243	dnq	309,805	15	Art Ehlers	Connie Mack	Shibe Park
National League -
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	5	Philadelphia Phillies	T - S - R	154	91	63	.591	--	722	624	98	Lost World Series (Yankees)	1,217,035	5	Bob Carpenter	Eddie Sawyer	Shibe Park
2	2	6	Brooklyn Dodgers	T - S - R	154	89	65	.578	2.0	847	724	123	dnq	1,185,896	6	Branch Rickey	Burt Shotton	Ebbets Field
3	3	7	New York Giants	T - S - R	154	86	68	.558	5.0	735	643	92	dnq	1,008,878	10	Chub Feeney	Leo Durocher	Polo Grounds
4	4	8	Boston Braves	T - S - R	154	83	71	.539	8.0	785	736	49	dnq	944,391	11	John Quinn	Billy Southworth	Braves Field
5	5	9	St. Louis Cardinals	T - S - R	153	78	75	.510	12.5	693	670	23	dnq	1,093,411	9	---	Eddie Dyer	Sportsman's Park
6	6	11	Cincinnati Reds	T - S - R	153	66	87	.431	24.5	654	734	-80	dnq	538,794	14	Warren Giles	Luke Sewell	Crosley Field
7	7	12	Chicago Cubs	T - S - R	153	64	89	.418	26.5	643	772	-129	dnq	1,165,944	8	Wid Mathews	Frankie Frisch	Wrigley Field
8	8	15	Pittsburgh Pirates	T - S - R	153	57	96	.373	33.5	681	857	-176	dnq	1,166,267	7	Roy Hamey	Billy Meyer	Forbes Field
16 record(s)

Glossary:
Rank If team context, indicates Divisional Rank LgRank Rank within a League. For MLB, refers to AL or NL MLBRank Rank in all of Major League Baseball for the season Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. G Games Played (or Pitched) W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L)) GBL Games behind leader. ((Team A Wins-Team B Wins) + (Team A Losses-Team B Losses))/2 RF Runs For RA Runs Against Diff Run Differential. RF-RA Playoffs Playoff participation description. Attendance Number of people paying for tickets for games Att Rank Attendance rank within the league Ballpark Team or School's ballpark for the season

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