- 1938 Boston Red Sox season
MLB yearly infobox-pre1969 alt
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1938
misc =
current league = American League
y1 = 1901
Uniform
ballpark =Fenway Park
y4 = 1912
city = Boston,Massachusetts
y5 = 1901
owners =Tom Yawkey
general manager =Eddie Collins
managers =Joe Cronin
television = none
radio = WAAB
Fred Hoey|The 1938
Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing 2nd in theAmerican League with a record of 88 wins and 61 losses.Offseason
December 2, 1937: Red Kress was traded by the Boston Red Sox with Buster Mills and Bobo Newsom to the St. Louis Browns for Joe Vosmik. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kressre01.shtml]
Regular season
The 1938 Boston Red Sox finished higher than any other Sox team since 1918. The Boston Red Sox, Milton Cole and Jim Kaplan, p.25, World Publications Group, North Dighton, MA, ISBN 1-57215-412-8 ] The Red Sox finished in second place with 88 wins and 61 losses, finishing 11 games back of the New York Yankees.
Jimmie Foxx led the American League with a .349 batting average, 50 Home Runs and 175 RBIs.eason standings
Opening Day Line Up
Other batters
Relief pitchers
Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball," 2nd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007]* Class AA:
Minneapolis Millers (American Association;Donie Bush , manager)
* Class A1:Little Rock Travelers (Southern Association ;Doc Prothro , manager)
* Class A:Hazleton Red Sox (Eastern League;Specs Toporcer , manager)
* Class B:Rocky Mount Red Sox (Piedmont League ;Herb Brett , manager)
* Class C:Clarksdale Red Sox (Cotton States League );Nemo Leibold , manager)
* Class C:Canton Terriers (Middle Atlantic League ; Floyd "Pat" Patterson, manager)
* Class D:Elizabethton Betsy Red Sox (Appalachian League ; Hobe Brummit, manager)
* Class D:Danville-Schoolfield Leafs (Bi-State League ; Emil Barnes, manager)
* Class D:Moultrie Packers (Georgia-Florida League ; Dewey Stover, manager)
* Class D:Crookston Pirates (Northern League;Bill Burwell , manager)References
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1938.shtml 1938 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1938&t=BOS 1938 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]
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