1951 Boston Red Sox season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969 alt
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1951
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
Uniform
ballpark = Fenway Park
y4 = 1912
city = Boston, Massachusetts
y5 = 1901
owners = Tom Yawkey
general manager =Joe Cronin
managers = Steve O'Neill
television = WBZ-TV, Ch. 4, and WNAC-TV, Ch. 7
radio = WHDH-AM 850
(Curt Gowdy, Tom Hussey, Bob Delaney)|

The 1951 Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in the American League with a record of 87 wins and 67 losses.

Offseason

*November 16, 1950: Joe DeMaestri was drafted by the Chicago White Sox from the Boston Red Sox in the 1950 rule 5 draft. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/demaejo01.shtml]

Regular season

* April 17, 1951 - Mickey Mantle makes his big league debut for the New York Yankees against the Red Sox.

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 AAA: Louisville Colonels (American Association; Pinky Higgins, manager)
* Class AA: Birmingham Barons (Southern Association; Red Marion, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class A: Scranton Red Sox (Eastern League; Jack Burns, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class B: Roanoke Red Sox (Piedmont League; Wally Millies, manager)
* Class C: San Jose Red Sox (California League; Marv Owen, manager)
* Class C: Oneonta Red Sox (Canadian-American League; Owen Scheetz, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class D: High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms (North Carolina State League; Jim Gruzdis, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class D: Marion Red Sox (Ohio-Indiana League; Elmer Yoter, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1951.shtml 1951 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1951&t=BOS 1951 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]