1952 St. Louis Browns season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = St. Louis Browns
season = 1952
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
ballpark = Sportsman's Park
y4 = 1902
city = St. Louis, Missouri
y5 = 1902
owners =Bill Veeck
managers = Rogers Hornsby, Marty Marion
television =KSD
(Buddy Blattner)
radio = WIL
(Buddy Blattner, Dizzy Dean)|The by|1952 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Browns finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 64 wins and 90 losses.

Offseason

*November 27, 1951: Joe DeMaestri was traded by the Chicago White Sox with Gordon Goldsberry, Dick Littlefield, Gus Niarhos, and Jim Rivera to the St. Louis Browns for Al Widmar, Sherm Lollar, and Tom Upton. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/demaejo01.shtml]

Regular Season

In 1952, Rogers Hornsby, an alleged former member of the Ku Klux Klan, took over as manager of the Browns. Despite past accusations of racism, Hornsby was less hesitant to use Paige than Boudreau was four years before. Paige was so effective that when Hornsby was fired by Veeck, his successor Marty Marion seemed not to want to risk going more than three games without using Paige in some form. By July 4, with Paige having worked in 25 games, Casey Stengel named him to the American League All-Star team, making him the first black pitcher on an AL All-Star team. The All-Star game was cut short after five innings due to rain and Paige never got in. Stengel resolved to name him to the team the following year. Paige finished the year 12-10 with a 3.07 ERA for a team that lost ninety games.

eason standings

Roster

Starting pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball". Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997]

* Class AAA: Toronto Maple Leafs (International League; Joe Becker and Burleigh Grimes, managers)
* Class AA: San Antonio Missions (Texas League; Jo-Jo White, manager)
* Class A: Scranton Miners (Eastern League; Zack Taylor, manager)
* Class A: Wichita Indians (Western League; Ralph Winegarner, manager)
* Class B: York White Roses (Interstate League; Jim Crandall, manager)
* Class B: Anderson Rebels (Tri-State League; George Hausmann, manager)
* Class C: Stockton Ports (California League; Harry Clements and Tony Freitas, managers)
* Class C: Pine Bluff Judges (Cotton States League; Hillis Layne, manager)
* Class C: Aberdeen Pheasants (Northern League; Bruce Ogrodowski, manager)
* Class C: Pocatello Bannocks (Pioneer League; Ed Fernandes, manager)
* Class D: Independence Browns (Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League; Fred Collins, manager)
* Class D: Wellsville Rockets (PONY League; Gene Crumling and Rocco Sgro, managers)
* Class D: Ada Herefords (Sooner State League; Bill Enos, Virl Loman and Jim England, managers)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SLB/1952.shtml 1952 St. Louis Browns team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1952&t=SLA 1952 St. Louis Browns season at baseball-almanac.com]