1949 St. Louis Browns season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = St. Louis Browns
season = 1949
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
ballpark = Sportsman's Park
y4 = 1902
city = St. Louis, Missouri
y5 = 1902
owners =Bill DeWitt
managers = Zack Taylor
television =KSD
radio = WEW/KWK
(Johnny O'Hara, Tom Dailey)|The 1949 St. Louis Browns season involved the Browns finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 53 wins and 101 losses.

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: Baltimore Orioles (International League; Alphonse "Tommy" Thomas and Jack Dunn III, managers)
* Class AA: San Antonio Missions (Texas League; Gus Mancuso, manager)
* Class A: Elmira Pioneers (Eastern League; Don Heffner, Jack Tobin and Sal Madrid, managers)
* Class B: Wichita Falls Spudders (Big State League; Jack Bradsher, manager)
* Class B: Springfield Browns (Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League; Jim Crandall, manager)
* Class C: Globe-Miami Browns (Arizona-Texas League; Frank Volpi and Ed Dancisak, managers)
* Class C: Gloversville-Johnstown Glovers (Canadian-American League; Jim Cullinane, manager)
* Class C: Pine Bluff Cardinals (Cotton States League; Harry Chozen, manager)
* Class C: Marshall Browns (East Texas League; Walt DeFreitas, manager)
* Class C: Aberdeen Pheasants (Northern League; Irv Hall, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class C: Salinas/Tijuana Colts (Sunset League; Bruce Ogrodowski, manager) — Franchise transferred August 5
* Class C: Muskogee Reds (Western Association; Heinie Mueller, manager)
* Class D: Redding Browns (Far West League; Ray Perry, manager)
* Class D: Pittsburg Browns (Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League; Al Barkus and Olan Smith, managers)
* Class D: Mayfield Clothiers (KITTY League; Bill Enos, manager)
* Class D: Olean Oilers (PONY League; Shan Deniston and Larry Mancini, managers)
* Class D: Ada Herefords (Sooner State League; Bill Krueger, manager)
* Class D: Wausau Lumberjacks (Wisconsin State League; Joe Skurski, manager)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SLB/1949.shtml 1949 St. Louis Browns team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1949&t=SLA 1949 St. Louis Browns season at baseball-almanac.com]