Author: david bancroft

SEASON IN REVIEW It was certainly a successful and exciting season for the 1949 Boston Red Sox. The club won the American League pennant, with a record of 100-55, for a winning percentage of .645. They finished 5.5 games ahead of the New York Yankees. In first place for most of the year, the Red…

October 2. Gm# 155 Yankee Stadium Boston 10 New York 3 RED SOX END SEASON WITH A BANG; ROUT YANKEES FOR 100TH WIN WILLIAMS HITS 50TH HR IN LAST AT BAT; PERNELL WINS 23RD GAME After enduring a long losing streak to wind down the season, the Boston Red Sox finally broke through, with a…

October 1. Gm# 154 Yankee Stadium New York 4 Boston 0 ALLIE REYNOLDS HANDS SOX FIFTH STRAIGHT DEFEAT WITH 4-0 SHUTOUT The “Super Chief”, Allie Reynolds, has whitewashed the Boston Red Sox for the second time this season. The Red Sox clinched the pennant on September 25th and have not won a game since, dropping…

September 30. Gm# 153 Griffith Stadium Washington 7 Boston 6 WASHINGTON COMPLETES SWEEP OF BOSTON; SOX HAVE DROPPED 4 IN A ROW The Washington Senators defeated the Boston Red Sox, 7-6, sweeping the Crimson Hose in a three game series. Thankfully, Boston built up a big lead in the standings and was able to comfortably…

September 29. Rain Out RED SOX-SENATORS WASHED OUT ALONG WITH ATHLETICS-YANKS Mother Nature allowed only one game in the A.L. Cleveland beat Chicago, 6-3. Standing of the Clubs Boston/152/99/53/.651/— New York/152/93/58/1/.615/5.5 Detroit/152/91/61/.599/8 Cleveland/151/82/69/.543/16.5 Philadelphia/151/81/70/.536/17.5 Chicago/151/62/89/.411/36.5 Washington/151/52/99/.344/46.5 St. Louis/152/47/104/1/.313/52

September 28. Gm# 152. Griffith Stadium Washington 4 Boston 1 SENATORS KEEP RED SOX STUCK ON 99 GAMES IN WIN COLUMN The Washington Senators once again defeated the Boston Red Sox, this time, Ray Scarborough went eight innings in a 4-1 win. Boston has been stuck on 99 wins now, for four games. Their 99…

September 27. Gm# 151 Griffith Stadium Washington 2 Boston 0 CALVERT OUT DUELS PARNELL WITH SHUTOUT OF RED SOX Washington’s Paul Calvert got the best of it in this one, beating the Boston Red Sox, 2-0 and handing Mel Parnell(22-7) his seventh loss of the season. Parnell cost himself a chance to tie the Stratball…

September 26. Gm# 150 Yankee Stadium New York 12 Boston 8 N.Y. KEEPS BOSTON AT 99 WINS IN WALK HEAVY SLUGFEST When a team makes three errors and walks 13 batters in a game, the odds of winning can’t be very good. However, the New York Yankees defied those odds, winning a 12-8 slugfest, to…

September 25. Gm# 149 Fenway Park Boston 2 New York 1 BOSTON RED SOX CLINCH AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT! The Boston Red Sox have clinched the American League pennant and once again, Vern Stephens was the hero. One day after tying the Stratball record for home runs in a game with 3, Stephens(33) again used the…

September 24. Gm# 148 Fenway Park New York 9 Boston 8 DESPITE 3 HR’S FROM VERN STEPHENS, YANKS STAY ALIVE WITH 9-8 WIN Vern Stephens tied the Stratball record for an individual hitting home runs in a game, with 3, but despite that, the New York Yankees, clung to hope in the pennant race by…