1946 Major League Baseball season

{{See also|Major League Baseball schedule}}

The 1946 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place since the {{mlby|1904}} season (except for {{mlby|1919}}) and would be used until {{mlby|1961}} in the American League and {{mlby|1962}} in the National League.

Opening Day took place on April 16, featuring all sixteen teams, continuing the trend from the previous season. The final day of the scheduled regular season was on September 29, which saw all sixteen teams play, the first time since {{mlby|1944}}. Due to the Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals finishing with the same record of 96–58, a best-of-three tie-breaker was scheduled, to be considered an extension of the regular season. The Cardinals swept the series in two games, on October 1 & 3. The World Series took place between October 6 and October 15.

An asterisk (*) denotes the ballpark a team played the minority of their home games at

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{{1946 American League standings|highlight=Boston Red Sox}}

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{{1946 National League standings|highlight=St. Louis Cardinals}}

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• The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in best-of-three playoff series to earn the National League pennant.

The postseason began on October 6 and ended on October 15 with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the Boston Red Sox in the 1946 World Series in seven games.

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• Jesse Burkett
• Frank Chance
• Jack Chesbro
• Johnny Evers
• Tommy McCarthy
• Joe McGinnity
• Eddie Plank
• Joe Tinker
• Rube Waddell
• Ed Walsh
• Clark Griffith (executive/pioneer contributor)

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• May 18 – The Chicago Cubs become the first team in Major League history to score six runs in the first and ninth innings of a game, when defeating the New York Giants 19–3.{{cite web|title=Elias Says...|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/elias?date=20120921|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102202002/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/elias?date=20120921|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013|work=ESPN.com|access-date=October 9, 2012}}
• June 9 – Mel Ott of the New York Giants is the first manager to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader, when the Giants lose both games to the Pittsburgh Pirates.{{cite book|last=Pellowski|first=Michael J|title=The Little Giant Book of Baseball Facts|year=2007|publisher=Sterling Publishing Co|location=United States|isbn=9781402742736|pages=[https://archive.org/details/littlegiantbooko0000pell/page/352 352]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/littlegiantbooko0000pell/page/352}}

• 1946 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season
• 1946 Japanese Baseball League season

{{Reflist}}

• Weintraub, Robert (2013) The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age. New York: Little, Brown & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-316-20591-7}}.

• [https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1946-schedule.shtml 1946 Major League Baseball season schedule at Baseball Reference]

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