1946 Philadelphia Phillies season

• Prior to the 1946 season: Stan Lopata was signed as an amateur free agent by the Phillies.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopatst01.shtml Stan Lopata] at Baseball Reference

The Phillies held spring training in Miami Beach, Florida, returning to Flamingo Field where the team had trained from 1940 to 1942 before World War II travel restrictions kept teams close to home.{{cite news |last=Dolson|first=Frank|date=April 2, 1986 |title=Baseball's most magical spring |url= |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |location=Philadelphia Inquirer|page=4C}} The team stayed at the Boulevard Hotel{{cite news |last=Murrow|first=Art|date=April 2, 1946 |title=Phils Cut Squad to 39 Players|url= |work=Philadelphia Inquirer|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|page=26}} at the corner of Dade Boulevard and Meridian Avenue.{{cite web |url=https://mdpl.org/archives/2021/01/the-boulevard-hotel/ |title=The Boulevard Hotel |last= |first= |date=2022 |website=mdpl.org |publisher=Miami Design Preservation League |access-date=2022-11-26|quote=}}

The Phillies held minor league camp in Dover, Delaware.{{cite news |last=|first=|date=April 2, 1946 |title=Phil Farm Hands Report at Dover|url= |work=Philadelphia Inquirer|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|page=26}}

For the first time in the 1946 season, the Philadelphia Phillies used airplanes to travel between cities during the regular season. The Phillies chartered two planes and returned to Philadelphia from Chicago following the scheduled June 12 game against the Cubs.{{cite news |date=April 11, 1946 |title=Phils to try planes from Chicago to here|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |page=24 }}

In June 1946, the Cleveland American League club was sold to Bill Veeck and a note appeared in the Sporting News that the team was considering a spring training move to Tucson, Arizona for 1947.

Paul Ficht, secretary of the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce, along with Mayor J.C. House, and city manager F.L. Hendrix spoke with the St. Louis Browns, Newark Bears, Kansas City Blues, and Phillies about training in Clearwater in 1947. On July 27, 1946, Hendrix announced that the Phillies had accepted Clearwater's invitation to train at Clearwater Athletic Field in 1947 on a one-year agreement.{{cite magazine |last=Lewis |first=Allen|date=March 1986 |title=Philadelphia '47 '86 Clearwater|magazine=1986 Phillies: Spring Training 40th Year in Clearwater|location=Clearwater, Florida |publisher=Philadelphia Phillies|pages=4–5 }}

{{1946 National League standings|highlight=Philadelphia Phillies}}

{{1946 NL Record vs. opponents|team=PHI}}

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

{{See also|Minor League Baseball}}

{{MLB Farm System

|level12=A|team12=Utica Blue Sox|league12=Eastern League|manager12=Eddie Sawyer

|level13=B|team13=Terre Haute Phillies|league13=Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League|manager13=Ray Brubaker

|level14=B|team14=Wilmington Blue Rocks|league14=Interstate League|manager14=Jack Saltzgaver

|level15=C|team15=Schenectady Blue Jays|league15=Canadian–American League|manager15=Bill Cronin

|level16=C|team16=Salina Blue Jays|league16=Western Association|manager16=Ed Walls

|level17=D|team17=Dover Phillies|league17=Eastern Shore League|manager17=John Lehman

|level18=D|team18=Americus Phillies|league18=Georgia–Florida League|manager18=[https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sanfor002geo Jack Sanford]

|level19=D|team19=Bradford Blue Wings|league19=PONY League|manager19=Leon Riley

|level20=D|team20=Green Bay Bluejays|league20=Wisconsin State League|manager20=Harry Griswold

}}Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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