1952 MLB Season in Review - The Baseball Cube

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A high-level summary of the 1952 Major League Baseball Season. The page includes standings, team totals and leaderboards. There is a lot more information on the season in various sub-sections such as the player register, team pages and boxscore-related pages.

Season Information

Season

1952

World Series Champions

New York Yankees

Runner Up

Brooklyn Dodgers

Most Valuable Players

AL: Bobby Shantz NL: Hank Sauer

Cy Young Winners

AL: NL:

Rookies of the Year

AL: Harry Byrd NL:

Managers of the Year

AL: NL:

#1 Draft Pick

All-Star Game

Philadelphia,Pennsylvania

Teams

Players

554

Attendance

14,633,044

Payroll

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1952 Major League Baseball Standings

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Grid Filters		Playoff Team
American League -
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	2	New York Yankees	T - S - R	154	95	59	.617	--	727	557	170	Won World Series (Dodgers)	1,629,665	1	George Weiss	Casey Stengel	Yankee Stadium I
2	2	3	Cleveland Indians	T - S - R	154	93	61	.604	2.0	763	606	157	dnq	1,444,607	2	Hank Greenberg	Al Lopez	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
3	3	7	Chicago White Sox	T - S - R	154	81	73	.526	14.0	610	568	42	dnq	1,231,675	3	Frank Lane	Paul Richards	Comiskey Park
4	4	8	Philadelphia Athletics	T - S - R	154	79	75	.513	16.0	664	723	-59	dnq	627,100	13	Art Ehlers	Jimmy Dykes	Shibe Park
5	5	9	Washington Senators I	T - S - R	154	78	76	.506	17.0	598	608	-10	dnq	699,457	11	Calvin Griffith	Bucky Harris	Griffith Stadium
6	6	11	Boston Red Sox	T - S - R	154	76	78	.494	19.0	668	658	10	dnq	1,115,750	4	Joe Cronin	Lou Boudreau	Fenway Park
7	7	14	St. Louis Browns	T - S - R	154	64	90	.416	31.0	579	733	-154	dnq	518,796	15	Bill Veeck	Marty Marion, Rogers Hornsby	Sportsman's Park
8	8	15	Detroit Tigers	T - S - R	154	50	104	.325	45.0	557	738	-181	dnq	1,026,846	6	Charlie Gehringer	Fred Hutchinson, Red Rolfe	Briggs Stadium
National League -
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	1	Brooklyn Dodgers	T - S - R	153	96	57	.627	--	775	603	172	Lost World Series (Yankees)	1,088,704	5	Buzzie Bavasi	Chuck Dressen	Ebbets Field
2	2	4	New York Giants	T - S - R	154	92	62	.597	4.5	722	639	83	dnq	984,940	8	Chub Feeney	Leo Durocher	Polo Grounds
3	3	5	St. Louis Cardinals	T - S - R	154	88	66	.571	8.5	677	630	47	dnq	913,113	9	---	Eddie Stanky	Sportsman's Park
4	4	6	Philadelphia Phillies	T - S - R	154	87	67	.565	9.5	657	552	105	dnq	755,417	10	Bob Carpenter	Eddie Sawyer, Steve O'Neill	Shibe Park
5	5	10	Chicago Cubs	T - S - R	154	77	77	.500	19.5	628	631	-3	dnq	1,024,826	7	Wid Mathews	Phil Cavarretta	Wrigley Field
6	6	12	Cincinnati Reds	T - S - R	154	69	85	.448	27.5	615	659	-44	dnq	604,197	14	Gabe Paul	Luke Sewell, Rogers Hornsby, Earle Brucker	Crosley Field
7	7	13	Boston Braves	T - S - R	153	64	89	.418	32.0	569	651	-82	dnq	281,278	16	John Quinn	Charlie Grimm, Tommy Holmes	Braves Field
8	8	16	Pittsburgh Pirates	T - S - R	154	42	112	.273	54.5	515	793	-278	dnq	686,673	12	Branch Rickey	Billy Meyer	Forbes Field
16 record(s)

Glossary:
Rank If team context, indicates Divisional Rank LgRank Rank within a League. For MLB, refers to AL or NL MLBRank Rank in all of Major League Baseball for the season Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. G Games Played (or Pitched) W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L)) GBL Games behind leader. ((Team A Wins-Team B Wins) + (Team A Losses-Team B Losses))/2 RF Runs For RA Runs Against Diff Run Differential. RF-RA Playoffs Playoff participation description. Attendance Number of people paying for tickets for games Att Rank Attendance rank within the league Ballpark Team or School's ballpark for the season

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