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Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals in July 1946.. The Montreal Royals finished with the best record in the regular season for the second consecutive season.; Jackie Robinson, Roy Partlow and Johnny Wright of the Montreal Royals became the first African-American players in the minor leagues in 30 years.
The Montreal Royals were a minor league professional baseball team in Montreal, Quebec, during 1897–1917 and 1928–1960.A member of the International League, the Royals were the top farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939; pioneering African-American player Jackie Robinson was a member for the 1946 season.
John Richard Wright (November 28, 1916 – May 4, 1990) was a Negro league pitcher who played briefly in the International League of baseball's minor leagues in 1946, and was on the roster of the Montreal Royals at the same time as Jackie Robinson, making him a plausible candidate to have broken the baseball color barrier. Instead, Wright was ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
It was the first tie-breaker series in MLB history. [5] October 15 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox, 4–3, in Game 7 of the World Series to win their sixth World Series, four games to three. The Red Sox would not appear in the World Series for another 21 years, which, coincidentally, would be a rematch with the Cardinals.
For the 1946 season, Robinson was assigned to the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' top farm team. Later in the offseason, the Dodgers signed two more players from the Negro leagues , Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe , who were assigned to the Nashua Dodgers .
This category is for players of the Montreal Royals minor league baseball team, which played in the Eastern League (1899–1911), International League (1912–1917), Eastern Canada League (1922–1923), Ontario–Quebec–Vermont League (1924) and International League (1928–1960).
The 1946 World Series was played in October 1946 between the St. Louis Cardinals (representing the National League) and the Boston Red Sox (representing the American League). This was the Red Sox's first appearance in a World Series since their championship of 1918 .