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The 1948 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1948 season. The 45th edition of the World Series , it matched the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians and the National League (NL) champion Boston Braves .
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]
The regular season ended on October 4, with the Boston Braves and Cleveland Indians as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Indians won the American League title via a tie-breaker game victory over the Boston Red Sox , after both teams finished their 154-game schedules with identical 96–58 ...
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The 1948 Cleveland Indians season was the 48th in franchise history. When the regular season resulted in a first place tie, the Indians won a one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox to advance to the World Series. Cleveland won the championship by defeating the Boston Braves 4 games to 2 for their first World Series win in 28 years.
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The 29-year-old Lopat has posted a 50–49 won–lost record, with a 3.18 earned run average, in 113 games for Chicago since 1944; in 7½ seasons with the Yankees, he will go 113–59 (3.19) and win five World Series rings.
Sep. 15—Major League Baseball's "unwritten rules of the game" have — without question — created a cult atmosphere within the game. Breaking any of the "codes" (many believe) is a sin against ...