The 1933 Boston Red Sox season was the 33rd season in the franchise's
Major League Baseball history. The
Red Sox finished seventh in the
American League (AL) with a record of 63 wins and 86 losses,
games behind the
Washington Senators.
On February 25, 1933,
Tom Yawkey bought the Red Sox for $1.25 million from
J. A. Robert Quinn, and persuaded friend and former
Philadelphia Athletics
The Philadelphia Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Kansas City Athletics. Following another move in 1967, the team became the Oaklan ...
second baseman
Eddie Collins
Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr. (May 2, 1887 – March 25, 1951), nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from to for the Philadelphia Athlet ...
to be the team's vice president and general manager.
There were five
rainouts during the season, one game against the Senators and a four-game series against the
Chicago White Sox that was cancelled due to the remnants of the
1933 Outer Banks hurricane
The 1933 Outer Banks hurricane lashed portions of the North Carolina and Virginia coasts less than a month after 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane, another hurricane hit the general area. The twelfth tropical storm and sixth hurricane of the 19 ...
, which passed to the southeast of
New England during the third weekend of September.
Regular season
Season Overview
In a May meeting of the American League owners, Tom Yawkey reached an agreement with St. Louis Browns owner
Phil Ball for the catcher
Rick Ferrell and the pitcher
Lloyd Brown. Yawkey also paid $100,000 for pitcher
George Pipgras and infielder
Billy Werber from the New York Yankees.
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Opening Day lineup
Roster
Player stats
Batting
Starters by position
''Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in''
Other batters
''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in''
Pitching
Starting pitchers
''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''
Other pitchers
''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''
Relief pitchers
''Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts''
Farm system
[Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007]
References
External links
1933 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference1933 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com
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