The 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes baseball team competed in
Negro American League
The Negro American League was one of the several Negro leagues created during the time organized American baseball was segregated. The league was established in 1937, and disbanded after its 1962 season.
Negro American League franchises
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(NAL) during the
1945 baseball season. The team compiled a 52–20–2 () record.
The team won the NAL pennant and defeated the
Washington Homestead Grays in the
1945 Negro World Series
In the 1945 Negro World Series, the Cleveland Buckeyes, champions of the Negro American League, swept the Washington Homestead Grays, champions of the Negro National League, four games to none.
Summary
Matchups Game 1
The two teams were even ...
, four games to none.
Quincy Trouppe
Quincy Thomas Trouppe (December 25, 1912 – August 10, 1993) was an American professional baseball player and an amateur boxing champion. He was a catcher in the Negro leagues from 1930 to 1949. He was a native of Dublin, Georgia.
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was the team's manager.
Avelino Cañizares and
Sam Jethroe
Samuel Jethroe, nicknamed "The Jet" (January 23, 1917 – June 16, 2001), was an American center fielder in Negro league and Major League Baseball. With the Cincinnati & Cleveland Buckeyes he won a pair of batting titles, hit .340 over seven seas ...
were the leading hitters with batting averages of .365 and .339.
Gene Bremmer was the leading pitcher with a 6–1 record and 2.07
earned run average
In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...
.
References
{{1945 MLB season by team
1945 in sports in Ohio
Negro league baseball seasons
Cleveland Buckeyes