Offseason
* Prior to the 1946 season:
Stan Lopata
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was signed as an amateur free agent by the Phillies.
Preseason
The Phillies held spring training in Miami Beach, Florida, returning to
Flamingo Field where the team had trained from 1940 to 1942 before World War II travel restrictions kept teams close to home. The team stayed at the Boulevard Hotel at the corner of Dade Boulevard and Meridian Avenue.
The Phillies held minor league camp in Dover, Delaware.
Regular season
For the first time in the 1946 season, the
Philadelphia Phillies
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used airplanes to travel between cities during the regular season. The Phillies chartered two planes and returned to Philadelphia from Chicago following the scheduled June 12 game against the Cubs.
In June 1946, the
Cleveland American League club was sold to
Bill Veeck
William Louis Veeck Jr. ( ; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill", was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Br ...
and a note appeared in the ''Sporting News'' that the team was considering a spring training move to
Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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for 1947.
Paul Ficht, secretary of the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce, along with Mayor J.C. House, and city manager F.L. Hendrix spoke with the
St. Louis Browns
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, Newark Bears,
Kansas City Blues, and Phillies about training in Clearwater in 1947. On July 27, 1946, Hendrix announced that the Phillies had accepted Clearwater's invitation to train at
Clearwater Athletic Field
Clearwater Athletic Field was a stadium in Clearwater, Florida. It was first used by professional baseball teams for spring training in 1923 and was the Phillies' first spring training ballpark in Clearwater. The grandstand sat approximately 2,0 ...
in 1947 on a one-year agreement.
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
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'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007]
Notes
References
1946 Philadelphia Phillies season at Baseball Reference
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