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Edwin Hawley Dyer (October 11, 1900 – April 20, 1964) was a player, manager and farm system official of the St. Louis Cardinals of American Major League Baseball from 1922-44 and 1946-50. In 1946, Dyer's first season at the helm of the Cardinals, the Redbirds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling National League season that featured the first postseason playoff in baseball history, then bested the favored Boston Red Sox in a seven-game World Series. October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in Leap years). ...
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In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager; this individual controls matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership. ...
The farm system is a slang term used in baseball to refer to the systematic control or ownership of minor league baseball clubs by major league teams, who move players from the lowest to the highest classification as they gain experience and enjoy success at each level. ...
Major league affiliations National League (1892-present) Central Division (1994-present) Eastern Division (1969-1993) American Association (1882-1891) Major league titles World Series titles (9) 1982 •1967 • 1964 • 1946 1944 • 1942 • 1934 • 1931 1926 NL Pennants (16) 2004 • 1987 • 1985 • 1982 1968 • 1967 • 1964 • 1946 1944 • 1943 • 1942 • 1934...
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This article refers to the American baseball league. ...
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Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1903 AL Pennants (11) 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967 1946 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1904 • 1903...
The 1946 World Series of Major League Baseball was played in October, 1946 between the St. ...
Born in Morgan City, Louisiana, Dyer grew up in Houston, Texas, where he attended Rice University. The lefthanded batter and thrower signed with the Cardinals as an outfielder, first baseman and pitcher in 1922. He appeared for the Cardinals in 129 games over all or parts of six seasons (1922-27) – although 1924 and 1925 were his only full seasons in the majors -- splitting 30 pitching decisions with an earned run average of 4.78, and batting .223 in 157 at bats with two home runs. Sent to hone his mound skills with the Cards’ top farm team, the Syracuse Stars of the AA International League in 1927, Dyer won his first six decisions, but in his seventh appearance he sustained a career-ending arm injury. Morgan City is a city located in St. ...
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Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly called Rice University, but formerly known as Rice Institute, is located in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. ...
An outfielder moves in to catch a fly ball Outfielder is a collective term including left fielder, center fielder, and right fielder, the three positions in baseball farthest from the batter. ...
The position of the first baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that players team. ...
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In baseball, a home run is a base hit in which the batter is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring a run, with no errors on the play that result in the batter achieving extra bases. ...
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From 1928 on, Dyer would manage in the Cardinal farm system, filling in as an outfielder through 1933. In addition, Dyer served as business manager or club president of the teams he managed, and in 1938 he supervised all of the Cardinal farm teams in the Southern and Southwestern United States. The most important of these was Dyer’s hometown Houston Buffaloes, the Cardinals’ club in the A1 Texas League, and two stops below the majors. He took over as the Buffs’ manager from 1939-41 and led them to three straight league championships, averaging 102 victories. During much of the wartime period that followed, Dyer was director of the entire Cardinals farm system, although he left that post in 1944 to tend to his oil, real estate and insurance businesses in Houston. See also: 1927 in sports, other events of 1928, 1929 in sports and the list of years in sports. Cricket 23 June-26 June, London - West Indies play their first Test match, against England. ...
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The Houston Buffaloes or Buffs were an American minor league baseball team that played in the Texas League from 1907-58 (excluding 1943-45, when the league suspended operations during World War II) and in the American Association from 1959-61. ...
The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. ...
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At the war’s end, and with the big league Cardinals in need of a manager with Billy Southworth’s departure for the Boston Braves, Dyer returned to baseball and his first major-league managing assignment in 1946. The Cardinals were a powerhouse, having won NL pennants from 1942-44 and finished second in 1941 and 1945, but ’46 was an extremely challenging season for Dyer and his team. He had to blend returning war veterans and young players with his wartime club, and lost two key players – undefeated lefthanded pitcher Max Lanier and second baseman Lou Klein - to the marauding Mexican League. He also had to deal with the Cards’ implacable foes, the Dodgers of Leo Durocher, back at full strength after the war. Led by pitchers Howard Pollet and Harry Brecheen, and the hitting and leadership of Hall of Famers Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter, the Cardinals made up a five-game All-Star Break deficit and were tied with Brooklyn for the pennant on the season’s final day. The Cards then swept the Dodgers in a best-of-three playoff behind the pitching of Pollet and Murry Dickson. William Harrison Southworth (March 9, 1893 - November 15, 1969) was an American right fielder, center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. ...
Major league affiliations National League (1876-present) East Division (1994-present) West Division (1969-1993) Major league titles World Series titles (3) 1995 • 1957 • 1914 NL Pennants (17) 1999 • 1996 • 1995 • 1992 1991 • 1958 • 1957 • 1948 1914 • 1898 • 1897 • 1893 1892 • 1891 • 1883 • 1878 1877 East Division titles (11) 2005...
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Leo Ernest Durocher (July 27, 1905 - October 7, 1991), nicknamed Leo the Lip, was an American infielder and manager in Major League Baseball. ...
Harry David Brecheen (October 14, 1914 - January 17, 2004) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who won three games in the 1946 World Series for the St. ...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related...
Stanley Frank Musial (born November 21, 1920), nicknamed Stan the Man, is a Polish-American former player in Major League Baseball who played 22 seasons for the St. ...
Enos Bradsher Slaughter (April 26, 1916 - August 12, 2002) was an American baseball player. ...
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A Pennant playoff is distinguished from the conventional use of the term Playoff which indicates a post-season tournament. ...
In the 1946 World Series, the Redbirds faced what would be the only postseason team with the great Ted Williams on its roster. The Red Sox had breezed to the American League pennant by 12 games and featured 20-game winners Dave Ferriss and Tex Hughson. Idle during the NL playoffs, Boston faced an AL All-Star team in an effort to tune up for the Fall Classic. But Williams was struck on the elbow by a pitch, and when the Series began, he was ineffective. Brecheen won three games, the Cardinals played inspired baseball, and in the deciding seventh game, Slaughter hustled home from first on a double by Harry Walker to give St. Louis an upset victory. Ted Williams & Tom Yawkey Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002), nicknamed The Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, The Thumper and The Kid, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston...
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The 1946 world championship was Dyer’s high-water mark as Cardinal manager. The following season, Brooklyn upset the balance of power in the NL by boldly breaking the color line. In May, Dyer’s Cardinals became embroiled in a (hotly denied) rumor that they planned to strike, rather than permit Jackie Robinson on an NL diamond (Dyer was never implicated in the rumor). More damaging, for the next decade, the Cardinals would lag behind other NL clubs in signing African-American players. Overall, the Cardinals reverted to bridesmaid status in the NL, finishing second from 1947-49. With the team’s legendary farm system struggling without its founder – Branch Rickey, the very man who brought Robinson to Brooklyn – the Cardinals’ two decades of baseball dominance were coming to an end. In 1950, they fell to fifth and Dyer turned in his resignation. The Baseball color line was the unwritten policy which excluded African American United States before 1947. ...
Brooklyn Dodger infielder Jackie Robinson killed himself in 1947. ...
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Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 - December 9, 1965) was an innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for helping break baseballs color barrier and creating the framework to the modern minor league farm system. ...
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During his five years as St. Louis manager, the Cardinals won 446 games and lost 325 for a stellar .578 winning percentage. But Dyer preferred to manage his thriving Houston-area businesses rather than stay in baseball. He died at age 63 in April 1964 in Houston, a year after suffering a stroke. A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted. ...
References
- baseballlibrary.com
- J.G. Taylor Spink, editor; The Baseball Register, 1949 edition, C.C. Spink and Son, publishers.
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