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Louis Boudreau (July 17, 1917 - August 10, 2001) was a Major League Baseball player and the American League MVP Award winner in 1948. After his playing and managing career, he was a long-time radio color commentator for the Chicago Cubs of the National League. July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ...
1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ...
August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...
In the game of baseball, both amateur and professional, it is tradition to annually recognize the one player in the league who has contributed the most to the success of the players team. ...
1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A color (or colour) commentator is a member of the broadcasting team for a sporting event who assists the play-by-play announcer by filling in any time when play is not in progress. ...
The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
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Career Boudreau made his Major League debut on September 9, 1938 for the Cleveland Indians. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ...
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The Cleveland Indians are a Major League Baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. ...
Boudreau quickly became regarded as one of the best all-round shortstops in the game, combining solid fielding with a good batting average and run production. In 1940 he batting .295 with 9 home runs and 101 RBI. One key moment came on a July night in 1941, when his young ballclub put the stopper on Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Boudreau himself fielded the ground ball that Joe D. hit in his last at-bat in that game. The position of the shortstop A shortstop moves to his left, toward the center of the field, to play a ground ball Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. ...
Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ...
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
For other uses of the phrase see Home run (disambiguation) 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 himself (along with a run for each runner who was already on...
In baseball statistics, a run batted in (RBI) is given to a batter for each run scored as the result of a batters plate appearance. ...
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Joseph Paul DiMaggio, born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), was an American baseball player. ...
Boudreau took over managerial duties with the club in 1942 while remaining the club's everyday shortstop. In 1948, he led the Indians to a first-place tie with the Boston Red Sox, then got 4 hits in an easy win in a one-game playoff at Fenway Park, breaking the hearts of Red Sox Nation and also depriving the city of their only chance at an all-Boston World Series. The Indians went on to defeat the Boston Braves 4 games to 2 win the Series (their last Series win as of 2004). He also had his best personal year, batting .355 with 18 home runs and 106 RBI, good enough to win the American League MVP Award. This article is about the year. ...
1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Fenway Park is the home ballpark for the Boston Red Sox baseball club. ...
In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League. ...
The Atlanta Braves are a Major League Baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
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The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...
In the game of baseball, both amateur and professional, it is tradition to annually recognize the one player in the league who has contributed the most to the success of the players team. ...
As both shortstop and manager, he was the inventor and most ardent practitioner of the "Williams shift", stacking all but one defensive player on the right side of the field when Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox would come to bat in certain situations. 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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After being traded to those same Red Sox in 1951, Boudreau played one more season and then became full-time manager of the Red Sox and the great "Teddy Ballgame" the next year. Unfortunately, the Sox were a team in decline. After three uneventful seasons in Boston, and three downright miserable seasons trying to skipper the hapless Kansas City Athletics, Boudreau hung up his managerial cap for good, or so he thought, and latched on as a color announcer for his hometown team, the Cubs. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...
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A month or so into the 1960 season, P.K. Wrigley, the ever-innovative owner of the Cubs, made the unusual "trade" of coaxing Boudreau out of retirement to manage the ever-struggling Cubs, and moving talkative manager "Jolly Cholly" Grimm into the broadcast booth. That experiment did not work out notably well, especially on the field. After that season, Grimm retired, Boudreau went back to the booth for good, and Wrigley began his famous (or infamous) 5-year experiment called the College of Coaches. 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Philip Knight Wrigley, sometimes also called P.K. or Phil, was the quiet son of his much more flamboyant father, William Wrigley Jr. ...
Charlie Grimm (August 28, 1898 - November 15, 1983), was a popular major league baseball first baseman and manager, sometime radio broadcaster, and generally a goodwill ambassador for baseball. ...
As a broadcaster, "The Good Kid" was kind of a mixed bag. When called upon to do play-by-play, he was a bit awkward, stumbling over difficult-to-pronounce names, such as Chris Cannizzaro which came out "Can-zah-narrow" until Chris joined the Cubs and Louie learned how to say the name correctly. But as an analyst, on tactics of the game, he was brilliant, and his typically soft-spoken personality won him many fans during his nearly 3 decades of service with WGN (AM). His two best-known radio play-by-play partners were Jack Quinlan and Vince Lloyd. He also worked on television with Jack Brickhouse from time to time. WGN-AM is a radio station on 720 kHz in Chicago, co-owned with WGN-TV. WGN-AMs transmitter is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. ...
Play-by-play, in broadcasting, means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the action of the game in progress. ...
Jack Quinlan was a sports broadcaster. ...
Vince Lloyd Skaff, who worked under the name Vince Lloyd, was a broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs for over 30 years. ...
Jack Brickhouse (January 24, 1916 - August 6, 1998) was an American sports broadcast announcer. ...
As a manager, Louie was often shackled with some inferior teams, and still finished with a decent overall record of 1162 wins and 1224 losses.
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970. 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...
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Accomplishments - 7-time All-Star (1940-44, 1947-48)
- American League MVP Award winner (1948)
- Finished 3rd in American League MVP voting (1947)
- Finished 5th in American League MVP voting (1940)
- Finished 6th in American League MVP voting (1944)
- Finished 8th in American League MVP voting (1945)
- Finished 10th in American League MVP voting (1942, 1943, 1946)
- Elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is an annual exhibition baseball game between the best players from the National League and the American League. ...
In the game of baseball, both amateur and professional, it is tradition to annually recognize the one player in the league who has contributed the most to the success of the players team. ...
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...
Teams As player: As manager: The Cleveland Indians are a Major League Baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. ...
The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. ...
The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
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