1945 Chicago Cubs season
































1945 Chicago Cubs
1945 National League Champions
Major League affiliations

  • National League (since 1879)

Location

  • Wrigley Field (since 1916)

  • Chicago (since 1870)

Other information
Owner(s) Philip K. Wrigley
General manager(s) James T. Gallagher
Manager(s) Charlie Grimm
Local radio
WIND
(Bert Wilson, Wayne Osborne)
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The 1945 Chicago Cubs season was the 74th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 70th in the National League and the 30th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs won the National League pennant with a record of 98–56, 3 games ahead of the second-place St. Louis Cardinals. The team went on to the 1945 World Series, which they lost to the Detroit Tigers in seven games. It would take 71 years before the Cubs made it to another World Series.




Contents






  • 1 Regular season


    • 1.1 Season standings


    • 1.2 Record vs. opponents


    • 1.3 Roster




  • 2 Player stats


    • 2.1 Batting


      • 2.1.1 Starters by position


      • 2.1.2 Other batters




    • 2.2 Pitching


      • 2.2.1 Starting pitchers


      • 2.2.2 Other pitchers


      • 2.2.3 Relief pitchers






  • 3 1945 World Series


    • 3.1 The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis


    • 3.2 Game 1


    • 3.3 Game 2


    • 3.4 Game 3


    • 3.5 Game 4


    • 3.6 Game 5


    • 3.7 Game 6


    • 3.8 Game 7




  • 4 Farm system


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Regular season



Season standings






















































































National League

W

L

Pct.

GB

Home

Road

Chicago Cubs
98 56
0.636

49–26
49–30

St. Louis Cardinals
95 59
0.617
3
48–29
47–30

Brooklyn Dodgers
87 67
0.565
11
48–30
39–37

Pittsburgh Pirates
82 72
0.532
16
45–34
37–38

New York Giants
78 74
0.513
19
47–30
31–44

Boston Braves
67 85
0.441
30
36–38
31–47

Cincinnati Reds
61 93
0.396
37
36–41
25–52

Philadelphia Phillies
46 108
0.299
52
22–55
24–53




Record vs. opponents








































































































1945 National League Records


Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team
BOS
BR
CHC
CIN
NYG
PHI
PIT
STL

Boston
9–13–1 7–15 10–12 10–10–2 14–8 7–15 10–12

Brooklyn
13–9–1 8–14–1 11–11 15–7 19–3 12–10 9–13

Chicago
15–7 14–8–1 21–1 11–11 17–5 14–8 6–16

Cincinnati
12–10 11–11 1–21 6–16 12–10 10–12 9–13

New York
10–10–2 7–15 11–11 16–6 17–5 11–11 6–16

Philadelphia
8–14 3–19 5–17 10–12 5–17 6–16 9–13

Pittsburgh
15–7 10–12 8–14 12–10 11–11 16–6 10–12–1

St. Louis
12–10 13–9 16–6 13–9 16–6 13–9 12–10–1




Roster














1945 Chicago Cubs

Roster

Pitchers




  • 26 Hank Borowy




  • 31 Bob Chipman




  • 36 Jorge Comellas




  • 30 Paul Derringer




  • 37 Paul Erickson




  • 34 Ed Hanyzewski




  • 27 George Hennessey




  • 13 Claude Passeau




  • 39 Ray Prim




  • 27 Walter Signer




  • 32,38 Ray Starr




  • 38 Mack Stewart




  • 35 Hy Vandenberg




  • 36 Lon Warneke




  • 33 Hank Wyse




Catchers




  • 10 Paul Gillespie




  • 11 Mickey Livingston




  •  8 Len Rice




  • 12 Dewey Williams


Infielders






  •  7 Heinz Becker




  • 53 Cy Block




  • 44 Phil Cavarretta




  •  6 Stan Hack




  • 23 Roy Hughes




  • 20 Pep Johnson




  • 21 Lennie Merullo




  • 50 Johnny Ostrowski




  • 51 Reggie Otero




  • 22 Bill Schuster




Outfielders




  • 32 Loyd Christopher




  • 47 Peanuts Lowrey




  • 43 Bill Nicholson




  • 48 Andy Pafko




  • 45 Ed Sauer




  • 49 Frank Secory


Other batters






  •  5 Johnny Moore




Manager




  • 40 Charlie Grimm


Coaches






  • 42 Roy Johnson




  • 52 Red Smith




  • 41 Milt Stock




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





























































































Pos
Player
G
AB
H
Avg.
HR
RBI
C Mickey Livingston 71 224 57 .254 2 23
1B Phil Cavarretta 132 498 177 .355 6 97
2B Don Johnson 138 557 168 .302 2 58
SS Lennie Merullo 121 394 94 .239 2 37
3B Stan Hack 150 597 193 .323 2 43
OF Peanuts Lowrey 143 523 148 .283 7 89
OF Andy Pafko 144 534 159 .298 12 110
OF Bill Nicholson 151 559 136 .243 13 88


Other batters


Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in




















































































Player
G
AB
H
Avg.
HR
RBI
Roy Hughes 69 222 58 .261 0 8
Paul Gillespie 75 163 47 .288 3 25
Heinz Becker 67 133 38 .286 2 27
Dewey Williams 59 100 28 .280 2 5
Len Rice 32 99 23 .232 0 7
Ed Sauer 49 93 24 .258 2 11
Frank Secory 35 57 9 .158 0 6
Bill Schuster 45 47 9 .191 0 2


Pitching



Starting pitchers


Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

























































Player
G
IP
W
L
ERA
SO
Hank Wyse 38 278.1 22 10 2.68 77
Claude Passeau 34 227 17 9 2.46 98
Paul Derringer 35 213.2 16 11 3.45 86
Ray Prim 34 165.1 13 8 2.40 88
Hank Borowy 15 122.1 11 2 2.13 47


Other pitchers


Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts







































Player
G
IP
W
L
ERA
SO
Hy Vandenberg 30 95.1 7 3 3.49 35
Bob Chipman 25 72 4 5 3.50 29
Lon Warneke 9 14 0 1 3.86 6


Relief pitchers


Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts







































Player
G
W
L
SV
ERA
SO
Paul Erickson 28 7 4 3 3.32 53
Mack Stewart 16 0 1 0 4.76 9
Walter Signer 6 0 0 1 3.38 0


1945 World Series




The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis



The Curse of the Billy Goat was a curse on the Chicago Cubs that was started in 1945 and ended in 2016. As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant (from Paleopyrgos, Greece[1]), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia according to some references), which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern. The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "We got Detroit's goat".[2] Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. At this point, Andy Frain (head of Wrigley Field's hired security company at the time), waved the goat's box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed, "If he eats the ticket that would solve everything."[2] However, the goat did not. Before the game was over, it started to rain and Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner Philip Knight Wrigley due to the objectionable odor of wet goat. Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece. The Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, prompting Sianis to write to Wrigley from Greece, saying, "Who stinks now?" The Cubs would eventually break the curse and what would turn out to be a 108-year drought by winning the World Series in 2016 over the Cleveland Indians in seven games.



Game 1


October 3, 1945, at Briggs Stadium in Detroit






















































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H
E
Chicago 4 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 9 13 0
Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0

WP: Hank Borowy (1–0)   LP: Hal Newhouser (0–1)
Home runs:
CHI: Phil Cavarretta (1)
DET: None


Game 2


October 4, 1945, at Briggs Stadium in Detroit






















































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H
E
Chicago 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0
Detroit 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 7 0

WP: Virgil Trucks (1–0)   LP: Hank Wyse (0–1)
Home runs:
CHI: None
DET: Hank Greenberg (1)


Game 3


October 5, 1945, at Briggs Stadium in Detroit






















































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H
E
Chicago 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 8 0
Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2

WP: Claude Passeau (1–0)   LP: Stubby Overmire (0–1)


Game 4


October 6, 1945, at Wrigley Field in Chicago






















































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H
E
Detroit 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 1
Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 1

WP: Dizzy Trout (1–0)   LP: Ray Prim (0–1)


Game 5


October 7, 1945, at Wrigley Field in Chicago






















































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H
E
Detroit 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 2 8 11 0
Chicago 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 7 2

WP: Hal Newhouser (1–1)   LP: Hank Borowy (1–1)


Game 6


October 8, 1945, at Wrigley Field in Chicago































































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H
E
Detroit 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 7 13 1
Chicago 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 8 15 3

WP: Hank Borowy (2–1)   LP: Dizzy Trout (1–1)
Home runs:
DET: Hank Greenberg (2)
CHI: None


Game 7


October 10, 1945, at Wrigley Field in Chicago






















































Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H
E
Detroit 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 9 9 1
Chicago 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 10 0

WP: Hal Newhouser (2–1)   LP: Hank Borowy (2–2)


Farm system




















































Level
Team
League
Manager
AA

Los Angeles Angels

Pacific Coast League

Bill Sweeney
A1

Nashville Vols

Southern Association

Larry Gilbert
B

Hagerstown Owls

Interstate League

Mickey Balla and Dutch Dorman
B

Portsmouth Cubs

Piedmont League

Ival Goodman
C

Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets

Carolina League

Jack Warner
D

Elizabethton Betsy Cubs

Appalachian League

Bill Kelly
D

Statesville Cubs

North Carolina State League

Jim Poole


References





  1. ^ *"The Curse of The Billy Goat". February 27, 2004. Retrieved on October 18, 2006.


  2. ^ ab *"Da Curse of the Billy Goat...The Chicago Cubs, Pennant Races and Curses" – Chapter 1 – Enter the Goat. Retrieved October 18, 2006




External links



  • 1945 Chicago Cubs season at Baseball Reference










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