1945

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<< 1944 1946 >>

Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1945.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Japanese Professional Baseball League: the season was canceled due to World War II (Details)
• Claxton Shield: series suspended due to World War II

Europe

• Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Blauw-Wit Amsterdam

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: Detroit Tigers (AL) over the Chicago Cubs (NL), 4 - 3 (Details)
    • American League: Detroit Tigers (Details)
    • National League: Chicago Cubs (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • Junior World Series: Louisville Colonels (AA) over the Newark Bears (IL), 4 - 2 (Details)
  • American Association: Louisville Colonels (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Kingsport Dodgers
  • Carolina League: Danville-Schoolfield Leafs
  • Eastern League: Albany Senators
  • International League: Newark Bears (Details)
  • Interstate League: Lancaster Red Roses
  • North Carolina State League: Landis Millers
  • Ohio State League: Zanesville Dodgers
  • Pacific Coast League: San Francisco Seals (Details)
  • Piedmont League: Portsmouth Cubs
  • PONY League: Batavia Clippers
  • Southern Association: Mobile Bears

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Alijadores de Tampico

• Negro Leagues
  • Negro World Series: Cleveland Buckeyes (NAL) over the Homestead Grays (NNL), 4 - 0 (Details)
  • Negro American League: Cleveland Buckeyes (Details)
  • Negro National League: Homestead Grays (Details)
  • East-West Game: The team representing the West defeated the team representing the East by a score of 9 - 6 at Comiskey Park (Details)
• All-American Girls Softball League: Rockford Peaches defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies in the playoff finals, 4 - 1 (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Cuban Winter League: Almendares
• Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Leones de Ponce

Amateur

• National Baseball Congress World Series: Enid Airs (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: canceled due to war
  • National High School Baseball Championship: canceled due to war
• National Girls Baseball League: [[]]

International competitions

• Baseball World Cup in Venezuela (Details)
  • Venezuela (Gold); Colombia (Silver); Panama (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Connie Mack: Grand Old Man of Baseball, by Fred Lieb
• My Greatest Day in Baseball, by John Carmichael et al.

Film

• The Naughty Nineties

Births

Further information: Births in 1945

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1945

Further Reading

• Douglas Jordan: "The 1945 Pennant Races", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 52, Nr. 2 (Fall 2023), pp. 47-54.
• Matt Monagan: "The little-known story of an inspiring baseball upset", mlb.com, April 17, 2022. [1]
• James D. Szalontai: Teenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck: Major League Baseball in 1945, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2009.