1948 St. Louis Cardinals season

Outfielder Stan Musial won the MVP Award this year, batting .376, with 39 home runs and 131 RBIs. Musial became the first player to win three National League MVP Awards.^[1]

Season standings

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v t e National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Boston Braves	91	62	0.595	—	45–31	46–31
St. Louis Cardinals	85	69	0.552	6½	44–33	41–36
Brooklyn Dodgers	84	70	0.545	7½	36–41	48–29
Pittsburgh Pirates	83	71	0.539	8½	47–31	36–40
New York Giants	78	76	0.506	13½	37–40	41–36
Philadelphia Phillies	66	88	0.429	25½	32–44	34–44
Cincinnati Reds	64	89	0.418	27	32–45	32–44
Chicago Cubs	64	90	0.416	27½	35–42	29–48

Record vs. opponents

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1948 National League record v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	BOS	BR	CHC	CIN	NYG	PHI	PIT	STL
Boston	—	14–8	16–6–1	13–8	11–11	14–8	12–10	11–11
Brooklyn	8–14	—	11–11	18–4	11–11–1	15–7	9–13	12–10
Chicago	6–16–1	11–11	—	10–12	11–11	7–15	8–14	11–11
Cincinnati	8–13	4–18	12–10	—	10–12	11–11	9–13	10–12
New York	11–11	11–11–1	11–11	12–10	—	14–8	12–10	7–15
Philadelphia	8–14	7–15	15–7	11–11	8–14	—	12–10–1	5–17
Pittsburgh	10–12	13–9	14–8	13–9	10–12	10–12–1	—	13–9–1
St. Louis	11–11	10–12	11–11	12–10	15–7	17–5	9–13–1	—

Notable transactions

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April 7, 1948: Dick Sisler was traded by the Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies for Ralph LaPointe and $30,000.^[2]

Roster

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1948 St. Louis Cardinals

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

3 Jeff Cross
41 Larry Miggins

Manager

30 Eddie Dyer

Coaches

25 Tony Kaufmann
26 Buzzy Wares

Batting

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Starters by position

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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	Del Rice	100	290	57	.197	4	34
1B	Nippy Jones	132	481	122	.254	10	81
2B	Red Schoendienst	119	408	111	.272	4	36
SS	Marty Marion	144	567	143	.252	4	43
3B	Don Lang	117	323	87	.269	4	31
OF	Stan Musial	155	611	230	.376	39	131
OF	Enos Slaughter	146	549	176	.321	11	90
OF	Terry Moore	91	207	48	.232	4	18

Other batters

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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
Erv Dusak	114	311	65	.209	6	19
Ron Northey	96	246	79	.321	13	64
Ralph LaPointe	87	222	50	.225	0	15
Whitey Kurowski	77	220	47	.214	2	33
Bill Baker	45	119	35	.294	0	15
Babe Young	41	111	27	.243	1	13
Del Wilber	27	58	11	.190	0	10
Joe Garagiola	24	56	6	.107	2	7
Hal Rice	8	31	10	.323	0	3
Eddie Kazak	6	22	6	.273	0	2
Joe Medwick	20	19	4	.211	0	2
Chuck Diering	7	7	0	.000	0	0
Johnny Bucha	2	1	0	.000	0	0
Bobby Young	3	1	0	.000	0	0
Larry Miggins	1	1	0	.000	0	0
Jeff Cross	2	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

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Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Murry Dickson	42	252.1	12	16	4.14	113
Harry Brecheen	33	233.1	20	7	2.24	149
Howie Pollet	36	186.1	13	8	4.54	80

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Red Munger	39	166.0	10	11	4.50	72
Al Brazle	42	156.1	10	6	3.80	55
Jim Hearn	34	89.2	8	6	4.22	27
Ken Johnson	13	45.1	2	4	4.76	20

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Ted Wilks	57	6	6	13	2.62	71
Gerry Staley	31	4	4	0	6.92	23
Ken Burkhart	20	0	0	1	5.54	16
Al Papai	10	0	1	0	5.06	8
Erv Dusak	1	0	0	0	0.00	0
Ray Yochim	1	0	0	0	0.00	1
Clarence Beers	1	0	0	0	13.50	0

1948 St. Louis Cardinals season

Contents

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Other batters

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Farm system

References

External links

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