Sports season
The 1943 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 20 to October 11, 1943. The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees were the regular season champions of the National League and American League , respectively. In a rematch of the prior year's postseason, the Yankees then defeated the Cardinals in the World Series , four games to one.
In order to conserve rail transport during World War II , the 1943 spring training sites was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River . Spring training sites included the Chicago White Sox in French Lick, Indiana ; the Washington Senators in College Park, Maryland ; and the Yankees in Asbury Park, New Jersey .[1]
Home field attendance [ edit ]
Team name
Wins
%±
Home attendance
%±
Per game
Brooklyn Dodgers [2] 81
-22.1%
661,739
-36.2%
8,594
New York Yankees [3] 98
-4.9%
618,330
-32.9%
8,030
Detroit Tigers [4] 78
6.8%
606,287
4.5%
7,773
Washington Senators [5] 84
35.5%
574,694
42.4%
7,562
St. Louis Cardinals [6] 105
-0.9%
517,135
-6.6%
6,384
Chicago White Sox [7] 82
24.2%
508,962
19.5%
6,697
Chicago Cubs [8] 74
8.8%
508,247
-14.0%
6,777
Pittsburgh Pirates [9] 80
21.2%
498,740
11.1%
6,394
Philadelphia Phillies [10] 64
52.4%
466,975
102.9%
5,987
New York Giants [11] 55
-35.3%
466,095
-40.2%
6,053
Cleveland Indians [12] 82
9.3%
438,894
-4.5%
5,700
Cincinnati Reds [13] 87
14.5%
379,122
-11.2%
4,861
Philadelphia Athletics [14] 49
-10.9%
376,735
-11.0%
4,769
Boston Red Sox [15] 68
-26.9%
358,275
-50.9%
4,653
Boston Braves [16] 68
15.3%
271,289
-4.9%
3,523
St. Louis Browns [17] 72
-12.2%
214,392
-16.1%
2,784
^ Suehsdorf, A. D. (1978). The Great American Baseball Scrapbook , p. 103. Random House. ISBN 0-394-50253-1 .
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Pre-modern era
Beginnings Competition NL monopoly
Modern era
See also