1945 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1946 ,
1947 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- : The writers' vote again fails to select an inductee, despite a newly revamped voting process. Voting again favors earlier candidates from the 1900s and 1910s, but none is able to gain 75% of the vote.
- , Frank Chance , Jack Chesbro , Johnny Evers , Clark Griffith , Tommy McCarthy , Joe McGinnity , Eddie Plank , Joe Tinker , Rube Waddell and Ed Walsh . Selections of 19th century players are largely postponed. It is decided that the writers will henceforth select only players retired within the more recent past, rather than from the entire 20th century.
- , MLB Commissioner Happy Chandler mentions a lifetime suspension for them, but his penalty is later reduced ( 1949 ).
- of Cleveland Indians hits four Double s and one Home Run , but Ted Williams wallops three HRs and drives in eight runs, as the Boston Red Sox top the Indians 11-10. In the Sox second-game win, the famous "Boudreau Shift" is born. Boudreau shifts all his players, except the Third Baseman and Left Fielder , to the right side of the diamond in an effort to stop Williams. Ted grounds out and walks twice while ignoring the shift.
- beats Horace Lindrum 78-67, then announces his retirement from the event after this, his 15th consecutive victory.
- January 1 — Manfred Stengl , Austrian luger
- January 10 — Robert Gadocha , Polish footballer
- January 11 — Ludmila Poradnik , Soviet handball player
- January 21 — Johnny Oates , baseball catcher and manager (d. 2004 )
- March 1 — Jan Kodeš , Czech tennis player
- April 30 — Don Schollander , American swimmer
- May 1 — Valentin Muratov , Soviet floor exercise gymnast
- May 17 — Sinaida Turchina , Soviet handball player
- May 20 — Mario Guilloti , Argentine boxer
- May 24 — Selwyn Maister , New Zealand field hockey player
- May 31 — Steve Bucknor , Jamaican international cricket umpire
- June 2 — Warwick Wright , New Zealand field hockey player
- July 7 — Jim Day , Canadian equestrian show jumper
- July 10 — Juan Amat , Spanish field hockey player
- July 19 — Ilie Năstase , Romanian tennis player
- July 31 — Zbigniew Kaczmarek , Polish weightlifter
- August 6 — Dusty Rhodes , Australian baseball coach
- August 29 — Bob Beamon , American high jumper
- September 2 — Uli Vos , German field hockey player
- September 7 — Eduard Thelen , German field hockey player
- September 10 — James Hines , American track and field athlete
- October 1 — Eva Klobukowska , Polish relay sprinter
- October 1 — Alfred Jones , American middleweight boxer
- October 1 — Winnie Van Weerdenburg , Dutch swimmer (d. 1998 )
- October 8 — Lennox Miller , Jamaican champion runner (d. 2004 )
- October 11 — Sawao Kato , Japanese gymnast
- October 23 — Miklós Németh , Hungarian javelin thrower
- November 28 — Wolfgang Rott , German field hockey player
- November 29 — Suzy Chaffee , American alpine skier
- December 29 — Laffit Pincay, Jr. , Panama-born jockey
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