How did the Cubs win the pennant?

They simply fielded, hit, and pitched better than any other team in the league. Although extremely rare for a World Series team to lead in all three of these areas, the 1945 Cubs did. Their weakest offensive stat for the season was actually their homerun record. The Cubs had a well-balanced lineup of players who had better years at their positions than their counterparts on other teams. Of 80 sport writers of the day, how many picked Chicago to win the World Series in 1945? 35. Why did Philip K. Wrigley not travel to Detroit for the first three games of the 1945 World Series? Wrigley stayed in town as a show of support to fans unable to buy tickets because of scalpers and in an attempt to somehow resolve this ticket quandary. He also supervised the preparation of Wrigley Field for the big event: its thorough cleaning; the training of ushers on the Handie-Talkies; the hanging of bunting; and the addition of 4,000 folding chairs to the box seat section. How much did Cubs' World Series ...  more