The War was at its hottest point, but the Cardinals maintained the status quo with another pennant on 105 wins. The Cards ran away with the flag, a status that would change when Stan Musial went into the military the next year. Pittsburgh was 2nd and Cincinnati 3rd. Below .500 were Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Boston, and Philadelphia. That made for an all-St. Louis World Series, which the Cardinals won. The press for players was becoming so great a 15-year old made his major league debut, still the youngest big league player ever: Joe Nuxhall.
Dixie Walker won the batting title at .357, followed by Stan Musial at .347. Musial led in on-base, slugging, and OPS. He also led with 51 doubles. Bill Nicholson led with 116 runs, 33 homers, and 122 RBI. Musial and Phil Cavarretta tied with 197 hits. Johnny Barrett had 19 triples and 28 steals to lead the league.
Bucky Walters led the league with 23 wins, Joe Heusser with a 2.38 ERA (edging Walters' 2.40), and Bill Voiselle led with 161 strikeouts. Ace Adams had 13 saves.
Win Shares leaders, players; Stan Musial (St. Louis) 38, Dixie Walker (Brooklyn) 33, Augie Galan (Brooklyn) 32, Bill Nicholson (Chicago) and Jim Russell (Pittsburgh) 31, Frank McCormick (Cincinnati) 29, Johnny Hopp (St. Louis) 28, Tommy Holmes (Boston) and Bob Elliott (Pittsburgh) 27, Ray Mueller (Cincinnati) 26, Phil Cavarretta (Chicago), Mel Ott (New York) and Johnny Barrett (Pittsburgh) 25. MVP Marty Marion had 20.
Win Shares leaders, pitchers; Bucky Walters (Cincinnati) 32, Bill Voiselle (New York), Rip Sewell (Pittsburgh) and Mort Cooper (St. Louis) 24, Jim Tobin (Boston) 23, Ed Heusser (Cincinnati) 20, Claude Passeau (Chicago), Ken Raffensberger (Philadelphia) and Ted Wilks (St. Louis) 18.
WAR (Wins Against Replacement) scores: Musial 9.1, Nicholson 6.5, Galan 6.4, Walker, McCormick, and Hopp (career year) 6.0, Russell and Ott 5.4, Elliott, Barrett, and Phil Weintraub (New York) 4.4, Cavarretta 4.3, Holmes and Buster Adams (Philadelphia) 4.2, Marty Marion (St. Louis) 4.0.
Pitchers; Cooper 5.2, Sewell 4.9 (best year), Walters 4.5, Passeau 4.4, Wilks (rookie) and Fritz Ostermueller (Brooklyn/Pittsburgh) 4.3, Tobin 4.2 (last good year), Red Munger (St. Louis) 3.9, Nate Andrews (Boston) 3.8, Raffensberger 3.7, Heusser 3.4 (career year), Voiselle 3.0 (rookie, career year).
Actual award voting: MVP Top Ten | Season Results
Rk Name Team 1st Place Points Max Points Share| AB H HR BA OPS SB| W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV
+--+----------------+----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+---+------+--+---+--+
1 Marty Marion STL 7 190 336 0.57 | 506 135 6 .267 .686 1
2 Bill Nicholson CHC 4 189 336 0.56 | 582 167 33 .287 .935 3
3 Dixie Walker BRO 3 145 336 0.43 | 535 191 13 .357 .963 6
4 Stan Musial STL 3 136 336 0.40 | 568 197 12 .347 .990 7
5 Bill Voiselle NYG 0 107 336 0.32 | 105 22 0 .210 .523 0| 21-16 313 3.02 1.260 161
5 Bucky Walters CIN 3 107 336 0.32 | 107 30 0 .280 .648 0| 23-8 285 2.40 1.123 77 1
7 Ray Mueller CIN 2 85 336 0.25 | 555 159 10 .286 .751 4
8 Walker Cooper STL 1 72 336 0.21 | 397 126 13 .317 .855 4
9 Mort Cooper STL 0 63 336 0.19 | 94 19 0 .202 .491 0| 22-7 252 2.46 1.138 97 1
10 Bob Elliott PIT 0 57 336 0.17 | 538 160 10 .297 .848 9
Top player: Stan Musial. It wasn't really close, but it was a strange year in the MVP voting with Musial finishing 4th in spite of batting .347 and leading the league in OPS for the pennant winners. Perhaps it was because Musial had won the year before and dropped ten points in batting average. Still, the voting was very odd and wildly split. Shortstop Marty Marion is one of the oddest awards choices ever. Even Babe Dahlgren got a first-place vote!
#1 Stan Musial, #2 Bill Nicholson HR and RBI leader, #3 Dixie Walker the batting champ, #4 Augie Galan, #5 Johnny Hopp.
Top pitcher: Veteran Bucky Walters had a last hurrah leading the league with 23 wins and finishing a close second in ERA.
#1 Bucky Walters, #2 Mort Cooper, #3 Bill Voiselle, #4 Max Lanier, #5 Rip Sewell.
Top rookie: Bill Voiselle, although there is some doubt about his rookie status. He led the league in strikeouts.
Top manager: Billy Southworth led the Cardinals to the pennant again.
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