This year I hope to blog about the 1952 baseball season, with emphasis on the New York teams of Willie, Mickey, and the Duke, as well as some reports on the old Pacific Coast League. The PCL was an Open classification in 1952, not quite a major league but above AAA.
It also meant that if a player was called up to the big leagues from the PCL, he didn't have to go, and many players didn't. For one thing, they liked the weather on the west coast. Also, many players made more money playing in the Coast League than they would make in the big leagues.
Anyway, the Angels, that is the current Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, not to be confused with the Los Angeles Angels of the old PCL, have been playing in front of Spring Training crowds in the neighborhood of 10,000 spectators per game. In 1952, the St. Louis Browns, having one of their best ever attendance years, avearged fewer than 6700 fans per game, in the regular season.! No wonder they moved to Baltimore after just one more season. Only 9 of the 16 Major League teams averaged more than 10,000 per game in 1952.
The PCL played a 180 game schedule in 1952.
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