1932 Boston Red Sox season

The 1932 Boston Red Sox season was the 32nd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The team's home field was Fenway Park. The Red Sox finished last in the eight-team American League with a record of 43 wins and 111 losses, 64 games behind the New York Yankees, who went on to win the 1932 World Series.
The Red Sox initially played their Sunday home games at Braves Field this season, as had been the case since the team's 1929 season, due to Fenway being close to a house of worship. The team played a total of six home games at Braves Field during the 1932 season; an early-season Tuesday doubleheader against the New York Yankees, and four Sunday games. A new Massachusetts law was enacted in late May that allowed the team to play at Fenway on Sundays. The final game the Red Sox ever played at Braves Field was on May 29, 1932, when they lost the second game of a doubleheader to the Philadelphia Athletics. The Red Sox' first Sunday home game at Fenway was played on July 3, 1932, a 13–2 loss to the Yankees.
The 1932 team set a franchise record for the lowest winning percentage in a season,.279, which still stands. The team allowed 915 runs while only scoring 566, a run differential of -349, the second-worst in MLB's modern era.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day lineup

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Bennie Tate	81	273	67	.245	2	26
1B	Dale Alexander	101	376	140	.372	8	56
2B	Marv Olson	115	403	100	.248	0	25
SS	Rabbit Warstler	115	388	82	.211	0	34
3B	Urbane Pickering	132	457	119	.260	2	40
OF	Tom Oliver	122	455	120	.264	0	37
OF	Smead Jolley	137	531	164	.309	18	99
OF	Roy Johnson	94	349	104	.298	11	47

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	93	302	71	.235	5	24
Johnny Watwood	95	266	66	.248	0	30
Ed Connolly	75	222	50	.225	0	21
Hal Rhyne	71	207	47	.227	0	14
Earl Webb	52	192	54	.281	5	27
George Stumpf	79	169	34	.201	1	18
Al Van Camp	34	103	23	.223	0	6
	12	48	10	.208	0	0
Johnny Reder	17	37	5	.135	0	3
Andy Spognardi	17	34	10	.294	0	1
Charlie Berry	10	32	6	.188	0	6
Howie Storie	6	8	3	.375	0	0
Otis L. Miller	2	2	0	.000	0	0
Hank Patterson	1	1	0	.000	0	0
Johnny Lucas	1	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	25	141.2	8	6	3.81	30
Gordon Rhodes	12	79.1	1	8	5.11	22
Danny MacFayden	12	77.2	1	10	5.10	29

Other pitchers