1934 World Series
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| Dates | October 3–9 | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Brick Owens (AL), Bill Klem (NL), Harry Geisel (AL), Beans Reardon (NL) | ||||||||||||
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Umpire: Bill Klem Cardinals: Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher‡, Frankie Frisch, Jesse Haines, Joe Medwick, Dazzy Vance. Tigers: Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer, Goose Goslin, Hank Greenberg. ‡ elected as a manager. |
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| Radio | NBC, CBS | ||||||||||||
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NBC: Tom Manning, Ford Bond, Graham McNamee CBS: France Laux, Ted Husing, Pat Flanagan |
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| St. Louis Cardinals (4) | Frankie Frisch (player/manager) | 95–58, .621, GA: 2 | |
| Detroit Tigers (3) | Mickey Cochrane (player/manager) | 101–53, .656, GA: 7 |
The 1934 World Series matched the St. Louis Cardinals against the Detroit Tigers, with the Cardinals' "Gashouse Gang" winning in seven games for their third championship in eight years.
The Cards and Tigers split the first two games in Detroit, and Detroit took two of the next three in St. Louis. But St. Louis won the next two in Detroit, including an 11–0 embarrassment in Game 7 to win the Series. The stars for the Cards were Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, who hit .379, a Series-high five RBI and one of St. Louis' two home runs, and the meteoric ("Me 'n' Paul") Dean brothers, Dizzy and Paul (or "Daffy") Dean, who won two games apiece with 28 strikeouts and a minuscule 1.43 earned run average. 1934 was the last World Series in which both teams were led by player-managers.
The two teams have met twice in the World Series since 1934; in 1968 (Tigers won in seven) and 2006 (Cards won in five). Tiger pitcher Denny McLain, winner of Game 6 in 1968 (coasting home on the Tigers' record-tying ten-run second inning rally on the road), had gone 31–6 during the season, upstaging "Diz" with his mere 30–7 that year, who at 57 went onto the Tiger Stadium field in a big cowboy hat to be photographed with McLain moments after the walk-off hit that had given the latter his thirtieth win of the season. They were the last two 30-game winners in the major leagues, as of 2015[update].
The Cards, led by the Dean brothers, used only six other pitchers in amassing a team earned-run average of 2.34 for their 1934 Series victory,
Pete Fox played for the losing team, yet became the only player in Series history, as of 2012[update], to hit six doubles in a World Series.
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