1937 World Series
| 1937 World Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 6–10 | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Red Ormsby (AL), George Barr (NL), Steve Basil (AL), Bill Stewart (NL) | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Famers |
Yankees: Joe McCarthy (mgr.), Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Red Ruffing. Giants: Carl Hubbell, Travis Jackson, Mel Ott, Bill Terry. |
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| Radio | NBC, CBS, Mutual | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers |
NBC: Tom Manning, Red Barber, Warren Brown CBS: France Laux, Bill Dyer, Paul Douglas Mutual: Bob Elson, Johnny O’Hara, David Driscoll |
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| New York Yankees (4) | Joe McCarthy | 102–52, .662, GA: 13 | |
| New York Giants (1) | Bill Terry (player/manager) | 95–67, .586, GA: 3 |
The 1937 World Series featured the defending champion New York Yankees and the New York Giants in a rematch of the 1936 Series. The Yankees won in five games, for their second championship in a row and their sixth in fifteen years (1923, 1927–28, 1932, 1936).
This was the Yankees' third Series win over the Giants (1923, 1936), finally giving them an overall edge in Series wins over the Giants with three Fall Classic wins to the Giants' two (after they lost the 1921 and 1922 Series to the Giants). Currently (as of 2012[update]), the St. Louis Cardinals are the only "Classic Eight" National League (1900–1961) team to hold a Series edge over the Bronx Bombers, with three wins to the Yankees' two. The 1937 victory by the Yankees also broke a three-way tie among themselves, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox for the most World Series wins all-time (five each). By the time the Athletics and Red Sox won their sixth World Series (in 1972 and 2004, respectively), the Yankees had far outpaced them in world championships with 20 in 1972 and 26 in 2004.
The 1937 Series was the first in which a team (in this case, the Yankees) did not commit a single error. Game 4 ended with the final World Series innings ever pitched by Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell who, during the ninth inning, gave up Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig's final Series home run.
AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL New York Giants (1)
The Series opener was a battle of aces, as the Giants sent their "Mealticket", screwballer Carl Hubbell, who had won 22 games during the season, to the mound against the Bombers' Lefty Gomez, who had won 21. Hubbell and Gomez matched zeroes until the top of the fifth inning, when Jimmy Ripple singled, moved to third on another single by Johnny McCarthy, and scored the only Giant run of the game when Gus Mancuso hit into a double play.
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