Back In 1934

The World Series begins this weekend, the St. Louis Cardinals taking on the Detroit Tigers. The teams have met twice before in the World Series, once in 1968, and once in 1934.

The 1934 series went the full seven games, the Cardinals winning 4 games to 3. The last game turned out to be a laugher, the Cardinals winning 11-0 behind the pitching of Dizzy Dean. It was a tense contest for all of two innings. In the top of the 3rd, all hell breaks loose, and the Cardinals bring up 13 batters to the plate, scoring 7 runs, Dizzy Dean helping his own cause with a double and a single. The Tigers went through four pitchers in the inning.

More antics were to come at the top of the 6th inning. The Cards’ Joe Medwick slid hard into third base following his triple, and got into a tiff with the third baseman. Whe Medwick took the field at the bottom of the inning the Detroit fans started pelting him with fruit, vegetables, and anything else they could throw. By order of the Commissioner, Medwick was removed from the game for his own safety. Even with their best hitter thus taken out, the Cards had no trouble finishing off the Tigers. Dizzy Dean was the MVP of the series, winning two games, and losing one.