Gashouse Gang

The Gashouse Gang was a nickname applied to the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team of 1934.

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St. Louis Cardinals - Major League Baseball - 1934

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The Cardinals, by most accounts, earned this nickname from the team's generally very shabby appearance and rough-and-tumble tactics. An opponent once stated that the Cardinals players usually went into the field in unwashed, dirty and smelly uniforms, which alone spread horror among their rivals.

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Led by stars like Joe Medwick, Ripper Collins, Pepper Martin and Dizzy Dean, the '34 Cardinals won 95 games, the NL Pennant, and beat the Detroit Tigers in 7 games to win the World Series.

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Joe Medwick - Ripper Collins - Pepper Martin - Dizzy Dean - Detroit Tigers - World Series

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The team featured five regulars who hit at least .300, a 30 game winner in Dizzy Dean, and four all-stars, including player-manager Frankie Frisch. Not among the all-stars was Ripper Collins, the first baseman who led the team in sixteen offensive catergories with stats like a .333 batting average, a .615 slugging percentage, 35 home runs, and 128 runs batted in.

Related Topics:
Frankie Frisch - First baseman - Batting average - Slugging percentage - Home runs - Runs batted in

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In the 1934 World Series, the Cards and Tigers split the first two games in Detroit, and Detroit took two of the next three in St. Louis. St. Louis proceeded to win the next two, including an 11-0 embarrasment of the Tigers in Detroit to win the Series. The stars for the Cards were Joe Medwick, who had a .379 batting average with one of St. Louis' two home runs and a series-high five RBI, and the Dean Brothers, Dizzy and Paul, who combined for all four of the teams wins with 28 strikeous and a miniscule 1.43 earned run average.

Related Topics:
Detroit - St. Louis - Earned run average

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