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The Gashouse Gang was the nickname of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team that dominated the National League from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. [1] Owing to their success that started in 1926, the Cardinals would win a total of five National League pennants from 1926 to 1934 (nine seasons) while winning three World Series championships (1926, 1931, 1934).
A baseball game takes place at the Polo Grounds in New York City, featuring the Gas-House Gorillas and the Tea Totallers. The former, a burly and intimidating team reminiscent of the real-life Gashouse Gang, dominates the elderly players of the home team and intimidates the umpire with their aggressive play. Bugs Bunny, observing from his ...
The Cardinals' "Gashouse Gang" won in seven games for their third championship in nine years. The Cardinals 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 team featured five regulars who hit at least .300, a 30-game winner in Dizzy Dean (the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in a single season, and the last pitcher in Major League Baseball to do so until Denny McLain accomplished the feat for the 1968 Detroit Tigers), and four All-Stars, including player-manager Frisch.
Perhaps his finest game of the 1933 season came on July 30, when he set a modern-era record by striking out 17 batters in the first game of a doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs. [ 10 ] Dean was best known for winning 30 games in 1934 while leading the " Gashouse Gang " Cardinals to the National League pennant and the World Series win over ...
The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). After decades of early futility in the National League, St. Louis baseball encountered a renaissance with 11 World Series titles and 18 National League pennants since 1926. [1]
1930 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1930 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1930 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1930 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006.
The 1928 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1928 season.The 25th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion New York Yankees versus the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals.