1934 St. Louis Cardinals season
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| 1934 St. Louis Cardinals 1934 World Series Champions 1934 National League Champions |
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| Owner(s) | Sam Breadon |
| Manager(s) | Frankie Frisch |
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| Local radio | KMOX (France Laux) KWK (Bob Thomas, Ray Schmidt) |
| Stats | ESPN.com |
The St. Louis Cardinals 1934 season was the team's 53rd season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 43rd season in the National League. The Cardinals went 95-58 during the season and finished 1st in the National League. In the World Series, they defeated the Detroit Tigers in 7 games, winning the last 11-0.
Pitcher Dizzy Dean won the MVP Award this year, with a 2.66 ERA, 30 wins, and 195 strikeouts.
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[edit] Regular season
[edit] Season standings
| National League | W | L | GB | Pct. |
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| St. Louis Cardinals | 95 | 58 | -- | .621 |
| New York Giants | 93 | 60 | 2 | .608 |
| Chicago Cubs | 86 | 65 | 8 | .570 |
| Boston Braves | 78 | 73 | 16 | .517 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 74 | 76 | 19.5 | .493 |
| Brooklyn Dodgers | 61 | 81 | 23.5 | .467 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 56 | 93 | 37 | .376 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 52 | 99 | 42 | .344 |
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1934 St. Louis Cardinals roster
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[edit] The Gashouse Gang
The Gashouse Gang was a nickname applied to the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team of 1934.
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. According to one account, scrappy shortstop Leo Durocher coined the term. He and his teammates were speaking derisively of the American League and the consensus was that the Redbirds – should they prevail in the National League race – would handle whoever won the AL pennant. "Why, they wouldn't even let us in that league over there," Durocher, who had played for the New York Yankees, observed. "They think we're just a bunch of gashousers." The phrase "gas house" referred to plants that manufactured town gas for lighting and cooking from coal, which were common fixtures in US cities prior to the widespread use of natural gas. The plants were noted for their foul smell and were typically located near railroad yards in the poorest neighborhood in the city.
Led by playing manager Frankie Frisch and the hard-nosed Durocher, as well as stars like Joe Medwick, Ripper Collins, Pepper Martin, and brothers Dizzy and Paul Dean, the '34 Cardinals won 95 games, the NL pennant, and the World Series in seven games over the Detroit Tigers.
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. Not among the All-Stars was 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.
[edit] Player stats
[edit] Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In
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[edit] World Series
In the World Series, the Cards and Tigers split the first two games in Detroit, and the Tigers took two of the next three in St. Louis. St. Louis proceeded to win the next two, including an 11-0 embarrassment of the Tigers in Detroit to win the Series. The stars for the Cards were 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, who combined for all four of the teams wins with 28 strikeouts and a minuscule 1.43 earned run average.
NL St. Louis Cardinals (4) vs. AL Detroit Tigers (3)
| Game | Score | Date | Location | Attendance |
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| 1 | Cardinals – 8, Tigers – 3 | October 3 | Navin Field | 42,505 |
| 2 | Cardinals – 2, Tigers – 3 (12 innings) | October 4 | Navin Field | 43,451 |
| 3 | Tigers – 1, Cardinals – 4 | October 5 | Sportsman's Park | 37,073 |
| 4 | Tigers – 10, Cardinals – 4 | October 6 | Sportsman's Park | 37,492 |
| 5 | Tigers – 3, Cardinals – 1 | October 7 | Sportsman's Park | 38,536 |
| 6 | Cardinals – 4, Tigers – 3 | October 8 | Navin Field | 44,551 |
| 7 | Cardinals – 11, Tigers – 0 | October 9 | Navin Field | 40,902 |
[edit] Awards and honors
- Dizzy Dean, Associated Press Athlete of the Year [1]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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| Preceded by New York Giants 1933 |
National League Championship Season 1934 |
Succeeded by Chicago Cubs 1935 |
| Preceded by New York Giants 1933 |
World Series Champions St. Louis Cardinals 1934 |
Succeeded by Detroit Tigers 1935 |
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