1934 World Series | ||||||||||
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Dates | October 3–9 | |||||||||
Venue(s) | Navin Field (Detroit) Sportsman's Park (St. Louis) | |||||||||
Umpires | Brick Owens (AL), Bill Klem (NL) Harry Geisel (AL), Beans Reardon (NL) | |||||||||
Hall of Famers | Umpire: Bill Klem Cardinals: Dizzy Dean Leo Durocher‡ Frankie Frisch Jesse Haines Joe Medwick Dazzy Vance Tigers: Mickey Cochrane Charlie Gehringer Goose Goslin Hank Greenberg ‡ Elected as a manager | |||||||||
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Radio | NBC, CBS | |||||||||
Radio announcers | NBC: Tom Manning Ford Bond Graham McNamee Don Wilson CBS: France Laux Pat Flanagan Ted Husing | |||||||||
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The 1934 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1934 season. The 31st edition of the World Series, it matched the St. Louis Cardinals against the Detroit Tigers. 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 stars for the Cardinals were Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, who hit .379 and one of St. Louis' two home runs, Jack Rothrock, who hit a series-high 6 RBI’s, and the meteoric ("Me 'n' Paul") Dean brothers, Dizzy and Paul (or "Daffy") Dean, who won two games each with a combined 28 strikeouts and a minuscule 1.43 earned run average. The 1934 World Series was also the last in which both teams were led by player-managers, in this case the Cardinals' Frankie Frisch and the Tigers' Mickey Cochrane.