Call to the pen
Fansided

Five World Series overrun by controversy

By Daniel R. Epstein

20 Oct 2000: Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees is interviewed by the media the day before game 1 of the World Series against the New York Mets at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. DIGITAL IMAGE. Mandatory Credit: Jed Jacobsohn/ALLSPORT
20 Oct 2000: Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees is interviewed by the media the day before game 1 of the World Series against the New York Mets at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. DIGITAL IMAGE. Mandatory Credit: Jed Jacobsohn/ALLSPORT /
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Mandatory Credit: Ezra O. Shaw /Allsport
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1934: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers

The 1934 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers was a seven-game classic. Ten Hall of Famers participated for the two clubs. The raucous Cardinals, known as the Gas House Gang, featured brothers Dizzy (the NL MVP) and Paul Dean, who would pitch five of the seven games. The Tigers were led by player-manager and AL MVP Mickey Cochrane and a ferocious lineup including Hank Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer, and Goose Goslin.

In the fourth game, Dizzy Dean entered the game as a pinch runner. While sliding into second attempting to break up a double play, the relay throw beaned him in the head and knocked him completely unconscious. He was taken to the hospital and eventually given a clean bill of health. He started game five the next day and game seven two days later.

"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing. -Dizzy Dean"

The deciding seventh game was an 11-0 rout by the Cardinals, but it wasn’t without drama. In the top of the sixth, Joe Medwick slid hard into third base en route to an RBI triple. When he took his spot in left field in the bottom of the inning, the aggrieved Detroit faithful pelted him with rotten fruit and other foreign objects. Commissioner Landis ordered Medwick to be removed from the game. Medwick remains the only player in history to be ejected from the World Series by the commissioner.

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