The Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926: A Classic Season and St. Louis in Seven

ISBN-13: 9780786446575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 204 str.

Paul E. Doutrich

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The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were heavily composed of first- and second-generation Americans and based in New York, the epicenter of baseball; the Cardinals, on the other hand, were mostly a collection of farm boys playing at the western fringe of the major leagues. But both teams arrived battle-tested, St. Louis having fought a long, close race with Cincinnati, New York having survived a dramatic late-season run by Cleveland. Their classic World Series meeting went seven games and produced one of the legendary pitcher-batter confrontations in baseball history.