With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, filled with larger-than-life baseball personalities like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Pepper Martin, Casey Stengel, Satchel Paige, Frankie Frisch, and--especially-- the eccentric good ol' boy and great pitcher Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul.
The year 1934 marked the lowest point of the Great Depression, when the U.S. went off the gold standard, banks collapsed by the score, and millions of Americans were out of work....
With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 19...
Hailed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review as a hugely detailed, engagingly written history, this is the first behind-the-scenes account of one of the greatest American success stories of this century. Front page reviews in major publications.
Hailed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review as a hugely detailed, engagingly written history, this is the first behind-the-scenes accou...