The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series—and America’s Heart—During the Great Depression

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With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the best 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. Epic baseball feats offered welcome relief from the hardships of day-to-day life. The Gashouse Gang, the bright culmination of a dream by its general manager, Branch Rickey, the primary to envision a farm system that may acquire and “educate” young players within the art of baseball, used to be adored by the nation, who saw itself—scruffy, proud, and unbeatable—within the Gang.

In line with original research and told in entertaining narrative style, The Gashouse Gang brings a bygone era and a cast full of vivid personalities to life and unearths a treasure trove of baseball lore so as to delight any fan of the good American pastime.

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