The World Series was the first national radio broadcast of the October classic, and the Deans made the most of the national spotlight, winning two games each as the Cardinals won the series. He had won twelve games by the all-star break of the season and was the starting pitcher for the National Leaguers in that exhibition game. Dean left the field seemingly unhurt, but his toe had been broken.
Only ten days later, however, he was back on the mound pitching. Due to the pain, he could not throw normally, but he continued to attempt to pitch as frequently as he had in the past.
An arm injury resulted and effectively ended at its peak one of the brightest pitching careers of the s. For the remainder of the season, Dean won only one game as he rested his arm for extended weeks and refrained from pitching in an attempt to regain his fastball. He retired early in the season. Dizzy Dean found new employment by moving his talking from the baseball field to the broadcast booth.
Louis Browns provided the opportunity. Dean was part of the first generation of former players to use their first-hand knowledge of the game to become a baseball broadcaster, and Dean was the first announcer to make humor a regular part of his broadcast. A new baseball language emerged from the Dean broadcasts. Dean died July 17, , in Reno, Nevada, following a heart attack. For additional information: Alexander, Charles C.
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Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Choice is:. Powered by. As a team, the Cardinals ran hot and cold through the season, the brothers Dean doing all they could to keep the team strong. When Dizzy complained early on that he and Daffy each earned half the salary of pitching teammate Wild Bill Hallahan—claiming they were both twice as good—the other Cardinals pitchers stewed.
Then came an exhibition at Detroit in early August. Louis and fined the two, Dizzy and Daffy went crazy. They tore the locker room apart and ripped up their uniforms. When reporters burst in to get the scoop, the Deans, using their self-taught public relations know-how, repeated the scene for the flashbulbs.
Down seven games to the front-running New York Giants in early September, the Cardinals—and more importantly, the Deans—finally got serious. In an aggressive stretch run, the Cardinals pared down the lead on September 16 as they swept a doubleheader from the Giants at the Polo Grounds; Dizzy won the first game in a relief role, and Daffy took the nightcap by outdueling Carl Hubbell.
In a more stunning display of a one-two punch five days later at Brooklyn, Dizzy won the first game of a twinbill against the Dodgers with a three-hit shutout—before Daffy one-upped him with a no-hitter in the second game.
BTW: Dizzy claimed afterward that if he knew Daffy was going to throw a no-hitter, he would have thrown one as well. Throughout his entire career, he never did. The Dean brothers are on the all-time list of combined victories by a pair of siblings playing for the same team.
List does not include tandems in which one brother won no games. Are they still in the league? Louis against Cincinnati—and the Giants against Brooklyn.
The Deans took over against the Reds. Daffy was masterful on Saturday, winning his 19th game; on Sunday it was Dizzy—throwing his second seven-hit shutout of the Reds in three days. It was his 30th win of the year; no NL pitcher has since reached that peak.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals watched the scoreboard with jubilant astonishment. While St. Coming over from Washington was veteran outfielder Goose Goslin, who hit.
The Tigers outlasted the New York Yankees by seven games, while injuries, old age and bad performance in general plummeted Washington down to seventh. True to form, Dizzy Dean was anything but humble in making his World Series forecast.
The Deans would dominate, he gloated, and win all four Series games for the Cardinals. He won two of his three starts, losing Game Five with a general lack of support from St.
Louis bats. Dizzy begged to start Game Seven despite having gone the distance two days earlier, and Frisch gave him the shot. Responding with his best effort yet, Dizzy shut out the Tigers on six hits in the Series-clinching finale.
It was his fifth start in 12 days. Running from first on a ground ball, Dizzy was knocked, well, dizzy, when the throw from second nailed him square in the forehead. He was carried off on a stretcher and taken to a hospital where, as one newspaper headline screamed, X-rays of his head revealed nothing.
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