Epic baseball feats offered welcome relief from the hardships of daily life. went off the gold standard, banks collapsed by the score, and millions of Americans were out of work. The year 1934 marked the lowest point of the Great Depression, when the U.S. Louis Cardinals, filled with larger-than-life baseball personalities like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Pepper Martin, Casey Stengel, Frankie Frisch, and-especially-the eccentric good ol' boy and great pitcher Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul. 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. The definitive and rollicking story of one of the best, and one of the wackiest, teams of all time, during one of the most vital eras in baseball. Subtitled "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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