Complete Tiger broadcast from 1934

[tycobb420]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jGPNgYzElk

 

[tycobb420]

Here's the boxscore

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET193409200.shtml

 

[Mitchrapp]

You gotta love old time baseball.

 

[kalinecountry]

Here's the boxscore

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET193409200.shtml

Looking at that boxscore, a couple of things stand out. Anyone know what they are?

 

[turok]

Looking at that boxscore, a couple of things stand out. Anyone know what they are?

Gehrig's lone Triple Crown season?

Yet he only placed 5th in MVP voting that year.

It was also Cochrane's 1st season as player manager for the Tigers.

Oh and Red Rolfe played 3rd for the Yankees he was a career Yankee player as well, after the 1947 season, Rolfe joined the Detroit Tigers as director of their farm system. But he returned to the field after only one season, when he succeeded Steve O'Neill as Tiger manager after the 1948 campaign. Tigers manager '49-'52.


I don't see anything that unusual about the game itself, unless I'm missing something that should be obvious.

 

[kalinecountry]

Gehrig's lone Triple Crown season?

Yet he only placed 5th in MVP voting that year.

That was one thing. Imagine that.

Another was the Tigers had 4 future hall of famers to the Yankees 2.

But there are still a couple other things I noticed looking at the whole boxscore.

 

[turok]

That was one thing. Imagine that.

Another was the Tigers had 4 future hall of famers to the Yankees 2.

But there are still a couple other things I noticed looking at the whole boxscore.

Looking @ HOFer Tony Lazzeri's career stats I don't see anything so remarkable about his offense or that truly stood out, (he hit .300 or better in <half of his career) other than being a member of the famous "Murderers' Row" '27 Yankees team. Maybe that was the ticket for him to enter Cooperstown?

 

[Rebbiv]

8 Errors in the game, 4 on each side

 

[turok]

That year was the first in 25 consecutive that the Tigers clinched the AL pennant, however they lost in the World Series to the...ugh...St. Louis Cardinals for the first time and other than the Cubs, whom the ballclub has played most often in the Fall Classic the latter w/a 2-2 record vs a 1-2 record. The Tigers had yet to win a World Series (0-4) until the following '35 postseason when they defeated the Cubs 4 games to 2.

 

[spockmaster]

the tigers are good at losing world series. what are we now, 4-7?

 

[turok]

Tigers placed no less than half of the top ten vote-getters in the '34 AL MVP vote tally, Cochrane won w/67 points, Gehringer runner-up w/65, #4 was Rowe w/59, #6 Greenberg w/29, and #9 Owen w/13.

 

[turok]

the tigers are good at losing world series. what are we now, 4-7?

Yeah, but just getting there is better than never...ala the Lions and the Superbowl era. (I know that you aren't a Lions fan, btw.) Out of the 4 major sports, being runner-up is best in MLB b/c of winning the AL/NL Pennant. In hockey an NHL team can win a trophy (President's Cup), for having the best regular-season record, yet still not make it to the Stanley Cup finals...ala the '96 Red Wings, who had set a new record @ 62–13–7.

Even with the introduction of a "second" WC slot in both leagues, clinching a postseason berth is still the most difficult in MLB than it is in the NFL, NBA and NHL, when there have been instances of teams that couldn't break even with a .500 record...cough...Seahawks...cough...still clinching a wildcard/playoff berth. But once in the NFL playoffs it is the most difficult to advance in, due to "one (loss) and done"...but the same applies in MLB for the lone WC playoff game that I consider to be unfair and should be expanded to at least the best 2 out of 3.

 

[kalinecountry]

ok, might not seem like a big thing after reading it....

Both teams had a future Tigers manager on it.
Red Rolfe from 1949-1952, and George Moriarty 1927-1928.

also kind of surprising for these past few decades, but back then I guess players became umpires.
Moriarty after playing for the Tigers was an umpire, and so became Bill Dinneen who was a successful pitcher for the redsox.
Bill McGowan was voted into the hall of fame as an umpire.

 

[biggunsbob]

One of the guys names was Chief.... Man nicknames were great back then...

Elon Chester Hogsett

 

[tinselwolverine]

I was at that game.