The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals: The World Champion Gas House Gang

by Charles F. Faber, Fred Stein, Bill Nowlin, et al.

The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals were one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime. Sportswriters delighted in assigning nicknames to the players, based on their real or imagined qualities. What a cast of characters it was None was more picturesque than Pepper Martin, the "Wild Horse of the Osage," who ran the bases with reckless abandon, led his team-mates in off- the-field hi-jinks, and organized a hillbilly band called the Mississippi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933599731
• ISBN13: 9781933599731
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"