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II \SKRAI I .Despite the widespread pinch, of I depression in the minor leagues, which turned on the lights as a remedy, and the decline of gate receipts'in some major league cities. baseball generally enjoyed a good year, marked by many record breaking performances in homerun hitting.The National league, due to the j sensational character of its pen- j j nant race involving four clubs, re-'! ported record attendance of 5,500,-000 for the year. Chicago and J Brooklyn enjoyed the biggest j booms * The surprise pennant win- j s ner, St. Louis, made a gallant attempt to check the winning streak ' of the American league.After pulling up to even terms I in four games, however, the Cardi- j nals yielded to the superior punch j of the Athletics, the pitching skill of Lefty Grove and George Earn-shaw, Connie Mack’s team won its second straight world's champion-. ship and made it four in a row, j ; sixteen victories in the last nine-1 I teen games, for the American ! league..One of the dramatic moments of the year was the ninth inning home run by Jimmy Foxx that , won the crucial fifth game for the A’s and broke up a remarkable J pitching duel between Burleigh s Grimes on the one hand, Earnshaw f and Grove on the other.I Earnshaw, by pitching twenty-two successive shutout innings in j three games, turned in one of the j §p entr.-tt world's series pitching i feats, since Christy Mathewson ; j blanked the A’s of 1905 three1 times.Babe Ruth, after hitting home runs at a record breaking clip in early summer, slumped and yielded his slugging crown for the year. He was beaten out for major j league honors by Hack Wilson of the Cubs, whose total of 56 cir- j cuit clouts broke the National league record by a wide margin. Ruth finished with 49. Moreover, Joe Hauser of the Baltimore Orioles set Up a new International league record of 63 that surpassed . Ruth's high mark of 60. Nick Cul-j lop set a new home run record of 54 in the American association.The major league campaigns w’ere noteworthy otherwise for the surprising rise of the Washington ! Senators, runnersup in the Ameri- J can league after being picked to | finish seventh; for the downfall of the Chicago Cubs, culminating in the ousting of Joe McCarthy as manager in favor of Rogers Hornsby; for the end of Joe Sewell's. playing streak after the Cleve- j land' infielder had participated in j 1,102 straight games; for the unconditional release of Grover Cleveland Alexander, one time ace of National league pitchers and 1926 world s series hero.
Newspaper Details
Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Dec 28, 1930
Page 8
Full Page
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