The Gashouse Gang: 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 by John Heidenry
This is the rollicking story of one of the best - and most colourful - baseball teams of all time, who lifted America's spirits and won the World Series during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The Gashouse Gang is a history of one of America's most famous baseball teams, the St Louis Cardinals. Author John Heidenry gives a vivid and action-packed account of the team's unlikely victories against the highly favoured New York Giants and Detroit Giants, to clinch the 1934 World Series. Filled with larger-than-life characters, the book is set against the background of the backdrop of the Depression, an era when fans somehow scraped together enough money to buy a ticket for the game - the one place they could find something to cheer for.