The 1932 World Series was played between the New York Yankees (American League) and the Chicago Cubs (National League), with the Yankees holding home field advantage. For other events named "World Series" see World Series (disambiguation. In the 1931 World Series, the St Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Athletics in seven games a rematch and reversal of fortunes of the 1930 World Series The 1933 World Series featured the New York Giants and the Washington Senators, with the Giants winning in five games for their first championship since The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League ( AL) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League ( NL) is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball In sports home is a term referring to both the City and Stadium, Arena, or Field where an athletic team plays games at their venue whilst The Yankees swept the Cubs, four games to none. The series was otherwise noteworthy for Babe Ruth's "called shot", for his tenth and last World Series appearance overall, and for the arguments that developed between the two teams. George Herman Ruth Jr (February 6 1895 &ndash August 16 1948 also popularly known as " Babe " " The Bambino " and " The Sultan of Babe Ruth's called shot was the Home run hit by Babe Ruth in the fifth Inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, held on 1 October The heated atmosphere started before the series even began.

In this Series played a record thirteen future Hall of Famers.

Game Summary

AL New York Yankees (4) vs. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. NL Chicago Cubs (0)

Matchups

Game 1

Wednesday, September 28, 1932 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

WP: Red Ruffing (1-0)  LP: Guy Bush (0-1)  
HRs:  NYY – Lou Gehrig (1)

Game 2

Thursday, September 29, 1932 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

WP: Lefty Gomez (1-0)  LP: Lon Warneke (0-1)  

Game 3

Saturday, October 1, 1932 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois

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Roughly 50,000 Cubs fans showed up for Game 3, the large crowd made possible by the construction of temporary bleachers in Waveland and Sheffield Avenues. In a prelude of things to come, Ruth and Lou Gehrig put on an impressive batting display during batting practice. Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig ( June 19 1903  – June 2 1941) born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Ruth launched nine balls to the outfield stands while Gehrig hit seven. See also List of baseball jargon lace To hit the ball very hard typically a line drive. As reported in the first edition of A Day at the Park, by William Hartel, p. 82, Ruth said while batting: "I'd play for half my salary if I could bat in this dump all the time!"

Cubs starting pitcher Charlie Root struggled in the first inning of game 3. In Baseball or Softball, a starting pitcher, often abbreviated as starter, is the Pitcher who pitches the first pitch to the first batter of Charles Henry Root ( March 17, 1899 - November 5, 1970) was an American right-handed Pitcher in Major League Baseball An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during The first two Yankees reached base when Ruth came to bat and hit a home run into the right-center bleachers to put the Yankees up 3-0. See also List of baseball jargon backdoor breaking ball A breaking pitch usually a Slider, Curveball, or Cut fastball As the existing newsreel footage shows, Gehrig gave Ruth a friendly swat across the fanny as Ruth crossed the plate. Gehrig then hit a home run of his own in the third inning, echoing a homer he had hit at Wrigley while in high school. This put the Yankees up 4-1. The Cubs battled back with two runs in the thirds and one in the fourth, tying the score at four runs a piece. Joe Judge, who scored the tying run in the fourth, had doubled to right after Ruth dove in a futile attempt to catch the ball. Joseph Ignatius Judge ( May 25 1894 – March 11 1963) was an American First baseman in Major League Baseball

What happened in the top of the fifth inning is the stuff of legend. The series is immortalized in many history books for just that reason. Though Ruth and Gehrig each hit a home run in the inning [in back-to-back at-bats], it is Ruth’s hit that is the better known. Ruth supposedly predicted his home run by pointing to the stands prior to a pitch. While it has been confirmed that he pointed somewhere during the at-bat, there has been much debate as to whether Ruth actually "called" the home run, as there is a lack of solid evidence proving exactly what he was pointing at.

WP: George Pipgras (1-0)  LP: Charlie Root (0-1)  SV: Herb Pennock (1)  
HRs:  NYY – Babe Ruth 2 (2), Lou Gehrig 2 (3)  CHC – Kiki Cuyler (1), Gabby Hartnett (1)

Game 4

Sunday, October 2, 1932 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois

WP: Wilcy Moore (1-0)  LP: Jakie May (0-1)  SV: Herb Pennock (2)  
HRs:  NYY – Earle Combs (1), Tony Lazzeri 2 (2)  CHC – Frank Demaree (1)

Composite Box

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The arguments

Bench jockeying, called "trash talk" nowadays, was standard procedure in baseball at that time, with no verbal punches pulled, but the jockeying was said to be taken to new heights (or depths) in this Series, on the grounds of a personal disrespect against a former teammate. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois.

The initial cause of the bad tempers was over former Yankee shortstop Mark Koenig. Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and Third base. Mark Anthony Koenig ( July 19 1904 – April 22 1993) was an American Shortstop in Major League Baseball. The Cubs picked up Koenig from the Detroit Tigers via the Mission Reds of the PCL on April 25, 1932. The Detroit Tigers are a professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan, USA The Pacific Coast League (PCL is a Minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ^[6] Despite Koenig's regular-season contributions,^[7] the other Cubs players voted him only half a share of their World Series money because he only played in 33 games and was unable to play in the Series due to injury. Some of Koenig's Yankee friends heard of this; as a result, they began to criticize the Cubs players as "cheapskates" in the press. ^[8] The Yankees felt the Cubs were being "tight" with their money.

Ruth's remarks seemed to set the Cubs players off the most when he called them cheapskates. ^[8] Adding some spice to the verbal stew was the fact that the Yankees' manager, Joe McCarthy, had previously been fired by the Cubs. When the series started in New York, the Cubs players retaliated at Ruth by calling him fat and washed up along with every obscene name they could think of. Guy Bush, the Cubs starting pitcher in game 1, was particularly vocal against Ruth, calling him "nigger" (a common bench-jockey slam against Ruth due to his German-featured broad nose and thick lips), and this type of "banter" lasted for most of the Series. Guy Terrell Bush ( August 23 1901 - July 2 1985) was an American right-handed Pitcher in Major League Baseball Nigger is a Noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a derogatory context to refer to Black people, and also as an informal

The Called Shot

Main article: Babe Ruth's called shot

Babe Ruth's Called Shot refers to the home run hit by Babe Ruth in the fifth inning of game 3. Babe Ruth's called shot was the Home run hit by Babe Ruth in the fifth Inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, held on 1 October During the at-bat, Ruth made a pointing gesture, which existing film confirms, but the exact nature of his gesture is ambiguous. Although neither fully confirmed nor refuted, the story goes that Ruth pointed to the center field bleachers during the at-bat. A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the Outfielder in Baseball who plays defense in center field - the baseball fielding position Bleachers redirects here For the novel see Bleachers (novel. Bleachers is a term used to describe the raised tiered stands found It was supposedly a declaration that he would hit a home run to this part of the park. On the next pitch, he hit a "Ruthian" home run to deep center field, past the flagpole and into the temporary seating in the streets, the flight of the ball estimated at nearly 500 feet. A few reporters later wrote that Ruth had "called his shot" (a reference to pocket billiards), and thus the legend was born. Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles Ruth, ever-aware of his larger-than-life public image, was quick to "confirm" the story once he became aware of it. Conflicting testimony and inconclusive film footage have placed the moment in the realm of baseball legends.

Notes

Reference(s)

• 1932 World Series by Baseball Almanac http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1932ws.shtml
• Baseball America by Donald Honig ISBN 0-88365-817-8
• Creamer, Robert W. Donald Honig is a Novelist that mostly writes about Baseball. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. Simon and Schuster, 1974, 440 pages.
• Stout, Glenn. Yankees Century. Houghton Mifflin, 2003, 478 pages.
• Neft, David S. , and Richard M. Cohen. The World Series. 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 142-146)
• Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed. ), p. 2140. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.
• Forman, Sean L. . 1932 World Series. Baseball-Reference. com - Major League Statistics and Information. . Retrieved on 2007-12-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city

External links

• 1932 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com
• 1932 World Series at WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)
• Audio - Babe Ruth's Comment's on His Called Shot
• 1932 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org