1928 World Series

Infobox World Series Expanded


year = 1928
champion = New York Yankees (4)
champion_manager = Miller Huggins
champion_games = 101-53, .656, GA: 2½
runnerup = St. Louis Cardinals (0)
runnerup_manager = Bill McKechnie
runnerup_games = 95-59, .617, GA: 2
date = October 4–October 9
MVP =
television =
announcers =
radio_network = NBC, CBS
radio_announcers = Graham McNamee, Major White, Phillips Carlin
umpires = Brick Owens (AL), Cy Rigler (NL), Bill McGowan (AL), Cy Pfirman (NL)
HOFers = Yankees: Miller Huggins (mgr.), Earle Combs, Stan Coveleski (dnp), Bill Dickey (dnp), Leo Durocher‡, Lou Gehrig, Waite Hoyt, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock (dnp), Babe Ruth.
Cardinals: Bill McKechnie (mgr.), Grover Cleveland Alexander, Jim Bottomley, Frankie Frisch, Chick Hafey, Jesse Haines, Rabbit Maranville.
ALCS =
NLCS =


‡ elected as a manager.

In the 1928 World Series, the New York Yankees swept the St. Louis Cardinals in four games. Along with 1927, this was the first time a team had swept consecutive Series.

Babe Ruth hit .625 (10 for 16) as the Yankees demolished their opponents by a combined score of 27 to 10. Like 1926, Ruth rocketed 3 home run balls over the right field pavilion at Sportsman's Park in Game 4. Unlike 1926, this was also the final game of the Series and served as a punctuation mark on the Yankees' dominance.

Lou Gehrig also had a good Series. He drove in as many runs by himself as the entire Cardinals team combined.

Bill McKechnie became the second manager to lead two different teams to the World Series, and like Pat Moran, he won one and lost one.

ummary

AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL St. Louis Cardinals (0)

Matchups

Game 1

Thursday, October 4, 1928 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New YorkLinescore
Road=St. Louis|RoadAbr=STL
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=0|RR=1|RH=3|RE=1
Home=New York|HomeAbr=NYY
H1=1|H2=0|H3=0|H4=2|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=1|H9=X|HR=4|HH=7|HE=0
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Waite Hoyt (1-0)|LP=Bill Sherdel (0-1)|SV=
RoadHR=Jim Bottomley (1)|HomeHR=Bob Meusel (1)|

Game 2

Friday, October 5, 1928 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New YorkLinescore
Road=St. Louis|RoadAbr=STL
R1=0|R2=3|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=3|RH=4|RE=1
Home=New York|HomeAbr=NYY
H1=3|H2=1|H3=4|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=1|H8=0|H9=X|HR=9|HH=8|HE=2
RSP=|HSP=
WP=George Pipgras (1-0)|LP=Grover Cleveland Alexander (0-1)|SV=
RoadHR=|HomeHR=Lou Gehrig (1)|

Game 3

Sunday, October 7, 1928 at Sportsman's Park III in St. Louis, MissouriLinescore
Road=New York|RoadAbr=NYY
R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=2|R5=0|R6=3|R7=1|R8=0|R9=0|RR=7|RH=7|RE=2
Home=St. Louis|HomeAbr=STL
H1=2|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=1|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|HR=3|HH=9|HE=3
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Tom Zachary (1-0)|LP=Jesse Haines (0-1)|SV=
RoadHR=Lou Gehrig 2 (3)|HomeHR=|

Game 4

Tuesday, October 9, 1928 at Sportsman's Park III in St. Louis, MissouriLinescore
Road=New York|RoadAbr=NYY
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=1|R5=0|R6=0|R7=4|R8=2|R9=0|RR=7|RH=15|RE=2
Home=St. Louis|HomeAbr=STL
H1=0|H2=0|H3=1|H4=1|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=1|HR=3|HH=11|HE=0
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Waite Hoyt (2-0)|LP=Bill Sherdel (0-2)|SV=
RoadHR=Babe Ruth 3 (3), Lou Gehrig (4), Cedric Durst (1)|HomeHR=|

Composite Box

1928 World Series (4-0): New York Yankees (A.L.) over St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.)Linescore
Road=New York Yankees
R1=4|R2=2|R3=4|R4=5|R5=0|R6=3|R7=6|R8=3|R9=0|RR=27|RH=37|RE=6
Home=St. Louis Cardinals
H1=2|H2=3|H3=1|H4=1|H5=1|H6=0|H7=1|H8=0|H9=1|HR=10|HH=27|HE=5Total Attendance: 199,072 Average Attendance: 49,768Winning Player’s Share: – $5,813 Losing Player’s Share – $4,181cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wsshares.shtml|title=World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares|accessdate=2008-05-07|publisher=Baseball Almanac] |

Notes

References

*Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. "The World Series." 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 124-127)
*Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). "The Baseball Encyclopedia" (5th ed.), p. 2136. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.
*cite web |author=Forman, Sean L. |title=1928 World Series |date= |work=Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information. |url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1928_WS.shtml |accessdate=2007-12-09

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1928_WS.shtml 1928 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1928 1928 World Series at "WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)"]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1928ws.shtml 1928 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/YPS_1928.htm 1928 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org]