It got me thinking again about how our world has, in important ways, spun a long way since then. The socalled gashouse gang was one of the most engaging major league baseball teams of the first half of the twentieth century and this book is an enjoyable recitation of its 1934 championship year. Louis native and longtime cardinals fan, clearly has a personal connection to the 1934 championship team, but he removes himself from the narrative. Louis cardinals fans who werent around for the gashouse gang. The gashouse gang this time of year i like to read a baseball book, so when i saw the history book club offered a book called the gashouse gang by john heidenry, i jumped at the chance. Louis cardinals are considered one of the greatest teams to ever go onto a baseball diamond. The team won 95 games, the national league pennant, and the 1934 world series in seven games over the detroit tigers. Louis magazine, and author of several books, including the gashouse gang and what wild ecstasy. Louis cardinals, filled with largerthanlife baseball personalities like branch rickey, leo durocher, pepper martin, casey stengel, satchel paige, frankie frisch, andespecially the eccentric good ol boy and great pitcher dizzy dean and his brother paul. Heidenry leaves you with the unfailing fact that dizzy was the definite star of the team. The gashouse gang with the gashouse gang, john heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 st. The gas house gang was a new york street gang during the late 19th century. The real shame of the gashouse gang is that you dont learn very much about them, either.
All this is detailed in john heidenrys great book the gashouse gang. Louis magazine, and author of several books, including the gashouse gang and what wild. For example, jack cavanaugh has used the phrase, the raucous gas. John heidenrys the gashouse gang is the best book yet on the former, one of those rare volumes that makes you wish you could go back in time and follow a team for an entire season. The gashouse gang book by john heidenry thriftbooks. Louis cardinals, filled with largerthanlife baseball personalities like branch rickey, leo durocher, pepper martin, casey stengel. How dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin, and their colorful, comefrombehind ball club won. The young victim, bobby greenlease, the sixyearold heir of wealthy. The book concentrates more on the players than on the games. The gashouse gang how dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin and their colorful, comefrombehind ball club won the world seriesand americas heartduring the great depression by john heidenry. Louis cardinals had emerged in the mid1920s as the best team in the national league but had declined somewhat since. This true crime caper by heidenry the gashouse gang of a 1953 kansas child kidnapping gone bad carries a solid punch. John heidenry is a contributing editor to the week, the founding editor of st.
May 25, 2011 john heidenry s the gashouse gang is a nice homage to a team and era, but its caught between genres. The gashouse gang ebook by john heidenry rakuten kobo. How dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin, and their colorful, comefrombehind ball club won the world seriesand americas heartduring the. How dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin, and their colorful, comefrombehind ball club won the world seriesand americas heartduring the great depression heidenry, john on. Louis cardinals, who won the world series that year with one of the more colorful teams ever. The gashouse gang rides again beaufort south carolina the. Apr, 2008 the gashouse gang this time of year i like to read a baseball book, so when i saw the history book club offered a book called the gashouse gang by john heidenry, i jumped at the chance. Louis cardinals, filled with largerthanlife baseball personalities like branch rickey, leo durocher, pepper martin, casey stengel, satchel paige, frankie frisch, and especially the eccentric good ol boy and great pitcher dizzy dean and his. Johns purpose of this book is to inform people about what they accomplished during the great depression and world war ii. Discover book depositorys huge selection of john heidenry books online. Louis cardinals teams of the early 1930s, especially the championship 1934 world series victors. Some baseball writers use the nickname to refer to a multiyear period.
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Other cardinals who come alive in heidenrys wellwritten text are leo durocher, pepper martin, frankie frisch, joe medwick and deans younger brother, paul, who, as a rookie, won 19 games and played a critical. It took 73 years before an author, john heidenry, finally gave the team known as the gashouse gang the immortalization it deserves. The gashouse gang was the nickname of the baseball team the st. Other cardinals who come alive in heidenry s wellwritten. The gashouse gang ebook por john heidenry 9781586485986. John heidenrys the gashouse gang is a solidly researched and warmly told account of that team and season, with special focus on star hurler dizzy dean, who won 30 games and provided newspapermen with reams of copy that recorded his attentiongetting antics both on and off the field.
John heidenry news newspapers books scholar jstor february 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message. The playboy, the prostitute, and the murder of bobby greenlease, and the gashouse gang, and more on. John heidenry is a contributing editor to the week, founding editor of st. Jun 06, 20 along the way i picked up a book to read in down time. Louis cardinals, filled with largerthanlife baseball personalities like branch rickey, leo durocher, pepper martin, casey stengel, satchel paige, frankie frisch, andespecially the eccentric good ol boy and great pitcher dizzy dean and his.
John heidenry is an author and editor who was born in st. Louis magazine, and has written several books including the gashouse gang. The nickname was given to them as a way of describing the enjoyment with which they seemed to play the game, along with the aggressive attitude they took that always seemed to give them dirty uniforms, making them resemble the greasestained clothing. John heidenrys the gashouse gang is the best book yet on the former, one of those rare volumes that makes you wish you could go back in. With the gashouse gang, john heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 st. How dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin and their. Mar 01, 2007 the book, the gashouse gang, written by john heidenry was a very interesting, informational story about this inspirational team, who overcame the adversity to win the world series. Louis cardinals fitful journey to baseball immortality. How dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin. Louis magazine founding editor heidenry the gashouse gang, 2008, etc. The book has the lengthy subtitle of how dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin, and their colorful, comefrombehind ball club won the world series and americas heart during the great depression. Overall, it was a pretty decent read as the content was very exciting to learn about and see the characters develop. Heidenry delivers a lean, mean account of an infamous 1953 kidnapping and murder.
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Other cardinals who come alive in heidenrys wellwritten. And john heidenry has a lot of those in his book, the gashouse gang. But as far as the descriptions of dizzys onfield antics go, bill lees book baseball eccentrics contains more details about the dizzy dean we all know and love. How dizzy dean, leo durocher, branch rickey, pepper martin and their colorful, comefrombehind ball club won the world seriesand americas heartduring the great. Dizzy dean and the gashouse gang download ebook pdf, epub.
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