1931 World Series

1931 World Series

Team (Wins)	Manager	Season
St. Louis Cardinals (4)	Gabby Street	101–53, .656, GA: 13
Philadelphia Athletics (3)	Connie Mack	107–45, .704, GA: 13 ¹⁄₂

Dates:

October 1–10

Radio:

NBC, CBS

Radio announcers:

NBC: Graham McNamee, Tom Manning, George Hicks
CBS: Ted Husing

Umpires:

Bill Klem (NL), Dick Nallin (AL), Dolly Stark (NL), Bill McGowan (AL)

Hall of Famers:

Umpire: Bill Klem
Cardinals: Jim Bottomley, Frankie Frisch, Burleigh Grimes, Chick Hafey, Jesse Haines (dnp).
Athletics: Connie Mack (mgr.), Mickey Cochrane, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Waite Hoyt, Al Simmons.

The 1931 World Series featured the two-time defending Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals beat the Athletics in seven games, a rematch and reversal of fortunes of the previous World Series.

The same two teams faced off during the 1930 World Series and the Athletics were victorious. The only day-to-day player in the Cardinals' lineup who was different in 1931 was the "Wild Horse of the Osage", Pepper Martin—a 27-year-old rookie who had spent seven seasons in the minor leagues. He led his team for the Series in runs scored, hits, doubles, runs batted in and stolen bases, and also made a running catch to stifle a ninth-inning rally by the A's in the final game.

The spitball pitch was banned by Major League Baseball in 1920, but those still using it at that time were "grandfathered", or permitted to keep throwing it. One of those who "wet his pill" still active in 1931 was Burleigh Grimes, with two Series starts, two wins and seven innings of no-hit pitching in Game 3. "Wild" Bill Hallahan started and won the other two for the Cards, and saved Game 7.

The Athletics had captured their third straight American League pennant, winning 107 games (and 313 for 1929–31). But this would prove to be the final World Series for longtime A's manager Connie Mack. As he did after the Boston "Miracle Braves" swept his heavily favored A's in the 1914 Series, Mack would break up this great team by selling off his best players, this time out of perceived economic necessity rather than pique and competition from the short-lived Federal League. It would be 41 years and two cities later before the A's would return to the World Series, after their successive moves to Kansas City in 1955 and Oakland in 1968.

Summary

NL St. Louis Cardinals (4) vs. AL Philadelphia Athletics (3)

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 1	Philadelphia Athletics – 6, St. Louis Cardinals – 2	Sportsman's Park (III)	1:55	38,529^[1]
2	October 2	Philadelphia Athletics – 0, St. Louis Cardinals – 2	Sportsman's Park (III)	1:49	35,947^[2]
3	October 5	St. Louis Cardinals – 5, Philadelphia Athletics – 2	Shibe Park	2:10	32,295^[3]
4	October 6	St. Louis Cardinals – 0, Philadelphia Athletics – 3	Shibe Park	1:58	32,295^[4]
5	October 7	St. Louis Cardinals – 5, Philadelphia Athletics – 1	Shibe Park	1:56	32,295^[5]
6	October 9	Philadelphia Athletics – 8, St. Louis Cardinals – 1	Sportsman's Park (III)	1:57	39,401^[6]
7	October 10	Philadelphia Athletics – 2, St. Louis Cardinals – 4	Sportsman's Park (III)	1:57	20,805^[7]

Matchups

Game 1

Thursday, October 1, 1931 at Sportsman's Park (III) in St. Louis, Missouri


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Philadelphia	0	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	11	0
St. Louis	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	0
WP: Lefty Grove (1–0) LP: Paul Derringer (0–1) Home runs: PHA: Al Simmons (1) STL: None

Game 2

Friday, October 2, 1931 at Sportsman's Park (III) in St. Louis, Missouri


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
St. Louis	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	2	6	1
WP: Bill Hallahan (1–0) LP: George Earnshaw (0–1)

Game 3

Monday, October 5, 1931 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	5	12	0
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0
WP: Burleigh Grimes (1–0) LP: Lefty Grove (1–1) Home runs: STL: None PHA: Al Simmons (2)

Game 4

Tuesday, October 6, 1931 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Philadelphia	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	3	10	0
WP: George Earnshaw (1–1) LP: Syl Johnson (0–1) Home runs: STL: None PHA: Jimmie Foxx (1)

Game 5

Wednesday, October 7, 1931 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	5	12	0
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	0
WP: Bill Hallahan (2–0) LP: Waite Hoyt (0–1) Home runs: STL: Pepper Martin (1) PHA: None

Game 6

Friday, October 9, 1931 at Sportsman's Park (III) in St. Louis, Missouri


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0	4	0	4	0	0	8	8	1
St. Louis	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	2
WP: Lefty Grove (2–1) LP: Paul Derringer (0–2)

Game 7

Saturday, October 10, 1931 at Sportsman's Park (III) in St. Louis, Missouri


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	7	1
St. Louis	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	X	4	5	0
WP: Burleigh Grimes (2–0) LP: George Earnshaw (1–2) Sv: Bill Hallahan (1) Home runs: PHA: None STL: George Watkins (1)

Composite line score

1931 World Series (4–3): St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.) over Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.)


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis Cardinals	5	3	2	2	0	3	1	1	2	19	54	4
Philadelphia Athletics	1	0	4	0	4	2	7	0	4	22	50	2
Total attendance: 231,567 Average attendance: 33,081 Winning player's share: $4,468 Losing player's share: $3,023^[8]

Notes

↑ "1931 World Series Game 1 – Philadelphia Athletics vs. St. Louis Cardinals". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "1931 World Series Game 2 – Philadelphia Athletics vs. St. Louis Cardinals". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "1931 World Series Game 3 – St. Louis Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Athletics". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "1931 World Series Game 4 – St. Louis Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Athletics". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "1931 World Series Game 5 – St. Louis Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Athletics". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "1931 World Series Game 6 – Philadelphia Athletics vs. St. Louis Cardinals". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "1931 World Series Game 7 – Philadelphia Athletics vs. St. Louis Cardinals". Retrosheet. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ "World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved June 14, 2009.

References

Cohen, Richard M.; Neft, David S. (1990). The World Series: Complete Play-By-Play of Every Game, 1903–1989. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 137–141. ISBN 0-312-03960-3.
Reichler, Joseph (1982). The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.). Macmillan Publishing. p. 2139. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.

External links

1931 World Series at WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)
1931 World Series at Baseball Almanac
1931 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com
The 1931 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet
History of the World Series - 1931 at The SportingNews. Archived from the original on 2008.
Video of 1931 World Series

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