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Cardinals in their series with the Philadel¬ phia Athletics. That was the Series when Pepper Martin ran wild and the newspapers tagged him “The Wild Horse of the Osage.” We J. H. (Dizzy) Dean wasn’t favored in that Series. The Athletics had won the World Championship two years in a row. But with Pepper going crazy we beat them four games to three. That taught me you can’t never tell what’s going to happen in a World Series. Mostly, it’s the pitching. If I was a fan, I’d be watching the pitching, espe¬ cially how the first game pitchers make out. In a Series, you don’t gamble, like you do the rest of the year saying I’ll start this guy and see how he makes out and come back with my good pitcher tomorrow. In a Series, you go with the best you got. Them relief pitchers don’t hardly get a show. You see nothing but first line pitchers all the way. It’s different during the regular sea¬ son, when you play a lot of games. Then you need to be a little deep in the pitching department. But in a short stretch like the World Series, you don’t need to have a lot of pitch¬ ers. Just some good ones. Like in the 1934 Series with Detroit. Me and brother Paul win it between us. I win two and he win two and that’s the Series. We was playing Detroit and they had one of the greatest teams I ever see. Players like Goslin, Cochrane, Gehringer and a great pitching staff headed by Tommy Bridges and Schoolboy Rowe. On the night before the Series starts, they take me up to this radio room and tell me I’m going to talk to Admiral Byrd at Little America. So, I tell him: “Don’t you worry about a thing, Admiral. Me and Paul will get this riot out without your help.” I figured he was around the comer some place. When they told me he was at the South Pole, I liked to die. Like I say, pitching is the biggest factory in the World Series. You get your good pitcher going for you in the first game and he win it for you, and three days later he’s back going for you again. That’s two games for you and maybe if the Series goes seven games you throw him back in again. That way maybe one pitcher can win three games for you, like Brecheen did for the Cards a couple of years ago. One win out of the rest of the pitchers and you’re in. That’s why the first game and how the pitcher makes out is so important. The team that wins the first game gets a big boost. They beat the best the other team has got right off, so all they have to beat is the second best. But don’t get the idea any team is licked until the last man is out and the other team has win four games. I hear baseball writers talking about how there’s a turning point in every Series where one team knows it “has got” the other team. Well, there ain’t no point where you “got ’em.” Just when you think you do, they raise up and bite you. As far as the ballplayers is con¬ cerned, every day is a new ball game. If you win, you know you got to keep on winning. If you lose, they say, “Forget about that ball game. Let’s get the next one.” You take that Series between the A’s and the Cubs. The Cubs is sailing 6