Evening star., 1935-03-24
"Dizzy'' Dean
Continued from p0ee five

United States Army recruiting service
got out poster with Deans likeness
on it. and the proud words: THE
Army Trained Him"
Dizzy needed little more season.
ing, the Cardinals decided. and they
sent him to St. Joseph. Missouri. in
the Western Association. The first
game he pitched - against Denver -
went to ten innings, and Dean struck
out ten batters before he won. 4 to 3.
BY mid-season Dean had pitched
twenty-five games and won seven
teen y with a team that was in last
place.
From St. Joseph. Dizzy was sent to
Houston so that his talents might be
further tested in the Texas League.
There he pitched eight games and won
six.
1t was at Houston. while the nine
teen.year old kid was standing 'em on
their heads, that Dizzy showed the
kind of stuff he's made of. Houston
was playing Dallas. A certain Dallas
player, weighing over two hundred
and hard as maverick steer. got riled
at the way Dizzy was sending the
Dallas batters back to the bench
Around the third inning. when the
Dallas heavyweight struck out like
freracker that had failed to explode.
he made some pointed personal re
marks to. about and concerning Dean.
Dizzy resented them. Whereupon the
Dallas giant strobe out to the pitchers
box, knocked Dean down with ter
rife right to the face. and hit him
again every time Dizzy tried to rise.
The belligerent Dallas husky was
put out of the game. and Dean was
pulled to his feet.
The Houston manager called relief
hurler, and ordered Dean to the
showers to recuperate. But, though
Dizzy's head was bloody. it was un-
bowed.
I'm going to finish this gamer he
said. Dizzy finished it - three runs for
Houston and none for Dallas.
After those six victories in eight
starts the Cards decided Dizzy might
as we'll finish the season in big COM
pany. They brought him to St. Louis.
and Manager Gabby Street suggested
that he show what he could do against
the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cards
were winning their third pennant in
five seasons, and didn't want to lose
any games. Dean held the Pirates to
one run, and the Cardinals won.
The next year. 1881, when he was
only twenty. Dizzy won more games
than any other Cardinal hurler and
established himself as their pitching
mainstay. In 1882 he led the National
League in both the number of innings
pitched and in strike-outs.
The next season. 1888. Dizzy hung
up some records of which he is par
donably proud. He pitched in more
games and struck out more batters
than any other big league pitcher. 1t
was in that 1888 season that he set the
new record for strike-Outs in one game.
The Cards were playing the Chicago
Cubs. Dizzy famed seventeen Cubs,
topping by one the previous record
held jointly by four great pitchers -
Frank Hahn, Christy Matthewson,
Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker.
With that background. he swung
into the 1884 season, and his achieve
ments last summer made baseball
history. In the last few weeks of the
season he pulled his team up to first
place in the league pennant race and
escorted them brilliantly through an
"epochal' world series.
He pitched thirty-seven games for
the Cards last year. and he won thirty
of them - the best National League
pitching since 1915 when Grover
Cleveland Alexander, wheelhorse of