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The 1926 World Series pitted the NL champion St. Louis Cardinals against the AL champion New York Yankees. The Cardinals defeated the Yankees four games to three in the best-of-seven series, which took place from October 2 to 10, 1926 at Yankee Stadium and Sportsman's Park. This was the first World Series appearance for the Cardinals, and the first of eleven World Series championships in Cardinals history, while the Yanks were in their fourth World Series in six years, winning one for the first time in 1923.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1923 MLB Season )〕 They would play in another 36 World Series (and win 26 of those) through the end of the 2012 season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York Yankees Team Index )〕 In Game 1, Herb Pennock pitched the Yanks to a 2–1 win over the Cards. In Game 2, pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander evened the Series for the Cards with a 6–2 victory. Knuckleballer Jesse Haines' complete game shutout in Game 3 gave St. Louis a 2–1 Series lead. In the Yanks' 10–5 Game 4 win, Babe Ruth hit three home runs, a World Series record equaled only four times since.〔Ruth in 1928, Reggie Jackson in 1977, Albert Pujols in 2011 and Pablo Sandoval in 2012.〕 According to newspaper reports, Ruth had promised a sickly boy named Johnny Sylvester to hit a home run for him in Game 4. After Ruth's three-homer game, the boy's condition miraculously improved. The newspapers' account of the story is disputed by contemporary baseball historians, but it remains one of the most famous anecdotes in baseball history. Pennock again won for the Yanks in Game 5, 3–2. Cards' player-manager Rogers Hornsby chose Alexander to start Game 6, and used him in relief to close out Game 7. Behind Alexander, the Cardinals won the final two games of the series, and with it the world championship. In Game 7, the Yankees, trailing 3–2 in the bottom of the ninth inning and down to their last out, Ruth walked, bringing up Bob Meusel. Ruth, successful in half of his steal attempts careerwise, stealing bases,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Babe Ruth Statistics )〕 took off for second base on the first pitch. Meusel swung and missed, and catcher Bob O'Farrell threw to second baseman Hornsby who tagged Ruth out, ending Game 7 and thereby crowning his Cardinals World Series champions for the first time. == Season summary == The Cardinals won the 1926 National League pennant with 89 wins and 65 losses, two games ahead of the runner-up Cincinnati Reds, after finishing only fourth in 1925 at 77–76. Before 1926 was half over, they traded outfielder Heinie Mueller to the New York Giants for outfielder Billy Southworth. They also claimed future Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander on waivers from the Chicago Cubs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1926 St. Louis Cardinals Trades and Transactions )〕 Their starting rotation was led by Flint Rhem with 20 wins and a 3.21 earned run average (ERA), far surpassing his eight wins and 4.92 ERA of 1925.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1925 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics and Roster )〕 Offensively, the Cardinals were led by Jim Bottomley, Rogers Hornsby (who had hit over .400 in 1925) and catcher Bob O'Farrell, 1926 National League MVP-to-be. The 1926 NL pennant race was heated. During the second and third weeks of September, both the Cardinals and the Reds had multi-game winning streaks and traded first and second place almost every day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1926 Cincinnati Reds Schedules, Box Scores and Splits )〕 On September 17, the Cards took a one-game lead over the Reds and extended their lead when the Reds lost several games in a row. They lost the last game of the season to the Reds on September 26, but still finished two games ahead of them in first place in the final standings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1926 St. Louis Cardinals Schedules, Box Scores and Splits )〕 The Yanks had the best record in the AL at 91–63, finishing three games ahead of the Cleveland Indians〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1926 MLB Season )〕 and greatly improving on their 69-win, seventh-place 1925 season, making Lou Gehrig their permanent starting first baseman and trading for rookie second baseman Tony Lazzeri in the offseason. Gehrig, Lazzeri, Ruth and Earle Combs led the offense, while Pennock and Urban Shocker led the starting rotation with 42 wins between them. In early September 1926, thousands of Cleveland fans, confident that their Indians would win the pennant even when they trailed the Yanks by six games, made World Series ticket reservations. By September 23 they were only two games behind New York, but then lost three of their final four games to finish the season three games behind.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1926 Cleveland Indians Schedules, Box Scores and Splits )〕 On September 11, Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis met with representatives from four of the top teams in each of the two major leagues. The group gave home field to the AL for World Series Games 1&2 (scheduled for October 2 & 3)and 6&7, while the NL would host Games 3–5. Each game was to start at 1:30 PM local time.〔 Some bookmakers made the Yankees a 15-to-1 Series favorite, while others, like New York's top betting commissioners, thought the teams were evenly matched. One ''The New York Times'' wtiter found "little justification for installing either team as the favorite". Regardless of the odds, players from both teams were confident of victory. Hornsby said, "We're going to come through winners. We have the better pitching staff, the better hitters and the greater experience. That's what it takes to win. ... We're going to beat the Yankees. Any of my ball players will tell you that, and we expect to do it." Yankee skipper Miller Huggins retorted, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1926 World Series」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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