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The New YORK YANKEES, TO NO ONE'S surprise, were the American League champions again in 1938, winning the pen¬nant easily for the third year in a row. The personnel this year was slightly different, as two talented young players-right fielder Tommy Henrich and second baseman Joe Gordon-moved into the starting lineup for the first time. Both were immediate successes, and both would become integral parts of the Yankee dynasty over the next several years. During the 1938 season Lou Gehrig played in his 2,000th consecutive game, and although his numbers were solid for anyone else-.295 with 29 home runs and 114 RBI-they were a step down from his established level of performance. At the time people thought the 35-year-old Gehrig was just showing the signs of normal aging, but now it is believed that his subpar performance in 1938 was the first manifestation of the disease that later took his life. Even with Gehrig not himself, the Yankees, with five men hitting more than twenty homers in the season, had more than enough fire-power to handle the competition.

This year's Yankee fodder was the Chicago Cubs, champions of the National League despite winning only 89 games. For the second time in seven years, the Cubs had managed to win the pennant after changing managers in mid-season and Chicago Cubs Tickets Purchases. On July 20 Charlie Grimm was fired and the team's veteran catcher, Gabby Hartnett, was named manager. One of the greatest backstops of all time, Hartnett's best years were clearly behind him, but on September 28, 1938, he provided perhaps the most dramatic moment in Cubs history. With two games left in the season and Chicago bat¬tling for the pennant with Pittsburgh, the two teams faced off at Wrigley Field. The game went into the bottom of the ninth tied 5-5, and with the sun going down, the umpires were prepared to call the game due to darkness after the inning ended. Hartnett didn't give them that chance to sell Chicago Cubs Tickets, hitting a game-winning home run with two outs in the ninth that entered baseball lore as the "Homer in the Gloamin'." It all but clinched the pennant for the Cubs.

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The Cubs were a good story, but the Yankees were the better team, and quickly set about proving it in the World Series. New York's Red Ruffing pitched a complete game victory in Game 1 at Wrigley Field, winning 3-1 behind four hits by Bill Dickey. The second game was a matchup between two slightly off-kilter heroes of previous Series, Dizzy Dean and Lefty Gomez. The Yankees got to Dean late in the game on homers by Frankie Crosetti and Joe DiMaggio, and won again, 6-3. In Game 3 the Cubs' Clay Bryant held the Yankees hitless until the fifth inning, when Gordon hit a homer. The young infielder also added a two-run single in the next inning as the Yankees won 5-2, taking a 3-0 lead in the Series. In Game 4, the Yankees wasted no time, scoring three second-inning runs on hits by Gordon, Ruffing, and Crosetti. They added four more insurance runs in the eighth and Ruffing went the distance, winning the clinching game 8-3. The experts had predicted that the Yankees would win the Series easily, and they were right. But if the result was the same as always, at least the style was new. Instead of bashing the Cubs to death, the Yankees won this Series with their pitching, holding Chicago Cubs Tickets to just nine runs while scoring 23 themselves. Gordon, the rookie second baseman, was the hitting star of the Series with a .400 batting average and 733 slugging percentage. Fans of other teams had to wonder: If the Yankees kept coming up with rookies like this would their dynasty ever end?