THE GASHOUSE GANG

Rags to riches in the story of the St. Louis Cardinals, good, colorful baseball incidentalia. Here are the facts, secrets, anecdotes of the team, and of individual players, manager, owner, etc. The development of the team, its exploits, character and characters in dugout and public. The 1930's and Collins, Martin, Medwick, Frisch, and famous Dizzy Dean, Durocher and their careers...the growth of a club made up of youngsters picked up and trained into national figures.