Murderers' Row

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx following in a row.

Murderer's row, make no mistake about it.

Three and one is the count, and here's the pitch.

It's a strike, a fastball right down the old alley.

Come in, Four-Time.

A ballplayer's dream, yes sir, a manager's dream, and a pitcher's nightmare.

That's what this is when you face these Murderer's Row that come out there to bat.

And what an achievement that was of Carl Hubbell's after in this first inning.

We know what that looks like.

But it doesn't matter if you're talking about the Murderers' Row Yankees of the '20s or if you're talking about this Avengers Dodgers team looking for three straight.

To try to be the team like the Milwaukee Brewers, the way they are playing right now, the way that group is believing in each other right now, the way Pa- or Pat Murphy is clicking every right button in this postseason push, I...

You're not beating the Brewers four straight times, especially when two of those would have to come on the road at Amp Field.

A ballplayer's dream, yes sir, a manager's dream, and a pitcher's nightmare.

That's what this is when you face these Murderers' Row that come out there to bat.

And what an achievement that was of Carl Hubbell's after in this first inning.

Here is a resume of what happened, just to go over it briefly.

A ballplayer's dream, yes sir, a manager's dream, and a pitcher's nightmare.

That's what this is when you face these Murderers' Row that come up here to bat.

And what an achievement that was of Carl Hubbell's after this first inning.

Here is a resume of what happened, just to go over it quickly.

Remember, this is the first time the Cardinals have been home since they won the pennant in LA, and the Cardinals, the first team since the '27 Yanks interestingly to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series without hitting a homer.

That '27 Yankee team, I don't have to tell you, had Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Bob Meusel, Murderers Row.

[crowd cheering] 1 and 0 the count.

They've kind of, uh, established the pitching pattern to Jack Clark.

But before he got to that level, he was just a really good player who was the first baseman for the Yankees when Babe Ruth was literally the most popular athlete that the country had ever seen.

So this newspaper employed Gehrig to write monthly essays, basically through the life of what's it like being Babe Ruth's right-hand man? What's it like hitting behind Babe Ruth in Murderer's Row lineup? It is an amazing compilation.

I'm going to send you this book.

You're going to love it.

Let's say, okay?

Murderers' Row.

All right, Murderers' Row, and they gave you the option, you can get back in the phone booth and come back to present day, or we'll allow you to start living your life as you are today-

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