The1935World Series was the championship series inMajor League Baseball for the1935 season. The 32nd edition of the World Series, it matched theDetroit Tigers and theChicago Cubs. The Tigers won in six games for their first championship in five Series appearances, as they had lost in1907,1908,1909, and1934. This was the first championship ever won by a Detroit-based team.

The Tigers won despite losing the services of first basemanHank Greenberg. In Game 2, Greenberg collided with Cubs catcherGabby Hartnett and broke his wrist, sidelining him for the rest of the Series.

The Cubs had won 21 consecutive games in September (still a record as of 2021^[update]), eventually taking theNational League pennant by four games over the defending World Series champions, theSt. Louis Cardinals.

In Game 6,Tommy Bridges pitched a complete-game victory to win the Series for Detroit. With the score tied 3–3 in the top of the ninth inning, Bridges gave up a leadoff triple toStan Hack, but retired the next three batters without the runner on third scoring. In the bottom of the ninth,Goose Goslin drove in the winning run with two outs. After the game, managerMickey Cochrane said the following of Bridges' gutsy performance: "A hundred and fifty pounds of courage. If there ever is a payoff on courage this little 150-pound pitcher is the greatest World Series hero."^[1]

In addition to Bridges, the Tigers had a hitting hero. Right fielderPete Fox accumulated ten hits and an average of .385 for the Series. Fox hit safely in all six games.

Detroit ownerFrank Navin, then 64 years old, had been running the organization for 30 years and had seen four of his teams win American League pennants, only to lose four World Series. Six weeks after the Tigers finally won the World Series in October 1935, Navin suffered a heart attack while riding a horse and died.^[2]

ALDetroit Tigers (4) vs. NLChicago Cubs (2)

A pitching duel betweenLon Warneke andSchoolboy Rowe, both of whom went the distance, was decided by its leadoff batter,Augie Galan, doubling, and scoring on an error by Rowe that allowedBilly Herman to reach and eventually score on aGabby Hartnett single.Frank Demaree added a homer in the ninth inning for the visiting Cubs.

In the bottom of the first,Jo-Jo White hit a leadoff single and scored on a double byMickey Cochrane, who scored onCharlie Gehringer's single beforeHank Greenberg's two-run home run knocked Cubs' starterCharlie Root out of the game. In the fourth,Roy Henshaw got two outs before letting the Tigers load the bases on a single, hit-by-pitch and walk. A wild pitch scored a run, then after a walk reloaded the bases, Gehringer's two-run single made it 7–0 Tigers. The Cubs got on the board in the fifth whenPhil Cavarretta reached first on an error, moved to second on a groundout and scored onBilly Jurges's single. The Cubs got two more runs in the seventh onBilly Herman's single with runners on second and third, but the Tigers added a run in the bottom half onPete Fox's RBI single offFabian Kowalik.Tommy Bridges pitched a complete game as the Tigers' 8–3 tied the series heading to Chicago.

In Game 3,Frank Demaree's leadoff home run in the second offElden Auker put Chicago on the board. A one-out single and subsequent error put runners on first and third beforeBill Lee's ground out made it 2–0 Cubs. They added a run in the fifth whenBilly Jurges drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored onAugie Galan's single. The Tigers got on the board in the sixth whenGoose Goslin singled off Lee and scored onPete Fox's triple. In the eighth, after a walk and double, Goslin's two-run single tied the game and knocked Lee out. RelieverLon Warneke allowed two singles, the second of which toBilly Rogell scoring a run, then Fox stole home to make it 5–3 Tigers. Detroit brought back Game 1 starterSchoolboy Rowe in relief. He allowed three straight one-out singles in the ninth, the last of which toKen O'Dea, beforeAugie Galan's sacrifice fly sent the game into extra innings, but Rowe nailed down the victory afterJo-Jo White's RBI single scored the winning run offLarry French in the 11th. This game remarkably featured four ejections. The Tigers lost coach Del Baker while The Cubs lost Woody English, Tuck Stainback and manager Charlie Grimm. Neither English nor Stainback were in the game.

Alvin "General" Crowder did it all for Detroit, pitching a complete-game five-hitter, allowing only one run onGabby Hartnett's home run in the second, singling in the third and scoring his team's first run onCharlie Gehringer's RBI double, and gettingFlea Clifton home as the go-ahead run with a groundout in the sixth offTex Carleton aided by two errors. Chicago threatened against Crowder with a pair of one-out hits in the ninth, butStan Hack grounded into a game-ending 6-4-3 double play.

Staving off elimination, the Cubs got a two-run home run fromChuck Klein after a leadoff triple in the second. They added another run in the seventh onBilly Herman's RBI double off Schoolboy Rowe. They replacedLon Warneke after six innings with right-handerBill Lee, who gave up Detroit's only run in the ninth on three consecutive singles (the last of which toPete Fox before settling down to retire the final three batters.

This was the first of three World Series games that the Cubs have won in Wrigley Field (where they had previously lost 6 Series games). The other wins were Game 6 in 1945, and Game 5 in 2016.

In Game 6,Pete Fox's RBI double offLarry French put the Tigers on the board.Billy Herman's RBI single tied the game in the third offTommy Bridges, who put the Tigers back in front in the fourth with an RBI groundout with two on, but Herman's two-run home run in the fifth put the Cubs ahead 3–2. The Tigers tied the game in the sixth whenBilly Rogell doubled with two outs and scored onMarv Owen's single.Stan Hack tripled to lead off the top of the ninth for the Cubs, but was left stranded at third. In the bottom of the ninth,Mickey Cochrane singled and moved to second on a groundout beforeGoose Goslin's walk-off single won it in front of Detroit's home fans, pitcherTommy Bridges getting his second win of the Series. (Goslin, who also had the walk-off hit in Game 2 of the previous year's series, remains the only player to date to have walk-off hits in two World Series games.)

1935 World Series(4–2):Detroit Tigers (A.L.) overChicago Cubs (N.L.)

When theDetroit Tigers won the 1935 World Series, the city ofDetroit was mired in theGreat Depression, which had hit the city and its industries particularly hard. However, with the success of the Tigers and other Detroit teams and athletes in 1935/36, Detroit's luck appeared to be changing, as the city was dubbed the "City of Champions." TheLions continued Detroit's winning ways by capturing the1935 NFL Championship Game in December, followed by theDetroit Red Wings winning theStanley Cup in April 1936. With the Stanley Cup win, the city had seen three major league championships in less than a year. Detroit's "champions" included Detroit's "Brown Bomber",Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion who won that title in 1937; native DetroiterGar Wood who was the champion ofunlimited powerboat racing and the first man to go 100 miles per hour on water; andEddie "the Midnight Express" Tolan, a black Detroiter who won gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter races at the1932 Summer Olympics.

The Tigers would return to the World Series in1940 World Series, but they would narrowly fall to theCincinnati Reds in seven games after being nine outs away from the championship in Game 7, which would be the last time the Tigers lost in the World Series until2006. The Tigers would win their next title in1945 in a rematch against the Cubs in seven games.

The Cubs returned to the World Series in1938, but were swept by theNew York Yankees, becoming the third victim of a Yankees four-peat from1936 to1939.

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