1936 World Series
Team (Wins) Managers Season New York Yankees (4) Joe McCarthy 102–51, .667, GA: 19+1⁄2 New York Giants (2) Bill Terry (player/manager) 92–62, .597, GA: 5
Dates	September 30 – October 6
Venue(s)	Polo Grounds (New York Giants) Yankee Stadium (New York Yankees)
Umpires	Cy Pfirman (NL),Harry Geisel (AL),George Magerkurth (NL),Bill Summers (AL)
Hall of Famers	Yankees: Joe McCarthy (mgr.) Bill Dickey Joe DiMaggio Lou Gehrig Lefty Gomez Tony Lazzeri Red Ruffing Giants: Carl Hubbell Travis Jackson Mel Ott Bill Terry
Broadcast
Radio	NBC CBS Mutual
Radio announcers	NBC: Tom Manning Ty Tyson Red Barber Warren Brown CBS: France Laux Bill Dyer Boake Carter Mutual: Bob Elson Tony Wakeman Gabriel Heatter
World Series program
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The1936World Series was the championship series inMajor League Baseball for the1936 season. The 33rd edition of the World Series, it matched theNew York Yankees against theNew York Giants, with the Yankees winning in six games to earn their fifth championship.

The Yankees played their first World Series withoutBabe Ruth and their first withJoe DiMaggio, Ruth having been released by the Yankees after the 1934 season. He retired in 1935 as a member of theBoston Braves.

ALNew York Yankees (4) vs. NLNew York Giants (2)

Carl Hubbell won Game 1, allowing only one run onGeorge Selkirk's home run and seven hits. AfterDick Bartell's fifth inning home run offRed Ruffing tied the game, an RBI single byGus Mancuso scoringMel Ott, who doubled to lead off, in the sixth inning put the Giants up 2–1. They padded their lead in the eighth inning. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases before a walk toBurgess Whitehead and sacrifice fly byTravis Jackson scored a run each. Hubbell's two-run single capped the game's scoring. He pitched a perfect ninth as the Giants took a 1–0 series lead.

The Yankees won Game 2 at thePolo Grounds by an 18–4 count, setting Series records (as of 2023^[update]) for the biggest margin of victory in a World Series game (14 runs) and the most runs scored in one game with 18. They loaded the bases with no outs in the first offHal Schumacher on two singles and a walk before sacrifice flies byLou Gehrig andBill Dickey put them up 2–0. Two walks and a wild pitch byLefty Gomez in the second inning allowed the Giants to cut the lead to 2–1, but the Yankees blew the game open in the third inning. A single, walk and error loaded the bases with no outs.Al Smith relieved Schumacher and allowed a two-run single to Gehrig and RBI single to Dickey. A one-out walk reloaded the bases beforeTony Lazzeri's grand slam offDick Coffman made it 9–1 Yankees. The Giants scored their last three runs in the fourth inning on a bases loaded walk toDick Bartell followed by a two-run single byBill Terry. The Yankees added a run in the sixth onJoe DiMaggio's sacrifice fly with two on offFrank Gabler, then loaded the bases in the seventh on a walk and two singles before Lazzeri's flyout and Gomez's groundout scored a run each. In the ninth,Jake Powell drew a leadoff walk offHarry Gumbert, stole second, moved to third on a groundout, and scored on Gomez's single. After another single, back-to-back RBI singles byRed Rolfe and DiMaggio made it 15–4 Yankees. One out later, Dickey's three-run home run capped the scoring.

DiMaggio made a tremendous play in Game 2. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning,Hank Leiber drove the ball 490 feet (150 m) deep into dead center, and Joe caught the ball running up the steps of the clubhouse.^[7] This remarkable catch was at least 40 feet (12 m) further thanWillie Mays' far more celebrated catch ofVic Wertz's drive to deep straightaway center in Game 1 of the1954 World Series. After DiMaggio's game-ending grab,President Roosevelt, who was in attendance, saluted Joe for his great catch as he rode off in the presidential limousine.^[8] All three ninth-inning outs were made by DiMaggio.

Yankee second baseman Tony Lazzeri became only the second player ever to hit a grand slam home run in the World Series.Elmer Smith of theCleveland Indians had been the sole achiever of that feat in World Series play, doing so inGame 5 of the 1920 World Series.^[9]

After seeing the score of this game, legendaryDodgers broadcasterVin Scully (then 9 years old) became a Giants fan as he felt bad for the losing side. He credited this game as the game that made him fall in love with the game of baseball.

Hard luck-loserFreddie Fitzsimmons allowed only two hits over seven innings, one of them a tremendous home run by Gehrig in the second inning, but after the Giants tied the game in the fifth inning onJimmy Ripple's home run offBump Hadley,Frankie Crosetti's single with the count 0–2 and two outs scoredJake Powell with the decisive run in the eighth inning.Pat Malone pitched a scoreless ninth for the save.

The Yankees struck first in the second whenJake Powell reached on an error and scored onGeorge Selkirk's single offCarl Hubbell. Next inning,Frank Crosetti hit a leadoff double and scored onRed Rolfe's single, then Lou Gehrig's two-run home run gave the Yankees a 4–0 lead.Jimmy Ripple's RBI single in the fourth offMonte Pearson put the Giants on the board.Bill Terry's groundout with runners on first and third in the eighth cut the Yankees' lead to two, but they got that run back in the bottom half when Gehrig hit a leadoff double offFrank Gabler and scored on Powell's single. Pearson won his first World Series game (he won three more, in 1937, 1938, and 1939).

The Giants struck first with back-to-back leadoff doubles byJo-Jo Moore andDick Bartell offRed Ruffing. RBI singles byJimmy Ripple andBurgess Whitehead made it 3–0 Giants.George Selkirk's home run offHal Schumacher in the second put the Yankees on the board. Next inning, with runners on second and third, an error onFrank Crosetti's groundball allowed another run to score. A similar situation in the sixth onBurgess Whitehead's groundball allowed the Giants to pad their lead to 4–2, but in the bottom half, three consecutive two-out singles allowed the Yankees to tie the game.Bill Terry's sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning offPat Malone, scoringJo-Jo Moore, who doubled to leadoff and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt, helped the Giants win Game 5, 5–4, to extend the series to a Game Six.

The Giants loaded the bases in the first offLefty Gomez on a single and two walks beforeMel Ott drove in two with a double, butJake Powell's home-run after a two-out triple offFreddie Fitzsimmons tied the game in the second. Next inning,Lou Gehrig's sacrifice fly after two one-out singles put the Yankees up 3–2. They extended their lead to 5–2 in the fourth on four singles, two of which (by Gomez andRed Rolfe) scored a run each. Ott's home run in the fifth cut the lead to 5–3, then in the seventh,Dick Bartell hit a leadoff double and scored onBill Terry's single to make it a one-run game.Tony Lazzeri's RBI single in the eighth offSlick Castleman made it 6–4 Yankees, but the Giants again cut the lead to one onJo-Jo Moore's home run in the bottom half offJohnny Murphy. The Yankees, though, blew it open in the ninth. After two leadoff singles offDick Coffman, an error onBill Dickey's fielder's choice allowed one run to score. A walk loaded the bases before Powell drove in two more runs for the Yankees with a single.Harry Gumbert relieved Coffman and after a walk loaded the bases, Murphy's single, Crosetti's walk, Rolfe's groundout, andJoe DiMaggio's single scored a run each to make it 13–5 Yankees. It was the first time in history that a team would score seven runs in the 9th inning of a postseason game. No team has surpassed this mark, although five have tied it (the next one to occur after this one took place34 years later).^[10] Murphy retired the Giants in order in the bottom of the ninth to give the Yankees the championship.

1936 World Series(4–2):New York Yankees (A.L.) overNew York Giants (N.L.)

The Yankees' fifth championship tied the record at that time, which was shared by theBoston Red Sox and thePhiladelphia Athletics, who also had five World Series titles. The Yankees also tied the American League record at that time for the most World Series appearances with eight, also shared with the Athletics. They broke both records the following year. The Giants appeared in their 11th World Series, extending the record they already held at that time, and their seventh World Series defeat also extended the record they already owned.

DiMaggio would go on to be the only person to play on four World Championship teams in his first four years in the big leagues, the 1936–39 Yankees.

The Yankee left fielderJake Powell started the year with theWashington Senators before coming over in the middle of the year in a trade forBen Chapman. In this Series, the unheralded Powell would lead all hitters in hits (10), batting average (.455), runs (8) and walks (4), add a home run with five runs batted in, and grab the Yankees' only stolen base. However, it proved to be a fleeting moment of fame for the troubled ballplayer, who gambled away the World Series check not long after before fizzling out with the Yankees by 1940, amidst controversial remarks involving him beating people as a cop to train in the offseason. He died in 1948 at the age of 40 after shooting himself in a police station for passing bad checks.^[12]

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• Audio: MovieTone News Reel of '36 World Series
• Audio: Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy Conversation before Game 1
• Audio: Game 3 radio broadcast, part 1
• Audio: Game 3 radio broadcast, part 2
• Audio: Game 3 radio broadcast, part 3
• Audio: Game 3 radio broadcast, part 4

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