Cardinals 3B Pepper Martin entered the '34 World Series with an elbow that swelled up after games because of bone chips. He insisted on playing despite the pain. He went 3-for-10 in the first two games with two runs scored and an RBI as the Cards and Tigers each won one game.

Martin wanted to play at full speed in Game 3 for his pal Paul "Daffy" Dean, Dizzy's brother, who was starting for the Cardinals after going 19-11 during the season. He com­bined with his broth­er to fulfill Diz's bold prediction that "Me and Paul are gonna win 45 games." (They won 49.)

The crowd had barely settled into their seats when Detroit leadoff man Jo-Jo White lifted a high foul down the left field line. LF Joe Medwick raced across the foul line into the bullpen and snagged the horsehide just before it landed in the field boxes.

Pepper wasted no time helping buddy Paul. Leading off in the bottom of the first against Tommy Bridges, who was credited with having the best curve in baseball, Martin smack­ed a long drive to the opposite field that just missed landing on the roof of the right-field pa­vilion, hitting the screen and dropping down to allow Martin to pump his "bowed, cowboy legs" around to third base for a triple. RF Jack Rothrock then scored Martin when he sock­ed the first pitch to deep center field to White who caught it at the flag pole. Just that quick, the Redbirds led 1-0.

1B Ripper Collins led off the bottom of the second with a ground single into right field. C Bill Delancey followed with a double off the right field screen that sent Collins to third. Bridges then hit CF Ernie Orsatti with a pitch squarely between the shoulder blades to load the bases with no outs. SS Leo Durocher, with the lowest batting average, .260, of any Red­bird starter, fouled out to first. That brought up Paul Dean whose .241 batting average during the season showed that he wasn't an automatic out. He hit a fly to right field that sent Collins home and De­Lancey to third. With a chance to extend the lead, Martin lined out to White.

Daffy (who didn't like that nickname) wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth, getting 2B Charlie Gehringer, to groundout second to first for the third out. Then the Car­dinal hurler walked LF Hank Greenberg on four straight pitches to start the fifth. When Dean threw three straight balls to Goose Goslin, manager Frankie Frisch came in from second base to speak to his pithcer. But Daffy grinned at Frisch and waved him back to his position.

Dean's next two pitches were so fast, the Goose never got his bat off his shoulder. Then Goslin managed to nick the next delivery and lift it weakly to left field. When Rogell fol­lowed with a single to center field, the entire Cardinal infield gathered around the daffy one. Dean listened half-heartedly, then waved them back to their positions. He then fogged "a fistful of fast balls" past 3B Marv Owen and RF Pete Fox, who struck out "with great vigor."

The Redbird bats came alive again in the bottom of the fifth. Martin led off with a dou­ble off the right field screen. Switch-hitter Rothrock, batting left-handed against Bridges, tripled down the left-field line to score Pepper, then came home himself on Frisch's ground-ball single to right. That ended Bridges' day. Player-manager Cochrane replaced him with southpaw Elon Hogsett, who doused the fire by getting Medwick to ground into a double play.

Dean the Younger seemed to get stronger as the game progressed, setting the visitors down in order in both the 7th and 8th innings. But the Tigers avoided a shutout with two outs in the ninth. With the elder Dean warming up in the bullpen, LF Hank Greenberg smashed a triple off the centerfield wall to score White, who had singled. But Paul bore down and got the dangerous Goose Goslin to pop out to complete the 4-1 victory.

Manager Cochrane wrote in his column for the Detroit Times Extra the next day: "Our pitching has been all right. That has not been our trouble. We haven't been hitting, driving in runs. That's what has hurt us. ... We had plenty of chances to score off Paul Dean. We had 14 men on the bases and only one of them scored."

Manager Cochrane wrote in his column for the Detroit Times Extra the next day: "Our pitching has been all right. That has not been our trouble. We haven't been hitting, driving in runs. That's what has hurt us. ... We had plenty of chances to score off Paul Dean. We had 14 men on the bases and only one of them scored."

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that after the win, "[Dizzy] Dean was charging around the (dressing) room with a white pith helmet ... Dean had a rubber tiger and was whacking Bill Delancey over the head with it and throwing it into the showers at Pepper Martin."