| 1928 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 4–9 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Yankee Stadium (New York) Sportsman's Park (St. Louis) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Brick Owens (AL), Cy Rigler (NL), Bill McGowan (AL), Cy Pfirman (NL) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Bill McGowan Yankees: Miller Huggins (mgr.) Earle Combs Leo Durocher‡ Lou Gehrig Waite Hoyt Tony Lazzeri Herb Pennock Babe Ruth Cardinals: Bill McKechnie (mgr.) Grover Cleveland Alexander Jim Bottomley Frankie Frisch Chick Hafey Jesse Haines Rabbit Maranville ‡ Elected as a manager | |||||||||
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| Radio | NBC, CBS | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | NBC: Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlin CBS: J. Andrew White and Ted Husing | |||||||||
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The 1928 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1928 season. The 25th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion New York Yankees versus the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Yankees beat the Cardinals in four games to win their third championship and become the first team to do back-to-back sweeps.
Babe Ruth hit .625 (10 for 16) as the Yankees outscored their opponents by a combined score of 27–10. As he had done against the Cards in the 1926 Series, Ruth hit three home runs over the right field pavilion in Sportsman's Park in Game 4, the only player to do it in two different World Series through the 2016 season. Unlike 1926, however, it occurred in the final game of a Series won by the Yanks and finished off their two consecutive World Series sweeps.
Lou Gehrig also had a good Series, hitting .545 (6 for 11) with four home runs. He drove in as many runs by himself (9) as the entire Cardinal team combined.
Bill McKechnie became the second manager to lead two different teams to the World Series, and like Pat Moran before him, won one and lost one.