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(1932) NY Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0

The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions and the Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff matches.

The Yankees climbed once again to the top of the American League, finishing 13 games ahead of the second-place Philadelphia Athletics. The Yankees, incidentally, were managed by Joe McCarthy, who skippered the Cubs to their last pennant in 1929.

The World Series opened in New York, and the Cubs grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first inning, Ruth atoned for a miscue with an RBI, Runs Batted In, single in the fourth, and Lou Gehrig followed with a two-run homer into the right-field bleachers which gave the Bombers a 3-2 lead. The Yanks made it 8-2 in the sixth, scoring five times and making the final 12-6. Despite allowing 10 hits and six walks, Red Ruffing went the distance for the victory.

Game 2 was a Yankee decision. Gehrig went 3-for-4 and scored a run, Lefty Gomez pitched nine strong innings, and the Bombers took a 2-0 lead in the Series with a 5-2 triumph.

In Chicago for Game 3, Ruth blasted a three-run homer in the first inning, and Gehrig made it 4-1 in the third. The Cubs battled back and the contest was deadlocked at four runs apiece. Ruth came up in the fifth inning with one out, as he was greeted by derisive catcalls from the Chicago dugout, he responded with a gesture, Ruth allegedly pointed to the center field bleachers and hit Charlie Root's next pitch into those same bleachers for a home run, this would forever after be known as Ruth's, Called Shot and the Yankees were well on their way to a 7-5 triumph.

In Game 4, the Cubs exploded for four runs in the first inning, knocking out Yankee starter Johnny Allen in the process. The score was 5-5 after six innings and then the Bombers took over, scoring four runs in both the seventh and ninth innings, thus rolling to a Series-clinching, 13-6 victory. Tony Lazzeri was the hitting star, with a pair of home runs and four RBIs, and Wilcy Moore earned the decision with 5 1/3 innings of relief work. Lou Gehrig hit .529 in four games with nine hits, three of which were home runs.

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