My Grandpa Fred Schulte was on this team. He hit a three run homer in the last game of the '33 World Series and almost stopped a homer by Mel Ott by diving over the fence and knocking it back. After some controversial debate, Judge Landis ruled it a home run and the Giants won.
Because of lesser frame rates, most old sports films depict play as either too fast or slo-mowed to match modern standards. Here we see the speed of the ball and the players was just as it is now.
Coach Nick Altrock is the goof-ball who is last through the "pennant winners" banner. Altrock and Al Schacht did a comedy routine...were called "the clown princes of baseball". Altrock continued as Nats coach until about 1956, after Clark Griffith died. That's Joe Cronin, manager, number 4.
