Jim Bottomley was the starting first baseman in the first four World Series played by the Cardinals.
Bottomley started at first base in every game, 24 in all, of those World Series.
Bottomley, a left-handed batter, played for the Cardinals’ National League championship teams of 1926, 1928, 1930 and 1931.
Though he batted .310 in a 16-year big-league career and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Bottomley failed to produce to those lofty standards in all but one World Series.
In the four World Series for St. Louis, Bottomley hit .200 (18-for-90) with one home run and 22 strikeouts. He did play spectacular defense, making 233 putouts and committing one error.
A look at Bottomley’s four World Series performances for the Cardinals:
1926
Bottomley’s first World Series was his best. In the seven-game Series, won by the Cardinals over the Yankees, Bottomley, batting cleanup behind Rogers Hornsby, hit .345 (10-for-29) with five RBI.
In Game 7, the Yankees led 1-0 after three innings. In the fourth, Bottomley singled and scored, sparking a three-run Cardinals rally against Waite Hoyt. Those runs held up behind the relief pitching of Grover Cleveland Alexander for a 3-2 Cardinals victory. Boxscore
1928
Bottomley had career highs of 31 homers and 136 RBI during the 1928 season and earned the NL Most Valuable Player Award.
Not much went well for Bottomley or the Cardinals in the World Series. The Yankees swept. Bottomley hit .214 (3-for-14) in four games. His solo home run off Hoyt in Game 1 was the Cardinals’ only home run of the World Series. Boxscore
1930
After compiling a team batting average of .314 in 1930, the Cardinals went into a collective slump in the World Series against the Athletics. No one symbolized that slump more than Bottomley.
St. Louis hit .200 and scored 12 runs as the Athletics won four of six games. Bottomley, batting cleanup behind Frankie Frisch, hit .045 (1-for-22) and struck out nine times.
1931
After producing two RBI from the cleanup spot in the first four games of the World Series, Bottomley was dropped to the sixth spot in the batting order. Though Bottomley hit .160 (4-for-25) for the World Series, the Cardinals defeated the Athletics in seven games.
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I had a blast looking at his batting game logs for 1925. He had only 23 games without at least one hit. Still, in 13 of those games he either got on base with a walk, or drove in a run with a sacrifice. In other words, only ten games all year where the opposition succeeded in keeping him from making some sort of offensive contribution. And let me say that those ten games compare well with the eight games of no offensive production that Babe Ruth had in 1923. The year he set an MLB record for most times on base. This current group of Cardinals could use of few Jim Bottomley in their lineup.
Good stuff. Jim Bottomley may be the most underappreciated of the great Cardinals. Thanks for taking the time to learn more about him and to share it here.