Grover Cleveland Alexander was well past his prime in 1926 and he spent much of Game 7 sitting in the visitor's bullpen at Yankee Stadium. But the future Hall of Famer was called on to pitch in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded and the Cardinals leading by a run. He struck out Tony Lazzeri, another Hall of Famer, and then shut down the Yankees in the last two innings to help St. Louis win its first World Series.
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