World Series Riot

“The dizziest, maddest, wildest, and most exciting World Series game played in recent years began with a seven-run batting rally in the third inning that gave the Cardinals the championship of the world for 1934, was interrupted by one of the wildest riots ever seen in a ball park in the sixth inning and wound up, of all things, with the spectators engaging in an old-fashioned pillow fight in which for a half an hour the populace stood around and hurled seat cushions at one another.”

- Paul Gallico of The New York Daily News after the Cardinals 11-0 victory over the Tigers in the 1934 World Series. The rioting in the stands became so vicious after Joe Medwick slashed Marvin Owen with his spikes that commissioner Judge Landis was forced to remove Medwick from the game.

And you thought game six was exciting.

(Source:The Dizziest Season, edited by G.H. Fleming)