On This Day: January 23
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1968
Joe “Ducky” Medwick is voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. A left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals during the “Gashouse Gang” era of the 1930s, Ducky won the Triple Crown in 1937 and batted. 300 or over in 14 of 17 seasons. In 2014, he became a member of the inaugural class of the St. Louis Cardinal Hall of Fame.
