Dizzy Dean, the last man to have won 30 games, was on hand to congratulate him.
Dizzy Dean did it on baseball telecasts.
Dizzy Dean went 24-13 for the Cards, who finished five games back, tied with Chicago for second.
He was paired with Dizzy Dean on the network's broadcasts in the early 1950s, though the two men often argued and never got along.
Dizzy Dean would say that Paige's fastball made his own look like a changeup.
Dizzy Dean in the losing pitcher.
Although not necessarily responsible, Gowdy was held accountable, becoming, as he did, more visible than even Dizzy Dean.
He helped create the first weekly national telecasts of baseball with Dizzy Dean in the mid-1950's.
Dizzy Dean nearly took himself out of the Series on a play in Game 4.
Dizzy Dean remarked that, "He looks like a man hittin' from an easy chair."