MLB Baseball's Seasons: 1965

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] a second consecutive shutout of the 12 welcome to baseball season's 1965 pitcher perfect [Applause] the biggest news in big-league sports is the new home of the National League Houston Astros the Harris County dome statement they call the Astrodome the ballpark was great 72 degrees year-round they had comfortable seats nobody has ever dreamed of playing baseball indoors judge Roy Hofheinz had a dream of building a dome he did it and I still think it's safe one of the world christened the eighth wonder of the world the Astrodome opened in April 1965 to the amazement of an awestruck public President Lyndon Johnson is expected to be in attendance tonight as the moment sports fans across the world have been waiting for I was in the purple section where were you sitting I was in the back row the yellow section of them the cheap seats you hadn't even been drafted yet huh no I was senior in high school that year and I'd watch them build the dome we'd go over for the game and watch what they were doing trying to figure out what was going on the Astrodome roof arches 208 feet above the playing field with a clear span side to side 642 feet and 18 storage buildings could easily be fitted inside the action on the Astrodome scoreboard will be a show and itself it took three years to build it costs 31 million dollars it's the only thing of its kind in the world Mickey Mantle is often credited with hitting the domes first long ball Mickey Mantle gets credit for hitting the first homerun Astrodome but I did we played a game the night before against our triple-a team and I had a home run my first time up in the Astrodome the next day we played the Yankees and Mickey Mantle hit a home [Music] [Applause] obviously it's makes better news for Mickey Mouse at the first home run than Joe market and while the dome was indeed a modern marvel it quickly revealed one unforeseen design flaw we've got tremendous light here in the dome Stadium the chances are we might have to use sunglasses when we play day games when you couldn't see the ball off the roof I mean it was almost scary there was a lot of panic taking place and he actually had to get people on top of that Stadium and paint those slats that you know was supposed to allow the sunlight to come in let the grass grow when they painted those the grass had no chance which was basically the same chance the Astros had to win the 1965 National League pennant put up in the Bronx there were completely different expectations that I expect the Yankees of being the World Service's 1965 basically I didn't think of that because we kind of take it for granted they always are they most certainly were the Yankees remain the Fall Classic fixture from 1960 to 1964 nor the ballclub debates with baseball have had a run like that so it was a realistic expectation for one to think they might be vying for a title again in 65 I've been with the club 15 years and we've just missed winning the pennant twice the 1954 and 59 and I just figure we're going to win it and I feel the same way this year and why not coming off a 99 one year and 64 the Yankees were returning Mickey Mantle and Joe Pepitone both of whom knocked in a hundred runs the year before one variable was the health of 17-game winner whitey Ford whitey Ford ahead arm surgery after the sake before World Series so he was questionable for the beginning of the 65 season but remember I had established myself having led the league in strikeouts to 64 JimBob was one of the premier pitchers Mel stottlemyre come up to 64 so we knew we had three premier starters right there that would make us just as good as any team in American League skipper Sammy Lee's twins didn't immediately come to mind when one thought of possible challengers to the 65 Yankees the twins second place finish in 1962 was their best since moving to Minnesota a year earlier when the twins and 65 was especially exciting because we were 75 or a hundred to one shots at the beginning of the season to win the pennant the Yankees had been the dynasty for years so we were a team that nobody expected to win what was expected from the 65 twins was offense their 64 lineup had led the AL with 221 homers has six players blasted 20 more Harmon Killebrew sporty nine paced the slugging twenty squad harmonically Lord he was the best for wrong here that I have it's salt while Killebrew was a multiple all-star the rest of the twins lineup sported other promising players such as Bob Allison Jimmy Hall Zoila verse ayahs and the 64 Rookie of the Year Tony Oliva most American league pitchers so Oliva was expected to face a well-balanced offensive attack in 1965 we had a complete line up up and down of average and power it was never a question about our hitting it was always if the twins ever get some pitchy they could be dangerous the twins would prove dangerous in 65 as they get assembled quite the accomplished rotation yeah Jim Cott on the mound with you you had Camilo Pasquale yeah Jim mud cat grant Jim Perry that was a formidable pitching staff and so this ballclub could beat you in many ways almost like the Yankees would in the past in fact there were almost a mirror image of the Yankees except they were younger and they were healthier we knew that we had a chance to top off the anchors who had been a great ballclub a big reason for that confidence was the early season performance of shortstop soil overseas in May of 65 Versailles has had five homers and 24 RBIs unusually big numbers from the Cuban import equally surprising was the Yankees descent to 8th place nine and a half games behind the first place twins this.n Francisco Giants of the early 60s harvested a number of high quality latin-american players the three Alou brothers Juan Marichal and Orlando Cepeda were among the Hispanic players gracing Candlestick Park in 64 the Giants ventured a bit further for talent securing the services of Masanori Murakami who became the first Japanese born player to appear in the majors the reliever would play his first full year in 65 Masanori Murakami was way ahead of his time making the move from the Japanese big leagues to Major League Baseball however it was sort of a hostile takeover by the Giants of this prize left-hander from the Japanese leagues his team in Japan was not happy about this they felt betrayed so this was a very trying time because he was a man who not only was far from home in a culture he did not understand but also not getting any support from back home but when it came to supporting their own arms in 65 the Giants were amongst the better in baseball we had a pretty good pitching staff at that time but mostly you know good hitting willie mays willie mccovey and jim rate hart combined for 114 rumors and 300 RBIs in 64 power that blue bay area title hopes by 65 the Giants who had always been known for home runs [Music] [Applause] so that was part of the culture of being a Giants fan the long ball the home run while the Giants style of power hadn't secured them a World Championship since moving west their hated rivals the Los Angeles Dodgers at one to employing a radically different approach we didn't have a good pitch estate we had a great pitch instead we had nine in the guys guys named Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale a dynamic duo that headline two pitching rotation synonymous with dominance we always felt that we were gonna be a contender because of the fact that we had the best pitching in the world you know you're talking to Koufax and Drysdale Big D you know everybody loved Big D in Koufax were as great at animals any team ever had on the mound yet in 1964 neither Koufax knew or Drysdale won 20 games as the defending world champs felled a sixth place two games under 500 that year we had some problems with the pitching staff and it was just one of those bad years there was 19 and 5 and then all of a sudden started to have elbow trouble and I didn't pitch again that year at fair one my 19th game perhaps that was one reason the Dodgers acquired 15 game winner Claude Osteen from the Washington Senators prior to the 65 season well we got Osteen it was like you know you're gonna get three good games out of the three good pitches that thought process was dealt a dire blow however at the very end of March 1965 at a spring training game sandy pitched a complete game he wakes up the next morning and he looks at his roommate dick tracewski and says hey roomie look at this and he holds up his elbow it was black so he is sent to confer with a team physician Robert Carlin and curl and said that he had traumatic arthritis which means that all the cartilage in his elbow was breaking down croelick said you're in danger of losing use of your arm while the news and shockwaves throughout the baseball world Dodgers fans still believed in their left arm of God everybody was always nervous with anything having to do with Koufax because everybody was aware of his history and his workload but on the other hand people looked at Koufax is almost this superhuman figure that could rise above everything because he always had a fact someone in 1965 might readily forget would be the last time the Yankees had a losing season that's because it had been an astounding 40 years back to 1925 binky's it lost the World Series in 1964 to the Cardinals and Yogi Berra was fired after his one-year as the Yankee manager the Yankees brought in Johnny Keane the Cardinals manager to manage in 1965 better they should have brought in some of the Cardinals talent Lou Brock and Curt Flood because the Cardinals had exposed the Yankees as old white and slow the player who seemed to slow the most had been a long time we've been to the a Mickey Mantle Mickey was not feeling as good as perhaps he had a do surveys and there's a key right there here's a ballplayer that carried a club on occasion 1964 was one such occasion Mantle hit above 300 with 35 homers and a hundred 11 RBIs 64 was his last great year he hit for 32 right-handed but the mixed drop-off in 1965 was precipitous only 19 homers and 46 RBIs more reason the Yankee season would be disastrous and far below the 500 mark the Minnesota Twins saw the rare opportunity and rushed in to fill the void atop the AL over everything Killebrew we knew about the Yankees and they won every year now here it is coming up on all-star break and we still have the lead in the American League and we're pretty confident that we may have the best team as the American League was experiencing dramatic change in its standings that development paled in comparison to what the Great Society was witnessing across the country life was a little bit different in 1965 we still couldn't stay at hotels in 1965 we still couldn't eat in restaurants so the game itself was sort of a relief from what you had to go through off the field from coast-to-coast 1965 was a hotbed for the civil rights movement I was living in New York at the time I go to Harlem and have dinner a couple nights a week in Malcolm X soapbox out there you still can't blame the Negro and you can't blame the movement you have to blame the society that lets such frustrations develop until this is the result of it in February of 65 one of the most outspoken advocates for the rights of African Americans Malcolm X was assassinated in Manhattan when he was assassinated I'm thinking what would the assassinate this guy this guy's just going out and talking and saying things and maybe some people don't like it but hey this is America we can do these things we've got to learn to disagree without being violently disagreeable two weeks later in Selma Alabama dr. King led a nonviolent March trying to secure voting rights for African Americans and while some in the South were still not ready for this long overdue change it led directly to the signing of the Voting Rights Act by President Johnson in August of 65 the government stepping in and says this civil rights bill gotta be passed no more not drinking in water fountains there will be no more situation when you're not staying in hotels the wrong here's one which nor marathan in his heart can justify we gotta live racism the rest all of it together is something that is so special that I will never forget the thirty-sixth all-star game would take place in the home of the first-place twins Metropolitan Stadium where the any of all-stars were led by the man who had seemed all-star games were created for sometimes players talk about the all-star game as if it's just an exhibition game someone he would get revved up no no that's not a exhibition game guys that talk about exhibition game the guys are not there Maes would practice what he preached on the games second pitch four batters later Milwaukee brave Joe Torre made it a trend [Applause] stick to the commanding lead game MVP Juan Marichal posted three scoreless frames and it seemed the Senior Circuit had a firm grip on the game the AO broke through the fourth while the grad was treated to hometown heroics in the fifth [Music] despite the American League's valiant comeback Willie Mays scored the deciding run in the seventh on Iran Santo infield hit setting the stage for Bob Gibson's to a nice safe it was no surprise that Willie Mays had starred on that day's national stage through 65 Mays had played in 16 all-star games compiling a 389 average with three homers nine RBIs and six stolen bases really was the premier player in the National League and he was on walking player the league really was built around well he made as were the 65 Giants with Willie in the midst of one of his greatest seasons his best year all the way around may have been 1965 as a San Francisco giant for the first time since 1955 Mays hit more than 50 homers that sells over 390 feet viii homer for maze and 12 game knees also led the league in total bases on base and slugging percentage all the while earning his ninth straight gold-gloves two home runs but I had a good all-around season and the most out there was awarded to me and I was very happy about it in 65 Mays had power support to complement his 112 RBIs Jim ray Hart and Willie McCovey contributed mightily their combines 62 homers and a hundred eighty-eight RBIs helped support another great Juan Marichal year through July Marichal was 16 and 8 with a one-in-six CRA as his Giants trailed la by two and a half games Jim Maloney is Cincinnati Reds were in the NL Hut as well and despite his subpar all-star appearance he was a huge reason why I imagine you through close to 225 pictures out there today well I felt good all the way I really did as a starting pitcher one of my goals was to be portion enough to pitch a no-hitter and in 65 Maloney would be that fortunate after some tough luck on June 14th Maloney struck out the T Mets during 10 no-hit innings and fortunately for the Reds though they lost in the 11th Johnny Lewis hit a home run off me and I ended up losing that game one to nothing two months later on August 19th in Chicago it was deja vu all over again for the overpowering and Jim Melania has been nothing short of sensational so far today I had pitched nine teams against the Cubs of no-hit ball and I'm sitting on the bench and the scores zero to zero now the shortstop katanas is at bat but fortunately Leo Cardenas he hit the first pitch he hit the foul pole so when we got up one to nothing I went out in the bottom of the tent and got him out there's Ernie Banks thank you hardness over the second half [Music] Jimmy that's gotta be a real great thrill for you well I lost one earlier in the year one enough and against the Mets and I thought maybe I might even see taking about today I think this is the biggest game of my career right here Melones no-hitter was one of his 20 wins in 65 a main reason the Reds would contend for the NL pennant all season long home art in 1963 and 64 the Dodgers were anything but a power laiden club finishing in the bottom three in slugging percentage both years faced to win games true one wonder nothing they never won too many games that were big score the 65 Dodgers defines small ball as the club would push that style of play to the extreme no hitters at all their third place hitter hit 238 Willie Davis hit third all year and at 238 not even as many as 10 home runs nobody hit more than 12 home runs on that team which is kind of amazing if you think about it further hampering the Dodger offense who was a May 1st season-ending ankle injury suffered by their best hitter Tommy Davis the absence of injured Tommy Davis hurts the Dodgers run producing the team so the biggest concern for most of us that season was what are you gonna do to replace Tommy everybody thought that buzzy Buffet Z the general manager was gonna make a big trade didn't make a big trade brought up Lou Johnson a decade-long minor leaguer with less than a hundred big league games under his belt the 30 year old Johnson had contemplated retirement prior to the 65 season I got a chance to come up play with the Dodgers man it doesn't get into better debt and what it did it wiped out all of the bad feelings that I had for not getting an opportunity to play in a major leagues combining excellent speed with 12 homers Johnson is a surprise lift for a challenge that relied heavily on its fleet-footed shortstop it was common knowledge and the other team felt that if they could keep me off base that they could be this now knowing that I knew how important it was that I got on base in the fourth inning of a scoreless tired Wells tagged up on a deep fly to center and went from first to second Martin Wilbur the master had taken over the game another alkyl fly saw him tag up and move to third he knew the end result is gonna score well who's nuts in position to score with two outs on a short single to right that made it Koufax won the Mets nothing Mori was manufacture runs and in 65 one run person he was often enough as his eight shutouts would attest along with his equally stratospheric numbers across the board twenty six and eight record 2.0 four earned run average 382 strikeouts 41 starts over 300 innings pitched startling stats that were becoming routine for Koufax who was in the midst of one of the greatest runs a big league pitcher ever experienced sandy for me was like the tenth wonder of the world I'm telling the matter was amazing Koufax is shooting for his tenth straight victory despite year-long arm pain the 65 season saw Koufax win 11 straight decisions from May 30th through July 20th Koufax won Ron Drysdale at that time we needed two or three rods often overshadowed by Koufax Drysdale season was great as well Big D went 15 and 8 through July on to a 23 and 12 camp my gel has now struck out four out of the last five yet despite the dynamic duo's power pitching the light hitting Dodgers could only muster a slim end of July league it's a wide-open race with the Dodgers in front the twins were another team hard-pressed by injury as August saw two stars go down Tamila Pasquale was the one the best speeches in American League he gets hurt when he went down everybody wondered what was gonna happen so they coming me instead of Jim you got to take your spot and be the starter Jim Perry responded with five wins along with the most solid two point eight seven dra Harmon Killebrew get hurt we miss him about a week into that for it step Don Mincher he's always a threat to hit the long ball 22 homers 65 runs batted in everybody put a piece of the poster together and we was able to wait the dynamic performance of zoilo Versalles contributed mightily to the twins season and success so I go Visayas he was able to do everything in fact he could run he could hit with power masala is bad at 273 and hit 19 homers and knocked in 77 run he was an outstanding fielder he had all this range he was a shortstop like we hadn't seen before cuz shortstops in that time period were known more just for their defense so he stood out especially in August when he batted 353 with 22 extra-base hits and 36 runs scored without their injured stars per se has enabled the twins to increase their al ly to seven and a half games by the end of August yeah was the year for soil office areas he did some outstanding stuff so outstanding and maids are low the first ever latin-american MVP it's always been a rivalry charge of the Dodgers that's way back from when I grew up in Brooklyn the Dodgers and the Giants were always having fights every time we faced each other was like a war and we always knew that whenever the Giants and Dodgers played anything could happen and it did on August 22nd 1965 the first place Dodgers held a one and a half game lead on the Giants tension was high as the visitors had taken two out of the first three games of the series and a Sunday stage was electric we went up that to win get ready to witness and Koufax is pitching Marshall was pitching and while the pitching matchup teased of unforgettable in the third with Marichal at bad and John Roseboro catching the game turned regrettable I fired it back to Sandy you know and I came awful close to Mary Shaw he drew a ball from behind tipped my ear he said something like you better not hit me with that ball what actually ended up happening was a brawl and Marichal hitting Johnny Roseboro over the head with the bat and more than one time it was a bloody mess a horrifying thing to see the 14-minute melee cost Roseboro a two inch gash on his head and terrible remorse for a true gentleman I always say how bad I feel after that happen and I regret what I did on the strength of Willie Mays decisive three-run homer off of Koufax the Giants won that day's battle but at the same time might have lost the war the league president suspended Mary Jo services for two turns that incident I always believed might have been the ultimate downfall of the Giants even though they won 95 ball games but while the marichal suspension may have indeed affected the Giants pennant chances the Dodger psyche seemed little better as september dawned we've been struggling you know we're having one of those dry spells and you know things are tough is a four and four record seven days into the month was worrisome for the now second-place Dodgers but more problematic was the fact that Koufax hadn't won a game in 25 days he hadn't been pitching well in fact the Dodgers had a guy from the team stationed behind home plate to film him because he was concerned that he wasn't throwing very well sandy didn't have real good stuff to start that game he couldn't get his curveball over it was a role where it was up in the strike zone there was nothing nothing Bob and Lou's pitching great ballgame he had a no-hitter going into the seventh inning as well as the ballgame went long story feel better and better last two innings I don't know if I've ever felt any better than that sandy could taste it and he was going for it he was literally coming out from underneath his cap you know good wonder nothing if you can manage to get it over with [Music] Sandi's fourth no-hitter in the past four years was the only perfect game of his career and had served notice to the red-hot Giants that the Dodgers weren't joking around in 1965 the say hey kid let his Giants on a magical late season run beginning September 4th the Giants won 14 consecutive games to put themselves atop the NL by 4 and a half games over the Reds and Dodgers so I remember thinking there's no question they're gonna pull this out this is what the Giants do coincidentally on the very same day the Giants winning streak reached 14 September the 16th the Dodgers began in winning streak of their own we won 13 straight games and that really showed me something knowing that the Giants gonna take your glory away from me and win a pennant no don't you you work a little harder because you don't want the Giants win the pennant the big three Koufax Drysdale and Osteen won nine out of those 13 games as the pitching heavy Dodgers outlasted the power Lady Giants to win the NL pennant by two games get to the World Series and that's what we did we wanted a look next to the last day of the season the winning clubhouse when you've won a pennant is the exciting part of baseball just going to the World Series is a thrill it doesn't matter who you're playing the twins and their 102 wins would be the opponent waiting to play in Minnesota's first ever World Series a lot of fans in the Upper Midwest still look back on that 65 team as maybe their favorite team because it suddenly stamped the twins as winning franchise [Music] [Applause] now you onstage you and the World Series [Music] I think it's every ballplayers dreamed to play in the World Series certainly was mine but a series storyline that featured two teams with vastly differing styles of play my own experience would be see the twins in spring training if you know they had guys who could swing with that we knew the Dodgers were known as Koufax Drysdale and many others they weren't gonna be a team that was gonna out slug you like our team could before one pitch was thrown however a major subplot emerged I was the owner and a pitcher and I was supposed to pitch against Koufax I was looking forward to that because there was a lot of stuff being made of the Jewish kid and black kids are going to start against one another but the Jewish kid Koufax chose faith over the Fall Classic deciding not to play on the holiest day of the Jewish year Yom Kippur Sandy Koufax never pitched on any of the Jewish High Holidays it was just that this time it fell on Game one of the World Series and therefore got so much attention for me it was kind of sad because for 27 years I got a chance to play in the World Series and I can't get the service of the man that's going to help us to win the World Series he never offered any explanation to anybody for his reasoning his motives I'm person asking the question no answer what I got was a look on his face that will be everlasting for me it made a better man out of me Don Drysdale got the start instead but unfortunately for the Dodgers he was unable to complete three innings Don min-joon connects solidly with science gets around on this one as the twins bastard for two homers and seven months Drysdale stunk out the joint and when Austin went to the mound to take him out try as Dale famously said but you wish I was Jewish today too I'll skip Grant meanwhile scattered ten hits in going the distance for a lopsided game this might seem hard to believe to fans today but I had never seen Sandy Koufax pitch in person till I pitched against him in Game two of the 65 World Series the weatherman has not been kind the temperature right now 56 degrees the wind is 17 miles an hour and just about every means known to a groundskeeping crew and I'm warming up next to him in the bullpen and he looked or he said you guys don't play in this weather day and I thought that might be the best chance we had undeterred by the conditions sandy was superb through five scoreless innings striking out eight I looked at Johnny st. our pitching coach and I said if I give up a run this game's over God hadn't allowed ahead through four innings as he faced Dodger right fielder Ron fairly in the fifth which it again Lefevre the key moment was Jim lefeber did a hooking line drive Bob Allison made one of the great catches in World Series history [Music] buddy saw field sliding and made a catch that saved a run perhaps inspired by that catch the tools finally solved Koufax in the sixth [Applause] Cuthbert cruised to a complete-game five to one wing giving the twins at two games to none lead [Applause] we be Don Drysdale and we be Santa Koufax and we put put a good whooping on them so we felt good going out to LA and for the Dodgers they either win today or I get the time to make out your shopping list for Christmas fortunately for Dodgers fans they had the third member of their big 3 15 game winner Claude Osteen on the mound Osteen's game 3 performance was was really the turning point in this series Osteen still has a shutout going into the ninth I was at that game and he put on a command performance Osteen checks the runner pitches and Zimmermann it's a high bouncer strated will Morey steps on second [Music] Oh Steve that changed the whole texture the series now it was sudden it's like this thing could go the distance and if it goes the distance with the drysdale or Koufax coming out there you're gonna feel good about your chances when Don Drysdale hurled the series fourth straight complete game a Dodgers 7 at to win it even the Fall Classic and reduced it to a best two out of three years to win nationally and eco bag got into first inning trouble when leadoff man Maury wills reached safely [Applause] and Jim Gilliam looked to provide Koufax with that often decisive 1 1 billion pitch on a pitch from Jim cot and smashes the ball and when Gillian soared on a Twins error the two nothing you need it's taped Koufax to Steve insert mouth I gave up a few rounds early and that really took all the wind out of our sails because once Koufax got a few round lead it was just a matter of him throwing strikes and finishing it off [Applause] Sandy's four hit ten strikeouts set and nothing whitewash of the twins shifted both the series momentum as well as its location we get back to Minneapolis sound meted the manager says can you pitch on two days rest ISU's yes I can it's interesting to note that as grant makes his way to the mound the twins bullpen is busy Mudcat was our pitching star that series and he came back in game six to give us a chance to come back and play Game seven through four innings grant was hurling no-hit baseball full count nobody out in the bottom of the fourth the twins began to display their trademark on offense the long-haul Bob Allison levels is bad [Music] and while Allison's 2-run homer came as no surprise to do such joyful Hey stop with Paddy a sixth inning three run homer was a real shocker Jim grant steps into the box and then rips into the first pitch off of only six regular-season homers in his 14-year career Grant's three-run blast moved to score five nothing on route to a series title five one [Applause] with a three-run homer the pregame drama at the 19th deciding game seven was palpable very interesting scenario Don Drysdale and John Roseboro walked into Walmart Alston's office and said sandy only has two days rest you got to start him Drysdale had three days rest but Drysdale said I can go and get up-and-down during the game in the bullpen and back him up but sandy once he gets up he can't sit down because he had that are three Kelbo starting his third game in eight days he said there was nothing left in the tank yet somehow through three things Koufax banned six matching Koufax zero four zero through three Jim kaat was also pitching on two days rest [Applause] in the top of the fourth though the feel of the game changed in an instant no Johnson its first man up my mind was set when I found out Jim carp was pictured that I was going through something big but if we had to be a fastball on the inside and that's what I got not just a lot for me or for the team cause nobody gave us a chance for us to be there for the seventh game of the World Series and for me to be where I was and had the year that I had hey it was supposed to be me and when LA attacked on a second fourth inning run it gave us scuffling Koufax some much-needed wiggle room it's hard to get past what Koufax did that day he basically had no curveball Roseboro kept crawling for curveballs and he finally called Rosie out to the mound said my arm is killing me I can't throw it and Rose worsen what are we gonna do and Sandy said we're gonna believing throw it by them and he did sandi after inning for just one fastball after another and we couldn't catch up with the question is just how long can I pitch you go with one bit the more he picks the harder he threw [Music] [Applause] well facts it's the greatest game I've ever seen this how he did it none of the Dodgers of renewal and the twins they didn't know how he did it either deco-pack gets his tenth strikeout and the Dodgers have won the 1965 World Series we were beaten by to me one of the greatest pictures of all time his second consecutive shutout of the twins on Monday on a four-hitter he said before the game and again after he felt like he was a hundred years old in Los Angeles when you seven or nothing shut out you were quoted as saying after the game I feel a hundred years old so today how do you feel Andy's game seven performance ended perhaps the greatest season-long pitching display in the history of the game all I could say was I'm glad I was on his side Sandy Koufax would be brilliant again in 1966 leading the league with 27 wins a 1.73 er a and 317 strikeouts unfortunately for the Dodgers they'd lose both the World Series and their legendary southpaw in the fall of 66 meanwhile it would be more than two decades before a championship came to Minnesota but in 1987 the twins finally brought the World Series trophy up north winning all four Series games at home [Applause] [Music] the game the 80s and the 1970s was altered by artificial fields which debuted in 1966 originally called kin turf and quickly renamed astroturf when it was first installed in Houston's iconic dome everywhere you look the 60s were a time of change as the civil rights movement marched on in 1966 Emmett Ashford became the first African American umpire to work in the majors with a fleshie and exuberance style that made him an instant fan favorite progress was unstoppable in the mid 60s but for Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers it marked the end of an era [Music] [Music] you

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