MLB Baseball's Seasons: 1967

[Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome to baseball seasons 1967 The Impossible Dream 1967 it was a tumultuous year in a decade of change in the grip of often unsettling social unrest America would see outbreaks of violence and eruptions of youthful rebellion 1967 was one of the most unique years in American history with everything was going on a civil rights movement a hippie movement you know free love tremendous so unhappiness at the Vietnam War but despite all the turmoil there were still baseball to be played and for the players playing the game was as important as ever we're back many of the wars and in economies it's a it's a place where people can go and simply relax and to forget all their troubles and just concentrate on an afternoon of entertainment by the end of 1967 baseball fans would have witnessed one of the most dramatic seasons in memory but at that start the game was in a serious state of flux in the American lead the New York Yankees who had won the first 5 pennants of the 1960's had fallen on hard times and had finished in last place in 66 the Bronx Bombers were supplanted at the top of the league by the pitching rich Baltimore Orioles in their World Series matchup against the Dodgers the birds only gave up two runs in a stunning four-game sweep [Applause] but repeating in 67 was not going to be easy for the Orioles as a group of hungry teens was buying for their crown the Detroit Tigers were a club that people were starting to fear while the Chicago White Sox were coming off 16 consecutive winning seasons without a title but Baltimore's toughest competition was expected to come from Minnesota the Twins had captured the 65 pennant and we're looking forward to reclaiming their place at the top of the league but there were lower expectations for second division teams such as the EJ and fading Yankees and the Boston Red Sox whose fans had just suffered through their eighth straight losing season who wonders see a team that lost a hundred game 99 games making errors you know striking out we weren't good why would you want to come out to the ballpark in fact those who did come out to the ballpark I think they want us to kill us myself bad we were but as much as the Red Sox struggled in the 60s the Dodgers thrive they had won the last two nationally pennis three and a four-year span and two World Series [Music] and the strength of their team was the major leagues best pitcher Sandy Koufax in each year that the Dodgers have won the pennant Koufax had won the scion award and pitches Triple Crown Koufax is dominating performances had carried the Dodgers to glory but sandy had paid a heavy price for that success as he often pitched through excruciating elbow pain finally after the 66 World Series he decided that he could no longer endure [Music] with Koufax abdicating his throne as the king of the hill Bob Gibson of the st. Louis Cardinals was one of the pitchers most able to succeed sandy the intimidating right-hander was a dominating presence on the mound who beat teams with his arm and his attitude bob was the intimidate or not the intimidate II you know there are a lot of guys that want to win ok in life they want to be winners that wasn't the case with Gibson Gibson despised losing [Applause] and when he went to the mound you weren't going to beat him and Cardinal outfielder Lou Brock chaired Gibson's passion for winning baseball in a war I guess your opposition the Cardinals tradition the Cardinal pride had a lot to do with that yeah you put on a Cardinal uniform he's feel different you feel like you want to fall in the dirt and roll over just to get to your phone bill you the slender speedy Brock had become one of the most disruptive players in all of baseball you imagine yourself as a pitcher even to date or three days before you came into st. Louis the guy you had to think about was Brock you know not only was this guy a great bass dealer he was a 300 Henry he was really the ignition for that baseball team Brock had joined the Cardinals in 1964 and teamed with Gibson to help lead st. Louis to a World Series victory but by 66 the cards were struggling as they slipped to sixth place and were dead last in the league in runs scored we could put a lot of hips on the board for Rico and scored big runs we'd have big hitters in the middle on lineup we practically became the laughingstock of baseball in 1966 in order to change that they gambled by trading for to aging sluggers when worn out their welcomes with their previous to use as a Yankee Roger Maris had out dueled Mickey mail to break Babe Ruth's fabled single-season home run record Jews always dealing with the image of Mickey Mantle as the player who could do no wrong and I think that was difficult for Maris to handle in New York shy by Nature Maris was resented by Yankee fans for upstaging their beloved mantle and was portrayed by the New York media as Sully but in 67 Maris showed his Cardinal teammates that you can't always believe what you read in the paper masses of ballplayers ballplayer who's great with his teammates is great in the clubhouse he just fit into our little family perfectly meanwhile in Orlando Cepeda is the last few years with the Giants some thought that his skills had eroded the Cardinals couldn't have cared less as so peda immediately began knocking the ball all over the park and driving his new teammates across the plate we get all an dose of Peter which meant that you're single and I meant something with Cepeda leading a recharged office and the ferocious Gibson anchoring the pitch a staff the 67th Cardinals began to tear through the National League they were as confident as they were talented and it didn't seem like anyone could stand in their way in April of 1967 heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the army because it really just believes and was stripped of his title I'm not allowed to fight in America the American government won't allow me to even exhibition here so unnaturally a man is gonna soon run out of money in baseball the defending champions but get a small taste of what I li was feeling the Baltimore Orioles were stripped of their title but due in part to a season-ending injury to their ace Jim Palmer they would find themselves unable to defend it still the 1967 season would see no shortage of contenders were looking to seize the American League pennant in Chicago the White Sox were completely shutting down teams with their trio of pitchers Tommy John Gary Peters and Johor lien Joe Holland would pitch a shutout Peters would pitch a shutout now I get the ball and if you gave up two runs you felt like you you let everybody down but greed pitching wasn't the exclusive property of the White Sox 67 the Detroit Tigers with Denny McLain and Earl Wilson and the Mickey knowledge there's a chance that you might leave that city from the hitter standpoint maybe one for 20 or 1 for 25 and the Tigers could here 2 featuring power hitter Willie Horton and future hall-of-famer Al Kaline Detroit scored the second-most runs in the American League you were always some trouble as a ballclub when you went into into Detroit but for sheer star power no team could match the Minnesota Twins on the mound they boasted former siyoung Award winner Dean chance as well as one of the best left-handers in the game former twenty-five game winner Jim kaat and when it came to hitting their trio of Harmon Killebrew Rod Carew and Tony Oliva was dead if you never got to see Rod Carew and Tony Oliva his you missed something because rod purrew won seven American League batting championships and Tony Oliva was a Rod Carew type hitter with power you couldn't keep those first two guys off base and then you had to face calibre and if you made a mistake you could be a couple runs behind real quick and there are goals it's way way back it's a home run 442 failed I think that Hammond killer was the best hold on here the IRAs are here 47 48 49 homeroom every year if you weren't careful they would just all of a sudden you'd look up and there's seven runs up on the scoreboard you say how'd I get here their offense was awesome one team that would not contend in 1967 was the New York Yankees when Mickey Mantle would give Yankee fans one memorable moment to savor as he became just the sixth player in history to hit 500 homers [Applause] [Music] metal had finally become the favorite son of New Yorkers after struggling to live up to the legendary Joe DiMaggio this was something that Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski could relate to as he had been trying for six years to replace a Boston icon taking over for the greatest hitter had ever lived Ted Williams and the pressure on him was tremendous Williams was very outspoken very opinionated very talkative his shrimp skin the other hand was kind of shy kind of withdrawn kind of introverted being a youngster at 21 years old I would like to have come into the big leagues been unnoticed and not taking Ted away in this place so being called the next Ted Williams I think I would have made it much easier for me he wasn't hitting for power he had 300 batting averages one batting titles but the fans still weren't viewing him as this is the yeah as we expected they wanted 30 35 home runs 120 RBIs the batting plus everything else the Red Sox also had another talented outfielder 22 year-old Tony Conigliaro the local hero was starting his fourth season in 67 and unlike yes he enjoyed the limelight and welcomed even the loftiest comparisons I don't think I'd like to be as good better than me I feel that once I get going I can probably be a better all-around player we had debuted as an 18 year old kid who was actually living at home with mom and dad with leaving them for the ballpark from after eating as they wrote in Sports Illustrated his con flakes in the morning and for him to be playing for the hometown team was one of the great stories in all of baseball [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Tony Conigliaro had tremendous charisma young guy good-looking personable fans loved them kids loved him everybody loved him [Music] Tonie see led the American League in homers in 1965 and was the second youngest player to reach 100 home runs he has gave a Boston team that hadn't contended since the early 50s hoped for the future and the Sox had brought in new manager dick Williams for the 1967 season to instill a fresh attitude the only thing I can tell you right now I'll guarantee you will have a hustling ball club dick Williams had come in as a drill sergeant manager vowing to change the atmosphere of what everyone have referred to as the Country Club of the Boston Red Sox well I made a statement and everybody laughed at me especially the New England writers dick will you make a prediction for the 1967 Red Sox [Music] they thought I was nuts but Williams had a plan he was going to go with his young players like shortstop Rico Petrucelli first baseman George Scott and center fielder Reggie Smith and he was going to get them to play his way good stop by Rico play good defense you play good smart baseball ran the bases well and we're able to get bunts down and hit and run do those things he felt that we had a chance then the young players weren't the only players who were inspired sensing a chance to turn the franchise around yes attacked the season with a renewed vigor because he was tired of losing yaz got himself in the greatest shape of his life he worked out he got stronger they tried to pitch him in now he was getting the bat out his hands in the bat out and bang now he was hitting home runs but it wasn't just home runs as he has raised his entire team [Applause] no doubt about it the 67 socks were becoming a team with championship dreams as a game in Fenway Park and late June against the Chicago White Sox when the Red Sox fell behind by a run in the bottom of the 11th inning and Tony came up and hit a two-run home run to win the game and it was like an exuberance fans went crazy they hadn't seen things like this in a long time in the summer of 67 American cities would be rocked by race riots [Music] similarly unrest had boiled over and violence often follow most notably in Detroit home of the Tigers when Detroit began to burn to the ground in July of 1967 Willie Horton still in his uniform walked the streets of Detroit pleading for peace among African Americans and in the community and it went for naught and that really was the beginning of a summer of tremendous unrest while the country struggled with racial issues baseball offered the nation the model to follow it never was an issue Annette I don't think it hardly ever is an issue and baseball it's colored mine it's been colored blind since the Jackie Robinson broken such a long time ago baseball began integrating with Robinson in 1947 and in the late 40s and 50s it saw a steady influx of African Americans and of all the clubs perhaps none embrace the multicultural spirit of baseball as enthusiastically as the 1967 st. Louis Cardinals they were the first team in which the black players and the white players absolutely treated each other equal and by that I mean they socialized together they double dated they needle to each other the white and black players got along very very well we understood each other we understood the problems that the black players had as white players when you looked across at Bob Gibson or Lou Brock they were just Lou Brock and Bob Gibson they weren't black they were our teammates in and they were our friends in the 1967 all-star game would be a perfect showcase for baseball's version of equal rights the National League had more readily welcomed players of color and at one eight of the last ten midsummer classics and its roster would once again reflect that from the incomparable Willie Mays to the homerun champion hey Gannon do you Brock who was playing his first all-star game I never been in an all-star game ever and I decided to come to the ballpark early so you can look like you know what you're doing and I got to the ballpark by 10 o'clock in a day walked in asked one of the clubhouse kid if he got a coca-cola the kid does came back and he said by the way my name is Tom Seaver Seaver a future hall-of-famer was a 22 year old rookie pitcher for the New York Mets and in his first all-star appearance he would prove to be unhittable but the star of the game for the National League would be Cuban born Tony Perez of the Cincinnati Reds who won the game with a homer in a 15 [Music] Perez would be one of eight Latin players the most up to that time who played in the all-star game that year it was a tribute to the burgeoning impact that they had been having on the game the late fifties and sixties had seen a generation of latin players enter the league and now many had matured into full-fledged stars but the eventual 67 batting champ Roberto Clemente and the Giants pitching a swan marichal but in 1967 none of them shine brighter than Orlando Cepeda who powered the st. Louis Cardinals all season long Orlando Cepeda had a remarkable year that year he was the first unanimous MVP getting more votes in any MVP ever he really rips into this never comes back [Applause] it seems if all the Cardinals were at the top of their game in 67 captured Tim McCarver finished second in the MVP voting center fielder Curt Flood would win a fifth straight Gold Glove and hit over 330 Lou Brock would leave the league in runs scored and stolen bases while young hurler Steve Carlton shipped in with 14 wins as the Cardinals ran away with a pen even when Bob Gibson broke his leg in July the Cardinals didn't miss a beat the guy that took over for him was Nelson brows he was 10 and oh can you imagine a guy taking over for Gibson and going 10 or no and we rip dips it to no end man you're gonna be another Wally PIPP you'll never get back to the starting rotation but Gibson would have the last laugh as he would come back to pitch some of the best baseball of his career and leave the cards to one of the most exciting finishes in franchise history in 1967 the war in Vietnam had continued to escalate and his casualties mounted it became a major source for civil strife in America it was a turbulent time no doubt about it the war in Vietnam going on it was a it was an awful time and it affected major league baseball players in a very real way a lot of them had to put in reserve military time they would be gone from their team maybe they were had to go on summer Duty for a week or two weeks and it was all accepted that this was part of what they had to do one of the players was Boston Red Sox pitcher Jim von borcke I think we had lost four or five in a row and we flew him in because of his military commitments a picture ballgame and he pitched with two days rest and he just turned in the gym coming up with a victory to get the Red Sox back on the right road once again going into the 67 season it would have been hard to imagine that Jim LAN board would be looked upon as Boston's best starting pitcher as long war had been a mere 19 and 27 in his first two seasons the previous knock on him had been that he was too gentlemanly indeed his nickname was gentleman Jim he was the scholar from Stanford he was the guy who was different than the other guys the friend of the press and really almost too much the friend of the batter but in 67 lawn-boy went from nice to flat out nasty Bob Berg became a feared pitcher in 1967 using his good fastball in his breaking ball and throwing a ball inside and and becoming a totally different picture got it he was a fierce competitor I mean he didn't give any quarter and had no qualms about sticking one in your ribs if he had to do that [Music] not only was LAN Borg a different pitcher but the Red Sox were different team their manager dick Williams had predicted that they would win more than they would lose and they were but just barely by the all-star break their record was 41 and 39 good for fifth place and six games behind the first place White Sox they caught fire [Applause] that's going to be [Applause] it was unreal it was it was just happening I'll decide after the all-star game we won ten in a row so that was like a miracle that's when we knew we really had a chance to to really win this thing suddenly Boston found themselves in the middle of a pennant race one for the ages with four teams vying for the American League flag Boston Chicago Detroit and the Minnesota Twins we had radius going on in the locker rooms trying to pick up games of which team is still in watt boy there was a lot of scoreboard watching going on during the course of the season right in the thick of it were the 65 AL pennant winners powered by their leader Harmon Killebrew he just put us on on his back and just carried us he needed those big blasts coming off of his spell and in Detroit the Tigers were on a roll [Applause] while in Chicago the pictures for the first place White Sox were getting a stronger [Applause] and to stay in the race Boston needed lawn board yes and Tony cedar stay high No [Applause] 20c was having a nice solid 20c year 20 home runs and 67 runs batted in on the evening of August 18th 1967 but on that night Tony sees career would be changed forever by one fateful pitch [Music] anyone who's ever been in a ballpark when there's a beating knows the deathly silence and this of course was was something that was even more acute because it was Tony see I was on deck with Tony got hit and I'll tell you this is the sound of the ball hitting him I saw his sheet just below just like you're blowing up a balloon the concern was great that you know was he gonna lose his vision and a lot of people just prayed and hoped that he could come back Tony wasn't coming back in 67 and his career was in jeopardy but the Red Sox were still in a pennant race and the burden of carrying the team now fell squarely on the shoulders of yaz [Music] he just showed the idea of the game is to win in 15 different ways that he won games by making great catches by hitting clutch on runs deep let's say tied it up he had every kind of pitched when they tried to pitch around him up high he'd tomahawk one out of the ballpark I mean it was incredible the hustle first the third second a home stretched singles two doubles he was driven yeas was putting up Triple Crown numbers and in the process step into the spotlight and out of the shadow of the splendid splinter with the glove with the arm fall asleep at night thinking about what could be the situation the next day where I could be at bat in that situation I loved it for the first time my life I was involved in a pennant race 1967 would come to be known as the Summer of Love as hippies flat to San Francisco creating a cultural phenomenon [Music] in Boston the Red Sox did their best to create their own lovin the baseball fans and the Summer of Love people all seem to come and have a common ground and it all seemed to come to a head in the Fenway Park bleachers in previous seasons Boston couldn't give tickets away at Fenway yeah no fans were coming in droves to see their socks we had standing room only crowds at every game that if it became the hottest ticket in town Boston came alive you'd go from stoplight to stoplight adhere the game go to the beach hear the game go anywhere so it captivated the city the people of Boston were swept up in the historic pennant race of 1967 with just a week to go there were four teams Chicago Detroit Minnesota and their Red Sox all within one and a half games of each other we were looking at that scoreboard there were three other teams bunched together but we had nothing to lose I mean you know coming from ninth place we were in the pennant race and having fun and then there were three teams as the White Sox stumbled badly in the last week and were eliminated two of them Boston and Minnesota would meet in Fenway Park the twins had a one game lead and the Red Sox would have to win both games to stay alive we knew it was going to be difficult and we knew we would have to be at the top of our games but we had yes and like he had all season long yes would deliver with three hits four RBIs and a decisive home run yes I put the Red Sox one win away were you thinking home run all the way now we come down to the final day on Sunday Jim LAN Borg against 20 game winner deed chance couldn't ask for a better baseball confrontation at the time than that the twins took a two to nothing lead and held it through five and a half innings but the Red Sox had developed an unshakable confidence we weren't worried about it we knew that we were going to do something and win that ballgame in the bottom of the sixth Boston would load the bases and guess who came to bat can you imagine a moment like this [Applause] Red Sox trailing by loaded the bases with nobody yeah yes his boys get on basis I'm gonna take you home [Music] [Applause] real school tied up now with the game deadlock it would be the veteran twins who would unravel [Applause] and Red Sox ace jinlun more would bring them home in style [Applause] [Music] all of a sudden we look to lawmen and the fans had put him on their shoulders out are many people and then he started drifting towards right field and they were taking this taking this uniform walk [Applause] his sweatshirt was gone and part of his Jersey was gone they just stripped him clean if he's gone any further that I had to arrest him for neutered a blond boy [Music] now you think of something sensible they ask you if you got any sensible answers scared to death coming in the game but I was more scared coming out even though they won the game Boston still hadn't won the pennant the Tigers at one game left with the Angels if Detroit won there would be a playoff if they lost the AL crown would belong to the Red Sox once the game came on everyone sat quietly and I tell you could hear a pin drop though we were all in there listening to the game every time the Angels do something good and everybody would cheer everyone was just listening intensely and when the game was over and the Angels beat the Tigers and we were the American League champ I want to tell you I think we could have hit the ceiling one of the most heated pennant races in history had come to a close and yes had won the Triple Crown leading the Red Sox to an American League Championship the man had the greatest year I have ever seen any player have ever we were very willing to get on his shoulders to carry us into the World Series and he did it the 1967 Red Sox had gone from ninth place to first to capture a pennant Jim Ron Borg would win this I on the ward and yes had taken the Triple Crown for Boston the season had been like a dream an impossible dream that they never wanted to wake up from long after one shot the beginning so I'm not just counting the Cardinals they're a great ballclub it's all the Boston Red Sox and I know the kind of spirit that this ballclub has the Red Sox had not won a World Series in nearly 50 years and they were now back in the Fall Classic for the first time since 1946 coincidentally they would face the st. Louis Cardinals the same team that had beaten them in a heartbreaking seven-game series when eNOS slaughter made his famous mad scoring dash [Music] but if Boston was going to get revenge it wasn't gonna be easy against a favored and battle-tested Cardinal team the differences between the two teams couldn't have been more striking we were like kids we're in the World Series wow I was 23 years old I had three years experience and so I was one of the oldest guys on a team and as the series began the Young Sox would get a postseason lesson from the veteran Cardinals it started with their offensive fire starter Lou Brock and on the mound the indomitable buff gives him get the socks at bay there was no way for any American League team to have possibly faced anybody with the stuff and the control that Bob Gibson had with the score tied at one Brock led off the seventh inning looking to untied keep my face that was your biggest duty because he got on he could steal I think they had a tude about keeping their face was not real I still had to pitch to me and they did then I hit we know Brock was a great base stealer we knew any time he got on he was probably going to go dr. Sully complained I knew how important it was close ballgame and I got so frustrated Petrocelli would lose the argument and when Brock later came around to score Boston would lose the game as Gibson slammed the door on the socks [Applause] [Music] Gibson's six hit one run gem had given the Cardinals the early series lead but the Sox were not discouraged they were determined after the Red Sox lost we went to Carl Yastrzemski Locker and he wasn't there they said oh he's outside taking batting practice the only time I ever saw somebody take batting practice after a game all year long as it seemingly willed the Sox to victory and it wasn't stopping now [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] truly an amazing performance I've never lost a player do as much for one club and as he has yes is to homeland said stake Boston to a lead and now Jim on board showed the cards that the Red Sox also have a loose Lomborg has retired 19 in succession not a man of reach face Juan Bohr was on his game that day long board would finish off the Cardinals with a one-hit shutout Boston had responded like champions but with the series shifting a st. Louis the real test of their mettle was still to come the 1967 World Series shifted to st. Louis for Game three but it must have seemed like deja vu of the Red Sox as Lou Brock kick-started the Cardinals in the first inning and when Curt Flood knocked him in the Cardinals had the early lead on the mound Nelson Browns who filled in spectacularly for the injured Bob Gibson during the regular season continued to do his best Gibson impersonation as he gave the Cardinals a 2-1 series lead and in Game four the Cardinals would have the real thing on the mound and Boston was in trouble on an afternoon where Gibson probably only needed one run to win his team gave him four in the first if you gave Gibson four runs in the first inning you might as well set your dinner Arrangements up in another 30 minutes you can pack him up Gibson would dominate the Red Sox for his second complete game victory of the series st. Louis was now one win away from a World Series title welcome to the fifth game of the World Series the Cardinals were confident they would end it at home in Game five and they let their feelings be known there was an article in a paper that said you know taking care of us this game and it's all over so we tacked it to the board there and everybody's reading it up really got us pumped up the Cardinals bravado eyed angered the Red Sox and with R on board on the mound they set out to make their Cardinals eat their words by answering Gibson again Lomborg had quieted the Cardinals and proved that the Sox were not going away easily [Applause] Austin now needed to take the last two games at Fenway Park to win the championship but that was a familiar situation for them and they would show the Cardinals in Game six that it was a situation they were very comfortable [Applause] [Music] I was just floating on the air we're running around the base across the fans packed house at Fenway they were going nuts that was a fool to be a part of that Boston's World Series record three home runs in one inning would propel them to victory I think a lot of people thought that this would be anti-climatic to us it's not depending the cost is a great drill but you want that World Series to go right along with it we want to be world champs not American hm and now the team that was longest of long shots when the season started was just one win away from a title the Red Sox had been baseball's team of destiny throughout the 1967 season so when they pushed the World Series to a Game seven they felt it might just be their year the Red Sox did feel that they were destined that having come from three-to-one down that long board was their knight in shining armor and he would prevail Boston would once again be sending Jim LAN Borg to the mound on short rest and he would be facing Bob Gibson the long board was on two days rest but you figured you know miracle year you know why not you know he could do this the entire city of Boston has seemed to have the same feeling the morning paper summed it up with a dick Williams quote predicting LAN Borg and champagne when we saw that it resonated with me I guaran-damn-tee it there was no way in heck that we were gonna let long burg beat us and from the start the Cardinals vented their anger on a struggling landlord the arm can only take so much right away you know he you could see he wasn't throwing as well he was on fumes and that's just the competitor that he was and wasn't about to turn the ball over to anyone but his opponent Bob Gibson was also a competitor and he smoked a lot Gibson had taken his team's destiny into his own hands delivering a demoralizing blow that seemed to break the Red Sox backs Gibson wasn't gonna get beat I can tell you that Lane is simple the Red Sox were down and Gibson didn't let them up he was just so dominant but he was dominant and every game he went out there that's why I consider them the best right-hander I've ever watched pitch trailing seven to two in the ninth it was clear that the Red Sox amazing run was about to come to an end but for the fans that had been a season to save her gave 70 disappointment for the Red Sox fans I don't think it was that acute all over Greater Boston they had been given the summer of thrills when they were not expecting anything when the season started it was a truly great summer of 67 in Boston Massachusetts but when the summer came to an end the Fall Classic belong to the Cardinals if the Cardinals had written their own headline it would have read Gibson and champagne I walked over to congratulate st. Louis in their Clubhouse Lomborg and champagne that's the first thing I heard but the disappointment in the Red Sox clubhouse was tempered by memories of a Cinderella season and visions of a bright future the kids that were half a game out of place last year pushed the national league champions to seven games in the World Series that's something to think about it thing about it too because we'll be back in there next year the turbulence that mark 1967 would only get worse the following year the Vietnam War would escalate and Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy would both be assassinated within months of each other [Music] baseball would continue to be an oasis of relative calm the Cardinals would go back to the World Series and Gibson would record a record 17 strikeouts in one day [Music] [Applause] [Music] but the Tigers who had missed the 1967 World Series by a single game would defeat st. Louis in a hard-fought seven-game series [Music] meanwhile the Red Sox would not be as resilient Jill on board would get hurt in a skinny accident and would never win 20 games again yes would join Ted Williams as a Boston legend but like Teddy ballgame he would never win a challenge [Music] my teammates past and present I represented Boston in New England with class and what's dignity the socks would endure an 86-year title drought until they finally triumph in 2004 [Music] and by the impossible dream of 1967 was just a memorable part of baseball history [Music]

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Published: Tue Aug 06 2019