1967 IN BASEBALL

Champions

Major League Baseball

★ World Series: St. Louis Cardinals over Boston Red Sox (4-3); Bob Gibson, MVP

★ All-Star Game, July 11 at Anaheim Stadium: National League, 2-1 (15 innings); Tony Pérez, MVP

Other champions

★ College World Series: Arizona State

★ Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves (4-2)

★ Little League World Series: West Tokyo, Japan

Awards and honors

★ 'Most Valuable Player'

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★ Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, OF (AL)

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★ Orlando Cepeda, St. Louis Cardinals, 1B (NL)

★ 'Cy Young Award'

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★ Jim Lonborg, Boston Red Sox (AL)

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★ Mike McCormick, San Francisco Giants (NL)

★ 'Rookie of the Year'

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★ Rod Carew, Minnesota Twins, 2B (AL)

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★ Tom Seaver, New York Mets, P (NL)

Statistical Leaders

	' American League '		' National League'
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Carl Yastrzemski ¹	.326	Roberto Clemente	.357
HR	Carl Yastrzemski¹ & Harmon Killebrew	44	Hank Aaron	39
RBI	Carl Yastrzemski ¹	121	Orlando Cepeda	111
Wins	Jim Lonborg & Earl Wilson	22	Mike McCormick	22
ERA	Joe Horlen	2.06	Phil Niekro	1.87
SB	Bert Campaneris	44	Lou Brock	52

¹American League Triple Crown batting winner.

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

'American League'
'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
Boston Red Sox	92	70	.568	--
Detroit Tigers	91	71	.562	1
Minnesota Twins	91	71	.562	1
Chicago White Sox	89	73	.549	3
California Angels	84	77	.522	7.5
Baltimore Orioles	76	85	.472	15.5
Washington Senators	76	85	.472	15.5
Cleveland Indians	75	87	.463	17
New York Yankees	72	90	.444	20
Kansas City Athletics	62	99	.385	29.5

National League final standings

'National League'
'Club'	'Wins'	'Losses'	'Win %'	'GB'
St. Louis Cardinals	101	60	.627	--
San Francisco Giants	91	71	.562	10.5
Chicago Cubs	87	74	.540	14
Cincinnati Reds	87	75	.537	14.5
Philadelphia Phillies	82	80	.506	19.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	81	81	.500	20.5
Atlanta Braves	77	85	.475	24.5
Los Angeles Dodgers	73	89	.451	28.5
Houston Astros	69	93	.426	32.5
New York Mets	61	101	.377	40.5

Events

★ January 23 - Stan Musial is named General Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.

★ January 29 - Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner are elected to the Hall of Fame by an unanimous vote of the Special Veterans Committee.

★ February 16 - Red Ruffing is selected for the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America through a special runoff election, since no one received the required 75 percent vote in January.

★ April 30 - Steve Barber and Stu Miller combine for a no-hitter, but the Detroit Tigers score twice in the ninth on walks,a wild pitch and an error for a 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

★ May 14 - The New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle becomes the 6th member of the 500-home run club in New York's 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. Mantle connects while batting left-handed off Baltimore's Stu Miller.

★ May 16 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 100th career home run.

★ June 7 - Willie Stargell hits his 100th career home run helping Pittsburgh Pirates beat New York Mets 3-0.

★ July 11 - At Anaheim Stadium, Tony Pérez ends the longest All-Star Game (15 innings, three hours and 41 minutes) with a home run off Catfish Hunter in a National League 2–1 victory over the American League. Solo homers by Richie Allen and the AL's Brooks Robinson account for the other runs, as Pérez is named MVP.

★ July 14 - Eddie Mathews of the Houston Astros becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club. Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants serves up the home run; the first time in history a future Hall of Fame pitcher serves up a 500th home run.

★ August 18 - A tragedy occurs when Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox is beaned by the California Angels' Jack Hamilton. Hit on the left cheekbone, just below the eye socket, Conigliaro will miss the rest of 1967 and all of 1968. He was hitting .267 with 20 home runs and 67 RBIs in 95 games in 1967. Despite the loss of Tony C., the Red Sox will sweep the four-game series with the Angels. The sweep, however, still leaves the Minnesota Twins in first place, with Boston, the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox all within two games.

★ August 20 - In the first game of a double header, Al Kaline hits his 300th career home run helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Indians, 4-2. Kaline has another home run in the 2nd game with Detroit winning, 4-0.

★ August 21 - Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox pitches a gem against the soon to be annointed American League Champion [Boston Red Sox]]; no hitting the Red Sox in Fenway Park. The White Sox win 6-0 with the game taking 67 minutes to complete.

★ September 27 - In the tight AL pennant race, the possibility of a four-way tie is eliminated as the Twins and Red Sox both lose (respectively, 5-1 to California and 6-0 to Cleveland). Minnesota now has a 91-69 won-lost record and Boston is 90-70, and the only games left for those two teams are two games against each other.

★ September 29 - The White Sox lose 1-0 to the Washington Senators and are eliminated from the AL pennant race. Chicago is now 89-71, and can win a maximum of 91 games, and must finish behind the Twins or the Red Sox (those two teams only have the two games against each other left to play). The only remaining tie possibilities are Twins-Tigers or Red Sox-Tigers.

★ October 1 - One of the closest American League pennant races ever enters the season's final day with the Red Sox and Twins tied for first place and the Tigers one-half game back. The Red Sox and Twins play a game against each other, with the winner clinching a tie for the pennant and the loser being eliminated. In that game, eventual American League MVP Carl Yastrzemski goes 4 for 4 as the Red Sox beat the Twins 5-3. The Tigers can tie the Red Sox if they sweep a doubleheader from the California Angels in Detroit. The Tigers win the first game 6-4, but their bullpen fails in the finale and the Angels win 8-5 to give the Red Sox the pennant with no playoff.
Today's doubleheader is the second in as many days for the Tigers and the Angels. The doubleheaders are the result of earlier postponements of games which are needed in the deciding of the pennant race. Many years later, also in the AL, there will be a case of a day doubleheader scheduled on the day after a twi-night doubleheader; there will be a player protest to AL president Bobby Brown, who will rule that there will be only one game on the second day.

★ October 5 - In Game 2 of the World Series, Boston's Jim Lonborg is brilliant as he retires the first 19 Cardinals before walking Curt Flood with one out in the seventh inning. His no-hit bid is broken up with two out in the eighth by a Julian Javier double. Lonborg has to settle for pitching the fourth one-hitter in World Series history as the Red Sox even the series with a 5-0 win.

★ October 12 - In Game Seven of the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals earn their second World Championship of the decade with a 7–2 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Bob Gibson notches his third win in the Series with a three-hitter, 10 strikeouts and a fifth-inning home run. Lou Brock has two hits and three stolen bases for a record seven steals in a seven-game World Series. For the second time in four years, Gibson is honored as the Series MVP.

Births

Deaths

★ January 6 - Joe Haynes, 49, All-Star pitcher who played for the Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox from 1939 through 1948

★ January 6 - Johnny Keane, 55, manager who won the 1964 World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals and joined the opposing Yankees immediately afterward

★ February 12 - Bob Rhoads, 87, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, and St. Louis Cardinals in the early 20th century, who won 22 games and posted a 1.80 ERA in 1906

★ February 14 - Jimmy Johnston, 77, infielder/outfielder for the Brooklyn Robins, Chicago Cubs & White Sox, and later a coach with the Brooklyn Dodgers

★ March 4 - Bullet Rogan, 77, pitcher in the Negro Leagues for the Kansas City Monarchs

★ April 7 - Shanty Hogan, 61, catcher for the Boston Braves, New York Giants, and Washington Senators between 1925 and 1936

★ July 21 - Jimmie Foxx, 59, Hall of Fame first baseman who retired with more career home runs (534) than any player except Babe Ruth; a 3-time MVP and the AL's 1933 triple crown winner, he hit .325 lifetime and played in the first nine All-Star games

★ August 17 - Ray Caldwell, 79, spitball pitcher for the Yankees who was later struck by lightning during a 1919 game while with the Indians; he no-hit the Yankees two weeks later

★ September 12 - Rollie Zeider, 83, infielder for three Chicago franchises from 1910 to 1918

★ November 12 - Cleo Carlyle, 65, outfielder for the Boston Red Sox in the 1920s

★ December 27 - Paul Lehner, 47, outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, and Boston Red Sox between 1946 and 1952

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