festeringZit
Unfortunately there isn't much I can say as I spent all of 1967 in the Army in training mostly, in South Carolina, and Georgia mostly for basic training and jump school etc. I tried my best to follow the team from what newspapers were available but recruits in training have little time for anything but their training duties.
I remember catching part of one game at the very end of the season when on a Sunday I found what they call a day room in many Army barracks with a TV set in it. I got into an argument with another soldier who wanted to watch the Dallas Cowboys play a game that was on another channel.
Most of what I know is from reading about it later, I ended up in Vietnam in January of 1968 and lost interest in just about all sports for a year or so.
wil.
Unfortunately there isn't much I can say as I spent all of 1967 in the Army in training mostly, in South Carolina, and Georgia mostly for basic training and jump school etc. I tried my best to follow the team from what newspapers were available but recruits in training have little time for anything but their training duties.
I remember catching part of one game at the very end of the season when on a Sunday I found what they call a day room in many Army barracks with a TV set in it. I got into an argument with another soldier who wanted to watch the Dallas Cowboys play a game that was on another channel.
Most of what I know is from reading about it later, I ended up in Vietnam in January of 1968 and lost interest in just about all sports for a year or so.
wil.
This is a must-have book for Red Sox fans from that era: http://www.amazon.com/1967-Impossib...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240168531&sr=1-1
This is a must-have book for Red Sox fans from that era: http://www.amazon.com/1967-Impossib...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240168531&sr=1-1
Every Amazon reviewer gave it full 5 stars, I put it on my buy list, thanks!
Missed the 2003 drama as an Army recruit going through training, parents kept sending me Boston Globe sports sections that would arrive a week or so late. Feelings were so torn. Wanted the Sox to win so desperately, yet so badly didn't want to miss being in New England
At school for the Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl, home for all of 2004 so it all worked out perfectly
At school for the Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl, home for all of 2004 so it all worked out perfectly
AL '67. imo, best pennant race of my lifetime. yaz was unbelievable down the stretch. rsox played the twins at fenway the last weekend. if the twins win one, they are in. jim kaat (the sat game, i believe), was dealing, then got hurt & the rsox won. to this day, i say, if kittykat doesn't get hurt, there is no 'impossible dream'. if i ever run into jim kaat, i'd love to bring that up and see what he has to say abt it.
You must have went through Fort Jackson in Columbia SC. Fort Jackson is the Military Entrance Post for all recruits East of the Mississippi River. This is where an individual gets their physical and their paperwork is processed. I went through there in 1990 on my way to Parris Island. Fort Jackson is one hot place during the dog days of summer. However, Twenty Nine Palms, California is the hottest place I went to in my four years of active duty time in USMC.
JoeBatters -- Yaz
Yaz went 4 for 4 on the last day of the 67 regular season against the Minnesota Twins. The Red Sox clinched the pennant that day with a 5-3 win behind Jim Lonborg who went the distance for his 22nd win of the year. Yaz had a double and 3 singles with two RBI and a run scored.
Dean Chance started and took the loss for Minnesota. The win gave the Sox a record of 92 and 70, The Twins finished a game back at 91 and 71 as did Detroit who split a double header with the Angels to end up 91-71. Detroit could have tied the Sox if they won the second game after winning game one 6-4 but were beat by a score of 8-5 to give Boston the Impossible Dream and The AL Pennent.
Detroit used almost their entire staff in that 2nd game with Denny McClain starting and giving up 3 runs in 2.2innings on 4 hits. Mickey Lolich finshed the game getting the last four outs without giving up a hit but it was to late. Boxscore of game two.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS196710010.shtml
Clutch performance by Yaz and Jim Lonborg who won the Cy Young Award that year and of course Yaz was MVP after winning the Triple Crown (the last man to do so). There is an asterik though as he tied Harmon Killerbrew with 44 homers to share the home run title but he is still considered a triple crown winner as he was 1st in batting, RBIs and homers in the AL in 1967.
wil.
Yaz went 4 for 4 on the last day of the 67 regular season against the Minnesota Twins. The Red Sox clinched the pennant that day with a 5-3 win behind Jim Lonborg who went the distance for his 22nd win of the year. Yaz had a double and 3 singles with two RBI and a run scored.
Dean Chance started and took the loss for Minnesota. The win gave the Sox a record of 92 and 70, The Twins finished a game back at 91 and 71 as did Detroit who split a double header with the Angels to end up 91-71. Detroit could have tied the Sox if they won the second game after winning game one 6-4 but were beat by a score of 8-5 to give Boston the Impossible Dream and The AL Pennent.
Detroit used almost their entire staff in that 2nd game with Denny McClain starting and giving up 3 runs in 2.2innings on 4 hits. Mickey Lolich finshed the game getting the last four outs without giving up a hit but it was to late. Boxscore of game two.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS196710010.shtml
Clutch performance by Yaz and Jim Lonborg who won the Cy Young Award that year and of course Yaz was MVP after winning the Triple Crown (the last man to do so). There is an asterik though as he tied Harmon Killerbrew with 44 homers to share the home run title but he is still considered a triple crown winner as he was 1st in batting, RBIs and homers in the AL in 1967.
wil.
Wil...
Man, that is cool as hell. A box score from that game. That brought back some memories...thanks for posting that. Some of those names...those were good days. One thing that caught my eye: time of game 2:25.
How cool is that? I mean, I'm pretty much a baseball freak, but these 3 1/2 hour games are not good. My 12 year old son asked me the other day if anyone has ever watched a complete baseball game. He was serious...I had to laugh.
Man, that is cool as hell. A box score from that game. That brought back some memories...thanks for posting that. Some of those names...those were good days. One thing that caught my eye: time of game 2:25.
How cool is that? I mean, I'm pretty much a baseball freak, but these 3 1/2 hour games are not good. My 12 year old son asked me the other day if anyone has ever watched a complete baseball game. He was serious...I had to laugh.
joebatters
I am glad you enjoyed the links. Back in the 70s the San Diego Padres had a sinker ball pitcher named Randy Jones who had a short but at times brilliant career (he won the 1976 NL Cy Young Award). When his sinker was on games he started in would take and hour and 45 minutes or so and rarely not much more that 2 hours flat. Batters would just beat that sinker into the ground right away and the game was over before you knew it.
Randy owns the distinction of recording a save for the NL in the 1975 All Star game and being the starting and winning pitcher the next year. Randy entered the 1976 All-Star Game with a record of 16-3, an All Star break win total that no one has equaled since. During his last start of the 1976 season, Randy injured a nerve in his pitching arm that required exploratory surgery, and he was never quite able to regain his Cy Young form.
Check out this box score from a 3-0 Randy Jones win over the Phillies in July of 1976. Look at the time of the game...
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN197607200.shtml
Enjoy, wil..
I am glad you enjoyed the links. Back in the 70s the San Diego Padres had a sinker ball pitcher named Randy Jones who had a short but at times brilliant career (he won the 1976 NL Cy Young Award). When his sinker was on games he started in would take and hour and 45 minutes or so and rarely not much more that 2 hours flat. Batters would just beat that sinker into the ground right away and the game was over before you knew it.
Randy owns the distinction of recording a save for the NL in the 1975 All Star game and being the starting and winning pitcher the next year. Randy entered the 1976 All-Star Game with a record of 16-3, an All Star break win total that no one has equaled since. During his last start of the 1976 season, Randy injured a nerve in his pitching arm that required exploratory surgery, and he was never quite able to regain his Cy Young form.
Check out this box score from a 3-0 Randy Jones win over the Phillies in July of 1976. Look at the time of the game...
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN197607200.shtml
Enjoy, wil..
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WOW!! One hour and 31 minutes! That is just incredible. Now it seems they have 1 1/2 hours of commercial time. I remember Randy Jones very well. (Didn't realize he won a Cy Young though). I love looking at those old box scores. I appreciate your love of baseball and I think you guys do an excellent job at this site. It is a really cool site. Appreciate ya and keep up the good work:toast:
joebatters -- One for the ages.
Classic Box Score from July of 1963. The San Francisco Giants defeated The Milwaukee Braves 1-0 in 16 innings. Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn both went the distance..
A solo homer by the great Willie Mays gave the Giants the win in the bottom of the 16th. Photo of Marichal and "The Say Hey Kid" after the victory in the Candlestick Park clubhouse..
Box Score..
Marichal managed to hang an 0 for 6 collar on the great Hank Aaron that day. Warren Spahn himelf hit the only extra base hit for the Braves that day - a 3rd inning double. Only 15,921 were in attendance.
Seven hall of famers played in that game. Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey, Marichal, Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Spahn. What a boxscore and what a game..
wil.
Classic Box Score from July of 1963. The San Francisco Giants defeated The Milwaukee Braves 1-0 in 16 innings. Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn both went the distance..
A solo homer by the great Willie Mays gave the Giants the win in the bottom of the 16th. Photo of Marichal and "The Say Hey Kid" after the victory in the Candlestick Park clubhouse..
Box Score..
Marichal managed to hang an 0 for 6 collar on the great Hank Aaron that day. Warren Spahn himelf hit the only extra base hit for the Braves that day - a 3rd inning double. Only 15,921 were in attendance.
Seven hall of famers played in that game. Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey, Marichal, Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Spahn. What a boxscore and what a game..
wil.
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