Fall Classic flashback
In 1968, a friend's dad took us to Game 1 at Busch Stadium. This is what we saw:
Cepeda, Flood, Brock, McCarver, Kaline, Northrup. Unfortunately, the Tigers came back from down 3-1 to win in seven. Payback, please.
1968 was the Year of the Pitcher, and two shining examples pitched for World Series teams. The St. Louis ace was Bob Gibson, who went 22-9 with a microscopic 1.12 ERA in the regular season. The Tiger staff was led by Denny McLain, who at 31-6, became the first 30-game winner in Major League Baseball since Dizzy Dean won 30 games for St. Louis back in 1934.
Game 1 in St. Louis matched Gibson and McLain, but there was no contest, as Gibson set a World Series record with 17 strikeouts and beat McLain, 4-0.
Cepeda, Flood, Brock, McCarver, Kaline, Northrup. Unfortunately, the Tigers came back from down 3-1 to win in seven. Payback, please.
posted by the spook @ 10:30 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:06 PM,
AR1836 said…
We've had our(Cards fan) hearts broken every game since opening day 1983 when the defending champs took a beating to open the season(if only we'd finished off the Royals in game 6 and Magrane had been allowed to stay in the game against the Twins--he still had some grit left after taking the game 1 beating). 24 years is too long without a Cards world championship. It's time for Tony's title. What a great job of managing a team this year for La Russa, Duncan, McKay, Petitti, Oquendo, and others in the organization. Number 10 would be nice this year and well-deserved.
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