Cleveland’s Jim Perry posted a 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. Perry allowed just four hits and one walk as he fanned seven in the shutout. After surrendering back-to-back singles to Curt Flood and Stan Musial with one out in […]
Category: 1960s Baseball History
Voting for the National Baseball Hall of Fame has always been fascinating. Between the writers and other committees there is always controversy. Perhaps one of the most unusual stories belongs to Red Ruffing, who was inducted in 1967 after the third and final run-off election in the history of the shrine. According to the rules […]
Back in the 1970s as a pre-teen, there was no other feeling like opening a pack of baseball cards. Pulling a Hank Aaron, Willie Mays or Roberto Clemente was a special event though they were at the end of their careers. New players like George Brett or Robin Yount brought just as big a smile. […]
The 1966 season marked the end of the era of one Cy Young Award per year. Appropriately, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers won his third and final award in what turned out to be his last season. The Sporting News had been dividing its honors by league since 1948. In 1966, Minnesota’s Jim […]
It’s repetitive to say that Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers had a good year in the 1960s. The 1965 season marked the second time in Koufax’s career he claimed the Cy Young Award unanimously as he led the Dodgers to a World Series victory. On the other side of things in the American […]
Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers reigned as the king of major league pitchers from 1963 to 1966 as he won three Cy Young Awards. The only one that Koufax missed during that stretch was in 1964 when Dean Chance of the Los Angeles Angels claimed the honor by leading the American League in […]
A dominating season by Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers left everyone behind in the Cy Young Award balloting in 1963 as he was the first unanimous section for the honor, but the lefty didn’t leave much doubt as to who was the top overall player in the majors as he named also the […]
The balloting for the 1962 Cy Young Award marked the second time in three years that an American League pitcher didn’t receive a vote. In 1960, winner Vern Law of the Pittsburgh Pirates was one of four hurlers to earn a vote, while two years later there would also be four as Don Drysdale of […]
The voting for the 1961 Cy Young Award proved to be a tight race. Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees won by a 9-6 margin over Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves. Frank Lary of the Detroit Tigers received the final two votes. Although Spahn was the top vote getter from the National League, […]
Chuck Estrada played seven years in the major leagues, but it was his first season that was the most special. As a rookie with the Baltimore Orioles in 1960, Estrada led the American League in victories as he posted an 18-11 record. Named to both all-star games that summer, Estrada pitched an inning in the […]