Baseball cards in some form have been around for over a century. They’ve been in my house for over 40 years. I remember sitting in the front yard under a tree sorting them by teams. My grandfather and I built a big wooden box to store them under my bed. It seemed to be a […]
Category: 1960s Baseball History
As the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals prepare to battle in this year’s World Series, let’s take a look where each franchise began. The Mets were born in the 1962 season, while the Royals came along in 1969. The first players for each team were selected during an expansion draft. New York picked […]
Strat-o-Matic is a baseball simulation that began as a cards and dice game in the early 1960s before entering the computer age. These featured games on Shoestring Catches are part of season replays or tournaments played with cards and dice. Today’s game matches the 1969 New York Mets and the 1969 Chicago Cubs. With the […]
October 9 is a pretty important day in the baseball career of Dave McNally. After not making it out of the third inning of as the game one starter for the Baltimore Orioles in the 1966 World Series, McNally responded in his next effort. McNally was the winning pitcher in the clinching contest as the […]
Sibling rivalries are as old as … well … siblings. In baseball history the ultimate prize is the World Series and while they may not be the most famous set of siblings, Doc Johnston and Jimmy Johnston became the first brothers to square off in a World Series game against each other in 1920. In […]
One and done. With the current post-season set up for Major League Baseball, the one-game playoffs have become a regular occurrence. However, through out most of baseball history it was very rare and didn’t happen for the first time until the 1940s. The first tie between two teams after the regular season ended was in […]
October 3 is a big day in our family as our son was born on that date. We knew he would love sports because he chose to arrive on important day in baseball history, exactly two weeks earlier than expected. That Sunday, my football team, the Green Bay Packers didn’t play, so he knew there […]
The Washington Senators were about to leave town and never return. The Senators would be heading west before the end of 1971 to become the Texas Rangers and the fans in Washington weren’t happy about the move. Washington’s final game in Robert F. Kennedy Stadium was far from a memorable event for the action on […]
Walter Alston won seven National League pennants and four World Series titles. Alston was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. He posted 2040-1613 record as the manager of the Dodgers both in Brooklyn and in Los Angeles from 1954 to 1976. The 2,040 victories is currently the ninth on the all-time […]
Phil beat Joe for his 20th victory of the 1979 season. It sounds pretty simple, but for the Niekro brothers they joined an exclusive club on Sept. 26. Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves and Joe Niekro of the Houston Astros became the second set of siblings to reach the 20-win plateau in the same […]