Editor’s note: Throughout this year Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. Time has a way of making baseball […]
Category: 1970s Baseball History
Editor’s note: Throughout this year Press Room Pass will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 baseball season with a variety of stories from the covering personal accomplishments, unique moments, major league expansion and the amazing New York Mets. This is the latest installment of that series. A major statistical change occurred 50 years […]
If you are a baseball fan, it’s likely that you remember your first major league game. I had just turned 10 years old in 1973 and as part of my birthday present my parents arranged for me to take a trip to a Cincinnati Reds game with the local Boy’s Club. The Reds would be […]
There were a lot of changes happening in major league baseball during the 1970s. Arbitration was a word that was unfamiliar in a baseball sense back then, however, in 1974 that changed. The name of Dick Woodson may not be well known today, but he became the first player to win a salary arbitration case […]
Replacing a Hall of Fame player isn’t an easy task, but that is exactly what Richie Zisk did in his first major league game for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates had just scored six times in the bottom of the seventh to lead Chicago by 10 runs in a contest on their way to a […]
Happy birthday! Two of my childhood favorites are celebrating their birth today. Hank Aaron was born in 1934, while Roger Staubach came into the world in 1942. Neither one of these icons played for my favorite teams, but growing up in the 1970s, it was pretty hard to not be a fan of the two […]
Jim Gilliam provided the big hit as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Baltimore 3-2 to claim the championship of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. With Los Angeles down 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth, Gilliam smacked a two-run homer off Hoyt Wilhelm to give the Dodgers their first lead of […]
The heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers needed a big hit in the 10th inning to survive a 4-2 battle with the Chicago Cubs in the semifinals of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. Gil Hodges blasted a two-run walk-off homer in the 10th inning to send the Dodgers to the championship game […]
Milt Pappas tossed a complete game as he led Baltimore to a 3-0 victory over the Milwaukee Braves in the second round of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. Pappas limted the Braves to five hits as he fanned five. Walt Dropo led the Orioles offense with a two-run single in the […]
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 […]