Jim Hickman had seven walk-off homers in his 13-year career in the big leagues. The Tennessee native hit 159 homers, but he left a legacy of accomplishments with several of them. Back in 1969, Hickman had two of those winning long balls in five days as the Chicago Cubs were leading the pennant race over […]
Category: 1960s Baseball History
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
Establishing a major league record is always special, but sometimes they fade away and become an obscure moment in history. The 1969 Minnesota Twins set a standard that might be tough for any team to surpass on June 21. It happened in Oakland as the Twins beat the A’s 14-4 in 10 innings. The score […]
Reggie Jackson was becoming a star. In just third big league season in 1969, Jackson would join the ranks of the elite with career-high numbers. Jackson would have many great days in 21 years, including the legendary three-homer affair in game six of the 1977 World Series that gave the New York Yankees their first […]
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
It took George Crowe 11 swings to set a major league record. In 1960, Crowe was sent to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie game as the Milwaukee Braves were visiting St. Louis on May 25. Nearing the end of his career, the 39-year old swatted a two-run pinch-hit […]
Editor’s note: How good were the 1975 Cincinnati Reds? The best way to end the speculation is to challenge the team with a 162-game season against some great teams. This is a series that will include each game played with the Strat-o-Matic cards and dice, while hoping to reach the 108-54 record that the Reds […]
Hitting home runs from both sides of the plate during a game has happened 232 times in major league history. The total is less when counting three long balls in a contest with that occuring 19 times. Mickey Mantle (1955) and Tom Tresh (1965), who were teammates with New York Yankees, were the first two […]
Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins was the American League Most Valuable Player in 1969. Killebrew hit 49 homers and drove in 140 runs that season as Minnesota won the AL West with a 97-55 record, but the Twins fell in the playoffs to Baltimore. It was 50 years ago when the world started to […]
There’s always that guy. You know him. He’s that guy who messes up your team’s no-hitter. It was 50 years ago when Minnesota’s Cesar Tovar became that “guy” twice during the 1969 season with both hits coming in the ninth against the Baltimore Orioles. On May 15, Dave McNally was unbeaten with five wins in […]