1964 World Series

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The 1964 World Series, the 56th playing for the championship of Major League Baseball, pitted the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals against the American League champion New York Yankees, with the Cardinals prevailing in seven games. This World Series, and the season leading up to it, later became the subject for the David Halberstam book October 1964. The '64 Series is seen as an important, bellwether point in baseball history as it was the "last hurrah" for the 1950s Yankee Dynasty of Mantle, Maris, Ford and Berra, among others, and demonstrated that the National League's growing enthusiasm to sign black and Latino players (such as those of the '64 Cardinals) was a permanent paradigm shift in fielding a championship team.

Managers: Yogi Berra (New York), Johnny Keane (St. Louis)

Umpires: Frank Secory (NL), Bill McKinley (AL), Ken Burkhart (NL), Hank Soar (AL), Vinnie Smith (NL), Al Smith (AL)

Series MVP: Bob Gibson (St. Louis)

Television: NBC (Curt Gowdy and Harry Caray announcing)

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[edit] Matchups

[edit] Game 1, October 7

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 12 2
St. Louis 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 3 X 9 12 0

WP: Ray Sadecki (1-0)  LP: Whitey Ford (0-1)  

HRs:  NY – Tom Tresh (1)  STL – Mike Shannon (1)


The Yankees led this game 4-2 after 5 1/2 innings behind the pitching of Whitey Ford, but the Cardinals sent eight men to the plate in the sixth inning and scored four runs, including two on a home run by Mike Shannon. This was the last World Series appearance by Ford, whose shoulder had been injured during the season. Ford had pitched in 22 World Series games with the Yankees, compiling ten victories, going back to the sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1950, and set a record which still stands by throwing 33 2/3 scoreless World Series innings.

[edit] Game 2, October 8

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 4 8 12 0
St. Louis 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 0

WP: Mel Stottlemyre (1-0)  LP: Bob Gibson (0-1)  

HRs:  NY – Phil Linz (1)


[edit] Game 3, October 10

Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Louis 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0
New York 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 2

WP: Jim Bouton (1-0)  LP: Barney Schultz (0-1)  

HRs:  NY – Mickey Mantle (1)


In this game, Mickey Mantle reached deep for one of the last ounces of Yankees magic. In the bottom of the 9th inning, with the game tied at 1, Mantle swung on the first pitch from Cardinal pitcher Barney Schultz, a knuckleball that failed to move, and hit it into the right field stands to win the game for the Yankees. Schultz had been a mainstay of the Cardinals' stretch run and Yankee scouting reports had advised his knuckler was most vulnerable on the first pitch when he threw harder than usual to try for a strike. Mantle's home run (his 16th Series home run) broke Babe Ruth's record for most home runs hit in World Series play.

[edit] Game 4, October 11

Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 6 1
New York 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 1

WP: Roger Craig (1-0)  LP: Al Downing (0-1)  

HRs:  STL – Ken Boyer (1)


The day after Mantle's game-winning home run, the Cardinals displayed their own home run magic. With the bases loaded in the top of the 6th inning, Cardinal Ken Boyer hit a grand slam home run off Yankee pitcher Al Downing leading the Cards to a 4-3 win and tying the Series at two games apiece.

[edit] Game 5, October 12

Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
St. Louis 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 5 10 1
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 2

WP: Bob Gibson (1-1)  LP: Pete Mikkelsen (0-1)  

HRs:  STL – Tim McCarver (1)  NY – Tom Tresh (2)


Tim McCarver delivered a three run home run in the tenth inning, after the Yankees had scored two in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game, to send the Cardinals back to St. Louis with a 3-2 lead in the series. Just 22 years old at the time, McCarver would go 11-23 (.478) in the series. For his entire career McCarver would hit .271.

[edit] Game 6, October 14

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 5 0 8 10 0
St. Louis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 10 1

WP: Jim Bouton (2-0)  LP: Curt Simmons (0-1)  

HRs:  NY – Roger Maris (1), Mickey Mantle (2), Joe Pepitone (1)


[edit] Game 7, October 15

Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 5 9 2
St. Louis 0 0 0 3 3 0 1 0 X 7 10 1

WP: Bob Gibson (2-1)  LP: Mel Stottlemyre (1-1)  

HRs:  NY – Mickey Mantle (3), Clete Boyer (1), Phil Linz (2)  STL – Lou Brock (1), Ken Boyer (2)


Bob Gibson pitched his third start in this Series on two days rest and broke the World Series strike out record. In the bottom of the fourth the Cardinals scored three time with McCarver taking home on a double steal after he reached on an error. Lou Brock hit a solo shot on the first pitch of the 5th inning. Mantle hit a three run home run in the sixth to break his own record record for total home runs in the World Series. Bobby Richardson broke a hit record in the seventh. Gibson pitched a complete game, struggling in the 9th and giving up two solo home runs. During the radio broadcast of the game, NBC special reports state Nikita Khrushchev has resigned and Leonid Brezhnev has taken over as first secretary. Game broadcast can be heard via http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_64ws_gm7_nyystl

[edit] Notes

  • Bob Gibson won the Series MVP award for his 2-1 record, 3.00 ERA, and 27 IP. Jim Bouton, pitching for the Yankees, started two games and won them both, compiling a 1.56 Series ERA. Six years later, he would write the classic baseball memoir, Ball Four.
  • Ken Boyer of the Cardinals and Clete Boyer of the Yankees were brothers.
  • The Yankees fired Yogi Berra after the Series ended, replacing him with Johnny Keane, who had resigned from the Cardinals.
  • For the first time in the Series, all six umpires rotated through the infield positions. In all Series from 1947 through 1963, only the four infield umpires had rotated, with the last two umpires working only in the outfield throughout the Series.
  • The St Louis Cardinals are the only team that have played the New York Yankees more than once in a World Series with a winning series record: winning 3 (1926, 1942, 1964) while losing only 2 (1928, 1943).
  • Mickey Mantle, playing in his last Series, hit three home runs, raising his total to a record-setting 18.
  • This series would mark the end of the greatest of all Yankee dynasties: the 16-season span from 1949 to 1964 in which New York won fourteen AL pennants and nine World Championships. The Yankees would finish with a losing record in 1965, fall to last place in 1966, and would not return to the World Series until 1976. During that time period, the Yankees were sold twice, first to CBS and then to George Steinbrenner in 1973, and Yankee Stadium underwent a massive reconstruction that forced the Bronx Bombers to become tenants for two seasons at the New York Mets' Shea Stadium.
  • Utility infielder Chet Trail, who had no prior major league experience, appeared on the Yankees' World Series roster to fill the opening made by an injury to Tony Kubek. Trail did not play in the series (Phil Linz played in place of Kubek), and would never appear in a major league game during his career.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Slusser, Susan (2006-10-11). A's Notebook: Kiger Arrives. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved on 2006-10-13.

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