1967 Major League Baseball season

This article is about the 1967 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1967 in baseball.

The 1967 Major League Baseball season. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox four games to three in the 64th World Series, which was the first World Series appearance for the Red Sox in 21 years. Following the season, the Kansas City Athletics relocated to Oakland.

Awards and honors

Dodgers vs. Reds at Dodger Stadium, June 1967

Most Valuable Player
- Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, OF (AL)
- Orlando Cepeda, St. Louis Cardinals, 1B (NL)
Cy Young Award
- Jim Lonborg, Boston Red Sox
- Mike McCormick, San Francisco Giants
Rookie of the Year
- Rod Carew, Minnesota Twins, 2B (AL)
- Tom Seaver, New York Mets, SP (NL)

MLB statistical leaders

	American League		National League
Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
AVG	Carl Yastrzemski¹ BOS	.326	Roberto Clemente PIT	.357
HR	Harmon Killebrew MIN Carl Yastrzemski¹ BOS	44	Hank Aaron ATL	39
RBI	Carl Yastrzemski¹ BOS	121	Orlando Cepeda STL	111
Wins	Jim Lonborg BOS Earl Wilson DET	22	Mike McCormick SFG	22
ERA	Joe Horlen CHW	2.06	Phil Niekro ATL	1.87
SO	Jim Lonborg BOS	246	Jim Bunning PHI	253
SV	Minnie Rojas CAL	27	Ted Abernathy CIN	28
SB	Bert Campaneris KCA	55	Lou Brock STL	52

¹ American League Triple Crown Batting Winner

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings

American League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Boston Red Sox	92	70	.568	–
Detroit Tigers	91	71	.562	1
Minnesota Twins	91	71	.562	1
Chicago White Sox	89	73	.549	3
California Angels	84	77	.522	7.5
Baltimore Orioles	76	85	.472	15.5
Washington Senators	76	85	.472	15.5
Cleveland Indians	75	87	.463	17
New York Yankees	72	90	.444	20
Kansas City Athletics	62	99	.385	29.5

National League final standings

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
St. Louis Cardinals	101	60	.627	–
San Francisco Giants	91	71	.562	10.5
Chicago Cubs	87	74	.540	14
Cincinnati Reds	87	75	.537	14.5
Philadelphia Phillies	82	80	.506	19.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	81	81	.500	20.5
Atlanta Braves	77	85	.475	24.5
Los Angeles Dodgers	73	89	.451	28.5
Houston Astros	69	93	.426	32.5
New York Mets	61	101	.377	40.5

Other

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October 18, 1967: City officials from Kansas City, Oakland and Seattle were invited by Joe Cronin to discuss the A’s relocation plans. United States Senator Stuart Symington attended the meeting and discussed the possibility of revoking baseball’s antitrust exemption if the A’s were allowed to leave Kansas City. The owners began deliberation and after the first ballot, only six owners were in favor of relocation. The owner of Baltimore voted against, while the ownership for Cleveland, New York and Washington had abstained.^[1] In the second ballot, the New York Yankees voted in favor of the Athletics relocation to Oakland. To appease all interested parties, the Athletics announced that MLB would expand to Kansas City and Seattle no later than the 1971 MLB season.^[2] MLB owners, bowing to Symington's threat, awarded Kansas City and Seattle expansion American League franchises for the 1969 season.

Ironically, Seattle would lose its expansion club, the Pilots, after its lone campaign in the Pacific Northwest when the team was declared bankrupt and awarded to Milwaukee automobile dealer Bud Selig, who immediately moved the franchise to Milwaukee and renamed it the Brewers. Selig later became Commissioner of Baseball in 1998.

References

↑ Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.113, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
↑ Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.114, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0

External links

1967 season at Baseball-reference.com

1967 MLB season by team

American League	Baltimore Boston California Chicago Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Minnesota New York Washington

National League	Atlanta Chicago Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis San Francisco

1967 Major League Baseball Draft 1967 All-Star Game 1967 World Series

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