Great SI article about baseball and the 1968 season

[Brock Landers]

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138456/1/index.htm

The Season Of High Heat
In the tumultuous summer of 1968, pitchers Denny McLain and Bob Gibson set baseball ablaze

a Fantastic read

[bigboydan]

You forgot to mention Mickey Lolich.

[flyingillini]

I have the ticket stubs for the Cardinal games for 1964, 1967 and 1968 in the WS

[Chi_archie]

man. 1968 is such a mythical year.... would pissed my pants facing bob gibson...

what was his era.. like 1.12 or 1.28 or somthing? having a 30 game winner..

what did lolich do that year?

[TodaysAction]

man. 1968 is such a mythical year.... would pissed my pants facing bob gibson...

what was his era.. like 1.12 or 1.28 or somthing? having a 30 game winner..

what did lolich do that year?

Lolich was the hero in the WS while Denny had a huge regular season.

WS Line-Up
1B: Norm Cash
2B: Dick McCauliff
3B: Don Wert
SS: Micky Stanley
C: Jim Price/Bill Freehan
LF: Wilie Horton
CF: Jim Northrup
RF: Al Kaline
P:
Denny,
Lolich,
Earl Wilson
RP: John Hiller

Don't recall the Cards line-up right now.

[Brock Landers]

man. 1968 is such a mythical year.... would pissed my pants facing bob gibson...

what was his era.. like 1.12 or 1.28 or somthing? having a 30 game winner..

what did lolich do that year?

Gibson had a 1.12 ERA
McClain won 31 games, and was out of baseball 4 years later!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/1968.shtml

Lolich was 17-9, but won 3 games in the WS including game 7 vs Gibson

[Chi_archie]

mcClain was an alcoholic/felon wasn't he???

[Brock Landers]

Lolich was the hero in the WS while Denny had a huge regular season.

WS Line-Up
1B: Norm Cash
2B: Dick McCauliff
3B: Don Wert
SS: Micky Stanley
C: Jim Price/Bill Freehan
LF: Wilie Horton
CF: Jim Northrup
RF: Al Kaline
P:
Denny,
Lolich,
Earl Wilson
RP: John Hiller

Don't recall the Cards line-up right now.

here is the 68 series with Box Scores to boot

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1968_WS.shtml

Gibson struck out 17 in game 1!

[Chi_archie]

woulda loved to have been alive for 1968 and 1960

[Brock Landers]

1968 was a true amazing year, King, Kennedy, Tet offensive, Chicago convention, i'd given anything to have lived through it. My Dad was 18 that year, he has a lot of memories of it all.

[TodaysAction]

mcClain was an alcoholic/felon wasn't he???

Don't know if he was a boozer/drunk/alcoholic but know he's served a few jail terms.

[Brock Landers]

Denny Mclain Bio, Big time gambler and bookmaker!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_McLain

[TodaysAction]

here is the 68 series with Box Scores to boot

http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1968_WS.shtml

Gibson struck out 17 in game 1!

"The play" I'll remember was when Horton tossed out Lou Brock (who was on third). Thanks for the link. Gibson loved to throw over the corners (inside & out) and believed in challenging the batters.