Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often than not, all the fierce pressure produces some of the year's best baseball and brightest heroes-as it did last week at the start of the 1967 Series be tween the National League's St. Louis Cardinals and the American League's Boston Red Sox...
...batting average and five pitchers with wins in double figures. So it was hardly surprising that they went into the series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That the Red Sox made it at all was due largely to the heroics of their two stars: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski, 28, winner of batting's triple crown (.326 average, 44 home runs, 121 RBIs), who got seven hits in his final eight times at bat, and Fireballing Righthander Jim Lonborg...
...winner, and well on his way to another big season before a line drive broke his left leg last July. If there were any lingering effects, they certainly did not show. Boston's one real hit was a fluke homer by Pitcher Jose Santiago; only six other Red Sox batters even got to first, and in the strikeout column stood ten big Ks. With that kind of pitching, all it took to wrap up the game was a pair of runs, both of them supplied courtesy of Leftfielder Lou Brock, 28, the Cards' hardhitting (at .299) lead...
Cast Off & Clutch. It was all such a tough act to follow that the third game in St. Louis had to suffer by comparison-except that most of the agony was in the Red Sox dugout. Four pitchers gave the Cards ten hits and five runs, and once again, Lou Brock was the messenger of doom. He scored his third and fourth runs of the series, the last on a line single by Roger Maris, that Yankee cast-off who now hustles like a rookie for the Cards, with three hits and three RBIs in the first three games...
...Sox think being on the Brink is the only way to play. What the other team wins doesn't count: it's only the ones that they can't afford to lose. Today's was just the first they...