
October 2, 1966: Sandy Koufax’s last regular-season hurrah
Sandy Koufax struck out 10 and beat the Phillies in…

October 2, 1966: Pirates’ Matty Alou claims the 1966 NL batting title
After the 1965 season Bill Virdon retired from the Pirates. Virdon…

October 8, 1966: Wally Bunker shuts out Dodgers in Game Three of World Series
It was anybody’s game heading into the bottom of the fifth…

October 9, 1966: Dave McNally fires Orioles’ third consecutive shutout as Baltimore sweeps Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers entered Game One of the 1966 World Series…

April 11, 1967: Kansas City A’s shock baseball by unveiling new white shoes
The Kansas City Athletics made history in…

April 13, 1967: Mets win in Tom Seaver’s major-league debut
After starting their 1967 season with a loss, just as they had…

April 12, 1967: Red Sox begin magical season with Opening Day win
“In other years, the cynics expected the Red Sox to go nowhere.…

April 14, 1967: Red Sox’s Billy Rohr misses no-hitter by one out in MLB debut
“It’s a big place and I was nervous,” said Boston’s 21-year-old…

April 20, 1967: Mets beat Cubs to give Tom Seaver his first major-league victory
After four years in the National League cellar, the New York…

April 23, 1967: Say it ain’t snow! Cubs’ Fergie Jenkins whiffs 10 in cold weather
It felt like the middle of football season rather than springtime.
Ferguson…

April 24, 1967: Dodgers finally knock out Cardinals’ Jaster; Dick Egan gets his only big-league win
“Oh, no, not Larry Jaster.” Many Dodgers players probably…

April 25, 1967: Tom Seaver pitches first complete game, scores winning run in 10th
In 1966 the New York Mets lost fewer than 100 games and finished…

April 25, 1967: Robin Roberts launches bid to return to majors with Reading Phillies
It’s a storyline practically as old as baseball itself: An…

April 30, 1967: Steve Barber and Stu Miller combine for no-hitter in a loss
In late April of 1967, the Detroit Tigers traveled to Baltimore…

May 10, 1967: Henry Aaron hits his only inside-the-park home run, but Braves lose on passed ball
Of the 755 home runs that Henry Aaron hit from 1954 through 1976…

May 13, 1967: Tigers’ George Korince earns first major-league win
May 13 was still early in the 1967 season. A sparse crowd of…

May 14, 1967: Mickey Mantle smacks his 500th home run
After winning five straight pennants, and two world championships…

May 15, 1967: Clemente blasts three homers and knocks in all seven runs in Bucs’ loss
“It was almost like Roberto Clemente playing the Reds all by…

May 21, 1967: Don Lock’s walk-off single ends 18-inning marathon
Cincinnati arrived in Philadelphia on a five-game winning streak.…

May 23, 1967: Dave Vineyard earns posterity, and revenge, with no-hitter for Toronto Maple Leafs
On June 29, 1990, Toronto baseball fans got to witness a bit…

June 3-4, 1967: Harmon Killebrew blasts two tape-measure home runs on consecutive days
The California Angels were trying to get out of the cellar. The…

June 4, 1967: 5 hours and 18 minutes later, Orioles beat Senators in 19 innings
On June 4, 1967, a Sunday afternoon at Baltimore’s Memorial…

June 7, 1967: Redbirds ‘Busch’-whacked by Astros, 17-1
Fifty games into their 1967 season the Houston Astros were on…

June 7, 1967: Reds teenage phenom Gary Nolan strikes out 15 Giants
Going into this June 1967 Crosley Field game between San Francisco…