October 4, 1964: Cards finally get best of Mets to clinch NL pennant
The St. Louis Cardinals must have been pinching themselves. On…
October 7, 1964: Schultz, Cardinals ignore the odds to defeat Yankees in Game 1
The city of St. Louis was ecstatic that it would get to host…
October 8, 1964: Rookie Mel Stottlemyre goes the distance as Yankees win Game 2
The New York Yankees had entered the 1964 World Series as favorites…
October 10, 1964: Mickey Mantle’s record World Series home run wins it in 9th
The World Series is baseball’s Big Stage. Of necessity, a…
October 12, 1964: Tim McCarver’s 10th-inning homer wins Game 5 for Cardinals
Tim McCarver’s major-league baseball life spanned 60 years,…
October 14, 1964: Jim Bouton earns second win to extend World Series to seventh game
After the Cardinals took two out of three games from the Yankees…
October 15, 1964: Bob Gibson pitches Cardinals to World Series crown in Game 7
Prior to the start of Game Seven of the 1964 World Series, Cardinals…
April 9, 1965: Astros beat Yankees in first game inside the Houston Astrodome
“The opening night against the Yankees was one of the most…
April 12, 1965: Cubs and Cardinals battle to 11-inning tie on Opening Day
“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing…
April 12, 1965: Twins win in extra innings on Opening Day
A cold, wet winter is normally brightened by the approach of…
April 12, 1965: Phillies win first regular-season game in the Astrodome
On April 9, 1965, the former Houston Colt .45s took the field…
April 21, 1965: Rocky Colavito returns to Cleveland for home opener
The largest Opening Day crowd in 1965 poured into cavernous Municipal…
April 23, 1965: Rusty Staub sends the Astros home happy
The first one didn’t count.If you want to get technical about…
May 5, 1965: Mathews rips walk-off double in 14th; Blasingame goes the distance for Braves
The Milwaukee Braves expected a lot from 21-year-old Wade Blasingame,…
May 9, 1965: Yogi Berra hangs up his spikes as Mets lose again
Yogi Berra played in 2,120 major-league games. All but four of…
May 12, 1965: Killebrew belts two homers, including game-winner in eighth
When the Minnesota Twins headed to Metropolitan Stadium to play…
May 13, 1965: Small Massachusetts city gets rare glimpse at pro baseball
In the mid-1960s, noted artist Norman Rockwell lived and painted…
May 14, 1965: Yastrzemski hits for the cycle, but Detroit’s Willie Horton steals the show
Before a Fenway Park crowd of 10,271, Carl Yastrzemski hit for…
May 16, 1965: Orioles rookie Jim Palmer hits first career homer and earns first career win
The Baltimore Orioles “carried the big sticks, blasting four…
May 18, 1965: Tresh, Yankees tame Boston’s ‘Monster’ with extra-inning win
Time and time again over the decades, the New York Yankees and…
May 26, 1965: Jim Perry makes the most of his opportunity to beat Red Sox
Sometimes the best deal for a major-league team is the one it…
June 1, 1965: Pirates’ Bob Veale strikes out 16 in shutout of Phillies
In 1965, the Pirates made an impressive second-half run at the…
June 9, 1965: Tebbetts’s technicality turns tide from Twins to Tribe after Kaat’s wardrobe malfunction
A good manager, like a good magician, always has a trick up his…
June 12, 1965: Sandy Koufax remains undefeated against the Mets in 12th start
The ever-dominant Sandy Koufax owned a 10-0 career record in…