1960s Hall of Fame Results

The results have been tabulated, and the inductees for the first 1960s Blog Hall of Fame are: The inaugural election includes 16 names. The plan was to elect 1 player at each position, except for 3 outfielders, 4 starting pitchers, 2 relief pitch…

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Another installment of a new series called “1967 Scrapbook”. A few months ago, I found a baseball scrapbook I had made in 1967, containing photos that I clipped from the Philadelphia sports pages that summer. Most of the photos are from the previous n…

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.Today I’m starting a new series called “1967 Scrapbook”. A few months ago, I found a baseball scrapbook I had made in 1967, containing photos that I clipped from the Philadelphia sports pages that summer. Most of the photos are from the previous nigh…

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Welcome to the first 1960s Hall of Fame balloting. (Yes, I ripped off this idea from White Sox Cards, and tailored it to my blog.)To jump start the membership, for this first ballot, vote for 1 player at each position (except for 3 outfielders and 4 p…

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Matty Alou left us on November 3rd, at age 72, from complications with diabetes.Matty came up with the San Francisco Giants in 1961, the 2nd of three Alou brothers to do so. (Felipe arrived in 1958, and Jesus in September 1963.) Felipe left the Giants…

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Here’s another installment of veteran players who retired in the late 1960s.Previous posts: 15 years and up 12 to 14 10 to 11 8 to 9Listed below are those players with 5 to 7 years in the majors who retired between 1966 and 1969. The last column …

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Former Milwaukee Braves’ and Philadelphia Phillies’ outfielder Wes Covington passed away on July 4th from cancer at age 79 in Edmonton, Alberta. Covington was signed by the Boston Braves in 1952, and played for the Braves from 1956 – 1961, including al…

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I had planned for my next post on this blog to be a review of the 1969 Seattle Pilots (as I’ve done with several teams on my 1967 card blog), but yesterday I learned of the passing this week of 2 well-known players from the 1960s. So, at the risk of t…

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Harmon Killebrew passed away yesterday, from cancer at age 74. Killebrew was the first great star for the Minnesota Twins. I never saw him play in person, but I remember him as one of the top sluggers of the mid-to-late 1960s. Here are all my Harmon …

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On the way home from work today, I was listening to the start of the Phillies’ game on the radio. After giving the lineups, the broadcaster said the names of the 4 umpires, not one of which I recognized!Immediately, I began recalling some of the names…

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More from the junk drawer…Here we have a World Series ticket from 1964 (sorta). This ticket is huge – measuring in at 7 1/2″ x 2 1/4″. I got this on eBay a few years ago.Ok, not the 1960s, but here’s my ticket to the first-ever game at Veterans Stad…

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I found these recently while cleaning out a junk drawer in my house:1965:Note to Fidelity Bank: The Phillies wear red, not blue. 1967:This is the home schedule only. My 1st Phillies game was one of the late-May games against the Reds. 1968:Here we se…

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Today at 4 pm (EDT), the MLB Network’s “Prime 9″ program will feature the 9 best players of the 1960s.

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.A few months back, I posted a list of players with 10+ years in the majors who retired between 1966 and 1969.Here are the players with 8 to 9 years of service who retired in that time period. I have posted the final card for most of them to my other b…

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Recently, I posted a roster review of the 1967 Cardinals on my 1967 baseball cards blog. After examining each player and each game they played, with the help of Baseball-Reference.com (for starting lineups) and Retrosheet.org (for every game played by…

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.Earlier this week, I posted a column about the All-1960s Yankees’ Batters. Here now is the pitching staff.Pictured above are the top 6 pitchers (by innings pitched), plus #9 (Steve Hamilton) and #10 (Hal Reniff). I don’t have a card for #7 Bill Staffo…

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.(The second in an occasional series about some of the big trades during the 1960s.)On December 9, 1965 the Cincinnati Reds traded 10-year veteran Frank Robinson (their starting right fielder, a 6-time all-star, and the 1961 National League MVP) to the…

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These are the top players at each position during the 1960s for the Yankees, the team America loved (well, maybe not everybody).Although the decade ended badly for the Yankees, it started off as per usual, with 5 trips to the World Series in 5 years. T…

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..Here’s 60% of the 1967 Minnesota Twins pitching staff:If only they also had Palmer, Hunter, Maloney, and Bunning. They could have run the table.Imagine being the manager/pitching coach/catcher having to come up with enough nicknames to differentiate …

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