old salt wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 3:14 pm
njbill wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:42 am
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:48 am
That 64 Phillies team had Jim Bunning and ? Richie Ashburn was done by then.
Johnny Callison, who was my favorite player as a kid. Johnny was the MVP of the All-Star game in 1964, hitting a three run home run late in the game to win it for the National League.
Yes, Ashburn had retired by then. His last season was in 1962 for the Mets where he was managed by Casey Stengel.
After his playing career, Richie became a long time broadcaster for the Phillies. Boy, did he have some great Casey Stengel stories.
As a Redbird fan, 1964 was my favorite season & maybe the
best pennant race ever.. I'll never forget the pennant clincher. It was a Sunday, the final day of the season. It was the start of my Jr year in HS. I had just played a HS FB game the day prior (played both ways). To work off the stifness, we were playing our day after ritual touch FB game at Detgens Grove, down by Big River. We were listening to the game on a big transistor radio on the sideline. We stopped playing & listened to the 9th inning. I'll never forget Harry Caray screaming "the Cardinals win the pennant, the Cardinals win the pennant".
It was a 4 team race, down to the final week. It was a monumental Phillie phold. Their reputed genius manager Gene Mauch tried to emulate the '48 Braves pennant winning stretch run of Sphan & Sain & pray for rain. He started Jim Bunning & Chris Short with minimal rest & they just ran out of gas. He had other good starters in Art Mahaffey & Ray Culp. I don't recall why he didn't use them, if they were injured or not. The Cards went on to beat the Yankees in 7 games. That 64 Cardinal team remains my favorite. Those Phillies, Reds & Giants teams were great teams as well.
Yup. It was Bunning and Short, Bunning and Short, Bunning and Short.
Mauch really blew it.
Mahaffey was on the mound when Chico Ruiz stole home. Art wasn’t holding him on third so Chico got a real good jump. Art, a right hander, only caught a glimpse of him as he was racing down the line, but it so rattled him that he threw it to the back stop. The catcher, Clay Dalrymple, couldn’t even get his mitt on it.
Not sure about this, but I don’t think Mauch had much confidence in Mahaffey after that.
After losing 10 games in a row, the Phillies won their last two games of the season. Whoop de doo. And, by the way, their victory over the Reds on the last day of the season gave the Cardinals the pennant. You’re welcome.
You guys are really dredging up some bad memories about that 1964 pennant race. Ugh.