Abstract
Using the colorful and tumultuous 1960s as a backdrop, acclaimed author Thomas J. Whalen’s Spirit of ’67: The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series That Captivated America shows how the Red Sox and Cardinals waged an epic battle for baseball supremacy that captured the imagination of weary Americans looking for escape from the urban riots, racial turmoil, and antiwar protests that were roiling 1960s society. “How many people ever do anything that makes so many people happy?” Sox pitcher Gary Bell asked years later, in reference to their classic autumn clash. The book examines the unique bond that each team had with its own fanbase, going back to each franchise’s chaotic beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. Relating issues of ethnicity, politics, class, and economics, Whalen sets out to reveal the exactly what was at stake in the 1967 fall classic, and how echoes from that unforgettable season still ring through both cities, and American culture, to this day.
Schlagworte
Red Sox Cardinals baseball- 1–18 Ch01. 1967 1–18
- 103–150 Ch05. El Birdos Soar 103–150
- 151–182 Ch06. Coming Through 151–182
- 183–214 Ch07. The Series Begins 183–214
- 251–272 Ch09. Twilight Years 251–272
- 273–282 Selected Bibliography 273–282
- 283–300 Index 283–300
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- „... Cardinals—believing the penurious Rickey routinely short-changed them when they negotiated their contracts—shed no ...” „... the flag-ship of the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals had very modest beginnings. Incorporated ...” „... their efforts on the Cardinals, so named because of the vibrant scarlet trim the team adopted for their ...”
- „... 215Chapter EightLonborg and ChampagneApart from Gibson, no Cardinal had contributed more to St ...” „... Brock’s progress and in desperate need of quality starting pitching, the Cubs traded him to the Cardinals ...” „... back then,” Broglio later told baseball historian Ed Attanasio. “The Cardinals knew. They were keeping ...”
- „... inexperienced teams in baseball, the Cardinals were a grizzled veteran crew that knew what playing in the heat ...” „... MPH, or it could have been really scary.”In 1942, Schoendienst hitchhiked to a Cardinals open tryout ...” „... diamond,” as the writer Bob Broeg later described him, nevertheless impressed Cardinals general manager ...”
- „... ” myth.The Sox finally ended talk of supernatural hexes by sweeping the Cardinals in the 2004 World Series ...” „... positions. “There is no reason he couldn’t have been a manager,” his friend and ex-Cardinal Bill White said ...” „... his prodigious accomplishments in 1967.The Cardinals continued to function like a well-oiled machine ...”
- „... : Touchstone, 2010.Cohen, Robert W. The 50 Greatest Players in St. Louis Cardinals History. Lanham, MD: Taylor ...” „... : William Morrow, 1993.Feldmann, Doug. El Birdos: The 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals. Jefferson, NC ...” „... : McFarland, 2007.———. Gibson’s Last Stand: The Rise, Fall, and Near Misses of the St. Louis Cardinals ...”
- „... , 63; on Boston Red Sox, 60; players, 33–34, 154–55; on St. Louis Cardinals, 34Agee, Tommy, 92Alcindor ...” „... , 73, 82; St. Louis Cardinals vs., 30–31, 55, 167; team discipline of, 51; uniforms, 46; Yastrzemski at ...” „... ; salary of, 140–41; Schoendienst and, 141–42; at St. Louis Cardinals, 141–42; at Tulsa Oilers, 141; wife ...”
- „... respective voices of the Red Sox and Cardinals. “It’s like a dream come true,” said Gowdy, whose viewing ...” „... were predicting a performance drop-off against the heavily favored Cardinals. “I don’t go for these ...” „... the last thing they catch this year,” he wrote. “The Cardinals, rested and ready, are going to whip ...”
- „... in a home game on July 15, 1967, the tow-ering St. Louis Cardinals right-hander found himself on the ...” „... of the bone popped loose.” Cardinals trainer Doc Bauman rushed to his side, but Gibson refused to be ...” „... extraordinary thing I ever saw in base-ball—Gibby pitching to those batters with a broken leg,” the Cardinals ...”
- „... 151Chapter SixComing ThroughWhile the Cardinals breezed to the NL crown, the Red Sox found ...” „... feeling that history is repeating itself and we’re going to have another Red Sox–Cardinals series as we ...” „... , Car-dinal Richard Cushing and Massachusetts Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Edward Brooke in attendance, the ...”
- „... 45Chapter ThreeFrom Dynasty to Country ClubLike the Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox experienced their ...” „... subsequent World Series loss to the Cardinals proved a major letdown. No one felt more disheartened by the ...”
- „... hour there watching the Cardinals and Browns. Williams’s schoolwork suffered but he didn’t seem to mind ...” „... his own evaporated when Wil-liams seriously injured himself on a diving catch against the Cardinals ...”