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The 1968 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 10 to October 10, 1968. It was the final year of baseball's pre-expansion era, in which the teams that finished in first place in each league went directly to the World Series to face each other for the "World Championship."
The 1968 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 68th season and the 57th season at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers won the 1968 World Series , defeating the St. Louis Cardinals four games to three. The 1968 baseball season, known as the "Year of the Pitcher," was the Detroit Tigers ' 68th since they entered the American League in 1901, their eighth ...
The 1968 Carolina League was a Class A baseball season played between April 14 and September 2. Twelve teams played a 140-game schedule, with the top four teams in each division qualifying for the post-season. The High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms won the Carolina League championship, defeating the Raleigh-Durham Mets in the final round of the ...
The 1968 season was tagged "The Year of the Pitcher", and the Series featured dominant performances from Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson, MVP of the 1964 and 1967 World Series. Gibson came into the World Series with a regular-season earned run average (ERA) of just 1.12, a modern era record, and he pitched complete games in Games 1, 4, and 7. He ...
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During and after World War I, the Athletics had nine consecutive losing seasons including the lowest win percentage in post-1900 major league baseball of .235 in 1916 and only 36 wins in 1919. Between 1934 and 1967 in Philadelphia and later Kansas City the team had sequences of thirteen and fifteen consecutive losing seasons and overall won ...
William Eckert, fourth Commissioner of Baseball. December 3 With the 1968 season already famous as "The Year of the Pitcher"—also called the "second Dead Ball Era"—major league owners vote to lower the pitching mound by 5 inches (130 mm) to a height of 10 inches (250 mm) and tighten the strike zone, as they attempt to stimulate offense and ...
The 1968 Boston Red Sox season was the 68th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished fourth in the American League (AL) with a record of 86 wins and 76 losses, 17 games behind the AL and World Series champion Detroit Tigers .