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The 1964 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 83rd in franchise history. The team finished tied for sixth in the National League with a record of 80–82, 13 games behind the St. Louis Cardinals . Offseason
The Cardinals win the game 7–5 and are the World Champions. The Boyer brothers, Ken for St. Louis and Clete for the Yankees, homer in their last World Series appearance, a first in major league history. October 16 – The day after the final game of the World Series, the managerial posts of both pennant winning teams are vacant.
The 1964 World Series, and the season leading up to it, later became the subject for the David Halberstam New York Times bestseller October 1964.The Series is seen as a bellwether point in baseball history as it was the last hurrah for the 1950s Yankee Dynasty of Mantle, Maris, Ford and Berra, among others, and it demonstrated that the National League's growing enthusiasm to sign black and ...
The Cardinals win the game 7–5 and are the World Champions. The Boyer brothers, Ken for St. Louis and Clete for the Yankees, homer in their last World Series appearance, a first in major league history. October 16 – The day after the final game of the World Series, the managerial posts of both pennant winning teams are vacant.
The New York Yankees headed into the World Series with a 15-game winning streak, the 8th longest streak in the American League this century, after Dale Long's two-run 9th-inning home run gave them an 8–7 win over the Boston Red Sox. The 193 home runs are an AL season record, three better than the 1956 Yankees.
The Pirates have won three of five after a season-worst 10-game losing streak. Keller (9-3) gave up four hits and had five strikeouts and two walks. Keller cruises through 6, the Pirates score 5 ...
A Mets reliever's ERA went from 3.38 to 14.54. You can probably tell from the score that the Pittsburgh Pirates' 14-2 win over the New York Mets was a slaughter. You could also probably tell from ...
Before 1970, the rivalry seemed to be low-key, because the two teams were seldom equally good at the same time. [5] However, in 1901, the Pirates and the Phillies finished first and second in the standings for the first time respectively, [11] with the Pirates finishing 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 games ahead of the Phillies.