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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 International League was a Class AAA baseball season played between April 20 and September 18. Eight teams played a 148-game schedule, with the top four teams qualifying for the post-season. The Jacksonville Suns won the Governors' Cup, defeating the Columbus Jets in the final round of the playoffs.
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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 ...
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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 ...
In 1960, ABC returned to baseball broadcasting with a series of late-afternoon Saturday games. Jack Buck [1] and Carl Erskine [2] [3] were the lead announcing crew for this series, which lasted one season. [4] ABC typically did three games a week. Two of the games were always from the Eastern or Central Time Zone.
Rose Bowl (1967 season): The Southern California Trojans won 14–3 over the Indiana Hoosiers to win the college football national championship; The Cincinnati Bengals were formed; November 17 – The Oakland Raiders score two consecutive touchdowns in the last minute of the fourth quarter to beat the New York Jets 43–32, in the infamous ...