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class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The Year of the Pitcher"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a>, the trend throughout the 1960s was of increased pitching dominance.<sup id="cite_ref-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the record home run year by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Maris" title="Roger Maris">Roger Maris</a> in 1961, the major leagues increased the size of the <a href="/wiki/Strike_zone" title="Strike zone">strike zone</a> from the top of the batter's shoulders to the bottom of his knees.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A significant "power shortage" culminated in 1968, with far fewer runs scored than in the early 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pitchers including <a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> dominated hitters, producing 339 <a href="/wiki/Shutout" title="Shutout">shutouts</a> in 1968, almost double the number of shutouts thrown in 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Individually, Gibson set a modern <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">earned run average</a> record of 1.12, the lowest in 54 years, and set a <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a> record of 17 strikeouts in Game 1. McLain won 31 regular season games, the only player to reach the 30 win milestone since <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dizzy Dean</a> in 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Lolich" title="Mickey Lolich">Mickey Lolich</a> won three complete games in the World Series, the last player as of 2015 to do so. <a href="/wiki/Luis_Tiant" title="Luis Tiant">Luis Tiant</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> had the American League's lowest ERA at 1.60 and allowed a batting average of only .168, a major league record.<sup id="cite_ref-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Don_Drysdale" title="Don Drysdale">Don Drysdale</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> threw a record 58 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, and <a href="/wiki/Catfish_Hunter" title="Catfish Hunter">Catfish Hunter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> was the first American League pitcher to record a <a href="/wiki/Perfect_game_(baseball)" title="Perfect game (baseball)">perfect game</a> since Don Larsen in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.<sup id="cite_ref-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hitting was anemic as <a href="/wiki/Carl_Yastrzemski" title="Carl Yastrzemski">Carl Yastrzemski</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> would be the only American League hitter to finish the season with a <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batting average</a> higher than .300.<sup id="cite_ref-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1968:_Year_of_the_Pitcher-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yastrzemski's batting average of .301 was the lowest batting average of any league <a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_batting_champions" title="List of Major League Baseball batting champions">batting champion</a>. The American League's collective <a href="/wiki/Slugging_average" class="mw-redirect" title="Slugging average">slugging average</a> of .340 remains the lowest since 1915 (when the game was still in the so-called <a href="/wiki/Dead-ball_era" title="Dead-ball era">dead-ball era</a>), while the collective batting average of .231 is the all-time lowest. As a result of the dropping offensive statistics, Major League Baseball Rules Committee took steps to reduce the advantage held by pitchers by lowering the height of the pitchers mound from 15 inches to 10 inches, and by reducing the size of the strike zone for the 1969 season.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1969 batting averages climbed back to their historical averages and never again would pitching have as large a statistical average over batting in the major leagues. </p><p>1968 was the final year when baseball had no divisions within the two leagues, with the only post-season competition being the <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a> itself. Four expansion teams would join baseball for the season following in 1969. This was also the first season that the Athletics franchise played in <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a>, after their departure from <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a>, Missouri. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Champions">Champions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Champions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_League_Baseball">Major League Baseball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Major League Baseball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">World Series</a>: <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> over <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> (4–3); <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Lolich" title="Mickey Lolich">Mickey Lolich</a>, MVP</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a>, July 9 at the <a href="/wiki/Astrodome" title="Astrodome">Astrodome</a>: National League, 1–0; <a href="/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a>, MVP</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_champions">Other champions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other champions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_Big_League_World_Series" title="1968 Big League World Series">Big League World Series</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_West_Virginia" title="Charleston, West Virginia">Charleston, West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_College_World_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 College World Series">College World Series</a>: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">USC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Japan_Series" title="1968 Japan Series">Japan Series</a>: <a href="/wiki/Yomiuri_Giants" title="Yomiuri Giants">Yomiuri Giants</a> over <a href="/wiki/Orix_BlueWave" class="mw-redirect" title="Orix BlueWave">Hankyu Braves</a> (4–2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Little_League_World_Series" title="1968 Little League World Series">Little League World Series</a>: Wakayama, <a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a>, Japan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Senior_League_World_Series" title="1968 Senior League World Series">Senior League World Series</a>: <a href="/wiki/New_Hyde_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hyde Park">New Hyde Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kiki_Cuyler" title="Kiki Cuyler">Kiki Cuyler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goose_Goslin" title="Goose Goslin">Goose Goslin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Medwick" title="Joe Medwick">Joe Medwick</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">Most Valuable Player</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>, P (AL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, P (NL)</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cy_Young_Award" title="Cy Young Award">Cy Young Award</a></b> <ul><li>Denny McLain, Detroit Tigers (AL)</li> <li>Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals (NL)</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" title="Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award">Rookie of the Year</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Bahnsen" title="Stan Bahnsen">Stan Bahnsen</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, P (AL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>, C (NL)</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Gold_Glove_Award" title="Gold Glove Award">Gold Glove Award</a></b> <ul><li>(P) <a href="/wiki/Jim_Kaat" title="Jim Kaat">Jim Kaat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a> (<a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">AL</a>); <a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">NL</a>)</li> <li>(C) <a href="/wiki/Bill_Freehan" title="Bill Freehan">Bill Freehan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (AL); <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> (NL)</li> <li>(1B) <a href="/wiki/George_Scott_(first_baseman)" title="George Scott (first baseman)">George Scott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> (AL); <a href="/wiki/Wes_Parker" title="Wes Parker">Wes Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> (NL)</li> <li>(2B) <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Knoop" title="Bobby Knoop">Bobby Knoop</a>, <a href="/wiki/California_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="California Angels">California Angels</a> (AL); <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beckert" title="Glenn Beckert">Glenn Beckert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> (NL)</li> <li>(3B) <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Robinson" title="Brooks Robinson">Brooks Robinson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a> (AL); <a href="/wiki/Ron_Santo" title="Ron Santo">Ron Santo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> (NL)</li> <li>(SS) <a 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href="/wiki/Carl_Yastrzemski" title="Carl Yastrzemski">Carl Yastrzemski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> (AL); <a href="/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> (NL)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MLB_statistical_leaders">MLB statistical leaders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: MLB statistical leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table cellpadding="1" style="width:auto;font-size: 90%; border: 1px solid gray;"> <tbody><tr align="center" style="font-size: larger;"> <td>  </td> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> </th></tr> <tr style="background:lightblue;"> <th>Type</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Stat</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Stat </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">AVG</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carl_Yastrzemski" title="Carl Yastrzemski">Carl Yastrzemski</a> BOS</td> <td>.301</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pete_Rose" title="Pete Rose">Pete Rose</a> CIN</td> <td>.335 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">HR</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Howard_(baseball)" title="Frank Howard (baseball)">Frank Howard</a> WAS</td> <td>44</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Willie_McCovey" title="Willie McCovey">Willie McCovey</a> SF</td> <td>36 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">RBI</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ken_Harrelson" title="Ken Harrelson">Ken Harrelson</a> BOS</td> <td>109</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Willie_McCovey" title="Willie McCovey">Willie McCovey</a> SF</td> <td>105 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Win_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win (baseball)">Wins</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> DET</td> <td>31</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Juan_Marichal" title="Juan Marichal">Juan Marichal</a> SF</td> <td>26 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">ERA</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Luis_Tiant" title="Luis Tiant">Luis Tiant</a> CLE</td> <td>1.60</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a> STL</td> <td>1.12 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Strikeouts" class="mw-redirect" title="Strikeouts">Ks</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sam_McDowell" title="Sam McDowell">Sam McDowell</a> CLE</td> <td>283</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a> STL</td> <td>268 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">SB</a></td> <td><a 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standings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Nippon Professional Baseball final standings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Central_League_final_standings">Central League final standings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Central League final standings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" width="60%" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="35%"><a href="/wiki/Central_League" title="Central League">Central League</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Games_played" title="Games played">G</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Win_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win (baseball)">W</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Loss_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Loss (baseball)">L</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Tie_(draw)" title="Tie (draw)">T</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="7%"><a href="/wiki/Winning_percentage" title="Winning percentage">Pct.</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Games_behind" title="Games behind">GB</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Yomiuri_Giants" title="Yomiuri Giants">Yomiuri Giants</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>77</td> <td>53</td> <td>4</td> <td>.592</td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Hanshin_Tigers" title="Hanshin Tigers">Hanshin Tigers</a> </th> <td>133</td> <td>72</td> <td>58</td> <td>3</td> <td>.554</td> <td>5.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Hiroshima_Toyo_Carp" title="Hiroshima Toyo Carp">Hiroshima Toyo Carp</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>68</td> <td>62</td> <td>4</td> <td>.523</td> <td>9.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Yakult_Swallows" title="Tokyo Yakult Swallows">Sankei Atoms</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>64</td> <td>66</td> <td>4</td> <td>.492</td> <td>13.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Taiyo_Whales" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiyo Whales">Taiyo Whales</a> </th> <td>133</td> <td>59</td> <td>71</td> <td>3</td> <td>.454</td> <td>18.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Chunichi_Dragons" title="Chunichi Dragons">Chunichi Dragons</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>50</td> <td>80</td> <td>4</td> <td>.385</td> <td>27.0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pacific_League_final_standings">Pacific League final standings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="/wiki/Games_behind" title="Games behind">GB</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Hankyu_Braves" class="mw-redirect" title="Hankyu Braves">Hankyu Braves</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>80</td> <td>50</td> <td>4</td> <td>.615</td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Nankai_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Nankai Hawks">Nankai Hawks</a> </th> <td>136</td> <td>79</td> <td>51</td> <td>6</td> <td>.608</td> <td>1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Chiba_Lotte_Marines" title="Chiba Lotte Marines">Tokyo Orions</a> </th> <td>139</td> <td>67</td> <td>63</td> <td>9</td> <td>.515</td> <td>13.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Kintetsu_Buffaloes" class="mw-redirect" title="Kintetsu Buffaloes">Kintetsu Buffaloes</a> </th> <td>135</td> <td>57</td> <td>73</td> <td>5</td> <td>.438</td> <td>23.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Nishitetsu_Lions" class="mw-redirect" title="Nishitetsu Lions">Nishitetsu Lions</a> </th> <td>133</td> <td>56</td> <td>74</td> <td>3</td> <td>.431</td> <td>24.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Toei_Flyers" class="mw-redirect" title="Toei Flyers">Toei Flyers</a> </th> <td>135</td> <td>51</td> <td>79</td> <td>5</td> <td>.392</td> <td>29.0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January 11 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a> officially re-enters the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> when it is granted an <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a> to begin play in 1969. The team, to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City <i>Royals</i></a>, replaces the departed <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Athletics</a> and will be locally owned by pharmaceuticals magnate <a href="/wiki/Ewing_Kauffman" title="Ewing Kauffman">Ewing Kauffman</a>. The owner immediately appoints <a href="/wiki/Cedric_Tallis" title="Cedric Tallis">Cedric Tallis</a> the first general manager in team history. Tallis, 53, is the former business manager of the <a href="/wiki/California_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="California Angels">California Angels</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> acquire <a href="/wiki/Alex_Johnson" title="Alex Johnson">Alex Johnson</a> from the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> for fellow outfielder <a href="/wiki/Dick_Simpson" title="Dick Simpson">Dick Simpson</a>. Johnson, 25, had <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batted</a> only .211 with St. Louis in 1966–1967, but he will win Cincinnati's left field job, hit .312 in 149 games (fourth in the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a>), and win <a href="/wiki/Sporting_News_Comeback_Player_of_the_Year_Award" title="Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award"><i>The Sporting News'</i> NL Comeback Player of the Year Award</a> for 1968.</li></ul></li> <li>January 23 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Medwick" title="Joe Medwick">Joe Medwick</a> is voted into the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall of Fame</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Writers%27_Association_of_America" title="Baseball Writers' Association of America">Baseball Writers' Association of America</a>.</li> <li>January 28 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goose_Goslin" title="Goose Goslin">Goose Goslin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kiki_Cuyler" title="Kiki Cuyler">Kiki Cuyler</a> are admitted into the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall of Fame</a> by unanimous vote of the Special Veterans Committee.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davey_Lopes" title="Davey Lopes">Davey Lopes</a>, a 22-year-old outfielder, is drafted by the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> out of <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>' <a href="/wiki/Washburn_University" title="Washburn University">Washburn University</a> in the second round of the 1968 January <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_draft" title="Major League Baseball draft">Major League Baseball draft</a>'s secondary phase. As a second baseman, Lopes will become a Dodger regular for nearly a decade and four-time <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">NL All-Star</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February 6 – Voters in <a href="/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington">King County, Washington</a>, approve by 62 percent a $40 million bond issue to build a domed, multipurpose stadium. The <a href="/wiki/Kingdome" title="Kingdome">Kingdome</a> will be built between 1972 and 1976 and operate from 1976 until its demolition in 2000.</li> <li>February 8 – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Edwards_(baseball)" title="Johnny Edwards (baseball)">Johnny Edwards</a>, former three-time <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">NL All-Star</a> and 2x <a href="/wiki/Gold_Glove_Award" title="Gold Glove Award">Gold Glove Award</a> winner for the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>, is traded to the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> for catcher <a href="/wiki/Pat_Corrales" title="Pat Corrales">Pat Corrales</a> and infielder <a href="/wiki/Jimy_Williams" title="Jimy Williams">Jimy Williams</a>. Edwards, 29, is losing his starting catcher job to rookie and future <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall-of-Famer</a> <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a>.</li> <li>February 13 <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> execute a four-player trade when catcher <a href="/wiki/Tom_Haller" title="Tom Haller">Tom Haller</a> and minor-league hurler Fran Kasheta go to Los Angeles for second baseman <a href="/wiki/Ron_Hunt" title="Ron Hunt">Ron Hunt</a> and utility infielder <a href="/wiki/Nate_Oliver" title="Nate Oliver">Nate Oliver</a>. The trade is the first between the two rivals since their move to the West Coast, and the first since the December 1956 deal that would have sent <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>—which was nullified by Robinson's retirement one month later.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1961%E2%80%931971)" title="Washington Senators (1961–1971)">Washington Senators</a> make a six-player swap. Chicago sends pitchers <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Higgins" title="Dennis Higgins">Dennis Higgins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jones_(baseball)" title="Steve Jones (baseball)">Steve Jones</a> and shortstop <a href="/wiki/Ron_Hansen_(baseball)" title="Ron Hansen (baseball)">Ron Hansen</a> to Washington for pitchers <a href="/wiki/Buster_Narum" title="Buster Narum">Buster Narum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Priddy_(baseball)" title="Bob Priddy (baseball)">Bob Priddy</a> and infielder <a href="/wiki/Tim_Cullen" title="Tim Cullen">Tim Cullen</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>February 21 – <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>'s <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a>, set to debut in 1969, names <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Milkes" title="Marvin Milkes">Marvin Milkes</a>, 44, its first general manager. Milkes had previously been assistant GM of the <a href="/wiki/California_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="California Angels">California Angels</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March 26 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> sell the contract of veteran <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> slugger <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Colavito" title="Rocky Colavito">Rocky Colavito</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. Colavito, 34, is entering his 14th and final big-league season; the Dodgers will release him July 11, and four days later the native of <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a> will "come home" to sign with his final team, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>.</li> <li>March 31 – Pacific Northwest Sports, owners of <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a>, announces that it has chosen <i><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Pilots</a></i> as the club's nickname. The moniker is suggested by a local resident to recognize Seattle's maritime heritage and its status as the home of aircraft manufacturer <a href="/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 4 – The Rev. Dr. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, the American <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights leader</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.">assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee</a>, causing violent civil disturbances in multiple U.S. cities. <a href="/wiki/1968_Washington,_D.C.,_riots" title="1968 Washington, D.C., riots">Riots in Washington</a> postpone the traditional "Presidential Opener" on April 8 at <a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia Stadium">District of Columbia Stadium</a>. <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> postpones all games scheduled for April 9 to mark <a href="/wiki/Funeral_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.">King's funeral</a>.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Denny_McLain_1966.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Denny_McLain_1966.jpg/180px-Denny_McLain_1966.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Denny_McLain_1966.jpg/270px-Denny_McLain_1966.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Denny_McLain_1966.jpg 2x" data-file-width="353" data-file-height="439" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1966</span>)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>April 11 – <a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> gets the ball in the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>' second game of the 1968 campaign. He goes seven innings against the defending <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> champion <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>, allows six hits (including two homers), and leaves for a pinch hitter with the game tied, 3–3. Although the Tigers triumph, 4–3, the victory goes to reliever <a href="/wiki/Jon_Warden" title="Jon Warden">Jon Warden</a>. McLain gives little evidence he's in store for an historic season, but by September 19 his <a href="/wiki/Win-loss_record_(pitching)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win-loss record (pitching)">record</a> will be 31 wins, five defeats—<a href="/wiki/MLB" class="mw-redirect" title="MLB">MLB</a>'s first 30+-game winner since <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dizzy Dean</a> in <a href="/wiki/1934_in_baseball" title="1934 in baseball">1934</a>—and, like Dean, he is driving his team towards a <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a>.</li> <li>April 14 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bunning" title="Jim Bunning">Jim Bunning</a>'s first win with the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>, 3–0 at Los Angeles' <a href="/wiki/Dodger_Stadium" title="Dodger Stadium">Dodger Stadium</a>, is his 40th career shutout and includes his 1,000th <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">strikeout</a>, making him the first pitcher since <a href="/wiki/Cy_Young" title="Cy Young">Cy Young</a> with 1,000 in each league.</li> <li>April 15 – At the <a href="/wiki/Reliant_Astrodome" class="mw-redirect" title="Reliant Astrodome">Astrodome</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> 1–0 in a 24-inning, six-hour, six-minute marathon. In the bottom of the 24th, Astro <a href="/wiki/Bob_Aspromonte" title="Bob Aspromonte">Bob Aspromonte</a>'s bases-loaded ground ball goes through the legs of Met shortstop <a href="/wiki/Al_Weis" title="Al Weis">Al Weis</a> for an error (the only one committed by the Mets all game) that plates <a href="/wiki/Norm_Miller_(baseball)" title="Norm Miller (baseball)">Norm Miller</a> for the winning run. To date, the game is the longest to end in a shutout in terms of both innings and duration.</li> <li>April 19 – <a href="/wiki/Nolan_Ryan" title="Nolan Ryan">Nolan Ryan</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> becomes the sixth pitcher in National League history to strike out the side on nine pitches. But the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> win 3–2 at <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a>.</li> <li>April 23 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> acquire pitcher <a href="/wiki/Phil_Regan_(baseball)" title="Phil Regan (baseball)">Phil Regan</a> and outfielder <a href="/wiki/Jim_Hickman_(1960s_outfielder)" title="Jim Hickman (1960s outfielder)">Jim Hickman</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Dodgers</a> for southpaw hurler <a href="/wiki/Jim_Ellis_(baseball)" title="Jim Ellis (baseball)">Jim Ellis</a> and outfielder <a href="/wiki/Ted_Savage" title="Ted Savage">Ted Savage</a>. Regan will lead the NL in <a href="/wiki/Save_(baseball)" title="Save (baseball)">saves</a> (25) in 1968, and Hickman will make the Senior Circuit's <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star team</a> in <a href="/wiki/1970_in_baseball" title="1970 in baseball">1970</a>.</li> <li>April 25 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> lose their tenth consecutive game to start the 1968 campaign, stretching their two-season losing streak to 15 contests dating to September 1967.</li> <li>April 27 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Phoebus" title="Tom Phoebus">Tom Phoebus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a>' top pitcher in 1967, throws a 6–0 <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> at Baltimore's <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Baltimore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)">Memorial Stadium</a>. <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Robinson" title="Brooks Robinson">Brooks Robinson</a> drives in three runs and makes a great stab to rob <a href="/wiki/Rico_Petrocelli" title="Rico Petrocelli">Rico Petrocelli</a> of a hit in the 8th inning. Converted outfielder <a href="/wiki/Curt_Blefary" title="Curt Blefary">Curt Blefary</a> catches the game.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>May 2 – At <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a>, pitcher <a href="/wiki/John_Boozer" title="John Boozer">John Boozer</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> is ejected from a game without having thrown a pitch. His Phillies trailing the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> by what will be the final score of 3–0, Boozer, after a 13-minute rain delay, enters the game in the seventh inning in relief of <a href="/wiki/Woodie_Fryman" title="Woodie Fryman">Woodie Fryman</a> and repeatedly goes to his mouth while warming up in contravention of the anti-<a href="/wiki/Spitball" title="Spitball">spitball</a> rule that had been introduced this year. Home plate umpire <a href="/wiki/Ed_Vargo" title="Ed Vargo">Ed Vargo</a> gives Boozer two warnings and awards three balls to batter <a href="/wiki/Bud_Harrelson" title="Bud Harrelson">Bud Harrelson</a>—the last resulting in Boozer's ejection, as well as that of Phillie manager <a href="/wiki/Gene_Mauch" title="Gene Mauch">Gene Mauch</a>.</li> <li>May 6 – At <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Baltimore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)">Memorial Stadium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a> pitcher <a href="/wiki/Dave_Leonhard" title="Dave Leonhard">Dave Leonhard</a> takes a <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> into the seventh inning before <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> outfielder <a href="/wiki/Jim_Northrup_(baseball)" title="Jim Northrup (baseball)">Jim Northrup</a> breaks it up with a single after two outs. Leonhard settles for a one-hit shutout, 4–0 victory over Detroit.</li> <li>May 8 – At <a href="/wiki/Oakland%E2%80%93Alameda_County_Coliseum" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum">Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catfish_Hunter" title="Catfish Hunter">Catfish Hunter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> pitches <a href="/wiki/Catfish_Hunter%27s_perfect_game" title="Catfish Hunter's perfect game">a 4–0 perfect game</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a>. The perfect game is the first in an American League regular season game since <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Robertson%27s_perfect_game" title="Charlie Robertson's perfect game">Charlie Robertson's in 1922</a> and the first <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> in the franchise's <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a> history, which is in only its 25th game. (The franchise had never had a no-hitter in its <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a> history, which was from 1955 to 1967. Its last no-hitter was by <a href="/wiki/Bill_McCahan" title="Bill McCahan">Bill McCahan</a> on September 3, 1947, when the Athletics were based in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>). Hunter strikes out 11 batters, including <a href="/wiki/Rich_Reese" title="Rich Reese">Rich Reese</a> for the final out. He also records three RBIs: with a seventh-inning bunt single that drives in <a href="/wiki/Rick_Monday" title="Rick Monday">Rick Monday</a> to break a scoreless tie, and a single in the eighth to drive in <a href="/wiki/Jim_Pagliaroni" title="Jim Pagliaroni">Jim Pagliaroni</a>, his catcher, and Monday.</li> <li>May 27 – The <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> announces it will <a href="/wiki/1969_Major_League_Baseball_expansion" title="1969 Major League Baseball expansion">expand</a> to 12 teams in 1969, awarding franchises to <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Expos" title="Montreal Expos">Montréal</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego</a>. The <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> had announced a similar 1969 expansion (to <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Pilots" title="Seattle Pilots">Seattle</a>) late in 1967.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>June 1 – <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> <a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">pitcher</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Hoerner" title="Joe Hoerner">Joe Hoerner</a> ties a <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> record for relievers with six consecutive strikeouts vs. the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>.</li> <li>June 3 – The New York Yankees turn a <a href="/wiki/Triple_play" title="Triple play">triple play</a> in the eighth inning of a 4–3 loss to the Minnesota Twins. It will be the team's last triple play until <a href="/wiki/2010_in_baseball" title="2010 in baseball">2010</a>.</li> <li>June 4 – After almost 18 years as the top baseball operations executive of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn</a>/<a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buzzie_Bavasi" title="Buzzie Bavasi">Buzzie Bavasi</a>, 53, departs to become <a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">president</a> and minority owner of the <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a> set to debut in 1969. Longtime Dodger <a href="/wiki/Farm_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Farm system">farm system</a> boss <a href="/wiki/Fresco_Thompson" title="Fresco Thompson">Fresco Thompson</a> replaces Bavasi in Los Angeles.</li> <li>June 7 – In the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_draft" title="1968 Major League Baseball draft">1968 Major League Baseball draft</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> select <a href="/wiki/Steve_Garvey" title="Steve Garvey">Steve Garvey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ron_Cey" title="Ron Cey">Ron Cey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Buckner" title="Bill Buckner">Bill Buckner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Valentine" title="Bobby Valentine">Bobby Valentine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Ferguson_(baseball)" title="Joe Ferguson (baseball)">Joe Ferguson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doyle_Alexander" title="Doyle Alexander">Doyle Alexander</a>. All, save Valentine (whose brilliant future is torpedoed by a broken leg in 1973), become stars; Garvey, Cey and Ferguson anchor Los Angeles' four-time NL pennant winners between 1974 and 1981.</li> <li>June 8 – Against the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> at <a href="/wiki/Dodger_Stadium" title="Dodger Stadium">Dodger Stadium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles'</a> <a href="/wiki/Don_Drysdale" title="Don Drysdale">Don Drysdale</a> breaks <a href="/wiki/Walter_Johnson" title="Walter Johnson">Walter Johnson</a>'s 1913 streak of 56 consecutive scoreless innings. A fifth-inning sacrifice fly by <a href="/wiki/Howie_Bedell" title="Howie Bedell">Howie Bedell</a> scores <a href="/wiki/Tony_Taylor_(baseball)" title="Tony Taylor (baseball)">Tony Taylor</a> for the run that ends the streak at 58<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">2</span>⁄<span class="den">3</span></span> consecutive scoreless innings. This new record will stand until another Dodger, <a href="/wiki/Orel_Hershiser" title="Orel Hershiser">Orel Hershiser</a>, breaks it in 1988 with 59 consecutive scoreless innings.</li> <li>June 14 – The <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> fire <a href="/wiki/Gene_Mauch" title="Gene Mauch">Gene Mauch</a>, the longest-tenured manager in their 85-year history, and replace him with former MLB outfielder <a href="/wiki/Bob_Skinner" title="Bob Skinner">Bob Skinner</a>, skipper of their <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">Triple-A</a> <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres_(PCL)" title="San Diego Padres (PCL)">San Diego</a> affiliate.</li> <li>June 17 – Languishing in tenth and last place in the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> oust manager <a href="/wiki/Grady_Hatton" title="Grady Hatton">Grady Hatton</a> and replace him with batting instructor <a href="/wiki/Harry_Walker" title="Harry Walker">Harry "The Hat" Walker</a>. It's Walker's third opportunity to helm an NL team, having previous managed the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> for all or portions of four seasons.</li> <li>June 24 – <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> right fielder <a href="/wiki/Jim_Northrup_(baseball)" title="Jim Northrup (baseball)">Jim Northrup</a> belts two <a href="/wiki/Grand_slam_(baseball)" title="Grand slam (baseball)">grand slams</a>, as the Tigers beat the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>, 14–3, at <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Stadium" title="Cleveland Stadium">Cleveland Stadium</a>. Northrup connects for his first slam off <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Fisher_(baseball)" title="Eddie Fisher (baseball)">Eddie Fisher</a> in the 5th inning and the second off <a href="/wiki/Billy_Rohr" title="Billy Rohr">Billy Rohr</a> in the 6th, to become the sixth player in Major League Baseball history to hit <a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_single-game_grand_slam_leaders" title="List of Major League Baseball single-game grand slam leaders">two grand slams in one single game</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 28 - The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> sweep the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>, 8–3 and 1–0, in front of 42,261 the largest <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a> crowd in over 20 years. <a href="/wiki/Randy_Hundley" title="Randy Hundley">Randy Hundley</a> catches both games off a doubleheader and drove in four of the Cubs' nine runs.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>July 1 – As a part of the season that will see him post a 1.12 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">ERA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a>'s streak of 47 and two-thirds inning of scoreless pitching is broken.</li> <li>July 3 – <a href="/wiki/Luis_Tiant" title="Luis Tiant">Luis Tiant</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> strikes out 19 in a ten inning, 1–0 victory over the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a>.</li> <li>July 9 – At the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astrodome" class="mw-redirect" title="Houston Astrodome">Houston Astrodome</a>, in the first <a href="/wiki/1968_MLB_All-Star_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 MLB All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> to be played in an indoor arena and on artificial turf, the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> defeats the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> 1–0. Appropriately, pitching dominates the game. <a href="/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a>, playing in place of injured <a href="/wiki/Pete_Rose" title="Pete Rose">Pete Rose</a>, tallies an unearned run in the first inning against American League starter <a href="/wiki/Luis_Tiant" title="Luis Tiant">Luis Tiant</a>. <a href="/wiki/Don_Drysdale" title="Don Drysdale">Don Drysdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Marichal" title="Juan Marichal">Juan Marichal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Carlton" title="Steve Carlton">Steve Carlton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Seaver" title="Tom Seaver">Tom Seaver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ron_Reed" title="Ron Reed">Ron Reed</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Koosman" title="Jerry Koosman">Jerry Koosman</a> hold the AL to three hits, as Mays is named MVP.</li> <li>July 11 – The <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a> promote first base coach <a href="/wiki/Earl_Weaver" title="Earl Weaver">Earl Weaver</a> to manager, replacing <a href="/wiki/Hank_Bauer" title="Hank Bauer">Hank Bauer</a>. Weaver will manage the Orioles for all or parts of 17 seasons, win four <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> pennants, the <a href="/wiki/1970_World_Series" title="1970 World Series">1970 World Series</a>, and a berth in <a href="/wiki/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="National Baseball Hall of Fame">Cooperstown</a>.</li> <li>July 13 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> fire third-year manager <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Stanky" title="Eddie Stanky">Eddie Stanky</a> and replace him with his predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Al_L%C3%B3pez" title="Al López">Al López</a>, the future Hall of Fame catcher who had managed the ChiSox to nine winning seasons between 1957 and 1965, including the <a href="/wiki/1959_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1959 Chicago White Sox season">1959 American League pennant</a>.</li> <li>July 14 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a> becomes the 8th player in major league history to reach <a href="/wiki/500_home_run_club" title="500 home run club">500 career homers</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Wilson_(baseball)" title="Don Wilson (baseball)">Don Wilson</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> strikes out 18, including eight in a row at one point.</li></ul></li> <li>July 24 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a>' <a href="/wiki/Hoyt_Wilhelm" title="Hoyt Wilhelm">Hoyt Wilhelm</a>, 45, appears in his 907th game as a pitcher, breaking <a href="/wiki/Cy_Young" title="Cy Young">Cy Young</a>'s long standing all-time record.</li> <li>July 30 – <a href="/wiki/Texas_Rangers_(baseball)" title="Texas Rangers (baseball)">Washington Senators'</a> shortstop Ron Hansen, playing in Cleveland, completes the eighth <a href="/wiki/Unassisted_triple_play" title="Unassisted triple play">unassisted triple play</a> in history, and the first since 1927. Cleveland wins, 10–1.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August 8 – <a href="/wiki/Rick_Wise" title="Rick Wise">Rick Wise</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> one-hits the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>, winning 1–0 at <a href="/wiki/Chavez_Ravine" title="Chavez Ravine">Chavez Ravine</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dick_Allen" title="Dick Allen">Dick Allen</a> provides the razor-thin winning margin with a solo homer in the ninth inning off <a href="/wiki/Bill_Singer" title="Bill Singer">Bill Singer</a>. Light-hitting <a href="/wiki/Bart_Shirley" title="Bart Shirley">Bart Shirley</a> spoils the no-hitter with a third-inning infield single. Wise will successfully throw a no-no in 1971 against Cincinnati, and fire three other one-hitters during his 18-season MLB career.</li> <li>August 14 – It's a red-letter day for Canada's first Major League Baseball franchise, as <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a> is officially welcomed into the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> under its principal owner, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bronfman" title="Charles Bronfman">Charles Bronfman</a>, and key minority partners such as Paul Beaudry and <a href="/wiki/Lorne_Webster" title="Lorne Webster">Lorne Webster</a>. The club, which will be named the <i><a href="/wiki/Montreal_Expos" title="Montreal Expos">Montreal Expos</a></i> after the <a href="/wiki/Expo_67" title="Expo 67">1967 exposition</a>, will be overseen by <a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">president</a> <a href="/wiki/John_McHale_(baseball)" title="John McHale (baseball)">John McHale</a> and <a href="/wiki/General_manager_(baseball)" title="General manager (baseball)">general manager</a> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Fanning" title="Jim Fanning">Jim Fanning</a>. Both executives formerly worked together with the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Atlanta Braves</a>.</li> <li>August 15 – At <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway Park</a>, a capacity crowd of 35,323 see the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>' <a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> win his 25th game (against three losses) with a 4–0 shutout against <a href="/wiki/Jim_Lonborg" title="Jim Lonborg">Jim Lonborg</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>. It's a battle of <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> <a href="/wiki/Cy_Young_Award" title="Cy Young Award">Cy Young Award</a> winners, pitting 1968's (McLain) against 1967's (Lonborg).</li> <li>August 19 – At <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a>, ex-<a href="/wiki/New_York_Met" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Met">New York Met</a> <a href="/wiki/Ron_Hunt" title="Ron Hunt">Ron Hunt</a> singles home <a href="/wiki/Hal_Lanier" title="Hal Lanier">Hal Lanier</a> in the visiting half of the 15th inning, scoring the lone run of the game in the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a>' 1–0 triumph over the Mets. Neither starting pitcher—<a href="/wiki/Bob_Bolin" title="Bob Bolin">Bob Bolin</a> (11 innings) nor <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Koosman" title="Jerry Koosman">Jerry Koosman</a> (12 frames)—gets the decision, as <a href="/wiki/Frank_Linzy" title="Frank Linzy">Frank Linzy</a> bests <a href="/wiki/Ron_Taylor_(baseball)" title="Ron Taylor (baseball)">Ron Taylor</a>.</li> <li>August 23 – The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> play to a 19-inning, 3–3 tie at <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium" title="Yankee Stadium">Yankee Stadium</a>, the game halted by a 1 a.m. curfew on August 24. Detroit's <a href="/wiki/John_Hiller" title="John Hiller">John Hiller</a> tosses nine shutout innings of relief, while the Yanks' <a href="/wiki/Lindy_McDaniel" title="Lindy McDaniel">Lindy McDaniel</a> posts seven scoreless frames out of his bullpen. The stats count, but the game is replayed in its entirety on Sunday, August 25 as part of a doubleheader.</li> <li>August 26 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> fall to the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Tigers</a> 3–0 before 42,808 fans at <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Stadium" title="Milwaukee County Stadium">Milwaukee County Stadium</a> in the ninth and final game in the season-long experiment that saw the ChiSox play one home contest against each of their nine <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> foes in <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a>, which is trying to lure an expansion or relocated franchise. The White Sox, who will finish ninth in 1968, go 1–8 in these games, but draw 265,552 total fans, an average of 29,500 fans per game. They attract only 538,323 people over their 59 home dates at <a href="/wiki/Comiskey_Park" title="Comiskey Park">Comiskey Park</a>, or about 9,125 per date. They decide to continue the Milwaukee experiment in 1969, playing one game against each of their 11 foes in the expanded AL at County Stadium.</li> <li>August 29 – <a href="/wiki/Preston_G%C3%B3mez" title="Preston Gómez">Preston Gómez</a>, third-base coach of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>, is hired as the first <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a> in the history of the MLB <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a>, set to debut in 1969. On September 5, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Mauch" title="Gene Mauch">Gene Mauch</a>, former pilot of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, becomes the first-ever skipper of the Padres' expansion cohorts, the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Expos" title="Montreal Expos">Montreal Expos</a>.</li> <li>August 31 – In a game versus the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Atlanta Braves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a> Pirates <a href="/wiki/Starting_pitcher" title="Starting pitcher">starting pitcher</a> <a href="/wiki/Steve_Blass" title="Steve Blass">Steve Blass</a> retires the first batter he faces. Manager <a href="/wiki/Larry_Shepard" title="Larry Shepard">Larry Shepard</a> comes out, and shifts Blass to left field, replacing <a href="/wiki/Willie_Stargell" title="Willie Stargell">Willie Stargell</a>. Shepard then brings in <a href="/wiki/Roy_Face" title="Roy Face">Roy Face</a> to face <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Mill%C3%A1n" title="Félix Millán">Félix Millán</a>, who grounds out to shortstop. Face's appearance breaks <a href="/wiki/Walter_Johnson" title="Walter Johnson">Walter Johnson</a>'s record of most games pitched by a hurler with a single team, which had been 802. Blass then returns to the mound, relieving Face, and the Pirates go on to win 8–0. After the game, the Bucs announce that Face's contract has been sold to the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>September 7 – <a href="/wiki/Fred_Haney" title="Fred Haney">Fred Haney</a>, 72, general manager of the <a href="/wiki/California_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="California Angels">California Angels</a> since the team's inception in December 1960, announces his retirement, effective at the end of the season. His successor will be <a href="/wiki/Dick_Walsh_(executive)" title="Dick Walsh (executive)">Dick Walsh</a>, former assistant GM of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>.</li> <li>September 9 – Future Hall-of-Fame second baseman <a href="/wiki/Joe_Gordon" title="Joe Gordon">Joe Gordon</a> is named the first manager in <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a> history; coincidentally, he had briefly managed the city's previous franchise, the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Athletics</a>, in 1961. The other <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Pilots" title="Seattle Pilots">Seattle Pilots</a>, will wait until the conclusion of the <a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">1968 World Series</a> in October before confirming that <a href="/wiki/Joe_Schultz_Jr." title="Joe Schultz Jr.">Joe Schultz</a>, third-base coach for the NL champion <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, will be their first-ever pilot.</li> <li>September 14 – <a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> becomes MLB's first 30-game winner since <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dizzy Dean</a> in 1934 as the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> beat the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a>, 5–4, at Detroit's <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)" title="Tiger Stadium (Detroit)">Tiger Stadium</a>. <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Jackson" title="Reggie Jackson">Reggie Jackson</a>'s home run in the fourth puts the A's ahead 2–0, but <a href="/wiki/Norm_Cash" title="Norm Cash">Norm Cash</a> answers with a three-run shot. Jackson hits another in the sixth, but the Tigers push across two in the ninth to win. <a href="/wiki/Al_Kaline" title="Al Kaline">Al Kaline</a>, pinch hitting for McLain, walks and scores the tying run. McLain, who posted a 31–6 record in the regular season, gives up six hits and strikes out ten.</li> <li>September 15 – The <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> clinch their 12th <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> pennant with a 7–4 win at the Astrodome over the host <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a>. <a href="/wiki/Roger_Maris" title="Roger Maris">Roger Maris</a> hits his 275th, and last, regular-season home run off <a href="/wiki/Don_Wilson_(baseball)" title="Don Wilson (baseball)">Don Wilson</a> in the third inning, and <a href="/wiki/Curt_Flood" title="Curt Flood">Curt Flood</a> racks up five hits.</li> <li>September 16 – <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> president <a href="/wiki/Joe_Cronin" title="Joe Cronin">Joe Cronin</a> fires veteran umpires <a href="/wiki/Al_Salerno" title="Al Salerno">Al Salerno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Valentine" title="Bill Valentine">Bill Valentine</a>, allegedly for poor performance; however, union organizing soon surfaces as the actual reason for the terminations. Cronin's tactics backfire, as AL arbiters—previously not unionized—vote to join with their <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> brethren in a new <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Umpires_Association" title="Major League Baseball Umpires Association">Major League Baseball Umpires Association</a> on September 30. The union considers and rejects calling a strike for the 1968 World Series to force Salerno's and Valentine's reinstatement, but the two fired arbiters never regain their jobs.</li> <li>September 17 – <a href="/wiki/Gaylord_Perry" title="Gaylord Perry">Gaylord Perry</a> of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> hurls a no-hitter at <a href="/wiki/Candlestick_Park" title="Candlestick Park">Candlestick Park</a> as the Giants edge the visiting <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a>, 1–0. <a href="/wiki/Ron_Hunt" title="Ron Hunt">Ron Hunt</a>'s first-inning home run (the second of the only two he will hit on the season and one of only 11 Gibson will allow in 304<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">2</span>⁄<span class="den">3</span></span> innings) backs Perry, who evens his record at 14–14.</li> <li>September 18 – Sixteen hours after Perry's feat, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Washburn" title="Ray Washburn">Ray Washburn</a> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> makes major league history by hurling a second consecutive no-hitter in the same park. Run-scoring hits by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Shannon" title="Mike Shannon">Mike Shannon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Curt_Flood" title="Curt Flood">Curt Flood</a> down the Giants, 2–0. This is the first time in history back-to-back no hitters have been pitched between the same two teams on two consecutive days.</li> <li>September 22 – <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a> <a href="/wiki/Utility_player" title="Utility player">utility player</a> <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Tovar" title="César Tovar">César Tovar</a> plays all nine positions, an inning each, against the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a>. Duplicating the feat that <a href="/wiki/Bert_Campaneris" title="Bert Campaneris">Bert Campaneris</a> performed three years earlier, Tovar tops Campaneris by starting as pitcher and allows no hits or runs, for a 0.00 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">earned run average</a>. In the inning, the first man to face Tovar was Campaneris, who fouled out. Tovar then struck out <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Jackson" title="Reggie Jackson">Reggie Jackson</a>. Tovar was charged with a walk and a balk in the scoreless inning; his other contributions to the 2–1 <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota</a> win included a single, a walk, a stolen base and a run scored. He mades five putouts and an assist, with no fielding errors.</li> <li>September 24 – <a href="/wiki/Gil_Hodges" title="Gil Hodges">Gil Hodges</a>, 44-year-old manager of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>, suffers a "small" <a href="/wiki/Coronary_thrombosis" title="Coronary thrombosis">coronary thrombosis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> during a game against the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Braves</a>. Hospitalized, he will miss the final four games of the 1968 regular season and the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft">National League</a> expansion draft, but will return to the Mets' helm in 1969.</li> <li>September 28 – <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mantle" title="Mickey Mantle">Mickey Mantle</a> plays in his 2,401st and final game, eight days after hitting his last home run ending his career with 536.</li> <li>September 29 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Yastrzemski" title="Carl Yastrzemski">Carl Yastrzemski</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> goes 0-for-5 but maintains a .3005 batting average, to win his second straight American League batting crown with the lowest winning average. Yastrzemski is the league's only .300 hitter. <a href="/wiki/Danny_Cater" title="Danny Cater">Danny Cater</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> ends second with a .290 average.</li> <li>At <a href="/wiki/Shea_Stadium" title="Shea Stadium">Shea Stadium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Allen" title="Dick Allen">Dick Allen</a> hits three home runs in the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>' 10–3 victory over the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>. He becomes the second player, after <a href="/wiki/Gus_Zernial" title="Gus Zernial">Gus Zernial</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in <a href="/wiki/1950_in_baseball" title="1950 in baseball">1950</a>, to hit three home runs in his team's regular-season finale. <a href="/wiki/Evan_Longoria" title="Evan Longoria">Evan Longoria</a> will join them by hitting three home runs in the <a href="/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Rays" title="Tampa Bay Rays">Tampa Bay Rays</a>' <a href="/wiki/2012_in_baseball" title="2012 in baseball">2012</a> regular-season finale.</li> <li>In the franchise's first over-.500 season since <a href="/wiki/1952_in_baseball" title="1952 in baseball">1952</a>, when it played in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> finish 82–80 and one game out of the <a href="/wiki/First_division_(baseball)" title="First division (baseball)">first division</a>. Owner <a href="/wiki/Charles_O._Finley" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles O. Finley">Charles O. Finley</a> celebrates by firing first-year pilot <a href="/wiki/Bob_Kennedy" title="Bob Kennedy">Bob Kennedy</a> and replacing him with <a href="/wiki/Hank_Bauer" title="Hank Bauer">Hank Bauer</a>. It's Finley's eighth managerial change in eight full seasons as the Athletics' owner—and it marks the second time he has hired Bauer, who managed for him from June 19, 1961 through 1962.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>October 2 – For the first time in history, two soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other in Game 1 of the <a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">1968 World Series</a>. <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>' Bob Gibson is nearly untouchable with a Series-record 17 strikeouts and a 4–0 win over <a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>. Detroit manager <a href="/wiki/Mayo_Smith" title="Mayo Smith">Mayo Smith</a> moves Gold Glove outfielder <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Stanley" title="Mickey Stanley">Mickey Stanley</a> to shortstop, improving his offense by opening a spot for <a href="/wiki/Al_Kaline" title="Al Kaline">Al Kaline</a>.</li> <li>October 10 – In Game 7 of the World Series, <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Lolich" title="Mickey Lolich">Mickey Lolich</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>, pitching on two days rest, wins his third game of the Series as he beats <a href="/wiki/Bob_Gibson" title="Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson</a> and the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, 4–1. Lolich brings Detroit its first World Championship since <a href="/wiki/1945_World_Series" title="1945 World Series">1945</a>. Lolich hurls a five-hitter, and is named Series MVP. Key moments came in the 6th inning when Lolich picks <a href="/wiki/Lou_Brock" title="Lou Brock">Lou Brock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Curt_Flood" title="Curt Flood">Curt Flood</a> off first base to keep the score 0–0. With the game scoreless in the 7th, the Tigers have two on and two out when <a href="/wiki/Jim_Northrup_(baseball)" title="Jim Northrup (baseball)">Jim Northrup</a> hits a line drive to center field. Gold-glover Flood misjudges the ball and starts in, allowing the ball to sail over his head for a triple. Northrup then scores on <a href="/wiki/Bill_Freehan" title="Bill Freehan">Bill Freehan</a>'s double for a 3–0 lead. Each team adds a ninth-inning run to account for the 4–1 final score. It is the first time the Cardinals have lost a seventh game of a World Series. The Tigers become only the third team (after the <a href="/wiki/1925_World_Series" title="1925 World Series">1925 Pirates</a> and <a href="/wiki/1958_World_Series" title="1958 World Series">1958 Yankees</a>) to rally from a 3–1 deficit to win the Series, four games to three. The Tigers also become the last team to win a Fall Classic between two first-place teams from leagues without division play where the pennant is automatically awarded to the team with the best won-lost record in its league.</li> <li>October 11 <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a> replace manager <a href="/wiki/Cal_Ermer" title="Cal Ermer">Cal Ermer</a> with <a href="/wiki/Billy_Martin" title="Billy Martin">Billy Martin</a>, 40, who had been managing their <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">Triple-A</a> <a href="/wiki/Denver_Bears" class="mw-redirect" title="Denver Bears">Denver</a> farm club. It's Martin's first MLB managerial opportunity.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> appoint former MLB pitcher and pitching coach <a href="/wiki/Clyde_King" title="Clyde King">Clyde King</a>, 44, as their new manager. He succeeds <a href="/wiki/Herman_Franks" title="Herman Franks">Herman Franks</a>, whose Giants finished second in the National League during each of his four seasons as their pilot.</li> <li>One day after the World Series ends, the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> make two trades. They deal catcher <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Edwards_(baseball)" title="Johnny Edwards (baseball)">Johnny Edwards</a> and minor-league Tommy Smith (also a catcher) to the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> for pitcher <a href="/wiki/Dave_Giusti" title="Dave Giusti">Dave Giusti</a> and catcher <a href="/wiki/Dave_Adlesh" title="Dave Adlesh">Dave Adlesh</a>. Giusti will spend only three days on the Cardinal roster before departing in the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft">1968 NL expansion draft</a> on October 14. The Redbirds also deal pitcher <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Granger" title="Wayne Granger">Wayne Granger</a> and outfielder <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Tolan" title="Bobby Tolan">Bobby Tolan</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> for veteran <a href="/wiki/Vada_Pinson" title="Vada Pinson">Vada Pinson</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>October 14 – The <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> stocks the rosters of its two teams set to debut in 1969, the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Expos" title="Montreal Expos">Montreal Expos</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a>, with an intraleague <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft">expansion draft</a>. The <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> does the same for its new teams, the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Pilots" title="Seattle Pilots">Seattle Pilots</a>, the following day. <a href="/wiki/Ollie_Brown_(baseball)" title="Ollie Brown (baseball)">Ollie Brown</a> (Padres) and <a href="/wiki/Roger_Nelson_(baseball)" title="Roger Nelson (baseball)">Roger Nelson</a> (Royals) are the first overall picks in each circuit.</li> <li>October 21 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">Catcher</a> <a href="/wiki/Elston_Howard" title="Elston Howard">Elston Howard</a>, a 12-time All-Star and four-time World Series champion as a member of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, announces his retirement after almost 1½ seasons with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>. He soon rejoins the Yankees as their first Black coach and spends 11 more seasons with them, winning two more World Series rings.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Expos" title="Montreal Expos">Montreal Expos</a> purchase the contract of third baseman <a href="/wiki/Bob_Bailey_(baseball)" title="Bob Bailey (baseball)">Bob Bailey</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. Bailey will be a mainstay in the Montreal lineup during the club's first seven years of existence.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> send lanky first baseman <a href="/wiki/Bill_Davis_(baseball)" title="Bill Davis (baseball)">Bill Davis</a> to the <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a> for shortstop and former AL MVP <a href="/wiki/Zoilo_Versalles" title="Zoilo Versalles">Zoilo Versalles</a> ("<a href="/wiki/PTBNL" class="mw-redirect" title="PTBNL">PTBNL</a>" ).</li></ul></li> <li>October 28 – The world-champion <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> release veteran third baseman <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Mathews" title="Eddie Mathews">Eddie Mathews</a>, ending the future Hall-of-Famer's 17-year MLB career. During that time, Mathews socked 512 homers, 493 as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>November 1 – <a href="/wiki/Denny_McLain" title="Denny McLain">Denny McLain</a>, the last pitcher to win 30 games in a season, is the unanimous <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> winner of the <a href="/wiki/Cy_Young_Award" title="Cy Young Award">Cy Young Award</a>.</li> <li>November 2 – The <a href="/wiki/International_Amateur_Baseball_Tournament" title="International Amateur Baseball Tournament">International Amateur Baseball Tournament</a> kicks off in <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>. The competition includes the <a href="/wiki/United_States_national_baseball_team" title="United States national baseball team">U.S.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico_national_baseball_team" title="Mexico national baseball team">Mexican</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba_national_baseball_team" title="Cuba national baseball team">Cuban</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_national_baseball_team" title="Puerto Rico national baseball team">Puerto Rican national teams</a>, and is held after the <a href="/wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics" title="1968 Summer Olympics">1968 Summer Olympics</a>.</li> <li>November 10 – The Mexico City tournament concludes, with the U.S. team, managed by <a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_Spartans_baseball" title="Michigan State Spartans baseball">MSU</a> coach <a href="/wiki/Danny_Litwhiler" title="Danny Litwhiler">Danny Litwhiler</a>, defeating Cuba to win the championship</li> <li>November 19 – <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> pitcher <a href="/wiki/Stan_Bahnsen" title="Stan Bahnsen">Stan Bahnsen</a>, who posted a 17–12 record with 162 strikeouts and a 2.05 ERA, is named American League Rookie of the Year. Bahnsen easily outdistances outfielder <a href="/wiki/Del_Unser" title="Del Unser">Del Unser</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1961%E2%80%9371)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1961–71)">Washington Senators</a>.</li> <li>November 20 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Campanis" title="Al Campanis">Al Campanis</a> succeeds the late <a href="/wiki/Fresco_Thompson" title="Fresco Thompson">Fresco Thompson</a> as head of baseball operations of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>. His official title is vice president, player personnel, but Campanis will function as the team's general manager until April 1987.</li> <li>November 21 – The <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> trade shortstop <a href="/wiki/Leo_C%C3%A1rdenas" title="Leo Cárdenas">Leo Cárdenas</a>, a four-time <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">NL All-Star</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a> for left-hander <a href="/wiki/Jim_Merritt" title="Jim Merritt">Jim Merritt</a>.</li> <li>November 22 – <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati</a> catcher <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a> edges out <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> pitcher <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Koosman" title="Jerry Koosman">Jerry Koosman</a> to win the <a href="/wiki/National_League_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National League Rookie of the Year Award">National League Rookie of the Year Award</a>. Bench becomes the third member of the Reds in six years to be named the top rookie.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>December 3 <ul><li>With the 1968 season already famous as <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1968 Major League Baseball season">"The Year of the Pitcher"</a>—also called the "second <a href="/wiki/Dead_Ball_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead Ball Era">Dead Ball Era</a>"—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 run-scoring.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Short" title="Bob Short">Bob Short</a>, Minneapolis businessman and former owner of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>, outbids entertainer <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> to purchase the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1961%E2%80%931971)" title="Washington Senators (1961–1971)">Washington Senators</a>, who had finished last in the ten-team <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> and in MLB attendance in 1968.</li> <li>In a four-for-one deal, the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> reacquire veteran pitcher <a href="/wiki/Dave_Giusti" title="Dave Giusti">Dave Giusti</a> from the newborn <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a>, sending catcher <a href="/wiki/Danny_Breeden" title="Danny Breeden">Danny Breeden</a>, third baseman <a href="/wiki/Ed_Spiezio" title="Ed Spiezio">Ed Spiezio</a>, outfielder <a href="/wiki/Ron_Davis_(outfielder)" title="Ron Davis (outfielder)">Ron Davis</a> and pitching prospect Philip Knuckles to San Diego. After being obtained by St. Louis in a trade with the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> on October 11, Giusti had been the third overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft">NL expansion draft</a> three days later.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> purchase the contract of veteran first baseman <a href="/wiki/Deron_Johnson" title="Deron Johnson">Deron Johnson</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Atlanta Braves</a>. Johnson will swat 88 homers in 563 games with the Phils.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg/180px-William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg/270px-William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg/360px-William_Dole_%22Spike%22_Eckert.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1514" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/William_Eckert" title="William Eckert">William Eckert</a>, fourth <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>December 4 <ul><li>In the most impactful trade of the winter meetings, the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a> acquire southpaw pitcher <a href="/wiki/Mike_Cuellar" title="Mike Cuellar">Mike Cuellar</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a> for outfielder <a href="/wiki/Curt_Blefary" title="Curt Blefary">Curt Blefary</a> in a five-player transaction; as an Oriole, Cuellar will win 20 or more games four times, and 18 games twice, between 1969 and 1974.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Astros</a> also trade third baseman <a href="/wiki/Bob_Aspromonte" title="Bob Aspromonte">Bob Aspromonte</a>, a stalwart since the club's <a href="/wiki/1962_Houston_Colt_.45s_season" title="1962 Houston Colt .45s season">1962 debut season</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Atlanta Braves</a> for infielder <a href="/wiki/Marty_Mart%C3%ADnez" title="Marty Martínez">Orlando "Marty" Martínez</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> acquire left-hander <a href="/wiki/Mike_Kekich" title="Mike Kekich">Mike Kekich</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> for outfielder <a href="/wiki/Andy_Kosco" title="Andy Kosco">Andy Kosco</a>. Kekich, 23, will put up mediocre numbers (<a href="/wiki/Win-loss_record_(pitching)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win-loss record (pitching)">31–32</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">4.31</a> in 125 games) with the Yankees, and will become more famous off the field when, in 1973, he and teammate <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Peterson" title="Fritz Peterson">Fritz Peterson</a> announce they have "swapped" families.</li></ul></li> <li>December 6 – MLB owners fire <a href="/wiki/William_Eckert" title="William Eckert">William Eckert</a>, the fourth <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a>, in office for only three years and three weeks.</li> <li>December 12 – The <a href="/wiki/California_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="California Angels">California Angels</a> acquire future <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall-of-Fame</a> <a href="/wiki/Knuckleball" title="Knuckleball">knuckleballer</a> <a href="/wiki/Hoyt_Wilhelm" title="Hoyt Wilhelm">Hoyt Wilhelm</a> from the fledgling <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a> for catcher <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Paepke" title="Dennis Paepke">Dennis Paepke</a> and outfielder <a href="/wiki/Ed_Kirkpatrick" title="Ed Kirkpatrick">Ed Kirkpatrick</a>. Wilhelm, 46, had been selected in October's <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_expansion_draft" title="1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft">AL expansion draft</a>.</li> <li>December 15 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Campanis" title="Al Campanis">Al Campanis</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>' newly installed general manager, sells the contract of his son <a href="/wiki/Jim_Campanis" title="Jim Campanis">Jim</a>, a catching prospect, to the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City Royals</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_2">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January 8 – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Carey_(baseball)" title="Paul Carey (baseball)">Paul Carey</a></li> <li>January 8 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Johnson_(catcher)" title="Brian Johnson (catcher)">Brian Johnson</a></li> <li>January 9 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Kramer" title="Tom Kramer">Tom Kramer</a></li> <li>January 11 – <a href="/wiki/Ben_Rivera" title="Ben Rivera">Ben Rivera</a></li> <li>January 20 – <a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Ma%C3%B1%C3%B3n" title="Ramón Mañón">Ramón Mañón</a></li> <li>January 21 – <a href="/wiki/Keith_Shepherd" title="Keith Shepherd">Keith Shepherd</a></li> <li>January 21 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Urbani" title="Tom Urbani">Tom Urbani</a></li> <li>January 23 – <a href="/wiki/Victor_Cole" title="Victor Cole">Victor Cole</a></li> <li>January 24 – <a href="/wiki/Ross_Powell" title="Ross Powell">Ross Powell</a></li> <li>January 27 – <a href="/wiki/Rusty_Meacham" title="Rusty Meacham">Rusty Meacham</a></li> <li>January 27 – <a href="/wiki/Eric_Wedge" title="Eric Wedge">Eric Wedge</a></li> <li>January 29 – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Roberson" title="Kevin Roberson">Kevin Roberson</a></li> <li>January 31 – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Phoenix" title="Steve Phoenix">Steve Phoenix</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_2">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February 1 – <a href="/wiki/Kent_Mercker" title="Kent Mercker">Kent Mercker</a></li> <li>February 2 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Erickson" title="Scott Erickson">Scott Erickson</a></li> <li>February 5 – <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Alomar" title="Roberto Alomar">Roberto Alomar</a></li> <li>February 5 – <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Santana" title="Andrés Santana">Andrés Santana</a></li> <li>February 9 – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Eenhoorn" title="Robert Eenhoorn">Robert Eenhoorn</a></li> <li>February 9 – <a href="/wiki/Brad_Holman" title="Brad Holman">Brad Holman</a></li> <li>February 10 – <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Bowen_(baseball)" title="Ryan Bowen (baseball)">Ryan Bowen</a></li> <li>February 10 – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Zosky" title="Eddie Zosky">Eddie Zosky</a></li> <li>February 11 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Swartzbaugh" title="Dave Swartzbaugh">Dave Swartzbaugh</a></li> <li>February 13 – <a href="/wiki/Matt_Mieske" title="Matt Mieske">Matt Mieske</a></li> <li>February 14 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Scudder" title="Scott Scudder">Scott Scudder</a></li> <li>February 15 – <a href="/wiki/Luis_Mercedes" title="Luis Mercedes">Luis Mercedes</a></li> <li>February 18 – <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Abbott_(baseball)" title="Kyle Abbott (baseball)">Kyle Abbott</a></li> <li>February 22 – <a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Sasaki" title="Kazuhiro Sasaki">Kazuhiro Sasaki</a></li> <li>February 25 – <a href="/wiki/David_Hulse_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Hulse (baseball)">David Hulse</a></li> <li>February 26 – <a href="/wiki/J._T._Snow" title="J. T. Snow">J. T. Snow</a></li> <li>February 27 – <a href="/wiki/Matt_Stairs" title="Matt Stairs">Matt Stairs</a></li> <li>February 28 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Milchin" title="Mike Milchin">Mike Milchin</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_2">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March 3 – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Mu%C3%B1oz" title="Bobby Muñoz">Bobby Muñoz</a></li> <li>March 3 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Radinsky" title="Scott Radinsky">Scott Radinsky</a></li> <li>March 4 – <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Carrara" title="Giovanni Carrara">Giovanni Carrara</a></li> <li>March 4 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Hunter_(first_baseman)" title="Brian Hunter (first baseman)">Brian Hunter</a></li> <li>March 7 – <a href="/wiki/Denis_Boucher" title="Denis Boucher">Denis Boucher</a></li> <li>March 7 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Kent" title="Jeff Kent">Jeff Kent</a></li> <li>March 8 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Dougherty_(baseball)" title="Jim Dougherty (baseball)">Jim Dougherty</a></li> <li>March 11 – <a href="/wiki/Gar_Finnvold" title="Gar Finnvold">Gar Finnvold</a></li> <li>March 15 – <a href="/wiki/Kim_Batiste" title="Kim Batiste">Kim Batiste</a></li> <li>March 17 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Gomez" title="Pat Gomez">Pat Gomez</a></li> <li>March 17 – <a href="/wiki/Dan_Masteller" title="Dan Masteller">Dan Masteller</a></li> <li>March 19 – <a href="/wiki/Pete_Young" title="Pete Young">Pete Young</a></li> <li>March 22 – <a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Mart%C3%ADnez_(pitcher)" title="Ramón Martínez (pitcher)">Ramón Martínez</a></li> <li>March 26 – <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Alexander_(baseball)" title="Gerald Alexander (baseball)">Gerald Alexander</a></li> <li>March 26 – <a href="/wiki/Shane_Reynolds" title="Shane Reynolds">Shane Reynolds</a></li> <li>March 26 – <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Vizca%C3%ADno" title="José Vizcaíno">José Vizcaíno</a></li> <li>March 27 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Quinlan" title="Tom Quinlan">Tom Quinlan</a></li> <li>March 29 – <a href="/wiki/Juan_Bell" title="Juan Bell">Juan Bell</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_2">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 1 – <a href="/wiki/Masumi_Kuwata" title="Masumi Kuwata">Masumi Kuwata</a></li> <li>April 2 – <a href="/wiki/Curt_Leskanic" title="Curt Leskanic">Curt Leskanic</a></li> <li>April 3 – <a href="/wiki/Tomoaki_Kanemoto" title="Tomoaki Kanemoto">Tomoaki Kanemoto</a></li> <li>April 3 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lansing" title="Mike Lansing">Mike Lansing</a></li> <li>April 4 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Dedrick" title="Jim Dedrick">Jim Dedrick</a></li> <li>April 12 – <a href="/wiki/Cliff_Brantley" title="Cliff Brantley">Cliff Brantley</a></li> <li>April 12 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Staton" title="Dave Staton">Dave Staton</a></li> <li>April 14 – <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Levis" title="Jesse Levis">Jesse Levis</a></li> <li>April 15 – <a href="/wiki/Billy_Brewer_(baseball)" title="Billy Brewer (baseball)">Billy Brewer</a></li> <li>April 19 – <a href="/wiki/Brent_Mayne" title="Brent Mayne">Brent Mayne</a></li> <li>April 22 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Bell_(first_baseman)" title="Mike Bell (first baseman)">Mike Bell</a></li> <li>April 23 – <a href="/wiki/Guillermo_Velasquez_(baseball)" title="Guillermo Velasquez (baseball)">Guillermo Velasquez</a></li> <li>April 24 – <a href="/wiki/Todd_Jones" title="Todd Jones">Todd Jones</a></li> <li>April 27 – <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Lennon_(baseball)" title="Patrick Lennon (baseball)">Patrick Lennon</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_2">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Castillo</a></li> <li>May 14 – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Dalesandro" title="Mark Dalesandro">Mark Dalesandro</a></li> <li>May 18 – <a href="/wiki/Clemente_%C3%81lvarez" title="Clemente Álvarez">Clemente Álvarez</a></li> <li>May 19 – <a href="/wiki/Alan_Zinter" title="Alan Zinter">Alan Zinter</a></li> <li>May 21 – <a href="/wiki/Greg_O%27Halloran_(baseball)" title="Greg O'Halloran (baseball)">Greg O'Halloran</a></li> <li>May 21 – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Pegues" title="Steve Pegues">Steve Pegues</a></li> <li>May 22 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Levine" title="Al Levine">Al Levine</a></li> <li>May 24 – <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Dipoto" title="Jerry Dipoto">Jerry Dipoto</a></li> <li>May 25 – <a href="/wiki/Will_Pennyfeather" title="Will Pennyfeather">Will Pennyfeather</a></li> <li>May 27 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bagwell" title="Jeff Bagwell">Jeff Bagwell</a></li> <li>May 27 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Thomas_(designated_hitter)" title="Frank Thomas (designated hitter)">Frank Thomas</a></li> <li>May 30 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Oquist" title="Mike Oquist">Mike Oquist</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_2">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>June 8 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Mlicki" title="Dave Mlicki">Dave Mlicki</a></li> <li>June 12 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Aldred" title="Scott Aldred">Scott Aldred</a></li> <li>June 30 – <a href="/wiki/Dan_Peltier" title="Dan Peltier">Dan Peltier</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July_2">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>July 3 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Farmer_(baseball)" title="Mike Farmer (baseball)">Mike Farmer</a></li> <li>July 7 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Busch_(baseball)" title="Mike Busch (baseball)">Mike Busch</a></li> <li>July 7 – <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Knoblauch" title="Chuck Knoblauch">Chuck Knoblauch</a></li> <li>July 8 – <a href="/wiki/Garland_Kiser" title="Garland Kiser">Garland Kiser</a></li> <li>July 14 – <a href="/wiki/Derrick_May_(baseball)" title="Derrick May (baseball)">Derrick May</a></li> <li>July 18 – <a href="/wiki/Rolando_Arrojo" title="Rolando Arrojo">Rolando Arrojo</a></li> <li>July 23 – <a href="/wiki/Bubba_Carpenter" title="Bubba Carpenter">Bubba Carpenter</a></li> <li>July 24 – <a href="/wiki/Rob_Lukachyk" title="Rob Lukachyk">Rob Lukachyk</a></li> <li>July 26 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Mohler" title="Mike Mohler">Mike Mohler</a></li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Goodwin" title="Tom Goodwin">Tom Goodwin</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August_2">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August 1 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Bohanon" title="Brian Bohanon">Brian Bohanon</a></li> <li>August 1 – <a href="/wiki/Shigetoshi_Hasegawa" title="Shigetoshi Hasegawa">Shigetoshi Hasegawa</a></li> <li>August 2 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Cimorelli" title="Frank Cimorelli">Frank Cimorelli</a></li> <li>August 3 – <a href="/wiki/Rod_Beck" title="Rod Beck">Rod Beck</a></li> <li>August 3 – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Morton" title="Kevin Morton">Kevin Morton</a></li> <li>August 4 – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Hook" title="Chris Hook">Chris Hook</a></li> <li>August 5 – <a href="/wiki/John_Olerud" title="John Olerud">John Olerud</a></li> <li>August 6 – <a href="/wiki/Darryl_Scott" title="Darryl Scott">Darryl Scott</a></li> <li>August 9 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Shildt" title="Mike Shildt">Mike Shildt</a></li> <li>August 12 – <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Harris" title="Reggie Harris">Reggie Harris</a></li> <li>August 12 – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Longmire" title="Tony Longmire">Tony Longmire</a></li> <li>August 20 – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rogers_(baseball)" title="Kevin Rogers (baseball)">Kevin Rogers</a></li> <li>August 21 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Misuraca" title="Mike Misuraca">Mike Misuraca</a></li> <li>August 21 – <a href="/wiki/Tuffy_Rhodes" title="Tuffy Rhodes">Tuffy Rhodes</a></li> <li>August 22 – <a href="/wiki/Gary_Scott_(baseball)" title="Gary Scott (baseball)">Gary Scott</a></li> <li>August 24 – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Salmon" title="Tim Salmon">Tim Salmon</a></li> <li>August 26 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Bark" title="Brian Bark">Brian Bark</a></li> <li>August 31 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Howell_(baseball)" title="Pat Howell (baseball)">Pat Howell</a></li> <li>August 31 – <a href="/wiki/Hideo_Nomo" title="Hideo Nomo">Hideo Nomo</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September_2">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>September 4 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Piazza" title="Mike Piazza">Mike Piazza</a></li> <li>September 6 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Meares" title="Pat Meares">Pat Meares</a></li> <li>September 7 – <a href="/wiki/Julio_Peguero" title="Julio Peguero">Julio Peguero</a></li> <li>September 12 – <a href="/wiki/Masao_Kida" title="Masao Kida">Masao Kida</a></li> <li>September 13 – <a href="/wiki/Erik_Bennett_(baseball)" title="Erik Bennett (baseball)">Erik Bennett</a></li> <li>September 13 – <a href="/wiki/Denny_Neagle" title="Denny Neagle">Denny Neagle</a></li> <li>September 13 – <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Williams" title="Bernie Williams">Bernie Williams</a></li> <li>September 14 – <a href="/wiki/Doug_Eddings" title="Doug Eddings">Doug Eddings</a></li> <li>September 15 – <a href="/wiki/Rich_Robertson_(left-handed_pitcher)" title="Rich Robertson (left-handed pitcher)">Rich Robertson</a></li> <li>September 16 – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Acre" title="Mark Acre">Mark Acre</a></li> <li>September 19 – <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Mu%C3%B1oz_(baseball)" title="Pedro Muñoz (baseball)">Pedro Muñoz</a></li> <li>September 20 – <a href="/wiki/Donnie_Elliott" title="Donnie Elliott">Donnie Elliott</a></li> <li>September 23 – <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Bolton" title="Rodney Bolton">Rodney Bolton</a></li> <li>September 25 – <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Jefferson" title="Reggie Jefferson">Reggie Jefferson</a></li> <li>September 26 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Shouse" title="Brian Shouse">Brian Shouse</a></li> <li>September 28 – <a href="/wiki/Keiichi_Yabu" title="Keiichi Yabu">Keiichi Yabu</a></li> <li>September 29 – <a href="/wiki/Derek_Parks" title="Derek Parks">Derek Parks</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_2">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>October 1 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Patterson" title="Jeff Patterson">Jeff Patterson</a></li> <li>October 2 – <a href="/wiki/Greg_Gibson_(umpire)" title="Greg Gibson (umpire)">Greg Gibson</a></li> <li>October 3 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Byrd" title="Jim Byrd">Jim Byrd</a></li> <li>October 5 – <a href="/wiki/Alex_Diaz_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alex Diaz (baseball)">Alex Diaz</a></li> <li>October 5 – <a href="/wiki/Ron_Kulpa" title="Ron Kulpa">Ron Kulpa</a></li> <li>October 6 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Pierce_(baseball)" title="Ed Pierce (baseball)">Ed Pierce</a></li> <li>October 7 – <a href="/wiki/Milt_Cuyler" title="Milt Cuyler">Milt Cuyler</a></li> <li>October 7 – <a href="/wiki/Butch_Henry" title="Butch Henry">Butch Henry</a></li> <li>October 13 – <a href="/wiki/Julio_Valera" title="Julio Valera">Julio Valera</a></li> <li>October 14 – <a href="/wiki/Zak_Shinall" title="Zak Shinall">Zak Shinall</a></li> <li>October 15 – <a href="/wiki/Matt_Dunbar" title="Matt Dunbar">Matt Dunbar</a></li> <li>October 20 – <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Se%C3%A1nez" title="Rudy Seánez">Rudy Seánez</a></li> <li>October 22 – <a href="/wiki/Keith_Osik" title="Keith Osik">Keith Osik</a></li> <li>October 24 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Ryan" title="Ken Ryan">Ken Ryan</a></li> <li>October 26 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Lydy" title="Scott Lydy">Scott Lydy</a></li> <li>October 30 – <a href="/wiki/Greg_McCarthy" title="Greg McCarthy">Greg McCarthy</a></li> <li>October 30 – <a href="/wiki/Erik_Plantenberg" title="Erik Plantenberg">Erik Plantenberg</a></li> <li>October 31 – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Taubensee" title="Eddie Taubensee">Eddie Taubensee</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November_2">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>November 3 – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Quantrill" title="Paul Quantrill">Paul Quantrill</a></li> <li>November 4 – <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Baerga" title="Carlos Baerga">Carlos Baerga</a></li> <li>November 4 – <a href="/wiki/Domingo_Cede%C3%B1o" title="Domingo Cedeño">Domingo Cedeño</a></li> <li>November 4 – <a href="/wiki/Osvaldo_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Osvaldo Fernández">Osvaldo Fernández</a></li> <li>November 6 – <a href="/wiki/Chad_Curtis" title="Chad Curtis">Chad Curtis</a></li> <li>November 7 – <a href="/wiki/Russ_Springer" title="Russ Springer">Russ Springer</a></li> <li>November 8 – <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Offerman" title="José Offerman">José Offerman</a></li> <li>November 9 – <a href="/wiki/Andy_Carter_(baseball)" title="Andy Carter (baseball)">Andy Carter</a></li> <li>November 12 – <a href="/wiki/Randy_Knorr" title="Randy Knorr">Randy Knorr</a></li> <li>November 12 – <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Sosa" title="Sammy Sosa">Sammy Sosa</a></li> <li>November 13 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Hentgen" title="Pat Hentgen">Pat Hentgen</a></li> <li>November 13 – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Kiefer" title="Mark Kiefer">Mark Kiefer</a></li> <li>November 14 – <a href="/wiki/Kent_Bottenfield" title="Kent Bottenfield">Kent Bottenfield</a></li> <li>November 16 – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Haney" title="Chris Haney">Chris Haney</a></li> <li>November 18 – <a href="/wiki/Clay_Bellinger" title="Clay Bellinger">Clay Bellinger</a></li> <li>November 18 – <a href="/wiki/Gary_Sheffield" title="Gary Sheffield">Gary Sheffield</a></li> <li>November 18 – <a href="/wiki/Phil_Stidham" title="Phil Stidham">Phil Stidham</a></li> <li>November 18 – <a href="/wiki/Darrell_Whitmore" title="Darrell Whitmore">Darrell Whitmore</a></li> <li>November 19 – <a href="/wiki/Luis_Raven" title="Luis Raven">Luis Raven</a></li> <li>November 20 – <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Ricci" title="Chuck Ricci">Chuck Ricci</a></li> <li>November 20 – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Schrenk" title="Steve Schrenk">Steve Schrenk</a></li> <li>November 24 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Hansen_(baseball)" title="Dave Hansen (baseball)">Dave Hansen</a></li> <li>November 24 – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Mintz" title="Steve Mintz">Steve Mintz</a></li> <li>November 25 – <a href="/wiki/John_Johnstone_(baseball)" title="John Johnstone (baseball)">John Johnstone</a></li> <li>November 25 – <a href="/wiki/Shingo_Takatsu" title="Shingo Takatsu">Shingo Takatsu</a></li> <li>November 26 – <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Wagner" title="Héctor Wagner">Héctor Wagner</a></li> <li>November 28 – <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Astacio" title="Pedro Astacio">Pedro Astacio</a></li> <li>November 28 – <a href="/wiki/Terry_Burrows_(baseball)" title="Terry Burrows (baseball)">Terry Burrows</a></li> <li>November 28 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Sheldon" title="Scott Sheldon">Scott Sheldon</a></li> <li>November 29 – <a href="/wiki/Allen_Battle" title="Allen Battle">Allen Battle</a></li> <li>November 29 – <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Mart%C3%ADnez_(left-handed_pitcher)" title="Pedro Martínez (left-handed pitcher)">Pedro Martínez</a></li> <li>November 30 – <a href="/wiki/Heath_Haynes" title="Heath Haynes">Heath Haynes</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>December 2 – <a href="/wiki/Darryl_Kile" title="Darryl Kile">Darryl Kile</a></li> <li>December 8 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Mussina" title="Mike Mussina">Mike Mussina</a></li> <li>December 11 – <a href="/wiki/Derek_Bell_(baseball)" title="Derek Bell (baseball)">Derek Bell</a></li> <li>December 17 – <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Pride" title="Curtis Pride">Curtis Pride</a></li> <li>December 22 – <a href="/wiki/David_Nied" title="David Nied">David Nied</a></li> <li>December 22 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Reynolds" title="Jim Reynolds">Jim Reynolds</a></li> <li>December 23 – <a href="/wiki/Rick_White_(baseball)" title="Rick White (baseball)">Rick White</a></li> <li>December 24 – <a href="/wiki/Kirt_Ojala" title="Kirt Ojala">Kirt Ojala</a></li> <li>December 25 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Bullett" title="Scott Bullett">Scott Bullett</a></li> <li>December 27 – <a href="/wiki/Dean_Palmer" title="Dean Palmer">Dean Palmer</a></li> <li>December 29 – <a href="/wiki/James_Mouton" title="James Mouton">James Mouton</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_3">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January 2 – <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Warren" title="Tommy Warren">Tommy Warren</a>, 50, left-handed pitcher and pinch hitter who appeared in 41 total games (22 on the mound) for the wartime 1944 Brooklyn Dodgers.</li> <li>January 3 – <a href="/wiki/Rich_Gee" title="Rich Gee">Rich Gee</a>, 73, catcher in the Negro leagues between 1923 and 1929, mainly as a member of the New York Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League.</li> <li>January 5 – <a href="/wiki/Julius_Osley" title="Julius Osley">Julius Osley</a>, 52, pitcher for the 1937–1938 Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League.</li> <li>January 9 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Strelecki" title="Ed Strelecki">Ed Strelecki</a>, 62, pitcher in 42 games for the 1928–1929 St. Louis Browns and 1931 Cincinnati Reds.</li> <li>January 11 – <a href="/wiki/George_Hunter_(baseball)" title="George Hunter (baseball)">George Hunter</a>, 80, outfielder and left-handed pitcher who appeared in 45 games for the 1909 Brooklyn Superbas.</li> <li>January 13 – <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Herbert" title="Ernie Herbert">Ernie Herbert</a>, 80, pitcher in six games for the 1913 Cincinnati Reds and 29 games for the 1914–1915 St. Louis Terriers of the Federal League, then considered an "outlaw" circuit but now classified as a major league.</li> <li>January 13 – <a href="/wiki/Marty_Lang" title="Marty Lang">Marty Lang</a>, 62, left-handed pitcher who had a two-game "cup of coffee" with 1930 Pittsburgh Pirates.</li> <li>January 13 – <a href="/wiki/Art_Schwind" title="Art Schwind">Art Schwind</a>, 78, third baseman who appeared in one game for the Boston Braves on October 3, 1912.</li> <li>January 14 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Black_(second_baseman)" title="Bill Black (second baseman)">Bill Black</a>, 68, pinch hitter and second baseman in five games for the 1924 Chicago White Sox.</li> <li>January 16 – <a href="/wiki/Liz_Funk" title="Liz Funk">Elias "Liz" Funk</a>, 63, outfielder and pinch hitter in 123 career games for the 1929 New York Yankees, 1930 Detroit Tigers and 1932–1933 Chicago White Sox.</li> <li>January 23 – <a href="/wiki/Patsy_Flaherty" title="Patsy Flaherty">Patsy Flaherty</a>, 91, left-handed spitball pitcher between 1899 and 1913 with Louisville, Pittsburgh, Boston and Philadelphia of the National League (NL) and Chicago of the American League (AL); led AL in games lost (25) in 1903, then posted a 19–9 mark for the NL Pirates the following season.</li> <li>January 26 – <a href="/wiki/John_Kobs" title="John Kobs">John Kobs</a>, 69, head baseball coach of Michigan State University from 1925 through 1963; his Spartans teams won 576 games during his tenure.</li> <li>January 26 – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Phillips_(catcher)" title="Eddie Phillips (catcher)">Eddie Phillips</a>, 66, catcher in 312 games for the Boston Braves, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians between 1924 and 1935; member of 1932 World Series champion Yankees.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_3">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February 3 – <a href="/wiki/Jake_Pitler" title="Jake Pitler">Jake Pitler</a>, 73, Brooklyn Dodger coach (1947 to 1957) who in 11 seasons was part of six National League pennant-winners and 1955 World Series champions; former minor league manager; in his playing days, second baseman who appeared in 111 games for the 1917–1918 Pirates.</li> <li>February 6 – <a href="/wiki/Leroy_Matlock" title="Leroy Matlock">Leroy Matlock</a>, 60, southpaw hurler and three-time All-Star who twice led the Negro National League in winning percentage (1931, 1935) and once in games won (1936), playing primarily for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and St. Louis Stars; also appeared as an outfielder and first baseman.</li> <li>February 7 – <a href="/wiki/Ollie_Marquardt" title="Ollie Marquardt">Ollie Marquardt</a>, 65, second baseman in 17 games for the 1931 Boston Red Sox; later a successful minor league manager.</li> <li>February 8 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Matthews_(baseball)" title="Joe Matthews (baseball)">Joe Matthews</a>, 69, southpaw who pitched in three games for the Boston Braves in September 1922.</li> <li>February 9 – <a href="/wiki/Lou_Bruce" title="Lou Bruce">Lou Bruce</a>, 91, Native American of the Mohawk people who appeared in 30 games for the 1904 Philadelphia Athletics.</li> <li>February 11 – <a href="/wiki/Dorothea_Downs" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorothea Downs">Dorothea Downs</a>, 50, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.</li> <li>February 12 – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Siegle" title="Johnny Siegle">Johnny Siegle</a>, 93, outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds who played 39 games in 1905 and 1906.</li> <li>February 14 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Lelivelt" title="Bill Lelivelt">Bill Lelivelt</a>, 83, Dutch-born pitcher who appeared in five total games for the Detroit Tigers of 1909 and 1910.</li> <li>February 18 – <a href="/wiki/Ben_Egan" title="Ben Egan">Ben Egan</a>, 84, backup catcher for Philadelphia (1908 and 1912) and Cleveland (1914–1915) of the American League who played in 122 career games.</li> <li>February 23 – <a href="/wiki/Hank_Schreiber" title="Hank Schreiber">Hank Schreiber</a>, 76, infielder who played a total of 36 games over five abbreviated trials with five teams: the 1914 White Sox, 1917 Braves, 1919 Reds, 1921 Giants and 1926 Cubs.</li> <li>February 28 – <a href="/wiki/Lena_Blackburne" title="Lena Blackburne">Lena Blackburne</a>, 81, weak-hitting infielder who played 228 games with five MLB clubs between 1910 and 1928; manager of the Chicago White Sox from July 6, 1928 through 1929; coach for 17 years with three teams, notably the Philadelphia Athletics; scout and minor league manager; originated the practice of rubbing special Delaware River mud on new baseballs to remove their slippery finish; in 1938, he formed a company that as of 2020 still supplied the major and minor leagues with this product.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_3">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March 2 – <a href="/wiki/Phil_Slattery" title="Phil Slattery">Phil Slattery</a>, 75, southpaw who hurled eight scoreless innings over three games for the Pittsburgh Pirates in September 1915.</li> <li>March 4 – <a href="/wiki/Duke_Reilley" title="Duke Reilley">Duke Reilley</a>, 83, outfielder for the 1909 Cleveland Naps who played in 20 games.</li> <li>March 7 – <a href="/wiki/LeRoy_Taylor" title="LeRoy Taylor">LeRoy Taylor</a>, 65, outfielder who played in the Negro leagues and for barnstorming black teams from 1925 to 1936 for six clubs, most prominently the Kansas City Monarchs.</li> <li>March 9 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Callahan_(baseball)" title="Jim Callahan (baseball)">Jim Callahan</a>, 87, outfielder who appeared in one game for the New York Giants on May 25, 1902.</li> <li>March 14 – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Carpenter_(baseball)" title="Paul Carpenter (baseball)">Paul Carpenter</a>, 73, pitcher who worked in five games for the 1916 Pittsburgh Pirates.</li> <li>March 15 – <a href="/wiki/Allie_Watt" title="Allie Watt">Allie Watt</a>, 68, Washington Senators second baseman who doubled in his only MLB at bat (and game played) on October 3, 1920.</li> <li>March 18 – <a href="/wiki/Heinie_Meine" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinie Meine">Heinie Meine</a>, 71, nicknamed "The Count of Luxemburg", pitcher who played all but one of his 165 MLB games for the 1929–1934 Pittsburgh Pirates; tied for the National League lead in games won (19) in 1931.</li> <li>March 20 – <a href="/wiki/Clyde_Shoun" title="Clyde Shoun">Clyde "Hardrock" Shoun</a>, 56, left-handed hurler in 454 games for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves and Chicago White Sox between 1935–1944 and 1946–1949; on May 15, 1944, as a Red, he authored a no-hit, no-run game against the Braves.</li> <li>March 24 – <a href="/wiki/Ovid_Nicholson" title="Ovid Nicholson">Ovid Nicholson</a>, 79, outfielder who went 5-for-11 (.455) in his six-game cup of coffee with the 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates.</li> <li>March 29 – <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Napier" title="Buddy Napier">Buddy Napier</a>, 78, pitcher in 39 total games for the 1912 St. Louis Browns, 1918 Chicago Cubs and 1920–1921 Cincinnati Reds.</li> <li>March 30 – <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Hungling" title="Bernie Hungling">Bernie Hungling</a>, 72, catcher for the Brooklyn Robins (1922–1923) and St. Louis Browns (1930) who appeared in 51 games.</li> <li>March 31 – <a href="/wiki/Grover_Lowdermilk" title="Grover Lowdermilk">Grover Lowdermilk</a>, 83, pitcher who appeared in 122 games for six clubs between 1908 and 1920, chiefly the St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_3">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 1 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Cantwell" title="Tom Cantwell">Tom Cantwell</a>, 79, Cincinnati Reds pitcher who appeared in eight games in 1909 and 1910; brother of <a href="/wiki/Mike_Cantwell" title="Mike Cantwell">Mike Cantwell</a>.</li> <li>April 7 – <a href="/wiki/Mahlon_Higbee" title="Mahlon Higbee">Mahlon Higbee</a>, 68, outfielder for the 1922 New York Giants who played in three late-season contests, going four-for-ten (.400) with a home run in his only opportunity in the majors.</li> <li>April 7 – <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Houston" title="Jesse Houston">Jesse Houston</a>, 58, pitcher who led the Negro American League in complete games in 1937 as a member of the Cincinnati Tigers; also played for the Chicago American Giants and Homestead Grays through 1941.</li> <li>April 8 – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Pepper" title="Bob Pepper">Bob Pepper</a>, 72, who pitched in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics on July 23, 1915.</li> <li>April 12 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sigafoos" title="Frank Sigafoos">Frank Sigafoos</a>, 64, infielder who played 55 career games for the 1926 Athletics, 1929 Detroit Tigers, 1929 Chicago White Sox and 1931 Cincinnati Reds.</li> <li>April 14 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Benton" title="Al Benton">Al Benton</a>, 57, pitcher who won 98 games for four American League teams over 14 seasons between 1934 and 1952, principally for the Tigers; only pitcher to face Babe Ruth (1934) and Mickey Mantle (1952).</li> <li>April 16 – <a href="/wiki/John_Michaelson" title="John Michaelson">John Michaelson</a>, 74, the only native of <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> to play in the majors (as of 2023); pitched in two games for the Chicago White Sox in August 1921.</li> <li>April 17 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Engeln" title="Bill Engeln">Bill Engeln</a>, 69, National League umpire from 1952 to 1956, working 751 regular-season games and 1953 All-Star game.</li> <li>April 19 – <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Bridges" title="Tommy Bridges">Tommy Bridges</a>, 61, six-time All-Star pitcher who won 194 games for the Detroit Tigers (1930–1943 and 1945–1946), including three 20-win seasons; posted a 4–1 World Series record and won rings in 1935 and 1945.</li> <li>April 19 – <a href="/wiki/Allan_Travers" class="mw-redirect" title="Allan Travers">Allan Travers</a>, 75, one of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers_replacement_players_(May_18,_1912)" title="Detroit Tigers replacement players (May 18, 1912)">Tigers' replacement players</a> hastily recruited on May 18, 1912, to face the Philadelphia Athletics during the <a href="/wiki/Wildcat_strike" title="Wildcat strike">wildcat strike</a> by Detroit players protesting the suspension of teammate <a href="/wiki/Ty_Cobb" title="Ty Cobb">Ty Cobb</a>; Travers was the starting pitcher for his all-amateur makeshift squad, going eight innings and allowing 26 hits and 24 runs (only 14 earned); ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1926, thus becoming the only Roman Catholic clergyman to appear in an MLB game.</li> <li>April 21 – <a href="/wiki/Fred_Applegate_(baseball)" title="Fred Applegate (baseball)">Fred Applegate</a>, 88, pitcher who appeared in three games for the 1904 Athletics.</li> <li>April 22 – <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Coleman" title="Melvin Coleman">Melvin Coleman</a>, 57, shortstop/catcher for the 1937 Birmingham Black Barons and 1944 Atlanta Black Crackers.</li> <li>April 25 – <a href="/wiki/Billy_Kelsey" title="Billy Kelsey">Billy Kelsey</a>, 88, catcher who went two-for-five (.400) in two games played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in October 1907.</li> <li>April 27 – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kardow" title="Paul Kardow">Paul Kardow</a>, 52, relief pitcher who made two appearances for the 1936 Cleveland Indians.</li> <li>April 29 – <a href="/wiki/Terris_McDuffie" title="Terris McDuffie">Terris McDuffie</a>, 59, Negro league pitcher in a long career that spanned from 1930 through 1954, playing for several teams in different leagues across the United States, Canada and Latin America.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_3">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>May 3 – <a href="/wiki/Ray_Gardner_(baseball)" title="Ray Gardner (baseball)">Ray Gardner</a>, 66, shortstop who played 115 games for the Cleveland Indians in 1931–1932.</li> <li>May 15 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Drescher" title="Bill Drescher">Bill Drescher</a>, 46, catcher who appeared in 46 games for the New York Yankees from 1944 to 1946.</li> <li>May 16 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Brandt_(baseball)" title="Bill Brandt (baseball)">Bill Brandt</a>, 53, pitcher who worked in 34 career games for the 1941–1943 Pittsburgh Pirates.</li> <li>May 23 – <a href="/wiki/Hubert_Lockhart" title="Hubert Lockhart">Hubert Lockhart</a>, 69, southpaw who pitched for the 1923–1928 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants of the Eastern Colored League and 1929 Chicago American Giants of the Negro National League; led ECL in winning percentage (.778) in 1923.</li> <li>May 24 – <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Russell" title="Lloyd Russell">Lloyd Russell</a>, 55, star Baylor University athlete and a shortstop in baseball, whose MLB tenure consisted of two games as a pinch runner for the 1938 Cleveland Indians.</li> <li>May 26 – <a href="/wiki/Chippy_Gaw" title="Chippy Gaw">Chippy Gaw</a>, 76, pitcher in six games for the 1920 Chicago Cubs.</li> <li>May 26 – <a href="/wiki/Doc_Ayers" title="Doc Ayers">Doc Ayers</a>, 77, spitball pitcher who worked in 299 games for the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers between 1913 and 1921.</li> <li>May 27 – <a href="/wiki/Herman_Bronkie" title="Herman Bronkie">Herman Bronkie</a>, 83, third baseman and second baseman who played in only 122 games over seven seasons spread over 13 years for four teams, most notably for the 1919 and 1922 St. Louis Browns.</li> <li>May 27 – <a href="/wiki/Rip_Collins_(pitcher)" title="Rip Collins (pitcher)">Rip Collins</a>, 72, four-sport star at Texas A&M University and pitcher in the American League from 1920 to 1931; won 108 career games for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns; member of the 1921 AL champion Yankees.</li> <li>May 27 – <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Jackson_(baseball)" title="Charlie Jackson (baseball)">Charlie Jackson</a>, 74, outfielder in one game for 1915 Chicago White Sox and 41 contests for 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_3">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>June 6 – <a href="/wiki/C._B._Burns" title="C. B. Burns">C. B. Burns</a>, 89, pinch hitter who went one-for-one (1.000) in his only at bat as a member of the American League's original edition of Baltimore Orioles on August 19, 1902.</li> <li>June 10 – <a href="/wiki/Curly_Brown" title="Curly Brown">Curly Brown</a>, 79, left-handed pitcher who made 28 total appearances for the 1911–1913 St. Louis Browns and 1915 Cincinnati Reds.</li> <li>June 11 – <a href="/wiki/Dan_Boone_(baseball)" title="Dan Boone (baseball)">Dan Boone</a>, 73, pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians who appeared in 42 games from 1920 through 1923.</li> <li>June 11 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Regan_(baseball)" title="Bill Regan (baseball)">Bill Regan</a>, 69, second baseman for the Boston Red Sox (1926–1930) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1931), who became the first player in Red Sox history to hit two home runs in the same inning (1928), a mark only matched by one man, <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Burks" title="Ellis Burks">Ellis Burks</a>, 62 years later.</li> <li>June 12 – <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Orme" title="Clarence Orme">Clarence Orme</a>, 69, second baseman for the 1920 Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League.</li> <li>June 15 – <a href="/wiki/Sam_Crawford" title="Sam Crawford">Sam Crawford</a>, 88, Hall of Fame right fielder for the Cincinnati Reds (1899–1902) and Detroit Tigers (1903–1917), a lifetime .309 hitter who hit a record 312 triples, led both leagues in home runs, and retired with the fifth-most RBI in history and 2,961 career hits.</li> <li>June 18 – <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Bishop" title="Lloyd Bishop">Lloyd Bishop</a>, 78, pitcher in three games for the 1914 Cleveland Naps of the American League.</li> <li>June 25 – <a href="/wiki/Grant_Bowler_(baseball)" title="Grant Bowler (baseball)">Grant Bowler</a>, 60, pitcher who worked in 17 contests for the Chicago White Sox in 1931 and 1932.</li> <li>June 25 – <a href="/wiki/Dan_Dugan_(baseball)" title="Dan Dugan (baseball)">Dan Dugan</a>, 61, left-handed pitcher who worked in 20 games for the White Sox in 1928 and 1929.</li> <li>June 29 – <a href="/wiki/Paddy_Driscoll" title="Paddy Driscoll">Paddy Driscoll</a>, 73, second baseman who batted only .107 in 13 games for the 1917 Chicago Cubs, but became well-known as a player and coach in the National Football League for over forty years.</li> <li>June 30 – <a href="/wiki/Ned_Porter_(baseball)" title="Ned Porter (baseball)">Ned Porter</a>, 62, pitcher who worked in three games for the 1926–1927 New York Giants.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July_3">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>July 1 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Barbee" title="Dave Barbee">Dave Barbee</a>, 63, outfielder who appeared in 116 career games for the 1926 Philadelphia Athletics and 1932 Pittsburgh Pirates.</li> <li>July 3 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Simmons_(baseball)" title="Pat Simmons (baseball)">Pat Simmons</a>, 59, pitcher who played from 1928 to 1929 for the Boston Red Sox.</li> <li>July 4 – <a href="/wiki/John_Quinn_(umpire)" title="John Quinn (umpire)">John Quinn</a>, 70, American League umpire from 1935 to 1942 who officiated in 1,247 league contests and 1937 All-Star game.</li> <li>July 6 – <a href="/wiki/Chief_Youngblood" title="Chief Youngblood">Albert Youngblood</a>, 68, Washington Senators relief pitcher who worked in two games during the 1922 season.</li> <li>July 8 – <a href="/wiki/Dusty_Boggess" title="Dusty Boggess">Dusty Boggess</a>, 64, National League umpire for 18 seasons (1944–1948 and 1950–1962) who worked in four World Series, five All-Star games, and 2,591 NL tilts.</li> <li>July 8 – <a href="/wiki/Nap_Shea" title="Nap Shea">Nap Shea</a>, 94, diminutive catcher (he stood 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall and weighed 155 pounds (70 kg)) who appeared for two games for the Phillies in September 1902.</li> <li>July 9 – <a href="/wiki/Hap_Collard" title="Hap Collard">Hap Collard</a>, 69, pitcher in 35 career games for the 1927–1928 Cleveland Indians and 1930 Philadelphia Phillies.</li> <li>July 12 – <a href="/wiki/Kettle_Wirts" title="Kettle Wirts">Kettle Wirts</a>, 70, catcher who appeared 49 games over four seasons (1921 to 1924) for the Chicago Cubs and the crosstown White Sox.</li> <li>July 15 – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Kearse" title="Eddie Kearse">Eddie Kearse</a>, 52, catcher who played in 11 games for 1942 New York Yankees.</li> <li>July 17 – <a href="/wiki/Norm_Lehr" title="Norm Lehr">Norm Lehr</a>, 67, pitcher who worked in four games for the 1926 Cleveland Indians.</li> <li>July 17 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Sears_(baseball)" title="Ken Sears (baseball)">Ken Sears</a>, 51, catcher who appeared in 60 games for 1943 Yankees and seven more for 1946 St. Louis Browns; son of NL umpire <a href="/wiki/Ziggy_Sears" title="Ziggy Sears">Ziggy Sears</a>.</li> <li>July 21 – <a href="/wiki/Ham_Wade" title="Ham Wade">Ham Wade</a>, 88, outfielder who appeared in one game and had one at-bat (he was hit by a pitch) on September 9, 1907, as a member of the New York Giants.</li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/Babe_Adams" title="Babe Adams">Babe Adams</a>, 86, pitcher who won 194 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates; the only member of their championship teams in both 1909 and 1925, he won three games in the 1909 World Series.</li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Redmond" title="Jack Redmond">Jack Redmond</a>, 57, catcher with 1936 Washington Senators who played in 22 games.</li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/Howie_Storie" title="Howie Storie">Howie Storie</a>, 57, backup catcher who appeared in a dozen games with the Boston Red Sox in 1931 and 1932.</li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(baseball)" title="Dave Thomas (baseball)">Dave Thomas</a>, 63, brilliant defensive first baseman who played in the Negro leagues between 1929 and 1946, most prominently for the New York Cubans and Birmingham Black Barons.</li> <li>July 29 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hart_(infielder)" title="Bill Hart (infielder)">Bill Hart</a>, 55, third baseman and shortstop who appeared in 95 games for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the wartime seasons of 1943 to 1945.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August_3">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August 3 – <a href="/wiki/John_Jenkins_(baseball)" title="John Jenkins (baseball)">John Jenkins</a>, 72, infielder and pinch hitter in five contests for 1922 Chicago White Sox.</li> <li>August 10 – <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Boardman" title="Charlie Boardman">Charlie Boardman</a>, 75, pitcher in a total of seven games over three seasons (1913 to 1915) for the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns.</li> <li>August 13 – <a href="/wiki/Lefty_Guise" title="Lefty Guise">Lefty Guise</a>, 59, knuckleball-throwing pitcher who appeared in two September games for pennant-bound 1940 Cincinnati Reds.</li> <li>August 17 – <a href="/wiki/Forrest_More" title="Forrest More">Forrest More</a>, 86, pitcher who went 2–10 (4.74 ERA) in 25 games for St. Louis and Boston of the National League in 1909.</li> <li>August 22 – <a href="/wiki/Heinie_Groh" title="Heinie Groh">Heinie Groh</a>, 78, third baseman who played in 1,676 games for the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates between 1912 and 1927; led the National League in hits, runs and walks once each and in doubles twice, widely known for his "bottle bat".</li> <li>August 23 – <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Henry" title="Dutch Henry">Dutch Henry</a>, 66, left-handed pitcher who appeared in 164 career games between 1921 and 1930 for the St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Robins, New York Giants and Chicago White Sox.</li> <li>August 24 – <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Stark_(umpire)" title="Dolly Stark (umpire)">Dolly Stark</a>, 70, NL umpire for 12 seasons (1928–1935 and 1937–1940) who worked in two World Series, and later became a broadcaster.</li> <li>August 26 – <a href="/wiki/John_Kroner" title="John Kroner">John Kroner</a>, 59, infielder who played 223 total games for the 1935–1936 Boston Red Sox and 1937–1938 Cleveland Indians</li> <li>August 29 – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Howard_(baseball)" title="Paul Howard (baseball)">Paul Howard</a>, 84, outfielder who played in six games for the 1909 Boston Red Sox.</li> <li>August 31 – <a href="/wiki/Jay_Kirke" title="Jay Kirke">Jay Kirke</a>, 80, legendary minor-league hitter who batted .301 in 320 major-league games with the Detroit Tigers (1910), Boston Rustlers/Braves (1911–1913), Cleveland Naps/Indians (1914–1915), and New York Giants (1918).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September_3">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>September 2 – <a href="/wiki/Leo_Meyer_(baseball)" title="Leo Meyer (baseball)">Lee Meyer</a>, 80, shortstop who played nine games for the 1909 Brooklyn Superbas.</li> <li>September 2 – <a href="/wiki/Nish_Williams" title="Nish Williams">Nish Williams</a>, 64, catcher/outfielder who had a ten-year career (1930–1939) in the Negro leagues; stepfather of <a href="/wiki/Donn_Clendenon" title="Donn Clendenon">Donn Clendenon</a>.</li> <li>September 3 – <a href="/wiki/Tony_DeFate" title="Tony DeFate">Tony DeFate</a>, 68, infielder for both the St. Louis Cardinals (14 games) and Detroit Tigers (three games) in 1917.</li> <li>September 4 – <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Orsatti" title="Ernie Orsatti">Ernie Orsatti</a>, 65, outfielder in 701 career games, all with the Cardinals (1927–1935); batted .306 lifetime; regular center fielder for the 1934 "Gashouse Gang"; appeared in four World Series (1928, 1930, 1931 and 1934), winning rings in 1931 and 1934.</li> <li>September 8 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Kalfass" title="Bill Kalfass">Bill Kalfass</a>, 52, southpaw who hurled in three games for the 1937 Philadelphia Athletics.</li> <li>September 12 – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Conway" title="Charles Conway">Charles Conway</a>, 82, outfielder who appeared in two games for Washington of the American League in April 1912.</li> <li>September 12 – <a href="/wiki/Don_Rudolph" title="Don Rudolph">Don Rudolph</a>, 37, left-handed pitcher who appeared in 124 games for the Chicago White Sox (1957–1959), Cincinnati Reds (1959), Cleveland Indians (1962) and Washington Senators (1962–1964).</li> <li>September 14 – <a href="/wiki/Hans_Lobert" title="Hans Lobert">Hans Lobert</a>, 86, third baseman for five National League clubs from 1903 to 1917; later a coach (1934–1941 and 1943–1944), manager (of the 1942 Philadelphia Phillies), and scout (1945–1967).</li> <li>September 16 – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bostick" title="Henry Bostick">Henry Bostick</a>, 73, third baseman who played two games for the Philadelphia Athletics in May 1915.</li> <li>September 17 – <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Pence" title="Elmer Pence">Elmer Pence</a>, 68, outfielder who played one inning of one game for the Chicago White Sox on August 23, 1922.</li> <li>September 18 – <a href="/wiki/Rip_Wheeler" title="Rip Wheeler">Rip Wheeler</a>, 70, pitched in 34 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs from 1921 to 1924.</li> <li>September 25 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Holloway" title="Ken Holloway">Ken Holloway</a>, 71, pitcher who worked in 285 games for the Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees between 1922 and 1930.</li> <li>September 26 – <a href="/wiki/Bud_Clancy" title="Bud Clancy">Bud Clancy</a>, 68, first baseman who played in 522 contests over nine seasons between 1924 and 1934 for the Chicago White Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_3">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>October 5 – <a href="/wiki/Hal_Bevan" title="Hal Bevan">Hal Bevan</a>, 37, third baseman and pinch hitter in 15 career games for the Boston Red Sox (1952), Philadelphia (1952) and Kansas City Athletics (1955), and Cincinnati Reds (1961); despite his brief tenure with 1961 Reds, featured in relief pitcher Jim Brosnan's classic memoir, <i>Pennant Race</i>.</li> <li>October 14 – <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Brenton" title="Lynn Brenton">Lynn Brenton</a>, 79, pitcher who appeared in 34 total games for both of Ohio's MLB teams: Cleveland (1913, 1915) and Cincinnati (1920–1921).</li> <li>October 16 – <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Kinder" title="Ellis Kinder">Ellis Kinder</a>, 54, pitcher who fashioned a 102–71 record in 484 appearances for the St. Louis Browns (1946–1947), Boston Red Sox (1948–1955), St. Louis Cardinals (1956) and Chicago White Sox (1956–1957); excelled as both a starter (won 23 games in 1949) and reliever (led American League in saves in 1951 and 1953).</li> <li>October 20 – <a href="/wiki/Turner_Barber" title="Turner Barber">Turner Barber</a>, 75, outfielder who played in 491 games for the Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Robins between 1915 and 1923.</li> <li>October 21 – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Killilay" title="Jack Killilay">Jack Killilay</a>, 81, pitcher in 14 games for the 1911 Boston Red Sox.</li> <li>October 23 – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Bliss" title="Jack Bliss">Jack Bliss</a>, 86, catcher for St. Louis Cardinals who appeared in 251 games between 1908 and 1912.</li> <li>October 23 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Kelly_(baseball,_born_1896)" title="Mike Kelly (baseball, born 1896)">Mike Kelly</a>, 72, minor-league catcher, first baseman and manager who spent seven years as a major-league coach for the Chicago White Sox (1930–1931), Chicago Cubs (1934), Boston Bees (1938–1939) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–1941).</li> <li>October 28 – <a href="/wiki/Bullet_Campbell" title="Bullet Campbell">Bullet Campbell</a>, 72, pitcher for the Hilldale Club of the Eastern Colored League (1924–1927) and New York Lincoln Giants of the ECL (1928) and American Negro League (1929).</li> <li>October 29 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hohman" title="Bill Hohman">Bill Hohman</a>, 64, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder who played in seven games during August and September of 1927.</li> <li>October 31 – <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Glaze" title="Ralph Glaze">Ralph Glaze</a>, 87, pitcher in 61 games for the Boston Americans between 1906 and 1908; later a head football coach at several prominent U.S. colleges.</li> <li>October 31 – <a href="/wiki/Hub_Perdue" title="Hub Perdue">Hub Perdue</a>, 86, pitcher who appeared in 161 career games between 1911 and 1915 for Boston and St. Louis of the National League.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November_3">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>November 4 – <a href="/wiki/Vern_Stephens" title="Vern Stephens">Vern Stephens</a>, 48, eight-time All-Star shortstop for the St. Louis Browns (1941–1947 and 1953), Boston Red Sox (1948–1952), Chicago White Sox (1953 and 1955) and Baltimore Orioles (1954–1955) who led or co-led the American League in RBI three times (1944, 1949 and 1950) and led the AL in home runs once (1945).</li> <li>November 5 – <a href="/wiki/Wally_Mattick" title="Wally Mattick">Wally Mattick</a>, 81, center fielder in 169 career games for the Chicago White Sox from 1912 to 1913, and briefly with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1918; father of <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Mattick" title="Bobby Mattick">Bobby Mattick</a>.</li> <li>November 6 – <a href="/wiki/Earl_Gurley" title="Earl Gurley">Earl Gurley</a>, outfielder, first baseman and southpaw pitcher for seven clubs in the Negro leagues, chiefly the Memphis Red Sox, between 1922 and 1932.</li> <li>November 12 – <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Schirick" title="Dutch Schirick">Dutch Schirick</a>, 78, pinch hitter in one game for the 1914 St. Louis Browns who later became a politician and judge in New York state.</li> <li>November 14 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Sherdel" title="Bill Sherdel">"Wee Willie" Sherdel</a>, 72, left-handed pitcher who won 165 games (losing 146) for the St. Louis Cardinals (1918–1930 and 1932) and Boston Braves (1931–1932); member of 1926 world champions.</li> <li>November 17 – <a href="/wiki/Earl_Hamilton" title="Earl Hamilton">Earl Hamilton</a>, 77, pitcher who appeared in 410 games in MLB between 1911 and 1924, mostly with the St. Louis Browns and Pittsburgh Pirates; later a minor league team owner.</li> <li>November 20 – <a href="/wiki/George_Maisel" title="George Maisel">George Maisel</a>, 76, outfielder for the 1913 St. Louis Browns, 1916 Detroit Tigers and 1921–1922 Chicago Cubs; brother of <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Maisel" title="Fritz Maisel">Fritz Maisel</a>.</li> <li>November 20 – <a href="/wiki/Fresco_Thompson" title="Fresco Thompson">Fresco Thompson</a>, 66, second baseman and front-office executive; played 669 games between 1925 and 1934 for Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn of the National League, then became a minor league manager; in 1946, began a 23-year executive career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers as assistant farm system director until his promotion to vice president and farm director in 1950; after almost 18 years in that job, he served as Dodgers' executive vp and general manager from June 4, 1968 until his death.</li> <li>November 24 – <a href="/wiki/Dearie_Mulvey" title="Dearie Mulvey">Dearie Mulvey</a>, 70, co-owner of the Dodgers from 1938 until her death; with her <a href="/wiki/James_Mulvey" title="James Mulvey">husband</a>, retained a 25 percent share after <a href="/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley" title="Walter O'Malley">Walter O'Malley</a> obtained controlling interest in 1950; daughter of <a href="/wiki/Stephen_McKeever" title="Stephen McKeever">Stephen McKeever</a>.</li> <li>November 27 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Fernandes" title="Ed Fernandes">Ed Fernandes</a>, 50, catcher who appeared in 42 MLB games for 1940 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1946 Chicago White Sox.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_3">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_in_baseball&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>December 2 – <a href="/wiki/Pete_Sims_(baseball)" title="Pete Sims (baseball)">Pete Sims</a>, 77, pitcher who appeared in three games in September 1915 for the St. Louis Browns.</li> <li>December 4 – <a href="/wiki/Emil_Yde" title="Emil Yde">Emil Yde</a>, 68, pitcher in 141 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–1927) and Detroit Tigers (1929); led National League in winning percentage (16–3, .842) and shutouts (four) as a rookie in 1924; member of 1925 World Series champions.</li> <li>December 6 – <a href="/wiki/Fats_Jenkins" title="Fats Jenkins">Fats Jenkins</a>, 70, outfielder who played in Negro leagues and for barnstorming teams between 1920 and 1940; two-time All-Star who, despite nickname, weighed 165 pounds (75 kg); also played professional basketball.</li> <li>December 8 – <a href="/wiki/Benn_Karr" title="Benn Karr">Benn Karr</a>, 75, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1920–1922) and Cleveland Indians (1925–1927) who appeared in 177 career games.</li> <li>December 12 – <a href="/wiki/Ty_Tyson" title="Ty Tyson">Ty Tyson</a>, 80, broadcaster and legendary early play-by-play voice of the Detroit Tigers, calling games on radio (1927–1942 and 1951–1953) and television (1947–1950).</li> <li>December 15 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_McLaughlin_(third_baseman)" title="Jim McLaughlin (third baseman)">Jim McLaughlin</a>, 66, third baseman who went hitless in his lone MLB at bat for the St. Louis Browns on April 18, 1932.</li> <li>December 17 – <a href="/wiki/Hank_Severeid" title="Hank Severeid">Hank Severeid</a>, 77, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and New York Yankees between 1911 and 1926, hitting .289 in 1,390 games.</li> <li>December 22 – <a href="/wiki/Benny_Bengough" title="Benny Bengough">Benny Bengough</a>, 70, catcher who played 411 games for the New York Yankees (1923–1930) and St. Louis Browns (1931–1932) and member of three World Series champions (1923, 1927, 1928); later spent 20 years as a coach in the majors, 14 of them for the Philadelphia Phillies.</li> <li>December 22 – <a href="/wiki/Ike_Powers" title="Ike Powers">Ike Powers</a>, 62, pitcher who appeared in 20 games for the 1927–1928 Philadelphia Athletics.</li> <li>December 24 – <a href="/wiki/Johnnie_Heving" title="Johnnie Heving">Johnnie Heving</a>, 72, catcher for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics between 1920 and 1932 who appeared in 399 career contests.</li> <li>December 25 – <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Tate" title="Roosevelt Tate">Roosevelt Tate</a>, 57, outfielder who played in the Negro Southern League (1932) and Negro American League (1937) in 41 games for five teams.</li> <li>December 28 – <a href="/wiki/Rosey_Davis_(baseball)" title="Rosey Davis (baseball)">Roosevelt Davis</a>, 64, pitcher for over a dozen teams in four different Negro leagues between 1924 and 1945; led Negro National League in games won (16) in 1925 and winning percentage (8–0, 1.000) in 1928, and the Negro American League in earned run average (1.65) in 1945.</li> <li>December 30 – <a href="/wiki/Dick_Marlowe" title="Dick Marlowe">Dick Marlowe</a>, 39, pitcher who worked in 98 games between 1951 and 1956, all but one of them as a member of the Detroit Tigers.</li> <li>December 31 – <a href="/wiki/Anastasio_Santaella" title="Anastasio Santaella">Anastasio Santaella</a>, versatile Cuban-born infielder/outfielder for the 1935–1936 New York Cubans of the Negro National League; 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