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The 1968 baseball season, known as the "Year of the Pitcher," was the Detroit Tigers' 68th since they entered the American League in 1901, their eighth pennant, and third World Series championship. Detroit pitcher Denny McLain won the Cy Young Award and was named the American League's Most Valuable Player after winning 31 games.
The 1968 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1968 season. The 65th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Detroit Tigers and the National League (NL) champion (and defending World Series champion) St. Louis Cardinals .
Matchick appeared in 80 games for the Detroit Tigers team that won the World Series in 1968. The UPI wrote in July 1968 that his two-run walk-off home run against the Baltimore Orioles "looms as the biggest blow so far in the 1968 pennant races" and called him the Tigers' most unlikely hero since Floyd Giebell in 1940.
The Detroit Tigers announced Tuesday that former utility infielder Tom Matchick, a 1968 World Series champion, has died. He was 78.
The 1968 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 10 to October 10, 1968. It was the final year of baseball's pre-expansion era, in which the teams that finished in first place in each league went directly to the World Series to face each other for the "World Championship."
4× World Series champion (1963, 1965, 1968, 1984) Richard Joseph Tracewski (born February 3, 1935), nicknamed " Trixie ", is an American former baseball player , coach , and manager . During his playing career, he was an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball , appearing in 614 games over eight ...
The franchise has now made the playoffs in 17 of its 125 seasons, winning the World Series in 1935, 1945, 1968 and 1984. Since the 1984 championship, though, the Tigers have advanced to the ...
1934 – American League pennant; 1935 – American League pennant; 1935 – World Series championship [3] 1940 – American League pennant; 1945 – American League pennant; 1945 – World Series championship [3] 1968 – American League pennant; 1968 – World Series Trophy [3] 1984 – William Harridge Trophy (American League champion) 1984 ...