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The 1967 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 86th season in franchise history. The sixth-place Pirates finished at 81–81, 20 + 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the National League and World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals .
The 1967 Series was the first non-exhibition meeting between Major League Baseball teams from St. Louis and Boston since the departures of the Boston Braves and St. Louis Browns following (respectively) the 1952 and 1953 seasons ended regular season meetings between teams from those cities (Braves vs Cardinals, Browns vs Red Sox).
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Since then the Pirates have won World Series in 1925, 1960, 1971, and 1979. In addition to these five World Series victories the Pirates have won nine National League pennants and qualified for the playoffs fifteen times, [ 1 ] six of which were during a run of twelve winning seasons between 1969 and 1980.
Then, in the 1967 World Series, he dominates the Boston Red Sox with three complete game triumphs to give St. Louis a seven-game Series championship. July 18 – The disappointing Pirates, expected to contend for the NL pennant but sitting at 42–42 and in sixth place, fire skipper Harry Walker and replace him with former Buc manager Danny ...
The list below documents players and teams that hold particular club records. In 134 seasons from 1882 through 2015, the team has won over 10,000 games and five World Series championships. The team has appeared in 18 postseasons and has won nine league pennants. Roberto Clemente owns the most career batting records with five.
Alley was on Pirates teams that won their division in 1970 through 1972, and had the NL's best record in 1971 and 1972. They lost in the NL championship series to the Cincinnati Reds twice (1970, 1972), but defeated the San Francisco Giants in 1971, and went on to win the World Series against the Baltimore Orioles (Alley only appearing in one ...
David William Ricketts (July 12, 1935 – July 13, 2008) was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who played parts of six seasons (1963, 1965, 1967–1970) with the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Ricketts was a reserve catcher on the 1967 World Series champion Cardinals and their 1968 pennant winners.