The Summer of ’64: A Pennant Lost

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The 1964 season, highlighted by two significant trades, a game-winning home run, and 3 no-hitters, used to be a dramatic one for the National League. But much more thrilling used to be that season’s final week and the race for the pennant. The entire drama of the 1964 National League season throughout the Cardinals’ league championship is on this book. It covers Johnny Callison’s All-Star game-winning home run, Duke Snider’s trade from the New York Mets to the San Francisco Giants and Lou Brock’s trade from the Cubs to the Cardinals, Reds manager Fred Hutchinson’s battle with cancer (and his replacement, and death in November 1964), the controversial remarks made by Giants manager Alvin Dark about African American and Latin players on his own team, the no-hitters pitched by Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers, Jim Bunning of the Phillies, and Ken Johnson of the Colt .45s (later the Astros), the outlet of Shea Stadium, and the demolition of the Polo Grounds. Special attention is given to the general weeks of the season when the Phillies collapsed with a six and a half game lead and twelve games to head, whilst battling it out with the Cardinals and the Reds.

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