The 1967 AL Pennant Race is only the greatest pennant race of all time. For those people who think we need the Wild Card to make things interesting in September, 1967 is a year worth revisiting. Only two years prior to going to the first “playoff” system, four teams battled it out through the final days of the season to determine who would win the 1967 American League pennant. In mid-September, only a half game seperated four teams and heading into the final week of the season, all four teams still had a shot at playing the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1967 World Series.
This site will document that pennant race, day by day. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the 1984 Tigers Diary I worked on a couple of years back, it’ll be in that format but it’ll be the first collaborative diary I’m aware of. Throughout the off season, the contributors will be doing player profiles so you’re all familiar with the main characters, and then once the season starts, you’ll be able to follow things day by day as they happened forty years previous.
And of course if you want to know when the site is updated, the feed will be hooked up to my main site at Baseball Historians. You can also follow the 1967 Cardinals at Gas House Gang. He’ll be doing a diary documenting that team’s race to the World Series. I think this will be a lot of fun and I hope you stop by and check things out as they progress.