Roberto Clemente manages for one game and wins!

Roberto Clemente manages for one game and wins!

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1967 – Roberto Clemente’s Major League Managerial Career: Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, all one day of it. Filling in for interim manager Danny Murtaugh, Clemente puts up stratospheric – if statistically insignificant – numbers as Pittsburgh’s player-manager. Joe Curcio of the Pittsburgh Press reports: “Baseball’s only undefeated ‘manager’, Roberto Clemente, climaxed his greatest season ever by smashing his 23rd homer, a triple and driving in three runs while managing the Bucs before 28,244 fans on Prize Day.”

Dick McAuliffe grounds into Double Play on last at bat of season costing Detroit playoffs

Dick McAuliffe grounds into Double Play on last at bat of season costing Detroit playoffs

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On the last play of the regular season, Dick McAuliffe, representing the tying run, grounds into a 4-6-3 double play, dashing Detroit’s hopes to clinch a tie for the pennant. The twin killing marks only the second time this season the Tigers shortstop has made two outs in one at-bat, and he will not hit into another DP all of next season.

Carl Yastrzemski hits his 44th home run of his 1967 Triple Crown season.
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Impossible Dream – Yaz goes 4-4 and Longborg wins 22nd to clinch World Series Appearance

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  On October 1, 1967, With identical 91-70 records and just one game to play, the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox faced, nearly, a single-game playoff for the pennant. After going down 2-0, when the Twins scored 2 unearned runs, the Red Sox broke through against Twins ace Dean Chance to score 5 in…