1967 – Astros receive pitcher Fred Gladding to complete the trade with Detroit for Eddie Mathews. The reliever compiles a 22-23 record with 76 saves over the next six years in Houston.
The Tigers obtainEddie Mathews from the Astros to replace a slumping Norm Cash, who had been benched by skipper Mayo Smith. Detroit’s new first baseman will hit .231 in 36 games for pennant contenders.
1967 – Mike Cuellar tosses a two-hitter and notches a dozen strikeouts during a 2-1 victory over Philadelphia in eleven innings. Cuellar also scores the game-winner on a single by Jim Wynn. A sacrifice fly by Eddie Mathews plates the other Houston run.
On July 14, 1967, Houston Astros infielder Eddie Mathews rips a three-run homer off Juan Marichal, the 500th of his major league career . It helps the Astros topple the Giants, 8-6. Mathews had a similar chance two innings before when a mouse dashed from the Candlestick grandstands and scurried until Willie Mays shooed it…
1967 – Eddie Mathews beats his old Atlanta teammates in a 6-1 Opening Day victory. The Braves had traded their aging star to Houston that winter and he responds with two hits including a triple off Dick Kelley to key a six-run sixth inning. Mike Cuellar picks up the win.
Houston Astros acquire Eddie Mathews from the Atlanta Braves
On April 24, 1966, the Atlanta Braves establish a major league record by winning their 18th consecutive game at home. The first 17 wins of the streak had actually occurred in Milwaukee, the Braves’ home in 1965.
Sept. 22, 1965. The Milwaukee Braves’ last game in County Stadium. A crowd of 12,577, heartsick that the Braves would move to Atlanta, saw them lose, 7-6, to the Dodgers in 11 innings. Eddie Mathews was nearing the end, too. He hung around until 1968, when he won a second World Series ring with the…
Eddie Mathews hits his 28th home run as the Braves win, 4 – 3, at Pittsburgh. The duo of Mathews and Hank Aaron, from 1954 to this year, becomes the top home run tandem in major league history, passing the Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig total of 772 home runs while playing together for the New York Yankees.
January 25, 1964 – On a chilly day in County Stadium, Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathews both signed their contracts with the Braves for 1964. Mathewson took a slight pay cut from 1963, dropping from $62,500 to $57,500 and Aaron signed on for $62,000 a large increase from his $53,000 in 1963. At the time,…
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