Sunday, June 17, 2012

Yankee starting lineups 1960 World Series

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What more?  I laid out the names in a spreadsheet and noticed some things for the first time.

1. Yogi Berra played but did not start games 3 & 5 when Pittsburgh started left handed pitchers.  In game 3 with Yanks up 10-0 Yogi replaced Roger Maris in RF and later singled.  In game 5 Yanks down 4-2 against righty reliever Roy Face, Yogi PH (ground out) for Elston Howard and replaced Howard as catcher.

2. Yogi started the other five games and batted 5th: catcher in games 1 and 4, LF in games 2, 6, 7.

3. Maris always batted higher than Mickey Mantle.  Maris batted second in games 3 & 5 against the southpaws.  Mantle batted third in game 3 and 4th in all the rest.

4. Bobby Richardson was the series MVP, the only ever from a losing team.  Bobby set a WS record with 12 RBI and batted: 8, 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 1.

5. Third base: Clete Boyer started game one but Dale Long pinch hit for Boyer batting 7th in the second inning.  Gil McDougald replaced Boyer in the field and went 1 for 3.  McDougald started games 2 batting second, 3 (5), 4 (7), 5 (1).  Boyer started games 6 (1) and 7 (8).

6. Bob Cerv started in LF in games 3 (1), 4 (1), 5 (3).  Cerv PH 1B in game 1 his only other appearance.

7. Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit the first and last home runs for Pittsburgh.  Mazeroski homered in the 4th in game one and Pittsburgh did not homer again until game seven when Rocky Nelson (first inning,1 on), Hal Smith (three run HR in 8th) and Mazeroski (walk off bottom 9) homered.

8. SS Tony Kubek batted 1, 1, 8, 2, 8, 2, 2.  Kubek was dropped to 8th against the southpaws.

9. Only game 2 was longer than three hours: 3:14.  The other six games ranged from 2:29 to 2:41.

10. Attendance in game seven was only 36,683, second lowest of the four games in Pittsburgh.  Game six had 38,580, 1,897 more.  Odd.  Pittsburgh could have won the WS by winning either game six or game seven but the fans seemed to have lost faith following the loss in game six.  The same thing happened in Brooklyn in 1952 when the Dodger could have won their first WS but the Yankees won both games in Ebbets Field.

1 comment:

Captain Future said...

Tickets for the 1960 World Series in Pittsburgh was by lottery, so I'd always assumed all games were sold out. You didn't have the choice of game--you sent in your request and money, and if you were lucky you got the tickets to a game. I got game 6, sadly. Forbes Field officially held 35,000 so anything over that would be a sellout.