1967 team celebration at Fenway

[SoxnCycles]

Folks my age (I'm 39) remember the Red Sox as basically a good team my entire life. Yeah, there were some turkeys sprinkled in ... and years where they were 85-77 but the chase "ended" by August, but virtually every season you could (and still can) enter the season with legitimately aggressive dreams. This was not the case before 1967. The Impossible Dream is that breakpoint.

 

In a semi-related note - it is also why you can really argue the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry did not really START until the 1970s ... until then, the Red Sox and Yankees were very rarely good at the same time.

 

Yup, I never gave the Yankees a second though until the 70s, with the brawls between Fisk, Munson and Pinella.

[cp176]

Folks my age (I'm 39) remember the Red Sox as basically a good team my entire life. Yeah, there were some turkeys sprinkled in ... and years where they were 85-77 but the chase "ended" by August, but virtually every season you could (and still can) enter the season with legitimately aggressive dreams. This was not the case before 1967. The Impossible Dream is that breakpoint.

 

In a semi-related note - it is also why you can really argue the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry did not really START until the 1970s ... until then, the Red Sox and Yankees were very rarely good at the same time.

 

The Yankees teams that I grew up paying attention to were just so dominating that if you followed baseball at all, you at least were aware of them. I didn't like them much but I sure and hell knew about and respected them. When Maris was trying to break Ruth's record, we couldn't get enough coverage. As far as a rivalry goes - nothing like the Celtics and the Lakers of the 60's. That was a rivalry!

[dustcover]

So now we're honoring teams that didn't win the World Series? Good to know.

You had to be there in 67, to fully appreciate what this team accomplished and how they did it night in and night out. And clearly for us who lived it, Red Sox nation was never the same thereafter. (In an extraordinarily positive way!)

[dustcover]

So you are a Blue Bombardier!

 

I live in the Land of NA.

 

We have Red Rocketeers here.

 

I am quite well aware of the Red Rocketeers.

 

I know I should not be doing this for fear that I will be starting something that I can't finish, BUT, my graduating year, 1959, Thanksgiving Day - Bombardiers, 14-6

[mvp 78]

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Tony C beanball. http://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-18-1967-tony-conigliaros-career-and-life-threatened-beaning

[sk7326]

The Yankees teams that I grew up paying attention to were just so dominating that if you followed baseball at all, you at least were aware of them. I didn't like them much but I sure and hell knew about and respected them. When Maris was trying to break Ruth's record, we couldn't get enough coverage. As far as a rivalry goes - nothing like the Celtics and the Lakers of the 60's. That was a rivalry!

 

Well the Yankees of Mantle, Maris etc (let alone Ruth and Gehrig) were the Montreal Canadiens or Bryant's Alabama team. The championship race was effectively THEM and a few other teams. Of course you couldn't avoid it. But the 1970s and then the late 90s to now have been the only periods when the Sox and Yankees have been good at the same time.

[Spudboy]

I am quite well aware of the Red Rocketeers.

 

I know I should not be doing this for fear that I will be starting something that I can't finish, BUT, my graduating year, 1959, Thanksgiving Day - Bombardiers, 14-6

 

Well I'm not a Townee I have been living here since 1989. I grew up in Newton where we had one of the best Division 1 football teams in the state. Went to two Superbowls in my 3 years when I was at NNHS.

 

I like where I live but in no way does this town measure up to a City like Newton.

[cp176]

Well the Yankees of Mantle, Maris etc (let alone Ruth and Gehrig) were the Montreal Canadiens or Bryant's Alabama team. The championship race was effectively THEM and a few other teams. Of course you couldn't avoid it. But the 1970s and then the late 90s to now have been the only periods when the Sox and Yankees have been good at the same time.

 

At the risk of being banned from this forum, I have to say that I have never hated the Yankees - I just don't hate in general but my strong dislike of the franchise really seemed to take hold in 1960 (I was 9) and Bill Mazeroski's walk off in game 7 for the Pirates. I was elated! I felt the other end of that spectrum when my National favorite team the Giants fell to them. I think that it was McCovey's low liner that Richardson picked off his shoe tops that ended that series and broke my baseball heart. I could go back and check my facts, but I don't care that much about facts and advanced stats - although I did play the advanced version of Strato for quite some time. I just love the game and Richardson was a hell of a ballplayer and it didn't matter what uniform he was in.

[sk7326]

At the risk of being banned from this forum, I have to say that I have never hated the Yankees - I just don't hate in general but my strong dislike of the franchise really seemed to take hold in 1960 (I was 9) and Bill Mazeroski's walk off in game 7 for the Pirates. I was elated! I felt the other end of that spectrum when my National favorite team the Giants fell to them. I think that it was McCovey's low liner that Richardson picked off his shoe tops that ended that series and broke my baseball heart. I could go back and check my facts, but I don't care that much about facts and advanced stats - although I did play the advanced version of Strato for quite some time. I just love the game and Richardson was a hell of a ballplayer and it didn't matter what uniform he was in.

 

I've never hated the Yankees enough for their loss to offset the Red Sox not winning. Even 2003 was not comforting to see the Yankees lose the WS ...

[Kimmi]

I've never hated the Yankees enough for their loss to offset the Red Sox not winning. Even 2003 was not comforting to see the Yankees lose the WS ...

 

Does it offset the Red Sox not winning? No, but it sure offers a lot of consolation. My motto is "Anyone but the Yankees." If the Yankees would have won the World Series that year, that's just adding insult to injury. I think the only thing that got me through that long offseason was the Yankees not winning. For that, Josh Beckett has a lifetime pass with me.