Around The Horn

1967 was a memorable year, for anyone that was a Red Sox fan. By using RetroSheet you could follow the play by play of each game. Baseball avatars that looked just like Yaz and Tony C. and the rest would act out on the field exactly as it happened 40 years ago.

Avatars are video game characters that could be made to look anyway you want. The example I have is this production made by Curtis Jackson. Babe Ruth in this video looks just like he did when he was 23 years old, and playing in Boston.

The entire game would take 15 minutes showing all the action of every play. Newspaper accounts of each game would be read from either The Globe or Record American. Each show would last 30 minutes and the standings would be kept just like it was 40 years ago.

1967 was known as the great race. The Red Sox, Twins, Tigers, and White Sox all came down to the last weekend separated by less than 2 games.  Of all the teams Boston was the 100 to 1 long shot. 

The standings as of September 27 were:

                 W    L  PCT    GB
Twins       91   69 .569     -
Tigers      89   69 .563   1.0
Red Sox    90   70 .563   1.0
White Sox   89   70 .560   1.5

The games to be recreated:

April 12 Opening Day Fenway Longborg’s first victory

April 14 Billy Rohr

April 16 18 innings in NY

April 29 15 innings with Kansas City

May 30 Memorial Day Doubleheader, Rico executes a suicide squeeze

June 15, Tony C ends it in the 11

July 27 10 innings with Angels

July 29 twi-nighter with Minn

Aug 18 Tony C goes down

Aug 19 12-11 over Angels

Aug 20 9-8 after trailing 8-0

Aug 27 Elston Howard blocks the plate

Aug 29 NY Boston 20 innings

Aug 30 NY 11 innings

Sept 18  Dalton Jones Detroit

Sept 19 Yaz Detroit

Sept 30 Twins Yaz and Scott

Oct 1 Twins Longborg bunts

The 7 game World Series with St. Louis will be recreated by using RareSportsFiles: This is a 1 hour 42 minute highlight flim of the 1967 World Series that has been digitally enhanced. I as told that the quality of this is superior to anything that MLB now possess. It was sent to me yesterday.

Players like Rico and Longborg could be part of a NESN panel. The final show for this 1967 season would be the playing of the album by Ken Coleman, “The Impossible Dream.” The audio from that album will have pictures added to it, to bring back all the joy and drama, of that year that really was a dream, and until that year Red Sox fans thought it was impossible to happen to them.

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