The Red Sox also made two major acquisitions down the stretch. In spring training, he had called George Scott "fat". Williams was a stern disciplinarian and enacted a get tough policy.
Previously, he had coached the Red Sox' farm club in Toronto. In 1967, Dick Williams became the manager of the Red Sox. They re-invented baseball in New England." Jerry Remy (current Red Sox television broadcaster for NESN) is quoted as saying, "1967 created the Red Sox craze and Red Sox Nation we have today. The 1967 season set a Fenway Park record and the Sox finished first in the league in home attendance (1,727,832). For instance, in 1966, the Red Sox ranked eighth out of ten American League teams in home attendance (811,172). Every aspect of Boston baseball was transformed at the hands of this club. Regular season īoston historians consider the 1967 Red Sox season as the "re-invention" of Boston Red Sox baseball. Low expectations for the season were demonstrated by the measly 8,324 fans who attended Opening Day, which about matched their average attendance throughout the 1960s. In addition, the team posted ninth-place finishes in 19. Two years earlier, the Red Sox had finished the 1965 season with 100 losses. They had had losing seasons for each of the previous eight years. The Red Sox entered the 1967 season as "doormats" of the American League, with low expectations, low attendance to begin the season, and little known talent outside of team captain Carl Yastrzemski.
#RED SOX GAME TODAY FREE#
#RED SOX GAME TODAY SERIES#
Often referred to as " The Impossible Dream", this was the team's first winning season since 1958, as the Red Sox shocked all of New England and the rest of the baseball world by reaching the World Series for the first time since 1946. Red Sox left fielder Carl Yastrzemski won the Triple Crown, leading the AL in home runs (44), runs batted in (121), and batting average (.326). The regular season had one of the most memorable finishes in baseball history, as the AL pennant race went to the last game, with the Red Sox finishing one game ahead of both the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins in the final AL standings.
Louis Cardinals in the 1967 World Series, which the Red Sox lost in seven games. The team then faced the National League champion St. The Red Sox finished first in the American League (AL) with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses. The 1967 Boston Red Sox season was the 67th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history.