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Post by iowafan on Nov 2, 2010 22:14:35 GMT -5
I had never heard of Ruben Gomez, but you educated me. I know about him now. The team I remember had Felipe Alou, and Orlando Cepeda. They also had Willie McCovey, and Matty Alou. For pitching the ones I remember are Sanford, and Gaylord Perry. They also had Don Larson who was pretty good. That was the 62 team when they went to the world series and lost. They had a good team, surprising they lost a tough one to the Yankees.
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Post by sadoug on Nov 3, 2010 11:12:55 GMT -5
surprising?...the surprise was that the Giants could keep it that close. The Yankees had one of the most powerful lineups in history. Bobby Richardson led off and got on base at a high rate.Next came Tony Kubeck who was no slouch. That set the table for Roger Maris...then Mickey Mantle...then the catcher de jour (Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, or John Blanchard...they totaled about 65 homers a year )..Get thru them and you get Joe Pepitone and Hector lopez...no slouches either.
Defensively, the Yankees were fabulous...Richardson and Kubeck were very good at their positions, and Clete Boyer was the defensive equal of Brooks Robinson even though he was a lite hitter...Mantle was the second best center fielder in the game at the time( nobody before or since was as good as Willie)..and Maris Played right extremely well....Pepitone was like a cat at first and Yogi and Howard were superb defensive catchers
Whitey Ford would pitch 3 games and he was the big game pitcher everyone would have loved to have.
and with all that the series went 7 gameswith the final out comming on a hard hit line drive with the bases loaded...
It still sends chills down my back. There were no losers that year.
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Post by iowafan on Nov 4, 2010 10:47:36 GMT -5
I knew the Yankees were good, but that is quite a lineup of talent on the Giants side also. I believe that McCovey was before his prime at that time. The pitching on San Fran appeared to be good too as their starters were all big winners. I remember Whitey Ford, and I was never as impressed with him as the National League pitchers at the time. I was young so I don't really remember why.
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Post by sadoug on Nov 6, 2010 8:52:02 GMT -5
all due respect...you might not have been impressed with him, but Whitey Ford was the one pitcher every manager in baseball at the time would have wanted to pitch THE big game for them.
He had the ability to always keep the hitter guessing. He won when they needed him to.
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Post by iowafan on Nov 10, 2010 15:50:46 GMT -5
I was 6 years old. I was impressed with Sandy Koufax, and Juan Marichal was pretty impressive. Whitey Ford had great stats, but my dad hated the Yankees and that may have colored my opinions. I believe you about Whitey Ford, his record shows it. Also he had a great hitting team to back him up.
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Post by sadoug on Nov 11, 2010 0:18:16 GMT -5
nobody has to appoligise for being impressed with Marischal and kofax.....they would be in anyone's rotation.
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Post by cangrejero on Nov 11, 2010 18:09:01 GMT -5
Ruben Gomez was 17 and 9 that year with a 2.88 ERA. He won a game in the WS, going 7.1 innings of 2 runs.
Ruben Gomez was the first pitcher to pitch as a SF Giants, before that it was NY Giants.
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