The 1966 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1966 season. The 63rd edition of the World Series,it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Orioles swept the series in four games to capture their first championship in franchise history. It was the last World Series played before MLB introduced the Commissioner's Trophy the following year. The Dodgers suffered record low scoring,accumulating just two runs over the course of the series,the lowest number of runs ever scored by any team in a World Series.
Philip Ramond Regan is an American former professional baseball pitcher,scout,and manager,who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers,Los Angeles Dodgers,Chicago Cubs,and Chicago White Sox;he also managed the Baltimore Orioles. Regan served as the pitching coach for the New York Mets for part of the 2019 season.
Roger Alan McDowell is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1985 to 1996. He played for the New York Mets,Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League and the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles of the American League. McDowell was a key component in the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets and was the winning pitcher in the deciding Game 7. His major league record of decisions was 70 wins and 70 losses. McDowell served as the Atlanta Braves pitching coach from 2006 to 2016. McDowell's family is of Scottish descent.
Myron Walter Drabowsky was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs,Milwaukee Braves,Cincinnati Reds,Kansas City Athletics,Baltimore Orioles,Kansas City Royals,St. Louis Cardinals,and Chicago White Sox. A noted practical joker,Drabowsky engaged in such antics as leaving snakes in teammates' lockers or phoning the opposing team's bullpen to tell a pitcher to warm up. He batted and threw right-handed.
Russell Charles Meyer was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher,Meyer's professional career lasted for 16 seasons,including 319 games pitched over all or part of 13 years in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs,Philadelphia Phillies (1949–52),Brooklyn Dodgers (1953–55),Cincinnati Redlegs (1956),Boston Red Sox (1957) and Kansas City Athletics (1959). The native of Peru,Illinois,was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg). His hot temper earned him the nickname "Mad Monk".
Eddie Gene Fisher is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher with the San Francisco Giants,Chicago White Sox,Baltimore Orioles,Cleveland Indians,California Angels and St. Louis Cardinals between 1959 and 1973. He batted and threw right-handed.
Timothy Paul Stoddard is an American former professional baseball pitcher. A right-handed pitcher,he played for six different teams in Major League Baseball between 1975 and 1989,and was a member of the 1983 Baltimore Orioles championship team. He is currently the pitching coach for the baseball team at North Central College. Stoddard is one of only two men to have played in both a World Series and a Final Four of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship,along with fellow East Chicago Washington High School alumnus Kenny Lofton.
Darold Duane Knowles is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach,who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 through 1980,most notably as a member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974. In the 1973 World Series,Knowles became the first pitcher to appear in all seven games of a World Series. He also played for the Baltimore Orioles,Philadelphia Phillies,Washington Senators / Texas Rangers,Chicago Cubs,Montreal Expos,and St. Louis Cardinals. Knowles batted and threw left-handed. In 2014,he was hired as the pitching coach of the Florida State League's Dunedin Blue Jays.
Peter Gerard Richert is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers,Washington Senators (1965–67),Baltimore Orioles (1967–71),St. Louis Cardinals (1974) and Philadelphia Phillies (1974).
Richard Wallace Hall was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 669 games over 19 seasons in Major League Baseball,first as an outfielder,then as a pitcher,from 1952 through 1957 and from 1959 through 1971. Hall is best known as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1966 and 1971. He also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates,Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies. The 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m),200 lb (91 kg) Hall batted and threw right-handed. He earned the nickname "Turkey" due to his unusual pitching motion.
Robert Lane Miller was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1957 to 1974. Miller played for three World Series champions:the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers,1965 Los Angeles Dodgers and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates—five league champions and four division winners,as well as for four teams that lost 100 or more games in a season.
Kenneth Darrell Rowe was an American professional baseball player and coach whose career spanned 60 seasons. The native of Ferndale,Michigan,was a veteran of minor league baseball who appeared in 26 games over parts of three Major League seasons as a middle-relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1963) and Baltimore Orioles (1964–1965). He also spent all but two seasons of his coaching career in the minors;the exceptions came in 1985 and 1986 when he was the big-league pitching coach of the Orioles under managers Joe Altobelli and Earl Weaver.
Robert Howard Chipman was an American professional baseball player,a left-handed pitcher who spent all or parts of a dozen seasons in the Major League Baseball from 1941 to 1952 for the Brooklyn Dodgers,Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves. The Brooklyn native stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg).
The 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers led the National League for much of the season,holding a 13-game lead as late as August. However,a late season swoon and a hot streak by the New York Giants led to a classic three-game playoff series. Bobby Thomson's dramatic ninth-inning home run off Dodger reliever Ralph Branca in the final game of a tie-breaker series won the pennant for the Giants and was immortalized as the Shot Heard 'Round the World.
The 1962 Houston Colt .45s were an expansion team in American Major League Baseball's National League,and 1962 was the first season in franchise history. Harry Craft was Houston's first manager. The .45s finished eighth among the National League's ten teams with a record of 64–96,36+1⁄2 games behind the league champion San Francisco Giants.
John Charles Anderson was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in 24 games during parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball between 1958 and 1962 for the Philadelphia Phillies,Baltimore Orioles,St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Colt .45s. His professional career spanned 472 games and 16 seasons,from 1952 to 1967,most of which were spent in the minor leagues.
William Taylor Phillips,nicknamed "T-Bone",is an American former professional baseball left-handed pitcher,who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Braves,Chicago Cubs,Philadelphia Phillies,and Chicago White Sox,from 1956–60 and 1963. During his playing days,Phillips stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall,weighing 185 pounds (84 kg).
Jeffrey Theodore Schneider is an American former professional baseball player. He appeared in 11 Major League games as a relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in 1981. A switch hitter who threw left-handed,Schneider stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg). He is perhaps best remembered for appearing on Cal Ripken Jr.'s 1982 Topps rookie card.
Garrett J. Cleavinger is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers.
The 1983 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1983 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
