{"id":4133,"date":"2025-10-05T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?page_id=4133"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:14:54","slug":"best-of-the-decades-tournament-1960s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?page_id=4133","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Decades Tournament &#8211; 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Stats\/leaguemain.htm\">Stats<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LATEST GAME<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4636\">1961 New York Yankees Clinch 1960s World Series<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60sWorldSeriesYankees-300x216.png?resize=300%2C216&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4637\" style=\"width:480px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60sWorldSeriesYankees.png?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60sWorldSeriesYankees.png?resize=128%2C92&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60sWorldSeriesYankees.png?resize=32%2C23&amp;ssl=1 32w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60sWorldSeriesYankees.png?w=693&amp;ssl=1 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1961 New York Yankees used their relentless offense to top the 1962 San Francisco Giants 7-3, clinching the Best of the 1960s World Series in 5 games. Through 6 innings, the ending was in question as fans watched a pitcher&#8217;s duel between Whitey Ford and Billy O&#8217;Dell. Roger Maris hit an RBI single in the 3rd, but the Yankees grounded into 3 double-plays, erasing other opportunities. Ford held the Giants to 4 hits before Willie Mays hit an RBI double in the 6th to tie the game 1-1. New York finally broke through in the 7th with back-to-back 2-out RBI base hits from Bobby Richardson and Tony Kubek. Bob Cerv hit a 2-run homer in a 3-run 8th off Bobby Bolin to signal the end for the Giants. Yogi Berra added an insurance run with an RBI single in the 9th, putting the Yankees up 7-1, with 6 of those runs scored in the final 3 innings. Willie McCovey and Orlando Cepeda hit back-to-back homers to lead off the 9th to end Ford&#8217;s night, but Luis Arroyo retired the next three batters to end any comeback hopes. While skewed by a massive Game 3, the Yankees had a World Series team batting average of .330, compared to .257 for the Giants, out homering San Francisco 12-10 and outscoring them 39-23. The &#8217;61 Yankees become the 1st Yankees team to win a Best of the Decades Tournament, after the 1939 and 1998 Yankees failed to make the World Series in those decades, despite being a #1 seed. The Best of the Best Tournament is now guaranteed to have a Yankees representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/10-20-2025_NYY_SFG.png\">&#8217;61 Yankees @ &#8217;62 Giants &#8211; 10\/20\/25<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"653\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69-1024x576.png?resize=653%2C367&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?resize=128%2C72&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?resize=32%2C18&amp;ssl=1 32w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?w=1696&amp;ssl=1 1696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Best-of-the-Decades-1960s69.png?w=1306 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Best%20of%20the%20Decades%20-%201960s.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Click Here to View Enlarged Bracket\">Click Here to View Enlarged Bracket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST GAME Click Here to View Enlarged Bracket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}