1963 09 16 Dodgers at Cardinals (Harry Caray and Jack Buck)

[@dhornjr1]

My dad, who passed away in 2010, was at this game. He told me many times about being at the game where Musial hit his last home run.

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

Maury Wills passed away himself just now--this past Tuesday. He was 89.

[@larryloveless2967]

I remember this so clearly even still today so many years later when I was only 9 years old listening to the game in STL on a transistor radio. The Cards were as hot as can be winning 19 out of 20 going in to this showdown with the first place Dodgers in STL. I remember crying in excitement with Harry Caray going crazy as it took Stan the Man to finally hit it out against Koufax to tie the game. Interesting is that the Cards came up short at 93-69 in 1963 yet were the same 93-69 in 1964 with Brock when they beat the Yankees in the world series. Broglio remembered for the Brock trade was the ace on the Cards in the early 1960s. A Dick Nen home run in a game a few nights later put the nail in to the Cards season a few nights later. They almost won it all in Stan's last year.

[@CapAnson12345]

The 63 Cardinals are one of the few teams to have three players with 200 hits the same season: Bill White (200), Dick Groat (201), and Curt Flood (200).

[@kennethfriedman-e7v]

Cannot go wrong with Harry Caray and Jack Buck

[@RachelPiper]

Any chance you have the July 14, 1964, meetup of these teams in St. Louis? Searching for personal reasons - my father was paged mid-game because his mother had died. He was actually listening to the game on the radio and was able to hear part of the page. We've been searching for a recording for years now. Thank you!

[@larryloveless2967]

Correction to the comment below. It was Podres pitching like he was Sandy Koufax against the Cards.

[@fatfreddyscat5767]

Fun Fact..Podres pitched the first game in Padres franchise history.

[@larryloveless2967]

@@fatfreddyscat5767 That is interesting. Thanks!

[@konstantinekindreich7848]

@@fatfreddyscat5767 Podres actually pitched and won the second game in San Diego Padres franchise history, not the first.

[@shermanpearson926]

I was almost two months old LoL 😂🤣🤣

[@maverick1956hk]

The Cardinals came into this game Red Hot, winning 19 of their last 20 including a current 10 game winning streak

[@terrihenricks4160]

That put them just one game behind the first-place Dodgers, who were "only" 14-7 during that streak. However, the Dodgers swept this series and went on to win the pennant. They then swept the Yankees four straight in the World Series.

[@djm.326]

maverick1956hk Great stuff. Thanks for posting. This was a little before my time but thats one helluva history lesson. Listened to the whole recording, great to hear my only ever Stan the Man homer...funny, his last one.

[@fatfreddyscat5767]

Harry Caray was actually a good announcer in his younger days. I always thought he was a drunken buffoon in Chicago.

[@garylobo348]

@@fatfreddyscat5767 He was both of those things, at those points in his career. A brilliant announcer in his younger days on radio in his home town of STL, and he was the life of the party on WGN in his golden years..

[@maverick1956hk]

@@fatfreddyscat5767 He was fine when he announced for the Whitesox. He always told it like it was, like a true fan! He sold his soul when he went to the Cubs and became a shamless shill for them. He was no longer a fan, he was always promoting that Cub propaganda!

[@williamdunphy352]

Harry Caray (PBP) & Jack Buck (C) 1-2/5-6/9 Buck (PBP) 3-4/7-8

[@rentslave]

This game was re-created by Howard Cosell on WABC as the Mets were off that night.

[@terrihenricks4160]

One reason for the national interest was that 1963 was going to be Stan Musial's final season. Many fans were hoping the Cardinals would win the pennant, giving Stan the Man an opportunity to play in one last World Series.

[@Max0017]

They did not call him Stan the Man for nothing.

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires HP Stan Landes 1B Ed Sudol 2B Tom Gorman (Crew Chief) 3B Al Forman

[@terrihenricks4160]

Ernie Broglio started this game for the Cardinals. He pitched well, although the Dodgers won. The following season, Broglio was famously traded to the Cubs for Lou Brock. The deal actually made sense for both teams at the time. The Cubs needed pitching (and Broglio had been a fine pitcher in St. Louis) while the Cardinals were willing to develop Brock's potential. Unfortunately, Broglio's career was soon over due to physical problems. If today's sports medicine had existed back then, the trade might not have seemed so one-sided (although the Cardinals would not have regretted acquiring Brock even if Broglio had multiple 20-win seasons in Chicago).

[@seangoodwin3046]

Broglio's arm was toast before the deal was made. They were shooting him up and never told the Cubs. A big reason why you have physicals before all trades is this deal. Cubs got a bad rap for something that was not really their fault.

[@terrihenricks4160]

1:30:05 Harry Caray calls Stan Musial's home run (number 475, the final one of Stan's career). It tied the game in the 7th inning and gave the Cardinals a chance. Jack Buck remarked about what a performance Stan had been putting on down the stretch in his final season.

[@garylobo348]

Just brilliant.

[@andrewm4564]

Stan the Man!

[@garylobo348]

No Koufax vs. Gibson, the two greatest pitchers of the 1960s?

[@maverick1956hk]

Yes, but lets not forget about Dean Chance also

[@maverick1956hk]

Yes, but lets not forget about Dean Chance

[@64yanks]

Dean Chance shut out the Yankees 3 times in 64 with another game in which he shut them out for 13 innings before losing in 14th

[@malcolmpusey9535]

Is this the Dick Nen game?