1967 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1967 throughout the world.
See also: 1967 Major League Baseball season and 1967 Nippon Professional Baseball seasonBaseball Hall of Fame
Most Valuable Player
Cy Young Award
Rookie of the Year
Gold Glove Award
January 12 – quits as president of the Atlanta Braves to become chief of staff to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert. McHale replaces Lee MacPhail, who was named general manager of the New York Yankees in October 1966.
John McHale
January 23 – Future Stan Musial is named general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, replacing Bob Howsam, who one day earlier took a similar position with the Cincinnati Reds. Musial will spend only one season as the Redbirds' GM, but it results in a World Series championship. Howsam will turn around the fortunes of the Reds into a 1970s dynasty as "The Big Red Machine," which will win four National League pennants and two World Series titles between 1970 and 1976.
Baseball Hall of Famer
January 29 – and Lloyd Waner are elected to the Hall of Fame by a unanimous vote of the Special Veterans Committee.
Branch Rickey
February 16 – is selected for the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America through a special runoff election, since no one received the required 75 percent vote in January.
Red Ruffing
January 3 –
Jimmy Rogers
January 4 –
Ted Wood
January 4 –
Clint Zavaras
January 5 –
Chris Nabholz
January 7 –
Rob Maurer
January 8 –
Matt Maysey
January 8 –
Randy Nosek
January 10 –
Kevin Baez
January 11 –
Nikco Riesgo
January 12 –
Mike Simms
January 14 –
Paul Fletcher
January 15 –
Bill Wertz
January 22 –
Kevin Higgins
January 26 –
Jeff Branson
January 26 –
Tim Pugh
January 1 – , 55, shortstop who appeared in 48 games for the 1937 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Lindsay Brown
January 4 – , 63, outfielder who appeared in 489 total games for the Cincinnati Reds (1929; 1931–1932; 1943–1944) and St. Louis Cardinals (1933; 1941–1942); stalwart member of 1930s Rochester Red Wings teams; elected to the International League Hall of Fame (1953).
Estel Crabtree
January 6 – , 49, pitcher who hurled in 379 career games for the Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox from 1939 through 1952; American League earned-run average champion (1947) and All-Star (1948); from 1953, a coach and executive with Washington and the Minnesota Twins; brother-in-law of Calvin Griffith.
Joe Haynes
January 6 – , 55, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals (July 6, 1961 through 1964) and New York Yankees (1965 to May 6, 1966) who won the 1964 World Series with the Cardinals, then joined the opposing Yankees immediately afterward; previously, longtime minor league infielder and manager before his promotion to Cardinals as a coach in 1959.
Johnny Keane
January 6 – , 80, catcher who appeared in five games for the New York Highlanders in 1910 and 1911.
Joe Walsh
January 13 – , 60, shortstop/third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators and Boston Red Sox (1929–1932, 1935–1937, 1939–1940) whose promising career was ruined by a severe leg wound suffered in a hunting accident that cost him the 1933–1934 seasons; his stellar play as starting shortstop for the champion 1931 Cardinals during the World Series helped St. Louis defeat the favored Philadelphia Athletics.
Charlie Gelbert
January 17 – , 80, pitcher who worked in one game for Boston of the National League on August 10, 1908.
Charlie Maloney
January 18 – , 45 or 48, legendary basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters who also was a first baseman/outfielder for Birmingham, Cincinnati and Indianapolis of the Negro American League between 1941 and 1948.
Goose Tatum
January 25 – , 82, outfielder in 80 games for the 1911–1912 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jud Daley
January 25 – , 86, catcher in 1,213 games over 14 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1905–1916, including 1909 world champions) and New York Giants (1917–1918); manager of Pirates (1920–1922 and 1932–1934) and interim pilot of Chicago Cubs (1925); one of the first Canadians to manage in MLB and elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.