The Yankees of 1967 were on the cusp of a downslide that would not end until George Steinbrenner took matters into his hands by signing Jim “Catfish” Hunter and Reggie Jackson to a team that would win back to back championships a decade later.
Yankees fans will recall 1967 as the year in which only fading glimpses of Mickey Mantle remained, and names like Fritz Peterson and Al Downing formed the foundation of the team’s starting staff. The Baseball Almanac box score for that game, an 11-7 loss to the Tigers, fills in the rest of the inglorious names on the team that season.