UL Founder’s Cup
   

 

Group Stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

1962
Founder’s Cup



Host:

Dallas

Winner:
Washington

Louisville and Cleveland won their groups with perfect 5-0 records.  Louisville won two of its games in the last inning, edging Boston 5-4 on Hank Aaron's 11th inning home run and toppling Washington on Al Kaline's game-winning RBI double in the ninth in their fourth game.

Cleveland’s Earl Francis shone in a pair of wins, holding Manhattan to four hits in a 2-1 win in game two, and blanking San Francisco with a one-hit shutout.

In Group A, hosts Dallas won their last two games, including a 13-3 whitewashing of Los Angeles, to advance, and Washington used a three-run homer by Ron Hansen to finish ahead of Boston for the final QF spot.

 

In Group B, the Chicago Colts crashed out after losing their first four games.  St. Louis routed Chicago 13-2 and Manhattan 13-3 to finish second, and San Francisco qualified despite going 2-3 after losing its last three games.

Washington 8, Cleveland 4
Rookie Jim Hickman doubled twice, driving in three runs, and Willie Mays added an insurance three-run homer.  Stu Miller struck out 12 Barons and allowed just three earned runs in 8.1 innings.

Louisville 9, San Francisco 3
Willie Jones was 3-for-4 with a homer, and pitcher Tom Gorman helped his own cause with three hits and two RBIs as the Colonels rolled.
 
Brooklyn 6, Manhattan 5
The Superbas rallied from a 5-2 deficit and won the game in the ninth inning on an RBI single by Mickey Mantle.  Bas' starter Whitey Ford held the Gray Sox to just four hits.

St. Louis 6, Dallas 5
A balanced St Louis offense tapped Dallas starter Art Ceccarelli for six runs in the first four innings, and never looked back.  Roger Maris and Earl Averill homered.


 

Washington 3, St. Louis 0
Art Houtteman turned in his best performance of the year, shutting out St. Louis on three hits.  The Monuments scored a run in each of the first three innings.  Dick Howser scored from second on Roger Maris' throwing error in the first, Norm Larker doubled in Minnie Minoso in the second, and Jim Hickman hit a leadoff homer in the third.

Louisville 6, Brooklyn 5
The Colonels touched three-time Cy Young winner Gene Conley for 10 hits and six runs, and took advantage of three costly errors to topple the Superbas 6-5.  Harry Anderson doubled twice, driving in a pair, and Johnny Antonelli struck out 10 en route to his 15th win and first in three tournament starts.

Washington Wins the Cup
Colonels Arrested by Larsen, Blanchard's Arm
Washington 3, Louisville 2
Don Larsen bent, but he didn't break.  The Washington righthander allowed 10 hits and a walk, but took a shutout into the ninth and held on for a 3-2 win, as the Monuments captured the inaugural Founder's Cup.  The Mons went ahead in the bottom of the third.  Dick Howser reached on Al Kaline's error, then scored on Willie Mays single down the left field line.  Louisville starter Herm Wehmeier held the score to 1-0 until the sixth, when Washington plated a pair of runs on back-to-back two-out singles by Larsen and Howser.  Larsen took the 3-0 lead into the ninth, but beaned Willie Jones with one out, igniting a Colonel rally.  Semifinal hero Harry Anderson delivered a pinch hit single, and Ashburn followed with a single, only to see Puddin' Head gunned at the plate by Johnny Blanchard's rifle throw from right field.  Pinch hitter Ed Bailey next tripled, scoring two runs instead of three.  Larsen was relieved for closer Bob Chakeles, who got Hank Aaron to fly out to right-center for the final out.

Washington adds the Founder's Cup to its already crowded trophy case at Griffith Stadium.  The Monuments own four UL championships from 1952, 1953, 1954, and 1956.

MVP: Don Larsen

 

 

Group Stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

1963
Founder’s Cup



Host:

Cleveland

Winner:
Boston

Washington catcher Johnny Romano hit five homers in three days, sparking the Monuments offense and leading the defending Founder's Cup champions to the top of Group A.  Johnny Antonelli tossed a four-hit shutout in a 7-0 Boston win over Louisville to top Group B.

In Group A, Whitey Ford’s 14-striketout, five-hit shutout of Los Angeles helped the Superbas finish second.  The Outlaws won their first two games in the ninth inning with a Hector Lopez home run in a 3-2 win over Manhattan and a Bill Sarni game-winner in a 4-3 win over Cleveland.  Manhattan started 0-2 but won their next three with a Willie Tasby game-winning pinch hit in a 4-3 win over Brooklyn, and gems by Johnny Podres and Bob Anderson in 6-0 and 5-1 wins.

In Group B, Dallas qualified on the final day with a 9-3 rout of Chicago, as did San Francisco, who knocked out St. Louis with a 7-4 win.  The Colts backed into the quarterfinals with two losses after a 3-0 start.  Tom Sturdivant shut out Boston 1-0 with a five-hitter in the decisive third win.

Boston 6, Los Angeles 5
The Federals turned back a 3-0 deficit with a five-run sixth inning and never looked back.  Eddie Bressoud drove in 3 runs, including a 2-run double in the 6th, and Chris Short allowed just 3 hits in 6 innings.

Brooklyn 3, Chicago 0
A rematch of the last two World Series produced a familiar result, as Gene Conley anchored a 4-hit shutout en route to his 15th win.  Jim Gentile homered and Sandy Amoros was 2-for-2.

San Fran. 3, Washington 2
Harmon Killebrew's solo homer in the 8th broke a 2-2 tie, as "Fat Jack" Fisher (215 pounds) held the defending Founder's Cup champs to 2 runs, despite allowing 10 hits and 4 walks.
 
Manhattan 4, Dallas 0 (11)
Last year's expansion teams battled for 10 scoreless innings, as Manhattan's Jim O'Toole pitched 8.2 innings of shutout ball, before the Sox blew the game open with four runs in the top of the 11th.
 

Boston 3, Manhattan 1
Bob Friend and Stan Williams took a 1-1 duel to the seventh, when Bill Freehan broke the game open with a two-run homer.  Williams allowed just four hits in a complete game effort, but two of them were home runs, and the Gray Sox offense failed to convert numerous scoring  chances, plating a single run while leaving eight men on base.  Friend allowed 8 hits and just one unearned run, notching his 14th win and booking Boston a place in the Founder's Cup final.

Brooklyn 5, San Francisco 1
Mickey Mantle doubled and homered, driving in three runs, and Lew Burdette outpitched Jack Kralick, as Brooklyn handily beat San Francisco 5-1.  The Superbas jumped to an early lead on Felix Mantilla's 2-run single with two outs in the first, made it three with Mantle's homer in the third, and added two more on his ninth inning double.  Rocky Colavito homered in the sixth for the Spiders' only run and Kralick took the loss, allowing 9 hits and 3 runs in 7 innings.

 

 

Federals Lift the Cup
Antonelli Tosses 23.2 Shutout Innings
Boston 4, Brooklyn 0
Less than a month after joining the Boston Federals after nearly a decade with the Louisville Colonels, Johnny Antonelli led his new team to its first hardware.  Antonelli did not allow a single earned run in three Founder's Cup starts, including a four-hit shutout of his former club in the last game of the group stage.  The Feds took an early lead on cleanup hitter Bob Allison's 2-run single, and doubled their lead in the ninth on back-to-back doubles by pinch hitter Manny Jimenez and Bobby Brown, who was 4-for-4. 

After going 3-2 in group play, Boston staged a come-from-behind win to edge Los Angeles 6-5 in the quarterfinals, then knocked out Manhattan in the semifinals with Bill Freehan's eighth inning home run.

The Federals are currently in second place in the East Division, with a 45-42 record, and are vying for their first winning season since 1956.  Shawn Martin took control of the then New York Gothams in 1957 after the brief interim management of Jackie Robinson and since his first full season in 1958 he has improved the club's record every season except last year, the franchise's second year in Fenway Park.

MVP: Johnny Antonelli

 

Group Stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

1964
Founder’s Cup



Host:

Los Angeles

Winner:
Manhattan

Colts, Bas Top Groups Behind Demeter, Hamner
A four-time MVP and a nearly emerging star led their teams atop their groups.  Chicago and Brooklyn were both 4-1 in group play, earning the top seeds in the single-elimination second round. The Colts’ Don Demeter (.300-18-58) homered in the ninth to win the Colts' first game, and drove in three runs and homered again against St. Louis.  Overall, the 29-year old center fielder hit .368 (7-19) with 2 HR and 6 RBI in five games.  Other qualifiers from Group A were Dallas, St. Louis, and Cleveland.  The Texans advanced in dramatic fashion on Boog Powell's 14th inning home run in their final game.

In Group B it was all Brooklyn, led by 4-time MVP Granny Hamner, who hit .526 (10-19) with 12 RBI.  The Bas outscored their opponents 44-6 in four wins, before losing 2-1 to Los Angeles in their last game.  Manhattan was also 4-1, as Wehmeier, Anderson, and Chance had solid outings.  Boston (2-3) backed into third place with three straight losses, and Los Angeles grabbed the final spot with Hector Lopez' game-winning single in the 9th in a 2-1 win over Brooklyn.

Manhattan 9, St. Louis 8
Joe Torre homered twice and drove in four runs against his former team.  Four RBIs by Roger Maris and three more by Bill Skowron were not enough, as Bill Monbouquette and Arnold Earley blew an 8-3 lead.

Boston 6, Dallas 5
Orlando Cepeda's three-run blast off Gaylord Perry in the ninth capped a six-run comeback after Dallas built a 5-0 lead.

Chicago 8, Los Angeles 0
Don Demeter's three-run homer off Ken Johnson in the first inning set the tone, as the Colts rolled to an 8-0 win behind Ray Herbert's five-hit shutout.

Brooklyn 11, Cleveland 9 (11)
The Barons tapped Duke Maas for four runs, rallied to tie the game 7-7, and took a 9-7 lead in the 11th, but Terry Fox surrendered four runs without getting an out in the bottom of the 11th, including Del Crandall's walk-off homer.
 

 

Manhattan 5, Brooklyn 4 (10)
Manhattan rallied with runs in the eighth and tenth to edge Brooklyn and advance to their first Founder’s Cup Final. Bobby Richardson and Jimmie Hall doubled off Lew Burdette in the seventh to tie the game, and Richardson and Torre doubled in the 10th to score the go-ahead run, as the Gray Sox handed Burdette just his fourth loss in 21 starts. 

Boston 1, Chicago 0
Bob Friend topped Billy Pierce in a classic pitcher's duel, as Boston reached the Founder’s Cup Final for the second year in a row.  Friend tossed a four-hit shutout, striking out seven, for his 10th win and second shutout of the year.  For his part, Pierce allowed just three hits, but walked two, and allowed the game's only run on Bob Allison's solo homer in the fifth.  Friend also won last year's semifinal, beating Manhattan 3-1.




 

Gray Sox Win Founders Cup
Anderson Foils Feds' Repeat Bid
Manhattan  5, Boston 2
Bobby Anderson (7-7, 3.47) held Boston to one run in seven innings and five different Gray Sox drove in runs, as Manhattan won its first Founder’s Cup tournament 5-2 at Arroyo Seco Stadium.  The Sox used three doubles and a single to plate three runs off Chris Short in the third, and added a pair an inning later on a triple by Luis Aparicio and an RBI groundout by Bobby Richardson.  The Federals scratched back runs in the fourth and the eighth, the latter on a Gene Freese solo job, but could never sustain a rally long enough to score in bunches.

Anderson was 2-0 in the tournament, with a 0.64 ERA, and Joe Torre led the offense, hitting .321-3-12 with a 1.174 OPS in 8 games.  The Gray Sox are the third different team to win the tournament in as many years.

MVP: Bobby Anderson

 

 

Group Stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

1965
Founder’s Cup



Host:

Washington

Winner:
Chicago

Last Place Griffins Unbeaten in Group Stage With 2 Ramos CGs
Spiders Top Group A, Superbas Out
Cellar-dwelling Detroit ran the table in Group B with five straight wins.  Pedro Ramos hurled CG wins over Cleveland and Manhattan, allowing just one earned run, and Koufax beat Atlanta for his 3rd win in 18 GS.  Detroit finished one win ahead of the Barons, who won four straight after their loss to the Griffins.  Elsewhere in Group B, Atlanta advanced with an 8-5 win over Boston, and the unimpressive Colts (2-3) eked in by run differential.
     San Francisco topped Group A, edging Brooklyn 4-3 in their opener, and downing Los Angeles and Dallas with late heroics by Fred Whitfield and Willie McCovey.  The Mons took second, blowing out Brooklyn 14-1 with a 14-strikeout complete game by ex-Ba Whitey Ford.  Dallas qualified with a 5-4 win over Brooklyn on "Clank" Blefary's first UL homer, while St. Louis backed into fourth with two losses.

     The biggest disappointments were Boston and Brooklyn, who landed in last place.  Boston, Cup winners in 1963, failed to muster a single win, while the Bas lost their first four, including a 14-1 loss to the hosts.

Chicago 6, San Francisco 3
Bud Daley gave up three in the first, but the Colts got a pair off Jack Kralick in the third on doubles by "Iddy Biddy" Buck Rodgers and Ernie Banks, and went ahead with a three-run fifth.  Daley combined with Chet Nichols to toss eight shutout innings.
 
Cleveland 3, Dallas 2 (12)
A Harvey Kuenn sac fly scored Chris Hinton in the bottom of the 12th, breaking a 2-2 tie and sending the Barons to the semifinals. Earl Francis battled Art Ceccarelli through seven innings, and Dallas’ Norm Siebern was 4-for-5.

Atlanta 11, Washington 6
Johnny Antonelli fell apart and suffered his 11th loss, allowing five runs in the sixth to break open a 3-2 game.  Three Toppers homered and Dick Stuart and Jim Ray Hart each had three hits.
 
Detroit 7, St. Louis 4
Joey Jay pitched two-hit ball for seven innings and the Griffss used five straight singles to plate four runs in the ninth to bury St. Louis.

Chicago 15, Atlanta 5
The Colts scored in every inning but one, and batted around in the seven-run eighth inning, burying the Toppers with a 19-hit barrage.  Joe Adcock doubled twice, driving in three, and Ernie Banks and starting pitcher Don Drysdale each had three hits.  Atlanta pulled within three in the eighth.  But the circus came to town in the bottom half, with Jim O'Toole and Bob Trowbridge playing the role of carousel operators, allowing eight hits and an intentional walk.

Cleveland 10, Detroit 4
Gus Bell's three-run homer keyed a six-run third, as the Barons build a 7-1 lead to chase Bob Gibson.  Ron Fairly was 4-for-5, Harvey Kuenn homered, and Arnie Portocarrero cruised to his second straight win since joining the rotation July 3, setting up a possible World Series preview between the Barons and Colts.  Frank Howard was 3-for-4 and homered, as the Griffs' six-game Founders' Cup win streak came to an end.

Iddy Biddy, Buck!  Colts Lift the Cup
Rodgers Delivers Clutch Hit, Podres Smoked
Chicago 6, Cleveland 2
Catcher Buck Rodgers doubled to the right-center field gap, scoring Don Demeter and Willie Jones to break open a tight pitchers’ duel and send the Chicago Colts on their way to a 6-2 win over Cleveland and their first Founders' Cup trophy. Tom "Smoke" Sturdivant allowed 10 hits and four walks, but repeatedly pitched out of jams as the Barons left 23 men on base.  Johnny Podres allowed just one earned run (three total), but suffered his fourth loss in 23 starts.

Chicago opened the scoring with Bob Allison's solo jack in the third, but the Lakesiders strung together four straight hits, including Johnny Roseboro's bunt single, to capture the lead.  The score held at 2-1 until the top of the sixth, when Demeter and Jones delivered back-to-back two-out RBI singles to recapture the lead for the Colts.

Another error would figure prominently in the breakout eighth inning.  With the score still 3-2, Adcock hit a leadoff double off reliever Terry Fox.  Banks was intentionally walked and Don Demeter hit into a fielders choice.  With runners on the corners and one out, Willie Jones laid down a sac bunt.  Roseboro pounced on the ball, wheeled, and fired the ball over first baseman Ron Fairly's head into right field, allowing Adcock to score.  On the next at-bat, Rodgers doubled to give Chicago an insurmountable lead.

MVP: Buck Rodgers

 

Group Stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

1966
Founder’s Cup



Host:

St. Louis

Winner:
Brooklyn

Outlaws Sweep Group
Monuments Win Group B; Colts Crash Out
Los Angeles won all five group games to top Group A, giving up just two runs in their last four games behind stellar outings by Steve Hargan, Johnny Antonelli, Fritz Peterson, and Larry Dierker.  Brooklyn was 4-1, as Jim Gentile hit three home runs in wins over Dallas and St. Louis.  St. Louis rallied from an 0-3 start to finish third, scoring 23 runs in their last two games, and Dallas eked in with a pair of narrow wins. Boog Powell homered twice in a 7-5 win over the Maroons.

 

In Group B, Washington and Cleveland each won four of five, but the Mons posted the best run-differential to win the group.  The Mons also handed the Barons their only loss, a 9-2 blowout courtesy of two Ron Santo homers.  The Spiders routed Atlanta 12-1 and advanced despite losing their last two. The Griffins’ prospects looked dim after a 1-2 start, but won 8-6 over San Francisco in an error-field 13-inning affair and 4-3 over Atlanta thanks to a late homer by Joe Cunningham.

The most notable absence from the final eight was last year's winners Chicago, who were shut out twice and only managed one win.

Brooklyn 2, Detroit 1
Gene Conley anchored a combined seven-hitter, striking out nine.  Back-to-back doubles by Ted Lepcio and Dick McAuliffe put the Bas ahead in the first and they took the lead for good in the third on Lepcio's solo homer.

Washington 6, Dallas 5 (10)
Charlie Maxwell capped a dramatic rally with a game-winning single off Ray Crone in the bottom of the 10th.  Romano and Howser had three hits, and Marv Throne-berry homered for Dallas.

Los Angeles 6, San Fran 3
The Outlaws turned back a 3-0 deficit with a four-run fifth and added insurance runs in the seventh and eighth.  Luis Tiant had a shutout until the wheels fell off in the fifth.

St. Louis 4, Cleveland 3
Bob Shaw nearly blew a 4-0 lead, but Billy O'Dell and Bob Locker stemmed the tide, as St. Louis held on for a 4-3 win in their home ballpark.  Roger Maris homered in the third and fifth, and Tony Perez homered in the seventh.

Brooklyn 5, Los Angeles 0
Johnny Kucks ended L.A.'s six-game winning streak emphatically, shutout out the Outlaws 5-0 on six hits.  Lepcio was 3-for-5 and homered again, driving in three runs, and Mickey Mantle homered.  Brooklyn's only loss in the group stage was a 2-0 setback in Fritz Peterson's shutout.  Brooklyn advanced to the FC Final for the second time; they lost to the Boston Federals in the second Founder's Cup final in Cleveland in 1963.

Washington 5, St. Louis 4
Washington won on the last at-bat for the second game in a row, manufacturing a run off Billy O'Dell in the bottom of the ninth.  Dick Howser reached on an infield hit, got to second on Charlie Maxwell's sac bunt, stole third, then scored on Willie Mays' sac fly to right.  Rick Wise went the distance, despite allowing 13 hits (but no walks).  Mays drove in a pair without getting a hit.  Jim Fregosi was 3-for-4 with a double and 3 RBIs.   Washington is making its first appearance in the FC final since it won the inaugural cup in Dallas in 1962.

Superbas Lift Cup, Then Streak to First
Brooklyn Pulls Ahead With Seven Straight Wins
Brooklyn 8, Washington 7
The Brooklyn Superbas won their first Founder's Cup in a thriller.  The Final was a battle of the two most successful clubs in league history.  Brooklyn and Washington either won the league or appeared in the World Series in 13 straight years from 1952 to 1965 -- a run that only ended last year, when Chicago won their first UL title.  The final was a dual reminder that Brooklyn remains a force to be reckoned with, and that Washington has returned to the league's elite, after several seasons in the wilderness.

The game was a see-saw battle with several lead changes.  Brooklyn struck first in the second inning, but immediately fell behind when the Monuments scored twice on a groundout and a wild pitch.  Dick McAuliffe and Frank Robinson traded sac flies in the third, and the Monuments built a 4-2 lead with Ron Santo's leadoff homer in the fourth.  Santo homered in all five games in the group stage.  The Superbas grabbed the lead in the fifth when Don Drysdale got a little wild, giving up three runs on three singles and two walks, then chased the 29-year-old righthander after McAuliffe launched a three-run homer to make it 8-4.  Washington clawed back valiantly -- Mike de la Hoz singled home Willie Kirkland in the seventh, and Willie Mays and Kirkland drove in runs in the eighth -- but rookie closer Dennis Higgins shut the door, and Brooklyn celebrated its first Founder's Cup title and its first hardware in the Rick Magar era.

MVP: Dick McAuliffe

 

Group Stage

Semifinals

Semifinals

Final

1967
Founder’s Cup



Host:

Manhattan

Winner:

In the first tournament with the new format that excludes defending pennant winners, Los Angeles won all four games to top Group B.  Frank Robinson’s three-run homer in the first inning against St. Louis set the tone.  Robinson added four RBIs in a 13-2 blowout of Washington in game two, Hank Aaron was 4-5 in a 7-6 nailbiter against Cleveland, and Larry Dierker shut out Dallas on three hits.  Cleveland took second place with a narrow 2-1 win over St. Louis in the last game.  Both teams were 2-1 and could advance win a win, but Johnny Podres’ three-hitter bested Don Sutton’s five-hitter.

In Group A, Bob Gibson and Bill “Froggy” Hands led Detroit to two 2-1 wins, and the Griffins staved off a late rally to beat San Francisco 7-6.  Manhattan took second with three straight wins after losing their opener.  Three-run homers by Rico Carty and Pete Ward gave the Sox wins over the Spiders and Federals, and Joe Torre’s 4-5 lead a 14-hit barrage in a 7-3 win over Atlanta.  Boston and Atlanta both collapsed after winning their first two games, and San Francisco joined Washington as the only winless teams in the group stage.

Los Angeles 3, Manhattan 0
Johnny Antonelli notched his third shutout of the year, and 50th of his career, blanking the hosting Manhattan Gray Sox 3-0 to advance the Los Angeles Outlaws to their first Founder's Cup final.  The 37-year-old southpaw was stellar, striking out 12 and walking just two en route to his 10th win.  Frank Robinson's two-run blast off Bob Anderson in the first was all Johnny needed to win with.  Anderson settled down and kept the Sox close through five innings, but lost control in the sixth, giving up two walks, a single, and an error to let in a third run.  Hank Aaron had three hits and scored twice.  Anderson has just one win and three losses in his last eight starts.  Sophomore Fritz Peterson (8-4, 2.99), 25, is on tap to pitch the final against either Cleveland or Detroit.

Detroit 4, Cleveland 3 (10)
The Detroit Griffins spoiled the script by coming back from 3-1 behind to upset the East-leading Barons and win a place in the sixth Founder's Cup final.  Cleveland struck first on RBI singles by Johnny Roseboro and Curt Flood in the second.  Detroit's Eddie Bressoud halved the lead with a third inning sac fly, but Roseboro scored on a Jim Busby groundout two innings later. 
    Earl Francis, one of the league's hottest pitchers, with a 11-2 record, 2.19 ERA, and a four-game win streak, had control problems in the fifth, allowing a hit and three walks to bring home Cesar Tovar.  Francis faced the minimum in the sixth and seventh, but Jim Cunningham's leadoff homer tied the game in the bottom of the eighth.
     With the game tied 3-3 in the top of the tenth, Detroit's rookie reliever Dave Giusti, inducing a critical double-play ball with two on and no outs after issuing two walks.  But Bressoud and Jimmy Piersall hit back-to-back doubles to put the finishing touches on the Detroit rally.

Froggy Claps His Hands
Detroit Wins First Cup
Detroit 7, Los Angeles 1
The Detroit Griffins won their first UL hardware today, defeating the Los Angeles Outlaws 7-1 to capture the sixth Founder's Cup and the inaugural $3 million in prize money.  Bill "Froggy" Hands was the man of the hour, pitching a five-hit complete game and contributing a two-run homer off Fritz Peterson.  The two pitchers were both first-round picks in the 1966 draft, Peterson going sixth, and Hands going eighth overall.  Peterson has been the better pitcher this year (8-4, 2.84 vs Froggy's 5-8, 4.05), but Hands was one of the top pitchers of the tournament, beating Atlanta 2-1 with a six-hit CG, and going the distance again in the final.
     Detroit took the lead in the first with RBI singles by sluggers Dick Allen and Frank Howard.  Center fielder Cesar Tovar hit a two-out, two-run single to double the lead in the third, and his two-out triple in the sixth set up Hands' homer, which made it 6-0.  Hands took a three-hitter into the bottom of the sixth, when he gave up a 444-foot Bill White launch.  Lee Walls singled home Eddie Bressoud off Dean Stone in the ninth inning for the seventh run.  Walls had four hits in the game, including two doubles, but the game MVP could only be Froggy.
     Detroit was 3-1 in the group stage, losing only to Boston in their second game.  Bob Gibson and Hands pitched 2-1 wins, and Tex Clevenger held back a San Francisco rally for a 7-6.  Eddie Bressoud (9-20, 3 RBI) was a key man at the plate, as was Denis Menke, who hit two home runs, including the game-winner against Atlanta.

 

Future Tournaments – Host cities subject to change if team wins pennant the previous year

1968
Founder’s Cup

Host:

Chicago
 
 

1969
Founder’s Cup

Host:

Boston

1970
Founder’s Cup

Host:

San Francisco

1971
Founder’s Cup

Host:
Detroit






Founder’s Cup: All-Time Results

 

 

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

Cups

QF

SF

F

W

Atlanta

2nd

 

 

Semis

 

 

6

2

2

1

 

Boston

 

1st

2nd

 

 

 

6

2

2

2

1

Brooklyn

Semis

2nd

Semis

 

1st

--

5

4

4

2

1

Chicago

 

QF

Semis

1st

 

--

5

3

2

1

1

Cleveland

QF

 

QF

2nd

QF

Semis

6

4

2

1

 

Dallas

QF

QF

QF

QF

QF

 

6

5

 

 

 

Detroit

 

 

 

Semis

QF

1st

6

2

2

1

1

Los Angeles

 

QF

QF

 

Semis

2nd

6

3

2

1

 

Manhattan

QF

Semis

1st

 

 

Semis

6

3

3

1

1

St. Louis

Semis

 

QF

QF

Semis

 

6

4

2

 

 

San Francisco

QF

Semis

 

QF

QF

 

6

4

1

 

 

Washington

1st

QF

 

QF

2nd

 

6

4

2

2

1

 

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

Total

Group

KO

Semis

Final

Atlanta

7-1

2-3

2-3

3-4

1-4

2-2

17-17

14-15

3-2

1-1

0-1

Boston

1-4

6-2

4-4

0-5

1-4

2-2

14-21

9-20

5-1

2-0

1-1

Brooklyn

4-3

5-3

5-2

1-4

7-1

--

22-13

15-10

7-3

2-2

1-1

Chicago

1-4

3-3

5-2

5-3

1-4

--

15-16

11-14

4-2

1-1

1-0

Cleveland

5-1

1-4

2-4

6-2

4-2

3-2

21-15

19-10

2-5

1-1

0-1

Dallas

3-3

3-3

3-3

3-3

2-4

1-3

15-19

15-14

0-5

 

 

Detroit

1-4

1-4

1-4

6-1

3-3

5-1

17-17

14-15

3-2

1-1

1-0

Los Angeles

0-5

3-3

2-4

2-3

6-1

5-1

18-17

16-13

2-4

1-1

0-1

Manhattan

3-3

4-3

7-1

2-3

1-4

3-2

20-16

16-13

4-3

1-2

1-0

St. Louis

4-3

1-4

3-3

2-4

3-4

2-2

15-20

13-16

2-4

0-2

 

San Francisco

2-4

4-3

1-4

4-2

2-4

0-4

13-21

12-17

1-4

0-1

 

Washington

6-2

4-2

2-3

3-3

6-2

0-4

21-16

16-13

5-3

2-0

1-1