JOHN LOWE'S BLOG: Long trail from St. Louis: Appreciating the '68 Tigers

Long trail from St. Louis: Appreciating the ’68 Tigers By JOHN LOWE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • October 10, 2008 For 40 years now, I have lived on the wrong side of your history. When the Tigers won the World Series on this date in 1968, I was a fourth-grade Cardinals fan in suburban St. Louis. One of my classmates was Kevin Schoendienst, the son of Cardinals manager Red Schoendienst. Kevin wasn’t with us in the classroom that afternoon as we watched Game 7 on the black-and-white TV. He was down at Busch Stadium, where Jim Northrup’s seventh-inning drive to center went over Curt Flood’s head and broke the scoreless tie between Bob Gibson and Mickey Lolich and put the Tigers in front to stay. Maybe knowing Kevin made the whole thing even more personal for me. Game 7 of the ’68 Series, while the high point in the life of... [read full story]