Baseball: Part 8: A Whole New Ball Game

Roger Maris
"Early in the 1960s, 1950s-style baseball was still in charge. The Yankees continued to win pennants. Home whites and road grays remained in vogue. Ted Williams, Warren Spahn and Stan Musial were still producing. But America of the 1960s evolved into a decade of quick change, if not complete metamorphosis. America’s internal and external problems —and the counterculture that spawned as a result—made major league baseball, the bastion of tradition for over 60 years, feel odd and out-of-place through the decade. Answering to immense pressure, each league reluctantly expanded from eight teams to ten early in the decade—and more contentedly added two more in 1969 to total 12. The relocations of the Dodgers and Giants to the West Coast at the end of the 1950s were just the beginning of an inevitable trend that would reach all corners of America—and beyond. By the end of the decade, the U.S. Northeast—the long-anchoring region of baseball—saw its geographic power diluted with new or relocated teams in San Diego, Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Oakland, Houston and even Montreal in neighboring Canada. ..."
This Great Game
PBS: Part 8: A Whole New Ball Game (Video)
This Great Game: 1964 The Fizz Kids
This Great Game: 1966 Wish You Were Here, Mr. DeWitt
This Great Game: 1968 Year of the Pitcher
How Baseball Got Its Groove Back in the Turbulent 1960s
SABR: 1960s
W - Major League Baseball on television in the 1960s, W - Major League Baseball relocation of 1950s–1960s

Sandy Koufax 1963
Dean's Cards: 1960s Baseball Cards
Baseball from 1960 to 1969 Chronology
W - Roberto Clemente, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, Harmon Killebrew, Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Carl Yastrzemski, Steve Carlton, Lou Brock, Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan
amazon: The Long Season by Jim Brosnan, Ball Four by Jim Bouton, The Summer Game by Roger Angell, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin, Bill Veeck, October 1964 by David Halberstam, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover, Veeck - As in Wreck by Bill Veeck, Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years, The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubblegum Book
World Series: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
YouTube: Roger Maris 1961 - 61st Home Run as Called by Red Barber, WPIX-TV, 10/1/1961, Struck Out: The Fall of the 1964 Phillies, Dick Allen story, 1966 World Series Game 4: Dodgers @ Orioles, 1964 Baseball Highlights 1:22:48, Every MLB World Series Film From The 1960s (1960-1969) 6:58:48

Bob Gibson