GAME 1 -- Brooklyn 4, Chicago 0    BOX   LOG
Conley Anchors Shutout
Blazer Drives in Pair in 4-Run Fourth
BROOKLYN (Oct. 2) -- 35-year-old Gene Conley held Chicago to two hits in six innings, anchoring a three-hit shutout, as the Brooklyn Superbas took a 1-0 lead in the 1966 World Series.  Ray Herbert and Dan Osinski pitched seven shutout innings, but was battered for five hits and four runs in the decisive fourth inning.  Jim Gentile got the party started with a leadoff single, which was followed by a Ted Lepcio single and Tim McCarver groundout.  Harry Anderson and Jim Hickman then hit RBIs, before Gene Conley struck out, and Don Blasingame hit a two-out, two-run double to make it 4-0.
   Conley improves to 13-3 lifetime in 18 World Series starts.  He is 12-1 since 1959, and was 2-0 in five Series.

GAME 2 -- Chicago 4, Brooklyn 3   BOX  LOG
Colts Rally Levels Series
Ford Blows 3-Run Lead
BROOKLYN (Oct. 3) -- Chicago fell behind 3-0, then rallied to a 4-3 win, levelling the Series at 1-1.  Jim Gentile and Jim Hickman drove in runs in the bottom of the first for an early Brooklyn lead.  And Colts starter George Brunet fell into a deeper hole in the fourth, when the Bas added a third run
with a two-out, bottom-of-the-order rally.  Catcher Tim McCarver and right fielder Alex Johnson, filling in for the injured Mickey Mantle (scratched cornea), singled, setting up Whitey Ford's run-scoring line-drive single.  The Colts immediately struck back in the fifth with back-to-back home runs by Bob Allison and Ernie Banks, and tied the game in the sixth when Banks singled in Paul Schaal with two outs. 
   The hemorrhaging continued in the seventh when the the Colts scored off Ford for the third straight inning.  Buck Rodgers led off the inning with a single, moved to second on Brunet's sac bunt, and later scored on Paul Schaal's single to right.
   Brunet settled down after falling behind 3-0, pitching three shutout innings as the offense rallied, and Dooley Womack, Chet Nichols, and Bob Grim shut the door on the Superbas offense.

Game Three Preview
at Chicago
Lew Burdette (16-9, 2.71) vs. Tom Sturdivant (11-12, 4.14). 
   Burdette's run of seven straight 20-win seasons ended this year, but the 38-year-old won 16 games and posted a 2.71 ERA and surpassed 250 career wins.  He was 2-0 against the Colts this year, pitching a 3-hit shutout on July 6 and winning 6-5 at Chicago on Sept. 18.
   After averaging 20 wins a year over the last three seasons, 36-year-old Tom Sturdivant had a sharp downturn this year, finishing 11-12 with a 4.14 ERA.  "Smoke" was 9-7, 3.66 in his first 24 starts, and 2-5, 5.13 in his last 13.  He took a no-decision in a 5-4 loss at Brooklyn on May 19, lost 7-2 at home on June 27, and took a hard-luck no-decision in a 0-1, 15-inning loss at home Sept. 17, a game in which Johnny Kucks, Dick Sisler, and Dick Kelley combined for 15 shutout innings.

GAME 3 -- Brooklyn 5, Chicago 0   BOX  LOG
Burdette Blanks Colts
CHICAGO (Oct. 5) -- Lew Burdette tossed an 8-hit shutout and Dick Williams was 3-for-5 with 3 RBIs, as the Superbas rolled to a 5-0 win to take a 2-1 Series lead.  Mickey Mantle returned to the lineup after missing the first two games with a scratched cornea, and drove in the game's first run with a fourth-inning double.  Tim McCarver followed up with an RBI single.  The Superbas added another pair in the fifth on Williams' two-run double, and Williams tacked on a spare-rib single in the ninth.
   The hapless Colts never got any offense going, and only got two men on base twice, in the second and eighth, as Burdette continually put down the threat.  Tom "Smoke" Sturdivant took the loss for the home team, allowing nine hits and four runs in seven innings.
   Game 4 will feature Gene Conley against Ray Herbert, a rematch of Game 1, which Brooklyn won 4-0 at Frank Thomas Memorial Stadium.

GAME 4 -- Brooklyn 9, Chicago 8   BOX  LOG
Bas Win See-Saw Battle With Wild Finish
CHICAGO (Oct. 6) -- After combining for 16 runs in the first three games, Brooklyn and Chicago erupted for a combined 17 runs and 29 hits in Game 4, with the Superbas coming away with a narrow win and a commanding 3-1 lead.  Brooklyn scored first, only to fall behind 5-2 in the fifth, a deficit they immediately erased before the Colts again went ahead 6-5 in the sixth.  Ted Lepcio's 2-run homer keyed a three-run seventh that put the Bas up 8-6, but Chicago again rallied with runs in the seventh and eighth to tie the game for the fourth time.
   With Bob Grim on the mound in the top of the ninth, Dick McAuliffe drew a lead-off walk, moved to second on Dick Williams' single, and advanced to third on Jim Gentile's fielder's choice.  After Ted Lepcio popped up to first base for the second out, Mickey Mantle came to the plate.  The Mick hit a grounder to the first base side, which Norm Cash fielded and tossed to Grim covering the bag.  Grim took his eye off the ball, which hit the edge of his glove and fell to the ground, allowing McAuliffe to score the go-ahead run. 
   Only two of nine pitchers managed to not give a run, Chicago's Dooley Womack and Brooklyn's Jim Perry, who pitched the last 1.2 innings and got the win.  Lepcio was 3-for-5 with 4 RBIs and homered, along with McCarver, while Bob Allison had four hits for the losing Colts, including two doubles.
   But the Colts lost more than the game.  Ray Herbert left the game in the fourth with blisters on his throwing hand, and Ernie Banks left in the sixth after straining his Achilles tendon running the bases.  He is questionable for the rest of the series.
   Game 5 probables are George Brunet and Whitey Ford.

GAME 5 -- Chicago 5, Brooklyn 4     BOX  LOG
Allison Walk-Off Keeps Colts Alive
CHICAGO (Oct. 7) -- Trailing by two runs one strike away from elimination, the Chicago Colts staged one of the most dramatic comebacks in UL World Series history, as a Bob Allison walk-off home run kept the Colts alive and forced the Series back to the East Coast for Game Six.  Leading 4-2 going to the bottom of the ninth, Whitey Ford notched two quick outs.  As the Superbas bench climbed to the top step of the dugout in anticipation of recapturing the title, Ford worked the count on Paul Schaal to 1-2.  Schaal lined the next pitch into left field, and Joe Adcock then ripped a 1-0 fastball to the right side of the infield to bring the go-ahead run to the plate.  Brooklyn manager Rick Magar gave Ford the hook and sent Dick Sisler to the hill to close the deal.  The 35-year-old Sisler has saved 103 games since joining the Bas in 1961.  The next batter, Bob Allison, who was 4-for-5 in Game Four, launched the next pitch 405 feet over the left-center field fence, driving in three runs and giving the Colts an improbable 5-4 win.  Adcock was 3-for-5 with a pair of runs, and Eddie Kasko, whose 11th-inning home run in Game 6 in 1959 kept San Francisco alive another day, doubled.

GAME 6 -- Brooklyn 3, Chicago 0     BOX  LOG
"Double Zilch" Burdette, Bas Regain Crown
BROOKLYN (Oct. 9) -- Lew Burdette pitched his second straight shutout, completing one of the most dominating performances in UL World Series history, as the Brooklyn Superbas blanked Chicago 3-0 to capture their eight championship, and first in the Rick Magar era.  Ted Lepcio hit a two-run homer off Colts starter Don Mossi in the third inning and Al Johnson added an RBI groundout in the fourth.  Burdette, coming off an eight-hit shutout in Game 3, allowed nine hits, all singles, and a walk.  Jim Gentile was 3-for-4 for the Bas, and leadoff man Don Blasingame was 2-for-4.
   Burdette has won 10 straight World Series starts and becomes the first pitcher in UL history to throw two shutouts in the same Series.  His 0.00 ERA smashed his own 1.02 ERA in the 1961 Series, and he joins teammate Gene Conley as the only two-time World Series MVPs.