What's wrong with this picture?

[82Redbirds]

Every once in a while I'll find an error card on the internet that's pretty interesting (wrong player on the back of the card, wrong position listed on the card, etc.). But this World Series program takes it to the next level.

This is a program from the '67 World Series, but if you weren't around to watch the game, a quick Google search will tell you that these aren't the two teams that play the Fall Classic in '67. It's a well known fact that the Redbirds won the '67 Series. But it wasn't against the Twins. The Cards went 7 games against the Red Sox. So why the program?

Beginning in 1975, MLB produced the World Series programs. But before that time, each team was responsible for producing the programs themselves. In '67 the American League had a close race between four teams. Going into the stretch, the White Sox choked and were eliminated, the Tigers needed a two game sweep but came up one game short, and the Twins had a one game lead on Boston as they played their last two regular season games against each other. Boston ended up taking both games, eliminating the Twins and going to the Series against the Cards. But the printing company in Minnesota wanted to get a jump on the programs before the end of the regular season, and the result is what we see here. Apparently they only got as far as producing the cover before their beloved Twins fell to the 1967 AL Champion Red Sox.

The idea for this blog entry was inspired by a story on MLB.com by Keith Olbermann entitled "A Little More History That Never Was." Keith writes a blog on MLB entitled Baseball Nerd. You can follow Keith's blog at http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/


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