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Cards' Series Hero Gibson
Wins 'Sport' Magazine Car

Pitcher Bob Gibson of the St.
Louis Cardinals has been named
winner of the 13th annual "SPORT
Magazine World Series Award" as
the outstanding player in the 1967
World Series.

For Gibson, who won three
games in the 1967 Series, including
the seventh and deciding contest,
7-2, from the Boston Red Sox,
it was the second time he has
received the award as "the player
who did the most for his team
through his overall play in the
World Series." Bob added a bit
of icing to his bid for the prize
with a fifth-inning homer that
proved to be the winning run in
the seventh game.

Gibson also tied Christy
Mathewson's record of allowing
just 14 hits in three complete-game
victories in a Series, and
tied Red Ruffing's mark of five
consecutive complete-game victories
during a career covering
more than one Series. His three
wins in the Series put him into
the record book with a half-dozen
other pitchers.

Gibson, who hurled 2-1, 6-0 and
7-2 complete-game victories against
the Red Sox, will receive
the "SPORT Magazine World
Series Award," a 1968 Corvette
sports car, at a luncheon in his
honor at the New York Hilton
Hotel on October 16th.

Bob first received the "SPORT
Magazine World Series Award" in
1964 when he bested the New
York Yankees in the deciding game
and established an overall Series
mark of 31 strikeouts in three
games. Sandy Koufax of the Los
Angeles Dodgers is the only other
player to capture the prize twice.
Sandy captured the award in 1963
and 1965.