Hummel: Herzog can't pick his best team - STLtoday.com
10/14/1985 FILE PHOTO SEQUENCE Sequence of photos of Ozzie Smith's famous homerun during the playoffs in 1985 against the LA Dodgers that was announced by Jack Buck who made the Call: "Go Crazy, folks, go crazy". KANSAS CITY • Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog, who generally has an answer for every question you’ve asked and for some you haven’t, uncharacteristically was noncommittal when comparing his Kansas City teams of the late 1970s and his Cardinals... Herzog’s Royals won the American League Western Division championship three seasons in a row, from 1976-78. Herzog’s Cardinals teams won the National League championship in 1982, 1985 and 1987 — and the World Series in 1982, St. Louis’ first... “I’m evading your question,” said Herzog, who was honored this weekend in Kansas City as the first-place Cardinals and first-place Royals battled in interleague play. “But I will tell you my best in each town — 1977 in Kansas City and 1985 in St. Louis. Neither won the World Series but both probably were the best teams in baseball those particular years. TOP TEAM IN KANSAS CITY. “We had a three- or-four team race in our division,” Herzog recalled. At the time, the Royals led Minnesota and Chicago by two games and Texas by 2½. “And then we won 16 in a row,” Herzog said. Source: www.stltoday.com
