1967 Atlanta Braves season
| 1967 Atlanta Braves | |
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| Record | 75–88 (.475) |
| League place | 8th |
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| Owner(s) | William Bartholomay |
| General manager(s) | Paul Richards |
| Manager(s) | Billy Hitchcock |
| Local television |
WSB-TV (Larry Munson, Ernie Johnson, Milo Hamilton, Dizzy Dean) |
| Local radio |
WSB (Larry Munson, Ernie Johnson, Milo Hamilton) |
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The 1967 Atlanta Braves season was the Braves' second season in Atlanta. The team went 77–85, as they suffered their first losing season since 1952, the franchise's final season in Boston. The seventh-place Braves finished 24½ games behind the National League and World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals.
The Braves' worst season since 1952—their last year in their original home of Boston—cost manager Billy Hitchcock his job on September 28, 1967; the team stood at 77–82 (.484) and 21 1⁄2 games in arrears of the eventual 1967 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals at the time. Bullpen coach Ken Silvestri took over the club for the final three games of the season (all losses) on an interim basis.
Hitchcock's firing enabled general manager Paul Richards, on the job in Atlanta for only 13 months, to name his own man as skipper for 1968, and he chose a veteran associate, Luman Harris, 52, as Hitchcock's permanent successor. Harris had played with Richards with the minor league Atlanta Crackers in the 1930s, and coached for Richards with three MLB clubs; he had also managed under GM Richards with the 1965 Houston Astros. Harris had been the 1967 skipper of the Triple-A Richmond Braves, and had led them to the best record in the International League.
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