Legendary World Series Hero Carl Warwick Passes Away
April 6, 2025
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Carl Warwick, a six-year major league veteran who played a key role in the 1964 World Series, has passed away according to baseball historian Ed Wheatley. He was 88.
Warwick played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Colt .45s, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs from 1961-66. He came off the bench four times in the Cardinals’ 1964 World Series victory over the New York Yankees and recorded three hits, tying a record that stands to this day.
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Primarily an outfielder, Warwick appeared in 530 games, batting .248 with 31 home runs and 149 RBIs.
Bob Uecker gets a champaign cocktail over his head from teammate Carl Warwick in St. Louis dressing room after the Cardinals defeated the New York Mets 11-5. Bob Uecker gets a champaign cocktail over his head from teammate Carl Warwick in St. Louis dressing room after the Cardinals defeated the New York Mets 11-5. Bettmann/Getty Images
Warwick was born in Dallas on Feb. 27, 1937 and graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. He was originally signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1957 and spent the next three years in the organization’s minor league system.
The Dodgers had moved to Los Angeles by the time Warwick made his first major league roster on Opening Day in 1961. He debuted at the Los Angeles Coliseum on April 11 and got his first hit in the eighth inning of that game — an RBI single as a pinch hitter for Wally Moon in the Dodgers’ 6-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
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But Warwick only played 19 games for the Dodgers, who were loaded with outfield depth between Moon, Willie Davis, Frank Howard, Duke Snider, Tommy Davis and Ron Fairly.
On May 30, Warwick was traded with shortstop Bob Lillis to St. Louis for shortstop Daryl Spencer. Almost exactly one year later — May 7, 1962 — Warwick was traded again, along with John Anderson to Houston for former MVP Bobby Shantz.
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The Colt .45s — the expansion team that would later become the Houston Astros — immediately made Warwick one of their outfield regulars. In 280 games from 1962-63, he hit .257 with 23 home runs and 107 RBIs in 1,108 plate appearances.
Warwick had a four-hit game on May 17, 1963, in support of Don Nottebart, who threw the first no-hitter in franchise history against the Philadelphia Phillies.
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In Feb. 1964, Warwick was traded back to St. Louis, for what would become a reserve outfielder/pinch-hitting role. Warwick went 11 for 43 (.256) with one home run as a pinch hitter during the regular season, then reprised the role in October when the Cardinals faced off against the New York Yankees for the World Series.
With two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, Warwick pinch-hit for Ray Sadecki with the score tied 4-4 and the go-ahead run on second base. He singled off Al Downing, scoring Tim McCarver and giving the Cardinals a lead they would not relinquish.
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That was Warwick’s most consequential hit in the World Series, which the Cardinals won in seven games. His third pinch hit in the series tied a record that still stands, and has since been matched by Gonzalo Marquez and Ken Boswell.
Over the next two seasons, Warwick would play 75 games for three teams: the Cardinals, Orioles and Cubs, for whom he came off the bench to hit a single in his final major league at-bat on June 12, 1966.
Warwick was elected to the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Texas Christian University Letterman’s Association Hall of Fame. He also served on the Board of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority.
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