On August 11, 1968, Gates Brown etched his name into baseball folklore with not one, but two game-winning pinch hits. The Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox squared off for a doubleheader, and Brown was the hero of both. In each game, Brown came off the bench to deliver a walk-off hit, sealing back-to-back wins for the first-place Tigers. It was a microcosm of Detroit’s remarkable season — 22 of their 74 wins to that point had come in their final at bat, and Brown had a hand in five of them. The clutch-hitting outfielder’s late-game magic became one of the defining stories of the Tigers’ eventual 1968 World Series championship run.