1960s Timeline

May 3, 1963 - A young man named Jack Fisher and an older one named Duke Snider turned out to be the heroes of “Willie Mays Night” at the...

Apr. 30, 1963 - The Phillies are in one of those streaks where nothing they do is right. Last night, a base-running blunder by the...

Apr. 28, 1963 - The San Francisco Giants took a 5-0 lead into the eighth inning against the Milwaukee Braves yesterday at Candlestick...

Apr. 26, 1963 - Lew Burdette allowed the San Francisco Giants only three hits today while the Milwaukee Braves hammered out a 9-2 victory...

Apr. 25, 1963 - Cardinal manager Johnny Keane will send another southpaw against the Giants today following Curt Simmons’s 4-3 success...

Apr. 23, 1963 - Juan Marichal survived the longest strike since the newspapers in New York quit publishing and hung on for a 4-2 victory...

Apr. 22, 1963 - Jerry Lynch, a pinch hitter, and then Frank Robinson took turns belting two-run homers off Jack Sanford in a five-run...

Apr. 16, 1963 - Billy Pierce (pictured left), who never has been beaten at Candlestick Park, pitched the San Francisco Giants to a 7-0...

Apr. 10, 1963 - Ed Bailey, the talkative 31-year-old catcher from Strawberry Plains, Tenn., hit a pinch-hit grand slam home run in the...

Apr. 5, 1963 - Rain canceled today’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Cleveland Indians as reverberations from their beanball...

Apr. 3, 1963 - The New York Yankees in a runaway and the Los Angeles Dodgers by the skin of their teeth — that’s how the United Press...

Feb. 7, 1963 - The San Francisco Giants’ Orlando Cepeda (pictured last season), resting for the first winter in his life, says he can’t...

Jan. 24, 1963 - Alvin Dark (pictured) joined some of baseball’s most famous figures today as a winner of the Sportsmanship Award of the...

Dec. 30, 1962 - “I never took a worse beating on a football field,” said Green Bay fullback Jim Taylor (#31) in the dressing room...

Dec. 30, 1962 - Yankee Stadium was no place for a warm-blooded mammal today — especially Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants. His passing...

Dec. 29, 1962 - Snow and frigid temperatures are threatening to complicate tomorrow’s NFL championship game at Yankee Stadium between the...

Dec. 24, 1962 - The New York Giants relaxed with family and friends today during a three-day break for Christmas, and Coach Allie Sherman...

Dec. 23, 1962 - A 24-yard field goal by rookie Tom Brooker (#81) in the second overtime period brought the Dallas Texans a 20-17 victory...

Dec. 22, 1962 - Vince Lombardi (right) of the Green Bay Packers and Allie Sherman (left) of the New York Giants, pro football’s...

Dec. 17, 1962 - Y.A. Tittle (right), the New York Giants’ great passer, had a bruised back today, the result of a fall in Sunday’s game...