1960s Timeline

Apr. 10, 1962 - Juan Marichal (pictured right with Willie Mays) hurled a three-hit shutout today and his bat helped send Warren Spahn to...

Apr. 10, 1962 - The Yankees opened their 40th season today with a 7-6 victory that might be called a review of some of their sparkling...

Apr. 9, 1962 - President Kennedy, like every President since William Howard Taft, made the first pitch at the opening of the baseball...

Apr. 9, 1962 - The Washington Senators, whose 61-101 record last season prompted the adoption of “a better view in ’62” as their slogan...

Apr. 9, 1962 - Eager citizens, proud civic leaders, and jubilant baseball dignitaries today joined to dedicate the Los Angeles Dodgers’...

Apr. 6, 1962 - President Kennedy received his American League baseball pass today. He gave a sympathetic chuckle when told that the...

Apr. 3, 1962 - President Kennedy will throw out the first ball when the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers open the 1962 baseball...

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Apr. 2, 1962 - The Minnesota Twins traded Pedro Ramos, a right-handed pitcher, to the Cleveland Indians today for Vic Power (pictured in...

Apr. 1, 1962 - Felipe Alou (pictured) drove in four runs with two homers today as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Boston Red Sox in...

Mar. 30, 1962 - Billy Martin, who drifted to six major league clubs after the Yankees traded him away in 1957, was released...

Mar. 29, 1962 - Otto Miller, a catcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1910 to 1923, fell or jumped to his death today from a fourth-floor...

Mar. 28, 1962 - Orlando Cepeda (right) and Willie McCovey (left) hit homers today as the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Angels...

Mar. 23, 1962 - A chagrined Bobby Thomson said today “it positively isn’t so” that a secret signal from center field triggered his famous...

Mar. 22, 1962 - Sometime in the distant future, there may be an all-New York world series between the Mets and the Yankees. Until this...

Mar. 22, 1962 - A former member of the New York Giants revealed today that Bobby Thomson’s dramatic pennant-winning homer (pictured) in...

Mar. 17, 1962 - Not even the awesome Dodgers of Los Angeles could halt the amazing spring progress of the Yankees today. The Bombers...

Mar. 15, 1962 - The Yankees turned their guns on the National League today. Lashing into Freddie Hutchinson’s Reds in much the same...

Mar. 11, 1962 - The Chicago Cubs’ third baseman, Ron Santo (#10), was carried off the field on a stretcher today after colliding with...

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