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Mar 17, 2023

Giant Manager Alvin Dark Speaks Out on ’63 Season

Mar. 17, 1963 - “You never can have too much pitching in this game.” This maxim, obviously, did not originate with Alvin Dark (pictured...

Mar 13, 2023

Giants and Marichal Agree on Contract

Mar. 13, 1963 - Juan Marichal signed with the San Francisco Giants for an estimated $25,000 today. The National League champions’ last...

Mar 12, 2023

Cepeda Gets Small Raise from Giants

Mar. 12, 1963 - Orlando Cepeda (right with Willie Mays and Gaylord Perry) talked the National League champion San Francisco Giants into a...

Mar 6, 2023

S.F. Giants and Cepeda at Contract Impasse

Mar. 6, 1963 - Chub Feeney, general manager of the San Francisco Giants, said today he and Orlando Cepeda (right with José Pagan) had...

Feb 20, 2023

Mays Signs With Giants for $100,000

Feb. 20, 1963 - Willie Mays, baseball’s highest paid player, signed today for an estimated $100,000 with the San Francisco Giants. It...

Feb 17, 2023

Dodgers 9-5 Favorites To Win NL Pennant

Feb. 17, 1963 - There was considerable arching of eyebrows the today when the Dodgers were established as 9-5 National League favorites...

Feb 16, 2023

Phillies’ Skipper Who Won Outstanding Manager Award Thinks Giant Manager Should Have Won

Feb. 16, 1963 - When Gene Mauch, skipper of the Philadelphia Phillies, was named outstanding manager of the National League in 1962, San...

Jan 22, 2023

Giants’ Felipe Alou Still Unsigned

Jan. 22, 1963 - Outfielder Felipe Alou (pictured right with brother Matty) today announced in Santo Domingo that he had returned his 1963...

Jan 15, 2023

Giants’ Pennant Surge Voted Sports Upset of 1962

Jan. 15, 1963 - The surge of the San Francisco Giants, who were given up for dead in the National League race only to battle back and...

Dec 19, 2022

Gil Hodges: Dodgers “Should Have Been Shot” for Blowing Pennant to Giants

Dec. 19, 1962 - Gil Hodges (pictured) joked today that his old Los Angeles Dodger teammates “should have been shot” for losing the...

Oct 31, 2022

Dodgers’ Willie Davis is Baseball’s Sophomore of the Year

Oct. 31, 1962 - Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers, voted the National League’s sophomore of the year, said today the so-called...

Oct 30, 2022

Angels’ Bill Rigney is A.L. Manager of the Year

Oct. 30, 1962 - Bill Rigney, who helped raise the Los Angeles Angels from infancy to a pennant contender in two years, was named the...

Oct 24, 2022

Yankees Earn Nearly $10,000 Apiece for World Series Win

Oct. 24, 1962 - Victory in the World Series was worth $9,883 each to New York Yankees Manager Ralph Houk (left with Alvin Dark) and the...

Oct 22, 2022

Phillies’ Gene Mauch is National League Manager of the Year

Oct. 22, 1962 - Gene Mauch, whose seventh-place Philadelphia Phillies were the hottest team in baseball in the last two months of the...

Oct 17, 2022

Dodgers Rehire Alston as Manager

Oct. 17, 1962 - The Los Angeles Dodgers rehired Manager Walter Alston (pictured left with Sandy Koufax and Johnny Podres) today. And...

Oct 17, 2022

Final Two Outs of the 1962 World Series (George Kell Radio Call)

Oct. 16, 1962 - Ralph Houk’s Bombers, behind the 4-hit pitching of their ace right-hander, Ralph Terry, turned back the Giants, 1-0, in...

Oct 16, 2022

Giants’ McCovey: “I Would Have Been a Hero”

Oct. 16, 1962 - “One foot higher, and I guess I would have been a hero,” said the San Francisco Giants’ Willie McCovey (right) in the...

Oct 16, 2022

Yankee Ralph Terry: “I Am a Very Lucky Fellow”

Oct. 16, 1962 - “I am a very lucky fellow, and I certainly thank God for a second opportunity,” said Ralph Terry today after he had...

Oct 16, 2022

🚨Yankees Take Tension-Filled Seventh Game, 1-0, Win World Series in San Francisco

Oct. 16, 1962 - Baseball’s longest season ended today with the New York Yankees still the world champions. Ralph Houk’s Bombers, behind...

Oct 15, 2022

Southpaw Billy Pierce Excels as Giants Even Series with Yankees, 3-3

Oct. 15, 1962 - The World Series got rolling again today, and it rolled right over the Yankees. The San Francisco Giants, behind the...