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...
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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...
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