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Mar 20, 2023

Mets Interested in Duke Snider

Mar. 20, 1963 - The New York Mets made inquiries about Duke Snider (pictured at Ebbets Field in 1955) today, but the Los Angeles Dodgers...

Mar 18, 2023

Mets Top Yanks In Exhibition Game, 1-0

Mar. 18, 1963 - Try as they would today, the world champion New York Yankees could not impress their importance on Casey Stengel’s...

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 15, 2023

Yogi Berra Now a Player-Coach

Mar. 15, 1963 - When the Yankee training camp moved into full gear two weeks ago with the arrival of all the regulars at Fort Lauderdale,...

Mar 14, 2023

Dodgers top Yanks in Exhibition Contest

Mar. 14, 1963 - Although the bell won't ring until April 9, the Dodger pitching rotation already is beginning to take some semblance of...

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 13, 2023

Ryne Duren is a Philadelphia Phillie

Mar. 13, 1963 - Colorful Ryne Duren (pictured last season), 34-year-old fireballing Angel pitcher, was sold this morning to the...

Mar 12, 2023

Dodger Top Cards in Exhibition Contest

Mar. 12, 1963 - The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for two seventh-inning runs today, to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3. Moose Skowron...

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 11, 2023

Bill Skowron’s Wife Denies Infidelity

Mar. 11, 1963 - Virginia Skowron (right), 29, denied today that her baseball star husband, Bill (Moose) Skowron (left), found her in a...

Mar 9, 2023

Dodgers Favored by Many to Win NL Flag

Mar. 9, 1963 - A surprising number of people don’t think the San Francisco Giants are going to cakewalk to another pennant. Among them is...

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...

Mar 5, 2023

Dodger Speedster Maury Wills Decides When To Run

Mar. 5, 1963 - Maury Wills (pictured right with Leo Durocher), the Dodgers’ fleet-footed shortstop who shattered Ty Cobb’s 47-year-old...

Mar 3, 2023

Mets Place Gene Woodling on Waivers

Mar. 3, 1963 -The New York Mets decided today to dispense with the services of Gene Woodling (pictured right with Hank Bauer and Mickey...

Mar 1, 2023

Maris Eyes Power Surge In ‘63

Mar. 1, 1963 - As Roger Maris sees it, an eighth to a quarter of an inch is all that stands between him and a comeback to another big...

Mar 1, 2023

Record Total Baseball Games To Be Telecast

Mar. 1, 1963 - A record total of 957 major league baseball games will be telecast this season, with the 20 teams receiving about $14...

Feb 28, 2023

Senators’ Manager, Mickey Vernon, Prepares for ’63 Season

Feb. 28, 1963 - Mickey Vernon (pictured between President Kennedy and Al Lopez in 1961), like Casey Stengel with the National League...

Feb 27, 2023

Koufax Looking Good

Feb. 27, 1963 - Sandy Koufax, the No. 1 question mark of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is beginning to erase some of the doubts. The...

Feb 27, 2023

Mickey Mantle Signs $100,000 Contract with Yanks

Feb. 27, 1963 - The world champion Yankees, who break a record almost every time they win a game, hit another home run, or turn around,...

Feb 26, 2023

Yankees’ Ace Not Worried About Strike Zone Shift

Feb. 26, 1963 - The Yankees stand-out left-hander, Whitey Ford, today professed to be unconcerned about the new, enlarged strike zone....