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Feb 26, 2023

Rumors of Mets-Dodgers Trade: Snider for Craig

Feb. 26, 1963 - Duke Snider’s name has been cropping up in a prospective trade that would bring pitcher Roger Craig of the New York Mets...

Feb 25, 2023

Commissioner Frick Sees No Forthcoming Scandals in Major League Baseball

Feb. 25, 1963 - Baseball is protecting its good name with extra vigilance in these days of sports scandals, but Commissioner Ford Frick...

Feb 24, 2023

Manager Alston: Dodgers’ Success in ’63 Depends on Koufax

Feb. 24, 1963 - Manager Walter Alston labelled Sandy Koufax “our big concern” as the Los Angeles Dodgers began spring training in Vero...

Feb 20, 2023

Stengel Talks up “Marvelous” Marv Throneberry

Feb. 20, 1963 - At the moment, Marv Throneberry is still the Mets’ No. 1 first baseman, and it is a prospect that does not necessarily...

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 20, 2023

Joe Medwick: I Belong In Hall of Fame

Feb. 20, 1963 - Joe (Ducky) Medwick (pictured in 1934), who hit .374 one year for St. Louis Cardinal manager Frankie Frisch, declared...

Feb 19, 2023

Stengel Steels Himself for Second Season as Mets’ Skipper

Feb. 19, 1963 - Pushing 73 as he prepares to lead his ragtail New York Mets into their second year in the National League, Casey Stengel...

Feb 19, 2023

Phil Rizzuto Crushes Fingers in Rotary Snow Plow

Feb. 19, 1963 - Phil Rizzuto (pictured with his wife Cora at the 1957 World Series), former New York Yankee shortstop, was operated on...

Feb 19, 2023

Vada Pinson, Reds’ Center Fielder, Has Emergency Operation

Feb. 19, 1963 - Vada Pinson (pictured), star center fielder of the Cincinnati Reds, had his appendix removed in an emergency operation...

Feb 18, 2023

Pitcher Larry Sherry Signs with Dodgers

Feb. 18, 1963 - Larry Sherry (pictured with Don Drysdale), the No. 1 candidate to be the Los Angeles Dodgers’ fourth starter, today...

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...

Feb 15, 2023

Yankee Reliever Recovering from Gunshot Wound

Feb. 15, 1963 - Marshall Bridges (pictured left last season with Luis Arroyo), 31-year-old southpaw ace of the New York Yankees’ bullpen...

Feb 14, 2023

Yankee Reliever Marshall Bridges Shot in F. Lauderdale

Feb. 14, 1963 - The training camp of the world champion Yankees was jolted today following the shooting last night of Marshall Bridges...

Feb 13, 2023

Robin Roberts Signs Oriole Contract

Feb. 13, 1963 - Robin Roberts, the 1962 comeback player of the year, has returned his signed contract to the Baltimore Orioles, the club...

Feb 13, 2023

Yankees’ Tresh Unafraid of “Sophomore Jinx”

Feb. 13, 1963 - The “sophomore jinx” has long been the bane of a young ballplayer’s existence. Almost every year finds one or more of the...

Feb 13, 2023

Change in Strike Zone Provokes Discussion

Feb. 12, 1963 - No baseball rule change in recent years has caused more discussion than the one of the past winter which saw the game’s...

Feb 13, 2023

Yogi Berra is Now Player-Coach for Yankees

Feb. 11, 1963 - The New York Yankees’ spring training campaign got under way today in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Thirty-nine players plus ten...

Feb 13, 2023

Los Angeles Angels Begin Spring Training in Palm Springs

Feb. 12, 1963 - Spring came early today to Palm Springs, California, as the first flight of Angels descended from Los Angeles. Manager...

Feb 8, 2023

Maury Wills Signs ’63 Contract With Dodgers

Feb. 8, 1963 - Shortstop Maury Wills, who set a stolen-base record of 104 and was named most valuable player in the National League last...