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Nov 19, 2022

Pirates Trade Groat and Olivo to Cardinals for Cardwell and Gotay

Nov. 19, 1962 - The Pittsburgh Pirates, making the first of several anticipated trades, sent their seasoned shortstop, Dick Groat...

Nov 16, 2022

Milwaukee Braves Are Sold

Nov. 16, 1962 - Lou Perini (pictured second from left in Boston in 1948) sold 90% of the Milwaukee Braves today to a local syndicate of...

Nov 15, 2022

Drysdale Wins Cy Young

Nov. 15, 1962 - Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers today won the Cy Young Award as the major leagues’ pitcher of the year. The...

Nov 13, 2022

List of Active L.A. Dodgers Who Played in Brooklyn Down to Seven

Nov. 13, 1962 - Only seven players who came West with the Dodgers when they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles were on the club’s...

Nov 12, 2022

Mets’ New Stadium Set to Open in 1963

Nov. 12, 1962 - The New York Mets will start their second year in the National League at the new Flushing Meadow stadium on April 9...

Nov 9, 2022

Koufax’s Pitching Hand Completely Recovered

Nov. 9, 1962 - Tests taken today of Sandy Koufax’s pitching hand showed that the Los Angeles Dodger southpaw has completely recovered...

Nov 3, 2022

Broadcaster Red Barber Signs Two-Year Contract with Yankees

Nov. 3, 1962 - Red Barber (pictured in 1955) has signed a new two-year contract for radio and television reporting on the New York...

Nov 2, 2022

Willie Mays Gets Clean Bill of Health

Nov. 2, 1962 - Willie Mays (pictured today at Mount Zion Hospital), center fielder of the San Francisco Giants, was declared in superior...

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 30, 2022

Maury Wills Honored in Adopted Hometown of Spokane

Oct. 30, 1962 - Maury Wills, who signed a baseball contract out of high school 12 years ago on the strength of a powerful arm and swift...

Oct 29, 2022

New Mets Stadium May Be Named after Lawyer Shea

Oct. 29, 1962 - New York City’s new stadium in Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, would be named the “William A. Shea Stadium” under a bill...

Oct 27, 2022

Tigers’ Stars Injured in Japanese Exhibition Game

Oct. 27, 1962 - The Detroit Tigers overpowered the Daimai Orions, 12-1, before a Tokyo crowd of 27,000 today in the opener of their...

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 18, 2022

Mickey Mantle is A.L. Slugging King

Oct. 18, 1962 - Mickey Mantle, the hard-hitting New York Yankee center fielder, got only a double and 2 singles in 25 official times at...

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 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...