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...
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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...
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