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Apr 13, 2022

Talented Trio Calling Mets Games on WOR-TV

Apr. 13, 1962 - The first home game of the New York Mets at the Polo Grounds, where the rain, mud and Pittsburgh Pirates detracted from...

Apr 13, 2022

Frank Lary and Tigers Top Yankees in Detroit

Apr. 13, 1962 - Amid flurries of snow, a drizzling rain, and an icy gale that had the thermometer dipping to 36 degrees on the playing...

Apr 13, 2022

Pirates Spoil Mets' Home Debut

Apr. 13, 1962 - What was supposed to be an entirely happy debut for the New York Mets today ended in defeat at the Polo Grounds. The...

Apr 12, 2022

New York Mets, 0-1, Receive Ticker-Tape Parade

Apr. 12, 1962 - New York City had its first ticker-tape parade up lower Broadway today in which the honored guests stood up and threw...

Apr 11, 2022

Dodgers Top Reds on Koufax's Four-Hitter

Apr. 11, 1962 - Sandy Koufax’s four-hit pitching performance, combined with timely Dodger extra-base hits, gave Los Angeles a 6-2 victory...

Apr 11, 2022

Mets Lose First Game in Franchise History to Cardinals, 11-4

Apr. 11, 1962 - History was made tonight by the New York Mets. They broke into the expanded National League at long last, but wound up on...

Apr 10, 2022

Marichal Shines as Giants Shut Out Braves, 6-0

Apr. 10, 1962 - Juan Marichal (pictured right with Willie Mays) hurled a three-hit shutout today and his bat helped send Warren Spahn to...

Apr 10, 2022

Yankees Open Season with Victory over Baltimore

Apr. 10, 1962 - The Yankees opened their 40th season today with a 7-6 victory that might be called a review of some of their sparkling...

Apr 9, 2022

President Kennedy Nearly Catches Foul Ball

Apr. 9, 1962 - President Kennedy, like every President since William Howard Taft, made the first pitch at the opening of the baseball...

Apr 9, 2022

President Kennedy Observes the Senators Top the Tigers

Apr. 9, 1962 - The Washington Senators, whose 61-101 record last season prompted the adoption of “a better view in ’62” as their slogan...

Apr 9, 2022

Dodger's New Stadium in Chavez Ravine is Dedicated

Apr. 9, 1962 - Eager citizens, proud civic leaders, and jubilant baseball dignitaries today joined to dedicate the Los Angeles Dodgers’...

Apr 6, 2022

President Kennedy Receives American League Baseball Pass

Apr. 6, 1962 - President Kennedy received his American League baseball pass today. He gave a sympathetic chuckle when told that the...

Apr 3, 2022

President to Throw First Ball of 1962 Baseball Season Monday in Washington

Apr. 3, 1962 - President Kennedy will throw out the first ball when the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers open the 1962 baseball...

Apr 2, 2022

MLB: Twins Trade Pedro Ramos for Vic Power

Apr. 2, 1962 - The Minnesota Twins traded Pedro Ramos, a right-handed pitcher, to the Cleveland Indians today for Vic Power (pictured in...

Apr 1, 2022

MLB: Giants top Red Sox in Exhibition Game

Apr. 1, 1962 - Felipe Alou (pictured) drove in four runs with two homers today as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Boston Red Sox in...

Mar 30, 2022

MLB: Billy Martin Released by Twins

Mar. 30, 1962 - Billy Martin, who drifted to six major league clubs after the Yankees traded him away in 1957, was released...

Mar 29, 2022

Otto Miller, Former Dodgers Catcher, Dead at 72

Mar. 29, 1962 - Otto Miller, a catcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1910 to 1923, fell or jumped to his death today from a fourth-floor...

Mar 28, 2022

MLB: Giants Top Angels in Exhibition Game as McCovey and Cepeda Homer

Mar. 28, 1962 - Orlando Cepeda (right) and Willie McCovey (left) hit homers today as the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Angels...

Mar 23, 2022

MLB: An Angry Bobby Thomson Denies Giants Spy System in '51

Mar. 23, 1962 - A chagrined Bobby Thomson said today “it positively isn’t so” that a secret signal from center field triggered his famous...

Mar 22, 2022

MLB: Mets Top Yanks in Exhibition Game

Mar. 22, 1962 - Sometime in the distant future, there may be an all-New York world series between the Mets and the Yankees. Until this...