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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 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...

Mar 17, 2022

MLB: Yankees Top Dodgers in Exhibition, Drysdale Hammered

Mar. 17, 1962 - Not even the awesome Dodgers of Los Angeles could halt the amazing spring progress of the Yankees today. The Bombers...

Mar 15, 2022

MLB: Yankees Top Reds in Exhibition Game as Mantle Shines

Mar. 15, 1962 - The Yankees turned their guns on the National League today. Lashing into Freddie Hutchinson’s Reds in much the same...

Mar 11, 2022

MLB: Cubs' Ron Santo Injured After Collision with Ernie Banks

Mar. 11, 1962 - The Chicago Cubs’ third baseman, Ron Santo (#10), was carried off the field on a stretcher today after colliding with...

Mar 10, 2022

MLB: Mets Lose Their First Exhibition Game, 8-0

Mar. 10, 1962 - The Mets, playing their first major league exhibition game today, lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-0, and they did not...

Mar 8, 2022

MLB: Cepeda Signs '62 Contract With Giants

Mar. 8, 1962 - Orlando Cepeda (pictured with Willie Mays) came to terms today with the San Francisco Giants, agreeing to a 1962 baseball...

Mar 7, 2022

Two Veterans Pitch Well for Yankees

Mar. 7, 1962 - Two outstanding question marks in manager Ralph Houk’s pennant plans went on exhibition in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., today as...

Mar 7, 2022

Howard Cosell to Host Pre- and Post-Game Shows on WABC Radio

Mar. 7, 1962 - The radio premiere of the New York Mets will broadcast Saturday over WABC in New York. The new baseball team’s first...

Mar 6, 2022

MLB: Senators' Manager Mickey Vernon Addresses Piersall Controversy

Mar. 6, 1962 - Manager Mickey Vernon (left) told the Washington Senators today that stories about favoritism for Jimmy Piersall (center)...

Mar 5, 2022

MLB: Reds' Freese Fractures Ankle, Out Three Months

Mar. 5, 1962 - Cincininnati’s Gene Freese (pictured getting first aid from assistant trainer Joe Carroll as manager Fred Hutchinson looks...

Mar 5, 2022

MLB: Controversy over Piersall's "Special Privileges" in Senators' Camp

Mar. 5, 1962 - Gene Woodling, Washington’s leading hitter and the American League player representative, charged today that Jimmy...

Feb 28, 2022

Mickey Mantles Talks 1962

Feb. 28, 1962 - Asked today whether he had set any goal for himself this year, Mickey Mantle said: “Well, just once, I’d like to play...

Feb 27, 2022

Duke Snider Named Dodger Captain

Feb. 27, 1962 - Duke Snider, the 35-year-old outfielder beginning his 15th National League season, today was named captain of the Los...

Feb 26, 2022

MLB: Dodgers Using Umpires in Batting Practice

Feb. 26, 1962 - The Los Angeles Dodgers came up with an innovation today: they used umpires in batting practice. Manager Walter Alston,...

Feb 26, 2022

Maris and Yankees Settle on $70,000 for 1962

Feb. 26, 1962 - Roger Maris today settled for $70,000 as his 1962 salary with the Yankees. Then the man whose 61 home runs in 1961 topped...

Feb 23, 2022

Richardson Signs 1962 Contract with Yanks, Maris Still Holding Out

Feb. 23, 1962 - Second baseman Bobby Richardson (pictured left with Mickey Mantle) signed his 1962 contract with the New York Yankees...

Feb 21, 2022

Mets Pitcher Lectures Teammates on Glenn Spaceflight, Says Maris' 61 HR's More Impressive

Feb. 21, 1962 - A member of the American Rocket Society lectured briefly today to the New York Mets on propulsion, life on other planets,...