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...
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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,...
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