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Mar 26, 2023

Duke Snider Headed Back to New York

Mar. 26, 1963 - Duke Snider (pictured in 1955) apparently is headed back to New York, where the outfielder starred for a dozen years for...

Mar 20, 2023

Mets Interested in Duke Snider

Mar. 20, 1963 - The New York Mets made inquiries about Duke Snider (pictured at Ebbets Field in 1955) today, but the Los Angeles Dodgers...

Mar 18, 2023

Mets Top Yanks In Exhibition Game, 1-0

Mar. 18, 1963 - Try as they would today, the world champion New York Yankees could not impress their importance on Casey Stengel’s...

Mar 17, 2023

Giant Manager Alvin Dark Speaks Out on ’63 Season

Mar. 17, 1963 - “You never can have too much pitching in this game.” This maxim, obviously, did not originate with Alvin Dark (pictured...

Mar 14, 2023

Dodgers top Yanks in Exhibition Contest

Mar. 14, 1963 - Although the bell won't ring until April 9, the Dodger pitching rotation already is beginning to take some semblance of...

Mar 12, 2023

Dodger Top Cards in Exhibition Contest

Mar. 12, 1963 - The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for two seventh-inning runs today, to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3. Moose Skowron...

Mar 11, 2023

Bill Skowron’s Wife Denies Infidelity

Mar. 11, 1963 - Virginia Skowron (right), 29, denied today that her baseball star husband, Bill (Moose) Skowron (left), found her in a...

Mar 9, 2023

Dodgers Favored by Many to Win NL Flag

Mar. 9, 1963 - A surprising number of people don’t think the San Francisco Giants are going to cakewalk to another pennant. Among them is...

Mar 5, 2023

Dodger Speedster Maury Wills Decides When To Run

Mar. 5, 1963 - Maury Wills (pictured right with Leo Durocher), the Dodgers’ fleet-footed shortstop who shattered Ty Cobb’s 47-year-old...

Mar 1, 2023

Record Total Baseball Games To Be Telecast

Mar. 1, 1963 - A record total of 957 major league baseball games will be telecast this season, with the 20 teams receiving about $14...

Feb 27, 2023

Koufax Looking Good

Feb. 27, 1963 - Sandy Koufax, the No. 1 question mark of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is beginning to erase some of the doubts. The...

Feb 26, 2023

Rumors of Mets-Dodgers Trade: Snider for Craig

Feb. 26, 1963 - Duke Snider’s name has been cropping up in a prospective trade that would bring pitcher Roger Craig of the New York Mets...

Feb 24, 2023

Manager Alston: Dodgers’ Success in ’63 Depends on Koufax

Feb. 24, 1963 - Manager Walter Alston labelled Sandy Koufax “our big concern” as the Los Angeles Dodgers began spring training in Vero...

Feb 19, 2023

Stengel Steels Himself for Second Season as Mets’ Skipper

Feb. 19, 1963 - Pushing 73 as he prepares to lead his ragtail New York Mets into their second year in the National League, Casey Stengel...

Feb 18, 2023

Pitcher Larry Sherry Signs with Dodgers

Feb. 18, 1963 - Larry Sherry (pictured with Don Drysdale), the No. 1 candidate to be the Los Angeles Dodgers’ fourth starter, today...

Feb 17, 2023

Dodgers 9-5 Favorites To Win NL Pennant

Feb. 17, 1963 - There was considerable arching of eyebrows the today when the Dodgers were established as 9-5 National League favorites...

Feb 8, 2023

Maury Wills Signs ’63 Contract With Dodgers

Feb. 8, 1963 - Shortstop Maury Wills, who set a stolen-base record of 104 and was named most valuable player in the National League last...

Feb 4, 2023

Dodgers Will Try to Redeem ’62 Disaster in ‘63

Feb. 4, 1963 - The Dodger disaster in the 1962 pennant race was a bitter pill that still galls the ballclub, and Los Angeles will go all...

Jan 30, 2023

Don Drysdale Highest-Paid Pitcher in Dodger History

Jan. 30, 1963 - Don Drysdale (pictured left with Tommy Davis and Sandy Koufax), baseball’s top pitcher in 1962, signed a $45,000 contract...

Jan 26, 2023

Baseball Rules Committee Enlarges Strike Zone

Jan. 26, 1963 - Baseball’s rules committee, in a decisive step to give some relief to home run plagued pitchers, voted unanimously today...