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Jan 24, 2023

Don Zimmer Is a Dodger Once Again

Jan. 24, 1963 - Don Zimmer (pictured last spring), long a Dodger favorite both in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, was reacquired today from the...

Jan 21, 2023

Maury Wills of Dodgers Wins Hickock Belt

Jan. 21, 1963 - Maury Wills romped off with another major trophy today — the Hickok Professional Athlete of the Year Belt. The $10,000...

Jan 15, 2023

Giants’ Pennant Surge Voted Sports Upset of 1962

Jan. 15, 1963 - The surge of the San Francisco Giants, who were given up for dead in the National League race only to battle back and...

Jan 15, 2023

Ex-Yankee ‘Moose’ Skowron Declares Himself a Proud Dodger

Jan. 15, 1963 - Bill (Moose) Skowron (pictured), who says he’ll wear his new Dodger uniform with as much pride as he did Yankee...

Jan 5, 2023

Baseball Star Rogers Hornsby is Dead

Jan. 5, 1963 - Baseball great Rogers Hornsby died this morning of a heart attack at the age of 66. Hornsby was elected to baseball’s Hall...

Dec 28, 2022

Drysdale Sentenced in Speeding Case

Dec. 28, 1962 - Don Drysdale, the fireballing Los Angeles Dodger pitcher who can throw a baseball upwards of 90 miles per hour, pleaded...

Dec 26, 2022

Sport Magazine Names Maury Wills Man of the Year in Sports

Dec. 26, 1962 - Sport Magazine named Maury Wills (left) of the Los Angeles Dodgers Man of the Year in Sports today for stealing 104 bases...

Dec 19, 2022

Gil Hodges: Dodgers “Should Have Been Shot” for Blowing Pennant to Giants

Dec. 19, 1962 - Gil Hodges (pictured) joked today that his old Los Angeles Dodger teammates “should have been shot” for losing the...

Dec 18, 2022

Dodgers’ Koufax and Drysdale Dominated in 1962

Dec. 18, 1962 - Southpaw Sandy Koufax and right-hander Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers walked off with practically all the...

Dec 7, 2022

Bobo Newsom is Dead

Dec. 7, 1962 - Bobo Newsom (pictured in 1932), a big right-handed pitcher who spent 24 years in the major leagues, died today in an...

Nov 26, 2022

Yankees Trade Moose Skowron to Dodgers for Stan Williams

Nov. 26, 1962 - The New York Yankees moved into the spotlight today as the minor league convention opened in Rochester by swinging one of...

Nov 23, 2022

Maury Wills is National League’s MVP for 1962

Nov. 23, 1962 - Speed in baseball has been playing second fiddle to power ever since Babe Ruth demonstrated that nothing accounts for a...

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...

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

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 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 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 12, 2022

Dodger General Manager Excoriates Durocher for Disloyalty

Oct. 12, 1962 - Emil “Buzzie” Bavasi, general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, today charged Coach Leo Durocher (right) with being...

Oct 3, 2022

Screaming Mob of Delirious Giant Fans Disrupts S.F. International Airport

Oct. 3, 1962 - A screaming mob of 50,000 broke through police lines at San Francisco International Airport tonight while waiting to...