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Mar 10, 2022

Phillies Move After Negro Players Denied Accomodations

Mar. 10, 1962 - Because local hotels in Clearwater, Fla., refused to accommodate five Negro ballplayers, the Philadelphia Phillies moved...

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,...

Feb 20, 2022

MLB: Mets Fascinated by Glenn Spaceflight

Feb. 20, 1962 - At 9:30 a.m., when the New York Mets’ second day of spring training was set to begin in St. Petersburg, Fla., most of the...

Feb 18, 2022

Red Barber to Host "Sports-a-Rama" on CBS Radio

Feb. 18, 1962 - Red Barber (pictured left with USC football coach Jeff Cravath in 1947) will be the host of “Sports-a-rama,” a series of...

Feb 18, 2022

Maris and Yankees Not Seeing Eye to Eye on Contract

Feb. 18, 1962 - Salary negotiations between Roger Maris and the Yankees took a turn for the worse today. Actually, Maris does not have to...

Feb 17, 2022

Casey Stengel Promotes His New Book in St. Pete

Feb. 17, 1962 - Casey Stengel made his public debut as an author today. The 71-year-old manager of the New York Mets autographed copies...

Feb 16, 2022

Mets Sign Another Old Brooklyn Dodger, Clem Labine

Feb. 16, 1962 - Pitcher Clem Labine (pictured left with Jackie Robinson during the 1956 World Series) became the fifth former Brooklyn...

Feb 14, 2022

Houk Joins Production of "Safe at Home" to the Amusement of Yankee Players

Feb. 14, 1962 - The Yankees went Hollywood today, and for more than four hours Manager Ralph Houk’s well-regulated training camp became a...