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April 9 - Opening Day - Joey Jay last on 3 innings as the Phillies beat the Redlegs 12-4, last year
the Phillies lost their first 17 games with the Redlegs - Senators defeat the Tigers 4-1 in Washington, largest crowd in Washington
history, including President Kennedy, their new stadium cost $20,000,000 - two new teams this year are the Houston Colt 45's
and the New York Mets
May 1 - LA Dodgers on an 11 game win streak - Red's Bob Purkey the first to reach 9 games
won in the majors - Pirates's 42 year old Diomedes Olivo has a 1.12 era after 32 innings
NL - San Francisco
Giants - 0.5 game lead
AL - Cleveland Indians - 1 game lead
June 1 - SF Giants return for the first time
to the Polo Grounds and defeat the Mets 9-6, for their 12 straight loss - Dodgers extend their win streak to 13 games, defeating
the Phillies in a double-header - Indians' Jim Perry had 6 perfect innings before giving up a hit, it would have been
the first perfect game in 40 years -
NL - SF Giants - LA Dodgers - 5.0 games lead
AL - Cleveland Indians
- 1.5 games lead
July 1 - Sandy Koufax on pace to break Bob Feller's 1946 record for fanning 348 - Koufax's
KO average of over 10 per game is the highest in big league history
NL - SF Giants - 0.5 game lead
AL - NY
Yankees - LA Angels
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ALL STAR BREAK
July 10 - 32nd All Star Game - 1st Game - 1962 - Stan Musial triggers the
winning rally as the NL all-stars defeat the AL 3-1 at D.C. Stadium - Ralph Houk was criticized for removing the starting
players too early - Fred Hutchinson manager the NL - MVP Maury Wills
Standings:
NL - Dodgers - 0.5 game
lead
AL - Yankees - 1 game lead
July 27 - Umpire rules that no organ music can be played during the
Redlegs game, the fan were yelling "charge" to the organ music
July 30 - 33rd All Star GAme - 2nd Game
- 1962 - at Wrigley Field - MVP Leon Wagner - interesting fact - search 5 archive newspapers and couldn't find results
- appears that the newspaper industry "blacked out" the coverage" - NL 3 - AL 1
Aug 1 - Teams are
voting to determine if the 2 games All Star series will remain - Red Sox' Bill Monbouquette pitches the 4th no-hitter
of 1962 - Twins' pitcher Jim Kaat knocks in the winning run in the 11th innings, defeating the Orioles 3-1 - Braves'
Bob Shaw throws his 3rd shut-out of the year, defeating the Colt 45s 3-0 - future Yankee owner George Steinbrenner is current
president of the American Basketeball League's Pipers - Milwaukee Braves deny rumor that they are returning to Boston
while attendance is down 50% - Red Sox pitcher Gene Conley fined $2,000 for disappearing for 4 days, he gave no
explanation as to why he wanted to travel to Israel
NL - Dodgers - 4 games lead
AL - Yankees - 6 games lead
Sept 1 - Drysdale gets 23rd win, defeating the Braves 8-0 - Maury Wills with 76 steals is only 4 behind the NL record
of 78 in 1911, held by Bob Beshcer - Cub's Ken Hubbs sets a major league record for 2nd basemen with 74 errorless games
NL - Dodgers - 3.5 games lead
AL - Yankees - 4 games lead
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Sept 1 - In front of 4,000 fans, the Mets break their 15
game losing streak - beating the Astros - Pete Rose set an all time record for outs - 8,593 - passing Hank Aaron - KC's
Amos Otis loses his bat on 3 straight swings - was ejected from game - Rangers manager Darrell Johnson: "He should
be suspended. It's the bushes thing I've ever seen"
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World
Series: NY Yankees vs LA Dodgers Game #1 - Oct.
4, 1962 - Candlestick Yankees - 6 - 11 - 0
Giants - 2 - 10 - 0 The Giants just made the Series yesterday,
defeating the Dodgers in a play-off game, scoring 4 runs in the 9th to win 6-4 - Willie Mays goes 3 for 4 against
Whitey Ford. Giants were able to hold the Yankees to a 2-2 game until the 7th when Clete Boyer hit a HR -
The Giants break Ford's World Series record breaking streak of 33 2/3 innings scoreless innings - Ford's win is his
10 Series win - 5 in a row - Giants' Manager Alvin Dark is concerned with Orlando Cepeda's slump, he blames it on
Orlando playing 260 games this year counting the winter ball he played in Puerto Rico Game#2 - Oct. 5, 1962 - Candlestick Yankees
- 0 - 3 - 0 Giants - 2 - 6 -0 Game #3
- Oct 7, 1962 - Yankee Stadium Giants - 2 - 4 - 3 Yankees
- 3 - 5 - 1 Game #4 - Oct. 8, 1962 - Yankee Stadium Giants - 7
- 9 -1 Yankees - 3 - 9 - 1 Game #5 - Oct. 10, 1962 - Yankee Stadium Giants - 3
- 8 - 2 Yankees - 5 - 6 - 0 Game
#6 - Oct. 15, 1962 - Candlestick Yankees - 2 - 3 - 2
Giants - 5 - 10 - 1 Game #7 - Oct 16, 1962 - Candlestick Yankees - 1 - 7 - 0 Giants - 0 - 4 - 1
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