1960s Timeline

June 22, 1962 - Stan Musial set a major league record for career total bases today as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3, in the first game of a twilight-night doubleheader. The Phils won the second game, 11-3. In the opener, Musial hit a home run and two singles to break the late Ty Cobb’s major league record of 5,863 total bases. Musial raised his count to 5,866 by getting a single in the second game. “For some reason I never paid much attention

June 15, 1962 - The Philadelphia Phillies scored 10 runs in the third inning day for a 13-8 victory over the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Roy Sievers (pictured) batted in five runs with the ninth grand slam of his career and a single. Jim Maloney and Johnny Klippstein were pounded during the highest-scoring inning in the National League this year, lasting 38 minutes. Art Mahaffey, who had lost three in a row to the Reds after beating them on opening day, gave fiv

June 4, 1962 - Sandy Koufax pitched a 3-hitter and struck out 13 today as he put the Dodgers back on their feet with a 6-3 victory over the Phillies in Philadelphia. A two-out, three-run home run by Jackie Davis, a pinch hitter, in the ninth spoiled the shutout. It was the eighth victory for Koufax against 2 defeats and the fourth game in a row in which he struck out 10 or more. His strikeout total now is 123. #MLB #baseball #OTD #1960s #dodgers #phillies

June 1, 1962 - The onrushing Los Angeles Dodgers took both ends of a twilight-night doubleheader tonight from the Philadelphia Phillies, 11-4 and 8-5. The victories extended their winning streak to 13 games and moved them into a first-place tie with the San Francisco Giants. At the same time, the Dodgers matched their longest winning streak since 1953, when they played in Brooklyn. Don Drysdale (pictured) gained his eighth triumph against three losses in the finale. He helped

May 26, 1962 - Sandy Koufax struck out 16 Philadelphia batters today and collected a run-scoring single in leading the Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the Phillies. The triumph was the sixth in a row for Los Angeles. Going the distance for the second game in succession, Koufax limited the Phillies to five hits. His strikeout effort marked the third time this year he has fanned 10 or more batters in a game. Koufax now has struck out 10 or more batters in 34 different games durin

May 24, 1962 - Willie Mays hit a pair of home runs today as the San Francisco Giants scored a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The National League leaders ended a three-game losing streak. Given a rest on the bench last night, Mays returned to hit a bases-empty homer in the sixth on Cal McLish’s first pitch to him. He blasted his second homer, No. 13 for the season, with one aboard in the seventh. Orlando Cepeda crashed a homer in the sixth — his thirteenth — to sh

May 13, 1962 - Thirteen extra-base hits, including six home runs, helped the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-7 and 8-5, today. Barney Schultz, working in both games and running his string to eight straight wins, received credit for both victories. Schultz is now 3-1 for the season. Lou Brock (pictured), Billy Williams, and George Altman hit homers for the Cubs in the opener. Ernie Banks, Ken Hubbs, and Altman connected in the second game. In all, the Cubbies ha

Apr. 28, 1962 - Five home runs helped Casey Stengel’s Mets down the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-6, today at the Polo Grounds. Manager Gene Mauch’s Phillies belted four homers. These heroic shots eventually were nullified, however, when Chris Short released a wild pitch that allowed two Mets to cross the plate at the close of a six-run uprising in the sixth. That rally put New York ahead, 7-6, and ahead they stayed. A jubilant gathering of 10,491 witnessed the Mets’ first home vi

Apr. 19, 1962 - The Pittsburgh Pirates, the National League leaders, defeated Philadelphia, 6-3, tonight for their eighth straight victory without a loss. Bill Mazeroski (pictured during spring training last month) hit a home run for the second night in a row, this time with Don Leppert on base. The homer, Mazeroski’s third of the season, was hit off Art Mahaffey, the Phils’ starter, after he had hit Leppert with a pitched ball to open the fourth inning. Mahaffey was the firs

Apr. 9, 1962 - The Washington Senators, whose 61-101 record last season prompted the adoption of “a better view in ’62” as their slogan for the year, will find it hard to improve on the vantage point they earned today. Impressing 44,383 fans, including President Kennedy, the Senators opened the 1962 American League season with a 4-1 victory over the Tigers. Bennie Daniels, a sinkerball pitcher, gave only five hits in moving the Senators into first place in the league — a posi

Mar. 10, 1962 - Because local hotels in Clearwater, Fla., refused to accommodate five Negro ballplayers, the Philadelphia Phillies moved players and officials out of town today. The Phils left the Jack Tar Harrison hotel and moved into the Rocky Point motel on the Howard Franklin Causeway, 20 miles away. The club’s general manager, John Quinn, who two days ago received word that the NAACP would picket the Phillies’ home games unless the squad’s housing was integrated in Flori

Nov. 30, 1961 - New York stations WOR-TV and WOR radio said today they had reached “major portions of agreement” in negotiations to broadcast baseball games to be played next year by the New York #Mets, the new National League club. WOR-TV previously established itself as the home of National League baseball in New York, carrying Brooklyn #Dodgers games starting in 1950 and New York #Giants games in 1951 until both teams moved to California following the 1957 season. From 195

Sept. 12, 1961 - A former Dodger, Don Demeter (pictured right with Ruben Amaro), drove in 7 runs with 3 homers and a single today as the Phillies destroyed Los Angeles, 19-10. The loss dropped the second-place Dodgers four and a half games back of the National League leaders, the Cincinnati Reds, who defeated the Cubs today. The 19 runs were the most ever scored against the Dodgers in a single game since they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958. #MLB #baseball #sports

Aug. 28, 1961 - Warren Spahn scored the 304th victory of his career and his 16th this season when he pitched the Braves to a 7-1 triumph over the Phillies today. Spahn was in trouble at times but pitched his way out. The only run off the 40-year-old southpaw was unearned - the result of a single, a walk, and errors by Eddie Mathews and Joe Adcock. Milwaukee remains seven games behind league-leading Cincinnati. #MLB #baseball #braves #atlantabraves #phillies #philadelphiaphill

Aug. 21, 1961 - Two hundred fans turned out in rain at Philadelphia International Airport today to greet the Phillies when they arrived home from Milwaukee, where they ended a 23-game losing streak yesterday. The fans, accompanied by a five-piece band, gave the Phils a hero's welcome. Three burly fans lifted Manager Gene Mauch on their shoulders. Mauch, who appeared stunned, told the crowd: "One day we'll come home after winning 23 out of 24, and they'll have to build a new a

Aug. 18, 1961 - The Philadelphia Phillies set a modern major league record for futility with their 21st consecutive defeat today, a 4-1 loss to Milwaukee. Stopped on six hits by Lew Burdette, the Phils now are within three defeats of the overall record of 24 straight set by Cleveland, then in the National League, in 1889. The Phils erased the previous modern mark of 20 set by the Boston Red Sox in 1906, the Philadelphia Athletics in 1916, and the Athletics again in 1943. Phil

Aug. 14, 1961 - Ernie Banks and Jerry Kindall drove in 7 runs today and led the Cubs to a 9-2 victory over Philadelphia. The decision sent the Phils to their 17th consecutive loss, 2 short of the modern National League record set by Boston in 1906 and tied by Cincinnati in 1914. The overall National League Mark of 24 was set by Cleveland when it played in the league in 1899. The American League mark is 20. It was set by Boston in 1906 and tied by Philadelphia in both 1916 and

July 25, 1961 - A three-run homer by Gil Hodges and a two-run triple by John Roseboro powered the Dodgers to a 7-2 victory over the Phillies today. At the same time, Sandy Koufax, a southpaw, posted his 13th triumph in 19 decisions, allowing only 6 hits. Koufax struck out 10, including Tony Gonzalez on four occasions. #MLB #baseball #sports #dodgers #phillies

July 2, 1961 - Don Drysdale won his own game with a home run in the 8th inning today as the Dodgers defeated Philadelphia, 2-1, for their 11th victory in 12 games this season with the Phillies. The hurler's winning clout into the left-field stands came off Art Mahaffey, the loser, who had replaced Robin Roberts in the seventh inning. Drysdale gave up only four hits before he was replaced by Ron Perranoski in the eighth. #MLB #baseball #sports #dodgers #phillies #ladodger