Cubs Top Giants as Mays Caught Napping
June 7, 1963 - Willie Mays’ nap off second base last night cost the San Francisco Giants’ star center fielder $25, the first fine under a...
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- 3 days ago
Cubs Sweep Doubleheader From Giants
June 5, 1963 - The Chicago Cubs swept a double-header from the San Francisco Giants today, 9-5 and 5-4, to pull within a game of the...
- 6 days ago
Giants Top Cards as Mays Homers Three Times
June 2, 1963 - Three home runs by Willie Mays — who hadn’t hit one since May 17 — accounted for 4 runs today as the league-leading San...
- May 7
Giants Whip Braves on Marichal 4-Hitter
May 7, 1963 - Juan Marichal pitched a 4-hitter and Felipe Alou, Ed Bailey, and José Pagan hit homers today as the San Francisco Giants...
- May 3
Willie Mays Receives Numerous Gifts and Presidential Telegram
May 3, 1963 - President Kennedy sent a telegram to Willie Mays tonight on the occasion of “Willie Mays Night” at the Polo Grounds. The...
- May 3
Giants Top Mets on “Willie Mays Night” at Polo Grounds
May 3, 1963 - A young man named Jack Fisher and an older one named Duke Snider turned out to be the heroes of “Willie Mays Night” at the...
- Apr 30
Giants Top Phils, 4-3, at Connie Mack Stadium
Apr. 30, 1963 - The Phillies are in one of those streaks where nothing they do is right. Last night, a base-running blunder by the...
- Apr 28
Giants Blow Late 5-0 Lead, Lose to Braves at Candlestick, 6-5, in 12 Innings
Apr. 28, 1963 - The San Francisco Giants took a 5-0 lead into the eighth inning against the Milwaukee Braves yesterday at Candlestick...
- Apr 26
Burdette Twirls 3-Hitter as Braves Hammer Giants, 9-2
Apr. 26, 1963 - Lew Burdette allowed the San Francisco Giants only three hits today while the Milwaukee Braves hammered out a 9-2 victory...
- Apr 25
Cards to Send Sadecki to Face Giants’ O’Dell
Apr. 25, 1963 - Cardinal manager Johnny Keane will send another southpaw against the Giants today following Curt Simmons’s 4-3 success...
- Apr 23
Marichal and Giants Top Reds
Apr. 23, 1963 - Juan Marichal survived the longest strike since the newspapers in New York quit publishing and hung on for a 4-2 victory...
- Apr 22
Reds Drop Giants at Candlestick, 7-4
Apr. 22, 1963 - Jerry Lynch, a pinch hitter, and then Frank Robinson took turns belting two-run homers off Jack Sanford in a five-run...
- Apr 10
Giants Drop Colt .45s in Houston on Ed Bailey’s Slam
Apr. 10, 1963 - Ed Bailey, the talkative 31-year-old catcher from Strawberry Plains, Tenn., hit a pinch-hit grand slam home run in the...
- Mar 21
Angels Score Seventh Straight Exhibition Win
Mar. 21, 1963 - The Los Angeles Angels today scored their seventh straight win in Cactus League competition by beating the San Francisco...
- Mar 17
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 13
Giants and Marichal Agree on Contract
Mar. 13, 1963 - Juan Marichal signed with the San Francisco Giants for an estimated $25,000 today. The National League champions’ last...
- Mar 12
Cepeda Gets Small Raise from Giants
Mar. 12, 1963 - Orlando Cepeda (right with Willie Mays and Gaylord Perry) talked the National League champion San Francisco Giants into a...
- Mar 6
S.F. Giants and Cepeda at Contract Impasse
Mar. 6, 1963 - Chub Feeney, general manager of the San Francisco Giants, said today he and Orlando Cepeda (right with José Pagan) had...
- Feb 20
Mays Signs With Giants for $100,000
Feb. 20, 1963 - Willie Mays, baseball’s highest paid player, signed today for an estimated $100,000 with the San Francisco Giants. It...
- Feb 17
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...
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