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The 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the fifth for the team in Southern California, and the 73rd for the franchise in the National League. After spending the previous four seasons at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , they began the season by opening Dodger Stadium , the team's new ballpark.
The 1962 schedule consisted of 162 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had ten teams. ... Los Angeles Dodgers: Los Angeles ...
The 1962 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series that extended Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1962 regular season to determine the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played from October 1 to 3, 1962, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. The Giants won the series, two ...
The listed years are those in which the league revised its schedule. For example, the National League (NL) scheduled 84 games during 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882 – that is, four seasons from 1879, ending before 1883, the next listing. 1876 is listed here for convenience although the NL did not schedule games (see 1871 to 1876, below).
The loss is the first of a catastrophic five-game slide that sees the Dodgers fritter away a two-game lead over the San Francisco Giants by the end of the National League's regular-season schedule. September 29 – Hank Bauer quits as manager of the ninth-place Kansas City Athletics before owner Charles O. Finley can fire him.
The Dodgers' home uniform, which has remained relatively unchanged for 80 years, despite moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the second most successful franchise in the National League, the third-most successful, and the second-most wealthy in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees. [1]
The Giants and Dodgers tied for first place in 1962 which necessitated a three game playoff which the Giants won in game three. During the Dodgers championship season of 1965 , the Giants went on a 14-game winning streak in early September to take a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 -game lead, but the Dodgers responded with a 13-game winning streak and won 15 of ...
From the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958, the Dodgers employed a handful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was John Ramsey, who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement in 1982; he was also well known for announcing at other venerable Los Angeles venues, including ...