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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 major league baseball season began on April 9, 1962. The regular season ended on October 3, with the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League , respectively.
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 ...
Like the Yankees and Cardinals, the Dodgers have not lost 100 games in a season since World War I, with their worst record being in 1992 with 63 wins and 99 losses. The following year, the Dodgers finished at .500 for the only time in 141 seasons. The most wins the Dodgers ever had in a season was 111, which they did in 2022.
With John F. Kennedy throwing out the first ball, the 1962 MLB season commences with the hometown Washington Senators defeating the Detroit Tigers 4–1 before a crowd of 44,383. April 10: In the first regular-season game ever at Dodger Stadium , the Cincinnati Reds spoil the Los Angeles Dodgers ' opening-day party by beating them 6–3 before ...
Wills put up excellent numbers in 12 seasons with the Dodgers. His finest season came in 1962, when Wills hit .299/.343/.373, with 104 stolen bases. ... MLB played two All-Star games in 1961 and ...
In 1960, ABC returned to baseball broadcasting with a series of late-afternoon Saturday games. Jack Buck [1] and Carl Erskine [2] [3] were the lead announcing crew for this series, which lasted one season. [4] ABC typically did three games a week. Two of the games were always from the Eastern or Central Time Zone.
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