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The 1961 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1961 season. The 58th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds. The Yankees won in five games to earn their 19th ...
The first, the 30th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, was played on July 11, hosted by the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, California, with the National League winning, 5–4. The second, the 31st Major League Baseball All-Star Game , was played on July 31, hosted by the Boston Red Sox in Boston, Massachusetts , with the game ending ...
Nuxhall first pitched for the Reds at age 15 on June 10, 1944, becoming the youngest man ever to play Major League Baseball. After eight years in the minors, he rejoined the Reds in 1952 and made two NL All-Star teams (1955, 1956). He will return to Cincinnati in late July 1962 as an effective pitcher, then popular radio broadcaster, and member ...
1961 was an expansion year, with the American League increasing from eight to ten teams, the first expansion in the 61-year history of the league. The old schedule of 154 games (seven opponents multiplied by 22 games apiece) was replaced by 162 games (nine opponents multiplied by 18 games apiece) which led to some controversy due to the eight ...
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The 1961 Milwaukee Braves season was the ninth in Milwaukee and the 91st overall season of the franchise. The fourth-place Braves finished the season with an 83–71 (.539) record, ten games behind the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. [1] [2] The home attendance at County Stadium was 1,101,411, [2] fifth in the eight-team National ...