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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 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 Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in a regular season best-of-three tiebreaker, for the National League title in three games, after both teams finished their 162-game schedules with identical 101–61 records. This was the fifth regular season tie-breaker.
It was first presented in 1962 as a tribute to the man who helped found the All-Star Game in 1933. That first presentation went to Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels (second game MVP) and to Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers (first game MVP), because two Midsummer Classics were played. [2] The spotlight on this game belonged to Maury Wills.
Los Angeles Dodgers star Maury Wills died Monday, the team announced. He was 89. ... Wills put up excellent numbers in 12 seasons with the Dodgers. His finest season came in 1962, when Wills hit ...
Since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers played for four seasons at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving to their current home of Dodger Stadium in 1962. [6] In Brooklyn, they played predominantly at Washington Park (1898–1912) and historic Ebbets Field (1913–1957).
From 1953 to 1955, three franchises were relocated, all of which had been in markets with two or more teams. Prior to the 1958 season, the two New York City teams in the NL, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, moved westward; the Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles, while San Francisco became the new home of the Giants. [1]
The Mets traded Miller to the Los Angeles Dodgers on November 30, 1962, in exchange for Tim Harkness and Larry Burright. [4] On May 8, 1963, Stan Musial of the Cardinals hit a home run off of Miller in the fourth inning, giving Musial the 1,357th extra base hit of his career, breaking the major league record that had been held by Babe Ruth.