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1962 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1962 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1962 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Kodak Presents – Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments: Willie McCovey Lines Out Archived March 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
1986. Vote. 81.4% (first ballot) Willie Lee McCovey (January 10, 1938 – October 31, 2018), nicknamed " Stretch " and " Willie Mac ", [a] was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for whom he played for 19 seasons.
In 1960, he was named the World Series MVP; though the Yankees lost the Series in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates, Richardson batted.367 with 12 runs batted in (RBI). He won the next two World Series, ending the 1962 series by catching McCovey's line drive in what The Sporting News called baseball's 13th most memorable play in 1999 ...
But in Game 7 of the 1962 World Series, against their former crosstown rival New York Yankees, down 1–0 and with runners on second and third, Willie McCovey hit a sharp line drive, and the ball was caught by Yankees' second baseman Bobby Richardson to end the game and the Series. In the 1989 World Series, the Giants were swept by another San ...
Willie McCovey, the sweet-swinging Hall of Famer nicknamed "Stretch" for his 6-foot-4 height and those long arms, died Wednesday. A first baseman and left fielder, McCovey was a .270 career hitter ...
Sandy Koufax. Duke Snider. 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.
Willie McCovey, the baseball Hall of Famer who spent 19 of his 22 major-league seasons with the San Francisco Giants, died on Wednesday. The first baseman dubbed the “the scariest hitter in ...
The Giants won two of the three games to take their first National League title since moving to San Francisco, making the Giants the first NL Champions of the 162-game schedule era. They went on to the 1962 World Series, where they lost in seven games to the New York Yankees. The Giants had 1,552 hits in the regular season, the most in the club ...