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1962 Philadelphia Phillies season

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General manager(s)
  
John J. Quinn

Local television
  
WFIL

Manager(s)
  
Gene Mauch

Owner(s)
  
R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr.

Local radio
  
WFIL(By Saam, Claude Haring, Frank Sims)

The 1962 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 80th season for the National League franchise. The Phillies finished the season in seventh place in the newly expanded National League with a record of 81–80, a dramatic improvement of 30½ games over the 47–107 mark of the previous season. Gene Mauch managed the Phillies, who played their home games at Connie Mack Stadium.

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Offseason

  • October 10, 1961: 1961 Major League Baseball expansion draft
  • Choo-Choo Coleman was drafted from the Phillies by the New York Mets.
  • Bob Smith was drafted from the Phillies by the New York Mets.
  • November 28, 1961: Charley Smith and John Buzhardt were traded by the Phillies to the Chicago White Sox for Roy Sievers.
  • Prior to 1962 season: Rubén Gómez was acquired from the Phillies by the Cleveland Indians.

    • Spring training

    The Phillies had sold pitcher Robin Roberts to the New York Yankees shortly after the 1961 season. On February 6, 1962, the Phillies announced that Roberts' uniform number 36 would be retired by the team on March 21, 1962, when the Yankees would visit Clearwater to play the Phillies in a spring training game. It was the first uniform number to be retired by the organization and only the second time (after the Yankees retired Babe Ruth's number 3) that a uniform number was retired while the player was still active. Roberts started for the Yankees in the spring game, gave up four runs in three innings, and was the winning pitcher in the game as the Yankees won 13–10.

    Opening Day lineup

    Tony Taylor, 2B
    Johnny Callison, RF
    Tony González, CF
    Roy Sievers, 1B
    Wes Covington, LF
    Don Demeter, 3B
    Clay Dalrymple, C
    Rubén Amaro, SS
    Art Mahaffey, P

    Notable transactions

  • September 12, 1962: Johnny Briggs was signed as an amateur free agent by the Phillies.

    • Starters by position

    Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

    Other batters

    Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

    Starting pitchers

    Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

    Other pitchers

    Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

    Relief pitchers

    Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

    Awards and honors

  • Gene Mauch, Associated Press NL Manager of the Year
  • Robin Roberts, Lou Gehrig Award

    • All-Stars

    1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game -first game

  • Johnny Callison

    • 1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game -second game

  • Art Mahaffey

    • Farm system

    Dallas-Fort Worth affiliation shared with Los Angeles Angels

    References

    1962 Philadelphia Phillies season Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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