Some 1962 Baseball Notes

As the 2023 pro football season is about to commence and with still little to say about “12 teams in the ‘offs”/tournament, I will cite some baseball notes, largely concerning 3 players and their 1962 seasons.

A truly great player, Tommy Davis entered play on Saturday August 25,1962, a Saturday game at the Polo Grounds vs the Mets with an astounding 122 RBI’s.

Davis finished the 165 game season (the Giants won a playoff vs L.A. for the pennant) with 153 RBI’s, an even more astounding total.

Maury Wills started that day with 69 stolen bases. Ralph (I call him “King Kong”) Kiner imparted that Maury was 12 shy of Bob Bescher’s N.L. stolen base mark.

Wills swiped a record breaking 104 bases in 1962, breaking Ty Cobb’s record of 96.

Subsequently, both Lou Brock and then Rickey Henderson, set single season stolen base marks.

Finally, the Mets’ Frank Thomas had 29 home runs beginning that day.

He ended up swatting 34 in that inaugural Mets season.

The great player, Lou Brock, pictured above, had a memorable 1962 Polo Grounds day.

On June 17, 1962, he hit one of the longest homers in Polo Grounds history.