1962

1962 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1962.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Toei Flyers (PL) over the Hanshin Tigers (CL), 4 - 2 - 1 (Details)
    • Central League: Hanshin Tigers (Details)
    • Pacific League: Toei Flyers (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Victoria

Europe

• Baseball-Bundesliga: Baseball Abteilung Bayern München
• Hoofdklasse Honkbal: EHS Haarlem
• Serie A1: Europhon Milano

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: New York Yankees (AL) over the San Francisco Giants (NL), 4 - 3 (Details)
    • American League: New York Yankees (Details)
    • National League: San Francisco Giants (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • Junior World Series: Atlanta Crackers (IL) over the Louisville Colonels (AA), 4 - 3 (Details)
  • Alabama-Florida League: Selma Cloverleafs
  • American Association: Louisville Colonels (Details)
  • Appalachian League: Bluefield Orioles
  • California League: San Jose Bees
  • Carolina League: Kinston Eagles
  • Eastern League: Elmira Pioneers
  • Florida State League: Fort Lauderdale Yankees
  • Georgia-Florida League: Thomasville Tigers
  • International League: Atlanta Crackers (Details)
  • Mexican Center League: Fresnillo Rojos
  • Midwest League: Dubuque Packers
  • New York-Penn League: Auburn Mets
  • Northern League: Eau Claire Braves
  • Northwest League: Wenatchee Chiefs
  • Pacific Coast League: San Diego Padres (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Billings Mustangs
  • South Atlantic League: Macon Peaches
  • Texas League: Tulsa Oilers
  • Western Carolina League: Statesville Owls

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Sultanes de Monterrey

• Negro Leagues
  • East-West Game: In the final season of Negro Leagues play, West defeated East by a score of 5 - 2 at Kansas City Municipal Stadium (Details)

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Occidentales (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: The league's championship was not finished
• Winter League of Sonora: Naranjeros de Hermosillo
• Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Cangrejeros de Santurce
• Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Oriente in the finals, 4 - 1

Amateur

• College World Series (National Collegiate Athletic Association): The University of Michigan defeated Santa Clara University in the best-of-three finals, 5 - 4 (15 inn.) (Details)
• NAIA College World Series: Georgia Southern College over the Portland State College, 2 - 0 in the finals
  • NJCAA Baseball World Series: Phoenix College
• Community College League of California: Fresno City College over Orange Coast College in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Rapid Transit Dreamliners (Details)
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Hosei University defeated the Komazawa University in the final, 5 - 3 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Sakushin Gakuin High School (Tochigi) defeat The Third High School of Nihon University (Tokyo), 1 - 1 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Sakushin Gakuin High School (Tochigi) defeat Kurume Commercial High School (Fukuoka), 1 - 0 in the championship (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Moreland (San Jose, CA) defeat Kankakee (Kankakee, IL), 3 - 0 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Asian Championship in Taipei, Taiwan (Details)
  • Japan (Gold); South Korea (Silver); Chinese Taipei (Bronze)
• Central American Games in Kingston, Jamaica (Details)
  • Dominican Republic (Gold); Puerto Rico (Silver); Mexico (Bronze)
• European Championship in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Details)
  • The Netherlands (Gold); Italy (Silver); Spain (Bronze)

Culture

Literature

• Maybe I'll Pitch Forever, by Satchel Paige
• Pennant Race, by Jim Brosnan
• Veeck as in Wreck, by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn

Song

• D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really?), by Danny Kaye

Film

• Safe at Home!

Births

Further information: Births in 1962

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 1962

Further Reading

• David Krell: 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2021. ISBN 978-0-8032-9087-7