Sept. 22, 1965. The Milwaukee Braves’ last game in County Stadium. A crowd of 12,577, heartsick that the Braves would move to Atlanta, saw them lose, 7-6, to the Dodgers in 11 innings. Eddie Mathews was nearing the end, too. He hung around until 1968, when he won a second World Series ring with the…
Sandy Koufax blanks the Cardinals, 2 – 0. He fans 12 along the way, raising his record season total to 356. His shutout of St. Louis keeps Los Angeles a game behind the Giants.
In Houston, the Reds’ Jim Maloney allows two hits in beating Houston, 1 – 0.
Willie Mays, who hit 51 round-trippers in 1955, joins Ralph Kiner as only the second National Leaguer to have more than one 50-home run season. The milestone homer, a fourth-inning two-run blast off Bob Sadowski, helps the Giants to beat Milwaukee at Candlestick Park, 7-5.
Mudcat Grant throws a one-hitter to beat the Senators at D.C. Stadium, 5-0, becoming the first black player in the American League to win twenty games. Don Blasingame’s third-inning double spoils the 30 year-old right-hander’s bid for a no-hitter.
On September 25, 1965, Satchel Paige of the Kansas City A’s became the oldest man to appear in a major league game. Paige, believed to be 59 years old, makes his first major league appearance since 1953 and hurls three shutout innings of relief against the Boston Red Sox. Paige strikeout one batter…
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