1965 – The Red Sox trade shortstop Eddie Bressoud to the Mets for outfielder Joe Christopher.
1965 – The Red Sox trade shortstop Eddie Bressoud to the Mets for outfielder Joe Christopher.
1965 – The Yankees trade utility player Phil Linz to the Phillies for Ruben Amaro.
1965 – The Yankees trade utility player Phil Linz to the Phillies for Ruben Amaro.
Future Red Sox owner Haywood Sullivan resigns as A’s manager to become the Red Sox director of player personnel and vice president of the club. The Donalsonville, Georgia native is replaced by Alvin Dark, who will lead the club to a seventh-place finish in his only full season in Kansas City.
Future Red Sox owner Haywood Sullivan resigns as A’s manager to become the Red Sox director of player personnel and vice president of the club. The Donalsonville, Georgia native is replaced by Alvin Dark, who will lead the club to a seventh-place finish in his only full season in Kansas City.
Joe Morgan receives four votes for National League Rookie of the Year, finishing a distant second to the Dodgers’ Jim Lefebvre. Morgan bats .271 with 14 homers and 20 steals in his first full season in Houston.
1965 – Joe Morgan receives four votes for National League Rookie of the Year, finishing a distant second to the Dodgers’ Jim Lefebvre. Morgan bats .271 with 14 homers and 20 steals in his first full season in Houston.
Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted National League Rookie of the Year
1965 – Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted National League Rookie of the Year.
History of the World Series – 1965
History of the World Series – 1965 While Koufax, coming off a 26-8 season in which he boasted a 2.04 earned-run average and tossed a perfect game (his fourth no-hitter in four seasons), obviously had Series-opener credentials, he didn’t start Game 1 because it fell on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Drysdale got the…
Outfielder Curt Blefary of the Baltimore Orioles edges California Angels pitcher Marcelino López for American League Rookie of the Year honors.
1965 – Outfielder Curt Blefary of the Baltimore Orioles edges California Angels pitcher Marcelino López for American League Rookie of the Year honors.
Zoilo Versalles is named American League MVP
1965 – Zoilo Versalles is named American League MVP. The Minnesota Twins shortstop gets 275 votes to 174 for teammate Tony Oliva.
Retired Air Force Lieutenant General William Eckert becomes the fourth Commissioner of Major League Baseball
By a unanimous vote of the owners, retired Air Force Lieutenant General William Eckert becomes the fourth Commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the retiring Ford Frick, who served 14 years in the position. The game’s unfamiliar new leader, who hasn’t attended a game in a decade, will quickly be dubbed in the press as “the Unknown Soldier.”
Branch Rickey collapses over the podium
At the beginning of his induction speech at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, Branch Rickey mumbles to the audience before collapsing over the podium, “I don’t believe I’m going to be able to speak any longer.” The 83 year-old baseball executive, who suffered a massive heart attack on stage, will remain unconscious while in intensive care at Boone County Memorial Hospital in Columbia, Missouri before dying three weeks later.
