1963 World Series

Infobox World Series Expanded


year = 1963
champion = Los Angeles Dodgers (4)
champion_manager = Walter Alston
champion_games = 99-63, .611, GA: 6
runnerup = New York Yankees (0)
runnerup_manager = Ralph Houk
runnerup_games = 104-57, .646, GA: 10½
date = October 2–October 6, 1963
MVP = Sandy Koufax
television = NBC
announcers = Mel Allen and Vin Scully
radio_network = NBC
radio_announcers = Ernie Harwell and Joe Garagiola
umpires = Joe Paparella (AL), Tom Gorman (NL), Larry Napp (AL), Shag Crawford (NL), Johnny Rice (AL: outfield only), Tony Venzon (NL: outfield only)
HOFers = Dodgers: Walt Alston (mgr.), Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax.
Yankees: Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle.
ALCS =
NLCS =

The 1963 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers sweeping the Series in four games to capture their second title in five years.

This was the first time that the New York Yankees were swept in a World Series in four games (the 1922 World Series had one tie).

Starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Johnny Podres and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined to give up only four runs in four games.

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NL Los Angeles Dodgers (4) vs AL New York Yankees (0)

Matchups

Game 1

Wednesday, October 2, 1963 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New YorkLinescore
Road=Los Angeles|RoadAbr=LAD
R1=0|R2=4|R3=1|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=5|RH=9|RE=0
Home=New York|HomeAbr=NYY
H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=2|H9=0|HR=2|HH=6|HE=0
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Sandy Koufax (1-0)|LP=Whitey Ford (0-1)|SV=
RoadHR=Johnny Roseboro (1)|HomeHR=Tom Tresh (1)|

Sandy Koufax started it off with a then record 15-strikeout performance in Game 1. It bested fellow Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine's mark in 1953 by 1, and would be surpassed by Bob Gibson in 1968. Koufax also tied a World Series record when he fanned the first five (5) Yankees batters he faced in that game. Since "K" is the time-honored scoring symbol for "strikeout" (Vin Scully once remarked that "Koufax's name will always remind you of strikeouts"), some newspapers' headlines for the game coverage consisted simply of Koufax's surname prefixed by 15 K's.

Clete Boyer was the only Yankee regular not to strike out against Koufax. Mickey Mantle, Tom Tresh and Tony Kubek struck out twice each, and Bobby Richardson struck out three times—something he hadn't done in one game his entire career. (Just that regular season, Richardson had struck out only 22 times in 630 at-bats, without even striking out "twice" in one game.) Koufax also struck out three pinch-hitters, including Harry Bright to end the game.

Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro's three-run homer in Game 1 was the first and only home run all year that Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford allowed to a left-handed batter.

Game 2

Thursday, October 3, 1963 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New YorkLinescore
Road=Los Angeles|RoadAbr=LAD
R1=2|R2=0|R3=0|R4=1|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=1|R9=0|RR=4|RH=10|RE=1
Home=New York|HomeAbr=NYY
H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=1|HR=1|HH=7|HE=0
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Johnny Podres (1-0)|LP=Al Downing (0-1)|SV= [http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/perraro01.shtml Ron Perranoski] (1)
RoadHR=Bill Skowron (1)|HomeHR=|

Game 3

Saturday, October 5, 1963 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CaliforniaLinescore
Road=New York|RoadAbr=NYY
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=0|RH=3|RE=0
Home=Los Angeles|HomeAbr=LAD
H1=1|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=X|HR=1|HH=4|HE=1
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Don Drysdale (1-0)|LP=Jim Bouton (0-1)|SV=|

Game 4

Sunday, October 6, 1963 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CaliforniaLinescore
Road=New York|RoadAbr=NYY
R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=0|RR=1|RH=6|RE=1
Home=Los Angeles|HomeAbr=LAD
H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=1|H6=0|H7=1|H8=0|H9=X|HR=2|HH=2|HE=1
RSP=|HSP=
WP=Sandy Koufax (2-0)|LP=Whitey Ford (0-2)|SV=
RoadHR=Mickey Mantle (1)|HomeHR=Frank Howard (1)|

The World Series Most Valuable Player Award went to Sandy Koufax, who started two (2) of the four (4) games and had two (2) complete game victories.

Composite Box

1963 World Series (4-0): Los Angeles Dodgers (N.L.) over New York Yankees (A.L.)Linescore
Road=Los Angeles Dodgers
R1=3|R2=4|R3=1|R4=1|R5=1|R6=0|R7=1|R8=1|R9=0|RR=12|RH=25|RE=3
Home=New York Yankees
H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=1|H8=2|H9=1|HR=4|HH=22|HE=1Total Attendance: 247,279 Average Attendance: 61,820Winning Player’s Share: – $12,794 Losing Player’s Share – $7,874cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wsshares.shtml|title=World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares|accessdate=2008-05-07|publisher=Baseball Almanac] |

Popular culture

* This is the World Series that Jack Nicholson's character R.P. McMurphy lobbies unsuccessfully to watch on television (and subsequently "announces" by imagining the action) in Miloš Forman's 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". He imagines quite a different scene than what occurred, however, as he describes Bobby Richardson, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and the Yankees knocking Koufax out of the box. In reality, the Yankees never led at any time in the Series, and only once in the entire Series (and that only for a half-inning) were the Yankees and Dodgers tied at a score other than 0-0. Later in the film, a brief clip of Ernie Harwell's NBC Radio broadcast of Game 2 can be heard.

* The MVP award was made to Koufax in New York City. He was presented with a new car. As soon as they handed Koufax the keys to his new car, a New York City police officer stepped forward and handed Koufax a ticket for parking on the sidewalk.

Low scoring

World Series Teams With Less Than Ten (10) Runs Scored (Through 1963)

World Series Team League Runs1954 World Series Cleveland Indians (A.L.) 91943 World Series St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.) 91938 World Series Chicago Cubs (N.L.) 91918 World Series Boston Red Sox (A.L.) 91939 World Series Cincinnati Reds (N.L.) 81920 World Series Brooklyn Dodgers (N.L.) 81914 World Series Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.) 61907 World Series Detroit Tigers (A.L.) 61950 World Series Philadelphia Phillies (N.L.) 51963 World Series New York Yankees (A.L.) 41905 World Series Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.) 3

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Notes

References

*Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. "The World Series." 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 298-301)
*Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). "The Baseball Encyclopedia" (5th ed.), p. 2171. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.
*cite web |author=Forman, Sean L. |title=1963 World Series |date= |work=Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information. |url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1963_WS.shtml |accessdate=2007-12-09

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1963_WS.shtml 1963 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1963 1963 World Series at "WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)"]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1963ws.shtml 1963 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/YPS_1963.htm 1963 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org]