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1965 Major League Baseball season
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It was also the final season for the Braves in Milwaukee, before relocating to Atlanta for the 1966 season. The Los Angeles Angels officially changed their name to California Angels in advance of their pending 1966 move to a new stadium in Anaheim, president Lyndon Johnson is on hand for an exhibition game between the New York Yankees and recently renamed Houston Astros. It is the first game to be played indoors at the new Harris County Domed Stadium, april 23 – Lindsey Nelson, broadcaster for the New York Mets, calls todays Mets-Astros game from a gondola suspended above second base in the Astrodome. June 8 – The first Major League draft is held for high school, the Kansas City Athletics use the first overall pick to draft Rick Monday. In the tenth round, the New York Mets select Alvin, july 13 – At Minnesota, Willie Mays hits a home run with two walks and two runs to pace the National League to a 6–5 All-Star Game victory over the American League. Juan Marichal pitches three scoreless innings to earn Game MVP, august 19 – Jim Maloney walks ten Cubs, none of whom score. Leo Cárdenas hits a home run off of the Wrigley Fields left field foul pole in the inning for the games only run. It was Maloneys second 10 inning no-hitter of the season, he lost the first one 1–0 when the Mets scored a run on two hits in the bottom of the 11th inning. Both benches clear and a 14-minute brawl ensues, before such as Koufax. A shaken up Koufax then gives up a 3 run homer to Mays, august 30 – Casey Stengel announces his retirement as manager of the New York Mets, ending a fifty-five-year career as player and manager. He is the man to have played for or managed all four of New Yorks Major League clubs. September 2 – Ernie Banks hits his 400th career home run helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5–3. September 9 – At Dodger Stadium, a duel between the Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax and Bob Hendley of the Chicago Cubs is perfect until Dodger left fielder Lou Johnson walks in the fifth inning. Following a sacrifice bunt, Johnson steals third base and scores on an error by Cubs catcher Chris Krug. Johnson later has the only hit, a 7th-inning double. Koufaxs fourth no-hitter in four years is a game, the first in Dodgers history. One hit by two clubs in a completed nine-inning game is also a league record, as is the one runner left on base. The two base runners in a game is an ML record, for Chicago pitchers, it is the second one-hitter theyve thrown against the Dodgers this year and lost
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National League
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Both leagues currently have 15 teams. The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series, after the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement, the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues. National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016, the 2016 National League champions are the Chicago Cubs. By 1875, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was dangerously weak, additionally, Hulbert had a problem—five of his star players were threatened with expulsion from the NAPBBP because Hulbert had signed them to his club using what were considered questionable means. Hulbert had a vested interest in creating his own league. After recruiting St. Louis privately, four western clubs met in Louisville, Kentucky, Boston Red Stockings, the dominant team in the N. A. Hartford Dark Blues from the N. A. Mutual of New York from the N. A. St. Louis Brown Stockings from the N. A, the only strong club from 1875 excluded in 1876 was a second one in Philadelphia, often called the White Stockings or Phillies. The first game in National League history was played on April 22,1876, at Philadelphias Jefferson Street Grounds, 25th & Jefferson, the new leagues authority was tested after the first season. The National League operated with six clubs during 1877 and 1878, over the next several years, various teams joined and left the struggling league. By 1880, six of the eight members had folded. The two remaining original NL franchises, Boston and Chicago, remain in operation today as the Atlanta Braves, in 1883 the New York Gothams and Philadelphia Phillies began National League play. Both teams remain in the NL today, the Phillies in their original city, the NL encountered its first strong rival organization when the American Association began play in 1882. The A. A. played in cities where the NL did not have teams, offered Sunday games and alcoholic beverages in locales where permitted, the National League and the American Association participated in a version of the World Series seven times during their ten-year coexistence. These contests were less organized than the modern Series, lasting as few as three games and as many as fifteen, with two Series ending in disputed ties, the NL won four times and the A. A. only once, in 1886. Starting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1887, the National League began to raid the American Association for franchises to replace NL teams that folded and this undercut the stability of the A. A. Other new leagues that rose to compete with the National League were the Union Association, the Union Association was established in 1884 and folded after playing only one season, its league champion St. Louis Maroons joining the NL. The NL suffered many defections of star players to the Players League, the Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York franchises of the NL absorbed their Players League counterparts. The labor strife of 1890 hastened the downfall of the American Association, after the 1891 season, the A. A. disbanded and merged with the NL, which became known legally for the next decade as the National League and American Association
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Candlestick Park
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Candlestick Park was an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium located in San Francisco, California, in the Bayview Heights area. The stadium was built as the home of Major League Baseballs San Francisco Giants. It was also the field of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League from 1971 to 2013. The 49ers moved to Levis Stadium before the beginning of the 2014 NFL season, the stadium was situated at Candlestick Point on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay. Due to its next to the bay, strong winds often swirled down into the stadium. The surface of the field was natural bluegrass, but for nine seasons, from 1970 to 1978, a sliding pit configuration, with dirt cut-outs only around the bases, was installed in 1971, primarily to keep the dust down in the breezy conditions. Following the 1978 football season, the turf was replaced with natural grass. When the New York Giants arrived in San Francisco in 1958, they played their games at the old Seals Stadium at 16th. As part of the agreement regarding the Giants relocation to the west coast, most of the land at Candlestick Point was purchased from Charles Harney, a local contractor. Harney purchased the land in 1952 for a quarry and industrial development and he made a profit of over $2 million when he sold the land for the stadium. Harney received a contract to build the stadium. The entire deal was the subject of a Grand Jury investigation in 1958, ground was broken in 1958 for the stadium and the Giants selected the name of Candlestick Park, after a name-the-park contest on March 3,1959. Prior to the choice of the name, its site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium. It was the first modern stadium, as it was the first to be built entirely of reinforced concrete. The stadium was enclosed during the winter of 1970–71 in preparation for the 49ers who were moving from their long time home of Kezar Stadium, with stands built around the outfield. The result was that the speed dropped marginally, but often swirled around throughout the stadium. Candlestick played host to two Major League Baseball All-Star Games in its life as home for the Giants, the stadium hosted the first of two games in 1961 and later hosted the 1984 All-Star Game. The Giants played a total of six postseason series at Candlestick, they played host to the NLCS in 1971,1987, and 1989, the World Series in 1962 and 1989, the 49ers hosted eight NFC Championship games during their time at Candlestick
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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KTVU
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KTVU, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Fox Broadcasting Company, licensed to Oakland, California, USA and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. KTVU is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, the two stations share studio facilities at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland, KTVU maintains transmitter facilities at Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station first signed on the air on March 3,1958, KTVUs operations were inaugurated with a special live telecast from its temporary studio facility at the former Paris Theatre in downtown Oakland. Channel 2 was the commercial television station to sign on in the Bay Area. During its first 15 years on the air, KTVUs transmitter facilities were based from a tower on San Bruno Mountain in northern San Mateo County. KTVU moved its facilities to the Sutro Tower, after the structure was completed in 1973. The Ingrim–Pabst–Pauley group attempted to sell KTVU to NBC in 1960, under Coxs stewardship, channel 2 became the leading independent station in the San Francisco–Oakland market and one of the top-rated independents in the Western United States. KTVU retained this status even as competing independents on the UHF band signed on during the late 1960s, in the early 1960s, KTVU obtained the local broadcast rights to the Warner Bros. Pictures library, the films it broadcast from the studio consisted of those released during the 1950s, most being presented in color. Channel 2 was the first television station in the Bay Area to air such films as A Star Is Born, East of Eden, the station even televised the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Hollywood Revue of 1929 with some of the original two-strip Technicolor sequences. Continuing into its early years as a Fox affiliate, KTVU frequently aired classic movies in the 8,00 p. m. time slot as well as on Sunday afternoons. Many of the films presented were prints restored by the editing department to eliminate color and splicing errors. It also occasionally aired movies originally assigned an R rating for their release without editing for strong profanity, nudity or violence. In 1992, KTVU ran a version of the 1984 science fiction film Dune. In 1977, KTVU was uplinked to satellite as a superstation, being carried primarily on systems operated by cable television provider and corporate cousin. KTVU also carried programming from the Operation Prime Time programming service in 1978, the company formally announced the launch of the new network, the Fox Broadcasting Company, on May 7,1986. S. It was also one of the few independents to affiliate with the network which broadcast on the VHF band and had a local news identity. KTVU officially joined Fox seven months later on October 9,1986, in addition, Channel 2 began to air an afternoon cartoon block supplied by the network, Fox Kids, when the Monday through Saturday childrens lineup debuted in September 1990. m
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Lon Simmons
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Lonnie Alexander Lon Simmons was an American baseball and football broadcaster, and was broadcasting part-time for the San Francisco Giants at the time of his death. He was born in Vancouver, Washington, Simmons was a star pitcher at Burbank High School and Glendale College before enlisting in the U. S. Coast Guard. After World War II, he signed with the Philadelphia Phillies and his radio career began in Elko, Nevada, calling Elko High School football and basketball games on KELK. He first announced baseball for a league in Marysville, California. After spending three years broadcasting Fresno State sports on KMJ, Simmons came to San Francisco in 1957 as the director at KSFO. In 1958, Simmons took over as announcer on 49ers radio broadcasts. Years later, he worked with KSFO disc-jockey Gene Nelson and then with former NFL player and KPIX-TV Sports Director Wayne Walker. Also in 1958, he became the announcer for the newly-relocated San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball, teaming with lead announcer Russ Hodges. To complement Hodges Bye Bye Baby. home run call, Simmons created his own, when Hodges retired after the 1970 season, Simmons was promoted to lead announcer and teamed with Bill Thompson. This pairing lasted through the 1973 season, al Michales and Art Eckman became the Giants radio announcers on KSFO in 1974. The transcript of his call, including his mid-sentence transition as the moment occurred, reads as, Mira, straight back to pass. Completes it to Kilmer up at the 30-yard line, Kilmer driving for the first down, Marshall is running the wrong way. And hes running it into the end zone the wrong way and his teammates were running along the far side of the field, Russ, trying to tell him go back. Simmons returned to the Giants in 1976 as second announcer behind Michales, then was the lead again in 1977 and 1978. When KSFO lost the Giants radio rights to rival KNBR in 1979, Simmons and Angel were replaced by Lindsey Nelson, three years later in 1981, KSFO acquired the Oakland Athletics radio rights. Simmons then became an As announcer, along with longtime Oakland Raiders and San Francisco/Golden State Warriors voice Bill King, Simmons remained part of the As radio team through the 1995 season. From 1996 to 2002, he called Giants games part-time on KNBR, with the 49ers, he remained as play-by-play announcer through the 1980 season. In 1981, KSFO lost the 49ers radio rights to KCBS, Simmons also served as the Warriors TV announcer on KTVU during the 1973-1974 NBA season
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KSFO
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KSFO is a talk radio station in San Francisco, California, United States, broadcasting on 560 kHz AM with content focusing on conservative talk. It operated under the ownership of the American Broadcasting Company until the group was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting in 2007. The station is now owned by Cumulus Media, following its 2011 merger with Citadel, the stations studios are in the citys SoMa district, and a transmitter is located at the end of Islais Creek where it meets the San Francisco Bay. The content of the KSFOs talk programming is conservative, with hosts such as Mark Levin. The station also airs Red Eye Radio overnights, KSFO went on the air in 1925 as KTAB in Oakland, owned by the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church there. It was acquired by Wesley Dumm under the legal name The Associated Broadcasters (in order to keep the TAB backronym, KTAB offered a variety format of music, news, and sports. Just before the start of World War II, Mr. Dumm was tapped by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to use his KSFO facility to spawn international shortwave broadcast stations KWID and these stations became the genesis of the Voice of America. Facilities for KSFO, KWID, and KWIX were located at San Franciscos Islais Creek where the KSFO transmitter continues to operate today. Beginning in 1955, KSFO changed to a middle of the format with some jazz, sports. At the time, the station was owned by Gene Autrys Golden West Broadcasting, for the next two decades, KSFO was the most listened-to station in the San Francisco - Oakland market. It was the home of singers like Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, memorable broadcasters of KSFOs history include sportscasters Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, newscasters Aaron Edwards and Mike Powell, and disc jockeys Don Sherwood, Carter B. Smith, Al Jazzbeau Collins, Jim Lange, Gene Nelson, John Gilliland, Dan Sorkin, a history of KSFO in the heyday of Don Sherwood can be found in Laurie Harpers biography, Don Sherwood — The Life and Times of the Worlds Greatest Disk Jockey. Newscasters, sportscasters, and DJs from KSFO played an annual softball game to benefit the Police Athletic League, in August 1994, the station switched to a conservative talk format with the slogan The Station for Right-Thinking People. The former two were originally the major contributors to the show, the latter covers traffic and weather, upon Lee Rodgers dismissal, Brian Sussman left his weekday evening slot and took over The Morning Show, effective February 19,2010. In June 2009, KSFO picked up Morgans new syndicated program, Americas Morning News and it airs in the very early morning slot, immediately before The Morning Show. Some of the hosts at sister station KGO, such as David Gold and Michael Savage. Gold no longer hosts shows at KSFO, although he frequently fills in other hosts are absent. In 2007, the station was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting, along with the rest of The Walt Disney Company/ABC Radios radio stations, Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16,2011
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San Francisco Giants
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The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1883 as the New York Gothams, and renamed three years later to the New York Giants, the team moved to San Francisco in 1958. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the National League West division. As one of the longest-established and most successful baseball teams. The team was the first major team based in New York City. They have won 23 NL pennants and have played in 20 World Series competitions – both NL records, the Giants eight World Series championships rank second in the National League and are tied for fourth overall. The Giants have played in the World Series 20 times –14 times in New York, six in San Francisco –, the Giants franchise has the most Hall of Fame players in all of professional baseball. The Giants rivalry with the Dodgers is one of the longest-standing, the teams began their rivalry as the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, respectively, before both franchises moved west for the 1958 season. The Giants have won six pennants and three World Series championships since arriving in San Francisco and those three championships have come in 2010,2012, and most recently in 2014, having defeated the Kansas City Royals four games to three during the 2014 World Series. The Giants began as the baseball club founded by millionaire tobacconist John B. Day and veteran amateur baseball player Jim Mutrie, the Gothams, as the Giants were originally known, entered the National League in 1883, while their other club, the Metropolitans played in the American Association. Nearly half of the original Gotham players were members of the disbanded Troy Trojans, Louis Browns in a pre-modern-era World Series. They repeated as champions the year with a pennant and Championship victory over the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. It is said that one particularly satisfying victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, Mutrie. From then on, the club was known as the Giants, the Giants original home stadium, the Polo Grounds, dates from this early era. It was originally located north of Central Park adjacent to 5th and 6th Avenues and 110th and 112th Streets, the Giants were a powerhouse in the late 1880s, winning their first two National League Pennants and World Championships in 1888 and 1889. But nearly all of the Giants stars jumped to the upstart Players League, whose New York franchise was named the Giants. The new team built a stadium next door to the Polo Grounds
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Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs, with the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseballs first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869,30 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game of baseball, the first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era, Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression, shortly after the war, baseballs color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums, Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, today, MLB is composed of thirty teams, twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America, MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 73 million spectators in 2015. MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution and this document has undergone several incarnations since 1875, with the most recent revisions being made in 2012. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sports umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League Baseball. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years, the weakened ruling granted more stability to the owners of teams and has resulted in values increasing at double-digit rates. There were several challenges to MLBs primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last attempt at a new league was the aborted Continental League in 1960. The chief executive of MLB is the commissioner, Rob Manfred, the chief operating officer is Tony Petitti. There are five other executives, president, chief officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer. The multimedia branch of MLB, which is based in Manhattan, is MLB Advanced Media and this branch oversees MLB. com and each of the 30 teams websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league, MLB Productions is a similarly structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media
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1965 Los Angeles Dodgers season
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The 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers finished the regular-season with a 97–65 record, which earned them the NL pennant by two games over their arch-rivals, the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers went on to win the World Series in seven games over the Minnesota Twins, october 15,1964, Nick Willhite was purchased from the Dodgers by the Washington Senators. October 15,1964, Larry Miller was traded by the Dodgers to the New York Mets for Dick Smith, november 30,1964, Doug Camilli was purchased from the Dodgers by the Washington Senators. December 4,1964, Frank Howard, Phil Ortega, Pete Richert, the Dodgers completed the deal by sending Dick Nen to the Senators on December 15. The Dodgers won the World Series in 1963, but injuries, despite their weak offense and the trade of power hitting Frank Howard for Claude Osteen during the off season, they were expected to contend in 1965 with their strong pitching. However, one month into the season, they lost their best hitter Tommy Davis when he fractured his ankle sliding into second base, most experts thought this ended any hope the Dodgers had of winning the pennant. To replace Davis, the club called up journeyman Lou Johnson, his infectious cheerful attitude and knack for timely hitting helped keep the club in contention. The National League pennant race was a thriller, with 6 teams in contention throughout a summer that saw the Dodgers, Giants, Braves, and Reds all take their turns in first place. With these 6 teams tightly bunched heading into September, the Giants went on a 14-game winning streak to take a 4 1/2 game lead with two weeks to play. Then the Dodgers went on a 13-game winning streak, and won 14 of their last 15 games to win the pennant by 2 games over the Giants. The Dodgers were led by shortstop Maury Wills with 94 stolen bases, Sandy Koufax, may 11,1965, Nick Willhite was purchased by the Dodgers from the Washington Senators. December 15,1965, Dick Tracewski was traded by the Dodgers to the Detroit Tigers for Phil Regan, Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, the Dodgers drafted 30 players this year in the June draft and an additional 2 in the August Legion draft. The first player the Dodgers ever drafted was a shortstop from Bakersfield High School named John Wyatt
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Merritt Ranew
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Merritt Thomas Ranew was an American professional baseball catcher. Ranew was born in Albany, Georgia and he was selected in the 1961 MLB Expansion Draft by the Houston Colt. 45s from the Milwaukee Braves. Ranew played for the Colt. 45s, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, California Angels, and he stood 5 feet 11 inches and weighed 170 pounds. In the minor leagues in 1966, Ranew was clubbed on the head with a bat by Santiago Rosario, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Retrosheet Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
