Glaring at McCovey from the mound was CardinalsвЂ™ starting pitcher Bob Gibson. San Francisco won 103 games and pounded opposing pitchers вЂ“ leading the league in team batting average, home runs and runs scored. The Giants were the class of the National League in 1962. McCovey, born in Mobile, Alabama his hobby is reading comic books and seeing motion pictures.вЂќ

60 at Spring Training in 1962 вЂ“ I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed bringing it to you.Д¬aray: вЂњHere now is Willie McCovey вЂ“ too big to be a man and not quite big enough to be a horse. To paraphrase Mike Shannon вЂ“ a 22-year-old rookie that wore No. You can find the broadcast on YouTube and the Internet Archive.ДЄmy Berra, curator of the CardinalsвЂ™ Hall of Fame and Museum, provided additional source material and photos for this story вЂ“ I am grateful to her and the Museum for their help. The accounts of the game are taken from that audio recording.Д¬aray and Buck are masterful and the 1960вЂ™s era advertisements for dual-filtered Tareyton cigarettes and Busch Bavarian beer are charmingly funny. Harry Caray and Jack Buck called the action on KMOX the broadcast is now public domain and available in itsвЂ™ entirety.

The result was insignificant the Cardinals finished in sixth place in the National League that season and the setback did not stop the GiantsвЂ™ march to the pennant.Д«ut with six decades of hindsight, the game offered 16,209 fans in attendance glimpses into the CardinalsвЂ™ future and past вЂ“ and it offers us a chance to relive a team and city on the brink of transformation. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants, 8-4, at Busch Stadium in the first of a four-game weekend series.

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