What was the incident that happened between MLB Network and Giant Dodgers at Candlestick Park?”
Crime and Punishment: The Marichal-Roseboro Incident. by Larry R. Gerlach The Marichal-Roseboro incident is one of the most heavily documented yet least understood on-field episodes in baseball history. Because the affair caught spectators and press by surprise, there are no photographs and only a few conflicting eyewitness accounts of the initial phase of the event. Given the resultant confusion about the episode, contemporary accounts, compilations of the game’s “memorable moments,” and general histories of both the game and the National League as well as autobiographies and biographies of players, managers, and executives are incomplete and often inaccurate in relating, first, that on August 22, 1965, Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants laid his Louisville Slugger upside the head of Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro, and second, that for his assault Marichal received one of the heaviest penalties in baseball history. (1) There is much more to it than that. The Marichal
On Tuesday, the MLB Network will revisit the late August day in 1965 when Giants pitcher Juan Marichal clubbed Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with a bat. The half-hour episode of “MLB Network Remembers” (8 p.m. Eastern) recounts the incident in interviews with Marichal, Willie Mays and Tito Fuentes of the Giants, and with Lou Johnson and Maury Wills of the Dodgers. Roseboro, who died in 2002, is seen in archival video.
