Wow!

I apologize if this has already been posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZnPQnxO9U

WN

Thanks for sharing WN

I never knew that old time baseball games could be watched in their entirety on youtube. I'll bet that nobody who attended that game would ever have guessed that the game would be watched by 130,000+ people, more than twice as many who attended the game, online on a computer 60+ years later. It's one thing to have many of these players on our Strato teams, but quite another to actually see them play. It struck me how little the game, the players and the announcers have changed over the years.

I found the 1971 All Star game on you tube just to see Reggie Jackson's classic monster home run off the transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium. I remember being awestruck watching it live on TV as a young teen and I am no less awestruck today. Reggie hit the home run in the bottom of the third inning off Doc Ellis. It can be seen at the 57:00 minute mark on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-BcWGzEu0

If I remember correctly, Reggie once said "Hitting in Tiger Stadium is better than sex."

It was great to hear Curt Gowdy calling the game. Not only was he the voice of Major League Baseball for NBC, but he did a great job on the AFL/AFC football games as well.

I'd also like to thank Weathernut for posting this. If I had the time I could watch these old ball games all day.

Fun to watch...thanks for posting

Too bad the wrong team won

-The Bleeds Blue Sheik

Too bad the wrong team won

-The Bleeds Blue Sheik

second that

As an old Tigers fan, I had to click on the link to the last inning of the '68 series.

A few things struck me:

Batters were swinging at first pitches. Maybe it was just that Gibson and Lolich were always around the plate, but there didn't seem to be any interest in driving up pitch counts, even in the 9th inning.

Of course, Lolich was pitching on two days rest. But the Tigers never even had anyone up in the bullpen. Somehow, he routinely threw more than 300 innings (topping out, I think, at 376) back in the days before Tommy John surgery. And Gibson wasn't going anywhere, even though that game was not one of his best performances. Don Wert (?!) knocked in a run off him in the 9th.

The game moved along. Batters stayed in the box, both Gibson and Lolich got it and threw it. That may be the most regrettable change of all. I have a feeling if a batter had stepped out after every pitch to adjust his batting glove, Gibson (at least) would have plunked him.

When Lolich came up in the ninth, the Cardinal fans (no doubt with a few Tiger fans mixed in) gave him a big hand even though he was the biggest reason their team would lose the Series.

the 68 series was the oldest series that I vividly remember. I was 17 and had gone from casual fan to avid fan around the halfway point of the 67 season. For some reason, I remember the 67 series but not as vividly as the 68. I was convinced nobody could beat Gibson. Lolich got it done. And yes, I agree if the batters had played games out there they would have been eating dirt!

First time I ever heard of the existence of professional baseball was the 67 World Series. Some kid had brought a transister radio to school and was listening to the games. And right there in the middle of the playground! His parents must have been rich. I know guys. That is dating me a little.

Dad did not care anything about any sport so they were never watched or listened to at the house. So I never heard anything else about professional baseball until the 68 series when same kid brought his radio to school. I thought how the world series worked was they somehow determined a team to challenge the Cardinals to determine the championship. I was devestated when the 69 series rolled around and the Cardinals were not in it. Hey, I was just a little kid in a little town in Oklahoma.

That's a great story Valen. I remember my math (algebra?) teacher was a Cardinal fan, so we got to listen to radio during his class. He also grew oranges for Sunkist on the side, and was in general a really nice guy.