tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28722136560373671152024-03-17T23:00:02.078-04:00KinescopeStealsHomeOne bloggers attempt to catalogue the last remaining full game broadcasts of Major League Baseball history. Mostly focusing on games prior to the 1976 season.GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-45979776117710342832020-04-07T21:39:00.003-04:002020-04-07T21:39:59.796-04:00Game Alert: The 715 Game to air April 8th (sorta)Tomorrow at 7pm ET, the Atlanta Braves will be broadcasting on their YouTube and Facebook pages parts of the April 8, 1974 Dodgers/Braves Game or as it is more famously known, the night Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record.<br />
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Over the last decade, we have found bits and pieces of additional footage of this game. First, <a href="https://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2014/04/the-40th-anniversary-of-715.html" target="_blank">there were alternate angles</a> and second, we got <a href="https://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2014/04/he-means-tying-run-at-plate-now.html" target="_blank">more of the previous at-bat</a>. <br />
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However, tomorrow is something else entirely. This game has not been shown to the public at-large in nearly 50 years. The complete broadcast has been lost to time. There was a home recording by a channel flipper that had a bit of the important points and some later innings. There is rumored to be an audio recording of the entire TV broadcast. There is a clip reel somewhere buried in the NBC Vault that holds bits and pieces of the broadcast.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/braves-classics-on-youtube-facebook" target="_blank">MLB.com write-up</a> isn't exactly inspiring:<br />
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One of the most iconic moments in baseball history occurred when Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run against Al Downing in the fourth inning of the Braves' 7-4 win over the Dodgers on April 8, 1974. A national television audience heard the call from Vin Scully and caught a glimpse of a young Craig Sager, who was an eager and budding television reporter when he interviewed Aaron after he crossed the plate.</blockquote>
The national television audience did NOT hear Vin Scully's call. Both he and Milo Hamilton have been immortalized with their calls but both recordings come from the radio. Curt Gowdy made the television call on NBC, which should be your first clue to that we aren't getting the complete game.<br />
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Here is the 2nd (and much clearer hint): According to the guy who actually put together the broadcast (via <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/braves-classics-with-mark-bowman/id1437194308?i=1000470571426" target="_blank">Behind the Braves podcast</a>), this is a hodge-podged together broadcast. It picks up around the 21 minute mark. In it, he has taken bits he has from a random footage reel and put it together to make something presentable. <br />
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The 1st inning at-bat may be shown, per the above podcast.<br />
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So, enjoy what will be the most complete version we have seen since that original airing 46 years ago but realize going into it, we still are looking for this long lost broadcast.GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-10102852800723512382020-04-07T18:50:00.000-04:002020-04-07T19:06:27.184-04:00Programming Alert: Mr. Tiger and the 1968 World Series TONIGHT (4/7/20)With the passing of MLB HOF'er Al Kaline, MLB Network will be showing both Game 6 and Game 7 of the 1968 World Series. As you may remember, the Motor City Kitties came back from being down 3-1 in the Series and 3-2 in the 7th inning of Game 5 to eventually become World Champions.<br />
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Game 6 begins at 8 pm. <i>This game originally took 2:26 minutes to play.</i><br />
Game 7 begins at 10 pm. <i>This game originally took 2:07 minutes to play.</i><br />
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In Game 6, Kaline would go 3-for-4 with a homerun in the 5th inning off of fellow HOF'er Steve Carlton. Kaline would go hitless in Game 7 but Jim Northrup 2-out triple in the 7th would be all the Tigers would need as they defeated the Cardinals and HOF pitcher Bob Gibson. You can currently watch Game 7 unedited in <a href="https://youtu.be/7tSVM_YHz9c" target="_blank">high definition on the Tigers YouTube page</a>.<br />
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For more 1968 Tigers content, you can check previous posts <a href="https://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2009/10/reason-4927-in-favor-of-1968-world.html" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="https://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2009/02/most-hated-villians.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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For more on Al Kaline content, you can see read it <a href="https://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2012/03/mr-tiger-and-green-monster.html" target="_blank">here</a>.GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-13922657725569338992019-04-19T21:12:00.001-04:002019-04-19T21:12:57.496-04:00MLB Vault: MLB's "new" (old) YouTube Channel<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In late 2010, MLB created a promising new YouTube channel dubbed "MLB Classics". Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that the channel was nothing more than a conglomeration of previously available MLB games. Rolling in some previously internationally available games involving Japanese born MLB stars, the channel adopted some of the classic fare you would find on MLB.com or iTunes for download. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There the channel sat. While MLB continued to upload classic clips to their main MLB channel, this clips did not find their way to the 'Classics' channel. Still yet, MLB would make their international channels available in the US at the conclusion of the season under the titles of 'MLBGlobal11', etc but didn't bring these games over to their 'Classics' channel. World Series games from 2013 and even the 'Curse' breaking World Series clincher between Cleveland and Chicago would be uploaded to the main 'MLB' YouTube channel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This channel seemed like a dead channel, a place you could go if you wanted to see the '52 Series clincher or Kerry Wood strike out 20 Astros. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Until 3 weeks ago...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/2pUp-o1CY34" target="_blank">Legendary Batting Stances</a>: a 15 minute video highlighting such players as Ichiro, Rod Carew, Pete Rose, Mo Vaughn, Albert Pujols, Willie Stargell, amongst others. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qEe44EpZFQk" target="_blank">CC Sabathia's Major League Debut in 2001</a>: a 4 minute highlight from CC's debut</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/KIqQT8rFCDw" target="_blank">McGwire dents Shea scoreboard with long shot</a>: a 2 minute clip of Mark McGwire's 8/22/99 HR off of Octavio Dotel. The clip is from WB11, the St. Louis feed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/34Z1vru1NE0" target="_blank">Slammin Sammy! Best of Sammy Sosa</a>: Highlight reel of Sosa's exploits</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wSNQChh0j14" target="_blank">Ken Griffey Jr - Rookie Year HR reel</a>: A number of Junior's HRs from his 1989 Rookie season</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/7FWzIOkPrmM" target="_blank">Frank Robinson debuts as Indians Player/Manager</a>: This Mel Allen narrated clip tells of Robinson's debut as Cleveland's player manager (<a href="https://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2015/04/frank-robinson-playermanager-with.html" target="_blank">a game we've already discussed before</a>) </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Where this channel will head going forward is hard to tell. Based on past practice, you could easily believe that it will be neglected for 8 years. However, with some of these produced highlight clips that they've uploaded it may be the beginning of a shift from classic footage ending up on the main MLB channel and being diverted to this site instead. Disconcerting is the header found on the channel, featuring Maddux, Griffey, Henderson and Bonds - not a single player from before the 1979 season. They can receive somewhat of a pass considering what a YouTube channel's target audience is going to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With that said, it has been over 2 weeks (as of this writing) since they uploaded new footage. So maybe not much has changed... </span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-87883189219494401902018-09-11T19:45:00.000-04:002018-09-11T19:45:07.370-04:00Clinching the Old Fashioned American (League) Way<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was a time when pennants weren't decided in a best<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>of<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>7 game series. Or best<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>of<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>5, either. Teams used to win their league's pennant in a winner-take-all best of 162 game series known as "having the best record in your league".* Of course, this is also when there were only 20 teams in baseball. With the advent of divisional play in baseball, the game forever changed with the expansion of the playoffs to include 4 teams (and eventually to today's number of 10 teams).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was also a time when the New York Yankees seemed to be the only team to win the American League pennant. From 1949 to 1964, the New York Yankees were AL Champions all but twice ( '54 Indians, '59 ChiSox). Much like the Iron Curtain, this too did pass. When it did, with the Twins representing the American League in 1965, we saw a different team win the pennant each year from 1965 until the creation of divisions in 1969.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What we also have is a bit of a serendipitous collection of the final outs (or seconds after) of the final 4 American League pennants before divisional play in 1965, '66, '67 and '68. More about each after the jump.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a frame of reference, there is a touch of irony that the Minnesota Twins clinched the AL pennant in Washington D.C. Calvin Griffith, the successor of his uncle (and stadium namesake) Clark Griffith, started plans to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/10/21/calvin-griffith-once-considered-moving-the-senators-to-san-francisco/" target="_blank">move the Senators from Washington</a> shortly after he seized control of the team. Of the places under consideration for relocation were the two west coast cities of Los Angeles and San Fransisco, along with Louisville and Minneapolis. Griffith’s efforts were initially blocked, forcing him to miss out on the move out west but he eventually moved his team to Minnesota following the 1960 season. This forced Major League Baseball to expand for the first time in its history in order to ensure that a baseball team stayed in Washington. The new Senators continued the 32 years of futility the previous incarnation had wallowed in following the 1933 World Series. The Twins would begin a 10 year stretch in which they would finish 3rd or higher seven times. <br /><br />On this late <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS2/WS2196509260.shtml" target="_blank">September afternoon in 1965</a>, Griffith’s current team found themselves in the municipal stadium he said wouldn’t placate his desire to relocate, facing the team that MLB had to create to replace his vacancy, on the television broadcast that was part of a television deal he could never get in Washington. <br /><br />There are so many great things going on in this footage. Amazingly, we get the tail-end of the Top of the 9th of this game. That continues on, uninterrupted, through the bottom of the 9th and into the locker room. The bottom of the 9th shows an exhausted looking Jim Kaat finishing off his 7th complete game of the season. Also as a footnote of this historic inning, Don Zimmer is the batter that recorded the final out in the Twin’s clincher. It would be the 3rd to last at-bat of Zimmer’s career. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The two stars of this find are the great quality this video master is in and the views of D.C. Stadium. Seeing the beautiful monster-sized scoreboard in RF, along with one of the last Longines clocks to be used in big league parks is a great nostalgic treat. <br /><br />The video itself has such great clarity. You can begin to tell the difference in high definition scans of archival footage, as opposed to some of the transfers done using previous methods. The detail is much more apparent during the on-field action than in the postgame interviews, but both are amazing. The infield grass, worn from the long season, the turning weather on the Delmarva Peninsula and the beginning of the NFL season appears crisp to the point that you feel you can see each blade of grass individually. <br /><span id="goog_2109516938"></span><span id="goog_2109516939"></span><br />The most recent discovery of this group comes from the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in Minnesota. The people at Pavek created a high quality transfer of a 2-inch video tape donated by Frank Buetel. Frank Buetel was the radio broadcaster for many Minnesota sports teams, most importantly the Twins. On September 26th, Buetel got to step out in front of the cameras as he helped Ray Scott cover the postgame celebration from inside the visitor’s locker room at D.C. Stadium. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being a sports logo/graphics obsessive, there is another great treat tucked away in this broadcast. Twin Cities Federal Savings, the broadcast sponsor of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WTCN</span> Twins broadcasts has prepared a special recognition flyer for the AL Champion Twins. On it, we get some great 60’s graphic art featuring the interlocking ‘TC’ logo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1965, the Baltimore Orioles finished 8 games behind the champion Minnesota Twins. On December 9th, they made a franchise changing trade in acquiring Frank Robinson from the Cincinnati Reds. Robinson would instantly pay dividends, winning the Triple Crown and MVP in his first year with the club. He would be worth 8.3 WAR playing RF for the O's, nearly 7 'wins' better than the man he replaced in Russ Snyder (1.4).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Orioles would lead the American League from early June on, culminating in clinching the pennant on <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KC1/KC1196609220.shtml" target="_blank">September 22, 1966</a> vs the Kansas City Athletics. On the mound that day, second year starter Jim Palmer would go the distance, scattering 5 hits with 8 strikeouts. The most important out of the day, the final one would find it's way into the glove of tumbling Paul Blair off the bat of Dick Green.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This clip comes to us courtesy of the 90's VHS release of "Miracles on 33rd Street". The broadcast is from the Orioles flagship network WJZ. WJZ is currently the over-the-air home of the Orioles, and served in the same capacity from 1954 to 1978. The call is television audio by Bill O'Donnell who worked the WJZ games from 1966 to 1977.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A fun factoid about this game is that a young James Hunter, better known as "Catfish" would pitch an inning of relief for the A's. He gave up 2 doubles (one to Frank Robinson) as well as 2 runs in the inning he pitched. None of this is shown in the 15 second clip.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Orioles would go on to defeat the defending World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers in 4 games to win the franchise's first World Championship. The 1966 AL Pennant would also be the team's first since moving from St. Louis to Baltimore and the first since the Brownies won in 1944.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I said <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-original-game-162-october-1-1967.html" target="_blank">back at Christmas time</a> in 2012, the 1967 AL Pennant race came down to the final game (162). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"The Impossible Dream Red Sox,
Killebrew's Twins and soon-to-be World Champion Detroit Tigers all
entered the final day of the season tied for the AL's top spot. Technically the Tigers were a half game back and a win on their part
would have forced a playoff with the winner of the Red Sox/Twins games
at Fenway that weekend."</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Much of the pennant clincher on <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS196710010.shtml" target="_blank">October 1, 1967</a> has survived in little clips. The part we are concerned with is the very end. Here is how I showed it in the original post:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The "original broadcast audio" I referenced was from Boston flagship WHDH. The announcers were Ken Coleman and Ned Martin. It is important to remember that also on that day the game was shown on NBC and we have surviving NBC audio of the game featuring former WHDH broadcaster Curt Gowdy. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On July 22, 2013, MLB <a href="http://youtu.be/JivweGwrj-A" target="_blank">uploaded the clip</a> of the clincher to their YouTube channel. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 1967 Boston Red Sox, despite all the on-field theatrics discussed above still had to wait to see the outcome of the second game between the Tigers and Angels in a Sunday doubleheader. The Tigers would lose that game and the 1967 AL Pennant. Starting 1968, both the city of Detroit and the Tigers would be on fire, so to speak. Detroit was in the midst of high racial tension and seemingly the only thing bringing the city together was the great play of the hometown Tigers. While the Tigers made it a habit of winning on late-game, dramatic comebacks and homeruns, they wouldn't leave the pennant open for anyone to steal this time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET196809170.shtml">September 17th</a>, the Tigers stood 10.5 games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles. This date is important for this blog, as it comes up twice in two separate posts. The Tigers took on the Yankees and would once again win in dramatic walk-off fashion. I <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2009/02/most-hated-villians.html">highlighted what we actually</a> saw in the clip, but to summarize:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
footage included the scoreboard, which shows a Yankees player caught in
a rundown. The scoreboard tells us that #41 Jake Gibbs batting.
Earlier in the clip we see the batter is lefthanded, which fits Gibbs.
It is the 6th inning with 2 outs. I could delve further into when and
why it could be but honestly, this one is fairly easy. </span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> footage from this game comes from two <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">separate</span> sources. The first, a locally produced <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">end of season high<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">li<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ght film<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, features <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">inter-cut footage from <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">color film and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">television broadcast footage from WJBK-TV and WWJ-<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TV<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. From this<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> we get various television broadcast snippets of the 9th inning<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of this game but the real treat is </span>the brief glimps<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from the </span></span>television b<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">roadcast<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of D<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on</span> Wert scoring the pennant clinching run<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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video picks up with the fans storming the field and then quickly cuts to
the players in the locker room. Standing on a podium (the Tigers were
11 games up on the Orioles and Boston had already eliminated Baltimore
with a victory earlier in the night), the interviews flow in one after
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The videotape, which was saved/discovered by a former Detroit television producer, goes on for 26 minutes. The quality of the game action (which may be from The Year of the Tiger special) and the postgame celebration are superb considering their age. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The clinching footage from both 1965 and 1968 would be spectacular bonus material to include with a boxset for both World Series. These two CBC sourced kinescope collections are the complete 7 game series. Neither of which has been released by Major League Baseball, unfortunately. Major League Baseball has seen a change in their distribution arrangement over the last two years which has resulted in a complete lack of classic game releases. This is the 50th anniversary of the Twins/Dodgers World Series and no better a time to finally get the entire series released with this pennant clinching footage included.</span></span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-79759831845719435692018-03-30T21:05:00.003-04:002018-03-30T21:05:56.660-04:00Check the Webbing: Reggie going deep on WHDH-TV (in COLOR)<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Happy Opening Day 2018! Much of the league saw their games played under gray skies (or even postponed) but hopefully this classic color footage will brighten your day! </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here we have a <a href="https://youtu.be/jXYswkhHtt0" target="_blank">clip uploaded by MLB.com</a> to their YouTube channel. As described in the video's info:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">6/15/69: Athletics outfielder Reggie Jackson hits his 23rd home run of the season</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's exactly what we get. Reggie Jackson, in the beautiful sleeveless A's uniforms, takes Sonny Siebert deep into the Fenway bullpen for his <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS196906150.shtml" target="_blank">23rd home run of the 1969 season</a>. This game was broadcast on WHDH-TV and we have Ken Coleman on the wet-blanket call. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What makes this clip so particularly interesting is where it came from and what it represents. This footage comes from the New England Museum of Sports. We've talked about <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2012/12/the-original-game-162-october-1-1967.html#more" target="_blank">footage from</a> the <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2010/03/1967-world-series-complete-game.html" target="_blank">Sports Museum before</a>. There is an extensive cache of clips and highlights that survived from when WHDH lost their license. Up until now, it was not known whether MLB was in possession of all of this. This clip makes it clear they do have it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Which brings me to the most important point: this June 15, 1969 game survives as a pretty extensive partial. Roughly 2 hours and 7 minutes of this game, in beautiful color, has been saved. Sans for part of the top of the 3rd inning, the game is complete into the top of the 8th inning. This is a pretty sizeable partial color broadcast, which seems to be missing the final reel/tape of the game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With this game having been in trading circles for years now, you're left with less hope that the final reel/tape will ever be found. The full radio broadcast of this June game can be purchased on-line, which would allow fans to finish the game should this ever be offered through and official vendor. Still, complete or not, this is one of those amazing finds that is the whole reason those of us that are always on the look for stuff continue to search!</span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-41108048368566191622017-03-09T10:45:00.004-05:002017-03-09T10:47:33.887-05:00Review: 1964 All Star Game (Partial)<div class="MsoNormal">
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All-Star Game is considered one of the most exciting games in the classic’s
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only 3 of the 9 innings didn’t
feature scoring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The game featured two
solo homeruns by Ken Boyer and Billy Williams in the 4<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
National League would come from behind to win on a 3-run walk off homerun by
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game we covered last year, all that has survived is a partial broadcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This offering is only the 2<sup>nd</sup> reel
of the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a game time of 2 hours
and 37 minutes, the game would have been split over approximately 5 reels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This reel runs around 24 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we are missing is any pregame material
and the first half inning of the game. The top half of the inning featured
early scoring, as Jim Fergosi (who reached on a single) advanced on a passed
ball and was driven in by a Harmon Killebrew base hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The kinescope
picks up coming back from commercial in the bottom of the 1<sup>st</sup>
inning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I say ‘coming back from
commercial’, there are actually no commercials on this kinescope but the fade
outs remain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have all been edited
out at the original source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Highlighting
how the defense is set up, we get shots of future HOF’ers Harmon Killebrew,
Brooks Robinson, and Mickey Mantle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
leading vote getter, Bobby Richardson, started at 2B and the reigning AL MVP,
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Game, another chance to see Willie Mays wearing the wrong batting helmet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we wrote before, Mays has a history of
borrowing other player’s helmets during All-Star Games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mays, playing in his 11<sup>th</sup>
Midsummer Classic, is sporting a helmet adorned with the M of the Milwaukee
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comes in the form of long fly balls and a botched groundball off the bat of
Boyer ruled a single. The fly balls give us a chance to compare the styles of three
Hall of Fame outfielders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mays, with all
the casual coolness that the ‘Say Hey Kid’ was known for, Mantle, with his
powerful strides going back on the ball, Clemente with the appearance of it
being an inconvenience that he has to move to record the out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see how people formed perceptions of
these players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can imagine kids
going out in the backyard after this game, staring into the sun as they emulate
these mannerisms on self-thrown pop-ups, flipping the ball back in to imaginary
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action! Ron Hunt, becoming the first New York Met to be voted a starter at the
All-Star Game raps a single into left field to the roar of the partisan home
crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drysdale is lifted for
pinch-hitter Willie Stargell, who moves Hunt into scoring position with a
groundout to the pitcher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clemente took
two of his iconic wild hacks before grounding out to Jim Fergosi at shortstop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Groat bounced a grounder to Richardson and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Usually with NBC
telecasts of the era, the pregame would feature a showcasing of the
ballpark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without that, we get a few
glimpses of the new, state of the art stadium in Flushings, New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see, repeatedly, the iconic
gargantuan scoreboard, the massive parking lots beyond the outfield fence, as
well as the standing area overhangs down both foul lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For my money, the most beautiful feature of
pre-‘blue plastic’ Shea Stadium was the brick walls beyond the outfield fence
down both foul lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These shots of
both bullpens, as well as this foul ball tracked by Billy Williams, of the
brick wall show it gave Shea an elegant 60’s look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Former St. Louis
Cardinal Buddy Blattner is on the call for these first 3 innings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blattner, a table tennis HOF’er, had an often
forgotten but historic broadcasting career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After signing with the Browns and Falstaff beer as a broadcaster, owner
Bill Veeck attempted to sign the retired player to a player contract for the
sole purpose of having him broadcast a game from right-field using a
walkie-talkie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His association with
Falstaff would pair him with Dizzy Dean and the two would go on the air for the
first ever Game of the Week in 1953.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
two made up the highest rated broadcast team, working both locally and
nationally until they had a falling out over Dean’s refusal to let Blattner
call the 1959 NL Playoff on television without him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His resume featured work for the Browns,
Cardinals, Angels and Royals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nationally, Blattner broadcast on the radio for the Mutual and Liberty
networks and did the television ‘Game Of The Week’ for ABC and CBS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Twice Blattner
would call the All-Star Game for NBC, this game in 1964 on TV and in 1967 on
the radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His style is informational,
in the vein of Vin Scully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He fills the
between pitch time with loads of background information about the players,
right down to identifying each player by their hometown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
the more fascinating fillers Blattner gives is the claim that Tony Oliva’s name
is actually ‘Pedro’ and that he is in the United States falsely using his brother’s
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</span>The behind home plate view features both the traditional high position
(giving an aerial view of the action) and a low zoomed position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The low zoomed position focuses over the
umpires shoulder and tries to replicate the experience of being in the batter’s
box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The viewer at home gets a real
treat during Dick Groat’s at-bat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chance
uncorks a wild pitch over the head of Elston Howard and seemingly into the
viewer’s living room from that low zoomed angle. The producers also use the
traditional high first and third base angles to give zoomed closeups of the
player’s and coach’s faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><b>Conclusion:</b> This
is a great offering from the kinescope era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although it is missing many of the iconic moments from this game, we get
to see many of the stars from the era in action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The picture quality on this transfer by
RareSportsFilms is one of the crispest I have seen of film from the era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Bottom 3<sup>rd</sup></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Commercially available: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Yes</span></div>
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GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-51088696253229548002017-02-19T12:59:00.002-05:002017-02-19T12:59:32.241-05:00Check The Webbing: Gibby and Billy Williams Day<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Editor's Note: 'Check the Webbing' will be short posts about broadcast clips found on the Web. These types of clips either do not need extensive explanation or research, or are updates to posts already written. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Billy Williams Day, a doubleheader from <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN196906291.shtml" target="_blank">June 29, 1969</a></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">, </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">is a topic that has been discussed on numerous occasions. <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2014/06/the-45th-anniversary-of-billy-williams.html" target="_blank">Three years ago,</a> we saw a brief clip of the final out of Game 1 from that double header at Wrigley. Our <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2012/08/bob-gibson-in-color-and-billy-williams.html" target="_blank">original post back in 2012</a> focused on color video tape footage from the 8th inning of that first game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The description of the events of that clip were:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
clip seen here is of Ernie Banks driving in the 1st run of the game
with an RBI single up the middle. This clip, as well as the other
Gibson shots, come from <a href="http://www.wgntv.com/videogallery/69088776/Sports/Revisiting-the-1969-Cubs" target="_blank">Revisiting the 1969 Cubs </a>, a WGN produced clip that (judging by onscreen graphics) was put together in the 1990's. </span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On January 31, 2017, <a href="https://youtu.be/vFmc-PE6CDU" target="_blank">MLB.com uploaded an extended video clip of Banks' single</a> off of Gibson in the 8th inning. This clip can be found on their YouTube channel. The footage is color videotape and is complete with the Jack Brickhouse call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Without speaking to MLB, the source of this clip most likely comes from the WGN highlight reels that were compiled throughout the season. Many of these survived from the late 60's and early 70's. They often times represent the only broadcast footage that remains from WGN.</span> GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-86040941985126927052017-02-04T18:45:00.000-05:002017-02-05T00:10:06.005-05:00The 1957 World Series: What Exists<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nearly 10 years have passed since we <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2007/11/1957-world-series-milwaukee-vs-new-york.html" target="_blank">first wrote about the surviving kinescopes from the 1957 World Series</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time, only 2 of the games were
commercially available by Rare Sports Films and neither of those games were
complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also knew that Rare
Sports Films had publicly shown at least two other games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was rumored more existed beyond those
four and as the years passed by, those games began to trickle out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, it was <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2013/11/more-1957-world-series-from.html" target="_blank">a partial of Game 5</a> in 2013 and
then, a <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2015/04/the-story-of-1957-world-series-game-1.html" target="_blank">complete sign-on to sign-off version of Game 1 was released two years ago</a>. Now, as the 60<sup>th</sup> anniversary of this historic World Series is
upon us, <a href="http://www.raresportsfilms.com/1957-world-series-game2.html" target="_blank">Rare Sports Films has released yet another game</a>. </span><br />
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</span>It has taken 10 years (or 60 depending on how you look at it) but we are
on the cusp of having a near complete series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We now know that Rare Sports has 4 of these games in complete form, one
game missing a single at-bat and two partial broadcasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> Yes, including Armed Forces Network sign-on.<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> Yes<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? :</b> Yes<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b> Armed Forces Network<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b> A DVD copy is sold, containing both the
television and radio audio attached to the broadcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This DVD was made available in 2015 around
the same time that the kinescope reels were sold on eBay for $1500.</span><br />
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</span>Broadcast is believed to be complete<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> Unknown<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> Unknown<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? :</b> Yes<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b> Armed Forces Network<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b> A DVD copy is sold, containing both the
television and radio audio attached to the broadcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The DVD was made available in early 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Runtime:</b> 3 hours 1 minute<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What’s missing? :</b> Tony Kubek’s 2<sup>nd</sup> homerun in the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b> A DVD copy is sold, containing only the
television audio with the broadcast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
DVD was made available in 2007.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What’s missing? :</b> Broadcast is believed to be complete.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b> Final reel comes from Armed Forces Network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rare Sports holds another kinescope copy of
this game that was acquired from the Milwaukee area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
February 2, 2008 this game was shown in its entirety before a SABR
gathering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the original listing, a
point was made of emphasizing that the game would be shown in its entirety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a classic 10-innings affair that ran
2 hours and 31 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that date,
no known copies have been made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Runtime:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 hour 27
minutes</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What’s missing? :</b> Parts of the 2<sup>nd</sup>, 3<sup>rd</sup>
and 5<sup>th</sup> innings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roughly a 30
minutes of game time is missing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? :</b> Yes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b> A DVD copy is sold, containing <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">both </span>the
television and radio audio with the broadcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
DVD was made available in late 2013 but was later updated to include radio audio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What’s missing? :</b> Contains most of the first 5 ½ innings but
is missing bottom of 3rd, all<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>of innings 7-9. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> No</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? </b>: Yes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
partial is sold as part of a World Series compilation disc that includes
highlights from all 7 games, along with a World Series preview.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What’s missing? :</b> Broadcast is believed to be complete.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-on? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sign-off? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Commercials? :</b> Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source? :</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Availability:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
February 3, 2007, this game was shown in its entirety before a SABR
gathering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that date, no known
copies have been made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While this may seem like an advertisement for Doak Ewing’s
enterprise, the truth is we are currently limited to only their offerings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lone other known kinescope copy of a game
(Game 1) was sold by Rare Sports through a consignment seller; however the
whereabouts of the copy are still unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A search of MLB’s content shows only news and World Series film
footage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reality is that Rare Sports
has been the only entity to produce the broadcast footage from this series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The trade, as always, that you get with a private entity
versus a professional league has both pros cons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the pros with these broadcasts being
distributed by a private entity is that they are being shown in nearly complete
original form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Commercials and network
pregame/postgame footage remains intact, when a commercial release by a league
would face many licensing issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another is that they are actually seeing the light of day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite an often slow, drawn out time period
between the releases by Rare Sports or the amount of time it often takes for
materials to find their way out of private collections, they eventually make it
out to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of MLB, we
haven’t seen a game over 30 years old released in nearly 5 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their network has stopped showing full,
classic broadcasts altogether and their YouTube channel only releases snippets
and clips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cons come in the limitations in technology, packaging
and bonus materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leagues have the
full rights to use team logos, artifacts, photographs and any other
accompanying materials related to the teams involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, in this case, MLB has a vast
archive of footage ranging back most of the leagues history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not know what MLB has from this series
in their vaults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leagues also have the
resources to bring in former players, announcers and team personnel to provide
commentary or backstory to the events that take place during these series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leagues also have deep pockets which allow
for extensive restorations, cleanups and transfers in an archival format so
that these rare, decaying pieces of media survive for future generations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The bottom line:</b> While it has taken us a decade (or 6) to
get here, we are finally inching closer to this entire series being in the
hands of the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the current pace
of 2 years per game, hopefully we are all around in 2021 to see this Fall
Classic from start to finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It would be the final year that the two leagues would play more than one All-Star exhibition game. For the past 3 years, the Players Association had used the two All-Star games to help support the players’ pension fund. The American League had argued that they would no longer participate in two exhibitions during the previous winter; however the two leagues came to an agreement to go ahead with both contests in 1962.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These long lost kinescope reels (which constitute the most complete All-Star Game broadcast prior to 1965) give us a glimpse into Midsummer Classic that features a sitting President, an All-Star Game legend, an exciting game and a rare glimpse into a classic stadium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first reel kicks off with a Texaco commercial complete with ‘the man with the star’. The broadcast begins with Joe Garagiola inviting us into District of Columbia Stadium (later to be renamed RFK Stadium). Like most NBC broadcasts of the 50s/60s, there are numerous establishing shots showcasing the dimensions of the ballpark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Garagiola had joined NBC in 1961 and this would be the first and only All-Star Game he would work with Mel Allen. The two had worked the television booth of the 1961 World Series. In a twist of fate, Garagiola would be the man who would replace Allen in 1964 on Yankees broadcasts when Allen was abruptly fired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is bittersweet that the pregame of this game takes up the first 2/3rds of the first reel. You miss more game action; however you get to enjoy the pregame ceremonies as they appeared on the original broadcast. We are treated to player introductions featuring the stars you would expect: Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Banks and of course, Stan Musial. This was the 19th year Musial was named an All-Star. He would finish his career in 1963 with one final All-Star Game appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some of the younger pitchers who would dominate the rest of the decade that are announced are Juan Marichal, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson. Only Drysdale and Marichal would appear in the game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are two highlights to the first reel. The first of which is the ceremonial first pitch. At the stadium that day is President John F. Kennedy. NBC does not miss a beat in using a picture in picture box to interpose the American flag and the President as the Star Spangled Banner echoes in the background.
The first pitch ceremony is extended a bit as Kennedy requested to meet with Musial who had campaigned for him during the previous election. Musial had told Bob Broeg of the Post-Dispatch that if he got the chance to speak with the President, he would remind him of their meeting two years prior in Milwaukee. There, Kennedy joked with Musial that “they say you are too old to play baseball and I am too young to be President”. Musial joked with the President on this July day, “I guess they were wrong about both of us.” This meeting would produce one of the most <a href="https://www.steinersports.com/products/stan-musial-st-louis-cardinals-autographed-with-jfk-16x20-photo-inscribed-hofstan-the-man-authenticated" target="_blank">famous photos of Musial</a>, one he sold until his death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The other highlight of the first reel is the Roberto Clemente at-bat. In it, he ropes a line drive off of Jim Bunning to the right-fielder Mickey Mantle. As Mantle is a little slow coming up with the ball, Clemente with his trademark zest takes second base turning a routine single into a hard earned double. The reel ends as the players leave the field in the middle of the 1st.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The second reel available of this game is actually Reel 3, which covers the bottom of the 3rd through the 5th inning. We miss the first two innings of Don Drysdale’s pitching, but see him work around a triple in the 3rd. Replacing him in the 4th is Juan Marichal in his first All-Star Game. Featured are at-bats by Luis Aparicio, Willie Mays, Clemente, Orlando Cepeda, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Ken Boyer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a fun moment that only the All-Star Game and World Series used to provide. Juan Marichal against Mickey Mantle. Just three months later, Mantle and Marichal would lock up again in Game 4 of the classic 1962 World Series. Marichal would strikeout Mantle twice in the four innings he pitched before smashing his thumb trying to get down a sacrifice bunt. Marichal would go on the disabled list, miss the rest of a series that saw two games postponed of which he most certainly would have pitched at least one other time.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The reels for the remainder of the game are missing, leaving us without a glimpse of Stan Musial’s final All-Star game hit. Maury Wills would enter the game as a pinch runner for him and put on a show that would earn him the first All-Star Game MVP award. Replacing Musial as a baserunner, Wills stole 2nd and scored on a Dick Groat single. In the 8th, Wills would single and go first to third on a Jim Davenport single to left. Felipe Alou would follow with a foul flyball down the RF line and a tagging Wills would score the games 3rd and final run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A quirky aside: when I wrote about the 1965 All-Star broadcast, I made mention of Willie Mays <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2010/07/1965-all-star-game-review.html" target="_blank">wearing a Cubs batting helmet</a>. Here in the 1962, Mays forgoes a helmet and simply wears his cap to the plate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The broadcast showcases a number of camera angles: the CF camera, behind home camera, third base high camera, first base high camera. Advances like picture-in-picture make an appearance. The on-screen graphics are similar to those you would see in all the early 60’s NBC broadcasts with player name card transparencies and the between inning score transparency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With these copies being available in trading circles, it is hard to determine the quality of the original reels. Almost assuredly an archive copy would give a stronger picture. These copies, however, I would rate between a 6 or 7. The runtime of the game was nearly two and a half hours, so the kinescope would potentially be a five reel recording. Having 40% of the broadcast is a treat but the disjointed nature of missing a reel in between takes a little bit away from the viewing experience. On the other hand, I would trade finding that missing 2nd reel for the 4th reel instead which featured Musial and most of the scoring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Enjoy tonight's All-Star Game. This 1962 game featured 18 HOF players. It will be interesting to see how many players from tonight's game eventually end up in Cooperstown.</span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-86932970735310337242015-10-23T14:32:00.001-04:002015-10-23T20:55:51.289-04:00The 399th Homerun for 'The Duke of ... Coogan's Bluff'?<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is jarring. You don't expect it. You're watching the ball jump off the bat and your brain is conditioned to think it is a routine flyball. As the camera pans to the right, it just appears. The right field stands at the Polo Grounds. That is where Duke Snider's 399th career homerun landed in an unearthed <a href="https://youtu.be/_bLVUfw3C4A" target="_blank">video clip from MLB.com</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This isn't the only homerun we've ever seen in the Polo Grounds, however (to my knowledge) it is the only broadcast footage of a homerun in the iconic stadium. The Polo Grounds was the home of the New York Yankees until 1922, the Giants until 1957 and the Mets for the 1962 and 1963 seasons. The ballpark hosted two All-Star games, neither televised and the 1951 and 1954 World Series, both of which were televised but no broadcast material survives. Probably the most famous game ever played at The Grounds was Game 3 of the 1951 NL Playoff. Despite the WPIX broadcast being transmitted coast-to-coast by NBC, no broadcast footage from this game survives either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The homerun Snider hit, off of Cardinals reliever Diomedes Olivo, left the field about 260 feet away from homeplate. To put that into <a href="http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/baseballs-many-physical-dimensions_53344ca673751.png" target="_blank">modern perspective</a>, the shortest right field distance you will find in a current ballpark is still 40 feet deeper. Fans watching in the rightfield corner are literally sitting where most modern right fielders stand when there is a runner at 3rd and less than 2 outs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Leading up to that homerun off the oldest player in the National League, the Cardinals had played a fairly taught game. Facing future Cardinal, Al Jackson, the Redbirds lead 2-0 off of back-to-back doubles by Curt Flood and Dick Groat to start the game and a solo homerun by Ken Boyer in the 4th. Starter Ron Taylor had given up two hits to the Mets in the 2nd inning but held them without another baserunner going into the 9th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Mets picked up a one out single by Frank Thomas and a walk by Ron Hunt, to chase Taylor from the ballgame and bring Snider to the plate. Rod Kanehl pinch ran for Thomas and moved to 3rd when Olivo uncorked a wild pitch. With the tying run now at 2nd base and a 2-2 count, Snider lined a ball into the 2nd deck for his 8th career walk-off homerun and the Mets won the 21st of their 51 victories on the season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The videotape of the <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196306070.shtml" target="_blank">June 7, 1963</a> game comes from the WOR-TV broadcast. Lindsey Nelson is on the call. What is interesting is that this videotape is in black and white. The broadcast from April 16, 1963 that was <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2013/07/duke-sniders-2000th-hit-in-color.html" target="_blank">highlighted in the post</a> came in color from Crosley Field. You can see the quick drop in of 'DUKE SNIDER' as an overlay, as well as a sad Ken Boyer leaving the field dejected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is always great to see these old ballparks. We've been given glimpses of Sportsman's Park, Crosley Field, Forbes Field, Ebbets, the list goes on. Some of the great shots we get in this clip are of the Kool Cigarettes ad just to the right of the homerun but more excitingly, the flash of the Rheingold ad on the clubhouse in CF. The centerfield clubhouse is one of the most iconic images of the Polo Grounds and to see it 'living' in the background of this footage is a real treat. That 'H' and 'E' in the Rheingold sign would light up, signalling to the fans whether the play had been ruled a hit or an error. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This footage had previously been seen on the Mets 25th Anniversary VHS production, to some degree. You can purchase the <a href="http://baseballdirect.com/broadcasts2.html#1960" target="_blank">WABC radio call</a> of this game from the Miley Collection on BaseballDirect.</span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-32138944137916146942015-07-26T00:19:00.001-04:002015-07-26T00:49:40.018-04:001972: The Last No-Hitter of Its Kind (until 2015)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*This post is part of an <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2014/08/the-1972-season-what-has-survived.html" target="_blank">on-going series</a> cataloging surviving broadcast footage from 1972</span>.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Milt Pappas' no-hitter/near perfect game stood as a rare feat in two ways for nearly 43 years. In 1972, Pappas became the first pitcher since 1908 to lose a perfect game bid on the 27th batter without giving up a hit. Not since Hooks Wiltse's HBP in 1908 had a free base been issued to the 27th batter. The walk by Pappas would be the last of its kind until June 2015, when Max Scherzer's perfect game bid was spoiled with 26 outs by Jose Tabata's elbow pad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Even with that inglorious drought ended, Pappas still held the distinction of throwing the most recent no-hitter in the 'friendly confines' of Wrigley Field. That feat now belongs to left hander, Cole Hamels, who no-hit the Cubs on July 25, 2015. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For Pappas, his day in the sun was near the end of a long, weird career. This eventful no-hitter was one of the final chapters in a career of prominent lowlights (being on the wrong lopsided end of the Frank Robinson to Baltimore trade/admitting to giving up Roger Maris' 59th homerun out of spite towards Ford Frick) and highlights (striking out the side on only 9 pitches). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The memorable 9th inning and more, after the jump.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">By <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN197209020.shtml" target="_blank">September 2, 1972</a>, the Cubs found themselves <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/games/standings.cgi?date=1972-09-02" target="_blank">11 games behind</a> the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League East. The Padres, in their fourth year of existence, were a nightmarish 46-80. The Padres were so woeful, they only had 2 position players accumulate more than <a href="http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=1972&month=0&season1=1972&ind=0&team=29&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0" target="_blank">1.0 fWAR</a> (Nate Colbert, Leron Lee)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have heard rumors that highlights from the earlier innings (not complete game) exist, however I have not personally seen them. Heading into the final frame, Pappas had retired 24 straight batters with 6 strikeouts, 8 flyouts and 10 groundouts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The first hitter, John Jeter, begins the wild 9th inning driving a 1-1 flyball into the left-center gap. On this rainy Saturday afternoon, centerfielder Billy North appears to lose his footing on the Wrigley grass (and its history of wonderful drainage) and the perfect game seems lost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In a flash, however, Billy Williams comes flying in to snare the hooking liner chest high to record the 25th out. For pure drama, the switch to the baseline camera by WGN makes this play seem even more amazing than it probably was based on how easily Williams eventually comes up with it. Jack Brickhouse, on the call as always, credits the cameramen for catching this play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On the first pitch following Williams' heroics, Padres catcher Fred Kendall pulls a line drive into the Cubs bullpen down the left field line. If the Wrigley faithfuls' hearts had begun to find their normal rhythm after the previous lineout, this ball flirting with the chalk surely sent them back over the edge. Kendall grounded the next pitch to Don Kessinger and Pappas had 26 outs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Padres sent Larry Stahl to pinch hit for the relief pitcher. Pappas threw Stahl a fastball on the first pitch, a wide one on the second pitch and a fastball across the plate on the third pitch. Stahl only swung at the two fastballs. Pappas would throw him two more sliders, despite Stahl being late on what appeared to be the two fastballs near the plate he saw. In the postgame, Pappas said he thought Froemming "could have called one of those sliders a strike"</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Now, here comes one of the most fateful pitches of the year" - Jack Brickhouse</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After being ahead of the pinch-hitter Stahl 1-2, Pappas decided to throw only sliders. On the 3-2 delivery, Pappas threw essentially the same pitch/same location he threw on 1-2 and 2-2. It may have been a little closer, it may not have. In the eyes of umpire Bruce Froemming, it was not a strike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">WGN's camera work in this instance leaves us with an imperfect view. Had they used the centerfield camera, we would know once and for all whether the pitch was in fact in the strikezone. The high-behind-home angle does, however, give us a view of whether the hitter went around. Even with my Cardinals fan eyes, I'd say the hitter does not in fact check his swing. This probably should have been a perfect game on a swinging strike. In today's game, the catcher would have asked for an appeal on the check swing and it would have been a strikeout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was not and Pappas almost went from history to infamy, getting himself ejected with one batter left in a no-hitter. Clearly enraged, the Cubs pitcher hurls a few obscenities in towards homeplate over the second-year umpire's call. Froemming says that on that day in 1972, he told the Cubs catcher Randy Hundley, "If he comes down here, Randy, tell him to just keep walking."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pappas was able to collect himself. For the first time all day, he had to pitch from the stretch. Former Cub, Garry Jestadt was the next pinch-hitter. On a 1-1 count, Pappas quick-pitched Jestadt and got him to pop-up to the second baseman to secure the second Cubs no-hitter of the season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cubs third baseman, Ron Santo, is among one of the first teammates to congratulate Pappas. Also in the scrum is a retired Ernie Banks, in uniform as a coach. In review, the 9th inning of this game featured the 25th out coming after the centerfielder fell down, the 26th out coming after the hitter nearly hit a ball on the chalk down the left field line and the 27th out coming after the previous hitter was walked on a 3-2 count in a perfect game bid. Only the Cubs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The majority of this footage comes from a 1977 WGN produced program titled "<a href="http://mediaburn.org/video/memorable-moments-in-chicago-sports/" target="_blank">Memorable Moments in Chicago Sports History</a>". The broadcast footage has Jack Brickhouse providing play-by-play throughout. Interestingly enough, the Pappas-Froemming altercation was cut from the highlight show footage. Froemming's smirk and stroll back from the mound can be seen in <a href="http://m.mlb.com/video/v11681195" target="_blank">this MLB Network clip</a> available on MLB.com. It should be noted that in this clip, MLB Network's Bob Costas appears to incorrectly state that Pappas had Stahl 0-2. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The total amount of the footage for the 9th inning is about five minutes and forty seconds. Not included in that runtime is the footage of Froemming telling Pappas to calm down, nor is the postgame interview with Jim West shown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can see the Pappas/West on-field interview <a href="http://m.mlb.com/video/v33878341" target="_blank">here courtesy of MLB.com</a>. Pappas in later years would seem rather bitter about the no-call to the 27th hitter, however immediately after the game he seemed rather grateful that he was able to finally throw a no-hitter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Before we end this entry, I would be remiss if I didn't make mention of the Padres uniforms. Sansabelt with a button-up top and in yellow? <b>Glorious. </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This would be the bridge to some of the Padres most famous uniforms. In 1973, they would ditch the all brown caps on the road in favor of the 'Taco Bell' caps. These full-yellow uniforms would be short lived, only being worn during the 1972 and 1973 seasons. While the yellow-on-yellow is not the greatest look, the Padres should embrace their heritage and <a href="https://twitter.com/backthebrownsd" target="_blank">#BringBackTheBrown</a> . </span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-16001599687045756342015-06-24T21:40:00.001-04:002015-06-24T21:45:28.791-04:00A 'Dizzy-ing' mystery solved<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The longer I stay with this hobby, the more and more I learn. When I <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2013/01/remember-stance-remember-swing.html" target="_blank">originally wrote</a> about Stan Musial's final at-bat, I was left perplexed at the combination of two video pieces into one elongated clip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 2013, I wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"How
this game was broadcast is a bit of a mystery. Having the Dizzy Dean
clips at the beginning are what is most perplexing. In 1963, he was
working games for CBS in their Game of the Week broadcasts. On
Saturday, the GOTW on CBS was Minnesota vs Yankees at Yankee Stadium
with Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese as per various television listings of
the day. CBS did not have a GOTW on Sunday (although NBC did with
Senators vs White Sox) instead showing NFL Football. So Dean would have
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After the jump, I will talk about some archival footage I stumbled upon over the weekend that helped explain where that clip of Dizzy Dean came from and when it aired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The footage of Dizzy Dean reminiscing about Musial's debut is actually from a KMOX-TV produced special titled "Stan Musial: The Man". Below is a newspaper clipping from the <a href="http://edwardsville.newspaperarchive.com/" target="_blank">Edwardsville Intelligencer</a> about the half-hour special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Having digitized this piece of archival material, the Missouri History Museum offers the entire 30 minute program for your viewing pleasure on their <a href="https://youtu.be/qpfQUxE9Ivk" target="_blank">YouTube</a> page. The footage of Musial's final at-bat (surely a KSD-TV broadcast) is not and would not be included in this special. With this program airing in early August, Musial wouldn't take his <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2013/01/remember-stance-remember-swing.html" target="_blank">final at-bat</a> until late September.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Donations to the Missouri History Museum and their work in archiving bits of television history like this can be made at <a href="https://support.mohistory.org/make-a-donation" target="_blank">their website</a>.</span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-7709761106050156202015-04-23T12:38:00.001-04:002015-04-23T12:38:02.804-04:00Frank Robinson: Player/Manager with Homerun/Win<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE197504080.shtml" target="_blank">April 8, 1975</a>, Frank Robinson broke the managing color barrier in Major League Baseball. For the first time in league history, the Cleveland Indians were managed by an African American. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks to MLBNetwork and their new morning chatfest 'MLB Central', we are treated to a <a href="http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/7417714/v64631583" target="_blank">videotaped view</a> of that historic afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The slugger/skipper didn't waste any time, hitting his first homerun of the season in the bottom of the first inning off of Doc Medich. The homerun would be #575 of Robinson's career. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As you can see in the entire segment, there are a ton of news 'pickups' used to fill out the footage. You can clearly tell the difference between the actual game broadcast footage and the news footage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Notice on the outfield grass that the yardage markers from what I can only assume was Browns games in December. The Notre Dame/Navy game (which was played in the stadium 11 times) was not held at Municipal that season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are a few cues we can take away from this video. Firstly, it is part of a larger black and white segment that matches the actual game broadcast clip very well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Secondly, the news anchor we see talking as part of this larger segment is John Chancellor, NBC's New York based Evening News. The game clip has actual broadcast audio on it and is easily recognizable by the 'HOLY COW!" call as Robinson deposits the pitch into the left field seats. Phil Rizzuto gives us the call on what is surely a WPIX telecast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The amalgamation of these clips seems to be a national news special report that had WPIX sharing game broadcast clips with NBC News. This footage exists, as a minute and twenty second clip, in the NBC Universal Archives. The description in that log (as follows) matches perfectly with the footage MLBN shows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">FRANK ROBINSON TAKES HELM AS PLAYER-MANAGER FOR CLEVELAND INDIANS CLEVELAND INDIANS PLAYER-MANAGER FRANK ROBINSON JOGS ONTO FIELD TO CHEERS FROM CROWD AT MUNICIPAL STADIUM. AT PRESS CONFERENCE ROBINSON SAYS HIS JOB WILL BE TOUGH IN HIS DUAL ROLE ON THE CLUB & ADMITS HIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY BY THE CLUB & OTHERS. RACHEL ROBINSON; WIDOW OF JACKIE ROBINSON; THROWS OUT GAME BALL. ROBINSON HITS HOME RUN OFF THE NY YANKEES. FANS CHEER AS ROBINSON ROUNDS BASES. YANKEES CATCHER THURMAN MUNSON SEEN. TEAMMATES CONGRATULATE ROBINSON AT DUGOUT WITH HANDSHAKES & HE TIPS HIS HAT TO THE CROWD.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is a shame that this is black and white, instead of color. Seeing those hideously unique maroon jumpers the Indians wore would have been a real treat. Still, this is a great piece of baseball history. Through various clip films and shows, we have quite a few of Frank Robinson's 586 career homeruns although those mostly come from his days with the Orioles. </span> GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-62236439598024811252015-04-09T19:58:00.000-04:002015-04-09T20:01:34.353-04:00The Story of the 1957 World Series Game 1 release<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1957_WS.shtml" target="_blank">1957 World Series</a> is one of the few kinescope-era World Series that we have multiple complete or near complete broadcasts. In 2007, we discussed that Doak Ewing of RareSportsFilms had <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2007/11/1957-world-series-milwaukee-vs-new-york.html" target="_blank">shown or sold the broadcasts of Games 3, 4 and 7</a>. Later, in 2013, Doak began to sell a <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2013/11/more-1957-world-series-from.html" target="_blank">near-complete copy of Game 5</a>. Game 6 has been part of a partial that he sells with a copy of the World Series Film. That update left only Game 1 and 2 from seeing the light of day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA195710020.shtml" target="_blank">Game 1</a>, however, has since made it's way out into the world in the last two weeks through an eye-raising series of events. How that game came out and how you can find it, after the jump.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On March 24, 2015, a consignment seller out of Bolingbrook, IL listed a 4 reel kinescope copy of the 1957 World Series Game 1. The description of the auction listed by the seller:</span><br />
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RARE AND OLD TV KINESCOPE WORLD SERIES BASEBALL GAME 16MM FILM.
APPEARS TO BE THE ENTIRE GAME OF THE 1957 WORLD SERIES FEATURING YANKEES
AND MILWAUKEE BRAVES. BLACK AND WHITE FILM WHICH STATES GAME #1 AND
THE COMPLETE FOUR(4) OF FOUR(4) REELS ARE INCLUDED. APPROXIMATELY 4,000
FEET OF FILM TOTAL. FIRST REEL BEGINS WITH THE UMPIRES MEETING AT HOME
PLATE WITH THE EXCHANGE OF LINEUP CARDS WITH THE OPPOSING MANAGERS
(STENGEL & HANEY). GAME IS TAKEN PLACE AT YANKEE STADIUM. SOME OF
THE PLAYERS SEEN IN THIS GAME ARE MICKEY MANTLE, HANK AARON, YOGI BEARA,
CASEY STENGEL, EDDIE MATTHEWS TO NAME A FEW.
THIS IS NOT THE COMMONLY SEEN 40 MINUTE HIGHLIGHT FILM. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY TO OWN!! </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That sounds like the description of a complete game broadcast alright. In fact, with that amount of footage (4,000 feet) and the length of the actual game (2 hours and 10 minutes) it sounds like more than just game footage is included. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The interesting thing about the seller is their location. They are located not 10 minutes away from Naperville, Illinois. Naperville is the base of operations for Doak's RareSportsFilms. Also, as the seller states in their listings:</span><br />
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iSold It is not the owner or seller of these goods, but merely a bailee
acting on behalf of the seller to facilitate the sale of the goods by
holding the goods until such time as a sale is completed and the goods
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The auction would end on Thursday, with the high bid being over $1500. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Saturday afternoon, Raresportsfilms listed an offering on their site selling a complete copy of Game 1 kinescope on DVD. This DVD includes the original pregame, postgame and commercials from the original NBC broadcast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finding complete game broadcast source materials like this is extremely rare, however it is becoming more frequent. Especially in the case of private collectors, the unfortunate consequences of age and passage of time is leading to the liquidation of film collections by their estates or survivors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The intrigue surrounding where the eBay auctioned kinescope came from or went, along with the timing of the release of this game on DVD leaves a lot of questions. One of the most important questions to me is who now possess the four reels of this game broadcast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you are the person who now owns it or you have any insight into where it has ended up, <u><b>please</b></u> feel free to comment below or email me privately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">One final editorial note: At this point, someone needs to make all the material from this Series available to the public. Much like 1965 and 1968, we have a complete or near-complete World Series that the general public doesn't have access to. That should not continue to be the case, especially in an age when we have instant access to content.</span></span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-67537406064187256012015-04-06T10:50:00.000-04:002015-04-06T22:06:08.511-04:00RIP Lon Simmons (1923-2015)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of the original San Fransisco Giants game announcers, Lon Simmons passed away Sunday. The Giants issued the following in their <a href="http://m.giants.mlb.com/news/article/116487318/bay-area-mourns-passing-of-broadcaster-lon-simmons" target="_blank">press release</a>:</span><br />
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But it was with the Giants that Simmons made his biggest impact. Their
arrival from New York in 1958 was a historic event, since it marked the
Major Leagues' first westward movement. Teaming with Russ Hodges,
Simmons provided verbal illustrations of the excitement generated by the
talent-laden clubs that recorded winning records each year from
1958-71, yet captured only one National League pennant. The exploits of
San Francisco's core of eventual Hall of Famers -- Willie Mays, Willie
McCovey, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry -- were
rendered unforgettable when delivered in Simmons' rich baritone.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Simmons would also call games for the Bay Area's other team, the Oakland A's, from 1981-1995. It was during this stint that Simmons was able to call the final outs of a World Series, something that had alluded him on the other side of the Bay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is somewhat cosmically linked that Simmons passing would take place on Opening Day. As noted in the Giants press release:</span><br />
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Simmons served three stints with the Giants, from 1958-73, 1976-78 and
1996-2002. He's the Giants' lone broadcaster to call Opening Day games
at all three of their San Francisco homes -- Seals Stadium, Candlestick
Park and AT&T Park.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For this blog, Simmons played an important part in broadcast history. Despite no major cache being found, Simmons and his broadcast partner Russ Hodges recorded on videotape every game broadcast of the 1963 Giants season. The videotapes were used to show highlights during the postgame programs that the two produced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Simmons and Hodges are honored by the Giants at their current home, AT&T Park, as the namesakes attached to the broadcast booth high above homeplate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here is a <a href="http://bayarearadio.org/sports/giants/ksfo_giants-cubs_june-5-1970.shtml" target="_blank">link</a> to a historical website honoring Lon Simmons and his partner Russ Hodges. On it, you can listen to the complete game radio broadcast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As with any great baseball broadcaster, Simmons was known for his iconic homerun call of "tell it 'Goodbye!'". Today, the world tells Lon "Goodbye".</span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-50269069798860842272015-04-05T11:49:00.000-04:002015-04-05T14:02:35.427-04:00When Campy Forgot the Number of Outs<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Happy Opening Night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">MLB.com gives us a <a href="https://youtu.be/a2ramUShIV0" target="_blank">17-second clip</a> on their YouTube channel of some vintage color videotape footage. The wonderful part of this color videotape is that it preserves the remarkable brilliance of Charlie Finley's golden A's vests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The green stirrups with yellow socks. The yellow vests with green sleeves. The white spikes. <a href="http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=AL&city=Oakland&lowYear=1963&highYear=1971&sort=year&increment=18" target="_blank">Dressed to the Nines</a> actually lists that this combo didn't exist. The socks, with the yellow vests should have been white. These uniforms continued to feature the big green A on them for the second season. The 1970 season would be the first season they were no longer known as the Athletics but as solely the A's. Modern baseball vests are often a terrible look due to their fit but this look is perfect and timeless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As for the game itself, it took place <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS197007190.shtml" target="_blank">July 19, 1970</a> at Fenway Park. More on that, after the jump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The action picks up in the 4th inning, with Bob Locker on in relief of an extremely ineffective Rollie Fingers. Standing on first is Reggie Smith (who reached via a single to RF). At the plate is Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz had already homered and walked in this game, helping build the 9-1 lead the BoSox held at this point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yaz would hit a chopper in this at-bat over the head of the pitcher in what appeared to be a single to centerfield. Instead, Bert Campaneris comes flying into screen and snags the grounder right behind the bag. Stepping on second, Campaneris completes the 6-3 double play for the first TWO outs of the inning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I highlight that it was the only two outs in the inning because "Campy" seemingly had forgotten the number of outs. As Ken Coleman remarks, Campy thought the inning was over but "no sir...only two outs". The mental mistake aside, it is a strong defensive effort by the Cuban shortstop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On a historical sidenote: Coleman makes mention of Mike Fiore missing the game due to a 'cold in his back'. Fiore joined the Red Sox midway through the season in 1970. In fact, his debut with the Red Sox was in a wild <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS197005310.shtml" target="_blank">22-13 game</a> against the White Sox. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For anyone who has ever listened to a Miley Collection recording, you'd instantly recognize the voice of Ken Coleman on this video clip. Coleman was the TV play-by-play announcer for the Red Sox from 1966 thru 1974, and a radio broadcast for the club from 1966-1971 and 1979-1989. This fact alone makes this recording a WHDH-TV broadcast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have no true verification of where this video comes from but if I had to wager, this comes from a cache of Red Sox video footage that resided at one point in the New England Sports Museum. MLB made an acquisition that was <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2010/03/1967-world-series-complete-game.html" target="_blank">discussed almost 5 years ago</a> now from the New England Sports Museum. This haul included whatever survived from the WHDH archives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Enjoy the new season! </span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-83173184199697562712015-03-07T22:56:00.001-05:002015-03-07T22:56:33.889-05:001972: Hooton Heaves (No-)Hits<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*This post is part of an <a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2014/08/the-1972-season-what-has-survived.html" target="_blank">on-going series</a> cataloging surviving broadcast footage from 1972 </span>.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When rookie Burt Hooton took the mound on <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN197204160.shtml" target="_blank">April 16, 1972</a> at Wrigley Field, he was likely just trying to solidify his spot in the Cubs pitching rotation. What he ended up doing was etched his name into the record books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On that blustery Chicago afternoon, Hooton was not particularly sharp. While he struck out seven hitters and did not allow a hit, he issued seven walks. He also dodge a few bullets thanks to some defensive help. In fact, he may have only lived on in this game for as long as he did because manager Leo Durocher was sick and at home. After the jump, we will take a look at how much of the game survived and how a few key defensive stops made this day historic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Starting us off is a one-pitch clip from the top of the 3rd inning, Denny Doyle hits a rocket over the head of shortstop Don Kessinger. Kessinger leaps and makes a remarkable stabbing catch to keep the budding no-hitter intact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Move ahead to the 7th inning and "The Bull" Greg Luzinski crushes a fastball to centerfield, only to have the strong winds of the day push it back and into the glove of centerfield Rick Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Luzinksi would get one final chance to break up Hooton's big day. The only complete at-bat that we get from this game, Luzinski watches the first two breaking pitches of the at-bat. Down to his last strike, with Fergie Jenkins providing commentary as he awaits a postgame interview, Hooton finished off his his historic outing by getting Luzinski to swing through the third straight breaking ball for the 27th out of the game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hooton would pitch acceptably for the rest of the 1972 season, even with a losing record. He would eventually be traded in 1975 to the Dodgers, where he would pitch for 10 years and appear in 3 World Series. In 1978, on record alone, he would finish 2nd in the NL Cy Young race. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The footage is beautiful WGN-TV color videotape. The clips are all part of a highlight film titled "<a href="http://mediaburn.org/video/memorable-moments-in-chicago-sports/" target="_blank">Memorable Moments In Chicago Sports</a>". It has been wonderfully preserved by the organization MediaBurn. Along with the narration from the special, Jack Brickhouse's original play-by-play remains in-tact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some of these were defining moments for franchises or the sport as a whole, creating iconic images that are instantly recognizable. Of these 16 games during this period, only 7 have survived. Below is a look at the Game 7s, how they turned out and which ones we are lucky to still have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1947</span></u> – This was the first year that Major League Baseball was broadcast over television. This World Series saw the Dimaggio Yankees taking on Jackie Robinson’s Dodgers. The World Series broadcasting rights, such as they were, had been divided up between three networks: NBC with Game 1 and 6, CBS with Games 3 and 4, while the now defunct DuMont broadcasting company got games 2, 6 and 7. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, only Philadelphia, New York, Washington and Schenectady were hooked up to the network link at the time and were able to show the game. After a dramatic back and forth series, Game 7 would be decided in the 4th inning when Tommy Henrich drove in Phil Rizzuto for the go-ahead run as the Yankees sent 8 hitters to the plate. The Dodgers wouldn’t get another baserunner until their half of the 9th and the Yankees kicked off their dynasty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>1952</u></span> – It would be five years before we saw another Game 7 but it would be much of the same from our last foray. For the third of five World Series meetings between the Dodgers and Yankees in 10 years, we were treated to yet another classic series. In this case, however, we get our first (and oldest) surviving complete game broadcast. This game 7 featured a back-and-forth between the two clubs in the middle innings, only to have Mickey Mantle do what Mickey Mantle does in World Series and hit a homerun in the 6th to put the Yankees ahead for good. Mantle would tack on another run in the 7th on an RBI single, while the Dodgers would load the bases in the 7th for Snider and Robinson but leave them stranded. This broadcast is one of two from the 1952 World Series that has lived on through the years. Broadcast on NBC, the intro we see on the free YouTube video MLB provides on their MLBClassics channel is narrated by Bob Costas. The rest of the game is shown complete up until the Yankees joyously run off the field. We get a quick wrap-up by Barber and Allen in their cramped booth before finishing with a splash screen of ‘Gillette’s Cavalcade of Sports’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>1955</u></span> – Right back into the fray with the Dodgers and Yankees. Having been turned away each time, the Dodgers won Game 5 to put themselves one win away from finally vanquishing the Bronx Bombers. The Yankees made quick work of Game 6 by jumping out to a 5 run lead and on the back of Whitey Ford’s complete game four-hitter, they forced another agonizing Game 7 for the Dodgers. This time, however, it would be the Yankees who would strand base runners in the clincher. Gil Hodges would etch his name in immortality with an RBI single in the 4th and a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 6th. The drama for the Yankees came in the 6th when, with 2 runners on and no outs, Yogi Berra hit a flyball to leftfield that was caught on a spectacular play by defensive replacement Sandy Amoros that turned into a 7-6-3 double play. The last real hope for the Yankees came in the 7th when, with a runner on, an injured Mickey Mantle came to the plate as a pinch hitter and the tying run. Mantle would ground out to short and the Dodgers would be on their way to finally besting their crosstown rivals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1956</span></u> – The Yankees and Dodgers were back at it for the last of their New York battles. This time, however, the Yankees had Mickey Mantle back in the lineup. Mantle would bang out 3 more World Series homeruns, most famously in the 4th inning of Game 5 to give Don Larsen all the offense he needed that day. It was Yogi Berra, however, who lead the charge in Game 7. Yogi would hit two homeruns and the Yankees routed the Dodgers 9-0 at Ebbets Field. While Larsen’s Game 5 has survived in kinescope form, the only other pieces we have from this series are two partials from Game 2 and Game 3. We are left with no broadcast footage of this title clincher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1957 </span></u>– Except for a blowout in Game 3 by the Yankees, this series between Hank Aaron’s Milwaukee Braves and Mickey Mantle’s Yankee dynasty saw every game leading up to Game 7 decided by 2 runs or less. The Yankees had won Game 6 after Hank Bauer erased Hank Aaron’s game tying homerun in the top of the 7th by blasting one of his own. Milwaukee would be well on their way to winning Game 7 after Tony Kubek’s error on an inning ending double play in the 3rd opened the flood gates. The Braves would score 4 runs off of Don Larsen and Bobby Shantz and the game was a snoozer after that. The ’57 Series has been a topic of discussion on this blog for a long time, with it being one of the few series to feature multiple surviving games. From this series, RareSportsFilm has preserved the complete broadcast for Game 7 and has shown it publicly in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>1958</u></span> – The Braves and Yankees would be right back in a seven game World Series the very next year. The Braves found themselves tied late in both Game 6 and 7, only to eventually lose both. It would take 10 innings in a truly epic Game 6 before the Yankees would prevail. After running Whitey Ford in the 2nd, the Braves just couldn’t scrape another run off the Yankees bullpen while Warren Spahn kept putting up zeroes. Finally, with Spahn still on the mound, the Yankees broke through for 2 runs in the top of the 10th. In the bottom of the 10th, Hank Aaron would drive in a run and reach 3rd after a Joe Adcock 2-out single. Frank Torre would lineout to 2B to force a deciding Game 7. That Game 7 saw the two teams tied at 2 heading into the 8th. Elston Howard would hit an RBI single and Bill Skowron would follow soon after with a 3-run homerun and the Yankees would wrap-up their last World Series of the 50’s. Nothing is known to exist of this broadcast or this series, for that matter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1960</span></u> – One of the most famous Game 7 endings of all-time. This ending got Bill Mazeroski into the Hall of Fame and the Pirates their first World Championship since 1925. Before Maz blasted Ralph Terry’s pitch over where Kiner’s Korner once stood, the series was a smattering of Yankees blowouts and Pirates close wins. To give you an idea of how much offense the Yankees put up in this series, Bobby Richardson won the MVP in a series in which his team lost and another player hit a season-ending walk-off homerun. For the clunker that this series was, it showed just how magical Game 7s can be. With the Pirates three outs away from the win following a 5-run 8th inning, the Yankees tied the game in the Top of the 9th off of RBIs by Mantle and Berra. Thanks to the serendipitous conditions of <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2010/10/were-off-on-road-to-morro-er-pittsburgh.html" target="_blank">Bing Crosby being a team owner and having a wonderful wine-cellar/film archive</a>, we are now treated to being able to watch the broadcast of how the entire game and those tense last few innings all unfolded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1962</span></u> – Much like 1960 World Series Game 7 had been for year before its’ discovery, Game 7 of the 1962 Series is considered a ‘Holy Grail’ in the broadcast collecting world. Not known to exist, this game features one of the most dramatic 9th innings in final game World Series history. Trailing 1-0 in to start the 9th, Matty Alou reaches first on a bunt infield single. With 2-outs, Willie Mays smokes a double to right field. The Giants, concerned about how strong Maris’ arm is, hold Alou from scoring and stop him at third base. Film footage shows that the throw was high and Alou likely would have slid in safely to tie the game. The next hitter, the great Willie McCovey, hits a linedrive right at the second basemen with the winning run standing at second base. The Yankees win their last World Series of this historic run. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1964</span></u> – In their last World Series for 13 years, the Yankees once again took the season to its final day. This time they squared off against Bob Gibson and the St. Louis Cardinals. Gibson hadn’t been sharp in Game 2 and the Cardinals lost his first World Series start. They would go on to win the next 7 World Series games he toed the rubber. That included Game 7 of this series on two days’ rest. The Cardinals had won Games 4 and 5 on the Grand Slam of Ken Boyer and the 10th inning 3-run homerun of Tim McCarver in each game respectively. Back at Busch, they dropped Game 6 to setup a rematch of Mel Stottlemyre and Gibson. Gibson skated out of trouble in the 2nd while the Cardinals erupted for 3 runs in the 4th and 3 runs in the 5th. Mickey Mantle would hit his final World Series homerun with a 3-run variety in the 6th. A solo homerun from Ken Boyer for the Cardinals would push the lead to four runs and Gibson would give up two solo homeruns in the 9th while pitching on fumes. While this game wasn’t extremely close down to the wire, the game featured strong offense from both sides. With none of this series surviving in broadcast form, we are left with only the radio calls to help relay the action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1965</span></u> – When you have the choice of using Sandy Koufax or Don Drysdale (or both) in a Game 7, there really is no wrong answer. Walter Alston chose Koufax on short rest over Drysdale on regular rest. Drysdale was available out of the pen at the first sign of trouble for Koufax. Sandy made sure that never had a chance of happening. Jim Kaat started opposite Koufax and was ambushed to start the 4th inning and wouldn’t survive. The Dodgers got a homerun and an RBI single, giving Koufax all the runs he would need as he spun a 3 hit, 3 walk complete game shutout. The beauty of a 2 run game is that a game-tying rally is always a bloop and a blast away. One baserunner and suddenly the pitcher is in trouble. Well, after Koufax got the lead in the 4th, Koufax allowed baserunners in only the 5th and then the 9th. Harmon Killebrew would get an one out single but Koufax would finish in a flourish, striking out the final two hitters. We are blessed to have the complete NBC <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2009/06/1965-world-series-or-only-losers-use.html" target="_blank">broadcast preserved by the CBC on kinescopes</a>. Not only do we get Vin Scully providing great commentary through the entire ballgame but we are treated to Vin’s postgame locker room interview. The joy on his face is worth the watch alone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1967 </span></u>– The Impossible Dream meets Viva El Birdos. After Bob Gibson had beat Jose Santiago in Game 1 and 4, it was certain the Cardinals would turn to Gibson again in Game 7 on three days’ rest. It wasn’t until after Jim Lonborg had beaten Steve Carlton in his first World Series start that the Red Sox knew they would return Lonborg to the mound on short rest if a Game 7 happened. In Game 6, the Cardinals had tied the Red Sox in the top of the 7th on a 2-run homerun by Lou Brock only to have the Red Sox send 10 men to the plate as part of a 4 run bottom of the 7th. Adding to the drama heading into Game 7 was the umbrage the Cardinals took with the phrase being passed around the Boston clubhouse and papers of ‘Lonborg and Champagne’ in respects to the outcome of Game 7. As for the game itself, it offered no drama. The Cardinals took their frustration out on Lonborg, anhilating him in six innings. Gibson took Lonborg deep in the 5th over the Green Monster and took the mound for all nine innings, striking out ten. Despite video tape footage from various Red Sox games during the season surviving, as well as <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-original-game-162-october-1-1967.html" target="_blank">large swathes</a> of Game 161 and 162, <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2010/03/1967-world-series-complete-game.html" target="_blank">no broadcast footage from the 1967 World Series survives</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1968</span></u> – Going into the 1968 World Series, the Cardinals were the premier organization in baseball. They had an expensive roster of name brand veterans and arguably the best pitcher in the game. They had an owner who owned a major American company and a new state-of-the-art stadium. This was their 3rd World Series in 5 years. They were on the brink of cementing themselves as a dynasty. Gibson won Game 1 in a record setting performance; the Cardinals jumped out to a 3-1 series lead and looked destined to end Game 5 hoisting the trophy. Lou Brock chose not to slide in at homeplate, the Tigers put up a 10 run inning in Game 6 and the Cardinals found themselves staring down yet another Game 7. They had their ace on the mound once again in Gibson, while the Tigers turned to Mickey Lolich. The Cardinals had history on their side, as well. Rarely had a team ever blown a 3-1 series lead in the playoffs and the Cardinals were a staggering 6-0 in World Series Game 7s at that point. The Cardinals threatened in the first, but Lolich and Gibson traded zeroes into the 6th. In the bottom of the 6th, the game began to turn. Both Lou Brock and Curt Flood would be picked off first base with Orlando Cepeda due up. Gibson got 2 quick outs in the 7th before the Tigers put together 4 straight hits (two singles, a double, and the game-breaking Curt Flood fall down triple) to score 3 runs off of Gibson. The Tigers would push across one more run before Mike Shannon hit a 9th inning homerun. This World Series <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2012/11/mccarver-pops-up-in-color.html" target="_blank">clincher for the Tigers exists on a complete game kinescope recorded by the CBC</a>. Both the pregame show and the postgame show were preserved and offer a real treat into this classic series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1971</span></u> – The Clemente World Series. With the recent, sudden tragic passing of Oscar Taveras there will be parallels drawn between the two. Clemente’s untimely death two years after this World Series was just as shocking. Clemente had lived a rich baseball and personally life. Oscar had only begun his. Clemente will forever be immortalized in this showcase of his talents. While Clemente was a part of the 1960 World Series, he was not the focal point. In this series, Clemente was a terror at the plate and in the field. He collected 12 of the teams 56 hits, only rivaled by Manny Sanguillen in productiveness. The Orioles, a mini-dynasty of their own, were playing in their 3rd World Series in a row and 4th in 6 years. After a shocking loss to the Miracle Mets in 1969, the Orioles steamrolled the pitching strapped Reds in 1970. Much like the Cardinals in the 60’s, the Orioles were trying to cement themselves as the premier postseason franchise. The Orioles returned the Baltimore in Game 6 down 3 games to 2 and it took 10 innings before a Brooks Robinson sacrifice fly would force Game 7. The final day’s tilt saw Mike Cuellar squaring off before meltdown Steve Blass and both were great. In one of the most underrated Game 7s of all time, both starters were effective and went deep into the game. Clemente homered in the 4th, Willie Stargell scored in the 8th and the Pirates were up 2-0 with 6 outs to go. The Orioles would get the first two hitters on in the 8th, gave away an out to move them to 2nd and 3rd and two groundouts later finished the inning only scoring the one run. The Pirates would strand two in the 9th and Blass would finish the game off without incident. Like with the 1965 and 1968 World Series, we get both the pregame and postgame celebrations from these broadcasts. Unlike those two World Series, this one lives on in beautiful color videotape from the NBC vaults. Thankfully, we get to see Clemente in all his glory during the game and The Gunner Bob Prince’s sports coats in all their glory in the locker room celebration.</span><br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/CbwnpHC-OSY" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Complete Game Broadcast on MLBClassics</span></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1972</span></u> – If Game 7 of the 1971 World Series is underrated, then the entire 1972 World Series would qualify. This series feature 6 games (including Game 7) that were all decided by 1 run. It was a meeting of two powerhouse teams of the 70s: Charlie Finley’s Athletics and the not-ready-for-primetime Big Red Machine. In what quickly turned into a bullpen game, the A’s would cover the 5th thru 9th innings with Catfish Hunter, Ken Holtzman, and Rollie Fingers. Hunter actually pitched well until relinquishing a hit in the 8th. The A’s tried to bridge the gap to Fingers using Holtzman for one hitter and he was promptly greeted with a double. Down two runs in the 8th, the Reds would only plate one of the two runners he inherited and he closed the door in the 9th. Unfortunately, despite bits of the ALCS showing up in the last year and bits of the World Series surviving, nothing of Game 7 is easily found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1973</span></u> – In what could be labeled as even more of a miracle than the ’69 Mets, the 82-win 1973 Mets came one win away from winning the World Series. The Mets actually won Game 5 at Shea and sent Seaver to the mound in Game 6 with a chance to clinch their second World Series in 5 years. Seaver went 8 innings but Catfish Hunter was better and the A’s forced a Game 7. The Athletics made Game 7 an ease win on the backs of 2-run homeruns by both Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson in the third inning. Much like 1972, the A’s tried to cover Game 7 with Ken Holtzman and Rollie Fingers but this time got 5 innings out of Holtzman and it was Fingers who ran into trouble. Down 5-1 in the 9th, an error by Gene Tenace playing first allowed the Mets to bring the tying run to the plate down to their last out in the form of Wayne Garrett. Fingers was lifted for Darold Knowles and Garrett popped out to shortstop to give the A’s back-to-back World Series Championships. This game has never been released commercially, however in the past it has been shown on ESPN Classic. Many versions, however, are missing the Top of the 9th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1975</span></u> – Routinely at the top of the list of Greatest World Series, Game 6 of this series gets all the acclaim. Boston pushed 3 runs across in the 8th and Carlton Fisk waived the ball just enough fair to win it in the 12th. The follow-up act of Game 7 wasn’t too shabby either. The two teams burned through 12 pitchers combined the night before, but luckily there had been a four day lay-off due to rain leading up to Game 6. The two starters for Game 7 were Spaceman Bill Lee and Don Gullett and both exited after giving up 3 runs. With the game tied in the 9th, Joe Morgan singled home Ken Griffey and the Big Red Machine finally had their World Series they fell short of in 1970 and 1972. The entire series, the pregame show and postgame celebrations have survived on video tape both from NBC Archives and from home video recordings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As you can see from just this small sampling of games, Game Seven can run the gamut from being iconic (1960, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1975) to exciting fights until the end (1952, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1972) to coronations in the final innings of the season (1947, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1967, 1973). Whatever the case may be, unless you are a diehard of the two teams battling it out on this final night enjoy Game 7 for what it truly is: <i>the last night of baseball before a long, cold winter.</i></span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-57448639365828893862014-08-18T21:31:00.000-04:002015-07-26T00:20:50.997-04:00The 1972 Season: What has survived?<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The charm of baseball exists in the peaks and valleys of a full season. If you catch a World Series or a playoff game, you are getting a truly small sample size. The six month scale of a season is what allows sabermetrics to have almost enough data to be relevant and allows fans to develop an opinion of their team’s players. The World Series or All-Star game does not tell us the narrative of the season. Instead, we get to hear the opinions of writers and broadcasters formulated through the lens of history, rather than as it is seen unfolding. If baseball broadcasts today were archived in the scattered manner of years past, fans 30 years from now wouldn’t get to appreciate the two month long phenomenon of Puig-mania from 2013 or other like stories that come and go during the marathon of a season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When trying to find the most complete sampling of the oldest baseball season, it becomes a tough task with surviving baseball broadcasts. While there are a few seasons with the All-Star Game and the entire World Series (1965, 1968) very few regular season games exist to flesh out a season. Rolling back through the years, the 1972 season stands out, if for no other reason, because of the high volume of retained broadcast footage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 is a merging of two eras, videotape and kinescope. The early 70’s saw technology changes that ended cycles on the reuse of materials. It also brought about easier methods of disseminating games, which eventually brought an end to the kinescope era. It should also be noted that, while no baseball games have been found in this format from this year, the first Cartrivision consoles were sold in June of 1972. As the first major consumer home video unit, Cartrivision opened the possibility of viewers at home recording and keeping tapes of game broadcasts. Such a broadcast was brought to light by MSG’s recent restoration of a 1973 NBA Finals game. Unfortunately, no such 1972 discoveries have been made for baseball broadcasts.</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://kinescopestealshome.com/2013/07/opening-day-at-shea-1972.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">04/15 - Pirates vs Mets (NBC) B&W Kinescope (Pregame thru Top 3)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2015/03/1972-hooton-heaves-no-hits.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">04/16 - Phillies vs Cubs (WGN) Color (2 early outs/complete 27th out)</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">05/31 - Dodgers vs Giants (KTTV) B&W (Pregame thru Bot 2)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">06/10 - Cubs vs Giants (NBC) B&W Kinescope (complete)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">06/24 - Cardinals vs Mets (NBC) B&W Kinescope (Top 2 thru Top 5)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/01 - Orioles vs Tigers (NBC) B&W Kinescope (Pregame thru Bot 7)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/08 - Cubs vs Reds (NBC) B&W Kinescope (complete)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/09 - Dodgers vs Mets (KTTV) B&W Kinescope (Bot 4 thru Top 7)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/16 - Angels vs Brewers G1 (KTLA) B&W Kinescope (complete)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/22 - Athletics vs Boston (NBC) B&W Kinescope (Top 3 thru Top 6)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/23 - Angels vs Yankees (KTLA) B&W Kinescope (Bot 3 thru End)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All-Star Game - First 6 inn. B&W Kinescope/Last 3 inn. color (NBC)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">07/29 - Cardinals vs Cubs (NBC) B&W Kinescope (Last 3 innings)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kinescopestealshome.com/2015/07/1972-last-no-hitter-of-its-kind-until.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">09/02 - Padres vs Cubs (WGN) Color (Top of 9th and postgame)</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 ALCS Game 1 - Highlights from Detroit feed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 ALCS Game 2 - Complete(-ish) w/footage of Campy bat throw</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 ALCS Game 3 - Highlights from Detroit feed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 ALCS Game 4 - Highlights from Detroit feed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 ALCS Game 5 - Highlights from Detroit feed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 World Series Game 4 (NBC) - (Complete Game)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1972 World Series Game 5 (NBC) - (Complete Game) </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How we have many of the regular season games are through the Armed Forces kinescoping program. They provided entertainment for our troops overseas by creating these kinescopes of games for delayed presentation. Those kinescopes could not be reused, so they weren’t at risk of being dubbed over. They were ordered to be destroyed (mostly for space saving concerns). Thankfully, some of these films were stashed away and worked their ways into private collections. Many of these would eventually find their way into the hands of Doak Ewing and his RareSportsFilms production company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is important to note that the regular season kinescope dry up at the end of July for that year. This is when the use of satellites allowed the Armed Forces to transmit broadcasts easier. The more historical point of the end of these kinescopes relates to the Vietnam War. The middle of August saw the last of the United States ground troops removed from South Vietnam. While the war did not officially end, the need to send these games overseas to the combat troops no longer existed. These films also likely made it out because there was no longer a space crunch in storage and the film department troops were headed home, keepsakes in hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The remainder of the broadcast footage is from color videotape. At this point, archiving still was not a priority for many broadcast groups. However, these tapes have lived on with various origin stories. Some of these games exist in an unknown quantity inside the MLB Archives. I left off the list partials from Games 1 and 2 of the World Series because it is nearly impossible to know just how much MLB has of these. Highlights from the NBC feed have been shown on MLB's YouTube Channel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Over the coming months, the games on the list will get their own features. When completed, hopefully it gives a fuller picture of what survives from 1972 and how the season unfolded.</span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-45438669136725495242014-07-14T00:11:00.000-04:002014-07-14T13:34:27.292-04:00REVIEW: 45th MLB All-Star Game (1974)<span id="goog_1905423781"></span><span id="goog_1905423782"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Major League Baseball gathers in Minneapolis for the 85th annual All-Star Game, I wanted to take a look back forty years ago at the 45th installment of the Mid Summer Classic. Even in 1974, Major League Baseball used the All-Star Game to showcase their new (publicly paid for) ballparks. Taking the field at three year old Three Rivers Stadium, the game was carried by NBC for the 29th straight time (25 years with 2 games in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1962). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being a fan of a certain team, you always want the All-Star Game to reward the "deserving" players who performed in the first half of the season (especially if they are from your favorite team). However, as a baseball fan who loves the pageantry and the history of the All-Star Game, I have always viewed the All-Star Game as a historical snapshot of the 'name brands' of baseball. That's why seeing players like Bench, Morgan, Aaron, Reggie, the two Robinson and Brock gives the game more prestige. Unfortunately, some of the name brand pitchers of the day like Seaver, Ryan or Carlton don't make appearances.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 1974 All Star Game took place on <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/allstar/1974-allstar-game.shtml" target="_blank">July 23, 1974</a> at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The broadcasters for the game included NBC's feature crew of Curt Gowdy, Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek. Gowdy was his usual subdued self, not helping translate the specialness of this game over to those watching the broadcast. He was overly preoccupied with the height of the National League infield. At one point during the play-by-play, Gowdy refers to Joe Morgan as 'Little Joe'. Garagiola used film reel footage throughout the broadcast to highlight past All-Star Game moments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Tony Kubek would highlight, NBC unveiled their remote camera setup from inside the ballpark. Using the camera, Kubek showed fans various aspects and views of the ballpark. Kubek uses the camera to give fans a view from the upper decks, inside the bullpen, etc. NBC would famously use this technology during the 1975 World Series. Out of pure happenstance, this type of camera would be inside the Green Monster at the time of Fisk's iconic homerun and give us the imagery of Fisk waiving the ball fair.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This All-Star Game would be the final step in a changing of the guard. In 1973, Willie Mays would take the field for the last time on a National League All-Star team. Hank Aaron would make (unbeknownst to many) his last appearance for the NL in this game. Mays and Aaron had appeared on every National League roster since 1955. Aaron's departure from the National League (and the Braves) would partly be precipitated because of his displeasure with the direction of the Braves. NBC would use a drop-in interview with Aaron about whether he would be interested in managing the Braves since Eddie Mathews had just recently been fired. Aaron said he would take the job if he were offered it since there were no African American managers in the game. Garagiola would later comment on a potential media storm over Aaron saying that Frank Robinson should have been hired by the Angels when that position was availible. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tying two of our surviving All-Star Games together, Luis Tiant makes his second Midsummer Classic appearance. <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2012/01/1968-all-star-game.html" target="_blank">When last we saw him</a>, Tiant was starting the 1968 game. The Indians hurler would surrender the only run of the game following a Willie Mays single that lead to an errant pickoff throw, setting up Mays to score without the NL getting another hit. For that effort, Tiant would be saddled with the loss. In the 1974 edition, Tiant did not fair much better. This time representing the Red Sox, Tiant would throw two innings while giving up four hits and three runs. Tiant's two All-Star Game losses are tied for the most all-time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1971, there were six homeruns hit between the two teams. Reggie Smith, and his awesome mustache, would hit the lone homerun of the 1974 All-Star Game. The NBC broadcasters thought Reggie should 'buy a ticket' if he wanted to watch a homerun for that long.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve Garvey was the game's MVP after having not finding his name on the fan voting ballots. As a write-in candidate, Garvey would be selected to the National League team. In his postgame interview with Kubek, Garvey said his play in the game was his "way of repaying [the fans]". The 1974 All-Star game continued to feature the computer tabulated punch card system of voting Bowie Kuhn had introduced, also adding to the controversy of Garvey being left off the ballot. On top of all that, Garvey was so sick leading up to the game that it was anticipated he actually may not make the game. Not only was Garvey able to make the game, he would play the entire game going 2-for-4 with a 2B, RBI and a game saving defensive play.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr. Tiger, Al Kaline, makes his 18th and final All-Star team. Kaline, who entered the 1974 season with 2,861 career hits, had moved his career total to 2,942 by the All-Star break. He would eventually reach the 3,000 hit plateau by having a 30 hit September. Kaline was looking to become the first American League player to get 3,000 hits since Eddie Collins in 1925.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2014 All-Star Game will feature, for the first time in the modern era, special baseball caps specifically designed for the game. With the game in Minnesota, they are styled after the 1970's Twins 'thin panel' caps and helmets worn by player like Rod Carew.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 1974 All-Star Game was an interesting snapshot of where baseball was in 1974. Even at the end of July, you could already see that the Reds, Dodgers and A's were the elite teams of the league. The broadcast crew was already predicting a tough finish in the NL East. Some truly legendary players were winding down their careers, reaching milestone numbers while young future stars like Mike Schmidt were just beginning their era of dominance. </span></span></span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-49122649061304915392014-07-06T16:06:00.001-04:002014-07-06T16:20:51.423-04:0060 Years of Orioles on TV (Part 1)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For their 60th anniversary, the Baltimore Orioles have opened up their archives and published scans of every media guide the team has put out since their move from St. Louis. In this treasure trove of history, you will find such tidbits like Jim Hardin was a top-notch golfer in 1968 (with rounds in the 70s) or that 26.1% of all those who attended Orioles home games in 1954 were from out of town. These time capsules of past seasons also give us an idea about how baseball approached television broadcasting. <br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />That’s what were are going to try to look at here today, how baseball broadcasting evolved for the Baltimore Orioles from their move out of the ‘Gateway to the West’ to ‘Charm City’.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><b>1954</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When the Browns moved to Baltimore, they came into a market in which they shared their broadcast rights between three television networks: WMAR, WAAM (eventually called WJZ) and WBAL. The media guide does not offer any information as to which games those stations would be showing, nor does it tell how many games would be broadcast in total. The Orioles and then Senators carried a gentleman’s agreement that they would avoid, if possible, broadcasting games while the other was in a homestand. Not only did Baltimore find itself boxed in by New York and Philadelphia but they had a league rival in an overlapping media market. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Filling the broadcast booth for the early O’s seasons were the trio of Ernie Harwell, Bailey Goss and Chuck Thompson. These three men headed what was called the ‘National Brewing Company Broadcast Team’. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><b>1955</b></u> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The 1955 season saw a hiatus of WBAL carrying games. Returning as broadcast carriers, WMAR and WAAM (WJZ) were scheduled to air 57 games that season. Of those 57, 26 were home and 31 were away. As would be standard practice, more of the team’s away games would be broadcast on local television. The idea, of course, was that if people could watch the game on television then they would stay home from the ballpark and reduce ticket sales. As the sales of televisions become more prevalent, this practice would increase. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1955 - 26 of 77 Home Games (34%) / 31 of 77 Away Games (40%) [37% of schedule] </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">National Brewing Company’s sponsorship of television broadcasts would end with the 1956 season. This would be last season for a few years that had Chuck Thompson in the booth. The Gunther Brewing Company replaced Chuck Thompson with Herb Carneal for the 1957 season.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1956 - 26 of 77 Home Games (34%) / 33 of 77 Away Games (43%) [38% of schedule]</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The 1957 season would bring about a series of changes. Returning to the broadcast group, WBAL began carrying games again. They, along with returning stations of WAAM and WMAR would show 21 home games this year (a decrease of 5) and 37 away games (and increase of 4). Also, more than a cosmetic change, WAAM would be bought out and change their call sign to WJZ in September of 1957. The Orioles, in conjunction with new sponsor Gunther Brewing Company, put out a 26 minute color film called ‘<a href="http://youtu.be/N7IogbUfYDw" target="_blank">Play Ball With the Orioles</a>’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In large part, the Orioles began their existence embracing the marketing power of being on television. A great source of information on how they structured (and later dismantled) their television presence can be found in the book “<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IM1VaAoJhPMC&lpg=PA63" target="_blank">The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore</a>” by James Edward Miller. In it, Miller points out that Lee McPhail was chosen by the Orioles to run their baseball operations because he was a compromise between his brother, a television executive, and a man who had baseball knowledge. McPhail would negotiate each television contract with the idea that they would dwindle the number of home games shown to protect home attendance. In 1958, when he negotiated the contract with WJZ, they agreed to cut the number of home games to 21. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1957 – 21 of 77 Home Game (27%) / 37 of 77 Away Games (48%) [38% of schedule] </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And then there were two as the broadcasting booth said “Goodbye” to Bailey Goss in 1958, leaving Harwell and Carneal to handle the duties. With its’ new call sign in place, WJZ began their run as being synonymous with Orioles baseball. The season saw a reduction in games carried to 53. While keeping the same number of home games in 21, 1958 saw a reduction with 32 away contests. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1958 – 21 of 77 Home Games (27%) / 32 of 77 Away Games (42%) [34% of schedule]</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Phillies Cigars purchased a third of each television broadcast from Gunther Brewing Company for the 1959 season. This would be the final season for Ernie Harwell in the booth for the Orioles. The following season (1960) he would join the Tigers organization and become the voice a generation grew up with. WJZ would add an extra away game to his final workload, taking the total up to 33.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1959 – 21 of 77 Home Games (27%) / 33 of 77 Away Games (43%) [35% of schedule]</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like 1957, the 1960 season saw a whole host of changes. The Hamm Brewing Company took over the sponsorship rights of all television broadcasts. Now anchoring the team, Herb Carneal was the only holdover for WJZ. Returning to a three man group, Joe Croghan and Bob Murphy began their short stints with the organization. After reaching a high watermark in 1956 of 26 home broadcasts, WJZ torpedoed the total to 11. Sticking within the norm, they showed 35 games when the team was on the road taking the total percentage of games to just over 30% (a new low).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also of note, Chuck Thompson (whose career with the Orioles was not over) was in the booth for NBC Radio during Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. It would be his first World Series with many more to come upon his return to Baltimore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1960 – 11 of 77 Home Games (14%) / 35 of 77 Away Games (45%) [30% of schedule]</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the next installment, we will see how expansion (and the Senators not really leaving) effected Orioles baseball broadcasting. The next decade would give the Orioles pennant winners, no-hitters and a homerun chase.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br />60 Years of Media Guides <a href="http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/bal/fan_forum/60_anniversary_mediaguides.jsp" target="_blank">can be found here</a>, on Orioles.com </i></span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-25693058169031626312014-06-28T13:50:00.000-04:002014-06-28T13:50:16.821-04:00The 45th Anniversary of 'Billy Williams Day'<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On a day in which Billy Williams would tie and pass Stan Musial in a doubleheader against Stan's old team, we've been treated over and over again with bits and pieces of beautiful WGN color video footage. While I have never been able to track down (through many attempts) how much of this footage WGN held on to, I'd like to mark the anniversary of Billy Williams Day by showing you footage that doesn't contain Billy Williams!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As I pointed out in <a href="http://kinescopestealshome.blogspot.com/2012/08/bob-gibson-in-color-and-billy-williams.html" target="_blank">this post nearly 2 years ago</a>, Billy Williams Day featured one of the greatest of Wrigley treats: A Gibson/Jenkins duel. The two would both throw the entire game with Gibson giving up the lead in the bottom of the 8th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After the jump, we get some of the 9th inning action.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN196906291.shtml" target="_blank">first game of the June 29th</a> double header, Cardinals third baseman Mike Shannon had picked up the first hit of the game with a single to center field in the 2nd. Shannon would single to LF in the 7th, only to be caught stealing in a scoreless game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Cardinals would enter the 9th inning, now trailing 3-0, with Gibson on the hook for the loss. The inning would unfold as so: </span><br />
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<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">t9</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">0-3</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">0</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="tooltip" id="CHN196906291-65">---</span></span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="tooltip" id="CHN196906291-65"></span><br /></span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">O</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">STL</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">L. Brock</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">F. Jenkins</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">2%</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">99%</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Groundout: 1B unassisted</span></td>
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<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">0-3</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">1</span></td>
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<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="tooltip" id="CHN196906291-66"></span><br /></span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">R</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">STL</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">V. Pinson</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">F. Jenkins</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">-2%</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">96%</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Home Run</span></td>
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<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">1-3</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">1</span></td>
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<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="tooltip" id="CHN196906291-67"></span><br /></span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">O</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">STL</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">J. Torre</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">F. Jenkins</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">2%</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">99%</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Groundout: 3B-1B</span></td>
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<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">1-3</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">2</span></td>
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<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">STL</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">T. McCarver</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">F. Jenkins</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">-2%</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">96%</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Single to CF</span></td>
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<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">1-3</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">2</span></td>
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<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">O</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">STL</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">M. Shannon</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">F. Jenkins</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">4%</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">100%</span></td>
<td align="left"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Groundout: 2B-1B</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The most important part of that inning to us is the last part. Mike Shannon grounding out to 2B for the final out of the game. As you can see, there is a runner on 1st at the time it happens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For Shannon's career, he faced Jenkins 52 times between 1966 and 1970. Since we see Fergie getting hand shakes at the end of this game, we know he either had to throw a CG win or pitched the final inning in relief. From 1967 - 1970, Jenkins only pitched in relief 3 times. From 1967-1970, Jenkins faced the Cardinals at Wrigley only 6 times. Of those 6, only 5 of those game did he pitch the final out. Those final 5 outs involved 3 strikeouts and 2 groundouts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Since we are looking for groundouts here, we have it down to two games: <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN196909210.shtml" target="_blank">September 21, 1969</a> and Billy Williams Day. On September 21, Bill White grounds out to the shortstop for an unassisted force out. That isn't what is shown, so it has to be the final out of Game 1 of the Billy Williams doubleheader. On top of that, the picture above clearly shows the hitter was "The Moonman" Mike Shannon (#18).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As more and more of these June 29th clips pop-up, the more and more intrigued I am about the holdings WGN has for this game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>All images found here are from WGN's 100 Years of Wrigley special. </b></i></span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-69384258436633471692014-06-08T13:49:00.001-04:002014-06-08T13:54:05.781-04:00This is not 1970 (Sept 7, 1969)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm sure it is difficult for MLB Productions, from time to time, to put together their 'clips' shows for seasons prior to 1980. While they undoubtedly have more footage in their archives than any of know they have or will ever see, there are large gaps that they must try to fill with newsreel footage, broadcast news highlights and team highlight films. It is often times disappointing that they will chose color 'film' clips over broadcast footage when putting together these shows but is somewhat understandable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When they use footage that isn't even from the time period they are showcasing, however, I feel it creates a 'false history'. That is exactly what happened in an episode of Baseball's Seasons focusing on the 1970 season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When pointing out the contentious NL East race of 1970, they discussed the Cubs early season collapse and the assencion of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The problem is, they used footage from a late 1969 game between the two trying to punctuate the Cubs poor play. More about it with extra footage after the jump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first clue that something was amiss was the uniforms the Cubs are wearing. With the MLB 100th Anniversary patch on their sleeve, it was a dead giveaway this footage was from 1969. With that in mind, it was time to break down the sequence and what players were involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The pitcher on the mound is wearing # 46. In 1969, the Cubs had two RHP wear that number, Ken Johnson and Archie Reynolds. Pretty simply, <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=reynoar01&t=p&year=1969" target="_blank">Archie Reynolds</a> did not face the Cubs that season and <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=johnske02&t=p&year=1969" target="_blank">Ken Johnson</a> faced them once, <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN196909070.shtml" target="_blank">September 7, 1969</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just to add a double check to this, the SS for the Cubs that makes the error is <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=kessido01&t=b&year=1969" target="_blank">Don Kessinger</a> (# 11). Kessinger made 20 errors that season and he made this exact error on September 7th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As a background to this game, the September 7th game was the final game of a hellacous home weekend series for the 1969 Cubs. The Pirates, coming off a 17-10 August would finish the 2nd half of the season 15 games over .500. The Pirates, in the first two games of the series, would outscore the Cubs 22-6. The Cubs were facing down a road trip that would put them head-to-head with the 2nd place New York Mets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final game of this series, the Cubs would push across 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th to take a 1-run lead. In the top of the 9th, a young Willie Stargell would blast a 2 out homerun (career #163) onto <strike>Waveland</strike> Sheffield Avenue (as Jack Brickhouse would correct himself) to force extra innings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In extras, Kessinger would make the error seen in the clip above allowing Matty Alou to score the go ahead run. Richie Hebner would drive in Stargell for insurance the Cubs would be swept at home before going on their biggest road trip of the season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The extended clips come from WGN's 'A Look at the 1970 Cubs' preseason highlight program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As I said before, it surely is a difficult job for MLB Productions to put together these highlight programs. For lack of having actual footage, it has to be tempting to just insert random clips that fit a 'type' they are looking for. However, for someone who is watching these programs to learn about baseball history, they will be left either with a false impression of how a team dressed that season, what players were on the roster, etc. </span>GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-34367936218717104572014-05-25T16:24:00.000-04:002014-05-25T16:24:05.118-04:00The Monster and His "Hummer"<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dick Radatz was one of the first great power relievers in
baseball history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dubbed ‘The Monster’
by opposing players, Radatz was a giant by baseball standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had huge hands with a fastball that Curt
Gowdy would dub a ‘hummer’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
1962-1965, Radatz was one of the best relievers in baseball and earned himself
two All-Star Game appearances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During
a time when the Red Sox weren’t very good, Radatz was a star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In clips like this, it is always easier to look for the more
‘obscure’ events to help narrow them down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this case, it is a reliever taking an at-bat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pedro Ramos, #14, was acquired by the Yankees
in 1964.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his career with the Yankees,
he only had 1 at-bat vs the Red Sox in Yankee Stadium that ended in a
strikeout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That came in the 11<sup>th</sup>
inning of the <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA196505180.shtml" target="_blank">May 18<sup>th</sup>, 1965</a> game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dick Radatz would enter that May 18th game in the 9<sup>th</sup>
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straight batters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That roll would
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Going into the 1965 season, the New York Yankees had never
beaten Dick Radatz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all these
strikeouts, it didn’t seem like that was going to happen on May 18<sup>th</sup>
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, after Radatz led off
the top of the 12<sup>th</sup> with a single, he would spend the remainder of
the inning standing at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he
returned to the mound, he walked Linz to lead-off the inning, got Bobby
Richardson on a failed sacrifice attempt before giving up a walk-off triple to
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The footage is clearly videotape, similar in quality to the
black and white clips seen from other WHDH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we learned from the Impossible to Forget documentary, WHDH wouldn’t
flip to color videotape until mid-1966.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have the audio on all 3 of these clips featuring Curt Gowdy’s
call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The exact source of this footage is hard to
tell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clips are being used as some
sort of retrospective that Dick Radatz is only a segment of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Why these segments would be saved is unclear. Perhaps they are another part of the (rumored) vast WHDH sports archive or maybe these extra innings had bled over onto another videotape and thus was not the one the sports department usually taped over. It would be interesting to see how much of these final innings survive. </span></span></div>
GLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13717609836173537084noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872213656037367115.post-18992474945523435342014-05-13T22:59:00.000-04:002015-11-08T11:21:44.583-05:00Check Your Local Listings (1971 games on TV) Part 1<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For years this blog has devoted time to finding out where a clip came from or what station may have shown it. Rarely do we take a look to see what COULD be out there and hasn't been found yet. As we get into the early 1970s, we see the phasing out of kinescopes and the rise of videotape and satellite hook-ups. It becomes easier for stations to broadcast games coast-to-coast and beyond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a disclaimer, not a single regular season game from the 1971 season has survived (to my knowledge). There a few partials that exist of regular season tilts. Also, we have the glorious color videotape of the 1971 All-Star game and various post-season games have survived. However, 1971 featured quite a few historical moments and hopefully we can try to account for which of them actually made it on-air. Once we have a true account of what games were broadcast, then we can take a look at some of the partials and get more in-depth into each of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Part One of this feature focuses on the American League and their distribution of their product. By the time we reached 1971, the American League was finally starting to catch up with the National League talent wise following a slow integration process. While their approach to talent had been slow to change, let's take a look to see how their approach to television grew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yankees (WPIX-11)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Yankees brought with them into 1971 a long tradition of televised baseball broadcasts. With their 20th consecutive season on WPIX-11, the Yankees broadcast team was helmed by Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto and newcomer <strike>Frank</strike> Bill White. WPIX started the season scheduled to broadcast a whopping 96 Yankees games that year. Unlike many other teams, the Yankees allowed 49 of their home games to be shown on television along with 47 of their road tilts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Orioles continued a pattern of paranoid television policies. Beginning the season with 51 regular season games scheduled, the Orioles planned to show less than half the number the Yankees would broadcast. This was during a time that the Yankees found themselves the dredges of the American League and the Orioles dominated at the top. Of their telecasts, only six of them were at home as to avoid the perceived threat to home game attendance. The six games shown were April 10 (DET), April 18 (NYY), May 6 (CAL), May 22 (BOS), June 13 (CHI), and July 11 (CLE). Not included in that sampling would be Washington, whose fans the Orioles surely thought they could sell more tickets to. Chuck Thompson continued his tenure with the club as head play-by-play announcer and teamed with Bill O'Donnell to announce the games for WJZ-TV. On September 13th, Frank Robinson would hit homerun 499 in Game 1 and homerun 500 in Game 2 of a double-header vs Detroit. Neither of those games were scheduled to be covered by WJZ-TV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WHDH-5 would provide a hardy showing of Red Sox games in 1971. Ken Coleman returned alongside Ned Martin for WHDH's final season as the Red Sox flagship station. In that final year they broadcast Red Sox games, 60 total contests were chosen to be shown. The difference between WJZ-TV and WHDH-5 was only 9 games overall, however the balance of showing 27 home games and 33 away games gave television viewers more of a peek into Fenway Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With 50 games being shown on WTCN-TV (11), the Twins structured their broadcast schedule much like the Orioles. A measly four home games were televised that year. Those dates were May 7 (WSH), May 14 (CHI), June 22 (OAK) and July 7. That means the last regularly scheduled home broadcast happened before the All-Star break. The remaining 46 broadcasts put them one ahead of Baltimore but one behind the Yankees. Of note from this schedule is the date August 11. The game was not carried by WTCN-TV however it WAS carried by WJZ. That means, at least for one day, a television broadcast of Harmon Killebrew hitting his 500th homerun existed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While I don't have the exact list of the games shown, I do know that the White Sox provided the best television representation of their franchise. After wrangling away the rights from WGN, WFLD was fully committed to filling their programming time with live sport content, amongst other non-traditional programming. Due to this and their non-affiliation to a major network, they could run a full schedule of White Sox games and the franchise did not bristle at it after seeing the exposure WGN provided. In 1971, WFLD was scheduled to carry 129 of the teams 162 games. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For 1971 games to survive, one of two things would need to happen. One way is if the videotape from the original broadcast station had been preserved, walked out the door and was misplaced on a shelf and not recorded over. The second is kinescoped by a (wealthy) private collector or the Armed Forces. If an Armed Forces kinescope were made, it would most likely be of a NBC GOTW and not a local affiliate. </span><br />
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