The Oldest Full Color Baseball Broadcast - Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins, 9-30-1967
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- The full game from September 30, 1967. It is game #161 of the season for both teams from Fenway Park. This is the oldest known broadcast in existence of an MLB game in color.
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I purchased a book Diary of a Sportscaster by Ken Coleman(the announcer here). I wrote him a letter addressed to Fenway Park. I told him how much I enjoyed the book. He wrote back and told me if I ever came to Fenway to bring the book and talk to someone(forgot the name) to come up to the booth to get it signed. I did just that. Ken was wonderful. He signed my book and we talked about 30 minutes before game time.
I was there the next day, October 1, 1967 when Jim Lonborg pitched and the Red Sox won the pennant. I (along with thousands of other fans) ran onto the field after Rico caught the infield fly to end the game. I still have a bottle of infield dirt I scooped up that day!
This is a wonderful broadcast. It is such a pleasure.. Watching baseball on ESPN is painful.
Watching anything on ESPN is painful.
2:35 minutes. Today's games are 3-4 hour bore fests.
@@tomtalley2192 the average game length in 2023 was 2 hours 42 minutes.
@@obscuremo Yeah, with a pitch clock, no stepping out of the box rule, and relief pitcher rule. So 3 rule changes to make the game quicker they didn't have in 1967. This was a long game for the time, as much was at stake. Most games were about 2 hours.
Fox and john smoltz are worse.
I turn down the volume when he does the game.
Look at the Line-ups. Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Rod Carew, Carl Yastrzemski, George Scott, Harrelson, and other great players. This has to be saved. Games like this need to be preserved. So our kids, and their kids can look back at what baseball used to be, and the great players who played during those years.
don't forget Jim Kaat!
The Hall of Fame is well represented here.
"aNy rEbRoAdCaSt, ReTrAnSm1sSi0n, Or AcCoUnT oF tHiS gAm3, w1tHoUt ThE eXpReSs Wr1tTeN c0nSeNt Of MaJoR lEaGu3 bAs3bAlL, iS pRoHiBiTeD" 🤪
Reggie Smith says hi
Agreed, even as a disappointed Twins fan who was 9 years old when this game was played:)
Played this tape against tonight’s Sox broadcast. Noticed how much less Ken Coleman and Mel Parnell talked during regular at bats, sometimes just saying “outside”, “strike, 1and 2”, that’s it- saving their voices for when needed to get your attention. Now, my God, count the words on each pitch, endless over-talking and analysis , give it a rest boys . Let the game do the talking once in a while.
We don’t need to hear every stat and thought imaginable on every
pitch.
Bitch, whine, moan, the past was so better etc. etc. Most of us enjoy discussion of baseball ins and outs from the pro's perspective.
A little too brief maybe cause this TV broadcast so people see the action. But I agree with you.
It's this generation that lacks attention span. It's like that with everything today.
Right. Announcing by and for ADD Nation.
@@Lfw073 You mean ADHD nation, right? You just proved my point. Thanks.
This was broadcast on old WHDH channel 5. Ken Coleman and Ned Martin were great.
I love all of this (especially as a Bostonian). No ads all over the ballpark, no railings at the dugouts, no batting gloves, batters rubbing dirt into their hands, no stupid pitch clock, no changing the ball every time it hits the ground. Baseball as it should be. Thanks for posting!
I was a huge baseball fan (Cubs) for 50 years, and no longer follow it because of the many terrible changes and disregard for tradition. Replay review was the last straw for me...
Ad's all over the ballpark have been a mainstay in baseball since the 1920's
Yes, I understand that. Did I really have to specify that there aren't ads (no apostrophe) in every square inch of the park? I'm sure my meaning was understood, but thanks.
I agree with all of this, except the pitch clock. The clock, I think, is doing its part to make baseball more similar to this.
No Garciaparra-esque delays, pitchers can’t spend 30 seconds rubbing the ball against their pants.
@@JosephDalton-xc1iw yeah, I'm on the fence about the clock. I totally understand its purpose, but I think it makes the game too artificial. I love the chess match between pitcher and batter, and I just don't feel that anymore. Most of me misses the natural flow of the game, even it's "too long." I never cared that a game went 4 hours. You're watching baseball...what else are you doing that day?! :-) Relax and enjoy it. We have tiny attention spans now, and I hate what it's done to the game.
I was there! Several rows behind the 3rd base dugout. Haven't managed to spot myself yet.
Yeah. I thought that was you.
I was in 7th grade, and we were told to go to a movie theater that day for a class assignment to watch "Romeo and Juliette."" I recall the weather was fantastic!
They photoshopped you out.
That’s so cool!
@PatrickS.Tomlinson that is the DUMBEST comment on youtube this month...congrats!
I learned about all these players from playing Strat-o- matic baseball. Videos like this make the Strat cards come alive!
I LOVE Strat o matic and still have a ton of teams
Thanks for the fond flashback! I used to play Strat-o-matic baseball with my late father all the time back in the late 70s and early 80s!! Funny how I can still remember so many players and their positions from back then.
Great game. The best baseball board game ever.
I still play Strat-o- matic baseball, football, and basketball! I don't get to play as often as I used to, but I love to play the old teams from my childhood the most! I first bought the baseball game in 1977 from an ad in a comic book! I love all the teams from the 60s, 70s and 80s, but for basketball, I play the Tim Duncan years (fave player!)
@@daves2058 I havent played in a few years..but still have a ton of teams...love the 70s...
I wish I could give this more than 1 thumbs up. As a life long Red Sox fan i grew up with everyone talking about this team and how exciting the series was. Too actually get watch the game is thrilling. Coleman and Martin were great announcers. I don’t recall Parnell from my youth so I don’t know when he retired.
Mel Parnell was replaced by Johnny Pesky before the 1969 season. Mel went to the White Sox for 1 season in 1969 as a broadcaster.
I’ll be your second thumbs up
Red Sox cheated the 2018 World Series. They were fined for cheating in 2017. Let that sink in
This was cool for me, too.
A) I’m a Twins fan
B) This game took place less than three weeks after I was born.
@@bench-clearingbrawl7737 The 2017 issue had nothing to with winning it in 2018. Different managers.
Explain how the Sox cheated in 2018.
That was the year tony conigliaro was hit in the eye with a fast ball and was never the same after that! They made a record about the 67 red sox and my father in law has it!! They came close but didnt win it all that year! Notice there was hardly any advertising around the park like there is now!! Been to fenway park many times as a "yankees" fan from western mass! Sat in the monster seats when they first came out in the early 2000s!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Only game on tv back then was the red sox in my area! Would watch the games with my dad and would root for the other team! This was before cable tv! Got to go on the baltimore orioles team bus the year they won the world series,'66! My dad played high school baseball with the relieve pitcher for the orioles, stu miller, and he had us go on the bus after the game to visit with him! I was like 6 years old and never forgot the smell of beer and chewing tobacco! Stood next to boog powell, he was gigantic to a six year old!!
The 1967 WS was the first sporting event I ever saw in color. We would sprint home (down the hill!) after school to see it. Nice to have a friend with a color TV!
WS games in daytime were special. I think we even got to see a little at school.
I wonder if any of the full game broadcasts exist from the 1967 World Series, not just highlights.
I was in 1st grade for the '67 series. The sisters rolled in the tv and we watched the '67 world series. It was amazing. Weymouth, Ma. St. Jeromes school.
Was just at Harborlight Mall (Lowe's and Staple's) today. Weymouth forever!
I was in 3rd grade a few miles away over at the Hunt School. Our teacher wheeled in a TV too! On this day, I was over at the South Weymouth Naval Air Station watching the Blue Angles. Great memories!
4th grade Franklin School, West Newton, MA, Mrs Hilbert rolled in the TV cart. Lou Brock a threat on the bases the whole series. Lonborg’s one - hitter in game 2, a gem.
I was in 3rd grade, in a Navy family stationed in Newport Rhode Island. All of New England had Red Sox fever that summer after many years in the doldrums. Jim Lonborg was my first sports idol. It was shame he got that knee injury skiing in the off season. it could have been a Hall of Fame career. It's ironic that my family moved permanently to Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1968 and Lonborg finished his career there from 1973-1979. He had two pretty good years during that time, winning 17 games in 1974 and 18 in 1976 as the #2 man in the rotation behind Steve Carlton.
Yall are straight DOXXING ur selves
Great seeing Fenway in its glory without all those corporate ads emblazoned across the monster and all over the park. I miss the magic of baseball I experienced as a kid.
I was lucky to experience the magic myself, being age 8 in 1967. My memories are of Candlestick-Mays and McCovey.
It's because you're not a kid anymore, some things have changed, most things lose their magic when you grow up.
Baseball, even with all the ads today, is still magical for kids that like it.
@@fromulus you're correct in your assertion that we do not miss what we haven't experienced, but they call it nostalgia for a reason. It envoked good feelings upon reflection. I doubt being blitzed with ads in a ballpark envokes nostalgia in any generation. The focus isnt on the game itself but individual stars and the "verizon call to the bullpen" type rhetoric. I dont think the "youre just old" argument is a solid one here.
I wish I could’ve seen Mays play
And the concessions were very affordable, unlike today, a hotdog is like 7 dollars at Fenway, greedy fucking owners
I started collecting baseball cards in 1970 so this is the first time I've seen a lot of these guys "live". Some observations: Reggie Smith batting using the soft cap with the insert. I wonder who was the last to do it? And this was after Tony Conigliaro's injury too. Almost no batting gloves. A few people using one, nobody using two. A lot of dirt being used on hands. A lot. No replays. That mound DOES look high from the centerfield shots. This was a year before they lowered it. Mostly competitive at-bats from the pitchers. Fastball velo definitely less overall. No names on uniforms. Some unusual looking throwing motions too... some very typical looking bodies of guys who grew up in the 40's and 50's (Adair, Allison etc...). Jim Kaat was a big horse, no wonder he played for 60 years!
OK this is how I remember watching baseball when I was a kid. There were long periods of silence between the pitches. They didn’t analyze down to the molecular level every pitch. They didn’t have today’s mind numbing graphics in your face every two seconds. They just let the action on the screen speak for itself.
I wish we can go back to that simple style of Baseball telecasting.
Except for simple graphics like the batter's name and average, HR and RBI.
What a treat for baseball fans! Thank you for posting this. Here in 2024, the things that really stand out are the SOUNDS of the game and the ballpark. I miss the way the announcers from this era allowed the pictures to speak for themselves. Nowadays, the announcers talk entirely too much. Paul Skenes is lights out...I do not need to hear about his "influencer, gymnast girlfriend" although I'm sure she's a delightful person. No pitch clock, unlimited mound visits, unlimited pickoffs, no advertisements in the stadium, no chryon graphics littering the screen, umpires wearing suits with bowties, plate umpire using the balloon chest protector, no strike zone box, no video replay, Billy Marting coaching at 3B for MIN, Rod Carew's batting stance, Yaz and Killebrew...baseball as it was meant to be. Thank you again for sharing!
I so agree with you about the announcers allowing the pictures (and the crowd, for that matter) to speak for themselves. Seems that today it’s “the louder, the better” when an announcer makes a call. Especially the Sox radio broadcasters-they drive me nuts. They scream. Compare that to Ken Coleman’s call of Yaz’s 44th. The crowd going nuts is the best part of the game. Let us hear it.
Think of Kirk Gibson’s famous WS homer. On television, Vin Scully let the crowd do the talking. On radio, Jack Buck needed to talk, to explain how big that HR was (“I can’t believe what I just saw!”)’
One thing I can't stand about modern sports is how they pump in loud, obnoxious music in every arena for 3+ hours.
And it's the same songs every game in every city
@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf The Game is the thing. The Game is all we need. Just give us The Game and spare the theatrics, please…
I was 7, growing up in Boston, listening to all these games on my older brothers transistor radio. We didn't even see a color TV until the late 70s.
I remember that weekend and will never forget...The Impossible dream !!!
I do, too. My mom gave birth to me the previous evening. But they probably didn't have this broadcast in the neonatal unit in Minnesota.
no ads on the backstop. and the announcer doesn't talk his head off.
I was born in 1967. So obviously I have only the knowledge of newspapers, magazines, etc about these classic games. I wish that there were more of these classic games preserved. The historical significance of baseball's past is so important. These players from the 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's helped shape what we have. Although I still say baseball was better in the late 70's and early 80's. But that's just an opinion. Thank you for sharing this game with us. It is greatly appreciated. God Bless.
Among the greatest pennant races ever! Four teams out of ten still mathematically in it with less than a week to go! Sadly after 1993 that was the end of true pennant/division races. You know, no wild cards to fall back on? Like Bob Costas says, winning a true pennant/division championship that's decided over the course of a full 154/162 season has a LOT more meaning that just merely qualifying for a playoff spot.
Excellent point and well said John!
Bob Costas. 🤣🤣
Quite a few comments waxing poetic about how the time period of the broadcast or the broadcast itself being a better time than today.
All I can think about is how remarkable it is that the Red Sox still dress like this to this day. Like some of this footage is of decent enough quality that you could probably sucker someone into thinking it was modern
Quite a few uniforms haven't changed from their original uniforms
A few years after this game, early 70’s I caddied for Ken Harrelson - great guy, tremendous golf swing , hit his tee ball a mile - crushed it.
If i recall, this game gives Yaz the Triple-Crown.
Man...what a season!
I was in the 7th grade when my Twins played the Dodgers in the 65' W S.
Our English teacher let us watch a game.
I was an eleven-year-old kid that year, and a big Red Sox fan. I remember watching some of the games on TV. I heard John Kiley playing the organ at the beginning. So many memorable players from my childhood on both teams.
Amazing footage. Love that Yaz homerun and nice to see a day game with the triangle actually populated by fans.
Great video. I watched every minute of it.
Thanks for sharing.
Great times for baseball ! What a year 67’ was as a kid .
Joe DiMaggio once told me that Mel Parnell was the toughest pitcher he ever faced. Really.
I remember this really historic, great game. It was Yaz's triple crown year, and the Red Sox won it at the wire and lost to the Cardinals in the Series. It may be the oldest preserved complete color broadcast, but games were broadcast in color at least 2-3 years earlier. I remember watching the Giants play the Dodgers on Saturday Afternoon Game of the Week during 1965 which was Willie Mays great MVP year as well as Koufax's 27 win Cy Young season wherein he broke Bob Feller's single season strikeout record. That was truly a golden age for baseball with, I believe, more all time greats playing at any time before or since.
Not many people remember this, but Ken Coleman was a Reds TV broadcaster from 1975-78. Ned Martin was still with the Red Sox in the 1975 World Series. He helped call Game 7 for NBC TV. For some reason, Ken Coleman didn't do tv for NBC in that WS, even though he was very familiar with both clubs. Coleman came to the Reds directly from the Red Sox.
Yeah, Ned Martin did radio broadcasts for the Sox in 1975. Coleman came back a few years later. Dick Stockton was the TV announcer for them on Channel 38 in '75, with Hawk Harrelson doing color commentary. Ned came back to TV in '79 to replace Stockton who had signed with CBS Sports.
I remember Coleman with the Reds.
Before they lowered the pitcher’s mound in 1969. You can really see the difference. Lonborg and Bob Gibson must have been intimidating up on that hill.
At 5:06, the way the pitcher and batter both digging in for battle and the umpire between them- something beautiful about it...
Baseball is timeless.
But these were the last days of baseball as America's pastime.
The NFL had been gaining popularity since the 1958 "Greatest Game Ever Played." College football had just gone to weekly coast-to-coast broadcasts in 1966. Joe Namath's 1968 Super Bowl upset was the knockout punch. And 1970's debut of Monday Night Football was the death knell.
A 1972 Gallup poll found that for the first time, football had surpassed baseball as the nation's favorite sport. Absolutely unthinkable just 15 years before. That's why videos like this one are so important.
Ken Coleman was The Definitive "Voice of the Red Sox" 💯 I always thought he was the best and remember hearing his very last game on the radio with Joe Castiglione.. it was emotional but awesome as he passed the baton to Joe.. God Bless his Soul ⚾👍
A lot of changes in the game today, including DHs and that pitchers don't hit anymore, no appeal to the corner umps on check swings, no challenges, and the home plate ump doesn't even throw out all the balls that end up in the dirt, or even some that are put in play. And, of course, no pitch clock, or limit pick-off attempts. No replay on the broadcast either. We can replay on RUclips, but if you were watching this game live on TV you'd need to pay attention.
Unless you're Shohei Ohtani
This is the oldest complete game in color, there is about an hour of color footage from a game in 1965
Yep. It's a Cubs/Reds game in 1965 at Wrigley, where the Reds' Jim Maloney finishes up a no-hitter.
I started watching baseball on WGN (Chicago) in 1967. All of the Cubs games were in color. I know they were in color even before that. But this must be the earliest surviving color video.
There’s a partial color broadcast of a Cubs-Reds game at Wrigley in 1965! WGN broadcast with the commercials.
@@mykiemilford720damn, now that’s something I’d love to see too.
It's nice to see a broadcast where every single play isn't shown multiple times thanks to the lack of instant replay.
They didn't have time.
Yeah, but I am happy for the change though.
This is the most boring game ever. Replay is great.
It’s all about perspective. They didn’t have all the bells and whistles then, so fans in 1967 didn’t kno or care what they were missing, for better or worse.
Back in my day we had to listen to the game using only Morse code. I remember when old Cy, Ty, Tris and the Babe was playin we sure was happy.
Thank you so much for sharing this vivid broadcast. I really enjoyed watching it. I wasnt born yet when this game was played, but it's so interesting to see how things have changed! What really stood out for me is the pant legs are worn so high up. Seeing it in color, I can really see the contrast between the stirrup and the socks.
I remember much of this day when it happened. I was nervous Tiger fan, watching Bosox Twins on TV, listening to Tigers on radio, as it wasn't on TV. Heartbreaking reaults, as Tigs lost DH & pennant. Made up for it big time in 68 though.
Tigers needed to sweep doubleheader to tie for pennant. They lost second game after winning first. They made up for it with a vengeance the following season,1968, the final year before division Play.
@@stephenkammerling9479Thanks for the facts. I thought they list both games. It sure felt like it at the time. I remember they went up early in 2nd game but lost bad.
@@Mister8224 I'm 74, and things get fuzzy for me quite a bit. Did Tigers play two doubleheaders that weekend? If they did, I'm pretty sure they swept Saturday only to lose game 2 Sunday. I'm from Chicago and was rooting for White Sox. They looked like they had the inside track the middle of the final week with five games against Kansas City(2) then Washington(3). They lost all 5 with Friday night's loss to Washington
being the final nail in the coffin. Pure Chicago style choke!
Concerning your Tigers, as I said earlier they sure came back with a vengeance the next season.
I was in the 8th grade at the time in a Boston public school. A teacher actually let us listen to a game on the radio that fall. We knew all the players, and the city was on fire for the Sox. And when we went home from school, we played pickup baseball games in any empty field - including parking lots and vacant fields. Today - and for a long time - I never see kids in Red Sox caps or shirts. I don't even see them playing baseball unless they're in uniforms and Mom drove then to a league game.
Nice to watch a baseball game without all the annoying interviews in the middle of the game
But what would the female reporters do if there were no inane meaningless interviews ?
What interviews? Doesn't happen. Only ESPN sunday night baseball or something. Guess you have no idea what baseball games look like.
@cjr1881 yeah I was thinking about that too, baseball broadcasts have like no filler at all, it's pure gameplay and then the inning ends and there's a handful of ads until the gameplay gets going again. How would you even have an interview that interrupts the game, everyone you'd want to interview is on the field playing the game.
@@andrewminogue334you sound like a charmer
@@joetierney2he’s just lashing out because no one loves him. Sad really
I attended this game when I was a kid. The Red Sox were all people were talking about that summer. My dad owned a gas station and sold gas for around $0.35 per gallon. People would fill their tanks for 5 bucks.
In the words of the great Willie Mays: baseball is simple. "They throw it, I hit it. They hit it, I catch it."
When I hit it, I run. When I catch it, I throw it.
Games 3-5 of the 1969 world series at shea stadium are the oldest surviving World series video tape. This tape is of excellent quality. Someone really took care of it until it was digitally uploaded. all of those nbc world series prior to 1969 are crappy kinescopes.
This is so great. It’s somewhat rare-ish to see things on video and not film, from this period, but on color even rarer. Makes 1967 feel not so long ago.
As the telecast starts the organist is playing “Everything’s coming up Roses” 😊
John Kiley. The answer to the trick question of who played for the Red Sox, Bruins, and Celtics. He played organ at the original Boston Garden, too.
@@raymondm.9954I wonder if Kiley ever worked any Patriots games when they played at Fenway?
Dang, seems like yesterday. Thank you for the great post, WCSAA-TV! ⚾❤
I was at this game, and the one the next day too!!
Killebrew was a tank in a baseball uniform.
I met him about 25 years ago, and he had hands like vices. He was farm-strong.
Baseball without all the stupid graphics and picture in picture ads... The only thing I like better in todays broadcasts is the score on the screen.
Hall Of Famors everywhere in this game
In the autumn of '67, the Red Sox fandom had been reignited by "Captain Carl" Yastrzemski. The race was so extraordinary that there were certain middle and HS teachers who would allow one kid/class to have a transistor radio with an earphone during class to keep us all up to the minute on the daytime game scores. This was nearly the equivalent of a free period. Radio in school would get you suspended, normally.
I attended middle and high school with Ken Coleman's daughter. Fine folk.
We get to see rookies Rod Carew and Reggie Smith.
I had a friend in the late 70s/early 80s that had a loft in his attic and he would listen to Twins games and keep the boxscore EVERY game.
Yeah I knew a guy who would keep his own box score and then check the newspaper the next day... to see if THEY got it right.
Remember the old Black and White "Split screen" Television years of Baseball before 1965?
The impossible dream team that ultimately came up short. Still legendary.
Where are all the corporate wall ads? Where are the ads on the uniforms? Where is the hideous ad graphic on the back of the mound?
And where’s the DH, the pitch clock, the placed runner on sec-oh, wait.
@@christopherdunne7848 The designated hitter was 10 years away - if I remember correctly.
Wow, they jusy showed Edward Kennedy, Bobby was still alive....wow.
I'm listening closely to hear the fans say "Wooooo-oop!" Every time a foul ball rolls down and off the backstop netting and into the waiting hands of the ball boy. One of many old Fenway memories.
We did that at Wrigley Field, too!
Just imagine watching a ball game without endless blathering from the announcers along with insipid metrics quotes.
I was 4 months old! And this game most certainly would've been the giant cabinet tv with the tiny screen😅
This just reminds me of all the ways the game has been ruined. MLB has become unwatchable. This right here was real baseball, and an enjoyable broadcast.
The players ruined it. You can see a completely different mentality? If you will, in the players, some of these shot tap hits most players today won't even put in half an effort to run.. on and off the field they're running, home runs they're running, it's the players that changed the game. I believe things changed after the 90s? Player strike... softer and in some ways less respectable players.
I loved it in the sixties and I love it today. I disagree that "the game has been ruined." Half the comments in here are from people romanticizing the past. It's too easy.
@@concretetundra9517 Obviously it's not literally ruined. The league still exists and has its fans. I guess what I meant is I find it unwatchable. For me it's ruined. And I wasn't even around in the 60s. My baseline is the 80s and 90s.
just nice seeing simple uniforms.
Bad enough we lost all those silver nitrate films. I'm surprised this is as late as 1967(I was 8).
This was the first of a two-game series between the Red Sox and Twins where the Red Sox entered the day NOT controlling their destiny even though they were one back of the Twins. The Tigers were also one back of the Twins for the AL Pennant at that point but because of a rainout in Detroit that Thursday and very cold conditions Friday, they had to finish with back-to-back doubleheaders at home against the Angels. If the Tigers won all four games, regardless of what the Red Sox did the Tigers would have won the pennant. The Twins if they had swept this series were guaranteed no worse than a one-game playoff on Monday (10/2). Of course, the Red Sox this game and then the next day while the Tigers split both doubleheaders leading to The Red Sox completing "The Impossible Dream" season of 1967 that saved baseball as we know it in Boston. Even midway through that season, the Yawkey Family was looking to move the team to Milwaukee to replace the Braves that had moved to Atlanta after the 1965 season. Had that happened, MLB likely would have awarded Boston a new Red Sox team that would have commenced play with the Royals, Expos and Padres in 1969 and never had the mess with the Seattle Pilots who became the Milwaukee Brewers days before the 1970 season started.
This was also one year after the Red Sox had a bizarre finish to the 1966 season where they had to complete their 162-game season five days ahead of everyone else because the Patriots, who then played home games at Fenway had home games the final two Sundays of the MLB season.
Ken Coleman had one of those voices!
Yes. And his Boston accent is much more “real” than the cartoonish versions that people like to put out there these days.
There are many, many games in color from the ‘50s, especially World Series in late ‘50s. Not sure if the actual videotapes were saved but they were transferred to film.
There may be color film of earlier baseball games, but Ampex didn’t introduce broadcast quality COLOR videotape until April 1964. Videotape tape was so expensive and the reels were so massively large that very few broadcasts of anything were saved. Sporting events were the least likely to be saved because back then no one thought anyone would want to watch an entire game after it had been played.
It’s so surreal to watch color footage of these greats. Yaz, Killebrew, Oliva…
They apologize for the technical quality at the beginning but actually, all things considered, I think it's pretty good.
At some point to quality went down this obviously isn't high definition but it is better quality than a lot of shows that were in later years. Even in the 2000s there was some shockingly terrible picture quality TV broadcasts. I wonder if it has something to do with recording to beta max vhs ect?
Wow what a friggin GAME! Love my BOSOX! What a monster game by Jose Santiago!
Tony Oliva had a great Hall of Fame career. If he didn’t blow out his knee at 33 years old, his name would have been mentioned as one of the top 25 hitters of all time!
He’s still in the top 50 hitters of All Time!!!
@@MIKIEEYEZ1975 You’re right! I changed it to 25
Kaat leaves the mound after only 2 innings due to injury. Would have loved to have seen Boston have to beat him in this pivotal game....Kaat's leaving was definitely a blow to the Twins.
First batter really digging in the batter box lol
Dude, the car that comes out with a relief pitcher, no matter the team (clsssy) is soooo cool. Also, good on the Boston fans cheering out of respect for an injured oppossing pitcher. I was born in 1973.....at least that part of the game was classy. I REALLY.....REALLY wish I could see what the fan/souvenier store was like. I assume they sold pennants for EVERY tesm, maybe a shirt, but I doubt they sold jackets or jerseys. My favorite sports are hockey (NJ Devils, btw 1967 was the last year of the Original 6) The Dalllas Cowboys (this was the Ice Bowl season and on Oct 1, 67 sadly lost @Cotton Bowl to the George Allen LA Rams 13-35 to go 2-1(Game of The Week here on youtube). I hated the Phladelphia Flyers (I born n sadly still here in Philly). I used to say Bobby Clarke was probably pissed off when fans were allowed to buy a team jacket. This era of baseball, I bet a ticket behind home plate was maybe $7 and probably 50 cents or $1 to sit last row..disgraceful prices today. I really wish I could taste a hot dog from back then. I brt they were much better. I guess it was just hot dogs, peanuts ..you know what is said in the song. Looking at jerseys, they look exactly like what you see at an Ebbetts Field or Mitchell andcNess store.
I can’t speak for 67 but in the 70s on Yawkey Way (behind the outfield) there were huge souvenir stores. We would buy hats, pennants, posters and especially the fake plastic batting helmets before the games. We would go to 2 or 3 games a year and we loved getting that stuff. I remember the old red batting helmet which I had for years.
Crazy to see fans with no Sox gear on. Just street cloths.
It certainly does seem that things show up better in color, starting with the ball.
I watched this in TV in '67. The town was on fire. They weren't supposed to be good that year. Yaz and then Jim Lonborg too, just carried the whole bunch. Look at how far off the plate the batters stand, none of them had any protection on their arms or legs as they do today. Reggie Smith didn't wear a full batters helmet. I agree with the poster here on the game call....they let the sounds of the game be a part of the game for the listener. Jimmy Kaat threw 183 complete games in his career...whaaat!? Justin Verlander has 26 complete games. Look up this Twins team....5 hall of famers...just where are you going to get that?
Nice Killebrew home run near the end there
When in July a lengthy road trip beckoned, look at them go, 10 in a row and now our kids are 2nd.
Sure, the Tigers lead, Chicago has speed, and the Twins still have Oliva,
But with Yaz and Scott and what we've got, just feel that pennant fevah!
Pretty close in pace to pitch clock era ball. About 30 minutes faster than a 2019 game lol
Noticed a pitch in the dirt and they didn’t change the ball out. Today, in the dirt normally always you see the ump replace the ball.
Batting helmets were also optional from the looks of it lol. The more knowledgeable people have become about how scratches and other stuff effect the flight path of a ball in a usually irratic way the more often balls are changed out.
I watched a Trevor Bauer vid from him pitching in Mexico and a ball was a grounder or something (hit the ground) and he got the ball back and threw it out because it was scuffed up and he mentioned he could have probably been able to use it effectively but it wasn't worth the risk.
I'm sure they had some idea balls flew differently but not why per say. Just a different time, people weren't throwing 100mph either so I'm sure that plays a big role in how scuffed balls fly through the air. I laughed when one of the batters walked up to the plate with no helmet.
@@jlo7770 Yeah I think the lower speed of the pitches is probably the reason why it wasn't such a big deal. I mean, I think they understood aerodynamics in 1967, they were getting ready to launch men to the moon, after all.
OK, yes, I watched this game when it was broadcast. How old do I feel?
I was 5 when this game was played. I’m 62 (gulp) now. I don’t remember when they didn’t have graphics for balls, strikes, outs, batter’s name and average on the screen. Nowadays we have all these analytics like launch angle of a home run etc, etc. When did they start showing pitching speed? I miss those times especially the 70’s. With all of the downs of that time like the horrible Vietnam war, inflation, gasoline rationing, I’ll happily take those years over what we have now with people always looking at their “Smartphones” and horrible verbal and written communication skills in those under 35-40 and 500 tv cable channels that are mostly STINKO!
Great view without the on screen graphics
Among many things about games from this era, I really enjoy the absence of "filler talk" from the broadcaster. Today's broadcasters just prattle ON and ON and ON and on and on and ON during game play about everything from stats, to history, to pop culture, to an error that happened five innings ago, to meaningless bits of information about a former team manager's garbage collection woes at his residence (actual story). You can literally watch an entire three outs happen in today's TV broadcasts with almost no play calling, especially if there's a guest in the broadcast booth.
It's been years since I listened to the commentators, I watch sports on mute with music on the stereo. I might unmute it to hear an official explain a particularly complicated ruling.
Yes, the nice unhurried ambiance, not having so much dumb chatter and especially , no constant graphics . Also, better grammar even.
Weird without ANY replays, such as for homers or fielding errors.
Most of the players are using two hands when catching the ball, unlike now days.
I imagine Killebrew would have hit 700 home runs had he played in Fenway.
Young Tony-O before all the knee surgeries took his speed, awesome!
14:14: This was Rod Carew's rookie year. He won the American League Rookie of the Year award. Another Hall of Famer, Tom Seaver won in the NL.
Sometimes you lose the game in the first inning. Twins could have scored 3 or 4 runs.
That's very true.
Had the Twins won the Pennant that year Killebrew would have won the MVP award. Damned shame this Twins teams back then could only deliver one WS appearance.
@@rayjr62 it’s bullshit. Either he was the most valuable player in the regular season or he wasn’t.
Kaat’s injury in the 3rd a major turning point, had won 7 straight down the stretch and had a good chance to win the pennant that afternoon. Bullpen gave it up
As a redsox fan i can say this is a pretty historic game too
Love the old organ playing instead of the garbage that they play today.
They’re desperate to appeal to people that don’t even watch baseball. Every sporting event is like that now though. It’s a three ring circus of bright flashing lights and loud, annoying music.
12:57: Something very different back then. Dick Williams went to the mound and DID NOT remove the pitcher. Today and for the last 30 years or more, except for checking on an injury, the manager only comes out when it was to remove a pitcher. Otherwise it is the pitching coach.
Ken Coleman (PBP) & Mel Parnell (C) 1-3/7-9
Ned Martin (PBP) & Parnell (C) 4-6
Geesh, Tovar is hanging halfway over the plate!!