Watching the game of the week with my father with Pee Wee and Diz is one of my fondest memories. Even as a little kid, I laughed at Diz announcing: " and the runners returned to their respectable bases". They made it fun to watch.
My father went to the seventh game of the 34' world series with his father ( Grandfather ), he was 12, super cool. He grew up in Detroit. He was a excellent athlete himself, playing fullback for the University of Florida, in the early 40's..
Dizzy and Paul once pitched a doubleheader. Dizzy threw a two-hitter in the first game. Paul threw a no hitter in the second game. Afterwards, Dizzy said, If I would have known Paul was going to pitch a no hitter, I would have pitched one, too.”
I recall the old b&w Saturday-Sunday games of the late 50’s - very early 60’s when Pee Wee and Dizzy would commentate on the ballgame. Pee Wee was the straight man and Dizzy was colorful and crazy. He and his brother used to continue their baseball season after the MLB took a break by breaking that color barrier and playing with black players in their fields. For two ol’ boys from the South, they were miles ahead of most white Americans today in their views on race and friendship.
Some of the greatest moments for baseball fans were simply having the good fortune to have watched Dizzy and Pee Wee Reese do the "Game of the Week" back in the day. Diz loved the sponsor's product (Falstaff beer) and the tales are legendary. When things got slow late in the game, Dizzy would start singing "Wabash Cannonball". Things didn't get any better than that! Too bad that there are few if any videos around of those broadcasts. They were done live and NBC didn't bother to record them.
LesbianVampireLover I saw one broadcast in which Diz leaned out of the booth and shouted pleasantries to Jim Gentile of the Orioles. Gentile looked up from first base with a goofy smile. And Dizzy was a whole show unto himself in a rain delay.
When I was a kid growing up in Hamlin, Texas, I had a good friend that lived down the street from whose uncle used to be a catcher in the Major Leagues years earlier. He told us that he had played for the St. Louis Cardinals and had on occasion caught behind the plate for Dizzy Dean.
When i was around 11 (1962-3), I remember seeing a movie "The Pride of St. Louis" starring Dan Duryea as Diz. I knew Dizzy from watching the Saturday Game of the Week with PeeWee Reese and him calling the game. Almost ALWAYS featured the Yankees vs. someone. It was a great time to grow up, when baseball ruled
Question. - My mother claimed both Dizzy and Daffy helped coach her high school basketball team in Mt. Airy, NC. They ended up state champions in North Carolina. Do you know about this?
every Saturday my dad and I would watch the "game of the week" where Dizzy and Pee Wee would commentate. This was in the late 50's. I believe it was referred to as "the Falstaff Game of the week". I'll never forget the first time I heard Dizzy say "he slud into home" I had to have my dad explain that one to me.....thanks for all the great moments Diz and you too Pee Wee
Ole Diz misremembered his 1937 season before and after he injured his toe in the All Star game. In actuality he was 12-7 before the game, not 13-1 as he states. He finished the season 13-10 and pitched for the Cubs the next year.
I've always been a baseball fan. Only recently though I've become fascinated with baseball from the 1950s and earlier. I think there's a feeling that maybe I could have played in this era had I wanted to. I was a really good shortstop/3rd baseman in HS but joined the Air Force and haven't played since. Not todays game though, it's just changed too much lol.
I must be missing something. The caption above says this is 2010. Dean died in '74, two weeks after autographing a ⚾ for mevand my best friend at a minor league ballpark in Charjeston SC. He was traveling around doing color comnentary st minor league parks and selling Purina Dig Chow during the commercials. He died two weeks later in Reno. I was very sad. I have no family and sold the ball a couple yrs ago to a very appreciative guy for $1,150. Time moves on.
How could players even catch with them goofy gloves? The Great Walter Johnson who is supposedly the greatest pitcher ever went to an ammunition factory with Smokey Joe Wood to settle who threw the fastest. back at that time they had a method of gauging how fast their ammunition traveled out of guns, So Walter and Joe went to see how fast they threw, Walter's fastest pitch was 80.6 MPH Joe's was 79.9 I guess back in those days 80 mph was considered gas, but if they played today I doubt they could compete at AA level. sadly.That is what I have read anyway.Dizzy probably threw a little harder but not much.
Actually when Johnson's fastball was measured at the Bridgeport, Connecticut munitions factory, it was estimated at 91.36 mph. However, that was a year before radar was invented and most experts believe that he could throw a fastball at 100 mph.
I was in Wiggins, MS in 1974, visiting my hometown, Gulfport, and went to Dizzy’s home and talked to his wife Pat. The next day we went back and spotted Dizzy’s gold Cadillac (his wife told us to look for that car) in the parking lot of Dunaway’s fried chicken. Went in and saw Dizzy paying for his order with a fiver. He took pics with us, signed autographs, and honked his horn and waved when we left. He passed away one month later. His wife had expressed concern that “they’ve got him running around all over the place” during our earlier talk.
Watching the game of the week with my father with Pee Wee and Diz is one of my fondest memories. Even as a little kid, I laughed at Diz announcing: " and the runners returned to their respectable bases". They made it fun to watch.
that was a blue darter.
The Wabash Cannonball
I remember seeing Diz and Pee Wee Reese do games together on tv, in the early 60
s, they were great.
They were wonderful!
Met Dizzy at a Falstaff Brewery picnic in St. Louis in the early 60's. I was 10 and my grandpa was a Falstaff truck driver. I'm glad to have met him.
My father went to the seventh game of the 34' world series with his father ( Grandfather ), he was 12, super cool. He grew up in Detroit. He was a excellent athlete himself, playing fullback for the University of Florida, in the early 40's..
Man, I miss all the time I was privileged to spend in Missouri when I was young... Texas is my home, but there's something special about the Midwest
Dizzy and Paul once pitched a doubleheader. Dizzy threw a two-hitter in the first game. Paul threw a no hitter in the second game. Afterwards, Dizzy said, If I would have known Paul was going to pitch a no hitter, I would have pitched one, too.”
I think he said, “if I’d a knowed Paul was gonna thow a no-hitter, I’d a thowed one, too.”
I recall the old b&w Saturday-Sunday games of the late 50’s - very early 60’s when Pee Wee and Dizzy would commentate on the ballgame. Pee Wee was the straight man and Dizzy was colorful and crazy. He and his brother used to continue their baseball season after the MLB took a break by breaking that color barrier and playing with black players in their fields. For two ol’ boys from the South, they were miles ahead of most white Americans today in their views on race and friendship.
That was a nice little bit. Thanks. He and Pee Wee were the best behind the mike ever.
“The only thing we need to win this World Series is me and Paul, and if you let me pitch the first four games, you won’t need Paul”……..Dizzy Dean
Dizzy dean is my great great great great grandfather
Some of the greatest moments for baseball fans were simply having the good fortune to have watched Dizzy and Pee Wee Reese do the "Game of the Week" back in the day. Diz loved the sponsor's product (Falstaff beer) and the tales are legendary. When things got slow late in the game, Dizzy would start singing "Wabash Cannonball". Things didn't get any better than that! Too bad that there are few if any videos around of those broadcasts. They were done live and NBC didn't bother to record them.
LesbianVampireLover I saw one broadcast in which Diz leaned out of the booth and shouted pleasantries to Jim Gentile of the Orioles. Gentile looked up from first base with a goofy smile. And Dizzy was a whole show unto himself in a rain delay.
America’s premium quality beer.
(Red Schoendienst whiffs, frustrated)
Diz: "And he nonchalantly walks back to the dugout in disgust."
The man was commentary gold just being himself.
I have a great new book on the Dean’s hot off the press the “Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour”
When I was a kid growing up in Hamlin, Texas, I had a good friend that lived down the street from whose uncle used to be a catcher in the Major Leagues years earlier. He told us that he had played for the St. Louis Cardinals and had on occasion caught behind the plate for Dizzy Dean.
That would be easy enough to verify. Probably hawshit. 🐎 💩
At around 0:52: the most fluid wind up I've ever seen. Would love to have seen him pitch.
You're right.
I heard Dizzy do ball games ,He was great!
When i was around 11 (1962-3), I remember seeing a movie "The Pride of St. Louis" starring Dan Duryea as Diz. I knew Dizzy from watching the Saturday Game of the Week with PeeWee Reese and him calling the game. Almost ALWAYS featured the Yankees vs. someone. It was a great time to grow up, when baseball ruled
Great Uncle Diz was a character. My oldest daughter is named after him. Hanna.
Wait, he was your great uncle?!
Question. - My mother claimed both Dizzy and Daffy helped coach her high school basketball team in Mt. Airy, NC. They ended up state champions in North Carolina. Do you know about this?
Somebody lined out to the first baseman Vic Wertz, and Dizzy, doing the play by play, said "That ball went from bat to Wertz."
every Saturday my dad and I would watch the "game of the week" where Dizzy and Pee Wee would commentate. This was in the late 50's. I believe it was referred to as "the Falstaff Game of the week". I'll never forget the first time I heard Dizzy say "he slud into home" I had to have my dad explain that one to me.....thanks for all the great moments Diz and you too Pee Wee
The video shows that Dizzy Dean actually jumped up as he was running in an effort to break up the double play when he was hit in the head.
a classic...
“Ya seen it on your screens, fans” remember it well.
jesus Dizzy's hands are gigantic. Musta been like pitching a pea
I have an outstanding new book on the Deans “The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour” Hot off the press!
Thought "Farmed Out," meant going to work on the farm 🚜 😃😁
X-rays of Dean's head reveal nothing.
He was a funny guy. There were a lot of funny characters back in those days. Casey Stengal was another one.
Ole Diz misremembered his 1937 season before and after he injured his toe in the All Star game. In
actuality he was 12-7 before the
game, not 13-1 as he states. He
finished the season 13-10 and pitched for the Cubs the next year.
I've always been a baseball fan. Only recently though I've become fascinated with baseball from the 1950s and earlier. I think there's a feeling that maybe I could have played in this era had I wanted to. I was a really good shortstop/3rd baseman in HS but joined the Air Force and haven't played since. Not todays game though, it's just changed too much lol.
Dean was a sidearmer? Never would have guessed since he threw very hard.
He changed his arm slot after injuring his arm earlier in his career
Check out Walter Johnson.
Didn't know English well, but had more heart and soul than those who do....
My mom told me that I'm actually related to dizzy!
Fnaffanatic 1987 "My mom told me that I'm actually related to dizzy!"
Ahem.
@@vestibulate I really am, but whatever
I am too and I swear I’m not lying
@@kevindean7613 that's awesome man!
Me too!
And lots of my neighbors too!
No entendeishon ni vergueishion
I must be missing something. The caption above says this is 2010. Dean died in '74, two weeks after autographing a ⚾ for mevand my best friend at a minor league ballpark in Charjeston SC. He was traveling around doing color comnentary st minor league parks and selling Purina Dig Chow during the commercials. He died two weeks later in Reno. I was very sad. I have no family and sold the ball a couple yrs ago to a very appreciative guy for $1,150. Time moves on.
Cool player
try toning down the background music it drowns out what your saying at times.
No.
Where are the black payers? After all, I’ve been told it’s all about talent - not about racism….
Alguien que hable español
Yo
How could players even catch with them goofy gloves? The Great Walter Johnson who is supposedly the greatest pitcher ever went to an ammunition factory with Smokey Joe Wood to settle who threw the fastest. back at that time they had a method of gauging how fast their ammunition traveled out of guns, So Walter and Joe went to see how fast they threw, Walter's fastest pitch was 80.6 MPH Joe's was 79.9 I guess back in those days 80 mph was considered gas, but if they played today I doubt they could compete at AA level. sadly.That is what I have read anyway.Dizzy probably threw a little harder but not much.
You nimrod
No no no they threw much harder than that.
Actually when Johnson's fastball was measured at the Bridgeport, Connecticut munitions factory, it was estimated at 91.36 mph. However, that was a year before radar was invented and most experts believe that he could throw a fastball at 100 mph.
You pull that out your ass, there, greggie? Why don't you shove it back in. Dorp.
I was in Wiggins, MS in 1974, visiting my hometown, Gulfport, and went to Dizzy’s home and talked to his wife Pat. The next day we went back and spotted Dizzy’s gold Cadillac (his wife told us to look for that car) in the parking lot of Dunaway’s fried chicken. Went in and saw Dizzy paying for his order with a fiver. He took pics with us, signed autographs, and honked his horn and waved when we left. He passed away one month later. His wife had expressed concern that “they’ve got him running around all over the place” during our earlier talk.
and i've hated english teachers ever since.
Great
She didnt poop, huh?