1976 ALCS, Game 5 (Royals-Yankees) (Restored WPIX Telecast)
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- -The night Chris Chambliss hit his dramatic walk-off home run in Game 5 of the 1976 ALCS to give the Yankees their first American League pennant in 12 years is considered one of the greatest moments in Yankee history. In the past, I've shared some rare items I've unearthed connected with that great night including the original WMCA Radio postgame show with Mel Allen and John Sterling and the beginning of WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" program just after the game ended. This however, represents the best for last of the treasures I've found in connection with this night.
-This game was originally televised on ABC with Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and Reggie Jackson announcing but New York viewers also could watch the regular Yankee announcers Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer and Bill White on WPIX. The ABC telecast still survives and has been replayed frequently over the years and released commercially on DVD but the only video footage that exists of the WPIX broadcast are the two segments of Chambliss's home run and the postgame that "YanksAtShea" posted to his channel several years ago.
-Among a number of rare reel-to-reel recordings I've been lucky to obtain in the last year, I came across pristine audio only of the WPIX telecast starting two outs in the Top of the 7th through the sign-off with commercials. While the raw audio itself is a good listen, I wanted to try and restore this audio to picture by using the video from the ABC telecast and synching this WPIX audio to it, from the point where it begins in the 7th inning with the Yankees leading 6 to 3. George Brett hits a home run in the Top of the 8th to tie it at 6 setting the stage for Chambliss's heroics in the 9th. You will notice that Phil Rizzuto's description does not always match the picture because WPIX and ABC were using separate camera feeds and so Rizzuto will comment on replays that were not shown on ABC or things the ABC cameras missed entirely. Still this isn't too much of a distraction overall (though it offers an insight into how ABC, which was doing baseball for the first time since 1965 that year, was not yet comfortable with the game).
-The ABC footage is used through the live call of Chambliss's home run as this will give you for the first time a chance to see the ABC view of the play with Rizzuto's call (ABC used a more antiquated high camera shot from above home plate whereas WPIX had better shots with the centerfield camera). When Rizzuto starts describing the replays, I have switched back to the WPIX footage which while containing superior camera shots is of lower picture quality which is why I felt the ABC footage should remain through the live call. Those who have seen YanksAtShea's uploads will also for the first time get to hear the parts of the postgame that are not extant on the video including Frank Messer getting a quick interview with Yankee minor league coach and scout Bobby Cox, the future managerial great of the Atlanta Braves before the final signoff.
-I have also left in the original commercials from this by finding video of as many of the commercials that aired that night as I could and substituting the superior audio. When video could not be found, I just put a company logo or still from the time frame up instead. All of the commercials you see/hear are the ones that aired in sequence that night on WPIX.
-Sit back and enjoy a new take on one of the greatest nights to be a Yankee fan! (the original video upload of Rizzuto's call of Chambliss's home run can be seen here • Chris Chambliss 1976 -... )
NOTE-The complexity of this meant that an error was possible in the final upload and I have just discovered that for a segment of 2.5 minutes at the start of the Top 9th, the ABC audio wasn't blotted out and can be heard in the background. This isn't a key part of the game but it is possible for me to redo and reupload at a future time. I will leave this version up for now unless there's overwhelming feedback sentiment for me to do otherwise.
I went crazy in Spokane, WA
I was 10. My dad and I were watching. It was sudden and we were screaming jumping all over the place hugging each other. Yelling Yankees win the pennant. What a memory!
Ed Figeroa first PR born pitcher to win 20 games in a season 🇵🇷
It was great when local stations broadcast the local teams' postseason games . This is sorely missing today.
I remember being a kid living in New Jersey at the time of this broadcast.....you could actually watch this game on TWO networks simultaneously.....either on ch 7 WABC with Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, and Jim Palmer....or on WPIX ch 11 with The Scooter, Bill White, and Frank Messer....of course nearly ALL YANKEE fans chose the latter....what a great time to be a kid and a Yankee fan...
Was a great time! Palmer was with the ABC crew on the 78 ALCS. In 76 (harbinger of things to come) it was Reggie.
Ed Figueroa was a finger roller of the baseball.
I met Chambliss in 2019. I asked him what kind of pitch he was looking for. He said, a fastball that was Litells best pitch.
Wow, that's amazing.
It was his best pitch.
Munson had ten hits during the series.
Great block by Willie Randolph.
I could thought Phil said the homerun replay was all over Yes.
27 years later in 2003 there would an encore by AARON BOONE!!!
This scene at Yankees stadium in NYC was one of the main reasons Philadelphia police lined the entire perimeter of the field with police officers to block Phillies fans from running onto the field in 1980 when they won their first World Series. They expected bedlam like this! This ending is epic.
This was the night I became a Yankee fan... I was seven years old and always watched the Mets, because that's what my grandfather watched. But this night he tuned in the Yankees, and I have been a fan ever since, through the good times and bad.
And man oh man, these commercials are giving me flashbacks.
Me too :-)
If George Brett could have played at Yankee Stadium every game he would have been in the Class of Ruth and Gehrig. He had so many big moments in New York.
True, I believe he could have won a triple crown. Best hitter of the 70's, more power than Carew Royal Stadium was not a Home Run hitters park.
@@tomb4575 I remember Brett calling Royals Stadium "The Airport" due to its outfield dimensions. A tough park to hit home runs in.
I wish I had the chance to see Rizzuto announce this game while it was being played live, but then, I had to settle for watching the game while sitting in the front row of the bleachers, about 20 feet up and to the left of where the ball landed in the bullpen. It all happened so quickly in the end except for that one moment when I saw that ball, high in the air. Time just seemed to freeze for that moment. I was like in shock, thinking to myself, NO WAY! This can't be real, could it? Then as my 3 friends and I watched several guys jumped the wall into the bullpen, we thought, no way! That wall was was way too high. I thought for a moment that we might get trampled on by the fans running down from the seats behind us. It wasn't that bad though, as most knew it would have been a bad idea to jump that wall. I don't recall staying in the stadium very long and celebrating as you see nowadays. I think we tried to see if we could have walked around to go onto the field but the bleachers area was already blocked off to the rest of the stadium. I felt as if we were missing out on the after-party. I didn't want to go home.
This is the most dramatic homer in the history of the Yankees. Boone's was also a pennant-winner, but it didn't break a 12 year pennant drought like this one. The level of happiness, elation, euphoria, awe and relief were all much higher in this one. You were so lucky to have been at this game.
@@dzanier Yes, I agree, especially after it coming from a draught that I grew up through. I was too young to truly remember and appreciate the Yankees World Series games of the early 60s, let alone the regular season. I became a serious Yankee fan after my dad started to teach me the basics of the game in the mid-60s. What I remember him teaching me most was the meaning of playing .500 ball. He said to be a decent team they had to play better than .500 and that means winning more games than you lose. There was the first goal that I rooted for, aside from the hurting Mickey Mantle hitting more home runs. That was around the time my dad took me to my first game at the Stadium. I was is such awe of the immense size of the place and that the grass wasn't in black and white. LOL. Mantle retired and then Murcer came along to cheer for. Then after seeing the Mets win the World Series I really started to feel the envy. It was after that the Yankees began to improve dramatically. Sadly they just kept falling short, even with the new ALCS format. Then the magic began!
What memories I have of this game! 9 years old at the time and living in the Bronx. I got chills watching the postgame locker room celebration with Frank Messer, seeing so many that are no longer with us.
Rizzuto, White, and Messer. The chemistry between them was awesome. I was 11 years old. As a kid, when you heard Rizzuto call a game, it was like magic. He made you interested in the game. Pure passion. When the Yankees got a big hit, Rizzuto got excited which made me as a kid excited. He got our attention. That was the magic. Thanks for the upload.
They were terrific. Messer in particular hasn't gotten enough credit for what he brought to the broadcasts over the years and how all three of them together had great byplay. Glad you enjoyed this!
@@epaddon I agree. Well if you grew up listening to Yankee games in the 70s, You can't say Rizutto, White, without Messer's name. I can still hear Messers voice when i think back, especially that 1 game playoff against the Sox.
None of them were great on their own. It was the combination of the three that did it.
(Murcer? Or Messer?) I was 9 out on Long Island watching on WPIX Channel 11. I may have been a Met fan, but Channel 9 didn’t come through as well. Ralph Kiner was cool too. Neighbors were Met/Schafer Beer people.
@@allrise3056 Murcer came later. The original chemistry was Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto and Bill White. Stil the best.
Frank Messer's work in postgame is so heartwarming. As a Tigers fan, we got George Kell for such moments, and he was great, but this is the Big Apple! Messer gives any young broadcaster hope that you could actually ascend to such a job through skill and perseverance.
Frank Messer used to do the post game show on the radio for Yankees games. He was great.
For a Yankee fan of a certain age (old!), the voice of Phil Rizzuto calling a game is only matched by the voice of Mel Allen doing the same. It always.. ALWAYS... gives me chills. For a while, Phil, Mel, and Jerry Coleman were the Yankee broadcasters. Rain delays were as good as the game.
When this first started, I thought that Scooter sounds a lot like Chi's "Mad Dog" Russo in cadence and voice. Probably those who haven't grown up with Scooter could think it was Russo, albeit not a "Mad Dog".
Something overlooked in this game is the two out steal of 2nd Chambliss had in the 6th inning. He had only one stolen base all season. He then scored from 2nd on Brett's throwing error to give them their 6th run.
Frank Messer gets in a Miller Beer plug.
I was 21 attending Fordham University in the Bronx and watching this game with my Father. I will never forget it. One of the greatest memories of my lifetime.
the roar of the crowd in the playoffs when a homerun is hit is so memorable, a collective roar.
21:46 George Brett three-run home run in top of 8th to tie score at 6-6.
53:10 Chris Chambliss. Holy cow!
Brett, too me, was the best hitter of the 1970's.
Willie should coach the Giants offensive linemen.
Talk about wonderful memories... I was 18 yrs old back then... when Chambliss hit that homerun to propel the Yankees into the 1976 World Series.. it ended a long, frustrating drought and a new era began that evening... the rest is history!
My favorite all time homer and my first real great memory as a young 10 yr old yankee fan.
Holy cow. Thanks for this.
Cowens was clearly safe at second in the top of the ninth. Royals should have had bases loaded with George Brett up. Lousy call by the umpire. Of such things are games won or lost.
Hard to tell from this replay, it happened so fast. Today's replays would have been better. He may have been safe. I was at the game and hadn't seen the play up close til about a year ago when YES replayed the game. This was the best look I've ever had of it. The ump was right on the play but the ball looked late. Hard to know exactly when Randolph got the ball as opposed to his feet. But I you may have a case.
Maybe that call is what led to the fight in the stands between innings. A fight broke out behind third base and all the guards ran from everywhere to break it up. That left no guards on the first base side. Fans in the first base box seats ran onto the field, slid into first base, and made it back to their seats untouched. After that others ran out on the field and fans started littering the field. We were still talking about it and turned to see Littell pitch just in time. I never knew what had started the fight in the stands, not shown on TV, until now. If I'm right.
I remember watching this game watching it with my mom I was 15 years old. What a great moment.
47:00 Cowens was safe, the Yankees got a big break with that play, especially, that Brett was going to bat next. surprised that the Royals didn't raise hell for that.
Herzog said he didn't come out because he knew they weren't going to change the call and also the fans were so rowdy he was afraid he was going to get hit with something. He may have been out, but it was a very, very close play. Brett coming up with the bases loaded would've been a very difficult situation for the Yankees. The only thing I know for certain is that Sparky Lyle would've come in to face Brett.
I much prefer the Scooter's call to Cosell's. Rizzuto never made his calls about himself. As for Howard.....
Any true Yankee fan in NYC watched it on 11 not 7.
If you think Cosell stepping on Jackson on this one was bad, he was even worse the next year on Reggie's third home run. Rizzuto, who was so often the target of unfair attacks from the media critics, proved how good an announcer he could be on this as well as Maris's 61st home run (where Red Barber the "professional" gave a terrible call on TV by contrast).
Cosell's call of Reggie's third homer (which I heard live) seemed normal enough (for him). It was quite a moment that I thought he had captured nicely. I was ten years old and living in Manhattan (a half-mile from Reggie, btw), plus I went to camp with a lot of kids from Boston and a few from Baltimore, and the three-way, summer-long race was intense, as was the conflict between Reggie and Billy. That third home run made all of that go away plus he had hit two on the last two pitches, and Reggie loves great clutch shots. The 1978 homer against Welch in Game Six was revenge for being struck out to lose game one.
@@epaddon from the stuff I've seen of ABC 1970s telecasts it seems like they wanted there to be a chaotic (or perhaps casual) 3-man booth with guys stepping over each other all the time. It seemed they wanted that feel for Monday Night Football from that era as well as baseball in the 70s so I assumed that was normal. Am I wrong?
Yes, 76 was ABC's first year doing baseball since 1965 and they were trying to make themselves different from NBC by copying the MNF three men in the booth format. It really didn't work well until the mid-80s when they finally came up with the Al Michaels-Tim McCarver-Jim Palmer team.
Bob Sheppard making the announcement❤51:15
Man, that guy was history, both for the Yankees and the football Giants! He was so great Derek Jeter had Shepard's intro used for his at bats even after Shepard retired.
I was only seven years old, and remember my dad yelling at the top of his lungs when Chris hit the Homerun.
what a night I would have loved to been there truly an iconic moment yanks for life ⚾⚾⚾
Those commercials!!!! OMG!!!
I was 9 years old during this time I remember this game I wasn't into baseball back then but the next year I was into it
Brett would have had 50 homers a year if Yankee stadium was his home field
Was just thinking that, what his stats would've been had be worn pinstripes.
I was there that night. Haven't Seen an y game footage since then.
Same here. I was a long way up in the upper deck along the right filed line. Where were you?
what awesome work you do. Thank you
Wow, how did Cowens & McRae get back to the dugout alive?!! LOL!!
Brett swing is tailor made for Yankee Stadium.
Great (and painstaking) job! Thnx for sharing.
My pleasure! This was tough but it was worth doing.
thanks a lot.
We all know about Bobby Cox and the stellar career he had, but Jerry Walker was very instrumental in helping the Yanks get Dave Righetti. Prior to the trade of Lyle to the Rangers, Al Rosen asked Jerry Walker if there were any young minor league starters he thought really highly of. Jerry told him that Righetti was one of the best prospects he'd seen in years. Al Rosen said Jerry Walker wasn't given to hyperbole, so when he heard Jerry mention Dave, he decided they should try and get him. I believe the Rangers were already front runners in wanting Sparky - Brad Corbett had said nice things about him publicly - , so it made it easier for Rosen to focus his energy on sending Lyle to Texas. But certainly Walker's input on Righetti played a key role in his coming to New York in that trade.
Walker had a brief stint as pitching coach too around 1982 I think when the Yankees were going through an even bigger revolving door of pitching coaches than they were managers!
I think they had 3 that year, maybe more. That was maybe the craziest season ever under George.
I don’t think Nettles was making it to 2nd on the passed ball Walk. But did you see the effort? MY man!
Phil Rizzuto (PBP) & Frank Messer (C)
We had those McDonald’s Coffee Mugs! I’m always looking for things that I’ve not thought of in many years.
George was a mensch. Whatever people say about him, he was simply a good sensitive man behind all the bluster.
This is pretty cool to get to hear Scooter and co for this much of the end of the game.
You know, YanksAtShea has the audio and video from WPIX of Chambliss' HR swing and the ensuing celebration. It's about a 4 minute video or so. Is that all that is known to exist of the WPIX video? I feel like if this much of the tv audio exists then there's a good chance the video of this much exists somewhere too, no?
Yes, unfortunately what YanksAtShea uploaded video-wise is all that exists. I was using his video for the part from the replays of the homer on through the postgame but I felt that the initial live call of the homer should be the ABC video before switching over to that just in the interests of consistency with the video prior to that. The TV audio came from a private home recording by the same person who also did the radio recordings I've uploaded of the WMCA Sterling-Allen postgame (he also did the full radio broadcast from WMCA which I haven't uploaded) and this was all that he had done. So the only way we'll ever see more of the WPIX broadcast video or audio wise is if a separate home recording ever turns up.
Yankees first ALCS championship not their first ALC.
I was 18 - On the edge of my chair and when he hit the HR - I woke everyone up in the house... lol... Got a beating but I didn't care.
13 here!
I was nine and the Mets were the recent champions. This was the official awakening of the free-agency-era Yankee champions.
good upload
The local networks were allowed to simulcast the national broadcast of the League Championship Series using their own announcers. That's why you see the ABC graphics on this WPIX broadcast. This practice ended in 1984 when the national networks gained exclusive broadcast rights of the LCS.
Actually the reason you see the ABC graphics on this video is because I have simply put the WPIX audio over the ABC video because the full WPIX video (which used different camera angles and their own graphics) is lost except for the point from the Chambliss HR through the postgame. Because the full video of WPIX is lost that's why I used the WPIX TV audio recording I had to try and recreate the sense of what the WPIX telecast would have been like even though the camera angles don't match.
@epaddon Unfortunately I guess no one who owned a Sony Betamax back in 1976 taped the WPIX video. Good thing the WPIX video for the 1978 playoff game with the Red Sox exists.
Ahhhh that’s explained everything thank you.
That game should've been forfeit to the Royals. The mob scene was bad enough, but the fact is the fans were well out of line and already warned.
Ah my youth. 9 when this happened. Grew up on the Scooter, Frank Messer, and Bill White doing the games. They would rotate every three innings from TV to radio. Thanks for giving a 50 year old man a piece of his youth.
You are welcome! I'm from the same generation too and they were my first Voices of Summer and collectively as a team they remain extremely underrated.
9 years old at the time as well. What great memories of this game!
From 1976-78, the Yankess, Royals, and Phillies won all three division titles, with the Dodgers winning two (the Reds won in 1976). Then, in 1980, everyone but the Dodgers (who lost a one-game playoff to the Astros) repeated again.
One hour?
I don’t think he touch third before or after the crowd entered the field.
I was 21 years old in 1976, a Brooklynite from birth and Yankee fan since I was 5 years old. And there I was for that amazing game, sitting in the upper deck in left field on the fair side of the pole with my cousin and brother. When Chambliss hit that homer on the first pitch in the bottom of the 9th off Mark Littell, everyone (obviously) was delirious with joy, screaming, hugging each other. What a memory and experience to be a part of! A few short months later, I would leave Brooklyn forever when I joined the Navy.
boy were you lucky to have been there.
To bad you had to ruin such a wonderful expirence by running off and playing sailor! Oh how i wished i would have listened to my old man and went to college!! NEVER AGAIN VOLUNTEER YOURSELF!
Was Mickey Spillane any good?
I attended games 3 and 4 of that series.
Joe M yes
"He hits that ball DEEP to right center...that ball is OUT OF HERE! The Yankees Win The Pennant!" (was watching Channel 11's live broadcast).
Chambliss; he knew he had to get out of there or ,..he was dead
Never talk about close play at 2nd, in top of 9th. If he's called safe, and Royals score, can the Yanks come back in the bottom of the ninth?
If he'd been called safe that only loads the bases with Brett coming up. Still no guarantee that the Royals would have scored.
@@epaddon It's as close to a certainty as there is in life. If your familiar with Bretts prowess against Yanks that series.
im canadian scooter was great broadcaster wholy cow!!!!!!!!
How many catchers batted .300 and drove in 100 runs for 3 straight years in the American league also won 2 championships? Thurman Munson did it. I think Bill Dickey also but back then everyone batted .300
Cowers was safe in the ninth. Close game and two great teams.
Definitely reviewable today.
Who the phuck is Cowers ?
Joe Ambrose Cowens, misspelling
@@sha9infinite450 I know, just being obnoxious. You're right tho, Yanks are lucky there was no replay
Joe Ambrose 😄I never forgot that game.
That ball was not out of old Yankee stadium ... "Would need Mickey ..
Chills
Carlo gambino was watching this game before he died
Lol but did he touch home? 🤔
SONY BETAMAX 2:30 The wave of the future.
It’s nice that the Yankees finally got it together and won after all those years, and how about those New York fans throwing bottles on the field, tearing up the field, mobbing the baseball players and expressing their happiness. It’s a good thing the Yankees won as if they lost, the New York fans would probably burn down the stadium and set the city on fire. It’s just like what the Scooter said, “You just gotta let the New York fans get it outta their system.” What a wonderful bunch of fans up there in New York!
Those fans who threw bottles were jerks but there's been much worse fan behavior in other cities who win championships--rioting in the streets, turning over and burning cars etc.
too bad yankees got swept in the world series
You can clearly hear the audio of the ABC play by play bleeding into WPIX's broadcast. Is that a technical glitch or were they that close together in the Yankee press box?
I made a goof when putting this together for that one section when I was substituting the WPIX audio (which I have on a reel to reel) in place of the ABC audio. I forgot to eliminate the ABC audio on that one section in the ninth. I've fixed that problem on my master copy and in the future can upload a version where the WPIX audio is clean in that one problematic section. (I addressed this part in my notes at the top in the bottom section).
I can here ABC crew in background.
That was an error on my part in putting this together when for part of the Top 9th I forgot to kill the audio in the original video (this had to be assembled in increments to get the WPIX audio to synch with the picture). It's the only part of this upload where that happens.
Whatever happened to the yankee franks,?
I think the company that made them, Colonial, went out of business. The Yankees ended their association with them after 1984 because starting in 85, Thorn Apple Valley was their "official" frank for the next few years and then eventually I think Sabrett earned the distinction though they've never used the title "Yankee Frank." Colonial also made "Fenway Franks."
PIX 11. (WPIX)
I could imagine how current New York Yankees' radio voice John Sterling would have called the 1976 pennant-winning homer:
"Chambliss Up. Thheeeee Pitch.......Hit To Right Field! It is High! it is Deep! It is The 1976 American League Pennant! Ballgame over! American League Championship Series Over! Yankees Win! Thhheeeeeeeee Yankees Win Thhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Pennant!".
You can hear how John described the aftermath on the postgame radio show here trying to get locker room interviews. :) ruclips.net/video/4tQs99VKn5I/видео.html
Sterling would have called it in his typical "look at me" self aggrandizing way.
When it comes to look-at-me and self-aggrandizing listen to Cosell on the original ABC version.
Oh I'm sure Sterling took notes when Cosell was on either the radio or TV.
Interesting thing is that John Sterling worked the Yankees post game show with Mel Allen. He was in the stadium that night and did the post game on WMCA. As a talk show guy he was not nearly as irritating and self-promoting. He actually had/has very good insight into the game. Sadly, he's made the play-by-play all about himself.
This clearly is NOT the WPIX telecast. It is the ABC telecast with the WPIX sound. The WPIX telecast had Chambliss' home run from the center-field camera.
I already explained that in my lengthy summary.
Did not read that. I do apologize.
Wow
53:10 is this what you’re here for?
Why do i always come across old comments?
Did Chambliss even touch Home plate?
Figueroa wanted to pitch on 3 days rest which would have made him a bigger star than Catfish. NO GO!
Billly=hof
Tony hawk at 3:20
Please restore the 1976 WS Reds Yankees Games 1, 2 , & 3
There's nothing to restore. The NBC telecasts are complete and accounted for among collectors.
Where's a good Game 3? The only one I find is very poor.
Imagine getting swept in the WS after this game
Well, you can also imagine coming back after being swept and winning two World Series Championships in a row!
The Yankees could won 109 games in 1980, eliminated the Royals in 4 games and the Phillies in 6 games. The 1980 should have been the best Yankees year since 1961 the best MLB team in the 1980's. But it wasn't.
Bill Presley ......Bill they won 103
The National League was a better league in 1980. You cannot compare wins in a season because there was no inter league play at that time. So wins during the regular season were meaningless. The National League won the World Series in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982.
Star Blazers .......that’s just your opinion....I wouldn’t say NL was better
@@frasierthebichon7422 Nope, it was fact. The NL also won the All Star games those years and also won the World Series those years! You just have to accept it that the NL was better in that short period of time.
Star Blazers ....again your opinion and I respect that.....I do agree with you about 1981. That year the best team in all of baseball didn’t even make the postseason.