DETROIT TIGER STADIUM SOUNDS of the Game April 18, 1970
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Downloaded for my Facebook group, Return to Old Delray, Old Detroit members. As FB won't let me post there (for now) I will enter through the back door so to speak. I snuck in a little cassette recorder to record the sounds of the game and took the tape with me to Vietnam to remember my hometown. The familiar voice of P.A. announcer Joe Gentile introduces the players. Myself and two buddies from River Rouge were with me, all three of us went to war; WWI; WWII and me soon to be in Nam. No play by play, just the sounds of the ballpark, Tiger Stadium.
No phones.. No masks.. No fear. United for our national past time..Hollowed Ground.. The church of baseball..
4:42 Get a load of how high the screen was in left! Awesome, thanks for posting!
Thanks man. Ya I get the same problem with Facebook. It won't let me post for some reason on some days. I think they have a limit now. It's weird. This is cool thanx. I was eight years old in 1970 so this is a treasure.
Thank you for sharing something very personal with all of us unlucky baseball fans who never got to see a game at Tiger Stadium. More importantly, thank you for your service, sir!
Yes, it was unfortunate. You did miss something special but this video did a pretty good job of bringing out a little taste of what it was like. After the team left Tiger Stadium the thrill was gone and it never came back.
Ah Tiger Stadium in 1970, there is a chance I was at this game, I saw many in the 70's. I remember the smell of cigars, hot dogs, shouts from the vendors - "Ice Coooold Beer", "Pepsi here" - it had its charms. Saw many things - different races, medical alerts, Black mobs asking for quarters - I really did grow up there at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull.
At games on hot July nights I remember watching all the cigarette smoke floating in the air around the upper deck level and all of the fist fights in the bleachers. Both were especially noticeable during twi-night doubleheaders back when you got twice as much for your money. Sure do miss those days.
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Wow, that is one awesome Tigers' line-up! Almost the complete 1968 club intact.
All that was missing was Ray Oyler.
@@tennforever and Norm Cash.
That stadium was magical I really miss it. The new stadium sucks !
You got that right!!
Isn't it a shame the lack of joy we have in are hearts when we go to this minor league park. Hard to believe it has been around 22 years
I have tears in my.eyrs.
This is great
Remember Elliot Maddox playing a lot of third base
May I have a dozen of those $0.95 Labatt's Blues on tap? (I know it's a two-beer limit per customer) I very much enjoyed this.
Went to Tigers game last night - great seats five rows behind home plate. Struck by how obnoxious it is now - sensory overload - flashy visuals, a thousand music cuts, begging fans to be loud but the fans can't be heard over all that noise anyway. I miss those green wood seat Tiger Stadium days when the sounds, sights and smells of the game were what was in front of you - not forced down your throat.
Loved the Joe Gentile PA anouncements.Also great to see a picture of Big Gus the hot dog vendor. Beautiful
If I recall correctly, did he used to yell out “ hot doggie doggie…..they’re good!!
Led by Dick McAuliffe's 1st inning 2 run homer( his first), the Tigers beat the BoSox 5-1. Mickey Lolich (3-1)scattered 10 hits and struck out 7, for the complete game victory. Bill Lee(0-1) lasted just 1 2/3 innings, and took the loss. Mickey Stanly went 3 for 4, and Al Kaline 2 for 5, with 2 RBIs. Att: 19,461.
Fantastic! I've been trying to locate sounds of Joe Gentile, the PA man at Tiger Stadium for many years. Brings back many memories. Thanks.
Wasn't he the best? He also had a TV shoe on Ch. 2 and Windsor/ Detroit for many years. I recorded this on my small cassette recorder snuck into the park (before they checked bags and took this tape to Vietnam as a reminder of home.
I must agree, Joe was the best. A damn shame the Tiger organization did not take better care of him as he spent his final years living in squalor.
@@aandrus7 Just seeing this now Albert and curious as to where you heard or read about Mr. Gentile's final years...a book...newspaper account?
@@alexmckay8500 There was an article in the Detroit News shortly after Joe's passing that described his living conditions as squalor. So so sad that the Tiger organization allowed this to happen.
@@alexmckay8500 Not sure if this posted properly the first time. There was a Detroit News article shortly describing Joe's horrific living conditions. So so sad the Tiger organization allowed that to happen.
This is pretty damn cool
I knew how to sneak into Tiger Stadium.
I also operated the scoreboard there in 1994.
I remember those old plastic horns that you blew into real well. We lived close to Cincinnati and went to a Reds game the day they gave away those horns. My brother and I got both got them. Well you know those things weren’t exactly quiet and the next day my brother and I were out blowing them in our yard. We also found out that if you blew them into a sewer manhole cover that the echo made them even longer. After about 10 minutes one of the neighbors across the street came out yelling and calling us m-fers. Our Dad heard all and told this bitch that he wasn’t going to do a thing to my brother and I. Neighbor went back into the house and we couldn’t blow the horns anymore. But the next day we were out tooting the horns. We eventually lost interested. That was back when the Reds were back to back World Series Champions, 1975-76. However, I was a Tigers fan from the first time I could remember. My nickname was also “Tiger” and I also have a picture of me on Woodward Ave in Detroit across the street a week before they started tearing down Tiger Stadium. That was the day I stopped liking the Tigers and haven’t liked them since. Thanks for allowing me to share these memories.
1970 was my first game there as a fan. Against the Washington Senators.. Mickey Lolich vs Joe Coleman. Aurelio Rodriquez hit a homer for Washington. 1971 was the big trade which brought those guys to Detroit.
Does anyone remember them plastic horns they sold. I loved that sound. I was so young. Slamming the seats. We want a hit...we want a hit... Aurillio Rodriguez...
I had one in '68. Mom threw it out.
@@tennforever my mom beat us with it when a hot wheels track wasn't available 😂😂😂
I had one of the plastic horns and I also remember standing up and slamming the seats. If you were in the upper deck you could feel it if everyone was doing it.
Those long plastic red ones? I remember they used to sell them outside Olympia too.
Ok I hope nobody thought the 30 second opening was from 1970 cause it certainly was not.
Nope, wasn't , but as film maker I can use other sources to make it more of the Sounds of Tiger Stadium. The rest was taped onto a little cassette RECORDER I sunk in the park in a small brown paper bag. Nobody even looked inside it. Different times then in 1970..
Stormin' Norman Cash not in the lineup that day. Mickey Stanley led off and played first.
Probably because Bill Lee was a lefty
They could clap back then no stupi cell phone in one hand😮
I MISS YOU DAD!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!
I gave it a thumbs up! I'm very curious how long it took to crawl out of the tin can?
Mickey Stanley( 3 for 4) led off the bottom of the 1st with a double, Dick MaCauliffe followed with a home run, as the Tigers beat the BoSox 5-1. Mickey Lolich scattered 10 hits, walked 4 and struck out 7.The Tigers also collected 10 hits, Al Kaline getting 2 to go along with 2 RBIs
A week later I was in Vietnam after I recorded this.
Wonderful. And Joe Gentile on the PA system.
Nothing against comerica park and the modern stuff there, but there's something about the old sounds of the ballpark. I'm not old enough to have experienced it, but am grateful for the videos like this. Just as the saying goes, "They don't make them like they used to!"
Just like the sounds you would hear today 🤷♂️ weird!
Dick Mcauliffe had the most unusual stance in baseball ever.
Beautiful!!
I miss the troughs!
Cold beer here!!!!!!!!!
I wanna go home
You used to have a video of Tiger stadium posted with Frank Sinatra's there used to be a ballpark here. Unfortunately it was blocked due to copyright restrictions. Is there any way you could possibly email me a copy of that video? It was awesome!
I just now read that RUclips did that! Let me find the copy and I'll get back to you. I KNOW others have used that song, like with Ebbett's Field as the ballpark.
I see what I did wrong. I didn't include Sinatra in the title. Gotta give him the credit next time I post it. It'll be impossible to email, it'll be too big with Bytes, or whatever they call it.
I submitted an appeal to RUclips, but I admin a FB group called: Return to Old Delray, Old Detroit. I put that video on that site some years ago. It's a public group so you can see it, and other Tigers stuff. Why not join us; and see all we've posted of the Detroit Tigers?
@@tennforever ironicallyI used to be a member of that group and I do believe that is probably where I seen the video first. I have to tell you that I was very impressed by your video it brought back very many fond memories and emotions. Thank you for posting it. Are you Darryl Puckett?
@@jkujat75 Yes, I am he. Daryl (*one R)
Why in the world would you put the Boston logo in this video? Doesn't make sense.
Because that's who the Tigers played that day; I wanted as much of the sounds as I could get. That's why. Made sense to me and still does! If I'd never came home from Vietnam alive, at least for a while I could hear Joe Gentile's voice and the fans reacting to the bums from Boston. OK?
It’s to let you know it’s Boston’s lineup Phildo. Geez try to keep up!
Tigers were shitty that year just 2 years removed from being Champs. What happened ? Similar lineup.
Never mind ...... I see Lolich had a bad year and McLain blew out his arm.
The 1970 Baltimore Orioles happened. They gave them 11 losses that year!
@@PresidentGas1 McClain was suspended most of the season by Bowie Kuhn for mob ties. His arm was shot true but his behavior is what sidelined him most. Throwing 300 plus innings each year in 68 and 69 took its toll. Denny wasn’t exactly a health nut for conditioning either unless you consider drinking a case of Pepsi a day conditioning!
They had the one bad year there (79-83 - hardly shitty), as McLain was suspended for 1/2 the season. But 71-73 were good years (72 East champs) with alot of the same players from 68. After 1970 the Senator trade for Brinkman, Rodriguez, and Joe Coleman was a steal for the Tigers.