The Pirates have a distinction-they are the team that has gone the longest without LOSING a World Series. They last time they lost a World Series was 1927. Of course you have to be in it to lose it, and they've only been in three since then, but they've won all three (1960, 1971, 1979).
What's so incredible about this game is that it's just a ordinary regular season game, yet it is practically a game full of Hall of Famers and other great players from the 60's!
You're a baseball cards coming to life. Mine got carted off to the dump. I'd be living in a mansion in Beverly hills right now if they weren't thrown out! That's all I'll say about that. Other than every nickel I got I bought a pack of baseball cards.
@@garysparhawk2698 If I had enough for a mansion in Beverly Hills right now, I sure the hell wouldn't live in Beverly Hills.....or anywhere else in CA. BTW, what were some of the most valuable cards you once had ?
Charlie Finley may have been an asshole but he certainly was a trendsetter. and built quite a team from one that was in last place when he took over as owner
You know, I saw Sandy Koufax pitch at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium on July 20,1965 pitching the Dodgers to a 3-2 victory over the Houston Astros. It was a magical Summer's night! Koufax and Maury Wills were my favorite Dodgers! My God! They looked like motion picture stars out there! The Dodgers' home team uniforms were the coolest in those days with, like you stated, stirrups. But it was more than that. All major league baseball teams uniforms were "Uniform"! Every team had a home and road uniform. They wore those cool shiny black shoes and all players were clean shaven. They behaved like mature professionals! They didn't go around jumping on each other when they hit a home run! I hated the 1969 expansion which introduced the 5 Game Playoffs! All these mediocre teams came into the leagues. It actually began in 1961 when The Los Angeles Angels and The Washington Senators came into the American League. I have a disdain for the Angels in particular! Those losers played at Dodger Stadium between 1962-1965 and when they finally moved to Anaheim, CA in 1966 they had the damned nerve to call themselves the "California" Angels! In 1962 The New York Mets and The Houston Colt 45's/Astros in '65 came into the National League. I soon lost interest in '69. Anyway, I was in my first year in Junior High School and was more interested in girls! Note: Game 5 of the 1965 World Series has been uploaded! It's a wonder for me to watch since Sandy Koufax pitches the Dodgers to a 7-0 shutout over The Minnesota Twins at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium! Vin Scully calls to the play by play for half the game. The Broadcast originally aired in Canada. Games 3 and 4 have also been uploaded!
IF only there were only more heroes out there that preserved historical games like this ! We are even missing parts of World Series games from the first decade of the Divisional era! Unforgiveable. Playoff games? Forget it, how fantastic would it be to see those 1970's classic AL-NLCS'!
Home VCRs were not produced until 1977. Almost all broadcasts you see prior to that were made by the broadcasting producers or were kinescopes sent to Canada or the Armed Forces Network. A lot of great games prior to 1977 were lost forever because the tapes were destroyed believing there would be no market for airing them again in those pre-cable days.
I’m not aware of any full regular season games featuring the 1968 Detroit Tigers. The Miley Collection features a lot of great radio broadcasts that can be purchased on CD (at least as of 10 years ago).
@@orangehoof They used to "wipe" the tapes, which means re-using them and just erasing over what was on them. But you'd think they'd have the foresight to at least save World Series and playoff games. Also, there were actually home video recorders available as early as the mid 60's, but nobody bought them because they were insanely expensive. It was in the 70's with the Betamax that they became reasonably affordable, so that was when average people first began to own them. Earliest person I ever knew with a home VCR was in 1978.
It's so great to see complete games from the late 60's,to me it was the best time of my life,I was thrilled as a kid to watch or even listen on the radio for games,I think I'm the only one who liked players on the Red Sox like-Don Lock,Duane Josephson,Tom Satriano,Fred Wenz,Dalton Jonnes,Syd O' Brien,Ect..,Thank's for posting!
This game was on Sunday. On Saturday, the NBC Game of the Week, Jackson had 10 rbis. He came up in the 8th inning with the bases loaded and 2 outs, hit a short fly ball to center that fell for a hit and scored all 3 runners to make the score 20-7. A's won 21-7 on 25 hits.
"We want a pitcher not a belly itcher!" Heard that in the first or second inning. In 1969 playing little league base we used to say that all the time during games. Nice....
@@timothytimothyarts395 Lol I had forgotten that one! We said that too....good catch! Do you think still say these things? I would guess probably not....
Early on, I heard a couple of classic Fenway vocalizations: "Hey! Coke here!" The other one is no longer heard: the musical sound of children's voices going, "BoooooOOP!" Foul balls hit straight back don't roll back down off the netting over the box seats, and flip over the framework, to be snatched midair by the ball boy.
Reggie thumbed his nose at the Athletics fans, he went into the Hall of Fame wearing a Yankees cap. I think Steinbrenner may have paid Reggie to do so.
@@JENDALL714 Was it the player’s decision then and is it still? Never thought about that and yeah, that’s horrid if it was Jackson’s call and he went with money over the city of Oakland.
@@jerryhorne7547 and yet you feel privileged enough to interrupt my day with your sour attitude. I don't really care about your feelings. If you are so worried about politics,socialism and all that crap why aren't you bitching about the fact that we use municipal tax money to fund these billionaires stadiums. But please tell me more how your superiority is being threatened.
I was always a Red Sox fan, and I remember the 69' season....The A's started to really show signs of being a super team that year, gave the Twins a good chase the entire season that year, falling short....But the nucleus of great ballplayers was formed for them, and they started playing up to their potential....I HATED watching us play them, they always seemed to beat the daylights out of us....
I wonder who gave the two thumbs down? Even if you're a Red Sox fan, you have to appreciate that the video was posted at all. After all, we're baseball fans!
A's starting pitcher Jim Nash was traded to the Atlanta Braves the next year, had several good years with the Braves. I really enjoyed watching this game, a trip down memory lane.
Love the misty bay green road uniforms the A’s wore on the road that year. I had forgotten they only wore the white cleats for home games then. Thanks so much for the post.
@@doylelonigan9295 So my guess is, in the same way many greys on baseball uniforms have a faint light blue tint, the A's used a faint light green tint, resulting in "Misty Bay Green." Does that sound about right?
a lifelong Cub fan but when i saw those A's uniforms on the local sports highlights as a kid i adopted them as my second favorite team and rooted for them throughout their great run in the early 70s.
Great vintage footage! :-) The A's dropped the ho-hum, garden variety black cleats...and shifted to the eyebrow raising white shoes the very next season in 1970. The unique white cleats of that era certainly kicked off their iconic look for many years to come. Now, here it is 2021.... and the majority of the players on every team in MLB now wear white cleats mixed with various colors here and there. Which ironically, are ho-hum and garden variety in the way they look.
Both of these teams had fine seasons,but no one was going to beat the Orioles that year-until the end.That day,the future WS MVP was traded,Donn Clendenon.
Love the pace, tone and volume of these announcers. Just talking to us, as if we're sitting next to each other in the seats. These days it seems like the announcers are screaming all the time and trying to build hype when it's not there.
I love watching these nostalgic games. Thanks for uploading. I was only 2 1/2 years old here so I don't remember so it's like seeing the last half of a movie then going back to the beginning to see what I missed. Lol. I do remember liking the A's in 72, 73, and 74 when I was in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades. Mostly because I loved their uniforms. I've seen these unis but I don't remember seeing them play in them. They evidently just changed their unis when I started liking them.
I remember listening to the game the day before - A's 21 Red Sox 7(or 10) - Reggie had 10rbi's. Even Phil Roof hit a homer for A's. When the A's beat Boston 21 - 2 (or 3) in 2012, it brought back memories. Thanks for the upload, I'll find the video of the day before somewhere. Rick Monday was my favorite player :)
I love to watch broadcasts from this era -- no useless graphics, no instant replays after almost every pitch, announcers Ken Coleman & Johnny Pesky who are tuned into the game and not babbling about pop culture or their favorite foods, nothing to "hurry the game up" -- this is the way baseball and baseball broadcasting should be!
@@dougnoble8762 They did. If I’m not mistaken, they wore the white shoes for all home games and only games on the road that were nationally televised or televised to the home (Oakland) market.
Here come the memories. I'm sure I went to Fenway a few times that year, but I know for sure I was there opening day for Tony C's return to the lineup after his horrible 1967 beaning (a family friend and state senator had season tickets and gave me his). I was 14. Bubble chest protectors on the AL umps! Yaz playing LF like the consummate ballplayer he was. Popcorn served in a container that could be used as a megaphone. Ken Coleman and Ned Martin in the booth -- I used to put my little transistor radio under my pillow and listen to them call west coast games until I fell asleep. (My iPhone, however, says this game was played 6/14, not 6/15.) Fenway Park felt like a holy place to me. It still does! I visited friends in Gardner to watch the 2018 WS, and the day after the Sox won it, we went downtown and took a walk around the park. I live 2000 miles from Boston now.
This is EPIC! Any chance I have to be able to watch ⚾️🧢Baseball🧢⚾️ or 🏈🏉Football🏉🏈 games from the 50's or 60's, I will absolutely jump at that opportunity! For one, these games took place before I was born. Secondly I get a chance to watch some legendary players, some Hall of Fame players, and some legendary older🏟Stadiums🏟! Thank you for this opportunity! It is greatly appreciated! 😊
He started his career at first, best fielder at that position in the game. Playing third as a contingency. He had a multiple season slump after 1967. Hit under .200 in '68, year of the pitcher.
@@josephdonnelly3169 I must have watched 150 games that season as a teenager. Unbelievable pitching records. I remember seeing Denny McClain stymie the Sox at Fenway.
This was the season Reggie had a record 37 homers at the break ( broken by Bonds ) and managed only 10 in the 2nd half to finish 3rd in the race to Killebrews' 49 and Howards' 48
Watching this game now and the announcer is telling a story of Jim Nash’s adventures in getting to the stadium to pitch his first MLB game in Detroit in 1966. I remember this game well as I was almost 10 years old and my dad got us front row seats next to the A’s dugout for my birthday. It was a doubleheader. My Tigers lost the first game but I was excited for their chances against this rookie Nash. Unfortunately for me and my birthday, Jim Nash and the A’s trounced us 10-4. Still remember the day very well. I thought Nash would be the next great thing. Now back to the game
Announcer is the voice of my youth, Ken Coleman. An underrated figure in Red Sox history. (When I say my youth I mean the 80s, which is when Ken returned to Boston after several years away.)
From 67-72, I used to take the streetcar from the Arborway to the MFA, and walk through the Fens to get to the park. .50 bleacher seats. After the 7th inning, they would open the gates to the grandstand, and you could get closer to the action. On a side note, my wife's uncle was an umpire in this game, but would not meet her until almost 30 years later!
@@aboxofbroken8tracks983 just heard the radio broadcast of this game, and according to Monte Moore, it was inclement weather that prompted the players to wear black shoes
Thank you very very much for that trivia....I love stuff like that...may I quiz you? Who is the only hall of famer to have pitched in at least ten years and had a winning record every single year?
@@BillMorganChannel That's a good one that I hadn't thought of. Babe Ruth, who might have made the Hall of Fame as a pitcher if he hadn't become a slugger, came to mind, but I had to look to see if he pitched in 10 years. He did.
@@orbyfan Well played! Here is a beauty of a question: The incredible pitching staff of the 1988 was loaded! Who lead the team with 5 shutouts (no fair peeking!)
That June of 1969 I was a young boy of 10yrs old . I liked Baseball, however, I wasn't a fan at that time I was too busy playing Army, cowboys and Indians etc...Life was STILL fun and innocent for the average boy and girl here in America. The following month of July our nation would witness the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon and the famous words of Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for a man, one GIANT step for mankind." The Eagle had indeed LANDED.....A vision of JFK that the nation would send a man to the Moon and return him safely to earth..... America NEEDS President's like that who have vision to set the nation on course for a bright future to prosper and be that shining city on a hill to GIVE HOPE to other nations around the globe.....JFK and Ronald Reagan RIP.
Less attention to groundskeeping in this era! No moistening of the infield, batters box all but disappears after 1st inning, fragmented foul lines, brown grass around hone plate. The hitters didn’t need batting gloves either, very enjoyable to watch..
I’m not sure it was a decoy. He played another identical fly the same way when no one was on base. First get to the wall, then come back in as needed. Seems like the right way to play the GM
There were a series of off-beat seasons, in sequence.'67 , the 4 team AL race, Red Sox Impossible Dream, 68, the year of the pitcher, '69 return of the home run, and the Mirale Mets. What a time to be a fan.
@graciemaemarie11jones16 never over till it's over. Red Sox were surging till that call. A win in that game would have carried them the rest of the year past the Orioles.
Dick Williams (Red Sox manager) would later manage the A's. John McNamera (A's 3rd base coach) would later manage the Red Sox. Danny Cater (A's 1st baseman) would later be traded to the Yankees and then to the Red Sox in exchange for pitcher Sparky Lyle (among the worst trades in Red Sox history). Lew Krause (A's pitcher) would later be traded to the Red Sox. And finally, Red Sox pitcher Sonny Seibert would end his career pitching for the A's. Who could have foreseen all these changes between the two teams for all these participants in this game?
Great stuff here. Ken Coleman and Ned Martin (gives us a “Mercy!” after Reggie Jackson’s RBI triple in the fifth!) did both TV and radio, switching in mid-game. Johnny Pesky is the color man here. I’m thinking that Mel Parnell was his counterpart. A double-switch with Tony C, who seems tentative at the plate during his two at-bats. This is really, really cool.
I watched on the game of the week in 1969 the a's played minnesota in metropolitan stadium reggie jackson hit a ling homerun over the seventh inning stretch sign a advertisement sign curt gowdy said it was about a 500 foot hr he mentions it when he was broadcasting the 1972 world series it was one of the best
I perfectly remember the A's beating the Sox 21-7 then 15-8 during the weekend. These scores were proof of what happened to MLB baseball when they lowered the pitcher's mound starting in the 1969 season
@@KkatsPhotos wow! Did you have a good view? I went there 3 times at Fenway (60s and 70s). One time, my seat happen to be behind one of the support poles. what a pain
We were at this game. Lots of young women before the game greeting the players as they arrived. Bert Campaneris attracted a crowd. Nice as he could be and posed for a photo for his admirers.
All these years and I did not know Dimaggio was the batting coach for the Athletics, makes sense though, he was from the Bay Area. The announcer said Dimaggio feels Reggie Jackson has the chance to be a superstar, that's high praise coming from Dimaggio he didn't praise anyone, he was kind of an ass from what I hear.
First time I ever saw or heard of DiMaggio was when I was about 6 years old, 1968, the A's first year in Oakland, I was watching a game on TV with my father and Joe DiMaggio pops up on the screen wearing those ridiculous green & gold A's uniforms, with the white hats (since he was a coach) and my father says "That is the greatest ball player I ever saw". And he grew up in New York as a Giants fan, not a Yankee fan. Later on when I knew more, I'd ask him if DiMaggio was better than his own guy, Willie Mays, and he'd say, "Yeah, DiMaggio was the best."
I read a great biography on Charlie FInlay. He made a fortune in Real Estate and wanted to operate at a loss for taxes, and thus invested a fortune in scouting and found Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter, Blue Moon Odom etc!
Finley was in the insurance business which is where he made his fortune, although it was a modest fortune by today's standards. He could have afforded to sign most of his key players in the mid-1970s but did not want to spend the money. He lost Catfish Hunter, who was signed through 1975, because he failed to make a $50K payment for an insurance annuity which was part of Hunter's contract. Imagine losing a Hall of Fame pitcher over a $50K dispute. By far, the biggest mistake Finley ever made (he admitted it later).
@@jamesmmahoney Thank you for the comment I love base ball (two words) history. Here is a trivia question for you. There is only one person in the base ball hall of fame who pitched ten seasons and had a winning record every year ...only one! Who was it? Then you quiz me ok?
Actually several of the core 1972-74 dynasty players (Bando, Blue, Campaneris, Fingers, Lindblad, Mangual, North, Odom, Rudi, Tenace, C. Washington) were with the team through the 1976 season. The 1976 team probably would have won a sixth straight division title had Finley not sat Blue, Fingers & Rudi for two weeks in protest of Bowie Kuhn voiding the sale of those players in mid-June. The 1976 team also had Billy Williams, Don Baylor (in his prime), Phil Garner and Mike Torrez replacing Ken Holtzman and winning 16 games. The team was good enough to have made it to the world series but likely would have lost to the Reds who were unbeatable in 1975-76.
Those were the days when your team was 18 games out in August, but you still watched/ listened to whole games.
Kinda like my Pirates of today- We’re stuck -we have a owner who doesn’t care if we win...
@@timothytimothyarts395 Ow, man.
I did enjoy 1979, as did most everybody.
The Pirates have a distinction-they are the team that has gone the longest without LOSING a World Series. They last time they lost a World Series was 1927. Of course you have to be in it to lose it, and they've only been in three since then, but they've won all three (1960, 1971, 1979).
I just did that this year with the red sox
@@timothytimothyarts395 The Pirates are always a great team with a proud history. This is a Phillies fan. Love to watch the two teams face off.
What's so incredible about this game is that it's just a ordinary regular season game, yet it is practically a game full of Hall of Famers and other great players from the 60's!
That just shows that expansion has in part damaged baseball
The A’s before the white shoes, the long hair and moustaches. That A’s team was together a long time.
My baseball cards when I was 10 years old have come to life. Thanks so much.
My BB board game cards came to life.
You're a baseball cards coming to life. Mine got carted off to the dump. I'd be living in a mansion in Beverly hills right now if they weren't thrown out! That's all I'll say about that. Other than every nickel I got I bought a pack of baseball cards.
@@garysparhawk2698 If I had enough for a mansion in Beverly Hills right now, I sure the hell wouldn't live in Beverly Hills.....or anywhere else in CA.
BTW, what were some of the most valuable cards you once had ?
I like those old A’s uniforms
Beautiful....and wow did they play great defense in this game...I love great defense.
Yes!
Charlie Finley may have been an asshole but he certainly was a trendsetter. and built quite a team from one that was in last place when he took over as owner
I like them better than the later ones with the gold in them.
@@markaungst8973 Agreed. The first two seasons in Oakland (as I recall,) they wore these sleeveless ‘Pacific Mist’ grays on the road.
Thank you for uploading these classic Redsox videos. I am overjoyed finally being able to watch Tony Conigliaro play again.
When players knew the proper way to wear there uniforms. Not a bosox fan but man o man they had the best stirrups.
Yeah that's ridiculous with pants legs all the way down to the shoes. Hate it.
Even the umps look so classy ....Today tradition and class have taken a backseat to money and bad attitudes.
Nameplate?
You know, I saw Sandy Koufax pitch at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium on July 20,1965 pitching the Dodgers to a 3-2 victory over the Houston Astros.
It was a magical Summer's night!
Koufax and Maury Wills were my favorite Dodgers!
My God! They looked like motion picture stars out there!
The Dodgers' home team uniforms were the coolest in those days with, like you stated, stirrups. But it was more than that.
All major league baseball teams uniforms were "Uniform"!
Every team had a home and road uniform. They wore those cool shiny black shoes and all players were clean shaven. They behaved like mature professionals! They didn't go around jumping on each other when they hit a home run!
I hated the 1969 expansion which introduced the 5 Game Playoffs! All these mediocre teams came into the leagues.
It actually began in 1961 when The Los Angeles Angels and The Washington Senators came into the American League. I have a disdain for the Angels in particular! Those losers played at Dodger Stadium between 1962-1965 and when they finally moved to Anaheim, CA in 1966 they had the damned nerve to call themselves the "California" Angels!
In 1962 The New York Mets and The Houston Colt 45's/Astros in '65 came into the National League.
I soon lost interest in '69.
Anyway, I was in my first year in Junior High School and was more interested in girls!
Note: Game 5 of the 1965 World Series has been uploaded!
It's a wonder for me to watch since Sandy Koufax pitches the Dodgers to a 7-0 shutout over The Minnesota Twins at Los Angeles Dodger Stadium!
Vin Scully calls to the play by play for half the game.
The Broadcast originally aired in Canada.
Games 3 and 4 have also been uploaded!
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Very enjoyable game, really brings back great memories, years went by so fast
Loved how the A's had variations to their uniforms, including that the coaches and manager had white hats
IF only there were only more heroes out there that preserved historical games like this ! We are even missing parts of World Series games from the first decade of the Divisional era! Unforgiveable. Playoff games? Forget it, how fantastic would it be to see those 1970's classic AL-NLCS'!
Home VCRs were not produced until 1977. Almost all broadcasts you see prior to that were made by the broadcasting producers or were kinescopes sent to Canada or the Armed Forces Network. A lot of great games prior to 1977 were lost forever because the tapes were destroyed believing there would be no market for airing them again in those pre-cable days.
I’m not aware of any full regular season games featuring the 1968 Detroit Tigers. The Miley Collection features a lot of great radio broadcasts that can be purchased on CD (at least as of 10 years ago).
@@orangehoof They used to "wipe" the tapes, which means re-using them and just erasing over what was on them. But you'd think they'd have the foresight to at least save World Series and playoff games. Also, there were actually home video recorders available as early as the mid 60's, but nobody bought them because they were insanely expensive. It was in the 70's with the Betamax that they became reasonably affordable, so that was when average people first began to own them. Earliest person I ever knew with a home VCR was in 1978.
"We want a hit, we want a hit!!!" Ah, when baseball was still king of the hill...
Now they take selfies and do the wave. " Look at meee!"
When baseball wasn't all home runs, strikeouts and showboating. I miss those days.
@@mistermousterian So true!
THAT WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!
It's so great to see complete games from the late 60's,to me it was the best time of my life,I was thrilled as a kid to watch or even listen on the radio for games,I think I'm the only one who liked players on the Red Sox like-Don Lock,Duane Josephson,Tom Satriano,Fred Wenz,Dalton Jonnes,Syd O' Brien,Ect..,Thank's for posting!
This game was on Sunday. On Saturday, the NBC Game of the Week, Jackson had 10 rbis. He came up in the 8th inning with the bases loaded and 2 outs, hit a short fly ball to center that fell for a hit and scored all 3 runners to make the score 20-7. A's won 21-7 on 25 hits.
I remember it well. I was at that Saturday game.
wow---I just remember Jackson having a torrid first half of season with about 30 HRs, but then trailed off in 2d half
Raiders 21, Patriots 7.
@@stevea6816 It was about 40 home runs not 30. Get it right.
@@gravellegb me too, box seats 3rd base side
Amazing color footage for 52 years ago.
Thanks for this game. A Cathedral of Baseball. Fenway Park.
I saw Tony Coligniaro hit a Home Run vs the Seattle Pilots at Sicks Stadium in Seattle
"We want a pitcher not a belly itcher!" Heard that in the first or second inning. In 1969 playing little league base we used to say that all the time during games. Nice....
Our little league team would say “not a glass of water”
@@timothytimothyarts395 Lol I had forgotten that one! We said that too....good catch! Do you think still say these things? I would guess probably not....
I remember that too.
Early on, I heard a couple of classic Fenway vocalizations:
"Hey! Coke here!"
The other one is no longer heard: the musical sound of children's voices going, "BoooooOOP!"
Foul balls hit straight back don't roll back down off the netting over the box seats, and flip over the framework, to be snatched midair by the ball boy.
and remember "we want a hit ! we want a hit" ?
Great seeing Reggie in his Oakland days. Great baseball in this era!
Reggie thumbed his nose at the Athletics fans, he went into the Hall of Fame wearing a Yankees cap. I think Steinbrenner may have paid Reggie to do so.
And wearing # 9
@@JENDALL714 Was it the player’s decision then and is it still? Never thought about that and yeah, that’s horrid if it was Jackson’s call and he went with money over the city of Oakland.
@@JENDALL714No, that was all on Reggie because he wanted to be seen in the same light as all the Yankee greats that were also in the HOF
Thanks for sharing. I love watching the old games, it takes me back to my childhood memories.
Being a Oakland Athletics fan since 1968 iam 67 now thanks for the upload
After Tony C beaning .(aug,1967)..other players started to wear batting helmets with the side flap....
This is the closest thing to a time machine. Thanks for uploading this game.
In a world of ever changing things it's nice to have the timeless game if baseball.
You got that right!
Unfortunately, MLB and other pro sports have ruined the aspect of taking in a game and losing yourself by inundating the fans with political messages.
@@jerryhorne7547 and yet you feel privileged enough to interrupt my day with your sour attitude. I don't really care about your feelings. If you are so worried about politics,socialism and all that crap why aren't you bitching about the fact that we use municipal tax money to fund these billionaires stadiums. But please tell me more how your superiority is being threatened.
@@lakechamp529 Vermont...no surprise there.
@@dbmusicproductions9181 ?
1969, im impressed with the presentation, split cam when man on first, ball tracking pretty good. wow.
No awful close-ups with spit flying at the camera.
I was always a Red Sox fan, and I remember the 69' season....The A's started to really show signs of being a super team that year, gave the Twins a good chase the entire season that year, falling short....But the nucleus of great ballplayers was formed for them, and they started playing up to their potential....I HATED watching us play them, they always seemed to beat the daylights out of us....
I wonder who gave the two thumbs down? Even if you're a Red Sox fan, you have to appreciate that the video was posted at all. After all, we're baseball fans!
A's starting pitcher Jim Nash was traded to the Atlanta Braves the next year, had several good years with the Braves. I really enjoyed watching this game, a trip down memory lane.
Campaneris' push bunt was a thing of beauty!
Lost art now
@@leoderosia9279 Yes, indeed. The game now doesn't resemble the one I grew up with. I loathe the home run-or-nothing aesthetic of the current game.
Nice watching a game where the fans are actually paying attention and not glued to their cellphone.
Love the misty bay green road uniforms the A’s wore on the road that year. I had forgotten they only wore the white cleats for home games then. Thanks so much for the post.
Those look grey, were they actually a very pale green?
@@samuelbarrett5648 Charlie Finley’s color term for them was “Misty Bay Green”.
@@doylelonigan9295 So my guess is, in the same way many greys on baseball uniforms have a faint light blue tint, the A's used a faint light green tint, resulting in "Misty Bay Green." Does that sound about right?
Red Sox to Denkinger: that's your worst call ever
Denkinger: wait 16 years
For a blind man he had a long career..lol
a lifelong Cub fan but when i saw those A's uniforms on the local sports highlights as a kid i adopted them as my second favorite team and rooted for them throughout their great run in the early 70s.
I loved that Cubs roster, Banks, Williams, Santo Kessinger, Beckert, Hundley, Fergie, Holtzman... though they broke hearts, like the Sox of that era.
@@mistermousterian i started watching the Cubs in 1970/71 so luckily i missed the '69 collapse. Fergie is my all-time fav baseball player.
@@rsimonse Great gloves all around the infield and catcher. Should have won at least one pennant.
Great vintage footage! :-) The A's dropped the ho-hum, garden variety black cleats...and shifted to the eyebrow raising white shoes the very next season in 1970. The unique white cleats of that era certainly kicked off their iconic look for many years to come. Now, here it is 2021.... and the majority of the players on every team in MLB now wear white cleats mixed with various colors here and there. Which ironically, are ho-hum and garden variety in the way they look.
I like the A's vest look better than their World Series outfits '72-'74
They looked good here
Grandioso ver este juego.Lo voy a disfrutar por completo desde Las Piedras Puerto Rico. Gracias.
More watchable than any A's/Sox game since in a couple decades... Cheers!
My one shining moment in Little League-striking out Rico Petrocelli’s nephew to end my only complete game at Marine Park, in Brooklyn, in 1976.
LOL!!!My BDAY n Reggie hits another HR after a 10RBI GAME! ! Love the video grew up with n collect baseball cards of.
I remember watching this game on TV. Scorching hot day in Boston.
and the game the day before. Reggie drove in 10, the A's won 21-7
Both of these teams had fine seasons,but no one was going to beat the Orioles that year-until the end.That day,the future WS MVP was traded,Donn Clendenon.
Love the pace, tone and volume of these announcers. Just talking to us, as if we're sitting next to each other in the seats.
These days it seems like the announcers are screaming all the time and trying to build hype when it's not there.
Joe D was a coach on this team and Reggie credited Joe D with helping him.
Dimaggio?
@@SoulFireCandlesNYC Yes!
Joe D wanted to keep a close eye on his restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco
I love watching these nostalgic games. Thanks for uploading. I was only 2 1/2 years old here so I don't remember so it's like seeing the last half of a movie then going back to the beginning to see what I missed. Lol. I do remember liking the A's in 72, 73, and 74 when I was in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades. Mostly because I loved their uniforms. I've seen these unis but I don't remember seeing them play in them. They evidently just changed their unis when I started liking them.
I remember listening to the game the day before - A's 21 Red Sox 7(or 10) - Reggie had 10rbi's. Even Phil Roof hit a homer for A's. When the A's beat Boston 21 - 2 (or 3) in 2012, it brought back memories. Thanks for the upload, I'll find the video of the day before somewhere. Rick Monday was my favorite player :)
The day before, it was A's 21, Red Sox 7.
Thank you for uploading the complete game. Please continue to upload complete games, made my weekend!!
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I love to watch broadcasts from this era -- no useless graphics, no instant replays after almost every pitch, announcers Ken Coleman & Johnny Pesky who are tuned into the game and not babbling about pop culture or their favorite foods, nothing to "hurry the game up" -- this is the way baseball and baseball broadcasting should be!
I loved those A's uniforms!
I thought the A's wore white shoes then.
I think Cincinnati and Pittsburgh wore similar at the time.
@@dougnoble8762 They did. If I’m not mistaken, they wore the white shoes for all home games and only games on the road that were nationally televised or televised to the home (Oakland) market.
@@howie9751 … and Cleveland.
That's one giant leap for mankind
Here come the memories. I'm sure I went to Fenway a few times that year, but I know for sure I was there opening day for Tony C's return to the lineup after his horrible 1967 beaning (a family friend and state senator had season tickets and gave me his). I was 14. Bubble chest protectors on the AL umps! Yaz playing LF like the consummate ballplayer he was. Popcorn served in a container that could be used as a megaphone. Ken Coleman and Ned Martin in the booth -- I used to put my little transistor radio under my pillow and listen to them call west coast games until I fell asleep. (My iPhone, however, says this game was played 6/14, not 6/15.) Fenway Park felt like a holy place to me. It still does! I visited friends in Gardner to watch the 2018 WS, and the day after the Sox won it, we went downtown and took a walk around the park. I live 2000 miles from Boston now.
We're about the same age, I can relate. Tony C. wasn't the same after. Though on opening day 1969 he hit two out against Baltimore, I think.
@@mistermousterian Yeah, my memory is not that good. I do recall being in a box seat behind the 3rd base dugout and it being cold, clear, and windy.
@@mistermousterian, yep..sad.= TONY C.
These were my all time favorite Oakland A's uniforms.
This is EPIC! Any chance I have to be able to watch ⚾️🧢Baseball🧢⚾️ or 🏈🏉Football🏉🏈 games from the 50's or 60's, I will absolutely jump at that opportunity! For one, these games took place before I was born. Secondly I get a chance to watch some legendary players, some Hall of Fame players, and some legendary older🏟Stadiums🏟! Thank you for this opportunity! It is greatly appreciated! 😊
A's coach John McNamara became the Sox manager. Sox manager Dick Williams became the A's manager.
This is a gem! Thank you for the upload
George ‘Boomer’ Scott at 3B, before the the transition to 1st, where I was used to seeing him in the 70’s. Great upload!
He started his career at first, best fielder at that position in the game. Playing third as a contingency. He had a multiple season slump after 1967. Hit under .200 in '68, year of the pitcher.
Year of the pitcher for sure, Yaz won the batting title with a .301, second place .290.
@@josephdonnelly3169 I must have watched 150 games that season as a teenager. Unbelievable pitching records. I remember seeing Denny McClain stymie the Sox at Fenway.
@@mistermousterian I remember. A 2 hit shutout, 16 Ks
This was the season Reggie had a record 37 homers at the break
( broken by Bonds ) and managed only 10 in the 2nd half to finish 3rd in the race to Killebrews' 49 and Howards' 48
They lowered the mound after '68.
@@mistermousterian stolen by bonds
@@markschlesinger He fumbles, Ruth recovers!
Great performance from Mr. October
Bonds don't count ( Steroids ) REGGIE JACKSON still holds the record.
Those swinging A's were the best team in Baseball during the early 70's ❤
Always nice when you get a Mr Lazzeri mention! Great New York (A) 2B and Hall of Famer
When it was still a GAME...now...it's a TV show!!!
The great Ken Coleman broadcasting.
Think I heard the voice of Ned Martin also
Watching this game now and the announcer is telling a story of Jim Nash’s adventures in getting to the stadium to pitch his first MLB game in Detroit in 1966. I remember this game well as I was almost 10 years old and my dad got us front row seats next to the A’s dugout for my birthday. It was a doubleheader. My Tigers lost the first game but I was excited for their chances against this rookie Nash. Unfortunately for me and my birthday, Jim Nash and the A’s trounced us 10-4. Still remember the day very well. I thought Nash would be the next great thing. Now back to the game
Let me join the chorus of gratitude, this is wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing!
Announcer is the voice of my youth, Ken Coleman. An underrated figure in Red Sox history. (When I say my youth I mean the 80s, which is when Ken returned to Boston after several years away.)
Ken was the voice of the Cleveland Browns of the 1960's, my youth.
From 67-72, I used to take the streetcar from the Arborway to the MFA, and walk through the Fens to get to the park. .50 bleacher seats. After the 7th inning, they would open the gates to the grandstand, and you could get closer to the action. On a side note, my wife's uncle was an umpire in this game, but would not meet her until almost 30 years later!
Ahh..so wonderful to see the great TONY CONIGLIARO back on the field again...helmet flap and all
Niiice..Yah I remember Visiting my Grandparents in Texas and Watching Bert playing with Bump Wills..Maurys Son..So he Played with Both Father and Son.
I may be an old man because I can remember this game BUT I CAN REMEMBER IT !...not too shabby
Man there was a lot of talent on that Oakland ballclub
I can listen to Ken Coleman without watching the screen. He talks in conversation and puts out these facts like its coming from the top of his head.
This brought back memories.
Loved the A's vest jerseys
These uniforms are so awesome
Surprised by the black shoes, though. Thought they were white by 1969.
Joe Rudi wears #36 instead of #26 from the World Series years.
@@aboxofbroken8tracks983 they still wore black shoes from time to time
@@aboxofbroken8tracks983 just heard the radio broadcast of this game, and according to Monte Moore, it was inclement weather that prompted the players to wear black shoes
thank-you for these videos, quality is great, when I was 9 ir 10 just loving baseball growing up in S.D. hope you have early 70s with any team.
RIP Lew Krausse. He hit 4 homers in 1969 and Blue Moon Odom added 5, which was about as many as all their catchers put together.
Thank you very very much for that trivia....I love stuff like that...may I quiz you? Who is the only hall of famer to have pitched in at least ten years and had a winning record every single year?
@@BillMorganChannel That's a good one that I hadn't thought of. Babe Ruth, who might have made the Hall of Fame as a pitcher if he hadn't become a slugger, came to mind, but I had to look to see if he pitched in 10 years. He did.
@@orbyfan Good answer! Here is another...in 1911 why did Germany Shaeffer steal first base (he was already on 2nd base).
@@BillMorganChannel He was trying to draw a throw from the catcher on a double steal, but the catcher didn't fall for it the first time around.
@@orbyfan Well played! Here is a beauty of a question: The incredible pitching staff of the 1988 was loaded! Who lead the team with 5 shutouts (no fair peeking!)
Thank you very much for uploading a great treat.
That June of 1969 I was a young boy of 10yrs old . I liked Baseball, however, I wasn't a fan at that time I was too busy playing Army, cowboys and Indians etc...Life was STILL fun and innocent for the average boy and girl here in America. The following month of July our nation would witness the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon and the famous words of Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for a man, one GIANT step for mankind." The Eagle had indeed LANDED.....A vision of JFK that the nation would send a man to the Moon and return him safely to earth..... America NEEDS President's like that who have vision to set the nation on course for a bright future to prosper and be that shining city on a hill to GIVE HOPE to other nations around the globe.....JFK and Ronald Reagan RIP.
Less attention to groundskeeping in this era! No moistening of the infield, batters box all but disappears after 1st inning, fragmented foul lines, brown grass around hone plate. The hitters didn’t need batting gloves either, very enjoyable to watch..
33:50 Yaz doubling up good ol' "Mr. October" with a subtle decoy...good stuff.
that was something. Big base running error by jackson
I’m not sure it was a decoy. He played another identical fly the same way when no one was on base. First get to the wall, then come back in as needed. Seems like the right way to play the GM
Hey, I know Jim Nash! Such a gentleman. So cool I can watch him pitch on RUclips 😊
I was 12 years old here. Being a Met fan. Big Tom Seaver fan. My favorite yrar in baseball
There were a series of off-beat seasons, in sequence.'67 , the 4 team AL race, Red Sox Impossible Dream, 68, the year of the pitcher, '69 return of the home run, and the Mirale Mets. What a time to be a fan.
Great stuff. Can't get enough.
Why did hitters grab some dirt between pitches? When I copied them as a kid, it just made the bat more slippery.
Schofield and Williams knew the importance of that call. Turning point of the game and the season.
Yup. They were only 5 games back of the Orioles at the time. I think they finished 3rd, over 20 games out.
they were behind 13-1 for goodness sake
@graciemaemarie11jones16 never over till it's over. Red Sox were surging till that call. A win in that game would have carried them the rest of the year past the Orioles.
Thank you for posting this! First year I started going to games!
When baseball was baseball no politics, no obnoxious announcers, no “walk up” music, no splash splash at a ballpark!
Dick Williams (Red Sox manager) would later manage the A's. John McNamera (A's 3rd base coach) would later manage the Red Sox. Danny Cater (A's 1st baseman) would later be traded to the Yankees and then to the Red Sox in exchange for pitcher Sparky Lyle (among the worst trades in Red Sox history). Lew Krause (A's pitcher) would later be traded to the Red Sox. And finally, Red Sox pitcher Sonny Seibert would end his career pitching for the A's. Who could have foreseen all these changes between the two teams for all these participants in this game?
Great stuff here. Ken Coleman and Ned Martin (gives us a “Mercy!” after Reggie Jackson’s RBI triple in the fifth!) did both TV and radio, switching in mid-game. Johnny Pesky is the color man here. I’m thinking that Mel Parnell was his counterpart. A double-switch with Tony C, who seems tentative at the plate during his two at-bats. This is really, really cool.
Thanks for posting.
I watched on the game of the week in 1969 the a's played minnesota in metropolitan stadium reggie jackson hit a ling homerun over the seventh inning stretch sign a advertisement sign curt gowdy said it was about a 500 foot hr he mentions it when he was broadcasting the 1972 world series it was one of the best
I'm amazed they did what's all too common now at 53:09, that's announce a short commercial for cigarettes', of all things..
Catcher has a soft hat on. Ray Culprit hitting. Love it.
If you look closely at Jim Nash, his delivery and mannerisms look just like Gary Nolan of the Cincinnati Reds.
This is so great. I was born about 3 months later. Most games before my birth are grainy b&w.
This was the start of the Oakland A’s becoming a great team.
I perfectly remember the A's beating the Sox 21-7 then 15-8 during the weekend. These scores were proof of what happened to MLB baseball when they lowered the pitcher's mound starting in the 1969 season
I was at that game as well!
@@KkatsPhotos wow! Did you have a good view? I went there 3 times at Fenway (60s and 70s). One time, my seat happen to be behind one of the support poles. what a pain
@@kevinchouinard9539 I think we were on the first base side. I was a huge A’s fan bc of the uniforms. The gold socks and the white cleats!
We were at this game. Lots of young women before the game greeting the players as they arrived. Bert Campaneris attracted a crowd. Nice as he could be and posed for a photo for his admirers.
never forgave the Sox for trading the Hawk at the beginning of the season
Ken Harrelson was going downhill in 1969 and the Redsox knew it
Aww Baby Reggie, for the most part kept the same batting stance
All these years and I did not know Dimaggio was the batting coach for the Athletics, makes sense though, he was from the Bay Area. The announcer said Dimaggio feels Reggie Jackson has the chance to be a superstar, that's high praise coming from Dimaggio he didn't praise anyone, he was kind of an ass from what I hear.
First time I ever saw or heard of DiMaggio was when I was about 6 years old, 1968, the A's first year in Oakland, I was watching a game on TV with my father and Joe DiMaggio pops up on the screen wearing those ridiculous green & gold A's uniforms, with the white hats (since he was a coach) and my father says "That is the greatest ball player I ever saw". And he grew up in New York as a Giants fan, not a Yankee fan. Later on when I knew more, I'd ask him if DiMaggio was better than his own guy, Willie Mays, and he'd say, "Yeah, DiMaggio was the best."
I read a great biography on Charlie FInlay. He made a fortune in Real Estate and wanted to operate at a loss for taxes, and thus invested a fortune in scouting and found Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter, Blue Moon Odom etc!
Finley was in the insurance business which is where he made his fortune, although it was a modest fortune by today's standards. He could have afforded to sign most of his key players in the mid-1970s but did not want to spend the money. He lost Catfish Hunter, who was signed through 1975, because he failed to make a $50K payment for an insurance annuity which was part of Hunter's contract. Imagine losing a Hall of Fame pitcher over a $50K dispute. By far, the biggest mistake Finley ever made (he admitted it later).
@@jamesmmahoney Thank you for the comment I love base ball (two words) history.
Here is a trivia question for you. There is only one person in the base ball hall of fame who pitched ten seasons and had a winning record every year ...only one!
Who was it?
Then you quiz me ok?
Cool that the core players of the A’s lasted till the end of 1975- something your not likely to see anytime soon.
Yeah, cool to see them younger.
Actually several of the core 1972-74 dynasty players (Bando, Blue, Campaneris, Fingers, Lindblad, Mangual, North, Odom, Rudi, Tenace, C. Washington) were with the team through the 1976 season. The 1976 team probably would have won a sixth straight division title had Finley not sat Blue, Fingers & Rudi for two weeks in protest of Bowie Kuhn voiding the sale of those players in mid-June. The 1976 team also had Billy Williams, Don Baylor (in his prime), Phil Garner and Mike Torrez replacing Ken Holtzman and winning 16 games. The team was good enough to have made it to the world series but likely would have lost to the Reds who were unbeatable in 1975-76.
There was an amazing amount of foul territory in Fenway Park then.