Yankees at Shea 1974 - WNBC-TV Coverage of Yankees Shea Workout, 1974-4-5
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2014
- YanksAtShea proudly presents the Yankees at Shea. To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Yankees 1974 Season, played at Shea Stadium, here is WNBC-TV's Tim Ryan report on the Yankees pre-opening day workout with Mel Stottlemyre, Bobby Murcer, Sparky Lyle, Whitey Ford, Elston Howard, et al. The Yankees are not only playing their first home game outside of Yankee Stadium in 52 years, they gotta wear their old flannel road uniforms for the practice! Don't miss the airplanes flying above...as usual.
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Movie 4 on WNBC was ending it's weekday afternoon run around late March early part of April of 1974 to make room for a two hour newscast. called News center 4
They had reverted back to their pre-1973 Road jerseys (shown here) as of 2024.
I remember seeing the Yanks play at Shea Stadium in 1974.
Great Post! Sportscaster was Tim Ryan, who shared sports duties on Ch. 4 with Marv Albert. I was at the first game. Very cold and grey day. Yankees won and Stottlemyre made final opening day start. Tore rotator cuff that season and was done pitching. Great memories, can't believe it's been 40 years!
I remember Tim Ryan doing the NHL on NBC...Ryan, Jim Gordon and Marv Albert were the voices calling the games when I was a young hockey fan.
They won that opener, beating the Cleveland Indians, 6-1. Mel Stottlemyre outpitched Gaylord Perry. Perry was 35 years old, and pitched for another 10 seasons. Stottlemyre was 32, and an injury ended his career just 4 months later. Graig Nettles hit a home run. Bobby Murcer and Thurman Munson each got 2 hits.
What is most interesting is that the Yankees were wearing their pre-1973 road uniforms here in the spring of 1974.
This is a gem. Thank you to Yanksatshea
We went to quite a few Yankee games at Shea. The most memorable maybe was Old Timers Day In 1975. Not because of the Old Timers, but because the night before, Bill Virdon was fired as Yankee manager, replaced by guess who. So it was Billy’s first game as Yankee manager. 1974 was actually pretty exciting, with the Yankees in the race to near the end. And I’m not even a Yankee fan.
Great stuff Paul. Another classic video. Love the long hair of the day and the uniforms! Great stuff as always. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic find. Looks like flannel uniforms still. 40 years ago is hard to believe. Great post.
The flannels were for this practice session only, the day before opening day (Nettles joked that the Yanks would be wearing them the entire season). The home pinstriped double-knits arrived in time for the opener and the road double-knits were ready a few days later. The Yankees gave up flannel (the next to last team to do so) on the day of the 50th Birthday Party for Yankee Stadium in April of 1973.
That is a great response. I didn't know any of that. Who was the last team to change over from flannel?
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They actually had a very good year,their best since ‘64…finished like 2 games out of Baltimore…the end of that great Oriole run.
But Murcer was bedeviled by Shea s much longer foul pole in RF. Of 341 and higher fence(Yankee Stadium was 296ft! Down the line w a 4 ft fence)>
Bobby only hit 10 Hrs all year!
And was then traded b4 the ‘75 season for Bonds…Bobby Bonds.
I remember listening to radio w Rizzuto,White and Messer the game in late Sept vs Milwaukee when they were knocked out of the race…
That year, four teams shared Shea Stadium. The Mets, The Jets, The Yankees and the Giants.
Robert Currie - Hate to sound like a know-it-all but in 1974 the Giants played at the Yale Bowl. However you are correct all four teams played at Shea in 1975.
Awesome stuff. Thanks. I was too young. Some bizarre stuff. Everything with Shea was and remains bizarre.
My 1st game ever was Yanks at Shea in '74. Doc Medich had a no-hitter with one out in 9th. Wish I coulda made it to original Stadium. But too young to take train to Bronx.
The #4 stop at Yankee Stadium was very safe. I used to bowl and play video games at the alley up the street even.
Talk about strange. One game in 1975 the Yankees were playing at Shea. It may have been memorial day. The video is on RUclips. The National Guard shot off a cannon at the centerfield wall. Well the cannon was to clsoe and the wall basically blew up. They kept firing.
it was Italian-American day or something, the game was June 10th 1975
And the answer to the trivia question - Who is the only Yankee manager to never manage at Yankee Stadium? Bill Virdon Mgr '74 & '75 when they played at Shea.
The Yankees had some managers that manged at the Polo Grounds, where the Yanks played from their inception through 1922. But Virdon is the only manager to have never manged the team their in the time that the stadium was in existence.
The Yankees played at Hilltop Park from 1903-1912 as the New York Highlanders. In 1913 they ditched Hilltop and the Highlander name and moved to the Polo grounds from 1913-1922.
The Yankees had some managers that manged only at the Polo Grounds,
where the Yanks played from 1913 through 1922. But Virdon is the only
manager to have never manged the team their in the time that the stadium
was in existence.
you're right. i can't believe i forgot hilltop park.
Which newscast - "The Sixth Hour" or "The Eleventh Hour"? Any which way, this was obviously before the rollout of "NewsCenter4" towards the end of April.
The highlight of the Yankees at Shea was the time when the National Guard blew the fence up with the cannons.
It was actually the real Army, not the National Guard, who commemorated their anniversary with this June 1975 pregame cannon firing at Shea Stadium. Here from my YanksAtShea page is Walter Cronkite's next day news feature on this infamous moment: ruclips.net/video/IagqylYAbD0/видео.html
I was there and it was hilarious once the smoke had cleared. Yankee crowds at Shea were never large and were tickets sold rather than actual bodies. I saw quite a few mid week games there in 74 and 75 when they did not bother to open the upper deck. General admission sat in the Mezzanine from third and first base out down the lines.
@@YanksAtShea "Final score was Yankees 6, Angels 4, Army 21, fence 0."
Mel won as a pitching coach with the Mets
You don't have this in HD? Lol
Shea Stadium killed Bobby Murcer. He simply couldn't hit homeruns there. Wound up traded for Bobby Bonds and missed the Yankees late 70's run. By the time he got back, they were a good team but never won the series.
Murcer had the best Stadium Swing for that 296 foot line in right since Roger Maris. And the fence was 43 inches tall. He finally hit one out at Shea in 1974 during the final home series of the year. Those humpbacked 320 foot liners to right that dropped a couple of rows back in the old Stadium were not even warning track shots at Shes.
No cheap homers at Shea.
Shea was always the average home run park.
But Bobby did win a pennant with the Yankees in 1981.
Funny isn't?, Mel would get his First World Series Ring at Shea 13 years Later!. Let's Go METS! . LOL!. :-)
find it fascinating that they had already gone to double knit uniforms the year before, but they broke out the 72 flannels for the workout....go figure
Perhaps the worst era for sports in the history of NYC.