That is my dad, Jack DiLauro impersonating Ed at the end. I've heard this story (and many others) before finally seeing it on RUclips about 8 years ago. He (Jack) is still as entertaining to this day. He is currently going through cancer treatments at 80 years old. He's doing really good. Hoping for a full recovery. I have still to this day, never beaten him at golf. He says, "And you never will."
Wishing your Dad a full and speedy recovery! Glad he’s still doing well! I was only 10 years old and living in Brooklyn, NYC at the time and rooted for those Amazing Mets! Glad he made it to the 50th Anniversary reunion in 2019! He did a good job with the Mets in 1969! Wish he could have stayed in NYC longer! I remember watching this and I sure got a kick out of it! The 1969 Mets were beloved then, still beloved now and will be forever!
I remember when he ended up with the Astros in 1970. He was a part of great baseball history. The 69 Mets are one of the great stories in baseball history.
RIP 20 Tommy Agee, 27 Don Cardwell, 5 Ed Charles, 22 Donn Clendenon, 15 Jerry Grote, 3 Bud Harrelson, 34 Cal Koonce, 43 Jim McAndrew, 45 Tug McGraw, 41 Tom Seaver, 8 Yogi Berra,14 Gil Hodges, 52 Joe Pignatano, 54 Rube Walker and 53 Eddie Yost and now 7 Ed Kranepool :Edit 31 Jack DiLauro became the 5th Met from the 1969 team RIP
What a fun moment from such a simpler time... The greatest year in Mets history after you consider what they had done coming in to this year. I have a wirephoto of this signed by 22 of them - the most prized item in my memorabilia collection.
The Mets pulled a huge upset in the 1969 World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. The key players for the Mets were very young and there are 2 Hall-of-Famers in this video- Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan. Jerry Koosman also became a star as did "Frank" McGraw, better known as "Tug" who was a key relief pitcher for the 1973 Mets, (lost the World Series) and the 1980 Phillies (won the World Series). Tug McGraw was the father of country singer Tim McGraw.
Yes, after just losing to the A’s in the World Series (I still think Yogi Berra should have saved Tom Seaver on full rest for game 7 instead of Jon Matlack), the Mets were predictably cheap and full of hubris during that following off-season by staying with the mediocre (and I’m being generous) platoon of Don Hahn and Dave Schneck in center field instead of getting a competent hitting center fielder to play between Cleon Jones in left and Rusty Staub in right. After the disappointing 1974 season, new Mets GM Joe McDonald shipped Hahn and Schneck with Tug McGraw for the decent Del Unser, Mac Scarce and young catcher John “The Bad Dude” Stearns, who later decked future Met Gary Carter in a collision at home plate. They didn’t call him the “Bad Dude” for nothing. Oh yeah, , Don Hahn and Dave Schneck were subsequently released by the Phillies in spring training, and were never to be seen again in the major leagues. Thank you, M. Donald Grant.
I was just a tiny tot sitting on Daddy's lap as we watched Amazing Mets WS...at my Aunt Francis 's house. She was Jerry Grote's TRUE Aunt- and so very proud !! What a great memory! Never seen this before! Truly AMAZING 👏
Due to my life situation wanted to listen to this song from damn Yankees. This appeared as I am subscribed to the ed Sullivan show..I was a huge Mets fan and 19years old in 1969. I knew one of Gil Hodge's daughters when we lived in Brooklyn during my preteen years...they lived a few blocks from us. No astronomical salaries !! Mr Hodges finally made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame !!!
Nolan Ryan always cracks me up with his facial expression as the camera zooms in. He hated living in New York and wasn't happy with the way Gil Hodges used him and he was clearly uncomfortable being on stage "singing." OTOH, Tom Seaver, standing right next to him, is clearly having a ball, cutting up and clowning around.
Hodges didn't like Ryan and pushed for the trade. The sad thing is that was at the end of the 1971 season and Hodges died before the 1972 season began. They tried to trade Ryan before the 1969 season, to Atlanta in a deal for Joe Torre, but the Braves wanted Gary Gentry instead of Ryan so the deal was cancelled. As things happened, as they often will in baseball, the Mets ended up playing Atlanta in the playoffs and Ryan was the winning pitcher vs. the Braves in the game that clinched the series for the Mets.
I remember seeing the Mets on “The Ed Sullivan Show” after their truly amazing World Series victory over the mighty Baltimore Orioles. As a lifelong Mets fan, I think 1969 was the greatest season in New York Mets history. Sadly, many of these Met players and coaches are deceased: Tommie Agee, Tug McGraw, Donn Clendennon, Cal Koonce, Ed Charles, Rube Walker, Eddie Yost, Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges and, of course, Tom Seaver.
"The Amazing Mets" album was recorded and released right after the season. This ES show was after the World Series which they won. Album contained such "classic" tracks as "Green Grass Of Shea" and "We're Gonna Win The Series".
I thought it was nice of DiLauro’s teammates to get him to not only do his spot-on imitation of Ed but act as spokesman for the team. DiLauro is quite possibly the least known of the Miracle Mets. He only appeared in only 23 games and won only one game that season.
This video is hilarious. They don't look too happy singing. Why wasn't Cleon Jones at the broadcast? I didn't know they were on Ed Sullivan... Our family bought copies of the album after they won the '69 World Series. I also bought the book "Perfect Game Tom Seaver & the Mets" when it came out.
What a wonderful time, 2 1969, men land on the moon, Woodstock! I was 8 yrs old. Too young to experience events, but do remember moon landing on TV with my parents and seeing hippies all around😊 Mets in 1969 did have heart and stones! These Mets are a huge disappointment! Another 1962 version!
A magical year, I learned what an "underdog" was! It seems they are all here except for Cleon Jones, Bobby Pfeil, and young Amos Otis who became a 5-time All Star for the Royals beginning the very next season. Baseball trivia: it was Otis' throw from centerfield trying to get Pete Rose out at the plate in the 1970 All Star game. As original Mets manager Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up."
Supposedly, the Met players were all in a Chinese restaurant next to The Ed Sullivan Theatre and many of them proceeded to get bombed before taping the show. It’s fun to look at the old video and try to figure out who was sloshed and who wasn’t wasted.
@@kensellers4082 Rube Walker & Jerry Grote. Two country boys having a time in the big city. Definitely looking very sober-Duffy Dyer. Too young to drink-Wayne Garrett & Gary Gentry.
@@RRaquello Yes, Gary Gentry looked like he was still in the Cub Scouts! Jerry Grote was a tremendous defensive catcher, as good as, and maybe even better than the great Johnny Bench. Jerry Grote was also such a tough guy and fierce competitor; Jon Matlack said he was afraid to screw-up on the pitcher’s mound , when Jerry Grote was catching him in a game. I just read NY Daily News sportswriter Bill Madden’s biography of the late, great Tim Seaver, entitled “Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life.” It’s a great read for all Mets fans, who remember Tom “The Franchise” Seaver. When new Mets owner Steve Cohen mentioned Fred and Jeff Wilpon at the unveiling of Tom Seaver’s statue (FINALLY!!!) at Citi Field, I loved it when the assembled Mets fans gave the Wilpons, or “Coupons,” a loud chorus of boos. Good riddance! And, when Mrs. Nancy Seaver cried as she thanked Steve Cohen and all of the Mets fans there, she had me welling up as well. Tom Seaver is the greatest Met of all-time.
@@kensellers4082 First baseball fight I ever remember seeing was a Mets-Expos game, probably 1970. It was Jerry Grote vs. Expos catcher Ron Brand on a play at the plate, probably 1970. I would have been 8 years old. I remember that Grote wasn't liked by the reporters because he wasn't a friendly interview, but I think he mellowed out some as he got older. I wasn't a Met fan myself, leaning more to the American League, but my older brother was and since he was older, he controlled the TV (or radio), so we always watched, or listened to, the Mets, LOL. So I got to see or hear almost every Met game in the Gil Hodges years. I think my American League fandom might have been partly rebellion against my brother's Mets fandom. We all did actually see the original broadcast of this Ed Sullivan show because my mother controlled the TV even over my older brother, and she always watched Ed Sullivan.
The year before, the Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain and the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson made a musical appearance together, post-World Series, on TESS.
Surprise is that Jerry Grote, a famous sorehead, looks like he's having a good time while sunny disposition Bud Harrelson looks like he was there under severe duress. You'd expect it to be the other way around.
Both Tug McGraw and Rube Walker standing right in front of him look like they might have been partaking of adult beverages right before going on this night. Rube, not Roy Campanella, was the Dodgers' catcher 18 years before when Bobby Thompson hit his famous HR, so you have good days and bad days.
Almost all the players are on stage in alphabetical order.....just noticed that (Jack D. and Bobby Pfeil are not in alpha - but on the other side of the coaches.
You can tell that the insertion of the names under the closeup of the players was done by a low level network employee who didn't know anything about baseball. He was probably assigned the duty at the last moment and used a list of players with their formal names, not having any idea that it looked stupid for Tom Seaver to sing under the name G. Thomas Seaver or Tug McGraw under the name of Frank McGraw.
People were more formal back then. My mom would call other mothers who lived near us Mrs. She'd yell to the lady across the street Hello Mrs. Betts. So I'm not surprised they wouldn't put Tug McGraw up there.
That is my dad, Jack DiLauro impersonating Ed at the end. I've heard this story (and many others) before finally seeing it on RUclips about 8 years ago. He (Jack) is still as entertaining to this day. He is currently going through cancer treatments at 80 years old. He's doing really good. Hoping for a full recovery. I have still to this day, never beaten him at golf. He says, "And you never will."
Wishing your Dad a full and speedy recovery! Glad he’s still doing well! I was only 10 years old and living in Brooklyn, NYC at the time and rooted for those Amazing Mets! Glad he made it to the 50th Anniversary reunion in 2019! He did a good job with the Mets in 1969! Wish he could have stayed in NYC longer! I remember watching this and I sure got a kick out of it! The 1969 Mets were beloved then, still beloved now and will be forever!
I remember when he ended up with the Astros in 1970. He was a part of great baseball history. The 69 Mets are one of the great stories in baseball history.
A while ago, but wishing for the best.
So sorry for his passing! I heard he died!
Sorry for your dad's recent passing which brought me here.
just heard today of jacks passing,r i p and condolences to his son.
Why doesn't this have 33 MILLION views? How soon people forget the excitement of the Mets winning the World Series in 1969.
The little inside joke is that "(You Gotta Have) Heart" is from the Broadway musical "Damn Yankees" 😁
Not that little an inside joke LOL
@@ejgnandt
But it ws about the Washington Senators. Underdogs. Perfect for the 1969 Mets
RIP 20 Tommy Agee, 27 Don Cardwell, 5 Ed Charles, 22 Donn Clendenon, 15 Jerry Grote, 3 Bud Harrelson, 34 Cal Koonce, 43 Jim McAndrew, 45 Tug McGraw, 41 Tom Seaver, 8 Yogi Berra,14 Gil Hodges, 52 Joe Pignatano, 54 Rube Walker and 53 Eddie Yost and now 7 Ed Kranepool
:Edit 31 Jack DiLauro became the 5th Met from the 1969 team RIP
Also Ed Kranepool, #7
@@annabelkitten07Ed Kranepool became the 4th 1969 Met to died in 2024. The others were Jim McAndrew, Bud Harrelson, and Jerry Grote
@@richshort8120 Make that 5 with Jack DiLauro (who amuses Sullivan with his impersonation later in this clip).
@@andrewpadaetz5549 I just checked Google. I'm happy to say that Jack DiLauto is still alive. He's 81 now. He was born on May 3, 1943
@@richshort8120 afraid not.
What a fun moment from such a simpler time... The greatest year in Mets history after you consider what they had done coming in to this year. I have a wirephoto of this signed by 22 of them - the most prized item in my memorabilia collection.
Tom giving Ryan a hard time is absolutely hilarious. This was all before my time but I love getting a glimpse into the team from that era.
Maybe again in 2024?
LET'S GO METS!!!
Still alive as of last night!!!
What a special moment in sports and what a great moment of levity on the Ed Sullivan show!
The Mets pulled a huge upset in the 1969 World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. The key players for the Mets were very young and there are 2 Hall-of-Famers in this video- Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan. Jerry Koosman also became a star as did "Frank" McGraw, better known as "Tug" who was a key relief pitcher for the 1973 Mets, (lost the World Series) and the 1980 Phillies (won the World Series). Tug McGraw was the father of country singer Tim McGraw.
Yes, after just losing to the A’s in the World Series (I still think Yogi Berra should have saved Tom Seaver on full rest for game 7 instead of Jon Matlack), the Mets were predictably cheap and full of hubris during that following off-season by staying with the mediocre (and I’m being generous) platoon of Don Hahn and Dave Schneck in center field instead of getting a competent hitting center fielder to play between Cleon Jones in left and Rusty Staub in right.
After the disappointing 1974 season, new Mets GM Joe McDonald shipped Hahn and Schneck with Tug McGraw for the decent Del Unser, Mac Scarce and young catcher John “The Bad Dude” Stearns, who later decked future Met Gary Carter in a collision at home plate. They didn’t call him the “Bad Dude” for nothing.
Oh yeah, , Don Hahn and Dave Schneck were subsequently released by the Phillies in spring training, and were never to be seen again in the major leagues. Thank you, M. Donald Grant.
I was at that show, now I'm in my 60s and Rember it like it was yesterday.
Do you have a time machine ?
I was just a tiny tot sitting on Daddy's lap as we watched Amazing Mets WS...at my Aunt Francis 's house. She was Jerry Grote's TRUE Aunt- and so very proud !!
What a great memory!
Never seen this before!
Truly AMAZING 👏
I remember this.I was totally for the Mets from the moment they clinched the inaugural NL Eastern Division pennant.
Tom Seaver. The greatest of all time. RIP.
Was Tom Seaver the greatest pitcher of all time?
I'd probably say No, but then again I might say Yes.
All world series winning team should do this...Nolan Ryan was only 22 here...Gd old days...
Due to my life situation wanted to listen to this song from damn Yankees. This appeared as I am subscribed to the ed Sullivan show..I was a huge Mets fan and 19years old in 1969. I knew one of Gil Hodge's daughters when we lived in Brooklyn during my preteen years...they lived a few blocks from us. No astronomical salaries !! Mr Hodges finally made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame !!!
Nolan Ryan always cracks me up with his facial expression as the camera zooms in. He hated living in New York and wasn't happy with the way Gil Hodges used him and he was clearly uncomfortable being on stage "singing." OTOH, Tom Seaver, standing right next to him, is clearly having a ball, cutting up and clowning around.
Hodges didn't like Ryan and pushed for the trade. The sad thing is that was at the end of the 1971 season and Hodges died before the 1972 season began. They tried to trade Ryan before the 1969 season, to Atlanta in a deal for Joe Torre, but the Braves wanted Gary Gentry instead of Ryan so the deal was cancelled. As things happened, as they often will in baseball, the Mets ended up playing Atlanta in the playoffs and Ryan was the winning pitcher vs. the Braves in the game that clinched the series for the Mets.
Seaver trying to get the guys in front of him to smile. :)
I remember seeing the Mets on “The Ed Sullivan Show” after their truly amazing World Series victory over the mighty Baltimore Orioles. As a lifelong Mets fan, I think 1969 was the greatest season in New York Mets history.
Sadly, many of these Met players and coaches are deceased: Tommie Agee, Tug McGraw, Donn Clendennon, Cal Koonce, Ed Charles, Rube Walker, Eddie Yost, Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges and, of course, Tom Seaver.
A truly amazing team when things were simpler.
This year the Mets lost Bud Harrelson, Jerry Grote, and Ed Kranepool.
@@NedsdagThey lost 4 this year. The other one was Jim McAndrew
This made me very happy.
Back when WORLD CHAMPIONS were still able to have a chuckle at their own expense.
"The Amazing Mets" album was recorded and released right after the season. This ES show was after the World Series which they won. Album contained such "classic" tracks as "Green Grass Of Shea" and "We're Gonna Win The Series".
Wow I love this 💯 watch this for the first time this year
Such a cool era
LETS GO METS!!!
That appears to be all-time great Tom Seaver goosing the last two players.
Love Seaver cutting up at the end...
This is precious.
A real throwback when players played for the love of the game. I still have the album they made.
I haven’t seen the full version since it first aired in 1969!! Thank you!!!
Always loved “ Piggy “ Pignatano from my youth.
I thought it was nice of DiLauro’s teammates to get him to not only do his spot-on imitation of Ed but act as spokesman for the team. DiLauro is quite possibly the least known of the Miracle Mets. He only appeared in only 23 games and won only one game that season.
We just lost Jack on 12/22/24
They were so young!
So was i
Thank you Gary...what a treat.
1:11 that belt!
Awesome
The 86 crew would sung Queen’s WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!😎
The 86 crew would have sung “It’s All Right-Cocaine”.
@@RRaquello 🤣
Ed Yost, Gil Hodges, Yogi Berra, Cleon - all missing in action
Priceless!😊
My sweetheart, Tug McGraw
Wow I recorded this on audio tape the night it aired. So weird to see this video after all these years.
Amazing, this is a great remember.
This is great! But what happened to Ed's introduction at the beginning, why wasn't it included here?
I remember their win in the afternoon as home suck from school.
How great is this!
This video is hilarious. They don't look too happy singing. Why wasn't Cleon Jones at the broadcast? I didn't know they were on Ed Sullivan... Our family bought copies of the album after they won the '69 World Series. I also bought the book "Perfect Game Tom Seaver & the Mets" when it came out.
Reportedly Jones was just too eager to get home to Alabama (where the skies are so blue) after the series, skipping the Broadway parade as well.
@@UglyChileanDoorman New York boy Eddie Yost is missing.
Several of the players look as though they were there against their will.
What a wonderful time, 2
1969, men land on the moon, Woodstock! I was 8 yrs old. Too young to experience events, but do remember moon landing on TV with my parents and seeing hippies all around😊
Mets in 1969 did have heart and stones! These Mets are a huge disappointment! Another 1962 version!
A magical year, I learned what an "underdog" was! It seems they are all here except for Cleon Jones, Bobby Pfeil, and young Amos Otis who became a 5-time All Star for the Royals beginning the very next season. Baseball trivia: it was Otis' throw from centerfield trying to get Pete Rose out at the plate in the 1970 All Star game. As original Mets manager Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up."
Jack DiLauro gets his moment...
I always find it hysterically ironic that the Mets are singing a song from the musical "Damn Yankees" LOL LOL LOL
Supposedly, the Met players were all in a Chinese restaurant next to The Ed Sullivan Theatre and many of them proceeded to get bombed before taping the show.
It’s fun to look at the old video and try to figure out who was sloshed and who wasn’t wasted.
@@kensellers4082 Most of them look pretty "loose" to me LOL
@@kensellers4082 Rube Walker & Jerry Grote. Two country boys having a time in the big city. Definitely looking very sober-Duffy Dyer. Too young to drink-Wayne Garrett & Gary Gentry.
@@RRaquello
Yes, Gary Gentry looked like he was still in the Cub Scouts! Jerry Grote was a tremendous defensive catcher, as good as, and maybe even better than the great Johnny Bench.
Jerry Grote was also such a tough guy and fierce competitor; Jon Matlack said he was afraid to screw-up on the pitcher’s mound , when Jerry Grote was catching him in a game.
I just read NY Daily News sportswriter Bill Madden’s biography of the late, great Tim Seaver, entitled “Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life.” It’s a great read for all Mets fans, who remember Tom “The Franchise” Seaver.
When new Mets owner Steve Cohen mentioned Fred and Jeff Wilpon at the unveiling of Tom Seaver’s statue (FINALLY!!!) at Citi Field, I loved it when the assembled Mets fans gave the Wilpons, or “Coupons,” a loud chorus of boos. Good riddance!
And, when Mrs. Nancy Seaver cried as she thanked Steve Cohen and all of the Mets fans there, she had me welling up as well. Tom Seaver is the greatest Met of
all-time.
@@kensellers4082 First baseball fight I ever remember seeing was a Mets-Expos game, probably 1970. It was Jerry Grote vs. Expos catcher Ron Brand on a play at the plate, probably 1970. I would have been 8 years old. I remember that Grote wasn't liked by the reporters because he wasn't a friendly interview, but I think he mellowed out some as he got older. I wasn't a Met fan myself, leaning more to the American League, but my older brother was and since he was older, he controlled the TV (or radio), so we always watched, or listened to, the Mets, LOL. So I got to see or hear almost every Met game in the Gil Hodges years. I think my American League fandom might have been partly rebellion against my brother's Mets fandom.
We all did actually see the original broadcast of this Ed Sullivan show because my mother controlled the TV even over my older brother, and she always watched Ed Sullivan.
Dedicated to Juan Soto, who just became a Met today (12/8/24)
トムシーバーとノーランライアンが並んで歌ってる！GREAT!
The year before, the Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain and the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson made a musical appearance together, post-World Series, on TESS.
0:12 Kenneth look like Logan from BTR
Can you post some more stuff on Joan rivers and this clips amazing
0:52 Edward look like Ken Berry
Where was Cleon Jones?
0:54 James look like young John Ritter
Ed Sullivan explained that Gil Hodges was too tired to attend. But where's Cleon Jones?
I bet some of them didn't like having to do this.
Surprise is that Jerry Grote, a famous sorehead, looks like he's having a good time while sunny disposition Bud Harrelson looks like he was there under severe duress. You'd expect it to be the other way around.
@@RRaquello That’s funny. 😄 👍🏻
No Cleon Jones !!
R I P ED KRANEPOOL...original met as a teenager...
8 seconds in, Seaver smacks Nolan Ryan.
Nolan Ryan doesn’t look like he wants to be there.
I get the sense he isn't one of the eleven bound for Vegas.
I guess Jack Di Lauro got into some trouble impersonating Ed…soon after this broadcast, he was traded to the Astros
That was a pretty big shoe!
Nolan Ryan looks like he didn’t want to be there. I bet if had to sing a Merle Haggard song, he’d be singing like a bird.
Several of the players seem as though they were there against their will.
Will Shohei Otani sing "You've gotta have heart" after the season....
Both Tug McGraw and Rube Walker standing right in front of him look like they might have been partaking of adult beverages right before going on this night. Rube, not Roy Campanella, was the Dodgers' catcher 18 years before when Bobby Thompson hit his famous HR, so you have good days and bad days.
Where's Cleon Jones?
EARLYY
After the Mets won the World Series in 1969, they wouldn't win again until 1986.
And haven't won since
Lfgm!!!
Nolan Ryan you can tell did not wanna be in new york
It's the only time he ever got to the World Series and he played about 23 years after this.
Almost all the players are on stage in alphabetical order.....just noticed that (Jack D. and Bobby Pfeil are not in alpha - but on the other side of the coaches.
Haircuts like the Mercury Astronauts
Especially Al Weis.
Seaver was a Jokester
Ol' L !!! 1:02
Hmmm..whatever became of that L. NOLAN RYAN guy?
You can tell that the insertion of the names under the closeup of the players was done by a low level network employee who didn't know anything about baseball. He was probably assigned the duty at the last moment and used a list of players with their formal names, not having any idea
that it looked stupid for Tom Seaver to sing under the name G. Thomas Seaver or Tug McGraw under the name of Frank McGraw.
Well, sometimes performers use different names when dabbling in other arts or genres.
That's pretty trivial....This is timeless ;what a wonderful memory!
People were more formal back then. My mom would call other mothers who lived near us Mrs. She'd yell to the lady across the street Hello Mrs. Betts. So I'm not surprised they wouldn't put Tug McGraw up there.
@@ronswoboda8310 You made a pretty good catch in that series!
That's how the names were listed on the "Amazing Mets" album cover.
Ryan and Seaver not even singing. LOL
Too bad it's from Damned Yankees
Seaver is having a ball.
Nolan Ryan looks to be Zombified.
Ed Sullivan was an uggo
Why they look like the whole sex offender registry tho?
Awesome
R I P ED KRANEPOOL...original met as a teenager...