Philadelphia PHILLIES at Chicago CUBS 7/12/69 Original NBC Broadcast Kinescope

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  • Complete Original NBC Game of the Week broadcast from 7/12/69 with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubeck
    KINESCOPE recorded off two VHS Commercial Tapes from my collected archives and has been digitalized and some video and audio corrections edited and cleaned up
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  • @ronniecozzi8385
    @ronniecozzi8385 8 месяцев назад +16

    Tony Kubek should be in the baseball Hall of Fame as a broadcaster. He was the first one that I remember really explaining the game to the fans, giving insights that only one who played in the majors could give.

  • @matta3968
    @matta3968 3 года назад +80

    No fans staring at their phones like mindless zombies. Just enjoying the ballgame in the sunshine.

    • @elwoodblues6663
      @elwoodblues6663 3 года назад +3

      well said matty

    • @nala3038
      @nala3038 2 года назад +1

      @@elwoodblues6663 his name is Matt

    • @drinkinglotsofsoda
      @drinkinglotsofsoda 2 года назад +9

      Um.... I watching this game on my phone!

    • @barbaracaroll
      @barbaracaroll 2 года назад

      The Phillies in the decade of the 60s were hideous

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 Год назад +2

      You can't watch this game without a phone

  • @wrkuball
    @wrkuball 3 года назад +62

    I had been married two weeks when this game was played. Will celebrate our 52nd this June.

  • @everetttauscher8377
    @everetttauscher8377 5 месяцев назад +7

    I was 8 years old when this game was played. My brother, who started my CUBS fandom, was in Vietnam serving a tour of duty with the Marines. We exchanged letters that year and a lot of the content was about the CUBS season.

  • @everetttauscher8377
    @everetttauscher8377 5 месяцев назад +8

    Saturday game of the week on NBC. The only time I got to watch the CUBS play.

  • @everetttauscher8377
    @everetttauscher8377 5 месяцев назад +10

    My Dad would stand up and put his hand over his heart while the National anthem played on the tv.

    • @mausolos8
      @mausolos8 5 месяцев назад

      I still stand up when the anthem plays on TV.

    • @thomaspaine374
      @thomaspaine374 2 месяца назад

      If only there were more men like your father.

  • @Newfoundmike
    @Newfoundmike 4 месяца назад +4

    On 1969 As 12 year olds We would ride the Train 120miles and hop on the Subway which would turned into the L . We would get off at Wrigly field and watch a Double header and ride home again 120 miles back to the Farm .Greatest Memories ever !!❤

  • @bbh70002
    @bbh70002 3 года назад +62

    These videos are absolute treasures!!! Thanks so much for uploading these valuable pieces of history.

    • @chuckinhouston9952
      @chuckinhouston9952 3 года назад +3

      Yes they are!

    • @aa697
      @aa697 2 года назад +3

      Those were the great ole days for sure.

  • @rickminnich5517
    @rickminnich5517 2 года назад +11

    Johnny Briggs was a terrific and highly underrated baseball player. He could have easily been named an all-star during his years with the Brewers.

  • @saywhat6704
    @saywhat6704 3 года назад +22

    I;m a Canadian and there is no doubt Ferguson Jenkins is Canada's greatest baseball player. I remember when Jenkins pitched and u could get the game on american television via Buffalo, the family was huddled around the old black and white tv.

    • @robertsprouse9282
      @robertsprouse9282 10 месяцев назад +1

      I agree..only LARRY WALKER approaches him.

    • @deepcosmiclove
      @deepcosmiclove 9 месяцев назад

      He could bring it.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад +1

      I was there when Durocher made him a starter. One of Leo's best moves as the Cubs' manager.

    • @daniellinehan63
      @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

      A fast 2:15 game with Fergie v.Gibby

  • @64yanks
    @64yanks 2 года назад +11

    What a sweet infield the Cubs had

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 Год назад +2

      Sweet All Star infield plus Billy in left.

  • @hiramnoone
    @hiramnoone 3 года назад +27

    When kids wore their baseball caps bill forward and only merchant sailors were tattooed.

    • @herbpetrillo163
      @herbpetrillo163 3 года назад +2

      @EmbassyRow37 nope.....a very respectful time.

  • @blockcl
    @blockcl 3 года назад +21

    Larry Hisle was a terrific ball player. He was one of the original "Bambi's Bombers" in 1978. Sadly, his shoulder gave out in 1979, and he was never the same after that.

    • @realperceiver1010
      @realperceiver1010 11 месяцев назад +2

      Loved him on my Twins with Lyman Bostock in the outfield.

  • @kennethbrady
    @kennethbrady 3 года назад +16

    This is beyond sublime. Thanks so much for posting! Fergie Jenkins was my grandmom's favorite pitcher.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад

      And a pretty good hitter, too.

  • @jackmundo4043
    @jackmundo4043 4 месяца назад +2

    Tony Kubek was an absolute natural as a broadcaster. Proves it here as a young man.

  • @joeycarpenter3773
    @joeycarpenter3773 3 года назад +12

    Sir, absolutely awesome stuff! I was born : July 16, 1996, and to see this is so fascinating, I just cannot get enough of baseball, and particularly old time baseball! Just great! Nick

  • @mausolos8
    @mausolos8 5 месяцев назад +3

    As a long time Phillies fan I am thrilled to find this video. TY!

  • @JayDogTitan-he6wo
    @JayDogTitan-he6wo 3 года назад +25

    This is some awesome stuff, I turned 5 years old the day after this game, Baseball should still be on NBC.

    • @jaycompany4886
      @jaycompany4886 3 года назад +2

      Me too, now that was baseball....now, boring

    • @JayDogTitan-he6wo
      @JayDogTitan-he6wo 3 года назад

      @@jaycompany4886 Absolutely, Boring indeed and for me its not just baseball it's the NFL as well and don't even get me started on the NBA and Nascar.

    • @stupaul3233
      @stupaul3233 2 года назад +1

      I was twice that age and a Mets fan! Boy, I had no idea what I would be in store for when the Mets came to town a few days later as well as what they would accomplish three months later!

    • @drinkinglotsofsoda
      @drinkinglotsofsoda 2 года назад

      @@jaycompany4886 it's Joe Buck and coverage by Fox that makes it boring

    • @coreylevine3856
      @coreylevine3856 Год назад

      It should be on NBC not Peacock

  • @blu3collar949
    @blu3collar949 3 года назад +16

    1969, As a Cubs fan of 11 years old, this season made me cry until spring training 1970.

    • @blackhorse11thACR
      @blackhorse11thACR 3 года назад +1

      I was 12 and went to alot of Cubs games. A hard season.

    • @richardmorris7063
      @richardmorris7063 3 года назад +1

      In the tribune starting august they were posting the cubs magic number to clinch the division.it never happened.

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 3 года назад +1

      @@richardmorris7063 That's the same paper that had the famous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman."

    • @j4b4j4b5
      @j4b4j4b5 3 года назад

      I was 8 in 1969, And it was the first year I was even interested in baseball. But my lifelong love affair with the Cubs began that season, there's no denying it,.

    • @UnleashTheGreen
      @UnleashTheGreen 3 года назад

      you got us back 15 years later. the Mets should have won the division in 84.

  • @blackhorse11thACR
    @blackhorse11thACR 3 года назад +12

    I used to go to so many Cubs games in 1969. I was 12 years old and saw so many great players. The Cubs blew it after a double digit lead to the Mets. Those days the Cubs with 4 Hall of Famers on this team had no night games. It had to be rough playing day games after West Coast games then the August and September heat, humidity played a factor. One of the greatest Cubs teams I ever saw that never won the pennant. They were really good. Banks, Williams, Santo, and Jenkins. Beckett and Kissinger were solid infielders. Ken Holtzman threw a couple of no hitters. Maybe with lights and night games things would have been different.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 3 года назад +3

      "The Baseball Hall of Shame 2" suggested Durocher himself, by a handful of absences (including the time he married Lynne Walker Goldblatt) and guiding his team through such side ventures as advertisements and a record ("Pennant Fever," written to the tune of the old Little Willie John song "Fever"), was another factor in why the Cubs lost their way after the summer, besides all else mentioned.

    • @blackhorse11thACR
      @blackhorse11thACR 3 года назад +1

      @@wmbrown6 that's true that Leo was gone when they needed a manager. I believe there was tension between Santo and "Leo the Lip"..We had often talked about him taking off during the most important time. Leo was at Summer Camp like all the good kids 🤣 went to.

    • @murcson
      @murcson 11 месяцев назад

      Holtzman's no-hitters were 8/19/1969 and 6/3/1971. Ironically, the Phillies starter in this game, Rick Wise, no-hit the same Reds team Holtzman did 20 days later in 1971, hitting 2 homers on the process,the only pitcher to do so to this day.

    • @jeremyc2445
      @jeremyc2445 11 месяцев назад +1

      I was an usher at the first night game 8-8-88

    • @daniellinehan63
      @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

      Leo ran the Regs into the dust
      Hated young players
      Never used his bench
      Traded away Joe Neikro, Oscar Gamble, and Adolpho Phillips
      Next question....

  • @duanedorman6134
    @duanedorman6134 3 года назад +11

    I wish we could have more complete NBC Game of the Week games in black and white. Especially with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. I wish we could also have more games with Garagiola and Kubek

  • @MrBAMAFANATIC
    @MrBAMAFANATIC Год назад +4

    Ty for putting these games on, I would love to see the Braves from this era

    • @pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229
      @pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229  Год назад +1

      wish they existed games were not saved in the late 60s early 70s only bits n pieces thanks to kinescope 🎥😎

  • @raulmacias5735
    @raulmacias5735 2 года назад +3

    This is a real treat to see these games again!
    My late cousin Julio and I use to watch these games in the Sixties!
    These broadcasts are truly a treasure trove!
    Thank You!!!

  • @georgetyda9300
    @georgetyda9300 3 года назад +4

    Just turned 16 when this game was played. Live in NC now but still and always will be a Cub fan.

  • @markhoezee6292
    @markhoezee6292 Год назад +2

    No one would have guessed a amazing happening was just around the corner in September! Seaver,Aggee,clendenon,and company would shock the world!

    • @daniellinehan63
      @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

      Mets lifespan=7 yrs.in last place
      1969= Amazing

  • @philiptucci2458
    @philiptucci2458 3 года назад +6

    What a great treat, I really love these old games, I can watch and listen to them all through the day, really brings back fond memories of life

  • @leftys408
    @leftys408 4 месяца назад +1

    1969, as close as Ernie Banks ever got to the post-season. Year of the Miracle Mets. I was in the army, stationed in Washington DC. I got permission to take a night job ushering at RFK Stadium for Senators games, watching my idol Ted Williams manage the hapless Senators to a respectful season. Great memories.

  • @litaheffley6990
    @litaheffley6990 11 месяцев назад +3

    Love ❤️ the sixty nine cubs wonderful team ❤️ to bad they lost heartbreaking

  • @timdailey2690
    @timdailey2690 3 года назад +4

    This was 10 years, to the day, before Disco Demolition across town!

  • @robertgordon4812
    @robertgordon4812 2 года назад +3

    I love these old games from Wrigley Field. I am requesting Phenia Films to show more of the Cubs from Wrigley Field in the 50’s and 60’s.. Robert Gordon.

  • @larryloveless2967
    @larryloveless2967 3 года назад +8

    Born in 1953 and always a Cardinals fan I sure remember this 1969 season. I play the amazingiy realistic Strat-o-matic Baseball games and besdies other teams as well, I have all the contender teams from 1960-1969. Even though I remember this year as the collapse of the Cubs and the Amazing Mets, the Mets did win around 100 games and the Cubs won around 92 games. The Cubs had a good staff with Jenkins, Hands, and Holtzman, but that Mets staff with Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman was exceptional. Thanks for placing on RUclips. I sure watched the Game of the Week in the 1960s.

    • @MrRodneywilliam
      @MrRodneywilliam 3 года назад

      I was born in 1953, and from Northern Illinois and lifelong Cub fan. I remember that whole season vividly. As a twelve year old boy, my heart broke as the Cubs season collapsed.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 Год назад

      Im a Cub fan and we thought it would be the Cardinals that would challenge us. Nobody saw the Mets coming except the Mets. Hats off to them, for sure.

  • @robertgraves8721
    @robertgraves8721 5 месяцев назад +1

    I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings in the late '60s and early '70s during the spring and summer to mow the lawns I was hired to do in the neighborhood. I'd collect my pay , head to the convenience store for a Dr. Pepper and some Baseball Cards then head home to watch the game of the week . Baseball was at its best back then .

  • @matta3968
    @matta3968 3 года назад +7

    I love watching Jenkins pitch. He could really deal.

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 3 года назад

      He pitched quickly, and batters didn't stroll to the dugout and back after every pitch in those days, making for faster and better games.

    • @edwardtatum9930
      @edwardtatum9930 Год назад

      Fergie won 20 games six straight seasons and had great duels with Gibson, Marichal, Koufax, Drysdale and Seaver to name a few. Fergie also played with Harlem Globetrotters.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад

      He lost five games 1-0 in 1968 and still won 20.

  • @richardmorris7063
    @richardmorris7063 3 года назад +14

    I was at this game.a very fast game if I recall.got into traffic & looked to my right & Ernie banks was in the car next to ours.

  • @Alan-lv9rw
    @Alan-lv9rw Год назад +1

    I was 7, living in Downers Grove, IL. Loved the Cubs then and now.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill 11 месяцев назад +4

    This is priceless

  • @j4b4j4b5
    @j4b4j4b5 3 года назад +7

    The '69 Cubs when everything was looking good. Before it wasn't.

  • @blu3collar949
    @blu3collar949 3 года назад +6

    Willie Smith was one of the best power hitters to come off the Cubs bench.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 Год назад

      He should have started. Or Oscar Gamble should have. Don Young? Noooooo!!!!!!!!

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад

      Agree absolutely!! Not only did he not start, but Holland traded him away because he dated white girls. How stupid!!!

  • @shiloh6519
    @shiloh6519 2 года назад +2

    September was brutal as it turned out

  • @herbpetrillo163
    @herbpetrillo163 3 года назад +2

    Love the camera view from behind the catcher and batter.

  • @bcask61
    @bcask61 3 года назад +8

    This is so weird watching a game I probably watched as a 8yo kid in Philly. Two yrs later Rick Wise pitched a no-hitter and hit 2 HRs in the game., Amazing feat never to be duplicated.

    • @Cincinnatus1869
      @Cincinnatus1869 3 года назад

      No hitter against a really strong offense.

  • @ChristianMcBrideTV
    @ChristianMcBrideTV 3 года назад +3

    That opening music! Wow!!

  • @millwrightkadervis
    @millwrightkadervis 9 месяцев назад +1

    Gowdy and Kubek were such a great announcing team.They talked eating fish that Curt caught in Wyoming. In a few years Curt would host a great show called the American Sportsman.

  • @seanhanley9942
    @seanhanley9942 3 года назад +4

    Really awesome! Thanks.

  • @markravitz1684
    @markravitz1684 Год назад +3

    The graphics look ...and we're so simple. Unlike all the distractions all over the TV screen nowadays. Kubek, Gowdy, the Yankees, and the NBC game of the week were staples of my youth
    A hot July day in Chicago. Imagine that!!!Today this would be called global warming

  • @deco983
    @deco983 3 года назад +2

    Awesome! Thanks a lot!

  • @rogerlambert9316
    @rogerlambert9316 9 месяцев назад +1

    As a person who works during daytime, I would be a White Sox fan, if I lived in the Chicago area, because Old White Sox Park had lights, for night games.

  • @spudskie3907
    @spudskie3907 3 года назад +2

    I was just under two months old at the time.
    If only they knew what was coming in just a few weeks. I hope all those that experienced the heartbreak of 1969 felt the tremendous joy of 2016.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 Год назад

      We did, thank you. Unfortunately, our dad did not. He died in 2008 at 84.

  • @adambahe9309
    @adambahe9309 5 месяцев назад +3

    Four days before Apollo 11 took off from Cape Canaveral. Eight days from this broadcast, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.

    • @proudbirther1998
      @proudbirther1998 5 месяцев назад

      I was thinking the same thing when i saw the date.

    • @herbwhite7384
      @herbwhite7384 Месяц назад

      And within days you have Manson and Woodstock. Even the iconic Abby road photo would soon follow.

  • @miketheyunggod2534
    @miketheyunggod2534 3 года назад +18

    Back when America was truly great.

    • @BeeHatGuy
      @BeeHatGuy 3 года назад +2

      We'll get back there again, if we survive the inevitable march towards socialism the ignorant people of today are so determined to achieve.

    • @danholm4952
      @danholm4952 3 года назад

      sure it was

    • @marcschneider4845
      @marcschneider4845 3 года назад

      You mean when we were bombing the shit out of Vietnam?

  • @williamdunphy352
    @williamdunphy352 3 года назад +8

    Commentators:
    Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek.

    • @tb7214
      @tb7214 3 года назад

      Game of the week!

    • @daveallman3981
      @daveallman3981 3 года назад

      I learned the GAME from Curt and Tony, one week at a time!!!!

  • @clydeb7713
    @clydeb7713 3 года назад +9

    When men loved the game more than the money.

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 3 года назад +1

    AFRTS was also the reason why many kinescopes of Johnny Carson's first decade as "Tonight Show" host have been preserved.

  • @DivePlane13
    @DivePlane13 Год назад

    I came here because I was challenged to watch a game from the 60s/70s bc of the pitch clock.
    Pitch clock games FEEL like this. This is great!

  • @leoderosia9279
    @leoderosia9279 3 года назад +4

    Back when baseball and US were king

  • @RRaquello
    @RRaquello 3 года назад +3

    Johnny Briggs of Paterson, New Jersey. I remember back then, whenever the Phillies played the Mets whenever the Met announcers mentioned Johnny Briggs they'd say he was from Paterson, New Jersey, and later, when he was traded to the Brewers and they played the Yankees, the Yankee announcers would say the same thing. I used to think "of Paterson, New Jersey" was part of Johnny Briggs's name. I guess because being from Paterson made him a local product in the New York area they, the New York announcers, would bring it up. Jimmy Qualls in centerfield for the Cubs three days after he broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game.

  • @barrye5376
    @barrye5376 Год назад

    Wow Hisle had his two best years in the AL right before 1979 where he never played that much after that
    After the 1977 season, Hisle became a free agent and signed with the Milwaukee Brewers. In 1978, Hisle turned in another productive year as he hit .290 and finished third in AL MVP voting. His 34 home runs, 115 RBIs and 96 runs scored placed second, third, and fifth in the American League respectively. A torn rotator cuff suffered in 1979 limited Hisle's playing time for the remainder of his career, as he played in only 79 games over his final four seasons before retiring in 1982.

  • @donwert5039
    @donwert5039 3 года назад +4

    Just subscribed. Awesome

  • @michaelward9880
    @michaelward9880 2 месяца назад

    I miss Curt and Tony and Saturday mornings.

  • @orbyfan
    @orbyfan 3 года назад +1

    Mike Ryan was one of several catchers of that era (Dave Duncan and Frank Fernandez also come to mind) who had low batting averages but could hit home runs if they hit the ball at all. Rick Wise hit .270 that year, while Ryan finished at .204. Of course, it didn't occur to manager Bob Skinner to move Wise further up in the lineup.

  • @firebird6522
    @firebird6522 Год назад +2

    Too bad Dave Cash didn't join the Phillies until after Don Money had been traded to the Brewers. Would have been a heck of a profitable double play combo - Cash and Money!

  • @jnjtiger
    @jnjtiger 3 года назад +6

    This was a great Cubs team. Four Hall of Famers. Durocher wore team down keeping regulars in almost every game. Plus, wanted to be center of attention. As you can tell from his interview with Kubek, Leo had already antagonized some Chicago writers. This was not NYC or Boston. Chicago very forgiving of its teams. Mets caught fire based on great pitching, but this Cubs’ starting eight pretty tough to beat. Only issue was centerfield. Hickman the regular right fielder instead of Smith.

    • @robertpalin2161
      @robertpalin2161 2 года назад

      Durocher clearly still carried his New York mentality with him when it came to local sportswriters.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад

      He also went to Regan too many times. Unlike Gil Hodges, who platooned every position player on the Mets and kept them fresh.

    • @daniellinehan63
      @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

      Jimmy won many games for the Cubs in '69-'72 !!

  • @frankmaiorana66
    @frankmaiorana66 3 года назад +3

    Curt Howdy talked about the rough time the Cubs were having. Three nights before the Cubs almost got perfectoed by Tom Seaver of the Mets at Shea Stadium.

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 3 года назад +1

      The now hard-to-find book "The Year the Mets Lost Last Place" by Paul Zimmerman and Dick Schaap is about those two series of July games between the Mets and Cubs, with a Mets-Expos series sandwiched between the others.

    • @64yanks
      @64yanks 2 года назад

      @@orbyfan that was a great book, especially the parts about the bleacher bums chanting at the Mets

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 Год назад

      @@64yanks Fuck the bums. I always sat in right field and would hear them chant, right field stinks before each game. What a bunch of egotistical blowhards, they thought they were part of the team.

  • @proudbirther1998
    @proudbirther1998 5 месяцев назад

    I laughed when Curt G read the legal statement....No portion of this game shall be replayed without the express written consent of MLB. And then came RUclips lolol

  • @leftykoufax7084
    @leftykoufax7084 3 года назад +2

    Great post

  • @jaymorgenthal9479
    @jaymorgenthal9479 3 года назад +5

    1969.. year of the Black Cat at Shea Stadium and the miracle Mets.

    • @raulmacias1311
      @raulmacias1311 3 года назад

      It was also the year of expansion which I loathed and still do!
      Playoffs were now instituted.
      The following mediocre teams joined the leagues -
      The San Diego Padres
      The Montreal Expos
      The Seattle Pilots - This team only lasted one season!
      How embarrassing!
      The Kansas City Royals
      After all these years, these teams continue to play lousy!

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 Год назад

      ​@@raulmacias1311 The Kansas City Royals won World 🌎 Series in 1985 and 2015

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 Год назад

      The Washington Nationals( formerly the Montreal Expos) won the 🌍 World Series in 2019

  • @jeffreyforte
    @jeffreyforte Год назад +1

    What’s really interesting is comparing the Cubs’ hitters production when this game was played (July12) to the end of the season.
    2 1/2 months later and very little production from the Cub hitters. Blame Leo. Never rested his players and they became worn out. In comparison, Gil Hodges kept his guys fresh by platooning them.

    • @daniellinehan63
      @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

      Leo hated the young guys like Joe Niekro, Oscar Gamble and Adolpho Phiilllips

  • @jamesthomas7405
    @jamesthomas7405 2 года назад +2

    I wonder if there are more nbc baseball game of game of the week from this time period?

  • @luckybestwash
    @luckybestwash 5 месяцев назад

    That change up by Jenkins at 23:37 absolutely filthy

  • @BaseballCFG
    @BaseballCFG Год назад +1

    Durocher's biography is one of the best baseball books you could read. Durocher is the Forrest Gump of baseball history.

    • @buddmannable
      @buddmannable 10 месяцев назад

      yes and no......I also read Leo's book and it is entertaining.......however in the many years since the book was published it has come out that many of Leo's stories were either exaggerated, greatly embellished, or just plain false. Among other things, he was not near as close to Sinatra as he claimed.

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад

      Except for his personality .

  • @ErnestTeeBass
    @ErnestTeeBass Год назад +2

    Anybody else see baseball cards in their mind’s eye when hearing the names of these players?

  • @thunderock1625
    @thunderock1625 2 года назад +1

    It's hard to believe now, but back then the Cubs weren't the favorites of the baseball world like they are now. Very few people outside of Chicagoland loved those "big, bad, mean Chicago Cubs." The Mets were viewed as Snoopy and the peanuts gang, while the Cubs were viewed as Charles Manson and the hells Angels. Ron Santo, worshiped by millions in Chicagoland was a hated villain thruout the rest of the league, while Leo Durocher, bore the wrath and grudges of the umpires.

    • @daniellinehan63
      @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

      Leo hated by fans, umps, opposing players, the Press

  • @normanfrazin9851
    @normanfrazin9851 3 года назад +6

    $1 for general admission for under 13 $1.50 for an adult.

    • @unclebobunclebob
      @unclebobunclebob 3 года назад

      Nope...$1 for everyone in 1969. At least in the bleachers.

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 3 года назад

      $1 gen admission at old Yankee Stadium. With 67,000 seats, lots of choices.

  • @TheBatugan77
    @TheBatugan77 3 года назад +3

    Cubs have no idea of the trails of tears that lay ahead.

    • @timdailey2690
      @timdailey2690 3 года назад

      “It ain’t over until it’s over” -Yogi Berra

    • @oldtimer794
      @oldtimer794 8 месяцев назад

      Yogi. 1969 coach on the Mets.@@timdailey2690

  • @sedonasky2803
    @sedonasky2803 3 года назад +2

    Do you have any more WGN broadcasts of Cubs or Sox games from 50s, 60s or 70s in your old VHS collection? Or in any form, really.

  • @frankjenny6332
    @frankjenny6332 11 месяцев назад

    On July 12, 1969, they didn't even mention the New York Mets when discussing the pennant race.

  • @scottheath6401
    @scottheath6401 5 месяцев назад

    When the only ones in a baseball uniform where the guys on the field

  • @cheddarcheese7928
    @cheddarcheese7928 Год назад +1

    So different from today..Rick Wise gave up 6 runs in 3 innings and he stayed in the game..Even I would’ve yanked him..Although it wasent all his fault with those errors

  • @williamdunphy352
    @williamdunphy352 3 года назад +3

    Umpires
    HP Ed Sudol
    1B Lee Weyer
    2B Harry Wendelstedt
    3B Ken Burkhart (Crew Chief)

  • @blu3collar949
    @blu3collar949 3 года назад +2

    Back in the day, all a relief pitcher had to do was get the last out to get a save. Fergie use to be a work horse. He use to finish what he started most of the time. The starters in today's game are lucky to go 6 innings or 100 pitches.

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 3 года назад

      Yes, a "quality start" meant a complete game.

    • @deepcosmiclove
      @deepcosmiclove 9 месяцев назад

      Actually it was more difficult to get a save in those days. You actually had to face the tying run.

  • @aa697
    @aa697 Год назад

    Great stuff!!!

  • @historicradiotelevision-bi2861
    @historicradiotelevision-bi2861 9 месяцев назад

    Why would NBC make a kine of a middle of the season, regular game? Glad they did though.

  • @TomandAmyinthePI
    @TomandAmyinthePI 9 месяцев назад

    in the pregame interview Leo says I'd rather have a losing streak now (July) then in September....Ha! Little did He know they would tank in September and the Mets caught fire at the same time- I was a serious Cub fan and this was the first Choke year in my life for the flubs....lol later chokes for the Cubs was '84 and '89 and of course the 2003 year

  • @moboutmen
    @moboutmen Год назад +1

    Leo the Lip. Gotta love him.

  • @raulmacias5735
    @raulmacias5735 2 года назад +3

    Just look at those stirrups, black shoes and freshly shaven men!
    No sissy batting gloves!
    I was born on August 28,1957 and was blessed to live through the most interesting era in Major League Baseball, the Sixties!
    Sadly, 1969 was the year both leagues expanded and introduced Divisional play! Ugh!
    The crappy teams that joined the Leagues were ~
    National League~
    The Montreal Expos
    The San Diego Padres
    American League ~
    The Seattle Pilots
    The Kansas City Royals
    Another disaster was introduced into the American League in 1973 - the Designated Hitter! Ugh!
    Sadly, Dick Allen isn't in this game!
    Allen was fined $2,500 and suspended indefinitely when he failed to report to a twi-night double-header against The New York Mets.
    Allen has gone to New Jersey to see a horse and got caught in traffic and couldn't make it to the game.
    Allen hated the name "Richie" which was foisted on him by the Philadelphia media. Dick Allen believed that "Richie" was a little boy's name!
    Dick Allen hit a home run off Sandy Koufax at Dodger Stadium on a night damp air game on July 27,1966 which he rocketed into the left field bullpen! It was quite a feat which proved how strong Allen truly was!
    Dick Allen deserves to be in the Major League Hall Of Fame!
    He was an explosive but sadly controversial player which may have hindered his induction!
    Dick Allen's trade to the St. Louis Cardinals, after the 1969 season, for Curt Flood set into motion Curt Flood's challenge of Major League Baseball's "Reserve Clause" which sadly Curt Flood eventually lost.
    Curt Flood's challenge did eventually bring "Free Agency" to the game though.

  • @roncaruso931
    @roncaruso931 3 месяца назад

    Was Richie Allen still with the Phillies in 1969?

  • @calvinpadgett8738
    @calvinpadgett8738 3 года назад +2

    It's "Kubek"

  • @Rayburn58
    @Rayburn58 Год назад

    where were Dick Allen and Johnny Callison?

  • @8avexp
    @8avexp 3 года назад +2

    The Mets were rained out that day in New York. They were in second place and lost a half game in the standings.

  • @FatBichon
    @FatBichon 3 года назад +1

    If it wasn’t for Qualls, we wouldn’t have been waiting all the way until 2012 for Santana to pitch the first ever NO HITTER for the METS

    • @jaymorgenthal9479
      @jaymorgenthal9479 3 года назад

      I was at both games.

    • @robertpalin2161
      @robertpalin2161 2 года назад

      Also, if it weren't the official scorer giving a hit to the batter when the shortstop couldn't get the ball out of his glove in 1985, Dwight Gooden would have had a no hitter.

  • @timdailey2690
    @timdailey2690 2 года назад

    Billy Williams’ 909th consecutive game.

  • @liduck52
    @liduck52 7 месяцев назад

    Three days after the Tom Seaver near perfect game.

  • @ericgoldfarb4870
    @ericgoldfarb4870 11 месяцев назад

    1969 nl east pennant race July. No mention of mets as a contenders.

  • @daniellinehan63
    @daniellinehan63 4 месяца назад

    Whatta season ! Kenny's no no came Aug.19th, up by 9 over the Mutz.Then...........

  • @jonnydanger7181
    @jonnydanger7181 3 года назад +3

    Some players without batting helmets

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 3 года назад

      They became mandatory a couple of years later, grandfathered in for players who still didn't wear one.

    • @drewfullam8873
      @drewfullam8873 3 года назад

      Those hats had liners for protection. Tony Taylor always wore that helmet hat.

  • @Phightins
    @Phightins 16 дней назад

    Fightins were fuckin up the Cubs back then too😂🙏🏻

  • @brendalane9221
    @brendalane9221 3 года назад +4

    When baseball was true baseball...not with all the PED junk that came later.

  • @robertpalin2161
    @robertpalin2161 2 года назад +1

    46:15 now I want trout for breakfast

  • @williamdunphy352
    @williamdunphy352 2 года назад

    Pat Pieper on the public address.

  • @buddmannable
    @buddmannable Год назад

    No baskets yet....Many folks may not know the real reason why the Cubs installed baskets on top of the outfield walls. It was because too many of the original Bleacher Bums were getting drunk and falling on to the field. True Story