What's sad is 23 days after he started this All-Star Game, J.R.Richard on July 30,1980 had a stroke, ending his career. He was a unbelievably good pitcher. Deceptive stuff, and a wicked fastball. Sadly he just passed away last year, in 2021. RIP J.R.Richard🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏☮🕊🙏☮ Before anyone comments anything about him please remember 🙏 this man's family just lost a wonderful person and a exceptional player.
Big J.R. Richard was a sensational pitcher. Was as dominant as they come before he got the tragic stroke. Was on his way to the Hall of Fame! One of the best pitchers in the late 1970s !
Houston royally screwed J.R. Richard in 1980. If they had actually treated his injury concerns as legitimate he might have recovered. He was only dealing with thoracic outlet syndrome and not getting proper treatment turned into a debilitating stroke.
I was a kid in the 70's. I got to see ALL of these players at County Stadium 🏟 in Milwaukee. The Brewers were my favorite team! Still are. Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Cecil Cooper, and MY FAVORITE BREWERS Mike Caldwell. But the teams they played in the AL during the 70's and 80's? WOW! The 1978 Yankees were sick. Ron Guidry deserved the Cy-Young Award. 25-3 1.74 ERA. Getting to watch Jim Palmer, Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry, Carl Yaztremski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Jack Morris, and so many more! Even Reggie Jackson. It was a beautiful time to be a kid!
Howard cosell knew alot about sports, but he lost alot of friends in the broadcasting business because he criticize them love his voice, i miss the old broadcasting crew
He only pitched one more major league game, 6 days later (July 14), going 3.1 innings and giving up 0 runs and 1 hit before leaving the game, complaining of arm weakness. He went on the disabled list, and suffered a stroke on July 30. He had a near-complete recovery, but the risk of complications ensured he'd never pitch in the majors again.
It's very strange that the two starting third baseman who were voted starters on the 1980 All-Star Game both Mike Schmidt of the Phillies and George Brett of the Royals both missed the game due to injury would go on to win the MVP of their respective leagues and would face each other in the World Series in October.
@@Rockhound6165 I'm for KC. Brett once said the best thing to ever happen to him was the "Pine Tar Incident." He became known for that instead of hemorrhoids.
Great times to watch baseball, this is around the time i was heavily into collecting cards as a kid, would say Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson were as big as stars as anyone in any sport, minus Ali, its just not that way with baseball anymore. Big market teams like the Yankees, Phillies and Dodgers were consistently good, but many of the other model franchises when i was a kid are what we would consider small market teams now, like the Reds, Brewers, Royals and Pirates, just great times growing up as a kid in this era
Don't forget the Astros who were perennial contenders as well as the Orioles. Then a couple of years later the Braves were contenders. Definitely a different time.
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 kind of like now right ? High gas prices, being held hostage by a president who cant walk up stairs or count his nuts and come up with the same number twice.
All my childhood heroes here. I forgot about Ken Reitz. It's also funny to see some guys with their former teams before you knew them better-Winfield as a Padre, for example, though I knew him more as a Yankee (did the teams switch Nettles for Winfield?). Or Landreaux before he came to L.A. I could watch Rod Carew all day-just a pure example of batting grace and hitting strategy.
Speaking as a Phillies fan, I seriously doubt the Phils beat Houston had Richard not suffered his stroke. What an overpowering pitcher he was. And think about that pitching staff with Richard, Ryan, and Joe Niekro. 2 flamethrowers then a knuckleballer.
Studa Baker And if Richard was healthy he and Nolan Ryan would probably start games 1 and 3 and have Joe Niekro in the middle with the knuckleball. A flame thrower a knuckleballer and a flame thrower could mess up a hitters timing.
News crawls were used occasionally for years, mostly by local stations, if there was a story that was 'important, but not enough to break in to a show'. CNN started doing them during the first Gulf War, and for other really major stories. Then, on 9/11, everyone used them, and they've never gone away.
Lynn missed the previous five games and then started the all star game??? Would that happen in today's game? Also shot of former president Ford smoking a pipe cracked me up
The first time a jumbotron was used. It's actually called a Diamond Vision from Mitsubishi Electric because the first jumbotron wasn't until 1985 at the Worlds Fair in Tsukuba, Japan. This big screen TV was 5 years before and looked fantastic ❤❤❤
Wow, 44 years ago, how time flies! So many of these greats are no longer with us. Looking back, the 80s was so different, so much better! For the love of God, please bring back MLB to ABC, NBC, or even CBS- Anything but FOX & Joe Buck, it's run its course
unfortunately interleague play pretty much diluted the All-Star Game (World Series too). One of the things that made baseball unique from the other sports were the distinctiveness among the leagues. The DH, league rotation where the All Star Game and Game 1 of the World Series was held, even the Home run derby competed by leagues. Add the Brewers and Astros switching leagues too. Not with universal DH coming soon, it will be the end of this.
Richard wasn't the only one who would suffer a bad break after the 1980 ASG. Graig Nettles would soon contract hepatitis and miss the rest of the regular season. He was able to return for the playoffs vs Kansas City.
The "dead arm" feeling JR had was a sign of things to come not too long after this, as they found a clogged neck artery that caused a collapse about 3 weeks after this game. After that, he never pitched in a game again. He tried to come back but his stroke affected his timing and vision.
Los jugadores se ven bien delgados y en forma, nada de esteroides, ni grasa.lean muscle. En esa época no cualquiera bateaba un home run. Murphy deberia estar en hof
Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell...no announcers today even come close. Many people didn't like Cosell but he made it interesting. Keith Jackson was simply the gold standard for announcers. Don Drysdale was great as well. RIP to all three. Joe Buck sucks and is a clown in comparison.
Having a great list of legendary announcers in one broadcast is very classic. Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, Al Michaels, Don Drysdale and Bob Uaeker. An "A" list of legendary announcers.
Most people associate Keith Jackson with college football. But he was a surprisingly good baseball announcer. He and Curt Gowdy were my two favorites. They were both born to broadcast sports!
This would be the only ASG at Dodger Stadium. Whenever it comes to SoCal, it will go to Anaheim or SD. Lodging prices are higher in LA, especially in the summer. It's a hassle especially in the summer months, plus LA is a prime summer destination spot, making accomodations ever so difficult. Anaheim and SD is easier for the players, media, etc.
I don't think lodging prices are a concern since ASG tickets cost considerably higher than regular season games anyways. Plus, Dodger Stadium has a higher capacity than Petco or Anaheim. It's more about playing in stadiums that are due or relatively new. That's why we just had this year's game in Miami, next year's in DC, and probably in Minneapolis (Target Field) and Atlanta (new stadium) before long. Then probably during the 2020s, when relatively few new stadiums will have been built, a return to the classic stadiums, including Dodger Stadium.
Notice at 1:41, it says that, between 1950-62, the record is 5 and 11. Sixteen all star games in twelve years? Moreover, Keith said this was the 51st game - in 1980. 1980 minus 1933 equals 47! I just answered my own question. During a four year stretch in the late 50's, they had two all star games per season.
I just came across a copy of this broadcast (likely from the Albany, NY area) but unfortunately the recorder ZAPPED virtually all the commercials out of the game, not only ruining the "complete" TV experience, but resulting in some brief loss of coverage coming out of the various breaks. It's a shame as the quality was very good for 1980, and something similar happened with another tape that contained Super Bowl XIV in terms of zapping out commercials (also played in the LA area). It's also a shame as there was more than enough room at the end of the tape to leave them in, and whoever recorded it could have just relaxed, enjoyed the game, and press fast forward when watching if they didn't like them. It's so ironic because I'm sure if you played that LA Rams/Steelers game, viewers would say "Why didn't you like the commercials? They're some of the best of the year?" It's also a shame as there was also the Red Sox-Yankees 1978 AL East playoff game (AKA Game 163) in there that was also zapped. Still, a nice game back when baseball cards were only made from Topps, ESPN was in its infancy airing third-rate sports, and Cal Ripken, Jr. was just a farm prospect.
You have to realize that the cost of a video tape back then was very very high (about $20...adjusted for inflation that’s about $60) Also the video tape machines of that era did not allow six hour recording times on a single tape. 4 hours was the max in most cases. In a three or four hour sports program it was very important not to have to use a second tape. Since you didn’t know if it was going to go into extra innings cutting commercials was really the only way to make sure that you could fit it all on one tape. Whoever taped this included all of the pregame festivities which adds even more time. I would’ve done the exact same thing.
@@KardiFan2000 what are you talking about .look at his rookie year photos then his last 3 years photos.he goes from 150 pounds to 200 pounds.and all cut....your a idiot
@@randyjohnson6845 Guess what genius, everyone naturally gains weight between the ages of 20 to 40. Lol. Like I said before, Rickey was an All-American running back in high school who preferred football over baseball, until his mother convinced him otherwise. When he got to MLB, he continued doing football workouts, which explains his super-cut physique.
JR Richard facts...he finished in 1980 at 10-4 and never and I repeat never pitched in the majors again...both starters were done so quickly after the 1980 season...it's just unbelievable...JR the five previous years won 18 for 4 years and 20 the 5th year and then gone...something is going on
Rod Carew's at-bat in the 1st inning shows why J.R. Richard had, at age 29--with only two weeks remaining in his MLB career yet already holding the Astros' career strikeout record--yet to reach his full potential. Alongside his tremendous strikeout totals (first NL righthander to K 300 in a season) he was perennially among the tops, and usually the NL's leader, in both walks & wild pitches allowed. If you had a good batting eye, which Carew had in spades, Richard would give you a base per game. This is usually not a crushing issue when you strike out a dozen during that game, as J.R. often did, but control was J.R.'s prominent flaw. Richard seemed to be getting this part of his game into somewhat better shape during 1979 & 1980 (very bad news for NL hitters) before he was tragically afflicted.
Loved how during the player introductions, the announcers say, "This guy, Ken Griffey of the Reds, will likely be MVP of this All Star Game. He's probably going to hit a home run off of Tommy John. And he'll probably utter a quote for the ages during the post-game like, 'The guys and I decided to just go out and play baseball tonight instead of doing our famous impression of the Radio City Rockettes!'" And how about that Bowie Kuhn, huh? You wanna talk about magnetism! You wanna talk about 'Mr. Excitement'? That guy has "electrifying" just drippimg off of him! And back to Griffey, when the announcers said, "Yeah this Griffey guy is good. But he's got this 10-year-old kid who smacked a wiffle ball so hard it traveled from home plate at Dodger Stadium all the way until it ga-schmacked off of the Hollywood sign. This kid has some power!" What a ballgame! Oh and when the announcers wrapped up by saying, "Yeah, the Phillies are probably going to win this year's World Series over the Royals in six games," how coud they have said anything else?
I think, I may be wrong, but I remember listening to Vin SCULLY call this on the radio. I stayed home from school to watch it because it was at Dodger stadium and had so many Dodgers starting. I’m pretty sure half way thru, I turned tv down and listened to am570? For at least last three innings. 14 years old!
J Ru Peroit: Thank you! I was pretty sure I tuned it in on my parents great big stereo, record player, and yes!! Am/fm. What a great time to be alive!!
Wow! This completely threw me. Forwarded to see the National League starting lineup. Where the heck is Mike Schmidt? Especially 1980 of all years. I have to go see what happened. Went and looked it up. He leads the league with 48 home runs and 121 RBI's and he's a reserve? He must have been hurt or something.
Schmidt sat out the game for an elected NL starter at 3rd. Same went for George Brett as well to sat out the game for the AL for an elected starter at 3rd. Ironic as it was for both to win MVP from their respective side of the league, not to mention facing one another for the World Series same year.
Howard ripping on Davy Lopez... is not appreciated... "he's hitting .236..." he points out.... Lopez was a great player for a great organization at the top..
Trumpenstein: Get a life and go away. When you grow up and move from mommy and her basement, you can have big people discussions. Try hard. You may do it one day. Jesus loves you.
With the current Player’s Lockout in Major League Baseball. Could the City of Los Angeles be screwed out of another All-Star this year? Originally they were have supposed to have hosted the 2020 All-Star Game, which never occurred because of COVID-19 which cut the season down to 60 games. Because of that, Major League Baseball decided to give the 2022 All-Star Game to Dodger Stadium, which will be upcoming(Comment posted in 2021). The question is: How long will this Player’s Lockout go on until everything will be resolved and we can go back to playing Baseball? Could it be resolved before The All-Star Break?
Ricardo Moreno Make it, 2022. With this Corona Virus, The 2020 Baseball Season will being in Late July canceling The All Star Game, so MLB gave Dodger Stadium the 2022 All Star Game.
Steve stone facts...in 1980 he finished 25-7 in 1981 he finished 4-7 and was done in baseball...his 25 wins in 1980 was almost double his next best year in the majors and he played 11 years...that is very unusual..in the steroids Era that could be explained...I was just over 16 years old during this game and in my high-school they were just started to take steriods...I'll bet that Ricky Henderson and Reggie Jackson took steroids before they became common
When All Star Games were fun and exciting, Now I cannot get through ONE inning they are so boring. And the "experts" that thought it would add something to the game by having the players all wear the same dull uniforms.
Theres no doubt that Ricky Henderson took steroids...hes about 160 to 170 pounds in this game...then in several years hes 215 pounds and played forever
Cosell throwing shade at Lopes, talking about how Davey *would* want to continue the fan vote - and then quietly dropping that Lopes is hitting .236, before changing the subject. 😂
Ha, it was funny, when it first started in black and white, and Keith Jackson was talking with a real old-timey affectation for some reason, and I'm like, "Is this mislabeled? Is it 1950, not 1980?"
I'm curious about the comment on Nettles losing his glove from the 1979 ASG? I have read that he got snubbed by Rawlings for continuing his endorsement deal during the 1978 WS and went to Louisville Slugger mitts thereafter; could that be what they are referring to? Or did someone actually steal his six-year-old gamer?
@@bobheck7303 Thank you. Yes, I kinda love if he did that, especially in the sequence it may have happened - Fwiw, the story about Rawlings is here: vault.si.com/vault/1990/05/07/glove-story You can see pretty clearly in this 1980 ASG video that his glove has a dark rectangular brand patch along the base of the thumb, which would suggest a LS of that era, vs. the circular patch of a Rawlings seen in most photos of him ca. 1970-78.
What's sad is 23 days after he started this All-Star Game, J.R.Richard on July 30,1980 had a stroke, ending his career. He was a unbelievably good pitcher. Deceptive stuff, and a wicked fastball. Sadly he just passed away last year, in 2021. RIP J.R.Richard🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏☮🕊🙏☮
Before anyone comments anything about him please remember 🙏 this man's family just lost a wonderful person and a exceptional player.
RIP
(why would anybody want to disrespect the big man?)
What he went through is an absolute tragedy.
And the Astros lost to the Phillies in the LCS by only a hair...
j.r. richard 100 mph fastball
J.R Richard's was a great player but a greater human being. God bless 🙌 🙏 always
I was there with my brother. 42 years goes by like a blink of an eye.
Yeah it does!
I was there…a little kid, now an older man.
I remember watching this on TV as a kid. I hadn’t heard of the All-Star game before.
ummm. ..NO it doesn't .....i don't get why people say this when they get old ...it goes by in a blink when u die young ....
What a team of broadcasters!!! Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and the Keith Jackson. It doesn’t get any better then that.
Big J.R. Richard was a sensational pitcher. Was as dominant as they come before he got the tragic stroke. Was on his way to the Hall of Fame! One of the best pitchers in the late 1970s !
Houston royally screwed J.R. Richard in 1980. If they had actually treated his injury concerns as legitimate he might have recovered. He was only dealing with thoracic outlet syndrome and not getting proper treatment turned into a debilitating stroke.
I was a kid in the 70's. I got to see ALL of these players at County Stadium 🏟 in Milwaukee. The Brewers were my favorite team! Still are. Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Cecil Cooper, and MY FAVORITE BREWERS Mike Caldwell. But the teams they played in the AL during the 70's and 80's? WOW! The 1978 Yankees were sick. Ron Guidry deserved the Cy-Young Award. 25-3 1.74 ERA. Getting to watch Jim Palmer, Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry, Carl Yaztremski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Jack Morris, and so many more! Even Reggie Jackson. It was a beautiful time to be a kid!
LOVE HOWARD COSELL...
HIS VOICE JUST REMINDS ME OF MY CHILDHOOD DAYS.. .HE HAD A GREAT VOICE FOR SPORTS...
Same here. Love him or hate him, when you were watching an event with Cosell, you know it was a big event. I loved both Cosell and Keith Jackson.
Howard cosell knew alot about sports, but he lost alot of friends in the broadcasting business because he criticize them love his voice, i miss the old broadcasting crew
Loved him announcing prize fights. Holmes-Cooney was great!
@@lloydkline6946 athletes are so thin skin today.
athletes were@@jonnydanger7181 steroid free in the oldy days
This game meant so much back then. We all looked so forward to it.
JR Richard was a beast! Too bad his career was cut short.
Cocaine is even a bigger beast.
He only pitched one more major league game, 6 days later (July 14), going 3.1 innings and giving up 0 runs and 1 hit before leaving the game, complaining of arm weakness. He went on the disabled list, and suffered a stroke on July 30. He had a near-complete recovery, but the risk of complications ensured he'd never pitch in the majors again.
If JR were healthy in the 1980 NLCS Astros would’ve beaten Philadelphia!
@@VolumedMusicMan as a Phillies fan I tend to agree.
@Conway Twitty I can guarantee you he had J.R. Richard confused with Dwight Gooden.
Thanks for posting this. I loved seeing J.R. Richard. I originally saw this game on a little old black-and-white TV set at a friend's house. RIP JR,
It's very strange that the two starting third baseman who were voted starters on the 1980 All-Star Game both Mike Schmidt of the Phillies and George Brett of the Royals both missed the game due to injury would go on to win the MVP of their respective leagues and would face each other in the World Series in October.
Where Brett would get another kind of injury that would literally be the butt of jokes.
@@Rockhound6165 I'm for KC. Brett once said the best thing to ever happen to him was the "Pine Tar Incident." He became known for that instead of hemorrhoids.
@@charlesantill5838 And now he’s best known for his I shit my pants story.
@@jasonrfoss248 never heard of it
@@coreydempsey4660 Look on RUclips for George Brett Las Vegas and I’m sure it will come up.
So awesome to see Kenny Reitz starting at 3rd base.
1980 🌈 I was 17 and it was a wonderful time to have been young 🦋
Thought the same. I'm happy to be 55 because the world is crazy and hypersensitive now...
This was when watching baseball was fun.
Not anymore; not close.....
Great times to watch baseball, this is around the time i was heavily into collecting cards as a kid, would say Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson were as big as stars as anyone in any sport, minus Ali, its just not that way with baseball anymore. Big market teams like the Yankees, Phillies and Dodgers were consistently good, but many of the other model franchises when i was a kid are what we would consider small market teams now, like the Reds, Brewers, Royals and Pirates, just great times growing up as a kid in this era
Don't forget the Astros who were perennial contenders as well as the Orioles. Then a couple of years later the Braves were contenders. Definitely a different time.
What if Houston had a healthy JR Ruchards in Game 5 in the Astrodome (snakepit)????
@@Rockhound6165 yup, i remember the Stros and Dodgers battling back in the day
Teams have up and down years. That one dude mentioned the Astros of the past and forgot to mention they’re perennial contenders now!
My arm hurts just watching JR Richard throw. The announcer even talks about his dead forearm that JR was having. What a tragedy 😢
When America and baseball was great.
I bet people back then complained about how things were. Sure felt like we had a lot of gripes.
Lol, 1980 was one of the worst years in America's history
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 If you were a Libtard it was.
@@cdub531 I guess you're right. Libtards hate high gas prices, double digit inflation, and a 444 day hostage crisis
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 kind of like now right ? High gas prices, being held hostage by a president who cant walk up stairs or count his nuts and come up with the same number twice.
All my childhood heroes here. I forgot about Ken Reitz. It's also funny to see some guys with their former teams before you knew them better-Winfield as a Padre, for example, though I knew him more as a Yankee (did the teams switch Nettles for Winfield?). Or Landreaux before he came to L.A. I could watch Rod Carew all day-just a pure example of batting grace and hitting strategy.
No, Winfield joined the Yankees in 1981 and was teammates with Nettles until the latter was traded to San Diego in 1984.
December 1980 Windfield signed with Yankees as FA. Nettles was traded to the Padres in March 1984 for Dennis Rasmussen 😀
JR Richard up to 101 mph to go along with the 94 mph slider. The 3-1 pitch to Jackson was ridiculous.
Reggie had no chance 😂😨
Speaking as a Phillies fan, I seriously doubt the Phils beat Houston had Richard not suffered his stroke. What an overpowering pitcher he was. And think about that pitching staff with Richard, Ryan, and Joe Niekro. 2 flamethrowers then a knuckleballer.
Studa Baker And if Richard was healthy he and Nolan Ryan would probably start games 1 and 3 and have Joe Niekro in the middle with the knuckleball. A flame thrower a knuckleballer and a flame thrower could mess up a hitters timing.
JR Richards prior to his stroke was the most dominant pitcher in the game.
Nolan Ryan threw even harder than JR..
Johnson, true but I was talking about how Dominant JR was.
How about facing both of them in back to back days.
@@davidtester3239 So Very True.
Thanks, Classic MLB1, for posting this video! Interesting is the news crawl at the bottom of the screen. I didn't know that was around in 1980!!!!
News crawls were used occasionally for years, mostly by local stations, if there was a story that was 'important, but not enough to break in to a show'. CNN started doing them during the first Gulf War, and for other really major stories. Then, on 9/11, everyone used them, and they've never gone away.
I have always loved watching these all star games, but really get a kick out of the introductions.
14:11 Phil Garner wanted the whole world to know he was high on blow.
No joke. This was 1980 the apex of the post disco cocaine era. This is when Richard Pryor almost killed himself freebasing.
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE ALL-STAR GAME AT DODGER STADIUM YESTERDAY :( :( :(
Travesty of reality!:'''(
Pray for 2022
Damn you COVID-19.
sorry mate, Im from Atlanta but stuck in Vietnam during Covid! Can't leave likely until next year... Go Dodger Blue!
IT'S IN JULY NOT June......
That 90 mph JR slider to Reggie for strike 2..........DAMN!
Fred Lynn was one of the best when healthy. He always injured.
It seemed to me Jim Rice was always injured :-)
Lynn missed the previous five games and then started the all star game??? Would that happen in today's game? Also shot of former president Ford smoking a pipe cracked me up
Always hurt like, Aaron Judge 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
@Trumpenstein In 1990
Lynn gave 100% every play...dove for every ball...crashed into fences if necessary.
The first time a jumbotron was used. It's actually called a Diamond Vision from Mitsubishi Electric because the first jumbotron wasn't until 1985 at the Worlds Fair in Tsukuba, Japan. This big screen TV was 5 years before and looked fantastic ❤❤❤
You know you're old school when after a few seconds on this video, the 'tracking' needed to be sorted out on the VHS.
Umpires (23:25)
HP John Kibler (NL) (Crew Chief) (3rd)
1B Larry Barnett (AL) (2nd)
2B Nick Colosi (NL) (2nd)
3B Jim McKean (AL) (1st)
LF Jerry Dale (NL) (2nd)
RF Rich Garcia (AL) (1st)
Wow, 44 years ago, how time flies! So many of these greats are no longer with us. Looking back, the 80s was so different, so much better! For the love of God, please bring back MLB to ABC, NBC, or even CBS- Anything but FOX & Joe Buck, it's run its course
they don't introduce the players like they used to.
Back when players actually cared about winning an all star game for bragging rights that their league was best.
Yep! No breaking out a phone for a selfie! Granted, we didn’t have those kinds of phones then, but my point is still valid.
unfortunately interleague play pretty much diluted the All-Star Game (World Series too). One of the things that made baseball unique from the other sports were the distinctiveness among the leagues. The DH, league rotation where the All Star Game and Game 1 of the World Series was held, even the Home run derby competed by leagues. Add the Brewers and Astros switching leagues too. Not with universal DH coming soon, it will be the end of this.
6 days later he would pitch his last game in the majors, and just 22 days after this game, JR Richard would have the stroke that would end his career.
Within the first several minutes - Keith Jackson AND Howard Cosell are you kidding me.... I can smell my childhood through the screen!!! Ahhh.
I was 11 years old in 1980. I remember watching this game…
Richard wasn't the only one who would suffer a bad break after the 1980 ASG. Graig Nettles would soon contract hepatitis and miss the rest of the regular season. He was able to return for the playoffs vs Kansas City.
omg JR Richard was 6'8 1/2" tall!!!! He had a short temper, too. Definitely intimidating
The "dead arm" feeling JR had was a sign of things to come not too long after this, as they found a clogged neck artery that caused a collapse about 3 weeks after this game. After that, he never pitched in a game again. He tried to come back but his stroke affected his timing and vision.
@@jonnuanez2843 excellent info, thank you
Los jugadores se ven bien delgados y en forma, nada de esteroides, ni grasa.lean muscle.
En esa época no cualquiera bateaba un home run. Murphy deberia estar en hof
Callatec trumpenberg
Pace of the game is amazingly normal compared to todays standards. Average here is about 10 seconds between pitches. what's it now ? like 20-30 ?
Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell...no announcers today even come close. Many people didn't like Cosell but he made it interesting. Keith Jackson was simply the gold standard for announcers. Don Drysdale was great as well. RIP to all three. Joe Buck sucks and is a clown in comparison.
Having a great list of legendary announcers in one broadcast is very classic. Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, Al Michaels, Don Drysdale and Bob Uaeker. An "A" list of legendary announcers.
Cosell = douchebag
Don Drysdale was a fantastic announcer; very interesting and genuine. Lost him too early.
Most people associate Keith Jackson with college football. But he was a surprisingly good baseball announcer. He and Curt Gowdy were my two favorites. They were both born to broadcast sports!
This would be the only ASG at Dodger Stadium. Whenever it comes to SoCal, it will go to Anaheim or SD. Lodging prices are higher in LA, especially in the summer. It's a hassle especially in the summer months, plus LA is a prime summer destination spot, making accomodations ever so difficult. Anaheim and SD is easier for the players, media, etc.
I don't think lodging prices are a concern since ASG tickets cost considerably higher than regular season games anyways. Plus, Dodger Stadium has a higher capacity than Petco or Anaheim. It's more about playing in stadiums that are due or relatively new. That's why we just had this year's game in Miami, next year's in DC, and probably in Minneapolis (Target Field) and Atlanta (new stadium) before long. Then probably during the 2020s, when relatively few new stadiums will have been built, a return to the classic stadiums, including Dodger Stadium.
Watching the 2022 All-Star game at Dodger Stadium 7-19-22
Notice at 1:41, it says that, between 1950-62, the record is 5 and 11. Sixteen all star games in twelve years? Moreover, Keith said this was the 51st game - in 1980. 1980 minus 1933 equals 47!
I just answered my own question. During a four year stretch in the late 50's, they had two all star games per season.
Dodger Stadium will host the 2020 All-Star Game!
@darrell mfume Yes.
Richard Morgan
YOU’RE KIDDING! You mean after 40 years, Dodger Stadium will finally get An All-Star Game?
Make that 2022 now with the '20 ASG canceled.
Dodger Stadium WOULD have hosted this year's All Star Game. But now they will have to wait until 2022.
Not no more
I just came across a copy of this broadcast (likely from the Albany, NY area) but unfortunately the recorder ZAPPED virtually all the commercials out of the game, not only ruining the "complete" TV experience, but resulting in some brief loss of coverage coming out of the various breaks. It's a shame as the quality was very good for 1980, and something similar happened with another tape that contained Super Bowl XIV in terms of zapping out commercials (also played in the LA area). It's also a shame as there was more than enough room at the end of the tape to leave them in, and whoever recorded it could have just relaxed, enjoyed the game, and press fast forward when watching if they didn't like them. It's so ironic because I'm sure if you played that LA Rams/Steelers game, viewers would say "Why didn't you like the commercials? They're some of the best of the year?" It's also a shame as there was also the Red Sox-Yankees 1978 AL East playoff game (AKA Game 163) in there that was also zapped. Still, a nice game back when baseball cards were only made from Topps, ESPN was in its infancy airing third-rate sports, and Cal Ripken, Jr. was just a farm prospect.
Yeah, I like it when the commercials are in too, exactly for the same reason. You can experience it as it happened.
You have to realize that the cost of a video tape back then was very very high (about $20...adjusted for inflation that’s about $60) Also the video tape machines of that era did not allow six hour recording times on a single tape. 4 hours was the max in most cases.
In a three or four hour sports program it was very important not to have to use a second tape. Since you didn’t know if it was going to go into extra innings cutting commercials was really the only way to make sure that you could fit it all on one tape. Whoever taped this included all of the pregame festivities which adds even more time. I would’ve done the exact same thing.
Cosell at 1:23:00 "...this guy epitomizes it, in the way that Eddie Stankey once did...." damn.
Love the dodgers PA Announcer John Ramsey!!!
Indeed! He also was PA announcer for Rams, Lakers, USC football games and more.
J.R. Richard RIP
MLB needs to go back to having the players where their own team uniforms instead of everyone wearing the same thing looking like a softball team.
Exactly!!
Ah, the first MLB All-Star Game since "O Canada" became the official national anthem of Canada.
I was geeked seeing Rickey Henderson play in Dodger Stadium that year.
Was you geeked on how obvious it is that he used steroids?
@@randyjohnson6845 He was initially a football player, so it was all-natural strength. Nice try though.
@@KardiFan2000 what are you talking about .look at his rookie year photos then his last 3 years photos.he goes from 150 pounds to 200 pounds.and all cut....your a idiot
@@randyjohnson6845 Guess what genius, everyone naturally gains weight between the ages of 20 to 40. Lol. Like I said before, Rickey was an All-American running back in high school who preferred football over baseball, until his mother convinced him otherwise. When he got to MLB, he continued doing football workouts, which explains his super-cut physique.
@@randyjohnson6845 Here's the interview where he talks about his football background ruclips.net/video/7kb6x6Ogc2o/видео.html
Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez and Ray Knight all on the 1986 Mets.
1986. The last time the Mets weren't embarrassing NY City.
JR Richard facts...he finished in 1980 at 10-4 and never and I repeat never pitched in the majors again...both starters were done so quickly after the 1980 season...it's just unbelievable...JR the five previous years won 18 for 4 years and 20 the 5th year and then gone...something is going on
Blown shoulders and elbows as with most pitchers..
My father is Kyle Sarosi who throws out one of the first pitches. Is there any way I could get a copy of this video please???
Yes. Send a money order for $99.95 and a self-addressed stamped envelope. I'll make it happen.
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Rod Carew's at-bat in the 1st inning shows why J.R. Richard had, at age 29--with only two weeks remaining in his MLB career yet already holding the Astros' career strikeout record--yet to reach his full potential. Alongside his tremendous strikeout totals (first NL righthander to K 300 in a season) he was perennially among the tops, and usually the NL's leader, in both walks & wild pitches allowed. If you had a good batting eye, which Carew had in spades, Richard would give you a base per game. This is usually not a crushing issue when you strike out a dozen during that game, as J.R. often did, but control was J.R.'s prominent flaw. Richard seemed to be getting this part of his game into somewhat better shape during 1979 & 1980 (very bad news for NL hitters) before he was tragically afflicted.
Loved how during the player introductions, the announcers say, "This guy, Ken Griffey of the Reds, will likely be MVP of this All Star Game. He's probably going to hit a home run off of Tommy John. And he'll probably utter a quote for the ages during the post-game like, 'The guys and I decided to just go out and play baseball tonight instead of doing our famous impression of the Radio City Rockettes!'" And how about that Bowie Kuhn, huh? You wanna talk about magnetism! You wanna talk about 'Mr. Excitement'? That guy has "electrifying" just drippimg off of him! And back to Griffey, when the announcers said, "Yeah this Griffey guy is good. But he's got this 10-year-old kid who smacked a wiffle ball so hard it traveled from home plate at Dodger Stadium all the way until it ga-schmacked off of the Hollywood sign. This kid has some power!" What a ballgame! Oh and when the announcers wrapped up by saying, "Yeah, the Phillies are probably going to win this year's World Series over the Royals in six games," how coud they have said anything else?
How many discussions of Willie Randolph's OBP normally go into Gregory Peck sightings?
Beautiful Howard Cosell analysis moment starting around 1:39:35
I think, I may be wrong, but I remember listening to Vin SCULLY call this on the radio. I stayed home from school to watch it because it was at Dodger stadium and had so many Dodgers starting. I’m pretty sure half way thru, I turned tv down and listened to am570? For at least last three innings. 14 years old!
@@TERoss-jk9ny Yes, Vin Scully called the game on CBS Sports Radio along with Brent Musburger.
J Ru Peroit: Thank you! I was pretty sure I tuned it in on my parents great big stereo, record player, and yes!! Am/fm. What a great time to be alive!!
@@TERoss-jk9ny Those Were The Good Ole Days
J Ru Peroit: Yes they were!!
I was at this game. Thanks for the memory.
J.R. Richard an old school hurler. Reminds me of Pedro Martinez.
Garvey for president
what did lasotda think of Kingman performance?
John Smoltz best strikeout year was 1996..he struck out 276
Reitz was traded to Chicago that off season for none other than Bruce Sutter. Sadly, not a good trade for the Cubbies.
Wow! This completely threw me. Forwarded to see the National League starting lineup. Where the heck is Mike Schmidt? Especially 1980 of all years. I have to go see what happened.
Went and looked it up. He leads the league with 48 home runs and 121 RBI's and he's a reserve? He must have been hurt or something.
He was introduced as a vote-getter starter but injured
@@kevinchouinard9539 👈👺
You again? Thought I told you to zip it pinhead!
Schmidt sat out the game for an elected NL starter at 3rd. Same went for George Brett as well to sat out the game for the AL for an elected starter at 3rd. Ironic as it was for both to win MVP from their respective side of the league, not to mention facing one another for the World Series same year.
TheBatugan77 Turning 62, with 22 years in the Air Force, and being on the receiving end of a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, you don’t scare me
Back when the announcers dressed like Century 21 agents
I remember JR Richard. He had a stroke.
Pete Rose getting boo'd...must be some reds fans angry from his departure.Joe Morgan probably had a lot to do with Pete's departure.
If you watch this on your phone the speaker changes depending on how your phone is tilted
Holy shit it’s true. Lol
Howard ripping on Davy Lopez... is not appreciated... "he's hitting .236..." he points out.... Lopez was a great player for a great organization at the top..
Lopes
Rickey Henderson's first All Star Game.
In 1978 and 1979 JR struck out 303 and 313 batters...that's alot...that's alot using steroids
If you told me a Dodger would be the leading vote getter, I would have thought it might be Garvey instead of Lopes
Agree - quite surprising.
Chris Kreager I'm a reds man lopes was nothing more than a Joe Morgan want to be.
Especially when he was hitting .236
Trumpenstein: Get a life and go away. When you grow up and move from mommy and her basement, you can have big people discussions. Try hard. You may do it one day. Jesus loves you.
Trumpenstein: NO. You have already proved who and what you are.
J.R. Richard was out of baseball 6 days later. Is this his last game?
With the current Player’s Lockout in Major League Baseball. Could the City of Los Angeles be screwed out of another All-Star this year? Originally they were have supposed to have hosted the 2020 All-Star Game, which never occurred because of COVID-19 which cut the season down to 60 games.
Because of that, Major League Baseball decided to give the 2022 All-Star Game to Dodger Stadium, which will be upcoming(Comment posted in 2021). The question is: How long will this Player’s Lockout go on until everything will be resolved and we can go back to playing Baseball? Could it be resolved before The All-Star Break?
Richards last major league start
I think Richard pitched one more game.
@@dodgerrichie7274 stroke?
Crazy how many HOFers were not starting. Brett ht 390 that year.
40 years later, The All-Star has yet to return to Dodger Stadium!
It's returning next year 2020
Ricardo Moreno
Make it, 2022. With this Corona Virus, The 2020 Baseball Season will being in Late July canceling The All Star Game, so MLB gave Dodger Stadium the 2022 All Star Game.
Steve stone facts...in 1980 he finished 25-7 in 1981 he finished 4-7 and was done in baseball...his 25 wins in 1980 was almost double his next best year in the majors and he played 11 years...that is very unusual..in the steroids Era that could be explained...I was just over 16 years old during this game and in my high-school they were just started to take steriods...I'll bet that Ricky Henderson and Reggie Jackson took steroids before they became common
Love that they boo the Yankees, as everyone should
Legendary PA announcer John Ramsey.
poor guy J.R. RIchard had bullshit doctors he would have been one of the best ever!!
When All Star Games were fun and exciting, Now I cannot get through ONE inning they are so boring. And the "experts" that thought it would add something to the game by having the players all wear the same dull uniforms.
Theres no doubt that Ricky Henderson took steroids...hes about 160 to 170 pounds in this game...then in several years hes 215 pounds and played forever
Don Drysdale and Roy Campanella died a week a part in 1993.
Bruce Sutter was the obvious MVP - star of the game should
I'm Keith Hernandez....
Yeaah I"m JFK...
What a surprise, Paul Molitor is injured.
Cosell throwing shade at Lopes, talking about how Davey *would* want to continue the fan vote - and then quietly dropping that Lopes is hitting .236, before changing the subject. 😂
The World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
Steve stones all star cy young season
Ha, it was funny, when it first started in black and white, and Keith Jackson was talking with a real old-timey affectation for some reason, and I'm like, "Is this mislabeled? Is it 1950, not 1980?"
beakt I watched black and white television till 1985. My parents had it in their living room and their room.
beakt Would not have been from dodger stadium in 1950.
When the leading votegetter is only batting .236, it definitely shows that the fans shouldn't vote
Kev...👈👺
It shows you should mind your own fkn business, pal. You little jerkoff.
Lopes was overrated. Only got all those votes because he played in LA. I guess Joe Morgan was past his prime in 1980.
@@TheBatugan77 what's your phone number?
@@TheBatugan77 I'm 19 yrs older than you. Were you in the military? I've had it with you
how come dodger players get lukewarm ovations
Yeah, Russell and Larsorda wee both booed!
Al Michaels (4:22) calls the game the rest of the way 1:36:08
I was a wee baby then.
Where is Bake McBride?
My favorites all star baseball ⚾️ game ever
6 up 6 down for the Stone Pony!
ken reitz for the hall of fame
The American League couldn't do any better than ………….. BUCKY DENT @ shortstop??????
Brooks was the best, Clete was great, but Nettles at 3rd, was right there too!
I'm curious about the comment on Nettles losing his glove from the 1979 ASG? I have read that he got snubbed by Rawlings for continuing his endorsement deal during the 1978 WS and went to Louisville Slugger mitts thereafter; could that be what they are referring to? Or did someone actually steal his six-year-old gamer?
@@prpapas I have to look into to that. Interesting. Thanks. Craig didn't kiss ass, that I know.
@@bobheck7303 Thank you. Yes, I kinda love if he did that, especially in the sequence it may have happened - Fwiw, the story about Rawlings is here: vault.si.com/vault/1990/05/07/glove-story
You can see pretty clearly in this 1980 ASG video that his glove has a dark rectangular brand patch along the base of the thumb, which would suggest a LS of that era, vs. the circular patch of a Rawlings seen in most photos of him ca. 1970-78.