I was 4 years old at the time of this World Series. I was glued to the screen on this game. At the age of 10 I had a full collection of all their baseball cards. I got to see #42 in action and got to watch my art teacher draw and watercolor a beautiful painting of Mickey Mantle at the plate hitting a home run.
This was baseball before TV money destroyed the game. Its a pleasure to just listen to the sounds from the crowd. Individual fans can be heard, along with the calls of peanut and hotdog vendors. I even think the lack of instant replay is a virtue. Too often instant replay is done to death and used by announcers to show how smart they are. This calm and methodical sport is the game I loved as a kid.
The Dodgers and Yankees had a lot of Hall of Fame members playing in this series. It is a rare treat to see this game. Thank you very much for this video.
@@Mont1. I stopped watching baseball years ago. My friends ask why did I leave baseball. I say "Baseball left me." I won't watch multi-millionaires acting like spoiled kids.
Interestingly the average 9 inning game in 1952 took 2 hours and 21 minutes. Just 10 years earlier in 1942 it took 2 hours and 2 minutes. This was about the time that games started to become more drawn out and the idea that an umpire should dictate the pace of the game was largely lost. Though way more entertaining than today
Hey Bob Costas, I too was very young as a wee baby boy at only 2 weeks old on the day of this game, born in NJ. These teams were all the rage as a young kid and we had a Mantle rookie card too. It lived a good life in the spokes of our bicycles.
Great time to be a Yankee back in those days...and I agree... what a blessing to hear the announcer call the game called for what is, a game very little else unlike today with stats and comments and opinions ... forgettaboutit!
In 1957 I'm eleven. I discovered Baseball the yr. before when the Bra is es beat the Yanks behind Spann, Mathews, Aaron, both blind catchers Named "Del", Bhul& Co I became a Belmont LLg Brave in'56, 57&58.We won each yr. with N.Y. Giants catcher Our coach Frank Mahoney. Bless his Heart, feared & Loved him. Then I signed with Minn. Twins in 1967.Thanks, Babe. 9.6.24 @ age 78.4
This is amazing, I was born in 1953 so I missed the Brooklyn Dodger days as my memories of watching baseball start in 1960. Also get to see some play who I only read about in books. Cards fan from STL.
Very entertaining game. I just felt I was watching real baseball. It's too bad this one and the seventh game are the only old ones that survive. You can see why baseball in the 50's just mesmerized fans.
Billy Loes was over my house Christmas 1995 and they were showing this game on tv so I put it on, he said he threw Mantle a high outside fastball and he fell back as he swung.That's how strong he was to muscle it over the fence opposite field.
As of February 2017, Irv Noren is the last surviving participant from this game. He's 92 now. UPDATE: Irv Noren passed away on 11/15/2019, two weeks shy of his 95th birthday. As of August 2023, Carl Erskine is the last surviving participant from the 1952 World Series, though he did not pitch in this game. Sandy Koufax and Art Schallock were members of the Dodgers and Yankees that year and are also alive, but did not pitch in the series.
Although he did not play in this game -- having pitched an 11 inning victory for Brooklyn in Game 5 the previous day-- Carl Erskine in still alive. He was interviewed recently on SiriusXM MLB's Remember When program to reminisce about Gil Hodges ahead of his induction into Cooperstown. He was remarkably sharp.
I am rather enjoying the fact the announcers are simply calling the game, and there isn't any excess talking about nonsensical topics unrelated to the game, and the absence of all these different boxes with scores and a million other stats. The fact that every single pitch is not replayed over and over again is nice too, unlike what seems to be the norm today.
Now I'm all for nostalgia, but how are these advancements bad? Excess topics just fleshes the game out, all the different boxes with stats just means more information, constant replays of pitches give viewers a more complete view of the action; none of these seem bad.
Mel Allen, Red Barber and a young Vin Scully who did a ballgame tonight and is still alive and going strong....surreal. Could there be a better trio then that calling a game or in the same booth!?
Love watching these old games. Best part: hitters not looking for 10 pitch AB’s and pitchers not afraid to pitch in the strike zone. Let’em hit it. 2,3 pitch AB’s. Love it !!!
I love listening to the Public Address announcer with that heavy Brooklyn accent in Ebbetts Field, "Now batting, in the third position, #42 Jackie Robinson, Second Base".
What do y'all think of the behind-the-plate view? I kind of like it, and wouldn't mind seeing it alternate a little with the behind-the-pitcher view we have today.
I agree...right from behind batter w incoming pitch gives u an appreciation how hard it is to time 98mph after an 86 mph curve... Waiting for a secondary station covering big games where viewer can choose varies angles an vary viewing experience...I think these earlier 50’s WS had 3 basic angles
A bit too top-down for my taste, although it's interesting being able to see the runner at 2nd take his lead. I'd rather a lower angle. What would really be cool is to have a little camera in the mask of the catcher or umpire. Now that's the angle I'd love to see.
@@jonathanhanser5914 yes, was great for viewing ball movement and seeing ball speed variations. Only thing could be better would be a split screen: view from centerfield and a view such as this. More than anything is the lack of constant yapping we now have. I really don't need a trajectory chart for a foul ball and the foot pounds of impact on the fan's hand ;)
What a technical advance NBC/RCA had in 1952 --- the ability to superimpose the runner at first base onto the image of the pitcher and batter. Much better than the later split-screen.
There was a lot of talent and Hall of Famers and some should be Hall of Famers on that field. But not only on the field but also broadcasting the game. Allen and Barber were excellent. No need for a 2nd broadcaster like Vin Scully in more modern times. They can handle things just fine by themselves. Thanks for the video.
Yogi was the best bad ball hitter ever. I remember him hitting a home run on a pitch down around his ankles. “If I can hit it, it’s not a bad ball!” Yup! He was right!
My Uncle played 3rd base for the N.Y. Giants at the Polo Grounds from 1949 to 1958. 1951 he won the National league pennant for the Giants ,,smacking a home run with two on ! That happened 2 years before i was born.
First,my hats off to ya for posting this.This is a real rush to be able to sit here & see all these great players who I idolized as a kid growing up,play again.I know its probably hard to post the older games N all, but any games from about here on up to the 1980s would be a blast.And they don't all have to be playoff games either,less N ya want to.I love baseball no matter what month of the season.The announcers did a great job on this game to.Again,thank ya so much for posting.This is great.
Johnny Mize 12:12 is just months away from 40 years old here. 5 years earlier Mize hit 50 home runs while striking out fewer than 50 times. Nobody else has before or since.
I believe I may have the missing piece of audio from this game. While digitizing some family recordings I found a clip of what I believe to be this game’s 8th inning.
Look at the people. Is Congress in session? Are we at Sunday service? No. You're LIVE at the World Series among fans who dressed up in suit & tie & with ladies at their best. It was expected to do so as that was the norm. Another era we cannot recognize.
5:51 National Anthem sung by Gladys Gooding. She's the one who played "3 Blind Mice" after a bad call by the umps. (didn't she get ejected for that?) Gooding also played organ for the NY Knicks and NY Rangers, quite the organic trifecta! Old Glory with 48 stars.
Mantle out trying to bunt over the pitcher's head. He tried the same thing against Don Drysdale in the 1963 World Series and the 6'6" Dodger pitcher jumped up and caught it.
At 1:43:50 Vic Raschi's ground ball RBI single off Billy Loes' leg....after the game Loes told reporters he lost it in the sun, which was very possible because the sun shining between the Ebbets Field decks often blinded infielders.
I remember reading about Tom Seaver and the defeatest attitude of Mets fans. How it took an extra inning game in the 1969 season for them to get over the hump. I feel the same way with Brooklyn fans.
at 42:30 Frankie Crosetti barehands a foul ball. Crosetti played infield for the Yankees in the 30s and early 40's, then coached 3rd base for 23 seasons. 17 World Series rings: 7 as a player, 10 as a coach. That's one record nobody's gonna break.
I wonder if the original audio at that portion was lost, hence why Bob Costas was brought in to fill in the gaps and and some context. Bare in mind that this (along with Game 7 of this particular series) is believed to be the oldest surviving telecast of a World Series game (even though World Series games have been televised since 1947). They were preserved on kinescope by sponsor Gillette. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Series_broadcasters
Back then everyone out there knew what they were doing. Pitchers, catchers, fielders hitters, base runners, coaches, managers, umpires, broadcasters... they all knew how to play baseball. Contrast that to today’s game. Sloppy base running, umpires who can’t call balls and strikes, batters who question every call, step out of the box after every pitch, strike out or hit homers (no in between), fielders who can’t hit a cutoff man...
Right -- for their home unis only. No front numbers on their roadies 'til after they moved to LA. The Hall of Fame has a terrific uniform database, check it out. exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?lowYear=1940&highYear=1955&city=Brooklyn&league=NL&sort=year&increment=9&pos=10 (which team was the first to add front numbers to road uniforms?)
I think, probably, about at 1:19:10, the one who is sitting on the extreme right of the Yankee bench, is batboy Joe Carrieri. His book 'Yankee Batboy(published in1955)' was popular.He was 17 at that year and he worked as Yankee mascot since 1951 season.
notes: Loes balks at 1:38:41 11:14 Mantle jogs down to first after a walk. He holds his elbows out like Walter Brennan... looks like the knees bothering him a little even then. 7:03 Mel Allen introduced Gil McDougald as "the fellow with the unorthodox batting stance." Open stance with bat held back and level. Looks like something Charlie Lau would have cooked up, but he came later.
Gil Hodges set an ignominious record during this series which, I believe, still stands. The only player to have played in every inning of a seven game World Series and failed to get a single hit.
It's probably what kept him out of the HOF. Just saying. When Gil retired, he held the National League record for most homeruns by a righthanded hitter.
Icons, and legends, they were larger than life, classy fans, good ol fashion fun. We will never see those days again today no one stands out, and the fans are cardboard cutouts.
I was born in '60 & I've been an Angels fan since '67 (my Mom worked at the stadium). I remember learning the game of baseball by listening to Don Wells & Buddy Blatner on the radio. I didn't at first understand the fanfare surrounding Mantle when he visited the Big A in his last couple years. But in this Game 6 video, I was still surprised that the Yankees (down 1) did NOT pinch hit for their pitcher in the top of the 7th. The Dodgers then were down 1 in the bottom of the frame & ALSO did not hit for their starting pitcher. Seemed strange. But the irony is that BOTH pitchers got on board w/ singles. ;-)
Lc, Hey, I worked at Anaheim Stadium too. Sold peanuts and Coke* back then. And a little beer too, 'til the boss caught me. (I wasn't 21 yet, but there was a line and nobody else seemed to mind....) (*...and that's another funny story) God Bless your mom, hope she's still with us. Ask her if she remembers Big Ed Songrath.
At 13 I saw my 1st game in '67 when Mantle, (my hero since 9) HOMERED under the Big 'A' with no bleachers there. We had great seats on the 3rd base side, so seeing the HR and him rounding the bases is for me like yesterday. Best thing I ever saw!
Hey check out the babe warming up Raschi while Yogi's getting his gear on at 53:25. No, it's not THAT kinda babe... and it's not Babe Ruth. It's Loren Babe (#38) coach and part-time player. Once managed the Toledo Mud Hens.
more notes: 29:46 no ballgirls, no mugging for camera after snagging a foul ball. Just a park policeman tossing the ball back towards the dugout. Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves was one of the first Blacks in MLB, and probably MLB's first Black switch hitter. Red and Mel tell a couple funny stories about him -- didn't get the timetag, but listen for them.
Holy Cow ! Great game. I like watching games from the 50's and 60's more than the current year. These announcers let you relax and enjoy the game. I see where Phil Rizzuto got a bit of his sports caster style from after listening to Red Barber. " The Chief is on the warpath" ! How refreshing that was to hear . These days , the Cleveland Indians changed their name to keep the woke people from having hissy fits.
I don’t care what the norm is, I’m not wearing a suit to a damn baseball game. I’m wearing a tank top and gym shorts and chugging beers even in 1952. In fact if I ever get a time machine, that’s the first thing I’d do.
Given the current state of the game it’s pretty awesome they have a bunch of the classic games on their channel. Honestly after selig retired as commissioner the game has been going downhill ever since. Obviously he had to deal with the fallout of the steroid era but can’t we all admit how exciting that era was?
Man, I see why people say the fans were on top of the players. I see that the grandstand went straight to the field and lower than the filed itself. I also see, and mybe it's the camera technology for the time that the field looks super small. Like a short outfield all way round
You can clearly hear in the background the PA announcer Tex Rickards, one of the great ones in baseball history. Also the "super-imposition" effect was nothing more than the technical director moving their fade lever halfway between sources (the two camera shots).
1:42:30 A lucky fan swoops up a foul ball, what a special little moment. I can't help but wonder if by chance that exact ball is still out there in the world today, maybe it's buried inside a old dusty box in someones attic or maybe it's being well cared for on a collectors shelf. Could have just been thrown in the garbage by someone who didn't know the backstory. I mean it is a world series base ball, I'm sure whoever it was is/will remember that moment forever.
i could watch these vintage films all day. i only wish to were many more !
I was 4 years old at the time of this World Series. I was glued to the screen on this game. At the age of 10 I had a full collection of all their baseball cards. I got to see #42 in action and got to watch my art teacher draw and watercolor a beautiful painting of Mickey Mantle at the plate hitting a home run.
This was baseball before TV money destroyed the game. Its a pleasure to just listen to the sounds from the crowd. Individual fans can be heard, along with the calls of peanut and hotdog vendors. I even think the lack of instant replay is a virtue. Too often instant replay is done to death and used by announcers to show how smart they are. This calm and methodical sport is the game I loved as a kid.
'Destroyed' the game?
My late father used to say over and over again, "they (corporations) are going to kill it". By god, I think they have.
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Playing in little league. Boy..does this bring back memories ! Wish I still had those baseball cards !!
Hope all is well. What was it like growing up playing ball in the 50s?
I love these old games. I grew up on them, The old tv broadcasts made it look like the pitching mound was 20 feet from the plate. Thanks
The Dodgers and Yankees had a lot of Hall of Fame members playing in this series. It is a rare treat to see this game. Thank you very much for this video.
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This is how baseball shoud be played, fast and full of action.
yup, no taking forever to pitch the ball, the batters stay in the box, not hot dogging, no fake fights, no BSing. Real men.
@@AmericasChoice I couldn't have said it better.
@@Mont1. I stopped watching baseball years ago. My friends ask why did I leave baseball. I say "Baseball left me." I won't watch multi-millionaires acting like spoiled kids.
@@AmericasChoice Exactly.
Interestingly the average 9 inning game in 1952 took 2 hours and 21 minutes. Just 10 years earlier in 1942 it took 2 hours and 2 minutes. This was about the time that games started to become more drawn out and the idea that an umpire should dictate the pace of the game was largely lost. Though way more entertaining than today
I agree with every post here! This is stupendous! It's a big help to a 63-year old in the 21st Century, who is used to the 20th!
Hey Bob Costas, I too was very young as a wee baby boy at only 2 weeks old on the day of this game, born in NJ. These teams were all the rage as a young kid and we had a Mantle rookie card too. It lived a good life in the spokes of our bicycles.
Great time to be a Yankee back in those days...and I agree... what a blessing to hear the announcer call the game called for what is, a game very little else unlike today with stats and comments and opinions ... forgettaboutit!
In 1957 I'm eleven. I discovered Baseball the yr. before when the Bra is es beat the Yanks behind Spann, Mathews, Aaron, both blind catchers Named "Del", Bhul& Co I became a Belmont LLg Brave in'56, 57&58.We won each yr. with N.Y. Giants catcher Our coach Frank Mahoney. Bless his Heart, feared & Loved him. Then I signed with Minn. Twins in 1967.Thanks, Babe. 9.6.24 @ age 78.4
This is amazing, I was born in 1953 so I missed the Brooklyn Dodger days as my memories of watching baseball start in 1960. Also get to see some play who I only read about in books. Cards fan from STL.
52 for me great game
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Mickey has the the coolest batting style ever!
Very entertaining game. I just felt I was watching real baseball. It's too bad this one and the seventh game are the only old ones that survive. You can see why baseball in the 50's just mesmerized fans.
Billy Loes was over my house Christmas 1995 and they were showing this game on tv so I put it on, he said he threw Mantle a high outside fastball and he fell back as he swung.That's how strong he was to muscle it over the fence opposite field.
love to listen to these old broadcasts. When i grew up in late 50s I used to listen all the time to the Cincinnati Redlegs.
Redlegs! Yes, that does date you. Post war through the 1950s
That name was a concession to the McCarthy era, did you know that?
tahoepoet : Yes, l did know that. Thanks for mentioning that information.
As of February 2017, Irv Noren is the last surviving participant from this game. He's 92 now.
UPDATE: Irv Noren passed away on 11/15/2019, two weeks shy of his 95th birthday. As of August 2023, Carl Erskine is the last surviving participant from the 1952 World Series, though he did not pitch in this game. Sandy Koufax and Art Schallock were members of the Dodgers and Yankees that year and are also alive, but did not pitch in the series.
Turns 94 November 29.
Thats to old. Im calling it quits at 60. Taking my dog and going into the woods. No one will ever see us again.
@@waydebaker33 get back with us when you're 59. LOL
I did not know this fact. I miss the old timers
Although he did not play in this game -- having pitched an 11 inning victory for Brooklyn in Game 5 the previous day-- Carl Erskine in still alive. He was interviewed recently on SiriusXM MLB's Remember When program to reminisce about Gil Hodges ahead of his induction into Cooperstown. He was remarkably sharp.
Me too! I could watch these any day over the current baseball installments. Nostalgic, I know, but I prefer these to today, 2024.
That's a really cool split screen thing they did for that era.
I am rather enjoying the fact the announcers are simply calling the game, and there isn't any excess talking about nonsensical topics unrelated to the game, and the absence of all these different boxes with scores and a million other stats. The fact that every single pitch is not replayed over and over again is nice too, unlike what seems to be the norm today.
With no in-game commercials, Mel Allen is free to get into minutia.
e.g. Media vs. Mediums and Stadiums vs.Stadia. 1:01:20
A big amen to everything you said, brother!
Now I'm all for nostalgia, but how are these advancements bad? Excess topics just fleshes the game out, all the different boxes with stats just means more information, constant replays of pitches give viewers a more complete view of the action; none of these seem bad.
I completely agree. So uncomplicated, just letting the action speak for itself as much as possible.
Helps when the pitchers arent taking 18 minutes between pitches
Anyone notice the same ball was used unless it was a foul ball in the stands or a homerun. Today a different ball is used if it hits the dirt .
Mel Allen, Red Barber and a young Vin Scully who did a ballgame tonight and is still alive and going strong....surreal. Could there be a better trio then that calling a game or in the same booth!?
Vin died
Love watching these old games. Best part: hitters not looking for 10 pitch AB’s and pitchers not afraid to pitch in the strike zone. Let’em hit it. 2,3 pitch AB’s. Love it !!!
That’s so interesting this year‘s World Series is going to be a rematch of the 1952 World Series !
I love listening to the Public Address announcer with that heavy Brooklyn accent in Ebbetts Field, "Now batting, in the third position, #42 Jackie Robinson, Second Base".
What do y'all think of the behind-the-plate view? I kind of like it, and wouldn't mind seeing it alternate a little with the behind-the-pitcher view we have today.
I agree...right from behind batter w incoming pitch gives u an appreciation how hard it is to time 98mph after an 86 mph curve...
Waiting for a secondary station covering big games where viewer can choose varies angles an vary viewing experience...I think these earlier 50’s WS had 3 basic angles
Hard to judge the height of the pitches from this angle.
heeeeeeeey
A bit too top-down for my taste, although it's interesting being able to see the runner at 2nd take his lead. I'd rather a lower angle. What would really be cool is to have a little camera in the mask of the catcher or umpire. Now that's the angle I'd love to see.
@@jonathanhanser5914 yes, was great for viewing ball movement and seeing ball speed variations. Only thing could be better would be a split screen: view from centerfield and a view such as this. More than anything is the lack of constant yapping we now have. I really don't need a trajectory chart for a foul ball and the foot pounds of impact on the fan's hand ;)
Memories of listening to this series on the radio.
What a technical advance NBC/RCA had in 1952 --- the ability to superimpose the runner at first base onto the image of the pitcher and batter. Much better than the later split-screen.
There was a lot of talent and Hall of Famers and some should be Hall of Famers on that field. But not only on the field but also broadcasting the game. Allen and Barber were excellent. No need for a 2nd broadcaster like Vin Scully in more modern times. They can handle things just fine by themselves. Thanks for the video.
I have watched this game 20 times
RIP, Yoggi Berra. 1925-2015.
The Yankees retired #8 for both Yogi and Bill Dickey, the first base coach for this game. He's wearing # 33 @ 1:05:38
Yogi was the best bad ball hitter ever. I remember him hitting a home run on a pitch down around his ankles. “If I can hit it, it’s not a bad ball!” Yup! He was right!
And just think, this game was played almost 70 years ago.
Even people who didn't like baseball liked Yogi. Who could resist his beautiful lines. . . . deja vue all over . . .
@@kevinmiller6380 71 I was 8 months old
My Uncle played 3rd base for the N.Y. Giants at the Polo Grounds from 1949 to 1958. 1951 he won the National league pennant for the Giants ,,smacking a home run with two on ! That happened 2 years before i was born.
So your uncle is bobby Thompson
Shot Heard 'Round the World is what u r taking about? 195q
1951?*
Awesome !
who was he?
Vin Scully was simply awesome... Will be missed forever
Vin Scully did not announce this game -- it was Red Barber representing the Dodgers and Mel Allen for the Yankees.
I have never seen a balk quite like that of Billy Loes in the 7th. Crazy! I recommend reading the SABRBio of Loes. He was quite a character …
Glad I found these signed baseballs gives me great wisdom
I was four years old...This is a real treat for an old Yankees fan...Thx for posting...
yo. you be old
tell me about the days sir ;-;
Ugh Urf You got a few year?
Well what's your earliest memory of seeing a Cubs game on tv? I'm from Chicago so😂
Ugh Urf Remember BOZO on WGN? When we got cable (1965), I didn't need the radio anymore...
I was also 4 yrs. old and still a lifetime Dodger Fan.
This is a beautiful way to watch a ball game.
Yeah, especially when you watch it on 2X playback speed
Mickey Mantle!! He's my hero!!
First,my hats off to ya for posting this.This is a real rush to be able to sit here & see all these great players who I idolized as a kid growing up,play again.I know its probably hard to post the older games N all, but any games from about here on up to the 1980s would be a blast.And they don't all have to be playoff games either,less N ya want to.I love baseball no matter what month of the season.The announcers did a great job on this game to.Again,thank ya so much for posting.This is great.
Johnny Mize 12:12 is just months away from 40 years old here.
5 years earlier Mize hit 50 home runs while striking out fewer than 50 times.
Nobody else has before or since.
“Your arm is gone, your legs likewise, but not your eyes, Mize, not your eyes,”
--Dan Parker, NY sportswriter.
How things have changed.
Snider hits Home Run at 1:24:29 No fan fare.
Next pitch to Jackie Robinson is at 1:25:09
Wasn’t there a guy named Ruth who used to gesture as he went into his home run trot. They called him a showman back then.
Art Passarella is the home plate umpire for this game.
You might remember him from the Home Run Derby series.
"One out!!"
I believe I may have the missing piece of audio from this game. While digitizing some family recordings I found a clip of what I believe to be this game’s 8th inning.
This is great.
Thank you for doing this
Look at the people. Is Congress in session? Are we at Sunday service? No. You're LIVE at the World Series among fans who dressed up in suit & tie & with ladies at their best. It was expected to do so as that was the norm. Another era we cannot recognize.
5:51 National Anthem sung by Gladys Gooding.
She's the one who played "3 Blind Mice" after a bad call by the umps.
(didn't she get ejected for that?)
Gooding also played organ for the NY Knicks and NY Rangers, quite the organic trifecta!
Old Glory with 48 stars.
Nice catch -- 48 stars . . .
Her surname was spelled Goodding. It's a common mistake to make.
I still refuse to recognize Alaska or Hawaii
@@croccroccroc lol! Then I guess PR is outta the question!
At 38:00 you can hear the famous Dodger Sym-phony playing in the background....priceless.
Great catch.
Mantle out trying to bunt over the pitcher's head. He tried the same thing against Don Drysdale in the 1963 World Series and the 6'6" Dodger pitcher jumped up and caught it.
At 1:43:50 Vic Raschi's ground ball RBI single off Billy Loes' leg....after the game Loes told reporters he lost it in the sun, which was very possible because the sun shining between the Ebbets Field decks often blinded infielders.
Thx for video 😊🤗Jackie Robinson!
It's so weird!! I can see their ads and they're just like todays!! And even in color!! 🤯
These were the good ol days of baseball with real sportsmen, not like today's junkies.
nor constant chatting from 2 to 3 announcers.
yeah and they talk so much shit and stupidity.
yes,let's keep it about the game being played. (lol)
yes, but it would be cool to hear/see a 1952 ad for Gillette or Pabst Blue Ribbon, remember those?
By early 60s many of game s stars were taking amphetamines to deal w longer grind of a season ,travel ,etc
I remember reading about Tom Seaver and the defeatest attitude of Mets fans. How it took an extra inning game in the 1969 season for them to get over the hump. I feel the same way with Brooklyn fans.
Defeatist*
Babe Pinelli-The same umpire who was behind home plate for Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
at 42:30 Frankie Crosetti barehands a foul ball.
Crosetti played infield for the Yankees in the 30s and early 40's, then coached 3rd base for 23 seasons.
17 World Series rings: 7 as a player, 10 as a coach.
That's one record nobody's gonna break.
@Bob Poet. Read about Crosetti in “Bail Four”. Bouton pegged him as one of the biggest dinks ever to don a uniform. Just sayin’
@@ToldAlthea What's a dink?
@@Nestor123057 Same as ummmm....."douche" .
I was so confused when I first heard Bob Costas's voice in the beggining.
I wonder if the original audio at that portion was lost, hence why Bob Costas was brought in to fill in the gaps and and some context. Bare in mind that this (along with Game 7 of this particular series) is believed to be the oldest surviving telecast of a World Series game (even though World Series games have been televised since 1947). They were preserved on kinescope by sponsor Gillette. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Series_broadcasters
@@TMC1982Part2 treasures
Thanks, I knew that
1965 is the oldest telecast of the entirety of the World Series.
All the games, because of CBC
Same. I was like, I knew Costas always looked young for his age, but he must REALLY look young for his age lol.
Yogi was at D-Day
Fantastic, this is Amazing!!!......
Back then everyone out there knew what they were doing. Pitchers, catchers, fielders hitters, base runners, coaches, managers, umpires, broadcasters... they all knew how to play baseball. Contrast that to today’s game. Sloppy base running, umpires who can’t call balls and strikes, batters who question every call, step out of the box after every pitch, strike out or hit homers (no in between), fielders who can’t hit a cutoff man...
U mean today their not fundamentally sound? I thought Gary Sanchez was another J Bench!
Only 30,000 in attendance. Small ball park. In 1959 the LA Dodgers would draw over 100,000 against the White Sox.
Mel Allan and Red Barber - what a treat!
Id like to slap whoever thumbs down this video... What a treat!
Graet vintage memorabilia.
Fantastic! Thanks guys👍
this was the series the dodgers incorporated the red numbers on the front of their jerseys.
Right -- for their home unis only. No front numbers on their roadies 'til after they moved to LA.
The Hall of Fame has a terrific uniform database, check it out.
exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?lowYear=1940&highYear=1955&city=Brooklyn&league=NL&sort=year&increment=9&pos=10
(which team was the first to add front numbers to road uniforms?)
Always dug the unique, contrasting red number on the front.Perfectly offsetting the classic blue script.
So you mean in regular season 1952 they didn't have that?
My nostalgia meter just blew up!
Notice how the game moves faster than today.
Rick Roscoe of course. Batters don't step out of the box between pitches to adjust batting gloves (they didn't wear them) and pitchers threw the ball.
No fake, much better than today.
Tiny field
They swung at the first pitch a lot and didn’t work counts like they do now. Less time between innings too.
Though this game was 2:56 (baseball-reference.com) with five runs scored. That's about the same as today.
I think, probably, about at 1:19:10, the one who is sitting on the extreme right of the Yankee bench, is batboy Joe Carrieri. His book 'Yankee Batboy(published in1955)' was popular.He was 17 at that year and he worked as Yankee mascot since 1951 season.
Pure baseball without the glitz.
notes:
Loes balks at 1:38:41
11:14 Mantle jogs down to first after a walk. He holds his elbows out like Walter Brennan... looks like the knees bothering him a little even then.
7:03 Mel Allen introduced Gil McDougald as "the fellow with the unorthodox batting stance." Open stance with bat held back and level. Looks like something Charlie Lau would have cooked up, but he came later.
Gil Hodges set an ignominious record during this series which, I believe, still stands. The only player to have played in every inning of a seven game World Series and failed to get a single hit.
can't break it.
Hit a couple of good shots in gm 7 but caught
It's probably what kept him out of the HOF. Just saying. When Gil retired, he held the National League record for most homeruns by a righthanded hitter.
Sad that the first five games are not here
Awesome! Thank you for sharing. :)
Icons, and legends, they were larger than life, classy fans, good ol fashion fun. We will never see those days again today no one stands out, and the fans are cardboard cutouts.
Fine, you won 😊
I've only been a baseball fan since 1986 but I still know almost all these guys names from the Yanks and Dodgers, a lot of Hall of Famers here
The Brooklyn Dodgers had 'only' 50 complete games that season. Nowadays a team doesn't have 50 in a decade.
You mean when a beer was $1?
With the theme song, I marched around the living room...scared the dog, though.
I didn't know Bob Costas was that old!
i want that intro song to be my new cellphone ringtone!
The players innings of the game innings
The game innings of the players mound.
6 MVP awards between the two catchers...how's that grab you?
mortimer zilch they catch the ball almost as well as G Sanchez!
I was born in '60 & I've been an Angels fan since '67 (my Mom worked at the stadium). I remember learning the game of baseball by listening to Don Wells & Buddy Blatner on the radio. I didn't at first understand the fanfare surrounding Mantle when he visited the Big A in his last couple years.
But in this Game 6 video, I was still surprised that the Yankees (down 1) did NOT pinch hit for their pitcher in the top of the 7th. The Dodgers then were down 1 in the bottom of the frame & ALSO did not hit for their starting pitcher. Seemed strange.
But the irony is that BOTH pitchers got on board w/ singles. ;-)
Lc, Hey, I worked at Anaheim Stadium too. Sold peanuts and Coke* back then.
And a little beer too, 'til the boss caught me.
(I wasn't 21 yet, but there was a line and nobody else seemed to mind....)
(*...and that's another funny story)
God Bless your mom, hope she's still with us. Ask her if she remembers Big Ed Songrath.
At 13 I saw my 1st game in '67 when Mantle, (my hero since 9) HOMERED under the Big 'A' with no bleachers there. We had great seats on the 3rd base side, so seeing the HR and him rounding the bases is for me like yesterday. Best thing I ever saw!
Great play by scooter n mize at 31:00plus
Hey check out the babe warming up Raschi while Yogi's getting his gear on at 53:25.
No, it's not THAT kinda babe... and it's not Babe Ruth.
It's Loren Babe (#38) coach and part-time player.
Once managed the Toledo Mud Hens.
Raschi was a guy you wanted out there in a big game!
more notes:
29:46 no ballgirls, no mugging for camera after snagging a foul ball. Just a park policeman tossing the ball back towards the dugout.
Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves was one of the first Blacks in MLB, and probably MLB's first Black switch hitter. Red and Mel tell a couple funny stories about him -- didn't get the timetag, but listen for them.
Holy Cow ! Great game. I like watching games from the 50's and 60's more than the current year. These announcers let you relax and enjoy the game. I see where Phil Rizzuto got a bit of his sports caster style from after listening to Red Barber. " The Chief is on the warpath" ! How refreshing that was to hear . These days , the Cleveland Indians changed their name to keep the woke people from having hissy fits.
Sadly people will still call them racist even after they did everything to placate them
mantle home run at 1:57:46
I don’t care what the norm is, I’m not wearing a suit to a damn baseball game. I’m wearing a tank top and gym shorts and chugging beers even in 1952. In fact if I ever get a time machine, that’s the first thing I’d do.
It was different in the cheap seats, believe me. Casual and beer chugging.
Given the current state of the game it’s pretty awesome they have a bunch of the classic games on their channel. Honestly after selig retired as commissioner the game has been going downhill ever since. Obviously he had to deal with the fallout of the steroid era but can’t we all admit how exciting that era was?
Following up on my remark: Since then, a Red Sox game from 1967 and a 1972 Cubs/Reds game have become available. (Look for mlbclassics11.)
It is hard to believe that in an all New York City, Yankees - Dodgers World Series, there were empty seats. Bizarre.
Mel Allen explains that during the first 2 innings -- bad marketing.
Game was sold out...some peeps gotta go pee
i still cant believe they use to play without helmets. insane
Roy Campenella still five years away from suffering the tragic auto accident which ended his career. RIP 🙏
Man, I see why people say the fans were on top of the players. I see that the grandstand went straight to the field and lower than the filed itself. I also see, and mybe it's the camera technology for the time that the field looks super small. Like a short outfield all way round
大好き野球！大好きベースボール！
You can clearly hear in the background the PA announcer Tex Rickards, one of the great ones in baseball history. Also the "super-imposition" effect was nothing more than the technical director moving their fade lever halfway between sources (the two camera shots).
1:42:30 A lucky fan swoops up a foul ball, what a special little moment. I can't help but wonder if by chance that exact ball is still out there in the world today, maybe it's buried inside a old dusty box in someones attic or maybe it's being well cared for on a collectors shelf. Could have just been thrown in the garbage by someone who didn't know the backstory. I mean it is a world series base ball, I'm sure whoever it was is/will remember that moment forever.
Dodgers won the World Series Today!!
Who else noticed Gladys playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at the top of the 7th?
Agreed. Would love to see some Milwaukee Braves games made available..but I am not picky. Any 1940's or 50's games would be enjoyable.
Somewhere on RUclips, I think there is a film of a Yankees-Braves game from 1957 or 1958, but I can't seem to find it.
"When men squint to see the wheat of the day". Jack Kerouac.