While I am sure that this is insignificant to practically anyone else, what a treat it was for me to see Cal Ermer as manager of the Twins. Cal spent his last years in Chattanooga and was frequently seen at Chattanooga Lookouts games where I had a summer part time job. I remember him as a gracious and kind gentleman who I was privileged to get to know. Thanks for posting this.
Not familiar with that name. First manager of Minnesota I remember was Billy Martin, who took the helm in 1969.. Sounds like he was a pretty down to Earth type of guy. Glad you had such a pleasant experience..
So sad to think that it was only a month prior to this game that Tony Conigliaro was tragically injured. I wish someone would upload a full game with Tony playing. Nice to see Fenway Park plain and Ad Free, and the television broadcast without a cluttered up screen with constantly running tickers. The games back then were so much more enjoyable to watch.
@@DonQwantsyou I was almost 9, growing up 15 miles away from Fenway on the North Shore and this season gripped us kids like none other. Wish I still had my memorabilia from this year.
@Max lynette My second. Family moved from SoCal to Brookline in '66, and I went to some games in '66 and we finished ninth. Never saw this coming, and I was completely hooked after that. I was doing a temporary job in Fargo, ND when we came back to beat the Yankees in the '04 ALCS and went on to win the WS. Sox forever is right, and Fenway is heaven!
Fell in love with the Sox in the “Impossible Dream” season. Suffered through a lot of disappointments, but was finally able to see them win it all...several times! Go BoSox!
@@Mark-sj3xb That is so well said, Today's broadcasters especially baseball are the biggest know it alls, The Nationals are my local team and I think they're announcers suck.
As a broadcaster myself, I agree! The GAME is the SHOW! NOT the broadcasters! I was 8 years old around this time and I learned how to call the game by listening to announcers of that era!
11 years old and I remember watching this with my Pop. Killer...Tony....Carew...Kaat......Allison....a die hard LOYAL Twins fan. Thanks for this upload!
The elbow pop that changed Jim Kaat's career! Had a good live fastball before this but the injury required surgery. Wiped out the 1968 season and when Kaat came back he no longer had the same fastball but did pitch well for several more years, becoming a "crafty southpaw" as the announcers would call him. Wound up with over 280 wins in his career, although it was really 2 careers - pre and post arm surgery. The really weird thing is that what I just described about Kaat almost exactly describes Tommy John's career path as well! Good fastball, strikeout pitcher, arm injury, "crafty southpaw", over 280 wins!
This was a bit before my time, being born in '75. But I knew all about the the Red Sox and the '67 season (Conigliaro, Yaz, Patrocelli, and all the classic players) from my dad who was a huge baseball fan and quite the pitcher. He went to a Red Sox open tryout and did pretty well. They were even going to offer him a minor league contract, but his focus was on college--went to Brown University to get his engineering degree. To his death, he was an ardent baseball fan. I LOVED the dozens of times we went to Fenway to watch the Sox. Nothing like that experience for a young kid. Baseball, family, and the American way. God bless.
Game will never be the same. So little time wasted between pitches with batters stepping out of the box. No 15 minute pitching changes, the Game just had a better flow. There's just too much money at stake now.
prescott shrunken strike zone, slow play, too long of commercial breaks between innings have ruined it for me. I think th e DH is ok though. Batting pitchers are almost automatic outs. DH'ers never playing the field arent good for the game either. Maybe the DH should have to play the field for at least one inning.
@@TSmithDesign1 game was played for a hundred years without, but Its here to stay and sadly, the NL will probably keep it next year, love 5 hour nine inning games.
Not sure why he said Oliva was the most feared hitter on the Twins. Killebrew had twice as many RBI"s and HR's than Oliva that season. Maybe Ken didn't do his homework but a dumb statement.
Ken Coleman, Ned Martin and Mel Parnell were excellent. No extra banter except to provide interesting pertinent information. Baseball was bigger than life back then.
The coverage for this game was from the original WHDH-TV-5 Boston. RCA TK-43 cameras were used; the remote truck used only three cameras; a fourth was added the following year.
@@brettsinger9565 Takes too long to play and no half ass divisions and wild cards could be called World Champions. There is a lot more wrong with the ay they play the game. I can't stand to watch it anymore and don't. No more pennant races either.
I was 14 years old when this game was played, and I was thunderstruck by baseball and the Red Sox that year. On this Saturday morning, I set my alarm clock and got up early enough to get to Saturday morning Mass at St.Mary's at the end of my street. I asked God to be sure and give Jose Santiago his very best stuff and to bless Yaz and the rest. Even after 53 years the memory of that as well as the memory of my whole family crowding in the living room to watch the game.....and me up in my bedroom listening to the radio broadcast of the Detroit/California second game (which WHDH carried in Boston) jumping for joy and forever carrying a bit of love for the Angels. By the way, many comments on Ken Coleman here....and he was a very fine announcer. But in my opinion, when the residents of heaven are lazing in their armchairs reading and enjoying the game on the radio, the magnificent voice and brilliant play-by-play that wafts through the air comes from the best announcer I have EVER heard. (And I have heard Barber, Allen, Scully, Buck, Harwell and Brickhouse.) The incomparable Mr. Ned Martin. Nominated and overlooked for the HOF in 2021. The years he was paired with Jim Woods should be used as textbook material for any living soul who aspires to boadcasting baseball games. The shrieking, screaming bozos we listen to nowadays should cower in shame.
SF Gs were always my team. But this was the year that I started liking the the RS. Good thing they are in different leagues. Luckily in 69, we moved to the SF Bay Area and I got to see them when they played the As. the Tony C thing was one of the most brutal injuries I've seen in sports. What a stick that guy was.
I was five and wish I could write I remember the 1967 season but would be lying. I'm sure I watched Mets and Yankee games up to 1968 living in NJ and then did watch the Red Sox starting in 1969 as we had moved to Southborough. My first baseball hat was a Red Sox hat my Dad bought for me from the Sears in Natick. In 1971 his job moved us back to NJ and at age 9 I became an official Mets fan and Yankee hater. My first ever live game was in 1970 with my older Brother at Fenway. We went on the township Bus and saw the Red Sox and the White Sox and sat in the right field bleachers. Great memories!
I grew up hearing Ned Martin calling Sox games, and I really miss him. He was a true pro. I’m a little young for Ken Coleman, but it’s great to hear an announcer with a real Boston accent.
I'm guessing Martin took over from Dick Stockton, who was the Red Sox voice who called Fisk's home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, the last World Series where NBC used announcers from the teams playing on the broadcast crew for such and it was Stockton for called that for NBC.
@@WaltGekko Martin went all the way back to the Curt Gowdy days, starting in 1961. He worked on both radio and tv, and retired in 1992. He worked with Coleman, Mel Parnell, Johnny Pesky, Bob Montgomery, and Jerry Remy, among others. Dick Stockton was working in Boston in 1975, certainly, but I don’t think he ever actually had the full time job for the Red Sox. He worked as a sports anchor for one of the news stations at the time, called some Bruins games, and had also been working for CBS since the late ‘60s.
@@johncassani6780 Ned Martin is who I remember most and looking back was surprised NBC didn't use him since they were still using the home team announcers with Curt Gowdy and/or Joe Garigiola for the World Series at the time. I was surprised to hear Stockton on that call looking back because he was much more associated with CBS (and later FOX). Ironically, that Game 6 in 1975 was when Stockton met his future wife, Lesley Visser which I remember reading about years later.
I was born in LA , Calif in 1963 and at about 8, having moved to San Diego, saw my first NBC Saturday Game of the Week from Fenway. I was 100% hooked on baseball. I read every book I could find. I went to Padres games...but nothing has ever compared to Fenway. Ever. When Gowdy and Kubek would be in Boston in the early 70's I sat there mesmerized by Fenway having read the history of the team, the players the "just misses"...I finally made it to Fenway as an adult and spent the entire game roaming the stands, sitting is different seats, soaking it all in. It was one of the best baseball days of my life. To see this in color from 1967 is just hypnotizing to me....thanks for posting.
No instant replay, I noticed. I believe that became more common in early 1970s. Then again, it was a pleasure to simply pay attention to a game that was much more simple, yet probably more fabulous, at that time. Just think of the players in their 20s and 30s at that time, 1967. Rod Carew, Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Jim Lonborg, George Scott, Reggie Smith and a pitcher with a rather short career, but did well at times. Santiago. Almost forgot Sparky Lyle, reliever of the Red Sox, who would have a decent career as a reliever for both Red Sox and Yankees. Players in baseball at that time other than the ones on Red Sox and Twins: Gibson, Marichal, Clemente, Aaron, Frank Robinson, and so many others between 30 and 35 years of age who were such greats. And, how could I forget, the AL MVP that season, Yazstremski of Red Sox, who hit for Triple Crown that season, leading league in HRs, RBIs and Batting Average. Definitely, a "Golden Age" for the game. And only one season removed from Koufax getting out of game with a damaged left elbow... Beautiful....
This is the game Jim Kaat injures his left elbow and has to be taken out of the game. Changed the whole complexion of the game. I remember this game like it was yesterday. I am a Yankees fan and my father and I just happened to get snippets of this game as we watched the Yankees game on Channel 11.
Just bought a collection of Roger Angell columns, 'The Summer Game.' He has an essay on the 1967 AL pennant race, and his account of this game is the geographic center of the piece. Great to see that game play out here. (I was born in April 1968, so I missed all this first time around.) It's also sad to realize that in fifty years, someone picking up columns about the current games will read about launch angles, true outcomes, and spin rates, rather than the pageantry of the game and the timelessness of season-changing at-bats and momentous dropped balls. Thank you for posting this treasure. As a Yankees fan since 1976, I still wake up every day with two thoughts: Did the Yanks win? Did the Sawx lose? But there is no denying that baseball is a better sport because of the game's history in Boston. Rivals, sure we are, but we're also partners in the glory of all this game has been and continues to be.
Still is. He'll hit the century mark on Sept. 19. Not sure if he's still writing, though. Up until a few years ago he occasionally published something in 'The New Yorker.' Maybe we'll get something in a week.
I loved all these teams, including the White Sox and Tigers down to the wire. What a year! Couldn't have been better, Yastremski made the difference. A 5 tool player, but such a great clutch hitter-amazing!
@Floyd Lawson and the fact that detroit was absolutely burned to the ground that summer and they got a half empty stadium. Theres a hbo documentary on how the tigers helped heal detroit in 1968
@@sominboy2757 As I noted in my own comment, the Tigers had to play back-to-back doubleheaders against the Angels to close out the 1967 due to a rainout on Thursday and cold conditions on Friday. That likely killed their chances as going into Saturday, they actually would have been guaranteed at worst a one-game playoff if they had swept the Angels in that final series.
The best "one month" in baseball history, post-1950 that I know of. Yaz's September of 1967 and his well deserved MVP award. And to think, 11 years later, in 1978, at age 39, Yaz would still be good for 20 homers 90 plus Runs Batted In. Incredible player. And the pressure on him, coming in one season after Ted Williams retired. I loved watching Yastremski play. Incredible player.
1972 also came down to a half game with Detroit winning the division over Boston. They played a different number of games that year due to the players strike.
1967 was the year I became a rabid baseball fan and adopted the Tigers as my team. That pennant race was simply unbelievable. I was crushed when the Red Sox won it on the very last day, but my boys came back next year and won it all in dramatic fashion. Ahhhhh, memories.....
Tigers would have won it had they swept the doubleheader against Angels but lost 2d game. they were something in 68 .I read the book Sock it to Em Tigers and watched the you tube documentary. very entertaining
'we're all behind our baseball team..... go get 'em Tigers. World Series bound and pickin' up steam.... go get 'em Tigers. They'll be joy in Tigertown we'll sing this song when the Bengals bring that pennant home, where it belongs. We're all behind our baseball team..... go get 'em Detroit Tigers, go get 'em.... TIGERS !!
Interesting to see all the changes from then to now.... *Can actually see the stirrups *Bats have a larger handle and batters actually choke up *Game moves along at a brisk pace Batters swing more for contact than swinging for HRs
Back in those days, it was discouraged to swing for the fences. As a youth we were taught to keep eye on the ball, swing level through the ball and make good solid contact and the home runs would come naturally. Today, they are taught to maximize bat speed, exit velocity and launch angle. If they put a shift on you do t try to go the other way, just try to hit OVER the shift.
I dont know how I got here but somthings about the lack of convenient overlays on screen makes the game alot more engaging as I have to pay attention. It makes it much more enjoyable
Yaz missed being the unanimous choice for 1967 AL MVP by one vote -- for Cesar Tovar. The vote was cast by Max Nichols, who, naturally, covered the Twins.
I was at these two Twins games. I was also at the Tony C beaning game. It was a Friday night, and the next day was an NBC game. Was sitting in Tony's triangle with my father and brother. My brother was leaving for Viet Nam in a few days.
As this and a few other videos on RUclips successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
Miss the days when the core players of a team stayed for years; Killebrew, Oliva, Carew, etc. Baseball was a much, much better game in the late 60's. Remember watching Bob Gibson in that year's world series, and in the '68 series, as well.
@@TrevorEMayo so NBA players about to sign $81 million dollar annual contracts this summer to perhaps play in 60 of the 82 games scheduled a better thing? 'Load Management?' I don't think Kareem or Bob Gibson worried about load management. Today's pro leagues are largely unwatchable. LeBron wants to wait another month to pick which team he wants to play on--guarantee it won't be for the Pistons or the Wizards. The NFL is the only league that even remotely gets things right.
@@jimdahlin7333 so I guess you're one of those who believes that unconstitutional activity is simply fine as long as the outcomes are in line with your preferred view
Remember this weekend. The White Sox were also involved in this absolute scramble for the AL title. Divisional play did not start until the 1969 season.
No hype. No constant changing of pitchers. No advertisements by play by play announcers. Did players make significantly more than the average person? (Well, at least the good ones) Yes. Were the salaries off the charts and in another galaxy? No. This was a pleasure to view. About 1970 on the nose was when I first really started paying attention to baseball, whether on TV, at the game, or playing it myself, and this telecast from 1967 is a pleasure to view. The simple "thinking man's" team sport hadn't gotten way too complicated, yet..
Hall of Famers.....Yaz, Carew, Killebrew, Oliva (just elected) and manager Williams. Games were quicker and quieter in those days. Simpler times, good times.
This is a GREAT PRESENTATION FOR 1967. Look at the 1968 World Series that's on RUclips. It is a disaster compared to this. The 68 game has bad camera angles and low quality pictures. And low quality announcing. This 67 game is AMAZING!
There's a 1965 game between the Reds at Cubs from August 1965 in full color with Jack Brickhouse broadcasting. Roses second year in baseball, and Robinson still on the Reds. Check on you tube...fantastic coverage.
THEN there was the empty lot at the end of r block, we called it Naughtons Field, cause Mr. Naughton would kindly cut the grass so we all could play there. Mr Naughton would sit there and watch us play as well as his snauzer, BUDWEISER too, and then we would go over and stay awhile and visit, those were the GREAT days of baseball and growing up !! Anybody else got their favorite stories ??
This was the yr. we moved to the suburbs of Chgo. and when basebal really became my passion, I grew up n a neighborhood with lots of kids, heck 52 on r block alone and many more down the street. Saturdays were sandlot games at the park, a few of us would git on r bikes and round up the kids to meet at the park, we would b out there till it got dark. First, we would flip to catch the bat at the nob and whoever would kick it out was the winner to bat first. And the great plays, hits, fair or foul was always an argument, catches and I could go on and on. But unlike todays sandlots that u dont see this happening anymore, unless its Little League, its a shame !! But, we were all good friends and would admire each other for r performances and b out there next Saturday, what GREAT times those were !! Then...........came winter and it was HOCKEY season at the same park as a good neighbor would flood the basketball court to freeze fer ice.......some day I'll tell u bout r MIRACLE ON ICE team and games and fights and goals and still the great friendships we had........ OH, to b a kid again....... Anyone else, got their great stories to telll, go fer it ??
Going into this weekend the Minnesota Twins were one game up on both the Red Sox and Tigers for the American League Pennant. The Twins finished the season playing the Red Sox in Boston, all the Twins needed was One Win at Boston to wrap up the 1967 Pennant. But the Red Sox won both games of this two game series, with the Tigers splitting their last two with the Angels, giving the Red Sox the 1967 American League Pennant.
Billy Conig was the first player drafted by the Red Sox in the very first draft. Johnny Bench was still on the board, as were Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan - but the Sox wanted two Conigliaros.
Think Danny Tartabull (KC Royals) was better than Jose Tartabull. Both had great careers but another Father and Son combo in which son was just a little bit better.
The last two months of the season were the best any player ever had when Yaz tore through every pitcher in the league. He's alway's been my favorite player. Being from Boston, I got to see his entire career. Just an amazing talent. Hawk Harrelson agrees with me that Carl Yastrzemski is the best left fielder ever. By the way, he was in right field for this game replacing Tony C...
Notice how high the pitchers mound was. After Bob Gibson's 1968 season when his era was a ridiculous 1.12, they lowered the mound from 16 to 10 inches high. 1968, known as the year of the pitcher. It wouldn't have made much difference. Gibson could have struck you out even if he was pitching from center field!
Zoilio Versailles was a total baller. 1965 AL MVP, first shortstop to hit for pop. Elevated what was expected from the position long before Ripken Jr. Carew was. Young man, too. He wasn’t the Rod Carew we now know. Without a DH it was an asset to have Carew at the bottom of the lineup. High OBP & speed. Brings value to the 9th hole when a pitcher can bunt and move a speedster like Carew over a base, or just create enough distraction for the pitcher to toss meat on a tee for the pitcher to steal a hit. That Twins lineup was a force. Tony Oliva - he’ll be in the HOF soon was still jackin, and Bob Allison still had a couple more years before he succumb to early retirement with the neurological disease Ataxia.
The Fenway field was not overly prissy pampered as it is now. It used to be a baseball field. In my view it's been turned into a delicate and over manicured turf garden pampered by a throng of college interns hoping to become the next Dave Mellor somewhere.
@@TSmithDesign1 They use a much more prescription athletic turf nowadays as opposed to the more traditional grass fields that were used back then that by December usually became dirt and sometimes as hard as concrete. Grass fields as a whole were poorly maintained back then, which is why so many teams (including the Patriots when they first went into what then was Schaefer Stadium in 1971) went to AstroTurf, which late in NFL seasons back then often were in much better shape. Speaking of the Pats, it appears the Red Sox actually got kicked out of Fenway by the Pats at the end of the 1966 season as they apparently were supposed to close out their season originally with three games against the Senators at home that wound up being rescheduled earlier in that season as parts of doubleheaders, including it appears some re-jiggering of the schedule by Major League Baseball so the Red Sox and Senators could play a doubleheader at Fenway by itself on July 4 that year between other series. all because the Pats had home games in Fenway that September 25 and October 2, the final two Sundays of that season. The 1966 Red Sox season ended five days before every other team in MLB as they closed that season the Tuesday before the 1966 regular season ended with a doubleheader at old Comiskey against the White Sox after playing a make-up doubleheader the day before in Washington against the Senators, which in turn turned out to be the last two games of The Senators' 1966 season as what became their final scheduled series of 1966, three games at home against the Yankees were entirely rained out and not made up (that, BTW was a week after the Yanks played host to the White Sox for what was a ONE-game series that was postponed two days by rain and made up on Thursday 9/22/'66 that drew only 413 fans and led to Red Barber being fired as Yankees play-by-play voice after that season).
Yaz really carried the Sox all the way in 1967. Tony Conigliaro was beaned and nearly killed in August and was out for the rest of the season but Yaz won the Triple Crown and was red hot in September.
Help me here- the announcer says that in this game, Tovar is playing in his 163rd game of the season, with the last game of the season the next day still left to finish the 162 game season. If he plays in that one, which he did, it would be his 164th game played in a 162 game season- how is that possible?
How is it possible for this telecast to be saved while no others are? I've been told that the full tape of entire telecasts were not able to be saved then so generally none survive, but this one does. Also, Ken Coleman sounds like he was a great announcer and I'm surprised he's not yet in the broadcast wing of the baseball HOF.
The story of how this game survived all those years should be the subject of a documentary. For years the game languished in the attic of a storage building of the Sports Museum of New England in Boston. It was part of a collection of old 2-inch tapes that came from the the defunct WHDH Boston TV station. Finally the 3 reels were discovered and even more miraculously they were able to be played after some restoration work. As you can see the color of a 2-inch tape is outstanding. I believe this is the oldest (near) complete color broadcast of a baseball game known to exist. Ken Coleman was an outstanding broadcaster for the Cleveland Browns and the Red Sox, as well as callling Harvard football. A fine gentleman, he should be in the broadcasters wing of the Hall of Fame in both Canton and Cooperstown.
Not only that, but videotape was so expensive back then the networks recorded over previously aired broadcasts as a cost-cutting measure. The networks didn't know the value of archiving at the time, so little thought was paid to it. NBC in particular was said to be wiping (as the rerecording practice was known) previously aired broadcasts as late as 1980.
@@rrmarshall3239 Amen, Ken Coleman & Ned Martin were the best. So glad I was a kid growing up in suburban Boston during this time. What an exciting year.
This is the oldest known complete broadcast of an MLB game to exist: It was a situation where the Twins had to win both games just to assure themselves of a one-game playoff with the Tigers the following Monday (October 2, 1967) while the Red Sox at this point were not assured of anything even if they had won both games of this series (it was a two-game series as in those days, MLB didn't automatically make every weekend series start on Thursday or Friday). Back-to-back postponemts due to rain on Thursday night and cold on Friday night (temps in the low 40s that today they would play through) forced the Angels and Tigers to complete their 1967 seasons with back-to-back doubleheaders at Tiger Stadium, so if the Tigers had won all four games they would have been assured of no worse than a one-game playoff. The White Sox were also in this race, but had been eliminated that Friday night (9/29/'67) with a loss at home to the (then-Washington) Senators (now Texas Rangers), as the White Sox actually got swept by the Senators in their final weekend series of that season. The Red Sox would get the help they needed to remain alive if they won Saturday (which they would) when the Tigers split the first of the two doubleheaders against the Angels to close that season. That meant the winner of the Sunday (10/1/'67) Twins-Red Sox game would be assured no worse than a one-game playoff on Monday while the Tigers now had to sweep the Angels on Sunday to stay alive and force that plsyoff. Of course, the Red Sox would win their game on Sunday, but as the Tigers won the first game of the second doubleheader, the Red Sox had to sweat out whether or not they would be going to the World Series against the Cardinals (before 1969 there were no divisions and the regular season champions of each league went directly to the World Series with the Cardinals easily winning the National League in 1967). The Angels would beat the Tigers in the second game of the second doubleheader and the Red Sox of course went to the World Series. That 1967 season saved baseball in Boston and in the process saved Yankees-Red Sox as the biggest rivalrly in all of sports that it now is (and has been since the '70s when both teams were good at the same time for the first time in many years as the Red Sox had been horrific for most of the 1950's and '60s prior to the 1967 season). The Red Sox had been 62-100 just two seasons earlier in 1965 and a couple of days just over two years before this game, the Red Sox hosted the then-newly minted California Angels (who had just changed their name from the Los Angeles Angels in Sept. 1965) before two of the smallest crowds in MLB history: 461 (I believe the fourth-smallest crowd in MLB history) on Sept. 28, 1965 and 409 (second smallest ever and smallest crowd in American League history) on Sept. 29 for a combined attendance of 870, smallest ever for a two-game series in MLB history. This, and another bad season in 1966 (where the Red Sox season actually ended five days before everyone else as their original season-ending series against the Senators wound up having to be re-scheduled as parts of doubleheaders earlier that season due to the Patriots having a home game at Fenway on Oct. 2, 1966, the final day of that MLB season) led to the Yawkeys looking to move the Red Sox to Milwaukee to replace the Braves that had moved to Atlanta for the 1966 season. This season prevented that, though if the Yawkeys did that, this Red Sox team likely takes on the Brewers name the Seattle Pilots would take when they moved to Milwaukee days before the 1970 season began while Boston likely would have gotten an expansion team that got the Red Sox name that would have come in instead of the Pilots for the 1969 season without the problems the Pilots had as MLB caved into threats by elected officials that forced MLB to have the Royals and Pilots to begin play in 1969.
Just curious, group. Ken Harrelson's season + with the Red Sox was very good (AS Game in 68). He was in his prime, very productive, could play OF, 1B, pinch hit. Why did they trade him? And for Sonny Seibert? That golf nonsense doesn't explain it. Thoughts?
No one cares, probably, but I watched this live at age 13. It was a magical season for the Red Sox except for losing to the Cardinals in the WS. Jim Lonborg on only two days rest didn't have enough gas in the tank. Baseball used to be great. Now, not so much.
I care brother, I'm a 64 yr old Canadian Sox fan. We got our American cable feed out of Boston and they became my team and still are. Must have been a great experience...I envy you. Cheers brother 🍻
I was just looking at the box score and some articles and it's safe to say if Jim Kaat doesn't get hurt, the Twins win this game and who knows? He was on a roll that September of 67 and the Twins bullpen stunk in this game.
@@daniellinehan63 Exactly he was released by the Twins and got back working with the great Johnny Sain who had him go to the no wind up motion and pitch every 4th day and Kaat was excellent. Actually he was having a great year in 1972 when he was injured and lost for the year and in 1973 combined won 15 games. He was waived by the Twins in August of 73 and still won 15 games. In 74 and 75 pitching every 4th day Kaat made 80 starts going 41 and 27 with a .500 team in 581 innings. He was dealt to the Phillies in 1976 and his era was decent but he was awful in August and September going 2-9 with an era over 4.50 that ruined a strong season. He was 10 and 5 with a sub 3 era going into August and stunk down the stretch. He was never really good after July of 1976 hanging on until age 44 as a lefty specialist and spot starter. After leaving the White Sox in 1975, he was 235 and 187 with an era around 3.18 and from 1976 to 83 was 48 and 50 with an era around 4.10. Kaat also hit 16 homers and won 16 Gold Gloves and of course in 2022 made the HOF!
Agreed. I think this style is the perfect baseball uniform. Not the short baggy pants cut off at the knees, or the long baggy pants down to the ankle. About 6-8” inches below the knee, tighter fitting with a good view of the stirrups.
@@Mark-sj3xb 1966 thru 1973 works for me. Before the Astros rainbows. I'll tolerate the Phillies fancy P and the White Sox red unies. The White Sox shorts; no never. I liked the A's 1969 with the yellow helmet. There is a book of BB uniforms by Marc Okkenen.
Why isn’t the duo of Ken Coleman and Ned Martin in the broadcaster’s wing of Cooperstown!?!? …. Like my Daddy always said “Only thing guaranteed fair in life is a ball hit off the foul pole!”
What a difference in announcing. No wasted words or endless stories. Also, the pitchers take less than 15 seconds between each pitch. A BETTER GAME!
and way more professional also
Motoring in the relievers didn't hurt, either 😉
Back then announcers would switch between TV and radio, usually 3rd and 6th inning
You are watching the clinching of the triple crown.
We also didn’t know “what they were feeling” and “what they said”
While I am sure that this is insignificant to practically anyone else, what a treat it was for me to see Cal Ermer as manager of the Twins. Cal spent his last years in Chattanooga and was frequently seen at Chattanooga Lookouts games where I had a summer part time job. I remember him as a gracious and kind gentleman who I was privileged to get to know. Thanks for posting this.
Not familiar with that name. First manager of Minnesota I remember was Billy Martin, who took the helm in 1969.. Sounds like he was a pretty down to Earth type of guy. Glad you had such a pleasant experience..
What happened to Sam Mele? The Twins Manager in the 1965 World Series.
@@Jiltedin2007I played Little League with his son, Scott, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
He was a really good 1st baseman and hitter.
So sad to think that it was only a month prior to this game that Tony Conigliaro was tragically injured. I wish someone would upload a full game with Tony playing.
Nice to see Fenway Park plain and Ad Free, and the television broadcast without a cluttered up screen with constantly running tickers. The games back then were so much more enjoyable to watch.
MissCelticGirl At least the game is much easier to see on tv
MissCelticGirl What I don’t like about today’s baseball is the announcers. They do way to much talking
Conigliaro was going to be a superstar in DiMaggio's class.
Tragically I was at Oakland Coliseum in 1971 for Tony C's last game. He was practically blind in that eye by then.
@@aa697 yup, and probably 500 home runs
This was my first year as a Sox fan, I was 10 years old and have never looked back. Love my Sox forever
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i was 8 and i grew up in the shadow of Fenway Park on Park Drive
@@DonQwantsyou I was almost 9, growing up 15 miles away from Fenway on the North Shore and this season gripped us kids like none other. Wish I still had my memorabilia from this year.
@Max lynette My second. Family moved from SoCal to Brookline in '66, and I went to some games in '66 and we finished ninth. Never saw this coming, and I was completely hooked after that. I was doing a temporary job in Fargo, ND when we came back to beat the Yankees in the '04 ALCS and went on to win the WS. Sox forever is right, and Fenway is heaven!
Fell in love with the Sox in the “Impossible Dream” season. Suffered through a lot of disappointments, but was finally able to see them win it all...several times!
Go BoSox!
I remember going to this game what a great season. Love Fenway park
So nice to hear announcers just broadcasting the game - Today's announcers should use this tape as a training class.
Ain’t gonna happen because today it’s a pissing contest to see who can prove who is the most “brilliant”
@@Mark-sj3xb That is so well said, Today's broadcasters especially baseball are the biggest know it alls, The Nationals are my local team and I think they're announcers suck.
They let the ballpark sounds fill the spaces, so much better than the nonstop blather.
As a broadcaster myself, I agree! The GAME is the SHOW! NOT the broadcasters! I was 8 years old around this time and I learned how to call the game by listening to announcers of that era!
Great announcers for sure, Ned Martin and Ken Coleman were two of the best
11 years old and I remember watching this with my Pop. Killer...Tony....Carew...Kaat......Allison....a die hard LOYAL Twins fan. Thanks for this upload!
Yes, the twins really had some great talent in those days. Billy Martin was a manager later in the decade.
The elbow pop that changed Jim Kaat's career! Had a good live fastball before this but the injury required surgery. Wiped out the 1968 season and when Kaat came back he no longer had the same fastball but did pitch well for several more years, becoming a "crafty southpaw" as the announcers would call him. Wound up with over 280 wins in his career, although it was really 2 careers - pre and post arm surgery.
The really weird thing is that what I just described about Kaat almost exactly describes Tommy John's career path as well! Good fastball, strikeout pitcher, arm injury, "crafty southpaw", over 280 wins!
He was less well-known than some of the other guys
This was a bit before my time, being born in '75. But I knew all about the the Red Sox and the '67 season (Conigliaro, Yaz, Patrocelli, and all the classic players) from my dad who was a huge baseball fan and quite the pitcher. He went to a Red Sox open tryout and did pretty well. They were even going to offer him a minor league contract, but his focus was on college--went to Brown University to get his engineering degree. To his death, he was an ardent baseball fan. I LOVED the dozens of times we went to Fenway to watch the Sox. Nothing like that experience for a young kid. Baseball, family, and the American way. God bless.
You made me cry my friend!
Look how great those uniforms look too
Yeah, they actually fit like uniforms instead of pajamas.
What a pleasure to listen to minimal commentary instead of the constant barrage of useless statistics viewers are punished with during games now.
Game will never be the same. So little time wasted between pitches with batters stepping out of the box. No 15 minute pitching changes, the Game just had a better flow. There's just too much money at stake now.
DH has ruined the game. Strike zone so small. Just swing for the fences, boring.
prescott shrunken strike zone, slow play, too long of commercial breaks between innings have ruined it for me. I think th e DH is ok though. Batting pitchers are almost automatic outs. DH'ers never playing the field arent good for the game either. Maybe the DH should have to play the field for at least one inning.
@@TSmithDesign1 game was played for a hundred years without, but Its here to stay and sadly, the NL will probably keep it next year, love 5 hour nine inning games.
Watching baseball today actually gives me a headache listening to these idiot seamheads who claim to be announcers.
Wonderful baseball telecast, really brings back memories, thank you for sharing
Brings back memories of my grandfathers who both were Sox fans as am I…hearing John Kiley’s organ brings a nostalgic tear to my eye!
Ken Coleman is play-by-play announcer... one of the best!!!
Not sure why he said Oliva was the most feared hitter on the Twins. Killebrew had twice as many RBI"s and HR's than Oliva that season. Maybe Ken didn't do his homework but a dumb statement.
Ken Coleman, Ned Martin and Mel Parnell were excellent. No extra banter except to provide interesting pertinent information. Baseball was bigger than life back then.
The coverage for this game was from the original WHDH-TV-5 Boston. RCA TK-43 cameras were used; the remote truck used only three cameras; a fourth was added the following year.
Good old W Humpty Dumpty.
Great players out on the field. Just an all-around better time for baseball.
No. This era rules.
Better players today. Better Baseball then.
@@brettsinger9565 Takes too long to play and no half ass divisions and wild cards could be called World Champions. There is a lot more wrong with the ay they play the game. I can't stand to watch it anymore and don't. No more pennant races either.
@@rockintetster Jim Kaat pitched 305 innings the year before. Pitchers can't pitch a complete game and I might add,players are very brittle today
I was 14 years old when this game was played, and I was thunderstruck by baseball and the Red Sox that year.
On this Saturday morning, I set my alarm clock and got up early enough to get to Saturday morning Mass at St.Mary's
at the end of my street. I asked God to be sure and give Jose Santiago his very best stuff and to bless Yaz and the rest.
Even after 53 years the memory of that as well as the memory of my whole family crowding in the living room to watch
the game.....and me up in my bedroom listening to the radio broadcast of the Detroit/California second game (which WHDH carried in Boston)
jumping for joy and forever carrying a bit of love for the Angels. By the way, many comments on Ken Coleman here....and he was a
very fine announcer. But in my opinion, when the residents of heaven are lazing in their armchairs reading and enjoying the game on the
radio, the magnificent voice and brilliant play-by-play that wafts through the air comes from the best announcer I have EVER heard.
(And I have heard Barber, Allen, Scully, Buck, Harwell and Brickhouse.) The incomparable Mr. Ned Martin. Nominated and overlooked for the HOF in 2021. The years he was paired with Jim Woods should be used as textbook material for any living soul who aspires to boadcasting baseball games.
The shrieking, screaming bozos we listen to nowadays should cower in shame.
SF Gs were always my team. But this was the year that I started liking the the RS. Good thing they are in different leagues. Luckily in 69, we moved to the SF Bay Area and I got to see them when they played the As. the Tony C thing was one of the most brutal injuries I've seen in sports. What a stick that guy was.
Ned was a great announcer.
I was five and wish I could write I remember the 1967 season but would be lying. I'm sure I watched Mets and Yankee games up to 1968 living in NJ and then did watch the Red Sox starting in 1969 as we had moved to Southborough. My first baseball hat was a Red Sox hat my Dad bought for me from the Sears in Natick. In 1971 his job moved us back to NJ and at age 9 I became an official Mets fan and Yankee hater.
My first ever live game was in 1970 with my older Brother at Fenway. We went on the township Bus and saw the Red Sox and the White Sox and sat in the right field bleachers.
Great memories!
I grew up hearing Ned Martin calling Sox games, and I really miss him. He was a true pro. I’m a little young for Ken Coleman, but it’s great to hear an announcer with a real Boston accent.
I'm guessing Martin took over from Dick Stockton, who was the Red Sox voice who called Fisk's home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, the last World Series where NBC used announcers from the teams playing on the broadcast crew for such and it was Stockton for called that for NBC.
@@WaltGekko Martin went all the way back to the Curt Gowdy days, starting in 1961. He worked on both radio and tv, and retired in 1992. He worked with Coleman, Mel Parnell, Johnny Pesky, Bob Montgomery, and Jerry Remy, among others. Dick Stockton was working in Boston in 1975, certainly, but I don’t think he ever actually had the full time job for the Red Sox. He worked as a sports anchor for one of the news stations at the time, called some Bruins games, and had also been working for CBS since the late ‘60s.
@@johncassani6780 Ned Martin is who I remember most and looking back was surprised NBC didn't use him since they were still using the home team announcers with Curt Gowdy and/or Joe Garigiola for the World Series at the time. I was surprised to hear Stockton on that call looking back because he was much more associated with CBS (and later FOX).
Ironically, that Game 6 in 1975 was when Stockton met his future wife, Lesley Visser which I remember reading about years later.
I was born in LA , Calif in 1963 and at about 8, having moved to San Diego, saw my first NBC Saturday Game of the Week from Fenway. I was 100% hooked on baseball. I read every book I could find. I went to Padres games...but nothing has ever compared to Fenway. Ever. When Gowdy and Kubek would be in Boston in the early 70's I sat there mesmerized by Fenway having read the history of the team, the players the "just misses"...I finally made it to Fenway as an adult and spent the entire game roaming the stands, sitting is different seats, soaking it all in. It was one of the best baseball days of my life. To see this in color from 1967 is just hypnotizing to me....thanks for posting.
No instant replay, I noticed. I believe that became more common in early 1970s. Then again, it was a pleasure to simply pay attention to a game that was much more simple, yet probably more fabulous, at that time. Just think of the players in their 20s and 30s at that time, 1967. Rod Carew, Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Jim Lonborg, George Scott, Reggie Smith and a pitcher with a rather short career, but did well at times. Santiago. Almost forgot Sparky Lyle, reliever of the Red Sox, who would have a decent career as a reliever for both Red Sox and Yankees.
Players in baseball at that time other than the ones on Red Sox and Twins: Gibson, Marichal, Clemente, Aaron, Frank Robinson, and so many others between 30 and 35 years of age who were such greats. And, how could I forget, the AL MVP that season, Yazstremski of Red Sox, who hit for Triple Crown that season, leading league in HRs, RBIs and Batting Average. Definitely, a "Golden Age" for the game. And only one season removed from Koufax getting out of game with a damaged left elbow... Beautiful....
I won't lie ,lve been a Red sox fan since 67,i liked their uniforms. The red stands out.YAZ triple crown year !
This is the game Jim Kaat injures his left elbow and has to be taken out of the game. Changed the whole complexion of the game. I remember this game like it was yesterday. I am a Yankees fan and my father and I just happened to get snippets of this game as we watched the Yankees game on Channel 11.
a yankees fan and so interested in the pennant race with the Yanks out of it, I salute you
And that Yankees game was against an A's team playing their final games as the Kansas City A's.
When baseball was America’s game , pure and love for the game ,
Hard to believe this was more than 50 years ago
Just bought a collection of Roger Angell columns, 'The Summer Game.' He has an essay on the 1967 AL pennant race, and his account of this game is the geographic center of the piece. Great to see that game play out here. (I was born in April 1968, so I missed all this first time around.) It's also sad to realize that in fifty years, someone picking up columns about the current games will read about launch angles, true outcomes, and spin rates, rather than the pageantry of the game and the timelessness of season-changing at-bats and momentous dropped balls.
Thank you for posting this treasure. As a Yankees fan since 1976, I still wake up every day with two thoughts: Did the Yanks win? Did the Sawx lose? But there is no denying that baseball is a better sport because of the game's history in Boston. Rivals, sure we are, but we're also partners in the glory of all this game has been and continues to be.
Roger Angell was such a great writer.
Still is. He'll hit the century mark on Sept. 19. Not sure if he's still writing, though. Up until a few years ago he occasionally published something in 'The New Yorker.' Maybe we'll get something in a week.
@@MrRubybare I read all his books
I loved all these teams, including the White Sox and Tigers down to the wire. What a year! Couldn't have been better, Yastremski made the difference. A 5 tool player, but such a great clutch hitter-amazing!
@Floyd Lawson and the fact that detroit was absolutely burned to the ground that summer and they got a half empty stadium. Theres a hbo documentary on how the tigers helped heal detroit in 1968
@@sominboy2757 As I noted in my own comment, the Tigers had to play back-to-back doubleheaders against the Angels to close out the 1967 due to a rainout on Thursday and cold conditions on Friday. That likely killed their chances as going into Saturday, they actually would have been guaranteed at worst a one-game playoff if they had swept the Angels in that final series.
The best "one month" in baseball history, post-1950 that I know of. Yaz's September of 1967 and his well deserved MVP award. And to think, 11 years later, in 1978, at age 39, Yaz would still be good for 20 homers 90 plus Runs Batted In. Incredible player. And the pressure on him, coming in one season after Ted Williams retired. I loved watching Yastremski play. Incredible player.
No graphic overlays, no loud ass walk up music, just pure baseball. At around 24:00 the Hawk should be saying”I gone!”
I think Yaz couldn't stand Hawk
@@brettsinger9565 I'll tell you what, Stone Pony... Carl Yastremski is the best player I've ever played with
Awesome....Lifelong Sox fan...Too young to have seen this live...not born till 1969 but Ken Coleman was a great play by play guy. Great on radio too
1972 also came down to a half game with Detroit winning the division over Boston. They played a different number of games that year due to the players strike.
1967 was the year I became a rabid baseball fan and adopted the Tigers as my team. That pennant race was simply unbelievable. I was crushed when the Red Sox won it on the very last day, but my boys came back next year and won it all in dramatic fashion. Ahhhhh, memories.....
Goooo Tigers!!!!!
Tigers would have won it had they swept the doubleheader against Angels but lost 2d game. they were something in 68 .I read the book Sock it to Em Tigers and watched the you tube documentary. very entertaining
@@loyaldude10 if that happened there would have been a one game playoff to decide the pennant
'we're all behind our baseball team..... go get 'em Tigers. World Series bound and pickin' up steam.... go get 'em Tigers. They'll be joy in Tigertown we'll sing this song when the Bengals bring that pennant home, where it belongs. We're all behind our baseball team..... go get 'em Detroit Tigers, go get 'em.... TIGERS !!
@@dace938 RIP, Artie Fields.
Yaz was unstoppable at that point
Yaz and Killebrew tied for the AL Home Run lead with 44, preventing Yaz from winning Triple Crown outright in all three categories 😣
Fascinating footage of H. H. Humphrey glad handing before the game.
Him and Ted Kennedy.
James Trout cocaine is a hell of a drug.
@@anglobostonian bobby was still alive
@@bfan6032 yes he was. That was Ted Kennedy. Remember Bobby was a New York, not a Massachusetts Senator.
@@anglobostonian Harmon Killebrew is one of the great baseball names, no?
Interesting to see all the changes from then to now....
*Can actually see the stirrups
*Bats have a larger handle and batters actually choke up
*Game moves along at a brisk pace
Batters swing more for contact than swinging for HRs
Back in those days, it was discouraged to swing for the fences. As a youth we were taught to keep eye on the ball, swing level through the ball and make good solid contact and the home runs would come naturally. Today, they are taught to maximize bat speed, exit velocity and launch angle. If they put a shift on you do t try to go the other way, just try to hit OVER the shift.
@@Mark-sj3xbNow they've done away with the shift.
I dont know how I got here but somthings about the lack of convenient overlays on screen makes the game alot more engaging as I have to pay attention. It makes it much more enjoyable
I find it relaxing to listen to old baseball games before I go to bed
i use them to fall asleep
Yaz missed being the unanimous choice for 1967 AL MVP by one vote -- for Cesar Tovar. The vote was cast by Max Nichols, who, naturally, covered the Twins.
I’d forgotten that.
Truly pathetic on Nichols’s part.
I was at these two Twins games. I was also at the Tony C beaning game. It was a Friday night, and the next day was an NBC game. Was sitting in Tony's triangle with my father and brother. My brother was leaving for Viet Nam in a few days.
Probably funnest season in red sox history according to writers and fans at the time. Yaz played out of his mind in last 6 weeks
Sox went from 9th to 1st and within a game of winning Series, without Tony C in last month and a half of season. Dick Williams was some manager.
As this and a few other videos on RUclips successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here:
Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate.
The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball.
Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game.
The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe.
The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant.
And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
Pilots existed one year- 69
Miss the days when the core players of a team stayed for years; Killebrew, Oliva, Carew, etc. Baseball was a much, much better game in the late 60's. Remember watching Bob Gibson in that year's world series, and in the '68 series, as well.
Ah yes, the good old days when players were a step above slaves chained to their teams by the Reserve Clause.
@@TrevorEMayo so NBA players about to sign $81 million dollar annual contracts this summer to perhaps play in 60 of the 82 games scheduled a better thing? 'Load Management?' I don't think Kareem or Bob Gibson worried about load management. Today's pro leagues are largely unwatchable. LeBron wants to wait another month to pick which team he wants to play on--guarantee it won't be for the Pistons or the Wizards. The NFL is the only league that even remotely gets things right.
@@jimdahlin7333 so I guess you're one of those who believes that unconstitutional activity is simply fine as long as the outcomes are in line with your preferred view
Yaz made $50,000 this season.
Jim Lonborg $20K
George Scott $16K
Bobby Doerr only $9K
Peanuts 🥜🥜🥜
This is beautiful.
Remember this weekend. The White Sox were also involved in this absolute scramble for the AL title. Divisional play did not start until the 1969 season.
No hype. No constant changing of pitchers. No advertisements by play by play announcers. Did players make significantly more than the average person? (Well, at least the good ones) Yes. Were the salaries off the charts and in another galaxy? No. This was a pleasure to view. About 1970 on the nose was when I first really started paying attention to baseball, whether on TV, at the game, or playing it myself, and this telecast from 1967 is a pleasure to view. The simple "thinking man's" team sport hadn't gotten way too complicated, yet..
Muchas gracias por presentar este juego. Vale la pena verlo.
that's john Kiley' at the organ and "everything's comin' up roses" at the start
Hall of Famers.....Yaz, Carew, Killebrew, Oliva (just elected) and manager Williams. Games were quicker and quieter in those days. Simpler times, good times.
And the others right below them, Billy Martin, Reggie Smith, Bobby Allison, George Scott, Cesar Tovar, Ken Harrelson
Don't forget Jim Kaat
Me too; I am internally optimistic! Go Sox!!
This is a GREAT PRESENTATION FOR 1967. Look at the 1968 World Series that's on RUclips. It is a disaster compared to this. The 68 game has bad camera angles and low quality pictures. And low quality announcing. This 67 game is AMAZING!
low quality picture because it was taped on kinescope
I remember this game as well as Ken Coleman's distinctive voice
There's a 1965 game between the Reds at Cubs from August 1965 in full color with Jack Brickhouse broadcasting. Roses second year in baseball, and Robinson still on the Reds. Check on you tube...fantastic coverage.
That was Jim Maloney’s 10 inning no-hitter. Threw over 180 pitches and walked 10 batters.
Maloney pitched a no no -
THEN there was the empty lot at the end of r block, we called it Naughtons Field, cause Mr. Naughton would kindly cut the grass so we all could play there. Mr Naughton would sit there and watch us play as well as his snauzer, BUDWEISER too, and then we would go over and stay awhile and visit, those were the GREAT days of baseball and growing up !! Anybody else got their favorite stories ??
I love these kind of stories. Thanks. A lot of memories for me like that.
Probably was more of a joy to him than to you guys.
How great is this 👏
67 the year Yaz won the triple crown.
This was the yr. we moved to the suburbs of Chgo. and when basebal really became my passion, I grew up n a neighborhood with lots of kids, heck 52 on r block alone and many more down the street. Saturdays were sandlot games at the park, a few of us would git on r bikes and round up the kids to meet at the park, we would b out there till it got dark. First, we would flip to catch the bat at the nob and whoever would kick it out was the winner to bat first. And the great plays, hits, fair or foul was always an argument, catches and I could go on and on. But unlike todays sandlots that u dont see this happening anymore, unless its Little League, its a shame !! But, we were all good friends and would admire each other for r performances and b out there next Saturday, what GREAT times those were !! Then...........came winter and it was HOCKEY season at the same park as a good neighbor would flood the basketball court to freeze fer ice.......some day I'll tell u bout r MIRACLE ON ICE team and games and fights and goals and still the great friendships we had........ OH, to b a kid again....... Anyone else, got their great stories to telll, go fer it ??
Dennis Andry what went behind the scenes of those sandlot games, ugly women dealing?
@@davanmani556 NO, good old fashioned kids baseball, u should've tried it, u mite of liked it !!
Kaat putting up zeros, and then gets hurt. Key moment.
Dick Williams detailed phasing and decision making as well as Carl Yastrzemski won this game. The Twins were the better experienced team.
much better pitching, yes. Williams was brilliant
Phasing yes. I'm so gay.
more experienced maybe. dont know about better. very close
Ken Coleman (PBP) & Mel Parnell (C) 1-3/7-9
Ned Martin (PBP) & Parnell (C) 4-6
Going into this weekend the Minnesota Twins were one game up on both the Red Sox and Tigers for the American League Pennant. The Twins finished the season playing the Red Sox in Boston, all the Twins needed was One Win at Boston to wrap up the 1967 Pennant. But the Red Sox won both games of this two game series, with the Tigers splitting their last two with the Angels, giving the Red Sox the 1967 American League Pennant.
Cool, Jim Perry is in the game(Gaylords' bro). Tony C. had a bro too(Billy). Tonys' loss was tremendous, though he tried to comeback as a pitcher.
Billy Conig was the first player drafted by the Red Sox in the very first draft. Johnny Bench was still on the board, as were Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan - but the Sox wanted two Conigliaros.
Definitely not HD or 4K. Still pretty impressive for 1967
Its to bad Tony Conigliaro couldnt be a part of this, and the World Series thanks to the beaning he suffered.
glenn taylor : The Hawk did a great job replacing Tony, but I agree very sad ending for Tony and Bosox fans.
Think Danny Tartabull (KC Royals) was better than Jose Tartabull. Both had great careers but another
Father and Son combo in which son was just a little bit better.
Add insult to injury, Hawk stole Tony C’s girl!!!!
well considering that the Red Sox had not won a pennant in a long time, a very good and memorable season; they just couldn't win the 7th gm of the WS
@Floyd Lawson to be fair, griffey sr was considered apart of Cincinnati's great 8 and was a great defensive player
I like an answers like this. Calling the game with no gossip
A pitcher positioning an outfielder! Is this still done 🤔
The last two months of the season were the best any player ever had when Yaz tore through every pitcher in the league. He's alway's been my favorite player. Being from Boston, I got to see his entire career. Just an amazing talent. Hawk Harrelson agrees with me that Carl Yastrzemski is the best left fielder ever. By the way, he was in right field for this game replacing Tony C...
No Harrelson was in right he gave up a twins triple right in front of Reggie smith in right center.
This game was also broadcast on NBC as their Game of the Week telecast....Curt Gowdy and Pee Wee Reese with the play by play...
@Floyd Lawson Tony Kubek was with Jim Simpson the first three seasons on the Saturday Game Of The Week.
White Sox were also in the pennant race, they stumbled the last week of the season. The entire season was a 4 team race to the World Series.
What interesting footage this is from 1967 and two Teams playing for the American League Pennant. It’s fenomimal
Way outside to harmon and they call that junk a strike ???
yes, a horrible call. Harmon had a great eye, drawing over 100 walks per year many times.
Youse guys got to be from Minnesota.
He was consistently calling that pitch a strike, on both teams.
Yaz would be last triple crown until 2012 when Miguel Cabrera did it.
Notice how high the pitchers mound was. After Bob Gibson's 1968 season when his era was a ridiculous 1.12, they lowered the mound from 16 to 10 inches high. 1968, known as the year of the pitcher. It wouldn't have made much difference. Gibson could have struck you out even if he was pitching from center field!
Classic
Given the player's stats, I can't figure out why Carew didn't bat 1st or 2nd in the lineup.
Zoilio Versailles was a total baller. 1965 AL MVP, first shortstop to hit for pop. Elevated what was expected from the position long before Ripken Jr. Carew was. Young man, too. He wasn’t the Rod Carew we now know. Without a DH it was an asset to have Carew at the bottom of the lineup. High OBP & speed. Brings value to the 9th hole when a pitcher can bunt and move a speedster like Carew over a base, or just create enough distraction for the pitcher to toss meat on a tee for the pitcher to steal a hit. That Twins lineup was a force. Tony Oliva - he’ll be in the HOF soon was still jackin, and Bob Allison still had a couple more years before he succumb to early retirement with the neurological disease Ataxia.
Also less pressure on a rookie hitting near the bottom of the lineup.
Days gone by..... also the Patriots were still playing at Fenway then. Field looks a little rough, that could be the reason.
The Fenway field was not overly prissy pampered as it is now. It used to be a baseball field. In my view it's been turned into a delicate and over manicured turf garden pampered by a throng of college interns hoping to become the next Dave Mellor somewhere.
@@TSmithDesign1 They use a much more prescription athletic turf nowadays as opposed to the more traditional grass fields that were used back then that by December usually became dirt and sometimes as hard as concrete. Grass fields as a whole were poorly maintained back then, which is why so many teams (including the Patriots when they first went into what then was Schaefer Stadium in 1971) went to AstroTurf, which late in NFL seasons back then often were in much better shape.
Speaking of the Pats, it appears the Red Sox actually got kicked out of Fenway by the Pats at the end of the 1966 season as they apparently were supposed to close out their season originally with three games against the Senators at home that wound up being rescheduled earlier in that season as parts of doubleheaders, including it appears some re-jiggering of the schedule by Major League Baseball so the Red Sox and Senators could play a doubleheader at Fenway by itself on July 4 that year between other series. all because the Pats had home games in Fenway that September 25 and October 2, the final two Sundays of that season. The 1966 Red Sox season ended five days before every other team in MLB as they closed that season the Tuesday before the 1966 regular season ended with a doubleheader at old Comiskey against the White Sox after playing a make-up doubleheader the day before in Washington against the Senators, which in turn turned out to be the last two games of The Senators' 1966 season as what became their final scheduled series of 1966, three games at home against the Yankees were entirely rained out and not made up (that, BTW was a week after the Yanks played host to the White Sox for what was a ONE-game series that was postponed two days by rain and made up on Thursday 9/22/'66 that drew only 413 fans and led to Red Barber being fired as Yankees play-by-play voice after that season).
Yaz really carried the Sox all the way in 1967. Tony Conigliaro was beaned and nearly killed in August and was out for the rest of the season but Yaz won the Triple Crown and was red hot in September.
Help me here- the announcer says that in this game, Tovar is playing in his 163rd game of the season, with the last game of the season the next day still left to finish the 162 game season. If he plays in that one, which he did, it would be his 164th game played in a 162 game season- how is that possible?
There were two games that were suspended while tied, so they replayed both of those games. The announcers explain it
How is it possible for this telecast to be saved while no others are? I've been told that the full tape of entire telecasts were not able to be saved then so generally none survive, but this one does. Also, Ken Coleman sounds like he was a great announcer and I'm surprised he's not yet in the broadcast wing of the baseball HOF.
The story of how this game survived all those years should be the subject of a documentary. For years the game languished in the attic of a storage building of the Sports Museum of New England in Boston. It was part of a collection of old 2-inch tapes that came from the the defunct WHDH Boston TV station. Finally the 3 reels were discovered and even more miraculously they were able to be played after some restoration work.
As you can see the color of a 2-inch tape is outstanding. I believe this is the oldest (near) complete color broadcast of a baseball game known to exist.
Ken Coleman was an outstanding broadcaster for the Cleveland Browns and the Red Sox, as well as callling Harvard football. A fine gentleman, he should be in the broadcasters wing of the Hall of Fame in both Canton and Cooperstown.
Not only that, but videotape was so expensive back then the networks recorded over previously aired broadcasts as a cost-cutting measure. The networks didn't know the value of archiving at the time, so little thought was paid to it. NBC in particular was said to be wiping (as the rerecording practice was known) previously aired broadcasts as late as 1980.
@@Bruce12867 That's a shame. They couldn't even save games where something good/significant happened. I guess episodes of tv shows are different.
@@rrmarshall3239 Amen, Ken Coleman & Ned Martin were the best. So glad I was a kid growing up in suburban Boston during this time. What an exciting year.
Real video tape. not a shitty kinescope. good stuff.
I heard that comment many times
Old school baseball.
This is the oldest known complete broadcast of an MLB game to exist:
It was a situation where the Twins had to win both games just to assure themselves of a one-game playoff with the Tigers the following Monday (October 2, 1967) while the Red Sox at this point were not assured of anything even if they had won both games of this series (it was a two-game series as in those days, MLB didn't automatically make every weekend series start on Thursday or Friday). Back-to-back postponemts due to rain on Thursday night and cold on Friday night (temps in the low 40s that today they would play through) forced the Angels and Tigers to complete their 1967 seasons with back-to-back doubleheaders at Tiger Stadium, so if the Tigers had won all four games they would have been assured of no worse than a one-game playoff. The White Sox were also in this race, but had been eliminated that Friday night (9/29/'67) with a loss at home to the (then-Washington) Senators (now Texas Rangers), as the White Sox actually got swept by the Senators in their final weekend series of that season.
The Red Sox would get the help they needed to remain alive if they won Saturday (which they would) when the Tigers split the first of the two doubleheaders against the Angels to close that season. That meant the winner of the Sunday (10/1/'67) Twins-Red Sox game would be assured no worse than a one-game playoff on Monday while the Tigers now had to sweep the Angels on Sunday to stay alive and force that plsyoff. Of course, the Red Sox would win their game on Sunday, but as the Tigers won the first game of the second doubleheader, the Red Sox had to sweat out whether or not they would be going to the World Series against the Cardinals (before 1969 there were no divisions and the regular season champions of each league went directly to the World Series with the Cardinals easily winning the National League in 1967). The Angels would beat the Tigers in the second game of the second doubleheader and the Red Sox of course went to the World Series.
That 1967 season saved baseball in Boston and in the process saved Yankees-Red Sox as the biggest rivalrly in all of sports that it now is (and has been since the '70s when both teams were good at the same time for the first time in many years as the Red Sox had been horrific for most of the 1950's and '60s prior to the 1967 season). The Red Sox had been 62-100 just two seasons earlier in 1965 and a couple of days just over two years before this game, the Red Sox hosted the then-newly minted California Angels (who had just changed their name from the Los Angeles Angels in Sept. 1965) before two of the smallest crowds in MLB history: 461 (I believe the fourth-smallest crowd in MLB history) on Sept. 28, 1965 and 409 (second smallest ever and smallest crowd in American League history) on Sept. 29 for a combined attendance of 870, smallest ever for a two-game series in MLB history. This, and another bad season in 1966 (where the Red Sox season actually ended five days before everyone else as their original season-ending series against the Senators wound up having to be re-scheduled as parts of doubleheaders earlier that season due to the Patriots having a home game at Fenway on Oct. 2, 1966, the final day of that MLB season) led to the Yawkeys looking to move the Red Sox to Milwaukee to replace the Braves that had moved to Atlanta for the 1966 season. This season prevented that, though if the Yawkeys did that, this Red Sox team likely takes on the Brewers name the Seattle Pilots would take when they moved to Milwaukee days before the 1970 season began while Boston likely would have gotten an expansion team that got the Red Sox name that would have come in instead of the Pilots for the 1969 season without the problems the Pilots had as MLB caved into threats by elected officials that forced MLB to have the Royals and Pilots to begin play in 1969.
I think the Chicago White Sox were in the pennant race up till this point in the season.
The foul ball into the booth at 1:02:20 was great fun
2:11:00 "C'mon Bell, what the hell?"
Hahahahahaha
Yeah, I heard it, lol. 😆
There was no such thing as coming set from the stretch back then.
Just curious, group. Ken Harrelson's season + with the Red Sox was very good (AS Game in 68). He was in his prime, very productive, could play OF, 1B, pinch hit. Why did they trade him? And for Sonny Seibert? That golf nonsense doesn't explain it. Thoughts?
32:30 Yaz playing the monster perfectly
The sixties! Cool!!
woww, Veep Humphrey!
Carew batting 6th?
Twins had a good lineup AND it was his rookie season. Less pressure hitting 6th in a winner take all game
Umpires
HP Jim Honochick (Crew Chief)
1B Nestor Chylak
2B Cal Drummond
3B Marty Springstead
1B Nestor Chylak
@@aboxofbroken8tracks983 2B Cal Drummond
3B Marty Springstead
I was waiting for Jim Honochick to walk up to Jim Kaat and say “hey, you’re Boog Powell” like in the Miller Lite Commercials!
It's 52 years later and Fenway Park still looks the same, right down to the green plastic garbage-bag fencing.
YEA YEA
sky blue Twins!
No one cares, probably, but I watched this live at age 13. It was a magical season for the Red Sox except for losing to the Cardinals in the WS. Jim Lonborg on only two days rest didn't have enough gas in the tank. Baseball used to be great. Now, not so much.
I care brother, I'm a 64 yr old Canadian Sox fan. We got our American cable feed out of Boston and they became my team and still are. Must have been a great experience...I envy you. Cheers brother 🍻
You're right, they've pussified the great game and all this tinkering is ruining the game also....I miss 70's baseball
Previous MVP Zoilo Versailles might have been the difference of this series.. A .201 regular season average?? Come on..
and he was batting leadoff? Versailles may have had one of the worst years in 1965 of any mvp winner. lead league in errors and strikeouts i think
I was just looking at the box score and some articles and it's safe to say if Jim Kaat doesn't get hurt, the Twins win this game and who knows? He was on a roll that September of 67 and the Twins bullpen stunk in this game.
Jimmy won 20 in '74 & '75 for my ChiSox when he was " washed up"
@@daniellinehan63 Exactly he was released by the Twins and got back working with the great Johnny Sain who had him go to the no wind up motion and pitch every 4th day and Kaat was excellent. Actually he was having a great year in 1972 when he was injured and lost for the year and in 1973 combined won 15 games. He was waived by the Twins in August of 73 and still won 15 games.
In 74 and 75 pitching every 4th day Kaat made 80 starts going 41 and 27 with a .500 team in 581 innings.
He was dealt to the Phillies in 1976 and his era was decent but he was awful in August and September going 2-9 with an era over 4.50 that ruined a strong season. He was 10 and 5 with a sub 3 era going into August and stunk down the stretch.
He was never really good after July of 1976 hanging on until age 44 as a lefty specialist and spot starter.
After leaving the White Sox in 1975, he was 235 and 187 with an era around 3.18 and from 1976 to 83 was 48 and 50 with an era around 4.10.
Kaat also hit 16 homers and won 16 Gold Gloves and of course in 2022 made the HOF!
Kaat was definitely on a roll that last month - plus of 1967.
I think he pitched complete games in 6 of his last 7 starts (excluding this game)
I like the uniforms. Not the pajamas they wear today.
Agreed. I think this style is the perfect baseball uniform. Not the short baggy pants cut off at the knees, or the long baggy pants down to the ankle. About 6-8” inches below the knee, tighter fitting with a good view of the stirrups.
@@Mark-sj3xb 1966 thru 1973 works for me. Before the Astros rainbows. I'll tolerate the Phillies fancy P and the White Sox red unies. The White Sox shorts; no never. I liked the A's 1969 with the yellow helmet. There is a book of BB uniforms by Marc Okkenen.
georgy boy george scott slamming one out to put sox in the lead
✌🏿😎
Why isn’t the duo of Ken Coleman and Ned Martin in the broadcaster’s wing of Cooperstown!?!? …. Like my Daddy always said “Only thing guaranteed fair in life is a ball hit off the foul pole!”