Helped build 3 winning franchises: a) as you mentioned, vertically integrated the minor league system and created a pipeline for Cardinals to have strong teams 1930's on. b) went over to Dodgers and worked with Ebbets and O'Malley's to make the Dodgers no longer a laughingstock . . pioneered integration(!!) of Major Leagues c) in later years, began the steps to turn the Pirates around too . . . by aggressive integration and signing of Latin American talent.
I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan but caught there is a flaw in what Branch Rickey recalled, The year Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record with 61 was 1961 when they beat the Reds in the 1961 world series 4 games to one. Branch Rickey recalls the year Maris broke the home run record the Yankees lost the world series that year of 1961 to the Pirates, but it was actually the year 1960 the prior year but it is true Maris and Mantle did both play together on the Yankees. It was 1960 the Yankees did indeed lose to the Pirates in 7 games. The Bill Mazeroski home run decided it in game 7. I was born in 1953 in STL with my baseball memories that begin with that 1960 season.
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Branch Rickey was brilliant. The perfect man for his time and place, to do what needed done. Whether his motives were for money or justice matter little because in the end he helped Jackie Robinson BREAK DOWN that barrier of ignorance & hatred. A righteous deed that should have happened sooner in my opinion but thankfully it happened at all. Hate will always lose in the end.
Ted Williams had 521 HRs, not 512. Also Branch Rickey confuses the 1961 Yankees with the 1960 World Series losing squad. All in all though a thoroughly enjoyable historical film!
He referred to his boyhood baseball idles as Cincinnati Reds longtime star 2B Bid McPhee (1882-1899); 1B-Mgr Charlie Comiskey (Reds 1892-1894) and 1B Jake Beckley (Reds 1897-1903). Then he said something that sounded like "The Catcher Pike". I assume he must have said "Pietz" which is Catcher Heinie Peitz (Reds 1896-1904).
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What a great film. I wonder what these players would think of the current generation of players. The current generation of players are tremendous athletes. But I hate the constant showboating of the current players.
You need to understand that’s what needs to be done to keep butts in seats and grow the game. The flair might seem repugnant to an older fan or player, but it’s what sticks for the young fan. The next generation.
Not exactly Ken Burns but it has a quaint charm to it. I recorded this, (probably off ESPN when they were hungry for programing) with my first VCR, (a Betamax - remember them?) and replayed it at the beginning of every baseball season for years afterwards. I've always thought that there was probably a longer version with more logical transitions and less choppy editing but that this version, cut down to fit Tv schedules and that this is the one that survived.
16:50 Dizzy Dean,Last pitcher to win 30 games in one season in the National League (1934)When he did ball games on T.V. as an announcer he would say ain't some times.Teachers got on his case about it.Deans response:a lot of people who don't say ain't, ain't working.lol.
In the early days of ESPN they would show this a lot. I had it recorded on VHS. But that tape broke or something and I lost it. I have been looking for this on You tube for a while. Thanks so much for posting it!
@@Hallrk63 I recorded it ... on Betamax. (Salesman told my mom it was the superior format. Which was true, but useless when she wanted to trade tapes with her sisters.)
This is not a focus on the 1960’s as the title would suggest. It is rather a baseball retrospective up to the time of its filming. It is interesting, but probably not if you are looking for ‘60s baseball history.
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Watching this stuff can be very sad. These historical videos are a constant reminder of how far we've done fell. Humans are dumber, lazier, and more self absorbed now than any other time in history
Mark Cuckerberg guess you want to return to the days when women were subservient to their husbands and when kids said they were abused and molested society told them they were liars
MLB sucks today… tradition has gone the way of the Dodo. Shifts, challenges, designated hitters and time limits. Players being paid astronomical salaries for mediocre achievements. I hate the game today and I no longer watch it, nor do I give credence to the Dodgers winning the World Series in 2020. Half the season, last man advanced? WTF kind of USSSA softball rules is that? I bet Branch Rickey is rolling in his grave. MLB has lost its enchantments to corporate and media greed. Vaya Con Dios MLB
The players of today would murder Ruth, Gerhig, Cobb, Musial. The players today are international, Ruth only faced white pitchers and players. Ruth was fat, most of the players were out of shape when they came to spring training, not that way now. They don't have an off season, they stay in shape all year, and many play in winter leagues. The game needs to speed it up, no one wants to see a 5 hour game that's 2-1 with 25 strike outs and 20 walks, with 30 foul balls every two innings, with the pitcher taking about a minute between pitches
The precision and clarity of speech in the narration is refreshing and inspiring.
Branch Rickey, creator of the minor league system. He contributed so much to the game.
Helped build 3 winning franchises:
a) as you mentioned, vertically integrated the minor league system and created a pipeline for Cardinals to have strong teams 1930's on.
b) went over to Dodgers and worked with Ebbets and O'Malley's to make the Dodgers no longer a laughingstock . . pioneered integration(!!) of Major Leagues
c) in later years, began the steps to turn the Pirates around too . . . by aggressive integration and signing of Latin American talent.
I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan but caught there is a flaw in what Branch Rickey recalled, The year Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record with 61 was 1961 when they beat the Reds in the 1961 world series 4 games to one. Branch Rickey recalls the year Maris broke the home run record the Yankees lost the world series that year of 1961 to the Pirates, but it was actually the year 1960 the prior year but it is true Maris and Mantle did both play together on the Yankees. It was 1960 the Yankees did indeed lose to the Pirates in 7 games. The Bill Mazeroski home run decided it in game 7. I was born in 1953 in STL with my baseball memories that begin with that 1960 season.
Pretty sharp of you and I think Mazeroski hit it at 3:36 in the afternoon
@@jeffkujawa803 Thanks, you must be a Pirates fan to remember that one so well.
Great Story, Detroit fan. Ty Cobb most of the record's. Big Bib Gibson fan too
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This is absolutely amazing. To hear the history come from Branch Rickey is really something special for antiquity
Interesting on several levels.
One of your better posts, in my humble opinion
Branch Rickey was brilliant. The perfect man for his time and place, to do what needed done. Whether his motives were for money or justice matter little because in the end he helped Jackie Robinson BREAK DOWN that barrier of ignorance & hatred. A righteous deed that should have happened sooner in my opinion but thankfully it happened at all. Hate will always lose in the end.
👍👍👍🏁🏁🏁
Thank God for a man like Branch!
Ted Williams had 521 HRs, not 512. Also Branch Rickey confuses the 1961 Yankees with the 1960 World Series losing squad. All in all though a thoroughly enjoyable historical film!
Yes, Willie McCovey and Ted Williams both finished with 521HR's
Fabulous historical documentary, fabulous.
Wow this was awesome. Babe Ruth is an American Treasure.
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this with us all!
this is maybe the best thing on youtube.. thank you!
Glad you think so!
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He referred to his boyhood baseball idles as Cincinnati Reds longtime star 2B Bid McPhee (1882-1899); 1B-Mgr Charlie Comiskey (Reds 1892-1894) and 1B Jake Beckley (Reds 1897-1903). Then he said something that sounded like "The Catcher Pike". I assume he must have said "Pietz" which is Catcher Heinie Peitz (Reds 1896-1904).
Wow great research
love this video....just so much history here.
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Wow..amazing.
What a great film. I wonder what these players would think of the current generation of players. The current generation of players are tremendous athletes. But I hate the constant showboating of the current players.
You need to understand that’s what needs to be done to keep butts in seats and grow the game. The flair might seem repugnant to an older fan or player, but it’s what sticks for the young fan. The next generation.
go watch your boring white baseball
They knew the Doubleday myth was bupkis in 1960, yet I still heard the story and I was born decades later.
Not exactly Ken Burns but it has a quaint charm to it. I recorded this, (probably off ESPN when they were hungry for programing) with my first VCR, (a Betamax - remember them?) and replayed it at the beginning of every baseball season for years afterwards. I've always thought that there was probably a longer version with more logical transitions and less choppy editing but that this version, cut down to fit Tv schedules and that this is the one that survived.
Branch Rickey forgot more about baseball than Ken Burns will ever know.
That little boy in the bed at 12:52 played the kid in the hospital in “Pride of the Yankees’”
Loved MLB inthe 60s
The credits at the end of the film indicate it was made in 1965. Especially with clips of the Astrodome and LBJ.
Using old clips. But did you see Castro 1960s pitching at the start? Brilliant Babe Ruth clips from 1930s etc.
Very interesting. Rickey died in December 1965 so his narration is particularly poignant as this was recorded and published shortly before his death.
16:50 Dizzy Dean,Last pitcher to win 30 games in one season in the National League (1934)When he did ball games on T.V. as an announcer he would say ain't some times.Teachers got on his case about it.Deans response:a lot of people who don't say ain't, ain't working.lol.
Great film! I remember seeing this on ESPN in 1984.
I watched it just about every time ESPN aired it. Usually around the start of the regular season.
I remember watching this on ESPN as well.
In the early days of ESPN they would show this a lot. I had it recorded on VHS. But that tape broke or something and I lost it. I have been looking for this on You tube for a while. Thanks so much for posting it!
@@Hallrk63 I recorded it ... on Betamax. (Salesman told my mom it was the superior format. Which was true, but useless when she wanted to trade tapes with her sisters.)
25:00 - great words, still struggling to be spiritually and morally free...
Robinson was flipping OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well now we know that Baseball dates back to the 1960s or further.
“ if You Build it …..”
what happened to the 56-game hitting streak? i don't think it was mentioned which would be quite a miss
They the best player ever wff power length old school
Talk about being "on the ball"
Most interest people in history:
Rasputin
Howard Hughes
Babe Ruth
This is not a focus on the 1960’s as the title would suggest. It is rather a baseball retrospective up to the time of its filming. It is interesting, but probably not if you are looking for ‘60s baseball history.
Made then, 1965. Got some sixties clips, Castro from Cuba for instance. 🙂
What's up with the stupid and distracting time code on the bottom?
The timer on the film is very distracting.
Think that would be to avoid copying, maybe, like a watermark as proof.
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
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Great explanation.
And people can be unscrupulous cads.
I wish our cultural values could return back to the good ol days instead of the bullshit society and people today.
Watching this stuff can be very sad. These historical videos are a constant reminder of how far we've done fell. Humans are dumber, lazier, and more self absorbed now than any other time in history
Mark Cuckerberg guess you want to return to the days when women were subservient to their husbands and when kids said they were abused and molested society told them they were liars
@@joechalmers8428 stop putting people down what are you a damn 6 year old???????!!!
yeah lets get back to racism
A high school rainy day p.e. class test about baseball every year.
Q; who invented baseball
A; Abner Doubleday
nobody invented baseball
The Pirates defeated the Yankees in 1960 NOT 1961.
Rickey kept skipping back and forth through the years.
Very interesting, but why is this labeled as being in the 1960's, when it features Babe Ruth, and he died in 1948?
The film was produced and released in the 1960s.
@@PeriscopeFilm Nonetheless, the title is misleading and inaccurate.
@@garymorris1856 Title makes complete sense. It isn’t misleading in the slightest.
@@chrisofchris I don't believe that you even know what the word "misleading: means.
@@garymorris1856 I don’t believe that you even know what context means.
Use your critical thinking skills
12:50 - Polio victims, horrible disease. Most famous victim, President FDR, Roosevelt.
MLB sucks today… tradition has gone the way of the Dodo. Shifts, challenges, designated hitters and time limits. Players being paid astronomical salaries for mediocre achievements. I hate the game today and I no longer watch it, nor do I give credence to the Dodgers winning the World Series in 2020. Half the season, last man advanced? WTF kind of USSSA softball rules is that? I bet Branch Rickey is rolling in his grave. MLB has lost its enchantments to corporate and media greed. Vaya Con Dios MLB
I stopped paying attention to MLB after the 94-95 strike. I discovered I could live without MLB. :-)
And MLB can live without your generation which hates everything about modern baseball
The All Star game just earned it's smallest audience in it's history...
The players of today would murder Ruth, Gerhig, Cobb, Musial. The players today are international, Ruth only faced white pitchers and players. Ruth was fat, most of the players were out of shape when they came to spring training, not that way now. They don't have an off season, they stay in shape all year, and many play in winter leagues. The game needs to speed it up, no one wants to see a 5 hour game that's 2-1 with 25 strike outs and 20 walks, with 30 foul balls every two innings, with the pitcher taking about a minute between pitches
I've been watching a lot of high A ball this year, they have the pitch clock. games last about 2 hours
Ohio Boy.