I believe the original telecast was in color, but this half-hour black and white kinescope is probably the only footage of the NBC telecast that still exists.
NBC started doing colour in 1955 (for the World Series), so this was definitly done that way. The colour of early baseball broadcast was often kinescoped in B&W, but some of stuff still exists on quadruplex. A good example is Duke Snider's 2,000th hit in 1963. A year earlier, a clip of a Chicago Cubs game has survived in colour. Best colour stuff from around this time is Jim Maloney's no-hitter in August of 1965. Looks great!
The game was played at the then-just-opened D.C. Stadium in Washington, which was renamed RFK Stadium in mid 1968, shortly after the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy.
Don Drysdale was 15-4 at the All Star break in 1962! That’s amazing! I’m a baseball history nut and I was blown away during the player introductions by the names of future hall of famers. It was really cool to see JFK throw out the first ball ( three months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis). Having just turned 60 I would’ve been seven months old at the time this game took place.
The player who got the biggest hand is Stan Musial, who was beloved everywhere. The second -biggest hand goes to pitcher Camilo Pascual of the Twins, who had been with the original Senators.
Wow - just found this - I was there as well as the 1969 game played there. They used to play 2 games a year for a while. I also still have the 1969 program. I can't believe the players that were there - like Mays and Mantle and Maris and Roberto Clemente and my hero Camilo Pasqual. I met Mickey Vernon years later at a Nationals game. I think the game was played there that year because it was the first year the stadium opened for baseball. The expansion Senators played their first year, 1961, in Griffith as DC stadium was being built and then the Redskins played there before the Senators moved to the new stadium. The 1969 was played there as part of the baseball centennial celebration. We (American League) lost 3-1 in 1962. I loved that place and now, this year, they are going to take it down.
Clemente had a habit of looking bad on a pitch early in the count on purpose, knowing that a pitcher would remember and try the same pitch later in the count. Between 1962 and 1972 he had the highest batting avg in baseball...for good reason, very smart hitter
The team stunk though and I hated that those losers played at Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium between 1962 ~ 1965! My team was The Los Angeles Dodgers and Sandy Koufax and Maury Wills are my Major League Baseball idols! I've been lobbying the Major League Baseball Writers to finally induct MAURICE MORNING "MAURY" WILLS into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1966 they finally left to play in Anaheim and were given the ridiculous name "California" Angels! They represented the whole State of California!? They are now called ~ The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? What a damned buffoon the owner is giving them that absurd name! That team has no class! I hated every expansion since 1961! AMERICAN LEAGUE - 1961 EXPANSION ~ Washington Senators to Minneapolis, become - Minnesota Twins ~ another silly name "Twins"? New Franchises: Washington Senators ~ New team and same loser tradition! Los Angeles Angels ~ The "Angels" ,another silly name, have been an albatross being associated with the City of Los Angeles! What losers! NATIONAL LEAGUE EXPANSION ~ 1962 ~ New Franchises: New York Mets ~ They just kept coming up with stupid names "Mets"? Another loser franchise! The only reason they won in1969 was the 1969 Expansion which introduced the dreadful 5 Game Playoffs. Houston Colt .45s NATIONAL LEAGUE ~ 1965 Houston Colt .45s become Astros. AMERICAN ~ NATIONAL LEAGUE ~ 1966 Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta become Atlanta Braves. AMERICAN LEAGUE ~ 1968 Kansas City Athletics to Oakland and become Oakland Athletics. AMERICAN LEAGUE EXPANSION ~ 1969 ~ DIVISIONAL PLAY ~ UGH! New Franchises: Kansas City Royals Seattle Pilots ~ This team was so bad they were filed for bankruptcy at the end of the season! In 1970 they moved to Milwaukee and became The Milwaukee Brewers. NATIONAL LEAGUE EXPANSION ~ 1969 ~ DIVISIONAL PLAY ~ UGH! New Franchises: San Diego Padres ~ Another loser of a team. Montreal Expos ~ Major League Baseball goes International! Ugh! Major League Baseball is an American sport!
@@Phillyfan45 yeah, for real This dude doesn’t even know what Twins mean in terms of Minneapolis? Or Mets being short for Metropolitans? He has no history of baseball besides what he just copy and pasted off of Wikipedia.
Can of course, like any semi-serious fan recall one of Mel Allen's last gigs doing "this week in baseball" (now this week's TWIB notes). Double check it, but Mel did refer to, early on, D. C. Stadium as "metropolitan stadium." Plenty of trivia about this park namely, 1)opened for washington Redskins 1961, 2)was home field for George Washington Colonials football until school dropped program after '66 season? Saw my first college football game here, GW vs. West Virginia, Sept.? 1964. Senators started playing here April 1962. Next All-Star game 1969 (MVP Willie McCovey; 2 Hrs), Cracker Jack All-Star game 1982, Luke Appling homer (fences brought in for old-timers, however. Hondo homered in '69 game to delight of hometown crowd!!
I acquired a program for this game yesterday. All of the players that were chosen are in it even if they didn’t play. Finding this footage made my day. Wish I could watch the whole game. Thanks for making this available.
Both the Reds and Cardinals managers would pass away within 5 years of this game. Fred Hutchinson died of lung cancer in November 1964 at age 45, and Johnny Keane died of a heart attack in January 1967 at age 55.
yeah even though Mickey Mantle won the MVP for the 3rd time in 62 (should have been his 5th) battelled injuries throughout the year as usually and when was hurting Maris would play center.@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772
Mel just sounds so great! I like Clemente going to retrieve his helmet after losing it, and someone must have said "eh, don't worry about"...and he just want back to the bag without one.
I don't think that's entirely correct. I was a bit young, but I seem to recall many (if not all) players put a protective lining inside their caps. Didn't offer the same protection as a helmet, but it was better than nothing.
Imagine...telling one of the Cleveland Indians players..."In the year 2021, your Indians, will become the Guardians. Why? Becuase some took offense to the name, 'Indians'. Yes...one day...a cowboy, will become offended...and the Dallas Cowboys, will become...the Toads. (Unless the population of toads are listening and watching of course). Maybe they can become the Dallas Gravel. No one is against street gravel, are they?
guardians sound like a brand of condoms,what would bob feller think?maybe astronauts will be offended by the astros,or tall folks not like the teams name in san francisco,or how bout those brewery workers in milwaukee?
My sister works for a government agency that distributes funds to a large group of Native People and she is a huge sports fan. She says all the Native people she works with LOVE all the team names like the Indians and are not offended at all by them. It is all whites who virtue signal that are offended by these names. She also says that the Native people laugh at the whites and joke "What name are those whites going to call us this year? Natives, First Nations, Aboriginals? They have to run out of names sometime"
Good times for Baseball ! No disrespectful , overpaid PC bums breaking a knee to our flag?! They would been tossed off the team and booed by the crowd! To hell with pro athletes of today and BLM ! Took away the joy of the game.
best part of the game in DC was to see a great President throw out the ball, JFK! since then we had some real idiots like George W and the worst of all tRUMP
I recall watching this game, I was 16 at the time.
I believe the original telecast was in color, but this half-hour black and white kinescope is probably the only footage of the NBC telecast that still exists.
Perhaps down the road a copy (in color) will surface and someone will upload it to youtube.
NBC started doing colour in 1955 (for the World Series), so this was definitly done that way. The colour of early baseball broadcast was often kinescoped in B&W, but some of stuff still exists on quadruplex. A good example is Duke Snider's 2,000th hit in 1963. A year earlier, a clip of a Chicago Cubs game has survived in colour. Best colour stuff from around this time is Jim Maloney's no-hitter in August of 1965. Looks great!
I wish this could be re-mastered...And THANK YOU for this, these are gems to watch!!!
Rocky Colavito belongs in the Hall of Fame!
Absolutely!!! If "Larry" (Chipper Jones) is in the HoF, then certainly Rocky belongs there and Vada Pinson and Tony Oliva and others
Don't knock the Rock!
I agree ! Don't knock The Rock
So does Vada Pinson, Rusty Staub, Buddy Bell and Dwight Evans.😢
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul Buddy was as good as Rusty. Vada was good. Dwight was the best of them.
The game was played at the then-just-opened D.C. Stadium in Washington, which was renamed RFK Stadium in mid 1968, shortly after the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy.
Thank you... I couldn't remember the other name they came up with for the stadium. The Redskins played there as well as I also remember.
Mel Allen calls it "Metropolitan Stadium" at 21:26
@@glennhavinoviski8128 He got it wrong Metropolitan Stadium was in Bloomington,MN
It was one of the hottest stadiums in sports. Only Colt Stadium in Houston was worse.
Don Drysdale was 15-4 at the All Star break in 1962! That’s amazing! I’m a baseball history nut and I was blown away during the player introductions by the names of future hall of famers. It was really cool to see JFK throw out the first ball ( three months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis). Having just turned 60 I would’ve been seven months old at the time this game took place.
I still think Yogi and Ford should've been the battery.
The player who got the biggest hand is Stan Musial, who was beloved everywhere. The second -biggest hand goes to pitcher Camilo Pascual of the Twins, who had been with the original Senators.
Thanks for sharing. Awesome footage.
NL was so dominant around this time. I think they won about 19 out of 20 ASG from early 60s to early 80s
there was distinct difference between the leagues back then, and yes, NL was vastly superior
Would have been 7 when this game was played, but I do remember 2 All-Star Games being played each summer in the early '60s. What a treat! Go M&M Boys!
Umpires
HP Ed Hurley (AL) (Crew Chief) (3rd)
1B Augie Donatelli (NL) (3rd)
2B Bob Stewart (AL) (1st)
3B Tony Venzon (NL) (2nd)
LF Harry Schwarts (AL) (1st)
RF Mel Steiner (NL) (1st)
Wow - just found this - I was there as well as the 1969 game played there. They used to play 2 games a year for a while. I also still have the 1969 program. I can't believe the players that were there - like Mays and Mantle and Maris and Roberto Clemente and my hero Camilo Pasqual. I met Mickey Vernon years later at a Nationals game. I think the game was played there that year because it was the first year the stadium opened for baseball. The expansion Senators played their first year, 1961, in Griffith as DC stadium was being built and then the Redskins played there before the Senators moved to the new stadium. The 1969 was played there as part of the baseball centennial celebration. We (American League) lost 3-1 in 1962. I loved that place and now, this year, they are going to take it down.
Fascinating stuff. Daddy Wags!!
Great video!
President John F. Kennedy 😎
Man... I couldn't think of a better time than right now for another JFK type to come along and sweep this screwed up nation back off it's feet. 😎😎😎
59,60,61,62 there were Two all star games.
I remember that and glad you mentioned it….. it was a glorious time….
Why were the fans booing Roger Maris?
Casey Stengel was 72 years old at this time…and STILL ran out of the dugout upon his introduction…pretty cool
Clemente fooled on two good pitches,
makes the adjustment,
slaps the third to the opposite field.
Off Bunning, no less.
Clemente had a habit of looking bad on a pitch early in the count on purpose, knowing that a pitcher would remember and try the same pitch later in the count. Between 1962 and 1972 he had the highest batting avg in baseball...for good reason, very smart hitter
@@joeferguson2606 wow---very clever.
Commentators:
Mel Allen & Joe Garagiola
Yes, the Astros were the Colt 45's from 1962-1964
Original la angels cap with silver halo best cap ever
I was a little kid when they wore those hats at "Chavez Ravine". Should bring those halos back
The team stunk though and I hated that those losers played at Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium between 1962 ~ 1965!
My team was The Los Angeles Dodgers and Sandy Koufax and Maury Wills are my Major League Baseball idols!
I've been lobbying the Major League Baseball Writers to finally induct MAURICE MORNING "MAURY" WILLS into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 1966 they finally left to play in Anaheim and were given the ridiculous name "California" Angels! They represented the whole State of California!?
They are now called ~
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?
What a damned buffoon the owner is giving them that absurd name!
That team has no class!
I hated every expansion since 1961!
AMERICAN LEAGUE - 1961 EXPANSION ~
Washington Senators to Minneapolis, become -
Minnesota Twins ~ another silly name "Twins"?
New Franchises:
Washington Senators ~ New team and same loser tradition!
Los Angeles Angels ~ The "Angels" ,another silly name, have been an albatross being associated with the City of Los Angeles! What losers!
NATIONAL LEAGUE EXPANSION ~ 1962 ~
New Franchises:
New York Mets ~ They just kept coming up with stupid names "Mets"? Another loser franchise! The only reason they won in1969 was the 1969 Expansion which introduced the dreadful 5 Game Playoffs.
Houston Colt .45s
NATIONAL LEAGUE ~ 1965
Houston Colt .45s become
Astros.
AMERICAN ~
NATIONAL LEAGUE ~ 1966
Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta become Atlanta Braves.
AMERICAN LEAGUE ~ 1968
Kansas City Athletics to Oakland and become
Oakland Athletics.
AMERICAN LEAGUE EXPANSION ~ 1969 ~
DIVISIONAL PLAY ~ UGH!
New Franchises:
Kansas City Royals
Seattle Pilots ~ This team was so bad they were filed for bankruptcy at the end of the season!
In 1970 they moved to Milwaukee and became The Milwaukee Brewers.
NATIONAL LEAGUE EXPANSION ~ 1969 ~
DIVISIONAL PLAY ~ UGH!
New Franchises:
San Diego Padres ~ Another loser of a team.
Montreal Expos ~ Major League Baseball goes International! Ugh!
Major League Baseball is an American sport!
@@raulmacias1311 aren’t you just a bundle of sunshine…😅😂
@@Phillyfan45 yeah, for real
This dude doesn’t even know what Twins mean in terms of Minneapolis? Or Mets being short for Metropolitans?
He has no history of baseball besides what he just copy and pasted off of Wikipedia.
@@raulmacias1311 now your losers the dodgers have their toilet all to themselves
Can of course, like any semi-serious fan recall one of Mel Allen's last gigs doing "this week in baseball" (now this week's TWIB notes). Double check it, but Mel did refer to, early on, D. C. Stadium as "metropolitan stadium." Plenty of trivia about this park namely, 1)opened for washington Redskins 1961, 2)was home field for George Washington Colonials football until school dropped program after '66 season? Saw my first college football game here, GW vs. West Virginia, Sept.? 1964. Senators started playing here April 1962. Next All-Star game 1969 (MVP Willie McCovey; 2 Hrs), Cracker Jack All-Star game 1982, Luke Appling homer (fences brought in for old-timers, however. Hondo homered in '69 game to delight of hometown crowd!!
"The Ol' Perfessor"
I acquired a program for this game yesterday. All of the players that were chosen are in it even if they didn’t play. Finding this footage made my day. Wish I could watch the whole game. Thanks for making this available.
I saluted the Texaco commercial.
Both the Reds and Cardinals managers would pass away within 5 years of this game. Fred Hutchinson died of lung cancer in November 1964 at age 45, and Johnny Keane died of a heart attack in January 1967 at age 55.
It makes you wonder just how many players of both teams are still alive and kicking after all this time.
@@chickey333 ....that’s what I was just wondering. Not that many are left. Even Willie Mays is way up there in years.
. . . and so would the Commander in Chief.
Jonny died of a broken heart.
I'm pretty sure i see Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon was in the stands!
Whatever Lola wants…
Anyone know why Maris and Mantle switched fielding positions for this All-Star game? Assume it had to to do with some injury of Mantle's.
That’s just what I was thinking.
yeah even though Mickey Mantle won the MVP for the 3rd time in 62 (should have been his 5th) battelled injuries throughout the year as usually and when was hurting Maris would play center.@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772
This was back in the day when the game was meaningful and players really cared.
I think they still care.
where was hank aaron?
did I miss Hank Aaron in the intros or was he not selected? or injured?
He was injured. He played in the second all star game that year.
@@CapAnson12345 2 allstar games in one season, where was 2nd allstar game played?
@@jaycompany4886 Wrigley Field 20 days later on the 30th.
@@CapAnson12345 thanks, i don't remember this...i was born a yr later...take care.
@@CapAnson12345The game at Wrigley Field was a rare American League win during those days.
Mel just sounds so great! I like Clemente going to retrieve his helmet after losing it, and someone must have said "eh, don't worry about"...and he just want back to the bag without one.
i didn't see Hank Aaron ?
The White Sox are the only players with their names on the back of their uniform.
Guess you missed Stan Musial…
@@smartluck100 Yeah I missed the Cardinals players.
They were the first team to do it
@@michaelleroy9281 And in 1970 the White Sox were so bad they took the names off their uniforms to protect the innocent.
I think that was an innovation started by Bill Veeck, who owned SL Browns and White Sox at different times.
Jeez ... Willie McCovey didn't even make the squad?
He was a part-timer in '62.
Where was Aaron and Robinson in 1962??
Brooks Robinson was there
@@michaelleroy9281He was talking about Frank Robinson
Leon Wagner Holy Sh#t!
No Henry Aaron????!!!!
He was injured for this game. He plays in the second one later in the year.
No batting helmets either. They knew how to avoid pitches. Not to dive out and get drilled.
I don't think that's entirely correct. I was a bit young, but I seem to recall many (if not all) players put a protective lining inside their caps. Didn't offer the same protection as a helmet, but it was better than nothing.
Imagine...telling one of the Cleveland Indians players..."In the year 2021, your Indians, will become the Guardians. Why? Becuase some took offense to the name, 'Indians'. Yes...one day...a cowboy, will become offended...and the Dallas Cowboys, will become...the Toads. (Unless the population of toads are listening and watching of course). Maybe they can become the Dallas Gravel. No one is against street gravel, are they?
guardians sound like a brand of condoms,what would bob feller think?maybe astronauts will be offended by the astros,or tall folks not like the teams name in san francisco,or how bout those brewery workers in milwaukee?
My sister works for a government agency that distributes funds to a large group of Native People and she is a huge sports fan. She says all the Native people she works with LOVE all the team names like the Indians and are not offended at all by them. It is all whites who virtue signal that are offended by these names. She also says that the Native people laugh at the whites and joke "What name are those whites going to call us this year? Natives, First Nations, Aboriginals? They have to run out of names sometime"
@@bauerpowerca totally believable
I have to admit that what Native Americans have been called pales in comparison to what was DONE to them 😒
Just a small group of attention seeking liberals wanted the change.
Good times for Baseball ! No disrespectful , overpaid PC bums breaking a knee to our flag?! They would been tossed off the team and booed by the crowd! To hell with pro athletes of today and BLM ! Took away the joy of the game.
Big oil wanted those gas guzzlers lol
Where is Henry Aaron??? Back when Washington wasn’t full of corrupt politicians. Let’s go Brandon
best part of the game in DC was to see a great President throw out the ball, JFK! since then we had some real idiots like George W and the worst of all tRUMP
terrible video.
For some strange reason many old sports videos seem to be particularly poor quality compared to other videos of the same period.
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