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Check Your Local Listings (1971 games on TV) Part 1
For years this blog has devoted time to finding out where a clip came from or what station may have shown it. Rarely do we take a look to see what COULD be out there and hasn't been found yet. As we...
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The Monster and His "Hummer"
Dick Radatz was one of the first great power relievers in baseball history. Dubbed ‘The Monster’ by opposing players, Radatz was a giant by baseball standards. He had huge hands with a fastball that...
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This is not 1970 (Sept 7, 1969)
I'm sure it is difficult for MLB Productions, from time to time, to put together their 'clips' shows for seasons prior to 1980. While they undoubtedly have more footage in their archives than any of...
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The 45th Anniversary of 'Billy Williams Day'
On a day in which Billy Williams would tie and pass Stan Musial in a doubleheader against Stan's old team, we've been treated over and over again with bits and pieces of beautiful WGN color video...
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60 Years of Orioles on TV (Part 1)
For their 60th anniversary, the Baltimore Orioles have opened up their archives and published scans of every media guide the team has put out since their move from St. Louis. In this treasure trove of...
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REVIEW: 45th MLB All-Star Game (1974)
As Major League Baseball gathers in Minneapolis for the 85th annual All-Star Game, I wanted to take a look back forty years ago at the 45th installment of the Mid Summer Classic. Even in 1974, Major...
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The 1972 Season: What has survived?
The charm of baseball exists in the peaks and valleys of a full season. If you catch a World Series or a playoff game, you are getting a truly small sample size. The six month scale of a season is...
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From Maz to Sandy to Gibby: Game 7s (Kinescoped)
To restate the old sportscaster’s adage: There are no two more exciting words in sports than ‘Game Seven’. Tonight, we will be treated to only the second World Series Game 7 in 11 years. The last one...
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1972: Hooton Heaves (No-)Hits
*This post is part of an on-going series cataloging surviving broadcast footage from 1972 .When rookie Burt Hooton took the mound on April 16, 1972 at Wrigley Field, he was likely just trying to...
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When Campy Forgot the Number of Outs
Happy Opening Night!MLB.com gives us a 17-second clip on their YouTube channel of some vintage color videotape footage. The wonderful part of this color videotape is that it preserves the remarkable...
View ArticleRIP Lon Simmons (1923-2015)
One of the original San Fransisco Giants game announcers, Lon Simmons passed away Sunday. The Giants issued the following in their press release: But it was with the Giants that Simmons made his...
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The Story of the 1957 World Series Game 1 release
The 1957 World Series is one of the few kinescope-era World Series that we have multiple complete or near complete broadcasts. In 2007, we discussed that Doak Ewing of RareSportsFilms had shown or...
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Frank Robinson: Player/Manager with Homerun/Win
On April 8, 1975, Frank Robinson broke the managing color barrier in Major League Baseball. For the first time in league history, the Cleveland Indians were managed by an African American. Thanks to...
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A 'Dizzy-ing' mystery solved
The longer I stay with this hobby, the more and more I learn. When I originally wrote about Stan Musial's final at-bat, I was left perplexed at the combination of two video pieces into one elongated...
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1972: The Last No-Hitter of Its Kind (until 2015)
*This post is part of an on-going series cataloging surviving broadcast footage from 1972.Milt Pappas' no-hitter/near perfect game stood as a rare feat in two ways for nearly 43 years. In 1972,...
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The 399th Homerun for 'The Duke of ... Coogan's Bluff'?
It is jarring. You don't expect it. You're watching the ball jump off the bat and your brain is conditioned to think it is a routine flyball. As the camera pans to the right, it just appears. The...
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The 1962 All Star Game (Game 1 - Partial) Review
July 10, 1962. On the same day that the NBA agreed to let George Steinbrenner’s ABL Cleveland Pipers join as an expansion team, Major League Baseball played the first of two Midsummer Classics.It would...
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The 1957 World Series: What Exists
Nearly 10 years have passed since we first wrote about the surviving kinescopes from the 1957 World Series. At that time, only 2 of the games were commercially available by Rare Sports Films and...
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Check The Webbing: Gibby and Billy Williams Day
Editor's Note: 'Check the Webbing' will be short posts about broadcast clips found on the Web. These types of clips either do not need extensive explanation or research, or are updates to posts...
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Review: 1964 All Star Game (Partial)
The 1964 All-Star Game is considered one of the most exciting games in the classic’s history. Only 3 of the 9 innings didn’t feature scoring. The game featured two solo homeruns by Ken Boyer and...
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Check the Webbing: Reggie going deep on WHDH-TV (in COLOR)
Happy Opening Day 2018! Much of the league saw their games played under gray skies (or even postponed) but hopefully this classic color footage will brighten your day! Here we have a clip uploaded by...
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Clinching the Old Fashioned American (League) Way
There was a time when pennants weren't decided in a best-of-7 game series. Or best-of-5, either. Teams used to win their league's pennant in a winner-take-all best of 162 game series known as "having...
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MLB Vault: MLB's "new" (old) YouTube Channel
In late 2010, MLB created a promising new YouTube channel dubbed "MLB Classics". Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that the channel was nothing more than a conglomeration of previously available...
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Programming Alert: Mr. Tiger and the 1968 World Series TONIGHT (4/7/20)
With the passing of MLB HOF'er Al Kaline, MLB Network will be showing both Game 6 and Game 7 of the 1968 World Series. As you may remember, the Motor City Kitties came back from being down 3-1 in the...
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Game Alert: The 715 Game to air April 8th (sorta)
Tomorrow at 7pm ET, the Atlanta Braves will be broadcasting on their YouTube and Facebook pages parts of the April 8, 1974 Dodgers/Braves Game or as it is more famously known, the night Hank Aaron...
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