BERNIE CARBO GREATEST HOMERUN BY RICHARD SAMUEL PINTO
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- bernie carbo hits the greatest homerun ever in baseball, game 6, 1975 world series, trailing 6-3 in the bottom of the 8th inning, and on the brink of elimination. what a great at-bat. carbo should have benn out, but mere determination and his concentration was magnificent that he hit the ball to deep centerfield. the deepest part of fenway park.
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I met Bernie Carbo in 2003. He was managing the Pensacola Pelicans and before the game he took his picture with me and signed my baseball "Bernie Carbo WS '75 God is Love!" Still have them. What a thrill for this Red Sox fan.
I was there. We were sitting far up in the right field bleachers- from that angle, it didn't look like it was going to be a home run. Incredible moment when we realized it was gone. Unforgettable.
As a 10 year old Boston kid, I was devastated that the Sox lost the Series, but even so there were multiple moments that are seared into my memories…Carbo’s homer and flying into the dugout is one of them.
Watched it live as a 15 year old kid in Boston. There wouldn't have been a winning home run by Fisk, if it wasn't for Bernie Carbo. I'll never forget the euphoria at high school the next day.
Still puts a smile on my face 48 years later.
I was 11 years old watching in feeding hills,mass.
Thank god for Tony Perez on the next game
I fondly remember watching that game with my Dad. In Springfield, Mass. I was 17. Gosh they were such heartbreakers! It has made me so much more appreciate watching the Bruins, Celtics, Sox, and especially the Patriots these last 20 years. It has just been such a delight!
that s what the 7th game did to me...😄
Exactly! And the Mets debacle, Bucky Dent, Leaving Pedro in to Pitch, The Cardinals in 67, the annual collapse each September, the list goes on.@@spirg
I've read that Carbo said as he was going into third base on that homer that he yelled to Pete Rose " hey Pete don't you wish you were that strong?" to which Peter Rose replied "Ain't this fun!" Baseball was very exciting people now just don't get it.
Pete was strong and could hit for power he chose not to, he played a different game, small ball. He was the Ichiro of his time.
Actually--from what I heard Carbo really said :"Hey Pete, don't you wish you were this F&*^%INg strong?" (LMAO!!) And Rose supposedly laughed like hell and said how much fun it was!! (Those were the days--what a great time it was to be a baseball fan!!)
Think a how strong Jimmie Foxx was
Rose was the best. The GOAT in my book. awesome that he was humble enough to say that.
I was at the game, am 68 now, you are correct sir I know the papers had put it in but I was lucky enough to be sitting in the 3rd base boxes and you could hear the exchange, correct, when baseball was fun.
He went from the worst swing to a great swing in the same at bat... Awesome!!!
@MANCHESTER UNITED Thank you fot the information but what's that have to do with this video?
@M nobody cares
@M What does that have to do with the subject matter at hand?
I remember thinking after the foul swing, that the Sox were done
@@jimbates3837 i woke my little brother up when carbo homered. He was only 8 so he fell back to sleep before Fisk homered. I was 16 and it still ranks as my favorite live sports moment ever. Flutie miracle in Miami is a close second.
Had the privilege of watching this game! One of the greatest baseball games I've ever seen!
Bernie is now a hitting instructor he does lessons out of our c35 baseball facility in NC Bernie is quick to admit he wasn’t the greatest human during his baseball years and battled addictions he now uses his knowledge of the game and of the lord and is impacting the youth of our area.
Eleven years old, I fell asleep on all this excitement.
Miss the Carbo homerun, the Fisk homer and that blooper in Game 7.
Bernie Carbo said, "The day of the game I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some amphetamines, took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, and got up to the plate and hit." . . . maybe the highest home run ever hit?
This series brought baseball back due to how great the series was. For those who weren't old enough or alive to watch, Carbo's homerun and Fisk's were huge. None bigger than Carbo's. The most electrifying homerun ever.
Agree. Television was still a relatively new phenomenon in those days and by the early 1970's the NFL was doing a better job of making their game presentable on TV.
The 1975 series helped make baseball a more TV friendly sport, after decades of being more radio friendly.
@@kencummings953 Television was still a relatively new phenomenon in those days? What are you talking about? TV had been a staple in virtually every household for decades by then. Instant replay had been invented about ten years before. TV by then was as familiar to people as the family car, a refrigerator, or a record player. People had been watching the World Series coast-to-coast for about 25 years by the time of Carbo's homer.
@@24HeySay I wouldn't say decades. Not sure of your socioeconomic background but there were still many homes without television well into the 1950's. And no clue on how to use it to one's advantage until the Kennedy/Nixon presidential debates in 1960.
Look at all the controversy on how to shoot Elvis Presley's stage moves on the Ed Sullivan show, and how many great African American music groups were flat out blackballed by TV. This was in the late 50's-early 60's.
Maybe television itself wasn't new in the 70's, but how to present it was still very much in the experimental stage. There were still many regu,AR season baseball telecasts in the 1970's that still didn't use the center field camera.
@@kencummings953I think WGN9 Chicago pioneered the use of the centerfield camera.
Hank Aaron's 715th was the greatest homer.
I was at this game. His home run landed 3 rows in front of my cousin Stu and myself!
who got the ball?
Some dude 3 rows in front of us. Then, baseballs weren't worth a small fortune.
+Max Power: That’s funny, I was sitting there & didn’t see you...
Max Power
I was watching on TV. My team was Rose, Bench, Sparky, & the Reds. What an awesome series. I was glad my Reds won, but the Sox obviously had a great team. It's a shame that there had to be a losing team. Loved Yaz, & others.
@@aldixon1977 Someone's beer went all over the place. 7.50 for a seat out there! Everything was a blur, no one saw anyone!
I was at this game, standing below the section 30 sign, a place I still stop at whenever I am in the park. I remember watching that ball sail out over the grass, just made it over wall. A great home run; without, no Fisk HR.
Yep. Something I have to remind people about.
Boston gave us all we could take in that World Series as a Reds fan thrilling that we came out on top it was not easy & we won 108 games had a stretch won 41 outta 50.
just came across this. one of my three greatest moments in sports, and definitely the greatest home run ever hit. also, a goosebump call by the great Garagiola. Thanks
Garagiola's call was LEGENDARY--captured that dramatic moment perfectly!!
Coincidentally, during that famous extra-inning sequence, I had on headphones. I was listening for the first time to Peter Frampton!! It was Do You Feel Like I Do !! Can you imagine??
I still remember this ... Bernie Carbo rounding third base after slugging that infamous homerun still makes me emotional
This was Soxs game 7
@@gregwatson8219 sadly yes ... but eversince that 1975 world series masterpiece , I became a Boston Red Sox fan .... forever my all-time favorite Baseball team ⚾️ 🌟👍
Everybody remembers Fisk's legendary HR in the 12th inning but Carbo's blast was the reason the Bosox got it to extra's. As a fellow Detroit-area kid, Carbo's HR was among my favorite world series memories. Kirk Gibson's two in game 5 of the '84 world series and the pinch hit bomb as a Dodger in '88 were my absolute faves.
the thing is that the clutch hitting and fielding (Dewey Evans) of the Red Sox in Game 6 is all that anyone remembers...... overshadowing the fact that the Reds went on to win the Series in 7 to become World Champions..... there's a lesson there
@Gregory Holden it's a lesson from history ...... it was a pyrrhic victory for the Reds, because of the dramatic effort by the Red Sox - and so, the Red Sox, Carbo, Evans and Fisk is all that anyone remembers all these years later
@Gregory Holden baseball is a game that is revered for its special moments.... i could list a number of them, but i will focus on "The Shot Heard 'Round The World" - the single playoff game between the Giants and the Dodgers in 1951 - everyone remembers Bobby Thomson and his heroic walk-off home run to win the game (and the pennant) for the Giants - but nobody really recalls or cares that the Yankees went on to defeat the Giants 4 games to 2 - the MOMENT is what lives on for all time
@Gregory Holden but..... for some reason, it isn't really applicable to other team sports ...... take for example the epic struggle between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL Playoffs..... that game was one of the greatest in NFL (or any sport) history - and yet, the Rams vs Bengals in the Super Bowl is what everyone will remember, because neither the Bills nor the Rams got to the Big Game
@Gregory Holden it sure was epic ..... but the powers that be (NFL and Network) had to make to go down the memory hole in order to promote their (not so) Super Bowl
I loved those pullover unis with the red caps
Awesome! I remember telling my dad, “I think it’s a home run” when he connected.
Just imagine even more a Boston sports hero Carbo would have been had the Red Sox won the 1975 World Series?
If Rice would have been able to play they probably would have. And to that soccer team I would rather watch paint dry than soccer.
@@scottbell3193 Agree on both points.
@@scottbell3193 is there a difference?
Same goes for Dave Henderson, for what he did in 1986. Dave Roberts ended up getting the glory that Carbo and Henderson also deserved.
@@johncassani6780 Well stated.
I remember Bernie Carbo. The players from the past were icons of baseball. I would like to see more posts of Frank Howard whom we lost today
I was at that game. At 4:09 they showed the old scoreboard that was at the top of the right field bleachers. I was sitting in the top row just to the right of the scoreboard. Sometimes when I'm at Fenway I go up there and relive the moment.
It was a school day the next day (in Connecticut) and that game lasted to about midnight!
I'm from Pennsylvania and I was 5 years old and my mom woke me up at around 9:30 and told me to watch this baseball game she said you will never see a better game in your life and she was right,even Pete Rose said it was the greatest game ever and he was on the losing team
I believe it was around 12:30 AM, you’re close enough. I was 13 and stayed up and watched this in my bedroom with an early 1960s Black and White TV.
From Derby CT. 12 years old. Great game.
Despite never being a full time player, Carbo was involved in another famous World Series moment in the 1970 Series when, playing for the Reds, he slid into home plate and was called out even though Orioles catcher Elrod Hendricks tagged him with his glove that didn't have the ball in it, the ball was in Hendricks throwing hand. The Reds lost by one run.
My dad was born in january 1971 and my grandpa Bernardo called him Bernie in honor of this player
Bernie Carbo's full name was Bernardo Carbo
Great Series! Go Big Red Machine!
I was 15, called my moms sister, Bernie's aunt, and she was sleeping! I'll never forget this moment in time.
At that moment I'm glad we did not know it would be another 29 years before we would win the Series.
Was only another three years of agony with Bucky, and eleven years, with Mookie Wilson
I don't know about the greatest home run ever in baseball, but the greatest home run ever in a World Series was Bill Mazeroski's Series winning home run leading off the ninth inning in the 1960 World Series. A 7th game, 9th inning walk off homer had never happened in a World Series before or since. The Yankees were clearly the better team, but the Pirates won the Series.
Joe Carter's is the second-greatest WS homer as well, as it brought the Blue Jays from behind to win the Series in Game 6. Carbo's was a great moment, but I wouldn't even put it up there with Gibson's' shot off Eckersley, which entirely changed the momentum of the 1988 WS, which the Dodgers went on to win.
Bernie had a great arm. At a Reds game in 1970 he throw out Gates Brown at second after he hit one off the left field wall. He didn't slide he just threw his arms into the air and kind of saluted Bernie.
The greatest game in the history of the game.
That would be Game Six 1986.
@@imilliemedina666 ouch.
@traybern it was good but the mutts could have lost and still played another game. I would think the Bucky Dent game yanks vs blosox would be second greatest.
1960 game 7 greatest game and homerun!!!
Carbo admitted to doing drugs during the 1975 World Series. He states, "I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some [amphetamines], took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, and got up to the plate and hit." It was not just a one-time binge, however. In the same article, Carbo states, "I played every game high. I was addicted to anything you could possibly be addicted to. I played the outfield sometimes where it looked like the stars were falling from the sky."
Carbo later stated he was stoned on drugs and alcohol for this at bat and Game 7. Legend.
What kind of drugs
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It was the 70’s. I was stoned watching this!
I never heard this
First World Series i remember watching as a kid was 1976.....damn i missed a good one in '75.
As much as I love the 2004 team and the WS championship teams since, my favorite Sox teams will always be those 1973-1980 Red Sox.
For those who don’t know, Bernie Carbo played for the Cincinnati Reds prior to playing for the Boston Red Sox...
Rookie of the Year, 1970.
@@davidlafleche1142 No, Carl Morton of the Montreal Expos won the ROY Bernie finished 2nd in the voting.
@@duran007fan5 Bernie was the Sporting News ROY in 1970.
He was involved in a blown call at the plate in the 1970 Series. Elrod Hendricks, the Orioles catcher, tagged him with an empty mitt while holding the ball in his throwing hand. The umpire couldn't see the play and called Carbo out.
Add to the title.... "if you're a Red Sox fan".
Magical moment, magical game, magical series- but hardly the greatest home run in WS history.
Rajai Davis just had his Bernie Carbo moment. Unfortunately, Bryan Shaw also had his Jim Burton moment.
Like I said about Burton in another clip, Joe Morgan hit them where they ain't off a great pitch. Burton and Darrell Johnson shouldn't be ashamed. Bryan Shaw gave it his all but like Ohio native James Ingram said his best was not good enough against Ben Zobrist. And is back to being a stranger.
At this point, 16 year-old me made one of the biggest mistakes of my life: there was school in the morning- I went up to bed. Missed Fisk homer. Oh well. God bless America. p.s. Carbo from Wyandotte, near where we live. RFGA, Ph.D.
Okay it's Super clutch but I definitely wouldn't go far as to say it's the greatest homerun ever in baseball, when it isn't even the greatest homerun from this game lol
It's great to hear Joe Garagiola calling a baseball game. He was one of the best. Today's sports reporters are boring to the point of putting you to sleep. Or have a bad case of oral diarrhea trying to impress the audience with endless facts that have nothing to do with whats going on .
Johnny bench said that the pitch that Carbo fouled off was behind him and Carbo. Carbo was on the reds in 1970.
that seems odd . . .
No no no,you KNOW Bucky Dent`s mammoth shot leaving Yaz`s tears staining the wall he was trying to disappear into,was the all-time favorite of millions,especially Little Leaguers around the world who could`ve hit the same one............T.G.F.B.D.,and hello from Downeast Maine...
i was glued to the tv! awesome series. Ed Armbrister- cost the sox the series.
I know Fisk's homer is considered one of the more storied and dramatic home runs in baseball history but I really think Carbo's was the more dramatic of the two. The Sox were on life support and Carbo's shot literally resurrected them from the dead!! (And Garagiola's call is EPIC--one of THE signature calls of all time for any WS TV broadcast!!)
The Reds won the series. How does this qualify as the greatest homerun ever hit?
Having a young team with Lynn Rice Fisk and Evans in 1975 you would think they would be going to the World Series every year. But the ownership was too cheap to keep the core together and bring in the missing pieces.. What could have been...
I was there
As was I, with fake tickets.
Awesome! I was 7 when this happened.
So great that Bernie uses this homerun to tell folks about Jesus all over the nation! We love you Bernie!
I’m a lifelong YANKEES fan and I remember losing interest in baseball after the Yankees faded in the mid 60s and then regaining it 10 years later when I watched the 1975 World Series.
I was 11 yr old outside of boston sitting a foot from the TV screaming. It was the year I became a fan of the game. Even though we lost it was the best world series ever. The Reds lineup could beat any all star team.
Yes, I agree. Exciting at bat
I watched your video just on your name alone… genius.
I remember the big red machine so well.
Carbo brought them to life.!
At age 10, I was on top of the world ... and then came game 7.
Said he never played a MLB game without being hi on pot.Imagine how good he could have been.Sad.
Protecting the plate. Pay attention, kids
This was the best Red Sox team ever.
number 1 as in number 1 draft choice, number 1 top draft pick
Commentators:
Joe Garagiola, Tony Kubek & Dick Stockton.
All these videos from Game 6 of the Carbo and Fisk HR’s, who won the series?
One play gave this guy an entire rest of his life. One play he went from obscurity to celebrity.
*nearly
Carbo’s was good. Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 game 7 home run was the greatest home run in baseball history.
What is the purpose of editing out the seconds when the pitch crosses the strikezone? Even the homerun pitch has a little herky-jerky gap in it. Is this a copyright issue?
I was in Air Force Technical School at Lackland AFB, TX going thru Security Police training! My roommates and I watched this series! Being a Pete Rose fan, was rooting for them to win. The Big Red machine! Took another game for the Reds to win it! Great series!
Depends on your perspective re: greatest home runs. Carlton Fisk's was certainly one of the greatest if not the greatest, even compared to this one. Bobby Thompson's HR (Brooklyn) was up there as well. There are others as well...Bucky Dent's against these same Red Sox. Again, it all depends on your perspective.
Nope .as exciting as fisks homer was they were out of the game down 6/3 with very little hope of even playing In a 7th game carbo's homer got the momentum of the Sox and the fans back in the game.it was OVER the fucking game was over till carbo hit that homer to center field which in Fenway is a very long home run
Aaron Boone, off Wakefield..
And nobody even mentions Kirk Gibson's shot in the '88 Series? Really? Come on, that one EASILY tops every one you mention for sheer drama.
He was high as kite that night. He smoked pot so much he never played sober.
Greatest World Series…so many dramatic moments..two great teams stacked with future HOFers and should be HOFers
Bernie carbo was an under achiever and could have started for most teams even when wasted
He claimed that he was pretty wasted when he hit this HR, lol.
It was sad to see the troubles with alcohol that Bernie endured...he was admitted being slightly inebriated during that at bat...
Sparky had lefty at bat lefty on deck - maybe he thought carbo wouldn’t be prepare or knew he was high
The footage is absolutely horrible, but it was the most dramatic home run in my 65 years on earth.
Why are the pitches themselves not appearing? Were they edited out? We get the BS between pitches, but not most of the pitches themselves?
Only for Baston. No one else remembers it.
This was most certainly a great homer and an iconic moment in baseball history, but it pales in comparison to Kirk Gibson's walk-off homer for the Dodgers in the 1988 World Series.
yes it was!
Kirk Gibson's home run is the greatest homerun tied with Bobby Thompson.
i dont there is a losing team in the world series more remembered than the 75 and 86 red sox teams.
Absolutely; most memorable homer, and most memorable error, by a first baseman
This was right after they quit using sock puppets to televise ball games.
In the greatest World Series ever.
Had he kept the ball middle in on Carbo, idonei think there’s any way he can pull a homer. Eastwick had a live fastball and it would’ve been very difficult for Bernie to hook one around the pole or hit it out to right or right center, But the pitch was up and out over the plate and all Bernie had to do was meet it and let the velocity of the pitch provide much of the power.
He fouled off virtually the same pitch earlier in the count.
This is my uncle
reds had to be thinking they were out of inning...
The only one better was Bill Mazeroski walk off HR in game 7 , 1960. The only one EVER !
When baseball didn't have a clock. Dick Stockton, Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek. Fire Manfred.
Agree
"Bernie carbo game 6, 1975 world series, greatest home run ever hit in baseball."
To you, maybe. Not to any serious or non Red Sox fan.
Ex REDS Bernie & Manager Johnson! Glad 2C The REDS win the WS tho' & go on 2 sweep the Yankees the next year!
Cincinnati won the damn series guys!!!
Greater than Bobby Thomson in 1951?
Why fuzzy? Shouldn't be fuzzy? Was this shot through a nylon?
well it was a promising start to a big rally two on none out then quickly two on with two outs...
Fisk: Lucky
Carbo: Clutch
There was absolutely nothing lucky about Fisk's home run
I think Reggie Jackson had a few that might measure up to this one.
Carbo was also wasted out of his skull when he this!
Oh yea well I called this homerun between pitches.i kid you not .
Greatest home run??? I think Bill Mazeroski and the entire population of Pittsburgh would disagree. As would Joe Carter.
Greatest Red Sox Homer ever!! No of all time.
You're missing the whole point, it's the drama behind it, what led up to it and it was between two baseball teams that are a huge part of MLB history, Joe Carter hit a walk off home run, yeah it was exciting but it was for the Toronto freaking Blue Jays, a Canadian baseball team, MLB baseball never belonged in goddamn Canada, it's a different country and baseball isn't big in Canada, hockey is their pastime, so you see , there's no comparing these two home run events in MLB history
When announcers were announcers. No Buck, Costas or that god awful Tim McCarver.
There's got to be a better video of this. Somehow I'm not so sure.