I kinda wish Indy just started making stuff up to mess with Flo. "But of course the 1917 world series is also well known for Joely McGee bringing his dog and placing it on his lap for the game. This got over huge until many fans started bringing their pets to the games becoming something of a national sensation until the Idaho incident where a live Rhino got on the field injuring several players including Future Hall of Famer Pete Mac Daddy Yjeep. This caused the rules to change in 1918, including banning the use of methamphetamines and groping as pitcher distracting tactics, which of course led to the 1920 Les Volcano Calzone decable that is considered in some estimates to have taken as many as 7,000 lives but that is outside the scope of this channel."
Indy, Explaining stuff to Non-Americans (or Americans who are not familiar with baseball) was my favorite part. I knew the terms but the inclusiveness was heartwarming. Thanks.
As a German, I had hoped to finally learn who's on first base, what on second and I don't know on third but asking about it seems to end in chaos all the time.
The war had a devastating effect on Australian Rules football, all but four teams in the VFL (the main Australian Rules league) had volunteered for the war, and the remainder were scratched together from the players that couldn’t go. One of the teams, University, never returned. Some teams returned the following year, and it took a few years to get back up to speed
You forgot to mention Eddie Grant, who played for the Phillies, Reds, and Giants before the war, and was killed in action during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918. There was a monument to him in center field at the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants. The plaque from the monument disappeared when the Giants moved to San Francisco, but a replica was erected at AT&T Park in 2006.
Indy, since I don't see any response from the crowd, I will respond; Alcoholism isn't a past-time in America, it's hard work. but seriously, thanks for the great coverage of the Great War. I hope the final goes a few weeks after the war, to see how people reacted after the elation of Nov 11.
The entire gameplay of the 1918 World Series took 11 hours and 3 minutes. Game 3 of the 2018 World Series took 7 hours and 20 minutes, enough time to complete the first three games from 1918 and most of the fourth...
Something I find really interesting about Ruth is his peculiar sociability. He would pick and chose who he would make friends with based on how he felt about their personality. During the Great Depression, while he was traveling to Boston from New York for a meeting, one such friend friend he picked up along his way was my great, great, great, grandfather, Jack Casey. Ruth was "Intrigued by a sign that read 'let no hungry man walk past these doors'"
@@Wolfe1966 After England lost to Germany on penalties in Italia 90, Thatcher is quoted to have said "they may have beaten us at our national sport but we managed to beat them twice in their national sport in the 20th century".
One thing that was not mentions was Baseball player Captain Eddy Grant of the 77th division who Lost his life while searching for the Lost Battalion. If you haven't look up this film on TH-cam great movie.
The Great War also had an effect on the 1919 Black Sox Series. Due to the shortened season, the owners prorated players' salaries. Brooklyn's All-American first baseman, "Gentleman" Jake Daubert, sued Charlie Ebbets to recover the $2,150 he was owed, as the contracts of the time were per season and made no mention of the number of games to be played during that season. He won the suit, and Ebbets promptly had him traded to Cincinnati, where Daubert was made the team captain until his death in 1924, including the 1919 World Series campaign.
If I recall correctly, a lot of ball players went to work in wartime industry to avoid getting drafted. The owners resented this, particularly when the players started playing in industrial leagues instead of for their professional teams.
Having watched a few of your videos from your baseball series this was pretty neat. I always loved playing the game but never really got into the history very much. Can't imagine playing the whole game with the same ball... crazy. Fun episode and got to learn a bit as well. Too bad the Astros couldn't make it two in a row.
I heard that the first time "The Star Spangled Banner" was used to represent the U.S. at any sporting events was possibly the 1896 0lympics, and before then it was "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean".
You could make a whole series or even a channel about baseball history. If you do- I'll be the first to sink some bucks into your patreon. Thank you for this!
In the 1918 World Series Babe Ruth set his most treasured record. 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play. It was later broken by Whitey Ford
I find it amazing and terrifying that one little man committing murder could start an orgy of death that caused the loss of millions of lives in Europe and Russia and changed the world forever.
I would watch more Sunday Baseball too! There must be so many interesting and quirky stories left to tell. I even suggested one a while back if he ever revived the series, about the longest professional baseball game, but since that story is from the 1980s and AAA ball I don't know if that idea is in the ballpark.
The war started towards the end of the 1914 English cricket season. Some more matches were played, but with increasing difficulties in putting together teams as players were called to the colours. There was criticism of why healthy young men did not join up. Eventually Dr W.G. Grace, the greatest cricketer of the previous generation, called for the last few matches to be called off and it was done. No major cricket was played in England during the seasons from 1915-1918. The editor of John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack wrote in the 1918 edition "The War dominates everything. Again the chief feature of the book is the Roll of Honour - an appallingly long list".
This is interesting...the war effected all parts of the world and past times..interesting thst there wasn't more backlash for the players playing instead of fighting.
At the “Camp Doughboy” event in governors island, NY, I met a re-enactor who told me about professional American baseball players on the Italian front who played a championship game in front of Italian High Command to boost morale.
For foreigners who will inevitably ask, the name "World Series Championship" started because the leaders of the only 2 baseball leagues in the US joked that they should have a "World Series Championship", but obviously it wasn't really possible to have a baseball world series in 1903 (at the time, Japan and several Latin American countries did play baseball, but sending team around the world to play was a lot more difficult back then. Btw, baseball was first introduced to Japan in 1867) The name "World Series" stuck. We don't call it "World Series" out of ignorance or arrogance.
As an Australian, i do get confused with a 'World Series' played between North American clubs. Aust play international matches in nearly every sport: this weekend we lost in Cricket and Rugby but won in Netball. In cricket Aust vs England has been contest - The Ashes - since 1890s every 4 years or so. BTW the USA cricket team played Canada in 1844.
Hey, Germany is the place to go as an American if you want bragging rights regarding baseball. Germany has 2 baseball leaques, all amateur, and after some weeks of training you can play in play in the minors basically. ;)
Hey Indi! Could you please do a episode about king Aleksander I Karadjordjevic? Love your show by the way, it is very informative well made and overall very excellent content! Congrats to you and the crew!
Getting closer to peace (sadly...?), but did I miss it, or has Edwin Howard Armstrong and his contributions to radio technology -- the superheterodyne receiver specifically, for this time period -- not been mentioned or discussed yet?
Hi Indiana and crew. It is true that german planned bombing a New York if the war lasted longer? Once I saw a WWI film where german use giant bomber to strategic bombing of America continent. Is there any truth in it? I am watching You from beggining (1914) thanks for great show! Best regards from Poland!
The first transatlantic flight hadn't been done yet, and a return would have certainly been impossible. Maybe it was mentioned, but I'd seriously doubt any real assets or planning went into this.
The only way potentially feasible at that era was by airship, as they were used to bomb Britain during the war. But they were very slow and would have made easy targets, if indeed they managed to make it across the Atlantic.
I have a question for you guys. It is currently oktoberfest. I was wondering if german soldiers still celebrated it all the way into 1918 with their government on the verge of collapse and all.
Interesting stuff, though I'm not a national level team sports fan. As a matter of fact, the only team sport I like is whatever sport is played by the Swedish Bikini Team (and-yes, that reference links to a popular baseball associated pastime). And-hi Flo!
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I kinda wish Indy just started making stuff up to mess with Flo.
"But of course the 1917 world series is also well known for Joely McGee bringing his dog and placing it on his lap for the game. This got over huge until many fans started bringing their pets to the games becoming something of a national sensation until the Idaho incident where a live Rhino got on the field injuring several players including Future Hall of Famer Pete Mac Daddy Yjeep.
This caused the rules to change in 1918, including banning the use of methamphetamines and groping as pitcher distracting tactics, which of course led to the 1920 Les Volcano Calzone decable that is considered in some estimates to have taken as many as 7,000 lives but that is outside the scope of this channel."
Can we get an "Out of The Mirror" segment where you just read compliments????
No
@@zainmudassir2964 Yes.
best of all: flo's reaction and indy's comment "germans and american football"
Indy,
Explaining stuff to Non-Americans (or Americans who are not familiar with baseball) was my favorite part. I knew the terms but the inclusiveness was heartwarming. Thanks.
As a German, I had hoped to finally learn who's on first base, what on second and I don't know on third but asking about it seems to end in chaos all the time.
The classic Abbot & Castelo Baseball Routine
Abbot and Costello , gone but not forgotten .
Who's wife picks up the first baseman's check?
The baseball base terminology is also used as metaphors in the dating game.
"I don't no." The feed line
I will miss this 😪
The war had a devastating effect on Australian Rules football, all but four teams in the VFL (the main Australian Rules league) had volunteered for the war, and the remainder were scratched together from the players that couldn’t go. One of the teams, University, never returned. Some teams returned the following year, and it took a few years to get back up to speed
thats really interesting
Where could I read more about that?
Balmain won the NSWRL premiership in 15, 16 and 17..........
dangerouslytalented that's sad.
Is Australian Football the same thing as American Football, or is something comepletely different?
You forgot to mention Eddie Grant, who played for the Phillies, Reds, and Giants before the war, and was killed in action during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918. There was a monument to him in center field at the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants. The plaque from the monument disappeared when the Giants moved to San Francisco, but a replica was erected at AT&T Park in 2006.
Read about him in the Smithsonian magazine a few years back.
_"I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919."_
V. Athanasiou finally a reference i can understand
Hyman Rothstein , " godfather 2 .
I blame Comiskey for under paying the the team which lead them to Arnold Rothstein. When I was a kid I would spit on his statue at the Sox ball park.
We all know it was one of Wolfsheim's guys.
What?
*American lost battalion throws baseball and hits the kaiser's head square in the face, 1918 Colourized.*
Historically Accurate
As an European, I understood nearly nothing of what you said about baseball.
Now you understand the common American reaction to soccer/football. :-) "Ah yes, he kicked the ball."
Italy and the Netherlands have a huge development in recent years.
How about y'all follow your own advice of us yanks learning about soccer and learn about baseball
John Wills I am not at all interested in soccer, so I don’t intend to learn American football!
@@johnwills1748
Or the Yanks can learn about cricket and join the 2nd most popular sport in the world haha ;-)
Indy, since I don't see any response from the crowd, I will respond; Alcoholism isn't a past-time in America, it's hard work. but seriously, thanks for the great coverage of the Great War. I hope the final goes a few weeks after the war, to see how people reacted after the elation of Nov 11.
He has said before that they will cover up to the signing of the peace treaties at least.
@@soupordave Thanks, David I must have missed that
Grover cleveland alexander became an alcoholic after returning home from WWI. It's covered in a roundabout way.
WW 2 and the great war are realising a video every Saturday.
Making it my favorite day of the week
Sorry but not for long. :’( only about 2 or 3 episodes left :’(
Wait sorry we still have the Russian civil war
I know we don't have long anymore with the great war.
Hello there
Less then a month left until the armistice
Indiana Jones we have heard that before “it will all be over by Christmas “
Omg another book reader. So what? Maybe director wont follow the books and change the ending. Stop spoiling.
Fake News! Germany will woop the French, British and Americans in one big pincer move, juust a couple more days... You'll See!! :P
MrWeedWacky the armistice ends in a German victory!
@@indianajones4321 inhales _heavily_ in *Obi-wan Kenobi* voice, "oh i don't think so" 😃
The entire gameplay of the 1918 World Series took 11 hours and 3 minutes. Game 3 of the 2018 World Series took 7 hours and 20 minutes, enough time to complete the first three games from 1918 and most of the fourth...
Fun fact: the last Dodgers-Red Sox World Series was during World War I.
Aha! I should have picked up on that last night when there was screen graphics during the game.
Same franchise different name. They were the Brooklyn Robins in 1916 after their manager Wilbert Robinson.
The WS game last night was almost as long as the Great War.
It was only 18 innings.
Luigi Cadorna would be proud of that slog fest. Both teams barely had anyone left on the bench by the end, LOL.
Vice news recently did an article on you guys! Awesome to see you getting the recognition you deserve
Take me out to ze ball game
Take zem out to ze guns
Buy me some rifles and artie shells
I don't care if zey'll ever come back alive
"America's OTHER pastime - alcoholism". Now THAT'S how you segue.
Something I find really interesting about Ruth is his peculiar sociability. He would pick and chose who he would make friends with based on how he felt about their personality. During the Great Depression, while he was traveling to Boston from New York for a meeting, one such friend friend he picked up along his way was my great, great, great, grandfather, Jack Casey. Ruth was "Intrigued by a sign that read 'let no hungry man walk past these doors'"
Cough “watch Sunday baseball”
Loved the last comments about American Pastimes...best laugh of the day! Thanks!
Wait I thought the invasion of Poland just ended?
MATUA Winston Indy is a time lord
you're early by 21 years
Yeah also something about Stalin tricking Heydrich tricking Stalin into killing Tukachevsky.
Wrong channel 😉
@@Biker_Gremling r/whooosh
The crossover episode that I've been waiting for:
'The Great War' meets 'Watch Sunday Baseball'.
Did you know Indy that the nature of football rivalries between England-Germany and Germany-Netherlands both have their roots in the two world wars!
Don't forget the lost Cup final in 1974, that too caused rivalry
@@Wolfe1966 After England lost to Germany on penalties in Italia 90, Thatcher is quoted to have said "they may have beaten us at our national sport but we managed to beat them twice in their national sport in the 20th century".
I understand that Dutch fans at Netherlands-Germany games chant "give us back our bicycles."
@@MarkBentleyinAustin England fans always boo at the German national anthem!
@@MarkBentleyinAustin I heard it while visiting Amsterdam as "Jerry, give me back my bike !". That was a Dutchman yelling at a German tour group.
One thing that was not mentions was Baseball player Captain Eddy Grant of the 77th division who Lost his life while searching for the Lost Battalion. If you haven't look up this film on TH-cam great movie.
When I heard " .... a video about another American pastime....." I reached for the off button but you got the joke in, just in time. Well done ;-)
Brit here. I'm with Flo.
but how is cricket less confusing though?
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer Beats me Matey. I've played both and understood neither :)
And now you know how Americans feel when Brits, Aussies and anyone from the Common Wealth goes off on Cricket.
The Great War also had an effect on the 1919 Black Sox Series. Due to the shortened season, the owners prorated players' salaries. Brooklyn's All-American first baseman, "Gentleman" Jake Daubert, sued Charlie Ebbets to recover the $2,150 he was owed, as the contracts of the time were per season and made no mention of the number of games to be played during that season. He won the suit, and Ebbets promptly had him traded to Cincinnati, where Daubert was made the team captain until his death in 1924, including the 1919 World Series campaign.
I’m sad only two more episodes left :,(
Maybe even 3. It is hard to tell since 11th will be at Sunday.
Ik.what are we gonna do???
Actually there may be more because of the German East African army ( or war it west African?) that fought for a week after the war
miss u Karl
I understood welcome to out of the ether, and the rest was just noise to me
Same
That’s every Out of the Ether episode.
had absolutely no idea what he talked about for 10 minutes
"Knock knock."
Who's there?
"Harry."
Harry who?
"Harry up and make more Sunday Baseball episodes!"
We totally need an episode where Indy reads nothing but compliments about himself 😀.
He'd love that.
If I recall correctly, a lot of ball players went to work in wartime industry to avoid getting drafted. The owners resented this, particularly when the players started playing in industrial leagues instead of for their professional teams.
That was a nice story on America's baseball players during the war. I consider myself a little better informed about this subject. Great job.
Having watched a few of your videos from your baseball series this was pretty neat. I always loved playing the game but never really got into the history very much. Can't imagine playing the whole game with the same ball... crazy. Fun episode and got to learn a bit as well. Too bad the Astros couldn't make it two in a row.
I would've loved to go to a baseball game from that era. Baseball looked more special back then.
"America's other past time, alcoholism ". 🤣🤣🤣
Somehow I never considered the visibility of a baseball used for an entire game later in the day.
Carl Mays he talked about was the guy who killed a batter with one of those unseeable balls that made the live ball era come to be when it did.
5:05 those baseball bats look an awful lot like rifles.
I heard that the first time "The Star Spangled Banner" was used to represent the U.S. at any sporting events was possibly the 1896 0lympics, and before then it was "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean".
I liked it more when there was only a blue and a red team
Tomorrow, there will be independent Czechoslovakian state.
Huzzah
Why Czechoslovakian? Did they want to be together?
Wurschtl Burschtl Almost the same language, culture and these things. We are brothers.
@@Matthew-3939 Yeah but you guys still broke up in 1992?
Wurschtl Burschtl Because we were having better economy than Slovakia, so Slovakian politics decided to take money and broke.
Wait, baseball is a sport? Here a was thinking that it was just an elaborate lullaby.
This was a fun episode thanks to your source and indy with his genuine love for the game. Can't beat rugby tho lol
You could make a whole series or even a channel about baseball history. If you do- I'll be the first to sink some bucks into your patreon. Thank you for this!
In the 1918 World Series Babe Ruth set his most treasured record. 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play. It was later broken by Whitey Ford
I love baseball
Wonderful special!
I upvote because of Flo's reaction. I haven't understood anything that Indy said.
I find it amazing and terrifying that one little man committing murder could start an orgy of death that caused the loss of millions of lives in Europe and Russia and changed the world forever.
I watched your entire "Sunday Baseball" series and loved it. Any thoughts on reviving it?
I would watch more Sunday Baseball too! There must be so many interesting and quirky stories left to tell. I even suggested one a while back if he ever revived the series, about the longest professional baseball game, but since that story is from the 1980s and AAA ball I don't know if that idea is in the ballpark.
Baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1936 Olympics.
What about the 1918 cricket season? Oh wait there was a war on, and there wasn't one!
The war started towards the end of the 1914 English cricket season. Some more matches were played, but with increasing difficulties in putting together teams as players were called to the colours. There was criticism of why healthy young men did not join up. Eventually Dr W.G. Grace, the greatest cricketer of the previous generation, called for the last few matches to be called off and it was done. No major cricket was played in England during the seasons from 1915-1918. The editor of John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack wrote in the 1918 edition "The War dominates everything. Again the chief feature of the book is the Roll of Honour - an appallingly long list".
There's a recent book about Boston in 1918 called War Fever. A great read. It documents The Babe, Spanish Flu and anti-German hysteria in Boston.
Another great post. Thanks!
Ty Cobb served a little in 1918. Also - they shortened the 1919 season because of the pandemic.
You deserve more views, man. Your content is great.
“America’s other past time Alcoholism” not for long if the Temperance movement has its way!
This is interesting...the war effected all parts of the world and past times..interesting thst there wasn't more backlash for the players playing instead of fighting.
No one took a knee back then, I’m guessing
Great Show indeed !!!
At the “Camp Doughboy” event in governors island, NY, I met a re-enactor who told me about professional American baseball players on the Italian front who played a championship game in front of Italian High Command to boost morale.
No he’s saying awesome names because the names are so awesome!
For foreigners who will inevitably ask, the name "World Series Championship" started because the leaders of the only 2 baseball leagues in the US joked that they should have a "World Series Championship", but obviously it wasn't really possible to have a baseball world series in 1903 (at the time, Japan and several Latin American countries did play baseball, but sending team around the world to play was a lot more difficult back then. Btw, baseball was first introduced to Japan in 1867) The name "World Series" stuck. We don't call it "World Series" out of ignorance or arrogance.
As an Australian, i do get confused with a 'World Series' played between North American clubs. Aust play international matches in nearly every sport: this weekend we lost in Cricket and Rugby but won in Netball. In cricket Aust vs England has been contest - The Ashes - since 1890s every 4 years or so. BTW the USA cricket team played Canada in 1844.
This is so sad. It's almost over...noooo. I love these videos
Hey, Germany is the place to go as an American if you want bragging rights regarding baseball.
Germany has 2 baseball leaques, all amateur, and after some weeks of training you can play in play in the minors basically. ;)
You can do the same if you are canadian and want to play ice hockey
Man, you enjoyed that.
It's good.
A little detour once in a while.
It's not too bad.
Indy has a baseball channel ?!?!?!? LINK PLEASE!
Emilio Estivez is proud!
Hey Indi! Could you please do a episode about king Aleksander I Karadjordjevic? Love your show by the way, it is very informative well made and overall very excellent content! Congrats to you and the crew!
sorry, all the remaining episodes have been taped
Glad I know hoe to use the fast forward button.
I would have love to get a time machine and see a dead ball era baseball game.
Lots and lots of stolen bases then....
Getting closer to peace (sadly...?), but did I miss it, or has Edwin Howard Armstrong and his contributions to radio technology -- the superheterodyne receiver specifically, for this time period -- not been mentioned or discussed yet?
That’s cool I’m enrolled in Ivy Tech
Yeah I had the same reaction as Flo to this.
I don't like baseball but I'll just sit here listening to Indy talking passionately about it.
woah woah. indie has a baseball series?
What were the effects of of WWI on Rugby/American Football on both sides of the border as well as Hockey in Canada?
Baseball ..... an elegant contest from a more pastoral time.
Hi Indiana and crew. It is true that german planned bombing a New York if the war lasted longer? Once I saw a WWI film where german use giant bomber to strategic bombing of America continent. Is there any truth in it?
I am watching You from beggining (1914) thanks for great show! Best regards from Poland!
The first transatlantic flight hadn't been done yet, and a return would have certainly been impossible.
Maybe it was mentioned, but I'd seriously doubt any real assets or planning went into this.
The only way potentially feasible at that era was by airship, as they were used to bomb Britain during the war.
But they were very slow and would have made easy targets, if indeed they managed to make it across the Atlantic.
That was really cool
Thanks Indy, another interesting episode. So, were you up all night watching last night's game? Must have ended about breakfast time in Europe.
Nice picture of ADM William Sims in this one. When is the special on him going to be?
Do a Halloween special I don’t know how you could do it but if anyone can do it would be you
Wish you would have talked about Eddie Grant. I'll have to look to see if you did anything on the "Lost Battalion"
Finally a new episode of Watch Sunday Baseball is here..... Oh wait
I have a question for you guys. It is currently oktoberfest. I was wondering if german soldiers still celebrated it all the way into
1918 with their government on the verge of collapse and all.
100 years later, Red Sox in the world series. Go Sox!
Indy you really need to restart the old Sunday baseball channel.
Maybe the '18 Cubs had a better regular season record, but they didn't have the Bambino. The World Series is a whole different season!
Sox didn't struggle this season. GO SOX!!!!!
The War will be over by Christmas! This time we mean it.
man some of that just passed over my head. ahahah
Interesting stuff, though I'm not a national level team sports fan. As a matter of fact, the only team sport I like is whatever sport is played by the Swedish Bikini Team (and-yes, that reference links to a popular baseball associated pastime).
And-hi Flo!
"If you want to hear about America's other past time,alcoholism, click here for our video about Ernest Hemingway." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm with Flo.
I'd have the same response as Flo when the subject is Cricket in the First World War.