Everything about this film is absolutely precious. The uniforms, the ballparks, the ads, the old-timers... precious. At 21:20, probably the best example I've ever seen of just how fast Mantle was before his injury. Thank you for sharing this!
Wow! Footage with the Binghamton Triplets of the mid 50's. I lived in my second house starting in 1969 about 300 yards from that ballfield right there in Johnson City, New York. Unfortunately, the field was torn down around that time (to permit Route 17 to progress westward), and I never actually saw the ballpark. All that was left (and all that I remember) was a grass field with a connecting sidewalk from Brocton Street to North Broad street when I would walk to Harry L. Johnson school kindergarten starting in 1972.
From what I have seen up till now, this is THE definitive film of the mid-1950s Yankees in action--wonderful to see rare footage of Phil Rizzuto in his final year as a player--many thanks for presenting this!
WHAT A GREAT MOVIE !!! I was 4 yrs old when that came out. Dad took us to Yankee Stadium with my uncle George. Both are long gone now. Bleacher Tickets were 25 Cents each. Seats on the side by 3rd base with a full view of the Duguout were $1.17 each. Hot dogs and Cokes were a nickel which was considered very expensive at that time. THAT's back when this was a Great Country and had Great Sports players who were recognized for their ability and performance, not how much $$ Dough they got. Mantle was the highest paid player in the world at the time at $100K per year. Today sports players get more than that for each game. !!
You CLEARLY don't grasp inflation. Although, you kind of get it, when you said Hot dogs and cokes were a nickel which was considered very expensive at the time
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Mind-numbing and soul-sucking Yankees dominance during 1950s murdered attendance for the other seven Amercan League (AL) ballclubs. Why would anyone attend an AL game in September when the Yankees clinched the pennant by Labor Day?
Everything about this film is absolutely precious. The uniforms, the ballparks, the ads, the old-timers... precious. At 21:20, probably the best example I've ever seen of just how fast Mantle was before his injury. Thank you for sharing this!
Mickey injured his knee in the '51 World Series, chasing a flyball a rookie Willie Mays hit. Mickey was still pretty fast though, wasn't he?
That old timers day was amazing!
Wow! Footage with the Binghamton Triplets of the mid 50's. I lived in my second house starting in 1969 about 300 yards from that ballfield right there in Johnson City, New York. Unfortunately, the field was torn down around that time (to permit Route 17 to progress westward), and I never actually saw the ballpark. All that was left (and all that I remember) was a grass field with a connecting sidewalk from Brocton Street to North Broad street when I would walk to Harry L. Johnson school kindergarten starting in 1972.
From what I have seen up till now, this is THE definitive film of the mid-1950s Yankees in action--wonderful to see rare footage of Phil Rizzuto in his final year as a player--many thanks for presenting this!
WHAT A GREAT MOVIE !!!
I was 4 yrs old when that came out. Dad took us to Yankee Stadium with my uncle George. Both are long gone now. Bleacher Tickets were 25 Cents each. Seats on the side by 3rd base with a full view of the Duguout were $1.17 each. Hot dogs and Cokes were a nickel which was considered very expensive at that time. THAT's back when this was a Great Country and had Great Sports players who were recognized for their ability and performance, not how much $$ Dough they got. Mantle was the highest paid player in the world at the time at $100K per year. Today sports players get more than that for each game. !!
You CLEARLY don't grasp inflation. Although, you kind of get it, when you said Hot dogs and cokes were a nickel which was considered very expensive at the time
Yankees 1956, love it! Lots of great footage from games and the Yanks won "m all!
Curious what the original song was over the title card, as you obviously dubbed that in (probably to avoid a copyright issue)
Can't think of anything right now except a delicious cold Pepsi
The tiny cups are pretty amazing, normal for the day but comical today.
The Yankees were the gold standard then. Now? Not so much.
Unfortunately not. ⚾
5:47 why is Mickey batting lefty against a lefty?
That's spring training, not a real game, so it's ok for a switch hitter like Mantle to practice hitting left-handed against lefties....
Sadly the today's Yankees isn't what they use to be.
Free agency
A relic of the past
That black running bar is a distraction. Watched the video elsewhere. Thanks for turning me on to it, though.
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In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous TH-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
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Mind-numbing and soul-sucking Yankees dominance during 1950s murdered attendance for the other seven Amercan League (AL) ballclubs. Why would anyone attend an AL game in September when the Yankees clinched the pennant by Labor Day?