You are right about that. I was in the original old Yankee Stadium, great memories. The stadium that they built in 1974 and 1975 was not the true Yankee Stadium.
Actually, the renovated stadium from the 70’s WAS the original stadium. All they did was lower the field by five feet to improve sight lines, remove the support posts blocking views (which necessitated adding ten rows to the upper deck for counter-balance), and added escalators to two of the entrances. Not pretty, but 90% of the grandstand was original. The demolition in 2010 proved this completely; showing all the original metal skeleton, and even concrete columns underneath that still had the original green paint on it. The current stadium however, is an absolute farce.
@@MrVCBaker 1:48:41 - What Vin Scully would say before Larsen's final out reminds us of a similar line 32 years after, "...but the game right now is at the plate.." during a close-up shot of the L.A. Dodgers' Kirk Gibson before he hit that walk-off home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
Epic photos of Yankee Stadium at the beginning! Was it crazy liberals that torn it down? I grew up 2 blocks from where Don Larson grew up in Point Loma area of San Diego. And went to Point Loma High as did Don, Perfect Game David Boomer Wells, and Mike Adamson (90mph in High School and 2 years in majors)
42 years later David Wells pitched the second perfect game at Yankee Stadium, both he and Larsen graduated from Point Loma High School in San Diego CA.
And then the next year David Cone pitched a perfect game with Don Larson and his 1956 teammates in attendance, on the day when Yogi Berra returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time in 15 years
43:20 Mickey Mantle homers with 2 outs in bottom of 4th and becomes first player on either team to reach base! And in the very next inning, he robs Gil Hodges of an extra-base hit. (50:28) If Mantle doesn't make that play and Larsen winds up with a one-hit shutout, hardly anyone would remember Don Larsen today.
If any player gets on base, the tying run comes to the plate, in a 2-2 series, with the last two games away from home, against the defending champions. Larsen's something like the third starter on this team, didn't make it out of the second inning in Game Two, and is two years removed from a 3-21 campaign in Baltimore. He got battered in four innings of a World Series start the year before. The Yankees won the pennant by nine games in '56 and weren't seriously challenged after the end of June. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Don Larsen is the guy to come in with a clutch performance here. It's astonishing, and remains astonishing.
Not a single replay in the innings I saw …… one announcer at a time ……. Vin doesn’t say much; lots of “empty” mike time ……. just 3 or 4 camera angles ….. barely any graphics ….. no in-game ads, no sponsored-by pitching changes, no interviews from the dugout--times have changed. Best of all: NO TH-cam INTERRUPTIONS FOR ADS!!!!!!!
Was Koufax on the series roster in '56? He was not in his prime yet and was inconsistent before he turned into a phenomenal SP. so, we can basically say all players from this series are dead. (I'm sure only Billy Martin is in hell though)
My grandparents were 12, when this MONUMENTAL feat, was accomplished! This will never happen again! As I write this: it is 2 days short of October 8th! Virtually 68 years! It will never be done again!
The Dodgers hitter's strategy in this game was to wait Larsen out & make him throw pitches, as Larsen was not particularly known for his control and had walked batters liberally in his previous Series appearance in Game 2 (where he failed to make it out of the 2nd inning & blew a 6-0 lead). The Dodger strategy backfired, as on this occasion Larsen exhibited masterful control, and was able to consistently drop his first & second pitches in for strikes.
This is a great… I’d only heard the Bob Wolf broadcast of this game prior to today. A couple things stand out to me… 1: Although Mel Allen and Vince Scully split the broadcasting duties, neither spoke when they weren’t doing the play by play! 2: it seemed like there were more Brooklyn fans in the stands than Yankee fans until the 8th inning! (Other than the Mantle HR). 3: Vince’s call on the last strike was Vintage Scully.. “biggest diamond in the biggest ring” he’s had so many big calls in his career and this one is definitely overlooked!!
Back in the day, most play by play broadcasters called baseball games solo. No color commentator. It's just you and the broadcaster. Vin Scully called Dodgers games by himself for 67 years. It was his mentor, Red Barber who encouraged it.
Mel and Vin. Note how they didn't need a color commentator to constantly chatter and distract. They let the game play itself out and they just reported and let the listener become a part of the game.
It's sad that everyone remembers Don Larsen, but no one remembers Sal Magli who could very easily have won this game with a break or two. Baseball can be a cruel game, a fact that Brooklyn fans knew all too well.
I wish I had the patience to do a pitch count. These days they may have taken him out despite the no hitter if he went over a certain amount of pitches.
Those were the great days of baseball. No steroids, weights, and PEDs. Players were not all hulking gorillas. Players were small, tall, muscular, skinny, and chubby. Center fields were not 400 feet. Players actually loved the game.
The old Yankee Stadium should never have been demolished. So much history. Fenway and Wrigley are still doing fine.
You are right about that. I was in the original old Yankee Stadium,
great memories. The stadium that they built in 1974 and 1975 was
not the true Yankee Stadium.
@FunnyImpala-jn6wk Repair it!! Fenway and Wrigley have constant repairs. How old are you?
@FunnyImpala-jn6wk The original Yankee Stadium was totally torn down for no good reason.
@@roncaruso931 Exactly.
Actually, the renovated stadium from the 70’s WAS the original stadium. All they did was lower the field by five feet to improve sight lines, remove the support posts blocking views (which necessitated adding ten rows to the upper deck for counter-balance), and added escalators to two of the entrances. Not pretty, but 90% of the grandstand was original. The demolition in 2010 proved this completely; showing all the original metal skeleton, and even concrete columns underneath that still had the original green paint on it. The current stadium however, is an absolute farce.
So amazing that Vin Scully called this game.
This only adds to his legend.
You won't hear Vin Scully until the 2nd half of the game.
Great line by Scully before the last out, to the effect that Yankee Stadium's very foundations were shaking.
@@MrVCBaker
1:48:41 - What Vin Scully would say before Larsen's final out reminds us of a similar line 32 years after, "...but the game right now is at the plate.." during a close-up shot of the L.A. Dodgers' Kirk Gibson before he hit that walk-off home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
Born in 1971, I can only dream about what it was like at yankee stadium that day. Classic baseball at it's finest.
I think like you too😞
This was the last game the Brooklyn Dodgers ever played at Yankee Stadium.
Sal maglie was celebrity guest on whats my line the night previous to this game. That show is available on TH-cam.
Umpires (Game 5)
HP Babe Pinelli (NL) (Crew Chief)
1B Hank Soar (AL)
2B Dusty Boggess (NL)
3B Larry Napp (AL)
LF Tom Gorman (NL)
RF Ed Runge (AL)
Watching Peewee Reese…. He was one great shortstop.
Epic photos of Yankee Stadium at the beginning! Was it crazy liberals that torn it down? I grew up 2 blocks from where Don Larson grew up in Point Loma area of San Diego. And went to Point Loma High as did Don, Perfect Game David Boomer Wells, and Mike Adamson (90mph in High School and 2 years in majors)
42 years later David Wells pitched the second perfect game at Yankee Stadium, both he and Larsen graduated from Point Loma High School in San Diego CA.
How 'bout that?
I live in Pt. Loma and my daughter graduated from there. Vin Scully was such a great broadcaster.
And then the next year David Cone pitched a perfect game with Don Larson and his 1956 teammates in attendance, on the day when Yogi Berra returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time in 15 years
43:20 Mickey Mantle homers with 2 outs in bottom of 4th and becomes first player on either team to reach base!
And in the very next inning, he robs Gil Hodges of an extra-base hit. (50:28)
If Mantle doesn't make that play and Larsen winds up with a one-hit shutout, hardly anyone would remember Don Larsen today.
If any player gets on base, the tying run comes to the plate, in a 2-2 series, with the last two games away from home, against the defending champions.
Larsen's something like the third starter on this team, didn't make it out of the second inning in Game Two, and is two years removed from a 3-21 campaign in Baltimore. He got battered in four innings of a World Series start the year before. The Yankees won the pennant by nine games in '56 and weren't seriously challenged after the end of June.
There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Don Larsen is the guy to come in with a clutch performance here. It's astonishing, and remains astonishing.
And Larsen didn't get out of the third inning of Game 7 of the 1957 World Series against the Boston Braves.
@@kevinmiller6380Milwaukee Braves 😊
Not a single replay in the innings I saw …… one announcer at a time ……. Vin doesn’t say much; lots of “empty” mike time ……. just 3 or 4 camera angles ….. barely any graphics ….. no in-game ads, no sponsored-by pitching changes, no interviews from the dugout--times have changed. Best of all: NO TH-cam INTERRUPTIONS FOR ADS!!!!!!!
Out of all the people on either team, only Carl Erskine and Sandy Koufax are still with us, even though neither one appeared in this game.
Was Koufax on the series roster in '56? He was not in his prime yet and was inconsistent before he turned into a phenomenal SP.
so, we can basically say all players from this series are dead. (I'm sure only Billy Martin is in hell though)
How about Tony Kubek? Or did he come up in 1957.
@@frederickrapp5396Tony came up in 57
Triple Crown year for Mantle.
My grandparents were 12, when this MONUMENTAL feat, was accomplished! This will never happen again! As I write this: it is 2 days short of October 8th! Virtually 68 years! It will never be done again!
There was a combined no hitter by the Houston Astros in 2022
Bob Neal (PBP) 1st half on radio
Bob Wolff (PBP) 2nd half on radio.
The Dodgers hitter's strategy in this game was to wait Larsen out & make him throw pitches, as Larsen was not particularly known for his control and had walked batters liberally in his previous Series appearance in Game 2 (where he failed to make it out of the 2nd inning & blew a 6-0 lead). The Dodger strategy backfired, as on this occasion Larsen exhibited masterful control, and was able to consistently drop his first & second pitches in for strikes.
This is a great…
I’d only heard the Bob Wolf broadcast of this game prior to today. A couple things stand out to me…
1: Although Mel Allen and Vince Scully split the broadcasting duties, neither spoke when they weren’t doing the play by play!
2: it seemed like there were more Brooklyn fans in the stands than Yankee fans until the 8th inning! (Other than the Mantle HR).
3: Vince’s call on the last strike was Vintage Scully.. “biggest diamond in the biggest ring” he’s had so many big calls in his career and this one is definitely overlooked!!
Back in the day, most play by play broadcasters called baseball games solo. No color commentator. It's just you and the broadcaster. Vin Scully called Dodgers games by himself for 67 years. It was his mentor, Red Barber who encouraged it.
Can you imagine?
Holy Cow!
And just a couple of years earlier, I believe he was 3 - 21 for the Orioles in their inaugural season in 1954.
Mel and Vin. Note how they didn't need a color commentator to constantly chatter and distract. They let the game play itself out and they just reported and let the listener become a part of the game.
My grandpa pitched and won the day before.
VintageManDude-Tom Sturdivant.
Babe Pinelli’s last game ever…. What a great way to go out
This was Pinelli's last game on the plate...he worked 3rd base in game 6 and 2nd base in game 7.
It's sad that everyone remembers Don Larsen, but no one remembers Sal Magli who could very easily have won this game with a break or two. Baseball can be a cruel game, a fact that Brooklyn fans knew all too well.
46:05 - Jackie Robinson
1:42:18 - 9th inning
1:50:23
I wish I had the patience to do a pitch count. These days they may have taken him out despite the no hitter if he went over a certain amount of pitches.
Larsen did 97 pitches?
Those were the great days of baseball. No steroids, weights, and PEDs. Players were not all hulking gorillas. Players were small, tall, muscular, skinny, and chubby. Center fields were not 400 feet. Players actually loved the game.
The ballpark here had a centerfield well over 400 feet.
@@deepcosmiclove 463 feet center field. Exactly.
@@roncaruso931 That's why Red Barber always called it "The Big Ballpark."
Yep.@@deepcosmiclove
No helmets either lol
Mickey Mantles triple crown year!.
Yanks struggling this year. This game is my therapy.
History!
Snyder put a slow curve in,the upper deck foul. After,that, only hard stuff. Same deal with Amoros.
33:36 I happened to be right at this spot in the video when I read this comment.
Maglie would have won on any other day
It comes in after the hot shot off Carey's glove that McDougald fielded.
It's a shame that the video of that play has been lost.
@@frankjenny6332 Not entirely. I've seen it elsewhere but not on the film of the whole game.
16:02
1:50:24
This game had horrible pace, more than 20 seconds between each pitch