Used to dance to the opening theme, and I would get so excited about this show during the baseball season. It was like being at the ball park. Thank you
Thank you for posting this. I tried to never miss an episode of TWIB. It was a staple of Saturday television during the season. I would even miss a Godzilla or Frankenstein movie to watch it. Thanks again.
Hell, I want chef it every DAY!! Let’s just say I was loosely supervised as a kid. Watched the cubs nearly every day. Didn’t need much else - if it wasn’t watching baseball I was surely playing.
In the days before MLB Network and the Internet, this was the only way to see weekly baseball highlights from around MLB unless you had ESPN back then. I used to watch this show religiously on WGN-TV every weekend. This definitely brings back great childhood memories!
as a kid growing up here in Chicago. doing the baseball season, I watched this EVERY Sunday afternoon. right before my Cubs came on. on WGN channel 9...a LONG-time bygone era, if you ask me.
This gives me goosebumps. I was at my first major league baseball game in Cincinnati sitting in the yellow seats when Bench hit the home run that landed the green seats that broke Yogi's record. I remember one guy with a fishing net on the raling just below where my dad and I were sitting...he missed the ball by a few feet. My dad probably knew about the significance as it was a big crowd, but I don't think as a kid I even knew. This is why TH-cam is so good and why the American League used to be foreign until October. Thanks for posting video. ❤
Thank you for this. This was wonderful. The editing was tight, the pacing exciting, the narration focused on the players and games (not on annoying hot takes), the information voluminous, and the coverage relevant. All in a half an hour. I loved it. Harken to my Saturday afternoons when I was a young lad in love with the game. Again, thank you!!
Love TWIB it's one of my best childhood memories. I watched it on Saturday before the game of the week. Now, we can watch every game every single day. Times have changed....
Ah ... back when baseball was baseball. AL teams only played AL teams, NL teams only played NL teams, no DH in the National League ... baseball of my youth.
Jack, this is when players bunted to advance base runners, and batters would willingly sacrifice their at-bats to move base runners ahead. Less selfishness, higher batting averages, and more runs being scored. And STILL superb pitching. No Maple-wood bats back then!
Remembering this week in baseball is wonderful! What I would give to watch it again back when my brother Jim was still alive! Baseball was pure back then!
Peter Tomarken, the host of Press Your Luck, plays the man at 2:45 who rolls his eyes in the Stroh’s commercial. (And a bit of an error by WGN, running two competing beer commercials back-to-back with no separation.)
Sparky Anderson famously called Kirk Gibson, "The next Mickey Mantle." He didn't quite live up to that comparison but he managed to put together a nice career including an MVP award and two of the most famous home runs in World Series history.
This Week in Baseball aired on WBAL or WMAR in Baltimore. I loved watching TWiB as a kid in the '70s and early '80s! Mel Allen was the perfect host!!👍🏿
I was in my junior year of high school, our crazy part of upstate NY had finally brought through cable TV after all that time. This was one show I would watch every time it came on,Mel Allen, you can't forget that voice for sure, and from where I lived we had NYC channels, Pittsburgh channel and when of Chicago. So I had my choices of what games to watch, FINALLY!!!
As a 15-year-old Dodger fan, Mel Allen's charmingly melodious voice was one of the few things "Yankee" I could admit liking back then. (Betty Bonney singing "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" with Les Brown's Band of Renown, Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in "Pride of the Yankees" and Yogi Berra, among them - along with having honest sadness for the loss of Thurman Munson.)
Mr. October, Johnny Bench, George Brett, Willie Wilson, Frank White, Rookie Kirk Gibson, Skinny Tommy Lasorda, Sparky Anderson…what a time to be alive. Too bad I was only about 3 at the time. And this was when baseball was still a great game, long before current Commissioner Rob Manfred could get his hands on it and start screwing up the rules.
Thank Fuzzy . Longtime Yankees announcer Mel Allen was the narrator/host for TWIB from the programs inception in 1977 until just prior to his death in 1996 .
One of the cardinal sins I learned in broadcast school was never to air spots back to back selling similar products. The first spot set featured Miller and Stroh’s Beer back to back. Was something edited that was originally in between those spots?
@@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 I have a feeling that the Miller commercial was a national barter spot and the Stroh’s spot was local, and WGN’s traffic department just didn’t notice they were running back-to-back.
6:55 KC swept the Yankees in the ALCS later that season, winning game 3 at Yankee Stadium when George Brett absolutely crushed a Goose Gossage fastball into the upper deck for a 3 run HR. I was at that game.
so weird when the music cuts out at around the 8 minute mark. it seems like the music's always there. when it's not it's like stepping into a twilight zone of silence.
We only had 2 or 3 Blue Jays games on TV per week back then. And one Expo game per week. As a kid in Toronto, TWIB was the only way to see my favourite players. Dave “King Kong” Kingman was my top favourite.
22:28 I was a Minnesota kid and for some reason have always remembered this weird at bat Jose Morales had and saw on TWIB all these years ago. Seeing it here 44 years later makes me smile. Also, Like a lot of kids, we “adopted” players when we played sand lot ball. I was George Brett. My brother was Dave Parker etc. there was one neighbor who wasn’t so familiar with who the best players were and we convinced him into being Jose Morales for a while before we came clean explained he was just a backup catcher with the Twins.
I miss this show!!! I miss baseball the way it used to be too!!! I remember being in 4th grade in 1982 and my Mom would come in and wake me up to tell me that TWIB was about to start. If not for that, I would have slept longer.
I was six when this aired and was probably about the time i started watching. I was too young to understand what TWIB (notes) stood for, always thought it was a variation on crib notes...i figured twib is a word i just don't know. 😂 and oh! the Gathering Crowds song! wow!
I have no idea why, but just as I started this video, Joe Charboneau came to mind. Seeing him mentioned in the episode felt eerie. I was never a Cleveland Indians fan and before now, I had no memory of which year would have been his rookie season. The only thing I really remember is the "Go Joe Charboneau" chant from the record, which occasionally gets stuck in my head. Other than that, I wouldn't know him from the great but mysterious Joe Shlabotnik.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Sounds like what happened when a Calgary TV station used a snippet of Tom Cochrane and Red Rider's 'White Hot' for their news intro. And George Baker Selection's 'Una Paloma Blanca' was used at a TV station in Ottawa for it's station ID.
KDKA never seemed to air it on a regular basis [to my chagrin]; it was mostly used as a time-filler for 8PM game starts, and during rain delays. WTRF aired it regularly on Saturdays before the Game of the Week. I remember every Saturday I used to head to the upstairs TV with my dad where we would set up the rabbit ears and tune in [WTRF had been removed from out cable by that point]
When I was a kid back in the late 70s I used to love this show, but it seemed like, at least in NY, it changed its airtime weekly or it would be on a different network from season to season. Maybe it was sometimes played during rainouts? Whenever I managed to see it at all, I only seemed to catch the last ten minutes at most. I used to get so upset.
@@WBTVHistory I used to watch as a kid in the early-to-mid 80s, 40 years ago. Makes it tough to remember. I know I used to watch TWIB from 1- 1:30, then watch the Mets on WOR Channel 9 starting immediately thereafter. My best recollection would be that TWIB was also on Ch 9.
@@manonthemoog Lots of these types of shows were just slotted wherever there was open space on the weekend, without a regular time slot. And yes, TWiB was often the go-to time filler during a rain delay.
Baseball needs a new campaign to make it Americas game again. Baseball is its own worst enemy. It’s too difficult to get games locally these days. On day one as commissioner I will make baseball games free on every streaming device available. I will fight fight for a salary cap to make every team competitive like football and basketball have. Not where the teams with the most money can cover their bad management, scouting and drafting jobs by having more money to outbid for their lack of a quality front office.
@@nicksimon7364 yes sir me as well and no they did not make it that much at all if ever growing up in the 70s and 80s in Chicago area as a sports fan was a very very hard thing to do LOL not like it's a pleasure now lol
Baseball is the one sport you can imagine how ruths yankees would do against mantles yankee teams or jeters teams.the physical difference in football and basketball players over the decades eliminate that thought.
Baseball players have undergone just as drastic physical changes as any other sport. Just look at the physiques of the players in this show compared to what they were during the steroid era or now. It's huge.
Used to dance to the opening theme, and I would get so excited about this show during the baseball season. It was like being at the ball park. Thank you
Thank you for posting this. I tried to never miss an episode of TWIB. It was a staple of Saturday television during the season. I would even miss a Godzilla or Frankenstein movie to watch it. Thanks again.
Thank you for taking me back to my childhood..
I miss this so much
I was 11 when this aired. Watched on channel 9 every week during the season. Hearing that voice and theme song again really hit me.
I have the same reaction when I hear Frasier Thomas on Family Classics.
@@theylied1776 And just you mentioning "Family Classics" makes me want to watch Mysterious Island again.
@@sleestack13 whatever I hear Frasier Thomas or Marlin Perkins from mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom, that is just memory lane for me.
Hell, I want chef it every DAY!! Let’s just say I was loosely supervised as a kid. Watched the cubs nearly every day. Didn’t need much else - if it wasn’t watching baseball I was surely playing.
What about “The Baseball Bunch” 😂?
In the days before MLB Network and the Internet, this was the only way to see weekly baseball highlights from around MLB unless you had ESPN back then. I used to watch this show religiously on WGN-TV every weekend. This definitely brings back great childhood memories!
That theme music Mel Allen's golden tones takes me back to a great time when my only worries was how my beloved Tigers did
For the last half hour, I was 12 years old again.
as a kid growing up here in Chicago. doing the baseball season, I watched this EVERY Sunday afternoon. right before my Cubs came on. on WGN channel 9...a LONG-time bygone era, if you ask me.
This gives me goosebumps. I was at my first major league baseball game in Cincinnati sitting in the yellow seats when Bench hit the home run that landed the green seats that broke Yogi's record. I remember one guy with a fishing net on the raling just below where my dad and I were sitting...he missed the ball by a few feet. My dad probably knew about the significance as it was a big crowd, but I don't think as a kid I even knew. This is why TH-cam is so good and why the American League used to be foreign until October. Thanks for posting video. ❤
Oh does this take me back! TWIB was a must watch every week for me as a kid.
I was 12 and I remember these shows well. Always looked forward to watching them
Late Saturday summer mornings. Was 8 at this time. Gives me goosebumps
me too
This show was the best mlb scores and highlights show-and Mr.Mel Allen was superb!!!
Thank you for this. This was wonderful. The editing was tight, the pacing exciting, the narration focused on the players and games (not on annoying hot takes), the information voluminous, and the coverage relevant. All in a half an hour. I loved it. Harken to my Saturday afternoons when I was a young lad in love with the game. Again, thank you!!
I grew up with TWIB. Miss it a ton.
7:30 is definitely a sign of the times. Dad smoking a cigarette in the stands at a baseball game with a kid in his lap.
back then, guys were smoking in the dugout.
Thank you for posting! I used to watch TWIB every Sunday at 1:pm, right before the Mets' game, on Channel 9 in NYC. My favorite show growing up.
Love TWIB it's one of my best childhood memories. I watched it on Saturday before the game of the week. Now, we can watch every game every single day. Times have changed....
Thank you so much for finding and posting this jewel. I love these old TWIB's and haven't seen this (since at least 1980). Thank you!!!
Ah ... back when baseball was baseball. AL teams only played AL teams, NL teams only played NL teams, no DH in the National League ... baseball of my youth.
Yep. Houston was in the National League, Milwaukee was in the American League, and the uniforms were a LOT better than today.
So true
Jack, this is when players bunted to advance base runners, and batters would willingly sacrifice their at-bats to move base runners ahead. Less selfishness, higher batting averages, and more runs being scored. And STILL superb pitching. No Maple-wood bats back then!
@@3243_ Exactly.
The occasional intentionally scheduled double-header. N.L. managers having to strategize how to deal with the pitcher coming up to bat.
Great stuff as always, Fuzzy! Cool to hear the NBC Jackpot theme as the main theme for This Week in Baseball.
Opening: Mike Vickers' "Jet Set" (th-cam.com/video/RhWR0IcnEWY/w-d-xo.html)
Closing: John Scott's "Gathering Crowds" (th-cam.com/video/rGbFbDv0gwY/w-d-xo.html)
Remembering this week in baseball is wonderful! What I would give to watch it again back when my brother Jim was still alive! Baseball was pure back then!
Peter Tomarken, the host of Press Your Luck, plays the man at 2:45 who rolls his eyes in the Stroh’s commercial. (And a bit of an error by WGN, running two competing beer commercials back-to-back with no separation.)
Peter's not "Pressing His Luck" here.
In WGN's defense, they were drunk
I looked forward to this show every week during the baseball season.
Wow! I was 15yr old in Chicago suburbs.Cubs fanatic- brings back great memories thank you...
I was an aging 15 and a half (though not in Chicago).
Sparky Anderson famously called Kirk Gibson, "The next Mickey Mantle." He didn't quite live up to that comparison but he managed to put together a nice career including an MVP award and two of the most famous home runs in World Series history.
This was a special episode I remember well.....great to see clips again from Willie Stargell day!
This Week in Baseball aired on WBAL or WMAR in Baltimore. I loved watching TWiB as a kid in the '70s and early '80s! Mel Allen was the perfect host!!👍🏿
This is my childhood! 44 years ago- how about that👍❤️
Yeah boy 🎉
I was 1 when this aired. So many memories
I was in my junior year of high school, our crazy part of upstate NY had finally brought through cable TV after all that time. This was one show I would watch every time it came on,Mel Allen, you can't forget that voice for sure, and from where I lived we had NYC channels, Pittsburgh channel and when of Chicago. So I had my choices of what games to watch, FINALLY!!!
As a 15-year-old Dodger fan, Mel Allen's charmingly melodious voice was one of the few things "Yankee" I could admit liking back then. (Betty Bonney singing "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" with Les Brown's Band of Renown, Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in "Pride of the Yankees" and Yogi Berra, among them - along with having honest sadness for the loss of Thurman Munson.)
I was 10. Loved TWIB. Thanks for posting.
I remember watching TWIB on Ch. 9 at 1230 on Saturdays back in the early 90's.
Saturdays? Not Sundays?
@@jimwerthersaturdays 100pct
I loved This Week In Baseball. Watched it on Saturdays on WGAL Channel 8 back in the 1980s.
Happy memories of my childhood. My little brother always watched every Saturday morning in Dallas.
The music in the polo club commercial was the theme from "Now You See It" also known as "Chump Change" by Quincy Jones
RIP Quincy Jones
Hard to believe that was about 45 years ago now .....I was 14 going on 15.
44
@@mysticakhenaton1701 about = Approximately; nearly.
At least you're younger than the guy in your profile pic.
Thank you do some more of this week in baseball ok i love it and keep up the good work your awesome you rock 🎸 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
Mr. October, Johnny Bench, George Brett, Willie Wilson, Frank White, Rookie Kirk Gibson, Skinny Tommy Lasorda, Sparky Anderson…what a time to be alive. Too bad I was only about 3 at the time. And this was when baseball was still a great game, long before current Commissioner Rob Manfred could get his hands on it and start screwing up the rules.
Screwed up long before Manfred my friend…this WAS a great time
Thank Fuzzy .
Longtime Yankees announcer Mel Allen was the narrator/host for TWIB from the programs inception in 1977 until just prior to his death in 1996 .
One of the cardinal sins I learned in broadcast school was never to air spots back to back selling similar products. The first spot set featured Miller and Stroh’s Beer back to back. Was something edited that was originally in between those spots?
Nope - nothing edited in the commercial breaks.
@@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 I have a feeling that the Miller commercial was a national barter spot and the Stroh’s spot was local, and WGN’s traffic department just didn’t notice they were running back-to-back.
Or maybe they figured there were a lot of thirsty people in the viewing area that day. 🙂
Or maybe the station crew got to sampling too much Miller and Stroh's.
I saw the thumbnail and the opening music immediately came to mind.
13:00 min mark - Gibby
The theme music at the end is so classic and my best memory of TWIB!
6:55 KC swept the Yankees in the ALCS later that season, winning game 3 at Yankee Stadium when George Brett absolutely crushed a Goose Gossage fastball into the upper deck for a 3 run HR. I was at that game.
Yes! Even though the Yankees had a better record, you could sense all year that it was the Royals time. I cried when Brett hit that homerun.
Mel Allen. TWIB Notes (both leagues, of course). THAT MAJESTIC CLOSING THEME. How About THAT?
John Scott's "Gathering Crowds" (th-cam.com/video/rGbFbDv0gwY/w-d-xo.html)
Opening theme: Mike Vickers' "Jet Set" (th-cam.com/video/RhWR0IcnEWY/w-d-xo.html)
This was on Milwaukee’s NBC station every Saturday just before the Game of the Week.
I was 8 in 1980 but remember twb well layed on floor watching going through my baseball cards. Simple times
so weird when the music cuts out at around the 8 minute mark. it seems like the music's always there. when it's not it's like stepping into a twilight zone of silence.
We only had 2 or 3 Blue Jays games on TV per week back then. And one Expo game per week. As a kid in Toronto, TWIB was the only way to see my favourite players. Dave “King Kong” Kingman was my top favourite.
22:28 I was a Minnesota kid and for some reason have always remembered this weird at bat Jose Morales had and saw on TWIB all these years ago. Seeing it here 44 years later makes me smile. Also, Like a lot of kids, we “adopted” players when we played sand lot ball. I was George Brett. My brother was Dave Parker etc. there was one neighbor who wasn’t so familiar with who the best players were and we convinced him into being Jose Morales for a while before we came clean explained he was just a backup catcher with the Twins.
What a great show from my childhood
George Brett, the Greatest player of all time!! Love ths, thank you!
I miss this show!!! I miss baseball the way it used to be too!!! I remember being in 4th grade in 1982 and my Mom would come in and wake me up to tell me that TWIB was about to start. If not for that, I would have slept longer.
Who says you cant go back?
I was six when this aired and was probably about the time i started watching. I was too young to understand what TWIB (notes) stood for, always thought it was a variation on crib notes...i figured twib is a word i just don't know. 😂 and oh! the Gathering Crowds song! wow!
Miss this show
17:49 *step*father of future MLB All-Star Jayson Werth
Never knew that. I just read up, and found out that Werth is actually a Schofield.
New York and Kansas City would meet in October this time it was KC on top
We used to be a real country...
Would watch this week in baseball and start hustling up a neighborhood game after.
The guy selling the Trac II razors was the voice of Heat Miser on The Year Without a Santa Clause!
He's too much!
I don't think I'm imagining this. Baseball was just more fun back then
I was a huge Baseball Bunch kid also. 👍🏾💪🏾
"HOW BOUT THAT!"
Geesh…George Brett batting .375 at the end of July? Insane.
WGN TV 9 would sometimes air this when it was rainin
Best show ever
Thanks. This isn't long before Mike Douglas was replaced with John Davidson.
Oh my God, the Chicago White Sox softball uniforms with the big wide collar and untucked shirts - fantastically hideous!
Wow! I'm 13 years old going on 14 again watching this...📺👀
I have no idea why, but just as I started this video, Joe Charboneau came to mind. Seeing him mentioned in the episode felt eerie.
I was never a Cleveland Indians fan and before now, I had no memory of which year would have been his rookie season. The only thing I really remember is the "Go Joe Charboneau" chant from the record, which occasionally gets stuck in my head. Other than that, I wouldn't know him from the great but mysterious Joe Shlabotnik.
People in Europe had Volkswagen Golfs not Rabbits.
Did Roger Whittaker make money from the WGN Station ID? The opening of 'The Last Farewell' was used.
It was probably covered under a standard broadcast music license back then. They wouldn’t have had a special deal with Whittaker in all likelihood.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Sounds like what happened when a Calgary TV station used a snippet of Tom Cochrane and Red Rider's 'White Hot' for their news intro. And George Baker Selection's 'Una Paloma Blanca' was used at a TV station in Ottawa for it's station ID.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
KDKA in Pittsburgh and WUAB in Cleveland also had TWIB back then
KDKA never seemed to air it on a regular basis [to my chagrin]; it was mostly used as a time-filler for 8PM game starts, and during rain delays. WTRF aired it regularly on Saturdays before the Game of the Week. I remember every Saturday I used to head to the upstairs TV with my dad where we would set up the rabbit ears and tune in [WTRF had been removed from out cable by that point]
Is this show even produced anymore, or is is just highlights on MLB's YT channel?
Shame that there is t going to be no WGN-9 anymore
When I was a kid back in the late 70s I used to love this show, but it seemed like, at least in NY, it changed its airtime weekly or it would be on a different network from season to season. Maybe it was sometimes played during rainouts? Whenever I managed to see it at all, I only seemed to catch the last ten minutes at most. I used to get so upset.
I watched it every Sunday, just before the Met game.
@@jimwerther - Did WOR AND WPIX air this show, at differing times?
@@WBTVHistory
I used to watch as a kid in the early-to-mid 80s, 40 years ago. Makes it tough to remember. I know I used to watch TWIB from 1- 1:30, then watch the Mets on WOR Channel 9 starting immediately thereafter. My best recollection would be that TWIB was also on Ch 9.
@@manonthemoog Lots of these types of shows were just slotted wherever there was open space on the weekend, without a regular time slot. And yes, TWiB was often the go-to time filler during a rain delay.
I think I am not the only baseball fan that says to MLB...
PLEASE BRING BACK TWIB!!!!
It's Miller time!
I don't know why channel 9 didn't stay great like it did in 1970s and 1980s. Then ya let the cubs go. Everybody watched wgn.
Baseball needs a new campaign to make it Americas game again. Baseball is its own worst enemy. It’s too difficult to get games locally these days. On day one as commissioner I will make baseball games free on every streaming device available. I will fight fight for a salary cap to make every team competitive like football and basketball have. Not where the teams with the most money can cover their bad management, scouting and drafting jobs by having more money to outbid for their lack of a quality front office.
TWIB Notes!!!!
why pick this episode with no Cubs??!! uggg
Dan I watched religiously - they weren’t in many episodes unfortunately
@@nicksimon7364 yes sir me as well and no they did not make it that much at all if ever growing up in the 70s and 80s in Chicago area as a sports fan was a very very hard thing to do LOL not like it's a pleasure now lol
Baseball is the one sport you can imagine how ruths yankees would do against mantles yankee teams or jeters teams.the physical difference in football and basketball players over the decades eliminate that thought.
Baseball players have undergone just as drastic physical changes as any other sport. Just look at the physiques of the players in this show compared to what they were during the steroid era or now. It's huge.
And bring back the Baseball Bunch!
that pirates team was loaded, could have won a couple world series.
Why all the dead air? Copyright issue?
There were a few library music cues that had to be removed. Let’s be grateful most of them are intact. 😊
Why cry about it?
Let’s turn back time!
Steve Howe would later be banned from baseball for multiple violations of their substance abuse policy.
They should definitely remake this weekly show.
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GOTTA go order that "Shower Saver " (28:08)..........anybody happen to know their web address ?? 😉
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Before ESPN, before interleague play...
George Brett... 4:08... 4:38... 6:56
I predict the Phillies will win this year against the Royals in the WS, 4 games to 2
We used to be a nation
*NASHVILLE Sounds
Sparky was right about Kirk Gibson, but Charboneau would win AL ROY.
This was following his brief radio gig on Cincinnati's WKRP after getting fired by the Red Legs. ("Go Joe Charboneau!")
Tongo the Ape Man... 2:21... 2:25
He must be handled Gingerly.