I hit a home run off of Eddie Feigner in the 70s. I was a scared (s)hitless teen and I think he felt sorry for me. Grooved a nice easy fastball down the middle and I hit it to right field. His team had only 4 players on it (him, the catcher, shortstop and first base) so I ran the bases before anyone could get the ball. Next time up, he was pitching from second base and struck me out on 3 pitches. Highlight of my softball career!
How sad that this game was more entertaining than 2020 MLB games. Max Baer took batting practice at Dodger Stadium and at the old LA Wrigley Field and could hit baseballs over the walls at both parks. He was also a good enough golfer to have tried to make a go on the PGA Tour. He beat pro golfers in celebrity Pro-Am tournaments, where he hit from the pro tees. His dad was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
A few days ago, I was thinking of this TV event I vaguely remembered watching. And here it pops up on TH-cam! The Internet reads my mind again..... And as an 8-year-old, I took this totally seriously!
Thanks for posting this, I've not enjoyed something so much in a long time. Oh how I think we all miss athletes and actors who have dignity, class and humor.
I remember watching this game in 1967 as a kid. I remember being so amazed that this softball guy (Eddie Feigner) struck out Mays, Killebrew and McCovey. I watched it on our "big" 19 inch black and white TV. This was much more enjoyable in color except for one thing. All together now.................Jerry Lewis!!!
Joan Joyce softball pitching ace struckout Yaz and before that..Ted Williams in back to back decades. Reybestos Brakettes.. I don't know where V.Scully got his info., but an IVY LEAGUER invented softball in 1888= Yale vs. Harvard..first using boxing gloves rolled into a ball and a broom for a bat..look it up. The fireman did train his guys with a softball in 1895, playing a game called kitten ball. First called "softball" in 1926..
He was not one of the best umpires in the game. He was a trail blazer, yes, but too much of a showboat. Had he not been such a ham, he may have made the majors much sooner than 1966 and been able to stay longer than five seasons.
As this and a few other videos on TH-cam successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
I remember this video so well. Big Max Baer (Jethro Bodine) looks like he could be a pretty good power hitter! Little Woody Allen could pick it out there, but was the ultimate good field- no hit type. Eddie Feigner just toys with some great hitters, amazing.
Umpire Art Passarella was my childhood neighbor in Studio City, CA. When he retired from baseball he became Karl Malden's stand in/double. As a little kid he was just the " kids get off my lawn" guy.
@@wiedep, yep in a ballpark that "...favored neither an American League or National League hitter"= Wrigley Field in L.A., not Chicago. Two years later, it was home to the new Los Angeles Angels of the A.L. Another tidbit, a serious one, play by play HOMERUN DERBY host Mark Scott died after the first season of HDerby..of a heart attack at age 45. He had worked one season in the 50's('56) as a play-by-play guy with the CINCY REDLEGS, and had also announced Hollywood Stars Pacific Coast League Games in the 1950's...The producers decided not to replace him after he passed on, and discontinued the show.. He also did some acting.. True story..
I remember one of his fellow comedians/friends saying ' Milton was in the locker room at our tennis club , walking to the shower and at first I thought he had his son with him ' 😂 That was one of the best lines I've ever heard!
Feigner was one of the greatest hand-eye coordination athletes of the 20th. century. If he had been serious the baseballers would have never put the bat on the ball..they almost didn't anyway.
@@oldiesgeek454 I'm just being soft. I'm a Giants fan, but Don died too young and I guess had a good broadcasting career besides being a Dodger. He was tough.
@Ted Meece I know you were being soft. I didn't take your comment personally. I was just saying I should've worded it differently. Instead of saying he didn't throw at anyone, I should've said he didn't try to throw high and inside. BTW, just once I'd like to see a hitter get hit in a slow pitch softball game, and then charge the mound! 😊
@48:35 I remember my mom saying when I was a kid in the 70s that Max Baer Jr almost hit a softball out of a ballpark. I always wondered why Max Baer would be playing softball. I'm guessing this was the game she was referring to.
He performed in front of a lot more "elites" than that..many in government.. He was a phenomenon, that would be one of the most well known athletes if he was around today.. He was that great..
I watched this when it originally aired, although it was a much closer game than I recalled. This had to be the highlight of actor Michael Callan's career, his 3-run homer off Clemente. He didn't exactly go far in his acting career (the short-lived sitcom "Occasional Wife", narrated ironically by Scully)
The best looking woman ever in Hollywood and mostly just a guest star in her career, was Jan Harrison. Check her out on that Gunsmoke episode where she, and the guy who robbed the stage her character was on, after taking her hostage, fell in love, lol.. She was astoundingly, and strikingly beautiful..
@@MrAitraining LOL He may or may not have said that as a joke. Because in all seriousness Woody was a very good athlete growing up and did play a lot of baseball. To this day he regrets not getting a hit off Drysdale in this game.
And the Celtics..First man to shatter a backboard..on a 40 foot halfcourt heave at the end of warmups..broke the backboard because the basket was not installed properly into the glass backboard= first game of the season..Chucky..
Came up with the Brooklyn Dodgers org..may have had a "cup of coffee" with the Dodgers..got a few at bats and games in with the Cubbies, but not many. Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors nicknamed at Seton Hall where he played baseball and hoops. In baseball, his teammates would call him Chuck because he would yell to the pitcher to chuck it over to him at first base when they were holding a runner close. He did not formally adopt the nickname until he was in the Pacific Coast League. He went by Kevin Connors at first in pro ball.
Wonderful video. But boy, Jerry Lewis was not a witty guy-he needed his physical schtick to do comedy. On his own like this he’s struggling. Martin, Bob Hope, even an aging Groucho would have been better suited.
@dougmilesmedia Do you happen to know what time of year this took place? Before, during or after the '67 season? I'd like to see Feigner strike out Mays pitching from the mound... 60 feet 6 inches. That would be fun to see! 😊
@@michaelfitzgerald3467 Thanks, that's what I get for only watching the first 10 minutes or so. I can't believe this actual broadcast video tape survived! No other "VT" broadcasts survived from that year. The only thing that still exists from the 67 Series, are grainy black and white Kinescope copies.
Vinny mistakenly said Ashford was behind the plate and then immediately corrected himself an inning before Ashford moved from the rightside to behind the plate. So, I doubt it=dubbed later..
This is fun to see. But it must have been filmed over two days, because the shadow across the infield moves backwards between the 5th and 6th innings (between 40:40 and 41:30).
Probably just the way they edited the show together. At 37:00 they skip from the bottom of the 4th to the bottom of the 5th. The narration was dubbed in later so they could take liberties like that, not expecting that someone would notice it over 50 years later.
@@larrymelman, Scully did live play by play. It may have been taped earlier and played later, but he did live play by play.. He even mitakenly said Ashford was behind the plate as the ump, and then immediately corrected it. His pbyplay was live, taped and edited later to fit the time period in prime time.
Funny and at that time it was celebrities vs MLB players until the early 90's, right during the all star break. The celebrities mix it up with MLB players as well as NHL,and yes even NBA. Go figure.
Love it! "Support Your Local Sheriff", and the other movie "The Great Escape".. One of my Garner faves was 36 HOURS where the Germans in WW2 try to make Garner's soldier character think WW2 is over and he is back in the U.S. after WW2 is over...using fake newspapers and fake baseball radio reports.. They are trying to see if he will spill the beans on the "already happened" D-DAY attack..when in fact, he catches on, and gives them the wrong info and escapes. The NAZIs go to Calais, France; D-DAY was of course at Normandy. Good flick.
@48:35 I remember my mom saying when I was a kid in the 70s that Max Baer Jr almost hit a softball out of a ballpark. I always wondered why Max Baer would be playing softball. I'm guessing this was the game she was referring to.
Messed up. What i was trying to say is can you Imagine today's active players playing a celebrity softball game during the regular season with the outrageous salaries they get ? Would never happen.
@@kentkleiser9712 this game most likely took place after the season had ended. Willie Mays mentioned that he was out of shape, so he probably hadn't played in several weeks.
This was after the season was over and many sports broadcasters and players had off season jobs to earn a living during the winter in those days. Being from LA, Vince was always working during the off season, he did a game show for a while, hosted the Rose Parade, play by play for the NFL and even Golf. Nobody associated with professional sports in those days were millionaires except the owners. I used to like during Spring Training, when the pre-season games were starting, Vince would tell you what the players did in the off season. Samantha Stephens zapping in Vince Scully to Host the Rose Parade with her. th-cam.com/video/F0JTOrX2T2Q/w-d-xo.html
Wish I could have seen more of Eddie Feigner. And someone should have told Jerry Lewis to shut up. Not funny at all, but never stopped trying. He should have waited to speak until he actually came up with something original and funny.
Play by play..honor our profession, its not "narrating"..its ad-libbing with precision, talking TO, and not AT our listeners, painting mental pictures, and capturing the emotion of the game's situations, and twists and turns= on radio; and, on TV, summarizing on the fly adding just enough emotion... PLAY- BY- PLAY..its an art and a science.. Its thorough preparation.. Its not narration, reading a script, unless..its delivering spots/ads.. Got it?
Jerry Lewis was constantly saying jokes, I guess you just didn't find it amusing. "Woody Allen looks like he's rehearsing for a famine" was laugh out loud funny.
I hit a home run off of Eddie Feigner in the 70s. I was a scared (s)hitless teen and I think he felt sorry for me. Grooved a nice easy fastball down the middle and I hit it to right field. His team had only 4 players on it (him, the catcher, shortstop and first base) so I ran the bases before anyone could get the ball. Next time up, he was pitching from second base and struck me out on 3 pitches. Highlight of my softball career!
Glad this is back up. What an incredible artifact this is on so many levels.
The legendary John Facenda with the voice over on the Aurora toy car race set commercial! Golden!
Roberto looks fantastic in those 67 Bucs uniforms!!!
How sad that this game was more entertaining than 2020 MLB games. Max Baer took batting practice at Dodger Stadium and at the old LA Wrigley Field and could hit baseballs over the walls at both parks. He was also a good enough golfer to have tried to make a go on the PGA Tour. He beat pro golfers in celebrity Pro-Am tournaments, where he hit from the pro tees. His dad was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
I was 4 in 1967 🌈 such a wonderful time to have been young 💖
Me too
Amen to that. I was all of 3 that year.
I was 17 and it was one heck of a year to be young!
@@Baltimore1894 I was only two years old that year.
Maury Wills played a CONTROL agent on Don Adams tv series Get Smart in 1969 titled The Apes Of Rath.
A few days ago, I was thinking of this TV event I vaguely remembered watching. And here it pops up on TH-cam! The Internet reads my mind again..... And as an 8-year-old, I took this totally seriously!
So many guys that I remember. It was such fun watching them play, and it was the year my son Warren was born. Neat.
Thanks for posting this, I've not enjoyed something so much in a long time. Oh how I think we all miss athletes and actors who have dignity, class and humor.
This is priceless! Vin Scully with Jerry Lewis in the booth...Jerry ad-libbing cracking me up....
I remember watching this game in 1967 as a kid. I remember being so amazed that this softball guy (Eddie Feigner) struck out Mays, Killebrew and McCovey. I watched it on our "big" 19 inch black and white TV. This was much more enjoyable in color except for one thing. All together now.................Jerry Lewis!!!
Feigner could do anything with a softball
Joan Joyce softball pitching ace struckout Yaz and before that..Ted Williams in back to back decades.
Reybestos Brakettes..
I don't know where V.Scully got his info., but an IVY LEAGUER invented softball in 1888= Yale vs. Harvard..first using boxing gloves rolled into a ball and a broom for a bat..look it up.
The fireman did train his guys with a softball in 1895, playing a game called kitten ball.
First called "softball" in 1926..
@@robertsprouse9282 I will look her up!
I agree
JERRY LEWIS is not funny.
Milton is lame too.
And umpire Emmet Ashford! One of the best umpires in MLB history, along with being an exciting and colorful character of the game.
First black ump in the American League or MLB..a real trailblazer...
He was not one of the best umpires in the game. He was a trail blazer, yes, but too much of a showboat. Had he not been such a ham, he may have made the majors much sooner than 1966 and been able to stay longer than five seasons.
@@DNSKansas But where's the fun in being stoic and normal?
42:15 Never thought I'd ever hear "Pete Rose pops out to Bobby Darin". That just never crisses your mind lol
Peter Criss? lol
@@gregp103, yeah, criss cross..
As this and a few other videos on TH-cam successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here:
Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate.
The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball.
Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game.
The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe.
The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant.
And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
I can't agree with you more! Also, the players played with style and flair without the classless showboating like players of today.
I remember this video so well. Big Max Baer (Jethro Bodine) looks like he could be a pretty good power hitter! Little Woody Allen could pick it out there, but was the ultimate good field- no hit type. Eddie Feigner just toys with some great hitters, amazing.
Baer's father was a great power hitter, but with his fists instead of a bat.
Woody Allen must want to burn this wouldn't his snobbish fans find out he participated in something like this.
At 22:45 Vin says "little roller" ... Heard it again 19 years later
...up along first...
Buckner? RIP
Too bad this one was fair. And thank god gibby's was foul
I can hear Maxwell Smart saying, "Missed it by THAT much" and "Sorry about that, chief", when he got back to the dugout.
@@EBUNNY2012 He saved the baby though.
Umpire Art Passarella was my childhood neighbor in Studio City, CA. When he retired from baseball he became Karl Malden's stand in/double. As a little kid he was just the " kids get off my lawn" guy.
Passarella was the plate umpire for the Home Run Derby TV series.
His umpire career - www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/P/Ppassa901.htm
Interesting info!
@@wiedep, yep in a ballpark that "...favored neither an American League or National League hitter"= Wrigley Field in L.A., not Chicago. Two years later, it was home to the new Los Angeles Angels of the A.L.
Another tidbit, a serious one, play by play HOMERUN DERBY host Mark Scott died after the first season of HDerby..of a heart attack at age 45. He had worked one season in the 50's('56) as a play-by-play guy with the CINCY REDLEGS, and had also announced Hollywood Stars Pacific Coast League Games in the 1950's...The producers decided not to replace him after he passed on, and discontinued the show..
He also did some acting..
True story..
Vin Scully, as knowledgeable and smooth in '67 as he was in '17...
There will never be another..
Hey, Bobby Darin and Dick Shawn were good! And Max Baer, Jr had power!! Really, most of the celebrities played well.
Saw Feigner play-amazing
@5:55 my all time favorite player ⚾️⭐️Roberto ...💖
Where was herman Munster?
I remember when he tried out for the Dodgers and leo durocher.
So did Mr. Ed! He had the best slide in baseball!
This game needed Herman. What a snooze fest this was
I remember Herman trying out. Great episode
@Bubba B Tru! The one in LA. Also site of "Home Run Derby".
@BubbaB they filmed "Pride of the Yanees" there as well.
I've only watched a few minutes so far but this is wonderful!
why didn't don adams wear number 86?
Good one!
And where's 99?
@Bryan Robinson Show creator Mel Brooks actually wrote Barbara's character as Agent 69. But NBC nixed that.
@@douglaslowe5, so they blew it off?
Feng Loggia phenomenal!Nostalgic treasure.
I had most of those Aurora toys. They rocked.
Milton Berle was originally going to wear tapered fit pants a la Mays and McCovey, but they didn't get past the censors.
I remember one of his fellow comedians/friends saying
' Milton was in the locker room at our tennis club , walking to the shower and at first I thought he had his son with him ' 😂 That was one of the best lines I've ever heard!
Machine Head: Milton was a member of the 10” club or something Hollywood called it.
@@TERoss-jk9ny they say he was packing more meat than Oscar Meyer💥
See-through, without being see-thru..
@@abelincoln5698, you are an honest man..
*Willie Mays MUST HAVE BEEN HAPPY to see the next two strike out* !
Feigner was one of the greatest hand-eye coordination athletes of the 20th. century.
If he had been serious the baseballers would have never put the bat on the ball..they almost didn't anyway.
This is probably the only game where Drysdale didn't try to throw at a hitter.
To be fair I remember him as the master of the "brush-back." I don't think he actually hit many guys.
@@tedmeece9009 Ok, I should've said he didn't throw any "Chin Music" pitches for the only time in his career... 🤗⚾
@@oldiesgeek454 I'm just being soft. I'm a Giants fan, but Don died too young and I guess had a good broadcasting career besides being a Dodger. He was tough.
@Ted Meece I know you were being soft. I didn't take your comment personally. I was just saying I should've worded it differently. Instead of saying he didn't throw at anyone, I should've said he didn't try to throw high and inside. BTW, just once I'd like to see a hitter get hit in a slow pitch softball game, and then charge the mound! 😊
BOB GIBSON hit batters..
I don't think anyone could be any LESS funny than Jerry Lewis is here.
By the early 70's Don Adams was the 'face' of the Aurora skittle game series ad's.
ads. apostrophes are for possession.
Missed it by that much.
Dick Cavett did the voiceover for the first postage stamp train spot/commercial on the broadcast...years before he was hosting his talkshow on ABC...
@@gregp103, do that again and its a TIMEOUT in the Cone of Silence...
@48:35 I remember my mom saying when I was a kid in the 70s that Max Baer Jr almost hit a softball out of a ballpark. I always wondered why Max Baer would be playing softball. I'm guessing this was the game she was referring to.
That Aurora model car racing commercial..i had that.
hahah that was a great commercial!! i want to buy that now
Thanks for uploading! How did you find this footage?
Amazing! Utterly enjoyed.
That had to be the greatest moment in Eddie Feigners life.
He performed in front of a lot more "elites" than that..many in government..
He was a phenomenon, that would be one of the most well known athletes if he was around today..
He was that great..
He certainly was!
I watched this when it originally aired, although it was a much closer game than I recalled. This had to be the highlight of actor Michael Callan's career, his 3-run homer off Clemente. He didn't exactly go far in his acting career (the short-lived sitcom "Occasional Wife", narrated ironically by Scully)
Wouldn't have minded seeing Donna Douglas or Barbara Eden in a snug uniform
Or Dawn Wells...
@@jamesage24 Hell yeah, and
Barbara Feldon too !
The best looking woman ever in Hollywood and mostly just a guest star in her career, was Jan Harrison. Check her out on that Gunsmoke episode where she, and the guy who robbed the stage her character was on, after taking her hostage, fell in love, lol..
She was astoundingly, and strikingly beautiful..
@@robertsprouse9282 I wouldn't know her if she fell on me
@@robertsprouse9282 Have phone, will Google
Jerry Lewis sounded like he was doing the game from a dentist chair. Even France would have turned the sound off on the tv.
Can't believe they had the celebrities playing the actual baseball players.....did the organizers think this would be a competitive game?
jscottrockford you do realize this was just for fun? probably raising money for charity
Plus the celebrities had that ringer for a pitcher.
They still do this at Dodger Stadium every season, it's usually before a game and it's not televised anymore.
Lead-off man Woody Allen was an All-Schoolyard stickball player growing up in Brooklyn.
I'm not sure how official that "all schoolyard" team was
@@MrAitraining LOL He may or may not have said that as a joke. Because in all seriousness Woody was a very good athlete growing up and did play a lot of baseball. To this day he regrets not getting a hit off Drysdale in this game.
This a gem, thank you
As a child of the 70s I think I was born 10 years too late . What a gift
this is amazing in so many ways!!!!!😀
A true favorite.
The celebrities should have had Chuck Connors, The Rifleman. He had briefly played for the Cubs.
And the Celtics..First man to shatter a backboard..on a 40 foot halfcourt heave at the end of warmups..broke the backboard because the basket was not installed properly into the glass backboard= first game of the season..Chucky..
Came up with the Brooklyn Dodgers org..may have had a "cup of coffee" with the Dodgers..got a few at bats and games in with the Cubbies, but not many. Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors nicknamed at Seton Hall where he played baseball and hoops.
In baseball, his teammates would call him Chuck because he would yell to the pitcher to chuck it over to him at first base when they were holding a runner close. He did not formally adopt the nickname until he was in the Pacific Coast League.
He went by Kevin Connors at first in pro ball.
That pitch at 9:43 was fantastic 😂
Wonderful video. But boy, Jerry Lewis was not a witty guy-he needed his physical schtick to do comedy. On his own like this he’s struggling. Martin, Bob Hope, even an aging Groucho would have been better suited.
I miss that. Predecessor to Hollywood Stars Night at the Ravine.
Is this the oldest color sports broadcast in existence? I thought Super Bowl III was until just now coming across this.
Remember when Jethro tried out for the Dodgers?
Couldn't pitch without possum fat.
Mr. Doo-rocher thought he had a prospect.
Mr. Ed practiced with the Dodgers. He got an inside the park home run!
@@brianarbenz1329, Ed was good at going to the opposite furlong.
so when they switch to softball king pitcher, jethro goes out and star? comes in to catch
And the commercials too!!
On IMDB it shows Clint Eastwood as being part of the game, i skimmed through but couldn't see him. Has anyone watched the entire thing?
Uncle Miltie was the manager. "Jose Jiminez" (aka Bill Dana) was the producer of this show.
@dougmilesmedia Do you happen to know what time of year this took place? Before, during or after the '67 season? I'd like to see Feigner strike out Mays pitching from the mound... 60 feet 6 inches. That would be fun to see! 😊
@@oldiesgeek454 after the 67 season. He calls McCarver one of the World Series heroes.
@@michaelfitzgerald3467 Thanks, that's what I get for only watching the first 10 minutes or so. I can't believe this actual broadcast video tape survived! No other "VT" broadcasts survived from that year. The only thing that still exists from the 67 Series, are grainy black and white Kinescope copies.
@@oldiesgeek454, Feigner would just throw one of his otherworldly breaking balls..
@@oldiesgeek454, some of SBOWL I survived..the guy will not give it up..and the NFL will not pay him..
jethro catching, 86 at second.....willie may laughing!!!!!! happy times
They used to have a Playboy Bunny softball team that traveled all over the country.⚾️🐇
Vine aquí por la famosa jugada de Don Drysdale y Woody Allen, la que Woody cuenta en Apropos of Nothing.
this seems to be the only one played and it feels like Vin and Jerry were dubbed in later
Vinny mistakenly said Ashford was behind the plate and then immediately corrected himself an inning before Ashford moved from the rightside to behind the plate.
So, I doubt it=dubbed later..
This is fun to see. But it must have been filmed over two days, because the shadow across the infield moves backwards between the 5th and 6th innings (between 40:40 and 41:30).
Probably just the way they edited the show together. At 37:00 they skip from the bottom of the 4th to the bottom of the 5th. The narration was dubbed in later so they could take liberties like that, not expecting that someone would notice it over 50 years later.
@@larrymelman, Scully did live play by play. It may have been taped earlier and played later, but he did live play by play..
He even mitakenly said Ashford was behind the plate as the ump, and then immediately corrected it.
His pbyplay was live, taped and edited later to fit the time period in prime time.
Gotta fight thru listening to Jerry Lewis to watch this.....
Emmett Ashford was the first Afro-American umpire
Afro-American umpires's matter.
#AAUM
Funny and at that time it was celebrities vs MLB players until the early 90's, right during the all star break. The celebrities mix it up with MLB players as well as NHL,and yes even NBA. Go figure.
Harmon showing 'Respect' @10:26 To the King
Only in LA could this game happen .
Durocher didn't exactly Support His Local Pitcher while James Garner was trying to make his Great Escape from two on and nobody out down 1-0!
Love it! "Support Your Local Sheriff", and the other movie "The Great Escape"..
One of my Garner faves was 36 HOURS where the Germans in WW2 try to make Garner's soldier character think WW2 is over and he is back in the U.S. after WW2 is over...using fake newspapers and fake baseball radio reports..
They are trying to see if he will spill the beans on the "already happened" D-DAY attack..when in fact, he catches on, and gives them the wrong info and escapes. The NAZIs go to Calais, France; D-DAY was of course at Normandy.
Good flick.
This was when players and actors had dignity and self respect. Nowadays you roll snake eyes for anything other then being STUCK UP.
You can't say this anymore: 1:41 The Jewish Joe G.
The fact that you said it over a year ago and have presumably suffered no ill effects means you can say it.
It's 2020 and as far as I know you can still say Jewish.
@@douglaslowe5 Yes, but who would want to be called a Jew?
Nor could Bill Dana's act.
@@tomb4575, not as Jose Jimenez..no..
AURORA TOYS, AURORA TOYS, THE MOD, MOD, TOYS, AURORA TOYS!
20:13 Eddie Feigner pitching
Like that profile pic of yours! It looks like a bada** oriole! 😀
He first came into he game at 8:13.
Nabre Labre LEGEND ! 💪
Nabre Labre ....He could K guys from 2nd base !
Max Baer had serious pop
So did his old man one of the great boxers of the '30's= Max Sr.
@48:35 I remember my mom saying when I was a kid in the 70s that Max Baer Jr almost hit a softball out of a ballpark. I always wondered why Max Baer would be playing softball. I'm guessing this was the game she was referring to.
Bobby Darin the voice 50 and 60 King 🕴🎵🎶🎼🎤🎸🎹👏
At first it’s impressive how well the celebrities hit the ball.
And then the cameras pan out to the fences. 😂
Just watched bits and pieces. But am I seeing this right ? Players that actually were playing baseball during the season playing in a
Messed up. What i was trying to say is can you Imagine today's active players playing a celebrity softball game during the regular season with the outrageous salaries they get ? Would never happen.
@@kentkleiser9712 this game most likely took place after the season had ended. Willie Mays mentioned that he was out of shape, so he probably hadn't played in several weeks.
They should have played a Celebrity Skittle Bowl game instead
How did Vin Scully get roped into this?
I was wondering the same thing... The guy has no ego! 😊
He was the voice of Dodger Stadium. Also I think this aired on NBC, for which he hosted a game show "it takes Two'.
@@douglaslowe5, also narrated OCCASIONAL WIFE, lol..
This was after the season was over and many sports broadcasters and players had off season jobs to earn a living during the winter in those days. Being from LA, Vince was always working during the off season, he did a game show for a while, hosted the Rose Parade, play by play for the NFL and even Golf. Nobody associated with professional sports in those days were millionaires except the owners. I used to like during Spring Training, when the pre-season games were starting, Vince would tell you what the players did in the off season. Samantha Stephens zapping in Vince Scully to Host the Rose Parade with her. th-cam.com/video/F0JTOrX2T2Q/w-d-xo.html
Wish I could have seen more of Eddie Feigner. And someone should have told Jerry Lewis to shut up. Not funny at all, but never stopped trying. He should have waited to speak until he actually came up with something original and funny.
My God, Jerry was terrible. Even France would have agreed.
First annual ... and last annual?
Bobby darin on this right.
@1:42 Jerry Lewis calls Vin Scully - "Vince"
So? His first name is Vincent so either Vin or Vince works.
@@patrickmorgan4006, he was called both back then..Garner called him Vince in the lockerroom..
So did Maury Wills, Don Adams, Steve Allen
At 9:45. Showtime.
2:54
That's equivalent to .17 MBCUs.
Milton Berle Cock Units scale.
Narrated by Vin Scully.
Play by play..honor our profession, its not "narrating"..its ad-libbing with precision, talking TO, and not AT our listeners, painting mental pictures, and capturing the emotion of the game's situations, and twists and turns= on radio; and, on TV, summarizing on the fly adding just enough emotion...
PLAY- BY- PLAY..its an art and a science..
Its thorough preparation..
Its not narration, reading a script, unless..its delivering spots/ads..
Got it?
What the hell, no hot 60's chicks playing?
Why Jerry Lewis? He seems bored and disdainful.
Because he played celebrity baseball many times and was good at it.
I hope Jerry fired whoever wrote those lame jokes
If this game happened today Bryce Harper would get ejected for something.
His ego is as big as a Canyon..
10:04. " Killebrew working at an
A & P in Newark" Was that Jerrys attempt at humor or factual ?
It might have been true, many players back then worked in the off-season as well.
@@rickmelbye2041 I know, but he's from Idaho and played in Minn. Why the heck would he be in Newark ?
Joe Ambrose haha A&P in Newark... I might know where it is but never seen Harmon Killlebrew there
Killbrew
Youngman
Happy
@@joeambrose3260 Lewis was born in Newark NJ
wow, jerry lewis didn't make one funny joke
Jerry Lewis did that wonderful charity for the kids but you're right he isn't funny, hey laaady god i hated that in his movies
The "Jewish Joe Garagiola" was kinda funny.
May as well call him Jewish Joe!
Jerry Lewis was constantly saying jokes, I guess you just didn't find it amusing.
"Woody Allen looks like he's rehearsing for a famine" was laugh out loud funny.
@@oaktownklaygounds1539 How could anyone find those terrible worn out jokes funny?
Lewis wasn't funny at all
This was sexist. No female celebrities. Yvonne Craig could have been on one team, Barbara Feldon could been on the team w/ Don Adams.
The year was 1967..Joan Joyce would have struckout Mays, et al..She k'd Ted Williams and Yaz..and Reggie J.
See my comment above