1968 Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers Vitalis Commerical
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Originally aired in 1968, this commerical features future Hall of Famer Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
San Francisco Giants manager Herman Franks makes a cameo in this commerical, accusing Drysdale of throwing a greaseball.
The umpire is my father, John Vick from San Francisco. He's a paid actor in this commercial but he was in the minors back in the 50's. It's great to see him again through the magic of modern technology.This was a big deal for him. And my 5 sisters and I loved seeing him on TV!
He looks good. He was in a few other commercials, TV shows(LIne-up,Lassie, Streets of San Francisco) and some movies(Take the Money and Run,The Towering Inferno,Bullitt) later on.
I hope you can save the footage for your family. That is a great commercial, What a great legacy your father left.
I remember this well. It came out shortly before Drysdale retired. Willie Davis also appeared in the commercial. The catcher was Tom Haller.
Earlier in the season the SF manager, Herman Franks got into a big dust up with the umps, accusing Drysdale of doctoring the ball and I believe he was throw out.
Some ad executive was on the ball.
This was the first season I started to follow baseball.
Who was thrown out? Franks or Drysdale?
@@ThekiBoran
I'm not super positive if Franks was thrown out but he did go off on the Ump after he cleared Drysdale. Like in the ad he thought Drysdale was using something in his hair or cap. I saw this game on TV. I thought it was awesome that it was turned into a commercial when I saw this later in the season. Like I said some AD Man saw a great opportunity for a commercial.
Thanks for posting this. I remember their slogan that Vitalis had No Greasy Kid Stuff. and always happy to see the Big D who passed away much too soon.
CarlDuke drydale would have all these home run posers and bat flippers on their back
@@richardvalleau7254 I didn't think Drysdale made that distinction. He put everyone on their back.
I remember this commercial.
According to a 1968 Giants roster, the player in the batters box is Frank Johnson.
Yup - Bill Haller.
Tommy Haller caught a lotta games for the Giants in the mid-'60s. He had one great offensive year - '66, maybe - with something like 30 homers. Had an arm, too; in one game against the Dodgers, he twice threw out Maury Wills stealing second.
I remember this ad from when I was a kid, and I am 69 now.
I forgot about this commercial.
He had the voice and mannerisms of an ump. Good job. :)
I remember a commercial with Mets manager Gil Hodges inspecting the hair of his starters before a game, and ordering Gary Gentry, " Gentry, to the showers!
Yep...Vitalis! you'll find it in the lockers of most pitchers in major league baseball. Just great for keeping the hair in order during those long extra inning games.......among other things😅😅
Great find.
#14 was Len Gabrielson and #7 was Bob Bailey. Gabrielson I recognized Bailey I had to look up.
And #3 was Willie Davis and the catcher was Tom Haller…1968…Drysdale’s last full season in the majors…also the year he threw SIX STRAIGHT SHUTOUTS
Thanks for uploading! Memory lane! It's Gil Hodges' B-Day... :) Go Big D!
Love those classic commercials No cheaters here
Those fans have sharp vision to recognize the label on the bottle Don is holding up.
0:29 Home Plate Umpire: Drysdale, where do you think you're going? Drysdale.
Peanuts Lowrie was probably on the phone with his bookie. But all kidding aside, this is a cool commercial and a look at what Candlestick looked like before they enclosed the entire ballpark.
Other ball players in this classic commercial…
DODGERS
Willie Davis
Tom Haller
Len Gabrielson
Bob Bailey
GIANTS
Frank Johnson (at bat)
Ray Sadecki and Mike McCormick (dugout)
Herman Franks (manager)
Herman Franks was "famous" for managing the powerful San Francisco Giants to 5-straight, 2nd place finishes in the National League, back in the 60's. They couldn't overcome the pitching of Koufax & Drysdale and Bob Gibson.
Rest assured Drysdale would have put the next pitch in the hitter’s ear hole
I'd forgotten all about the McDowell trade rumblings. Cepeda for Sadeki turned out to be as spectacularly bad as Robinson for Pappas.
Footnote: As a small-town sportswriter in the '90s, Cepeda was my biggest interview when he was master of ceremonies one year at the PONY Bronco League World Series in Monterey. I asked him if it was true that he got the "Baby Bull" nickname when he ran through a stop sign and was thrown out at the plate. He laughed.
Had they traded Cepeda to the Indians for say, Luis Tiant, or even a younger, less inebriated Sam McDowell, their fortunes might have been a whole lot different back then. The inclusion of a McDowell or a Tiant to a rotation already including Marichal, Perry and McCormick might have been enough to catch the Cardinals.
Oh well, I guess we'll never know.
Used to see this all the time
It sounds like famed Giant announcer Russ Hodges doing the voice-over.
According to the 1968 Dodger roster: #3 is Willie Davis, #5 is Jim Lefebre, #17 is Hank Aguirre, #21 is Jim Brewer. One of the players in the dugout is #?4, but you cannot make out the first number on his uniform for certain. I don't recognize the umpire either.
also looks like #21 Jim Brewer too...
Sounds like John Sterling on the voice-over
Steve Garvey did a Vitalis commercial when he was a rookie.
I remember that but I can't find it. Pete Rose was also in the commercial, as was Maury Wills.
Hahahaaaa…sorry Herman…(the Giants manager)…Vitalis has no grease…
Herman Franks was an intense competitor & this outburst does not surprise me. Moreover the umpire should never have let Drysdale leave his sight.
I recognize tha catcher as Tom Haller from his baseball cards. He's one of those guys who was around a long time who I remember getting on a lot of baseball cards but don't actually ever remember seeing him play in a game. I believe his brother was an umpire in the American League.
Bill Haller was his brother. Bill was in fact an AL ump.
What’s funny is it looks like it was filmed at Candlestick Park. No way that real crowd would cheer Drysdale.
I totally remember this. I was 12 and a hard-core Dodgers fan.
A bit of irony: Drysdale's catcher is Tommy Haller, and that was his first year with LA. He'd come from the Giants with some minor-leaguer in a trade for Ron Hunt and Nate Oliver.
The batter is Frank Johnson, a backup third baseman. When Drysdale tosses the ball in the dugout, second baseman Jimmy Lefebvre catches it, and when he comes out, 3 is center fielder Willie Davis. Anyone know who the umpire is?
See Leslie monahan's comment.
Great color!
Don then proceded to throw a brushback pitch....at Franks in the dugout.
They could sure hit baseballs. Didn't score a ton of runs, but it seemed like there wasn't a game when Mays or McCovey or Hart or Haller didn't hit a homer. But, pitching usually wins, and aside from Marichal with occasional help from Perry, Bolin, Shaw or Herbel, they weren't known for that.
Mays also said the '54 Giants were the best ball club that ever took the field. Kinda hard to argue with someone like him.
And in the next inning, Walrer Alston accuses Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry of throwing a greaseball....busted!
This doesn't look like Candlestick Park's OF, was this filmed there? Thanks...Yeah, TOM HALLER, WILLIE DAVIS & JIM LEFEBVRE are all in the commercial! Along with the BIG 'D"!
This is definitely Candlestick Park. That is what it looked like from 1960 to 1970. It was enclosed in 1971. It even had Astro-Turf for much of the 1970's.
Umpire appears to be Harry Wendelstedt.
Chicago ties in this ad.
Drysdale:Future White Sox announcer.
Herman Franks:Future Cubs manager.
That '66 team was good. I've often heard McCovey and Mays both claim that their '66 team was better overall than the '62 team that won the pennant. But after what happened in 2010 and last year, I guess none of that really matters.
65 and 66 Giants were both very good, and came close to winning, but were a little short on pitching. Dodgers had great pitching but prob one of the worst hitting attacks of any pennant winner.
Well, Perry did approach Vaseline once about doing an endorsement, so that probably wasn't too far from being a reality...
The only way this commercial could have been any better would have been if Vin Scully had done the voice over....not that Russ Hodges wasn't good here, but Scully was just, well Scully.
Well, the Giants DID get around to trading for Sam McDowell. But that was at the end of the 1971 season, and they traded him for Gaylord Perry. McDowell turned out to be a bust (he would be out of baseball a few years later) and Perry went on to pitch another 10 + seasons and win 300 games. Recently it had been revealed to Giants fans that by the late 1960s owner Horace Stoneham had run into some serious money problems and was looking to dump some of his higher salaried players.
Haven't seen this in years! Boy, did I hate Drysdale, with the white-hot hatred only a pre-teen Giants fan could have...
Giants announcer Russ Hodges doing the voice-over...
Coaching third? Or was it first?
I'm not sure either.
@kylebook LOL
Where do you like you're goin...? No greasy kid stuff huh lol
and most likely Walter Alston was right!
It has alcohol though, so it dries your hair
And where was Peanuts Lowrie? Another Giants Cry Baby then.