I hate to be argumentative, but I think the majority of pitchers today, throw much harder than the majority of pitchers in the past. There also seems to be more 5 tool players playing at every single position (including 1st base), than in the past. I've heard Joe Morgan marvel at how hard everybody throws, and how well every position player can hit those pitchers.
@@michaelhassler7446 What does it matter how skilled the players are at every position when the game consists entirely of home runs and strikeouts (with the occasional base on balls and foul ball in order to run up the pitch count)?
As I watched this on, June 9th 2023 , it’s like going back in time,when I was 12 years old. Watching this game with my Dad. Boy , do I miss those days.
Sucks now that there's no separation between the leagues. It was magical when the world series was played because it was played between two leagues that were actually separate.
True. But the young people have no idea about when baseball as a "game" No fancy graphics on TV. No ballparks that now look like amusement parks. No clocks to time the pitchers and batters. Pitchers used to finish 9 innings. Now they take the babies out after 5 or 6 innings. Players did not take steriods or PEDs or worked out with weights. All the players look like gorillas now. The fences are now little league demensions. Think about this: Mickey Mantle used to lose 15-20 home runs a year in the old stadium when he hit long shots to death valley (461 to dead center, 457 to left center, 420 to right center). Do the math! Injuries and all if he played in the ballparks of today for 18 years he would've hit over 800 HR's! @@bmorebamma
I was one of the winners of the contest sponsored by Chrysler-Plymouth that Don Drysdale is promoting in the commercial at 1:47:17 (well, officially my Dad was the winner since I was only 12 years old and not a licenced driver). I won one of the "2000 other prizes"-- an official 1971 Allstar Game Baseball signed by Reggie Jackson. I was so excited when I received this ball in the mail! I went right out to play with it and show it off to my neighborhood buddies. It picked up a few grass stains before I was advised to preserve it but to me playing with it and getting stains on it just made it more "real". I still do have the ball and the cardbord box it came in!
@@keithsayler9136quite the opposite. That’s the beauty of it (along with seeing all the different team uniforms, which they should get back to). The point is to celebrate the game and the league. Some teams get no national coverage all season, and this is the highlight of a young fans year to see their team and their player represented.
I agree with you, the All Star Game is not the same. And the Baseball Commissioner, what’s to get rid of the American League and the National League, and have the, Western Division, Central Division and the Eastern Division.
@@richardszablewski1420 Oof, 10 teams in 3 divisions? Not good, how would they settle the playoff picture that way, can't have the best record team, sit out until all playoff games are done, and facing final team in WS, or what if there's others with the same record? 🤦
Clemente, Killebrew, Kaline, RJackson, Munson, BBonds, WDavis, Santo, Rose, Carlton, Seaver, Marichal, Jenkins, Palmer, Lolich, ..........And they were the reserves. Greatest assemblage of talent in the history of the game.
@@Fnstine LOL!! I was a year younger than you at that time--(8 years old) and I also had ALL their baseball cards!! (What an unbelievable assemblage of talent--we took it for granted!!)
The *best* ballpark. For every seat obstructed by the posts, you had *thousands* of seats right on top of the field. The decking's shadows made the ball seem especially clear, and you had nice gradients of homers. Lower deck, upper deck, roof, over the roof. Pull it to right field's 325 ft. down the line, homer. Hit it to center, you better get it beyond that *440* ft. marker.
Totally agreed, you were entertained by them and the players, not by dumbass analytics and distracting graphics. Haven't really watched an AS in over 20 yrs. Baseball was so much better back then, watch how these players interact. Even the players from each side are cordial to their teamate, but not all lovey dovey like now with the pussification of the game. I miss that in the game.
@@thedeucemonkey2331 Oh, PLEASE. Someone ALWAYS comes into these old videos with these "get off my lawn" comments. These old broadcasts were great. Today's are ALSO great.
It's weird seeing Lindsey Nelson on an NBC broadcast. I always remember him as a CBS guy, when he wasn't doing the Mets. He did college football & NFL games on CBS for years, in addition to his famous syndicated broadcasts of Notre Dame football.
And, with the L.A. Dodgers when he first came up, he played the outfield with that huge height/frame, and played some for WDC SENS#2 as well before shifting to first later on with both WDC#2 and where WDC moved= TEX. He also played as a D.H. during the latter stages of his career. THE CAPITAL PUNISHER.. BTW.. This ALL-STAR GAME would be the last ALL STAR GAME featuring any player repping WDC until 2005.. The SENS#2 moved to ARLINGTON(DAL.-FT. WORTH METROPLEX), TX., THE very next season. The MONTREAL EXPOS moved to WDC as the NATIONALS in 2005.. The SENS#1 sometimes called the NATIONALS, moved to MINN. in 1961, the first year of the SENS#2.. WDC is the only city past 1900 to house three different MLB ORGS at three different times; the latter I add because WDC did it without having two teams or even three, in their market at the same time.
In the old RFK Stadium where the Senators played their home games there were about a dozen or so white painted seats in the furthest reaches of the upper deck--(all of them about 500 feet plus from home plate)--those seats were actual landing spots from a few of Frank Howard's tape measure home runs. (They called him "The Capital Punisher"--NOBODY hit moon shots like Frank Howard back in the day--he was AWESOME!!)
I was 10, and this was the first major league ball game my dad ever took me to. We met Curt Gowdy in the concourse before the game and I still have the program with his autograph on it. Our seats were in the second row of the upper deck just above the AL dugout so we had a perfect view of Reggie's blast, and of my idol, Brooks Robinson at 3rd base. Definitely one of my best memories!
Awesome memories I'm sure Jim! A HUGE (almost 10 yr. old) baseball fan back then, Norm Cash my favorite player(Curt Gowdy my all-time favorite national announcer)! Didn't see my 1st Tiger game until the next season, but did make it to the 84 World Series. Love and miss Tiger Stadium!
I was 10 years old as well at the time and Brooks Robinson was my favorite player. Of course, I wasn't at the game, but am enjoying watching it almost 50 years later.
Brooks Robinson was appropriately nicknamed "The Human Vacuum Cleaner." His bare-handed pickups at third were a marvel. Arguably the best fielding third baseman ever.
I was 10yrs old at the time too. I've been to Jasper, Arkansas in the Boston Mountains in the Ozarks....Brooks Robinson robbing Johnny Bench again just like in the 1970 World Series. Brooks is from the Ozarks in Arkansas too...
@@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817 Yes sir...Little Rock I think.He was one of the best fielders at 3rd ever but dang he could hit a curve ball like nobody else. Always wore that helmet with the bill shortened.
I was that typical Detroit kid I was enamored with that stadium. Later on, I operated the scoreboards for a season. After it closed, I played an exhibition game there as part of the city’s 300th birthday. Dreams come true. Sometimes.
I remember this like it was yesterday. Everything about it is better than baseball today, from the players to the announcers. No one compares o Curt Gowdy, the voice of sports when I was growing up.
The all-star game was really something to be excited about back then. It was something you looked forward to as much as the World Series. It was a chance to see the stars from both leagues, and if you were a national league city, this was one of the few opportunities to see the other league's stars, and vice versa. A real treat for a baseball fan, and boy did this one live up to it's billing.
This is golden. Thank you for posting this game. I was very young boy in Manville, NJ and was excited to see this game. Everyone in the neighborhood was a Mets fan, I was an Orioles fan. My friends were rubbing it in that the NL had won 9 in a row and were going to make it 10. It looked that way until Reggie Jackson hit the light transformer on the roof with his 2- run home run. The AL won 6-4 and the Orioles did well. Frank Robinson hit a 2 run homer, Brooks started a double play and had a hit. Jim Palmer and Mike Cuellar combined to pitch 3 or 4 scoreless innings. Don Buford had an at bat. Earl Weaver was the manager. Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, and Lindsay Nelson were the greatest announcers. Low key yet analytical and friendly. The pre-game festivities were classy. The players were modest and represented their teams well. Someone called this game as one in which your favorite baseball cards came to life. Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Willie Stargell, Willie McCovey, and Johnny Bench for the NL. Just an incredible memory. Bittersweet but golden.
A rare look at baseball over half a century ago. What a treat to see all these great players in their prime. Brings back a lot of memories. For me, Reggie's homer was the highlight. People still talk about it today.
I lost my grandpa in 2015 ,he loved baseball so much he played his whole life and softball up till he couldnt run anymore.... oh what i would give to be able to kick back on the couch put this on and watch this together, he would absolutely love this ❤💔🙏
could watch this over and over forever.......my childhood in a nutshell....notice how they SWING the bat and don't look to walk?!?! Todays hitters could learn a lot watching these guys play
The great met announcer Lindsey Nelson....with his loud jackets....those were the days, great announcers back then....this is when the all star games were great.
Greatest All Star Game in history !!! 10 runs scored by 10 members of the Hall Of Fame, HR by Aaron, Bench, Jackson, Killebrew, Frank Robinson and Clemente, four of them finding Aparicio, Carew, Stargell and Kaline on base, incredible !!!
I'm from Detroit, and I can officially say that this was the very last MLB All Star Game that the old Tiger Stadium would ever have. Reggie Jackson a.k.a. "Mr. October" 's homer was by far the biggest highlight of that game!
@@jimkennedy5202 I agree, while Jackson's blast was historical the forgotten Johnny Bench homer earlier was impressive in distance. Baseball back then was king. I watched this game as a kid with my dad. The baseball all star game was so special for many decades. The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were tremendous examples.
Two all stars, Roberto Clemente and Mike Cuellar, Pittsburgh and Baltimore respectively would have such a key moment collectively months later in game seven of the 1971 World Series.
My favorite All Star Game. Lived up to the quality of all the players involved. The names, the legends, the Homers. Had to be a great atmosphere in Tiger Stadium that night.
Ha ha, I don't know why I watched this from start to finish. I was a High School sophomore when this game was played. I probably watched it but don't remember for sure. I was a big baseball fan back then. I remember most of the players in the game. I think my high school baseball cleats are still in my 3rd floor attic somewhere, lol.
Pittsburgh had a great team the entire decade of the 1970s. In this day and age of free agents, it is very difficult for small market teams such as Pittsburgh to compete with the teams with the big pockets.
It certainly looks really nice. The new stadiums are all nice and all, but I don't understand why the couldn't have just renovated and maintained the old stadiums. So much baseball history was made in the old stadiums and now, with the exception of Wrigley and Fenway, they are all gone forever!
Old and dumpy isn't always charming- been to both stadiums dozens of times. Sitting behind a post at Tiger Stadium wasn't charming. But I really respect your good memories of Tiger Stadium- me too.
@@stevezerio4803 For every obstructed seat at Tiger Stadium, you had *thousands* of seats right on top of the action. Fantastic sight lines generally, and a beautifully historic feel. Every on-going or imminent play felt instantly framed by the past.... Abandoning and destroying it was a terrible waste. Wrigley and Fenway are still going strong.
Me, too. I never got over Bonds, etc., and the steroid scandal destroying all the power records...and it being allowed to stand. No sport depended on its history like baseball. And they let it be ruined by a handful of cheaters, greedy, slobs. This 'roid thing broke in '04 and as I saw it getting mishandled, I told myself an incredible thing: I was done with baseball. And I haven't seen a game since. Frustrating thing is that I'd just moved to SF (1 3/4 mi. from park) two yrs prior and had enjoyed walking to games from home.
I had just graduated hs and was with my family on a road trip. I watched the entire ball game in a motel room. It was awe inspiring. The lineups for both sides was legendary. Reggie's shot was still ascending when it hit the transformer. Epic ballgame.
The Detroit Tigers were never the same team after they left Tigers Stadium. I love the intimacy feel of the stadium. Comerica Park lost a lot of that intimacy and closeness from the fans and players alike.
It's all generic now, no tradition, overpaid, American players exchanged for Latin players, bb power history ruined by 'roid scandal and the mishandling of it.
The lady who appeared in the Right Guard ad after John Amos looked familiar, but I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure that was Bookman from Good Times working for the undependable muffler shop in the Midas ad.
As cub fan i hated him. Yet he was allstar as catcher i think. Then 3rd. Did he make it as 1rst base? Was never a yankee fan also but his leadership of jeter,posada,williams was impressive.
I was 10 years old and living on the west side of Michigan. I had a Little League game that night and I remember that the wind was blowing very very hard. I got home in time to see the second half of the All-Star game, one of my most memorable - especially since it was played at Detroit's Tiger Stadium
Martin, Jackson and Munson. Different uniforms, in the same line, probably didnt even know each other. Their future history would collide like thunder.
The following year, Billy Martin would manage the Detroit Tigers' "grand old men" team to the American League Eastern Division title - and the Tigers and the Athletics would go the full 5 games in the ALCS that year, with the A's winning the last game, 2-1 (one of three one-run victories in the ALCS that year).
He had a great pitching motion, coming from way over the top. The other, but forgotten, pitching sensation early in that season was Sonny Siebert, which is why he's in this game. He started the season 9-0, and his 9th win was over Vida Blue in a Friday night game at Fenway Park. Going into the game, which was Memorial Day weekend, Blue was 10-1 and Siebert was 8-0, and of course it was a sell out at Fenway Park. I remember the build up to that game. They were both talked about as potential 30 game winners. And, of course, both cooled down the second half of the season.
Although the players today are muscle heads they can't come close to any of these players. No way. They might be bigger and stronger today maybe but they dont know how to play the game like these guys.
I was 10 yrs old at that time and actually rooted for the Pirates during the 1971 WS, then became an A's fan in 72 the finally the Mets in 86 and now still one. Loved that time in my life. My parents were young and alive and had s happy childhood. Baseball was a better game and no enhancements like the DH, body armor, runner on 2nd base i extra innings, and a pitch clock. Players arr grossly overpaid and the cost going to a game is so expensive for everything! I miss the older parks like Shea. Glad Wrigley snd Fenway are sill standing!
Thanks to whoever posted this. It's a great game with so many Hall of Famers that it's hard to keep track of. Interesting that Curt Gowdy kept brining up Hank Aaron's bad knee and seemed to doubt that he could catch Babe Ruth. I also like that some ads were kept in. Sears used to have a monopoly on just about everything back then. Paint, tires and just about everything else
Don't look for anyone who played for the Angels, Indians, White Sox, Brewers, Expos, or Phillies. Don't look for the American League to win an All-Star Game--for 12 years following 1971! But if you were around that year, this is a game you'll never forget!
@sour airhead at least the Expos and Brewers were recent expansion teams at the time without any real stars yet, along with the likes of the Padres for another recent expansion team, while the Royals for another recent expansion team were basically the only one already with reputable stars like a Otis and Rojas ultimately becoming franchise greats.
I was always an American League fan, and in all the years up until I was already an adult, this was the only All-Star game I saw them win. Next time they won, it was also in a good ol' American League park, Comiskey Park, I think in 1983.
@@RRaquello It was, indeed, on 6 July 1983 - the 50th anniversary of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game. Same date, different year (which is why the 1983 All-Star Game was played on a Wednesday instead of on a Tuesday).
The rosters for this game... amazing! Clemente doesn't start. Rose, Brock and Munson don't get in until the final 2 innings. That contraption on Lindsay Nelson's head? And the commercials. Ed Lauter in a Special K ad? When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer ... the list goes on and on ...
Norm Cash was a replacement for Boog Powell of the Orioles. Dave Duncan was a replacement for Ray Fosse and Wilbur Wood was a replacement for Sam McDowell, which is why you don't see any Cleveland Indians. Reggie Jackson replaced Tony Oliva of the Twins on the roster.
Good ol Stormin' Norman, liked to drink a lil too much. Some claim he didn't really slip and fall down drunk on that pier in Northern Lower Michigan , but rather he was hit in the head with a baseball bat (how ap ro pos) as he owed a gambling debt to the wrong people, then he was thrown in Lake Michigan. Right up their With The Jimmy Hoffa Death Mystery for a minute in and around the D.
Incredible lineups and a great game, colossal home runs, terriffic pitching, and some excellent glove work including some neat double plays with lightning fast pivot, and Mickey Lolich making three sweet plays by himself on the mound.
Fergie Jenkins and Billy williams and Santo got no love. Jenkins was in his 5th year of winning 20 games. He won CY Young that year but no start. Year before Williams led NL in hits, runs, total bases. 42 hr. 137 rbis both 2nd most . Bench got Mvp that year. Williams didnt make 70 allstar team? Thats how good you had to be. Only 24 teams then.
This is the first year I really followed baseball, and it's sobering to think that Charlie Gehringer, a figure of the distant past in my mind, is as far removed in time from that game as Wade Boggs is to this year's game. Whatever happened to the pitch, hit and throw winners? They're aged 59-62 in 2021--if they're all still alive.
I can name every player by sight, makes this 60 year old feel great, wish I had my old baseball cards ⚾️ RIP Vida Blue
Same my friend. 60 n I wish I had those cards. Went to first A’s game next year with dad and grandpa.
Yep... what a treat getting to watch these legends play....
I have mine...63 years old
Very well said.
That’s so cool, I wished I had some of those baseball cards to begin with 😊
Back when the all star game had meant something and was magical
Uniforms , announcers , players all better than today ....I miss baseball
I miss that era of baseball. Love the uniforms from 1971
@@sportsmedia25 everything has fallen off a cliff in the last 60 years, especially the maturity level....no class left today
I hate to be argumentative, but I think the majority of pitchers today, throw much harder than the majority of pitchers in the past. There also seems to be more 5 tool players playing at every single position (including 1st base), than in the past. I've heard Joe Morgan marvel at how hard everybody throws, and how well every position player can hit those pitchers.
@@michaelhassler7446 if anything there are less five tool players now.
@@michaelhassler7446 What does it matter how skilled the players are at every position when the game consists entirely of home runs and strikeouts (with the occasional base on balls and foul ball in order to run up the pitch count)?
As I watched this on, June 9th 2023 , it’s like going back in time,when I was 12 years old. Watching this game with my Dad. Boy , do I miss those days.
When baseball was still a "game". I loved Willie McCovey. I met him at a NY Mets game once. What a nice man. A gentleman. RIP Mr. McCovey.
My guy was Buddy Harrelson. Lets Go Mets
Sucks now that there's no separation between the leagues. It was magical when the world series was played because it was played between two leagues that were actually separate.
Still is oldtimes had their moments .Let the young people have theirs
True. But the young people have no idea about when baseball as a "game" No fancy graphics on TV. No ballparks that now look like amusement parks. No clocks to time the pitchers and batters. Pitchers used to finish 9 innings. Now they take the babies out after 5 or 6 innings. Players did not take steriods or PEDs or worked out with weights. All the players look like gorillas now. The fences are now little league demensions. Think about this: Mickey Mantle used to lose 15-20 home runs a year in the old stadium when he hit long shots to death valley (461 to dead center, 457 to left center, 420 to right center). Do the math! Injuries and all if he played in the ballparks of today for 18 years he would've hit over 800 HR's!
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I was one of the winners of the contest sponsored by Chrysler-Plymouth that Don Drysdale is promoting in the commercial at 1:47:17 (well, officially my Dad was the winner since I was only 12 years old and not a licenced driver). I won one of the "2000 other prizes"-- an official 1971 Allstar Game Baseball signed by Reggie Jackson. I was so excited when I received this ball in the mail! I went right out to play with it and show it off to my neighborhood buddies. It picked up a few grass stains before I was advised to preserve it but to me playing with it and getting stains on it just made it more "real". I still do have the ball and the cardbord box it came in!
As a kid back then, me and my brothers would have played with that ball too!
You have the grass stains from 1971 on it.
@@rascal211 yes I do!
Neat.
Al Kaline played 22 years in the majors, and said Jackson's home run this evening was the hardest hit ball he'd ever seen.
23 Hall of Famers in this game. WOW!
And they all played for pride and love of the game...
ASG’s lost its luster when inter league began. This is in my opinion, the best all star game ever
Requiring that every team be represented doesn't work
@@keithsayler9136quite the opposite. That’s the beauty of it (along with seeing all the different team uniforms, which they should get back to).
The point is to celebrate the game and the league. Some teams get no national coverage all season, and this is the highlight of a young fans year to see their team and their player represented.
Although I agree on the interleague play, I feel that each team should have at least one rep, whether as a reserve or a starter. IMO 🤷
I agree with you, the All Star Game is not the same. And the Baseball Commissioner, what’s to get rid of the American League and the National League, and have the, Western Division, Central Division and the Eastern Division.
@@richardszablewski1420 Oof, 10 teams in 3 divisions?
Not good, how would they settle the playoff picture that way, can't have the best record team, sit out until all playoff games are done, and facing final team in WS, or what if there's others with the same record? 🤦
This is one of the greatest all star games ever.
It was the greatest!
Sho'nuff
Clemente, Killebrew, Kaline, RJackson, Munson, BBonds, WDavis, Santo, Rose, Carlton, Seaver, Marichal, Jenkins, Palmer, Lolich, ..........And they were the reserves. Greatest assemblage of talent in the history of the game.
I was 9 years old and had ALL the baseball cards of these guys. Baseball of today is weak.
Don't forget frank howard
And don't forget Marty Pattin.
@@Fnstine LOL!! I was a year younger than you at that time--(8 years old) and I also had ALL their baseball cards!! (What an unbelievable assemblage of talent--we took it for granted!!)
I remember all these players. It was great to be a baseball fan in the 60s & 70s.
Old tiger stadium ,,,,,awesome!
The *best* ballpark. For every seat obstructed by the posts, you had *thousands* of seats right on top of the field. The decking's shadows made the ball seem especially clear, and you had nice gradients of homers. Lower deck, upper deck, roof, over the roof. Pull it to right field's 325 ft. down the line, homer. Hit it to center, you better get it beyond that *440* ft. marker.
Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, and Lindsey Nelson were total pros. Today's announcers
need to watch this. This is how you broadcast sports!!!
Totally agreed, you were entertained by them and the players, not by dumbass analytics and distracting graphics. Haven't really watched an AS in over 20 yrs. Baseball was so much better back then, watch how these players interact. Even the players from each side are cordial to their teamate, but not all lovey dovey like now with the pussification of the game. I miss that in the game.
@@thedeucemonkey2331 Oh, PLEASE. Someone ALWAYS comes into these old videos with these "get off my lawn" comments. These old broadcasts were great. Today's are ALSO great.
@@careyconley4690 Today's are OK. But these guys set the standard
@@careyconley4690, and if they don't agree with that, they can get off your lawn!
It's weird seeing Lindsey Nelson on an NBC broadcast. I always remember him as a CBS guy, when he wasn't doing the Mets. He did college football & NFL games on CBS for years, in addition to his famous syndicated broadcasts of Notre Dame football.
Vida had 17 wins at the all star break. Amazing
Frank Howard was huge!
He was massive, yeah
He was also one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. And I'm speaking from experience.
And, with the L.A. Dodgers when he first came up, he played the outfield with that huge height/frame, and played some for WDC SENS#2 as well before shifting to first later on with both WDC#2 and where WDC moved= TEX. He also played as a D.H. during the latter stages of his career.
THE CAPITAL PUNISHER..
BTW..
This ALL-STAR GAME would be the last ALL STAR GAME featuring any player repping WDC until 2005..
The SENS#2 moved to ARLINGTON(DAL.-FT. WORTH METROPLEX), TX., THE very next season. The MONTREAL EXPOS moved to WDC as the NATIONALS in 2005..
The SENS#1 sometimes called the NATIONALS, moved to MINN. in 1961, the first year of the SENS#2..
WDC is the only city past 1900 to house three different MLB ORGS at three different times; the latter I add because WDC did it without having two teams or even three, in their market at the same time.
Right? I'd always been under the impression Killebrew was a big guy, but Howard dwarfs him.
In the old RFK Stadium where the Senators played their home games there were about a dozen or so white painted seats in the furthest reaches of the upper deck--(all of them about 500 feet plus from home plate)--those seats were actual landing spots from a few of Frank Howard's tape measure home runs. (They called him "The Capital Punisher"--NOBODY hit moon shots like Frank Howard back in the day--he was AWESOME!!)
I was 10, and this was the first major league ball game my dad ever took me to. We met Curt Gowdy in the concourse before the game and I still have the program with his autograph on it. Our seats were in the second row of the upper deck just above the AL dugout so we had a perfect view of Reggie's blast, and of my idol, Brooks Robinson at 3rd base. Definitely one of my best memories!
Awesome memories I'm sure Jim! A HUGE (almost 10 yr. old) baseball fan back then, Norm Cash my favorite player(Curt Gowdy my all-time favorite national announcer)! Didn't see my 1st Tiger game until the next season, but did make it to the 84 World Series. Love and miss Tiger Stadium!
I was 10 years old as well at the time and Brooks Robinson was my favorite player. Of course, I wasn't at the game, but am enjoying watching it almost 50 years later.
Brooks Robinson was appropriately nicknamed "The Human Vacuum Cleaner." His bare-handed pickups at third were a marvel. Arguably the best fielding third baseman ever.
I met Brooks at a department store promoting his baseball game. Super nice. I was thrilled.
Sure it was. Good try!
I was almost 10 years old, and this was my favorite era in my lifetime.
Me too😊
Mine too.
Unique in that it was a combination of many guys at the end of their HOF careers and those at the beginning.
Gowdy was a great announcer.
I watched this game as a 10 year old on a sketchy black and white TV in Jasper Arkansas.. This was one of those things I will never forget.
I was 10yrs old at the time too. I've been to Jasper, Arkansas in the Boston Mountains in the Ozarks....Brooks Robinson robbing Johnny Bench again just like in the 1970 World Series. Brooks is from the Ozarks in Arkansas too...
@@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817 Yes sir...Little Rock I think.He was one of the best fielders at 3rd ever but dang he could hit a curve ball like nobody else. Always wore that helmet with the bill shortened.
@@bobke114 I'm sure one of Brooks batting helmets is in the "Hall Of Fame"
Oh man did I love baseball back then. Vida Blue and Tom Seaver were my favs. Long ago and far away now. Summers were fun then.
Now THAT was an all-star line-up.
Yes indeed
These are the guys I grew up loving and wanting to play like
The uniforms are more beautiful and everything
How many HOFers one after another. Had a big smile watching this. I was 10 years old again.
OMG!!!! All of those mythical-like legends who actually existed!!!!!
I can listen to curt gowdy and tony kubek all day. Makes announcing an art form!!
I was that typical Detroit kid I was enamored with that stadium. Later on, I operated the scoreboards for a season. After it closed, I played an exhibition game there as part of the city’s 300th birthday. Dreams come true. Sometimes.
Great story!
I remember this like it was yesterday. Everything about it is better than baseball today, from the players to the announcers. No one compares o Curt Gowdy, the voice of sports when I was growing up.
I remember that game. I was just a elementary school kid and loved listening to Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek giving the play by play of games on NBC.
The NL had 15 hall of famers! Roberto Clemente on the bench!
My first ball game with Dad - Tiger Stadium, 1968. What a park. Won in '68 and the Roar of '84. Shame to see it go.
I’m from NJ and got to see a game there in 1998. Incredible ballpark indeed.
Incredible line ups on both sides.
Curt Cowdy had a wonderful voice.. made me love and follow baseball…
I saw this game at home in Puerto Rico with my parents. When Clemente hit the home run standing on his left leg only we went crazy.
Grew up in Western PA in the 70's. Wore my mustard yellow Bucs cap with pride. Good memories.
I watchd this on TV. What a game.
The all-star game was really something to be excited about back then. It was something you looked forward to as much as the World Series. It was a chance to see the stars from both leagues, and if you were a national league city, this was one of the few opportunities to see the other league's stars, and vice versa. A real treat for a baseball fan, and boy did this one live up to it's billing.
RIP Vida Blue. Just passed away last month (June, 2023).
This is golden. Thank you for posting this game.
I was very young boy in Manville, NJ and was excited to see this game. Everyone in the neighborhood was a Mets fan, I was an Orioles fan. My friends were rubbing it in that the NL had won 9 in a row and were going to make it 10. It looked that way until Reggie Jackson hit the light transformer on the roof with his 2- run home run.
The AL won 6-4 and the Orioles did well. Frank Robinson hit a 2 run homer, Brooks started a double play and had a hit. Jim Palmer and Mike Cuellar combined to pitch 3 or 4 scoreless innings. Don Buford had an at bat. Earl Weaver was the manager.
Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek, and Lindsay Nelson were the greatest announcers. Low key yet analytical and friendly. The pre-game festivities were classy. The players were modest and represented their teams well.
Someone called this game as one in which your favorite baseball cards came to life. Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Willie Stargell, Willie McCovey, and Johnny Bench for the NL.
Just an incredible memory. Bittersweet but golden.
If you're still around..
Tell me where I can come to ring your....
why is it i remember all these great players even though i was only 6 years old;but now i don't harldy any of the new allstars nowdays ?
Gotta love the sideburn styles back then
A rare look at baseball over half a century ago. What a treat to see all these great players in their prime. Brings back a lot of memories. For me, Reggie's homer was the highlight. People still talk about it today.
But notice Gowdy said earlier that was a 30mph wind from home plate to right field. Kinda puts an asterisk in Reggie's shot in my book.
I lost my grandpa in 2015 ,he loved baseball so much he played his whole life and softball up till he couldnt run anymore.... oh what i would give to be able to kick back on the couch put this on and watch this together, he would absolutely love this ❤💔🙏
Great memories. Loved the 70's A's. Thanks for posting.
could watch this over and over forever.......my childhood in a nutshell....notice how they SWING the bat and don't look to walk?!?! Todays hitters could learn a lot watching these guys play
The great met announcer Lindsey Nelson....with his loud jackets....those were the days, great announcers back then....this is when the all star games were great.
Greatest All Star Game in history !!!
10 runs scored by 10 members of the Hall Of Fame, HR by Aaron, Bench, Jackson, Killebrew, Frank Robinson and Clemente, four of them finding Aparicio, Carew, Stargell and Kaline on base, incredible !!!
Thank you for posting this brings back many memories
I remember watching this game on TV. My first All-Star Game.
This is very cool and what is amazing is how many guys on these squads are now in the Hall of Fame!
The greatest collection of All Stars ever!
I'm from Detroit, and I can officially say that this was the very last MLB All Star Game that the old Tiger Stadium would ever have. Reggie Jackson a.k.a. "Mr. October" 's homer was by far the biggest highlight of that game!
Bench homering to CF UD bleachers was amazing too. Freehan almost hit 2 out.
@@jimkennedy5202 I agree, while Jackson's blast was historical the forgotten Johnny Bench homer earlier was impressive in distance. Baseball back then was king. I watched this game as a kid with my dad. The baseball all star game was so special for many decades. The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were tremendous examples.
Two all stars, Roberto Clemente and Mike Cuellar, Pittsburgh and Baltimore respectively would have such a key moment collectively months later in game seven of the 1971 World Series.
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Bigger with toddlers.
oh my, really
OH YEAH! Dodge Dart Swinger with "FREE" automatic transmission! I remember it seemed like everyone had one.
If you went to your local Dodge dealer in 1971 and asked for the free automatic transmission, would they tell you you had to buy a car to get it?
That contraption on the field reporters head tho 😳😂🤷♂️😂
The talent on display here is awe inspiring.
My favorite All Star Game. Lived up to the quality of all the players involved. The names, the legends, the Homers. Had to be a great atmosphere in Tiger Stadium that night.
Crazy number of HOF'ers in this game....... the uniforms were so much better back then, too
I grew up watching these players,its interesting all these years later to have a look and see if it was as good as you remember it."Yes, it was"!
Brooks Robinson my all time favorite player and I can still name all of the starting players on their 1970 great team
Sadly the announcement of his death came today.
Can you imagine the first two batters you face are Mays and Aaron? I remember watching this game as a kid. All the future Hall of Famers...
And the next three are Stargell, McCovey and Bench!
Aaron too looks in great shape.
Mays, McCovey, Bench too
Ha ha, I don't know why I watched this from start to finish. I was a High School sophomore when this game was played. I probably watched it but don't remember for sure. I was a big baseball fan back then. I remember most of the players in the game. I think my high school baseball cleats are still in my 3rd floor attic somewhere, lol.
so many great players in this game.
Love that they wore their team uniforms
A lot of Pirates in this game. Pittsburgh had a great team that year.
Pittsburgh had a great team the entire decade of the 1970s. In this day and age of free agents, it is very difficult for small market teams such as Pittsburgh to compete with the teams with the big pockets.
As a detroiter and life long tigers fan I can tell you Comerica Park doesn’t have a tenth of the charm that old Tiger Stadium had.
It certainly looks really nice. The new stadiums are all nice and all, but I don't understand why the couldn't have just renovated and maintained the old stadiums. So much baseball history was made in the old stadiums and now, with the exception of Wrigley and Fenway, they are all gone forever!
Old and dumpy isn't always charming- been to both stadiums dozens of times. Sitting behind a post at Tiger Stadium wasn't charming. But I really respect your good memories of Tiger Stadium- me too.
@@stevezerio4803 For every obstructed seat at Tiger Stadium, you had *thousands* of seats right on top of the action. Fantastic sight lines generally, and a beautifully historic feel. Every on-going or imminent play felt instantly framed by the past.... Abandoning and destroying it was a terrible waste. Wrigley and Fenway are still going strong.
When I fell in love with it, now I'm divorced from it...
Me, too. I never got over Bonds, etc., and the steroid scandal destroying all the power records...and it being allowed to stand.
No sport depended on its history like baseball. And they let it be ruined by a handful of cheaters, greedy, slobs.
This 'roid thing broke in '04 and as I saw it getting mishandled, I told myself an incredible thing: I was done with baseball. And I haven't seen a game since. Frustrating thing is that I'd just moved to SF (1 3/4 mi. from park) two yrs prior and had enjoyed walking to games from home.
I had just graduated hs and was with my family on a road trip. I watched the entire ball game in a motel room. It was awe inspiring. The lineups for both sides was legendary. Reggie's shot was still ascending when it hit the transformer. Epic ballgame.
I love the car commercials
The Detroit Tigers were never the same team after they left Tigers Stadium. I love the intimacy feel of the stadium. Comerica Park lost a lot of that intimacy and closeness from the fans and players alike.
It's all generic now, no tradition, overpaid, American players exchanged for Latin players, bb power history ruined by 'roid scandal and the mishandling of it.
RIP Mr Vida Blue.
Respect goes out to Manny Sanguillen and Steve Carlton who didn’t get introduced.
They obviously needed no introduction.
You need to revisit the announcement of the players again. Manny Sanguillen's name was never announced but Steve Carlton's name was.
Ok, my bad if you’re right. Thanks.
Makes me want to watch baseball again.
Lindsey Nelson’s jacket. Wow.
I love TH-cam so we can go back in time and watch these moments. Especially for some of us who weren’t around then
My dad and I sat in the LF upper deck. Hot and windy night.
I remember you!! I sat right behind you on the left!!
Classic. Even the commercials. Did anyone see John Amos and Allen Melvin (Sam the Butcher from The Brady Bunch) in the commercials?
And that sounds like James Gregory narrating the Kellogg's Corn Flakes ad at about the 1 hour 40 minute mark.
John Williams and Johnny Brown appear in the Midas muffler ad at about 1 hour 56 minutes.
I think that's Ed Lauter in the Kellogg's Corn Flakes ad just past the 2 hour 15 minute mark; try getting an ad like that shown today.
The lady who appeared in the Right Guard ad after John Amos looked familiar, but I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure that was Bookman from Good Times working for the undependable muffler shop in the Midas ad.
Never seen them play or what they looked like now I can put a face to the name awesome 😊😊😊😊😊
Wow, Torre was in great shape in 71
NL MVP that year!
As cub fan i hated him. Yet he was allstar as catcher i think. Then 3rd. Did he make it as 1rst base? Was never a yankee fan also but his leadership of jeter,posada,williams was impressive.
Hit an unfathomable .363 that year.
44:34 Tom and Nancy Seaver gasoline commercial. Classic.
Tom Terrific. Nancy not too shabby either.
The boos directed at Earl Weaver were hilarious.
LMAO--The only place Weaver didn't get booed like that was Memorial Stadium in Baltimore--(He was a GOD there!!)
I was 10 years old and living on the west side of Michigan. I had a Little League game that night and I remember that the wind was blowing very very hard. I got home in time to see the second half of the All-Star game, one of my most memorable - especially since it was played at Detroit's Tiger Stadium
Martin, Jackson and Munson. Different uniforms, in the same line, probably didnt even know each other. Their future history would collide like thunder.
The following year, Billy Martin would manage the Detroit Tigers' "grand old men" team to the American League Eastern Division title - and the Tigers and the Athletics would go the full 5 games in the ALCS that year, with the A's winning the last game, 2-1 (one of three one-run victories in the ALCS that year).
Vida Blue really had great velocity on his fastball.
His breaking stuff was great
@@jimkennedy5202 For one year he was Sandy Koufax.
He had a great pitching motion, coming from way over the top. The other, but forgotten, pitching sensation early in that season was Sonny Siebert, which is why he's in this game. He started the season 9-0, and his 9th win was over Vida Blue in a Friday night game at Fenway Park. Going into the game, which was Memorial Day weekend, Blue was 10-1 and Siebert was 8-0, and of course it was a sell out at Fenway Park. I remember the build up to that game. They were both talked about as potential 30 game winners. And, of course, both cooled down the second half of the season.
This is when the MLB Allstar game was to prove who was the better league. Play hard to win.
Although the players today are muscle heads they can't come close to any of these players. No way. They might be bigger and stronger today maybe but they dont know how to play the game like these guys.
Batters 1,2,4,5,6 starting for the National League combine for a career total of 2,800 home runs!
If you include batter 3, Joe Torre, you can 252 more HR
I was 10 yrs old at that time and actually rooted for the Pirates during the 1971 WS, then became an A's fan in 72 the finally the Mets in 86 and now still one. Loved that time in my life. My parents were young and alive and had s happy childhood. Baseball was a better game and no enhancements like the DH, body armor, runner on 2nd base i extra innings, and a pitch clock. Players arr grossly overpaid and the cost going to a game is so expensive for everything! I miss the older parks like Shea. Glad Wrigley snd Fenway are sill standing!
Amen to this
Band wagon jumper.
Thanks to whoever posted this. It's a great game with so many Hall of Famers that it's hard to keep track of. Interesting that Curt Gowdy kept brining up Hank Aaron's bad knee and seemed to doubt that he could catch Babe Ruth. I also like that some ads were kept in. Sears used to have a monopoly on just about everything back then. Paint, tires and just about everything else
Don't look for anyone who played for the Angels, Indians, White Sox, Brewers, Expos, or Phillies. Don't look for the American League to win an All-Star Game--for 12 years following 1971! But if you were around that year, this is a game you'll never forget!
@sour airhead at least the Expos and Brewers were recent expansion teams at the time without any real stars yet, along with the likes of the Padres for another recent expansion team, while the Royals for another recent expansion team were basically the only one already with reputable stars like a Otis and Rojas ultimately becoming franchise greats.
I was always an American League fan, and in all the years up until I was already an adult, this was the only All-Star game I saw them win. Next time they won, it was also in a good ol' American League park, Comiskey Park, I think in 1983.
@@RRaquello It was, indeed, on 6 July 1983 - the 50th anniversary of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game. Same date, different year (which is why the 1983 All-Star Game was played on a Wednesday instead of on a Tuesday).
The rosters for this game... amazing! Clemente doesn't start. Rose, Brock and Munson don't get in until the final 2 innings. That contraption on Lindsay Nelson's head? And the commercials. Ed Lauter in a Special K ad? When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer ... the list goes on and on ...
When baseball was king 👑
Norm Cash was a replacement for Boog Powell of the Orioles. Dave Duncan was a replacement for Ray Fosse and Wilbur Wood was a replacement for Sam McDowell, which is why you don't see any Cleveland Indians. Reggie Jackson replaced Tony Oliva of the Twins on the roster.
Just noticed that
Good ol Stormin' Norman, liked to drink a lil too much. Some claim he didn't really slip and fall down drunk on that pier in Northern Lower Michigan , but rather he was hit in the head with a baseball bat (how ap ro pos) as he owed a gambling debt to the wrong people, then he was thrown in Lake Michigan. Right up their With The Jimmy Hoffa Death Mystery for a minute in and around the D.
Incredible lineups and a great game, colossal home runs, terriffic pitching, and some excellent glove work including some neat double plays with lightning fast pivot, and Mickey Lolich making three sweet plays by himself on the mound.
First game Sparky managed at Tiger Stadium.
Well said!
Fergie Jenkins and Billy williams and Santo got no love. Jenkins was in his 5th year of winning 20 games. He won CY Young that year but no start. Year before Williams led NL in hits, runs, total bases. 42 hr. 137 rbis both 2nd most . Bench got Mvp that year. Williams didnt make 70 allstar team? Thats how good you had to be. Only 24 teams then.
Amazing quality for the time. Thanks for sharing!
Was so cool to hear Emerson Lake & Palmer do an opening for the 71 all star game.
Many famous players!
This is the first year I really followed baseball, and it's sobering to think that Charlie Gehringer, a figure of the distant past in my mind, is as far removed in time from that game as Wade Boggs is to this year's game.
Whatever happened to the pitch, hit and throw winners? They're aged 59-62 in 2021--if they're all still alive.
This All star game had the most Hall of famers of all time