1969 World Series, Game 5: Orioles @ Mets
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- Baltimore Orioles 3 at New York Mets 5, F -- Slugger Donn Clendenon and light-hitting Al Weis each homered to back the five-hit pitching of Jerry Koosman as the "Miracle Mets" closed out their first-ever World Series championship with a 5-3 victory over the heavily favored Orioles. A key play in the sixth featured Cleon Jones being plunked on the foot by Baltimore starter Dave McNally. Jones was not originally awarded the base, but manager Gil Hodges retrieved the ball and pointed out the telltale black shoe-polish on the ball as proof. Rattled, McNally surrendered a two-run homer to the next batter, Clendenon, bringing the Mets within a run and shifting the momentum irrevocably toward New York. The Mets tacked on three more runs in the next two innings and the Amazing' upset was complete.
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Rest in peace Tom Seaver.
NY was focused on the series. I recall transistor radios on public buses, TVs tuned in on the displays in the appliance store windows and my HS teachers letting us listen to the game during class. Such great memories.
JUST LOVE THOSE OLD N.Y. METS AND BALTIMORE ORIOLE UNIFORMS.
Complete game for Koosman. Fast forward to 2022. The relief pitcher merry go round begins after the 6th inning.
It was great to be a kid in New York City in 1969. I rushed home from school to watch this. I think I missed the first three innings, but caught the rest of the game. One of the happiest days of my childhood.
blank1620 Me too.To this day still remember. This is great.
I just saw the Men in Black (2012) film and it has the scene when Mets won the game. I can see from your words that being a New Yorker is such a proud thing.
Yes, it was. I was in 6th grade at PS 81 in Ridgewood, Queens. My homeroom teacher, Mrs. McRae, would send kids to my other classes, with updates. I remember the last game in particular when the note came that Jerry Koosman had doubled; Jerry was such a horrible hitter that I couldn't believe it; but then I figured that Koosman getting a hit was the surest sign yet of divine intervention and the destiny of the Mets to become World Series champions.
I used to sneak a transistor radio with an 'earplug' (they didn't have 'buds' in those days!) into my German 6th period Jr. High School class on Long Island to listen to the games. Even if inconvenient, it was great when the Series was played during the day; much more exciting. And then, we had the greatest Math teacher ever (Ward Drysdale), because for the last period he took us down to the 'special' class, which had a tv, to watch the Mets till school was over. Then we'd have to rush home to catch the last inning. 1969-A season of pure joy in NY!
blank1620 we had the game on in our classroom!!!
Buddy Harrelson, among others, was absolutely incredible in this World Series. Harrelson really was one hell of a shortstop. He made so many tough and great plays and in the clutch. Special Player.
Rest in peace.
First year I really got into baseball. All the other kids at school rooted for Baltimore so I decided to cheer for the Mets (and I have ever since!)...
The medal's in the mail
We don't need u
Orioles: "We won 109 games in the regular season."
Mets: "And you point is...???"
What's funny they shared one microphone...huge met fan at 8 years old thought this would happen every year naivety of youth
It's great to see the exuberance of a young, but always articulate, Tom Seaver. His embrace of his teammates, Cleon Jones and Donn Clendenon, is beautiful to see. What a class act, Tom Terrific.
Seaver was the best
Both the 69 and 86 Mets trailed by a score of 3-0 and came back to win the series. In 69 our teacher was a big Mets fan and brought in a TV. I stayed after school was done with a handful of people and watched the whole game there in the classroom. In 1986, I was with the same teacher sitting in a box seat for game 7, watching the Mets win again!
The '69 Mets only trailed 1-0 after losing the first game and then came back to win 4 straight. The '86 Mets were only down 2-0, then took 2 of 3 in Boston before coming from behind in the miracle game 6 to tie the series and then win game 7. The years can dim our memories, apparently.
@@c.a.g.3130 I think he meant they were behind 3-0 in the score of the games. Score, not games.
that's interesting!
Finally figured out the tortured prose. The 69 and 86 Mets were both down 3-0 in the LAST, and deciding, game of the series and came back, in the LAST game, to win 'the series.' Exhausting.
Wowsers ! Yawn
Swoboda's catch in the ninth inning of Game 4 is the best catch I've ever seen.
Absolutely!
Mantle said it was the best catch he ever saw in his life, and that's saying something.
In the WS maybe, Chavez Gm 6
'06, memba that one
You should get out more
Totally agree
The enduring soundbites of one George Thomas Seaver at 2:31:30. Requiescat in pace to the greatest New York Met who ever lived.
the franchise
Dear Lord, Mrs Gil Hodges is an absolute classic at the celebration in dressing room. Like someone from SCTV. The whole series was a gem in every respect
That was Bartolo Colon's rookie season.
+leafyutube Julio Franco retired that season.
LOLOL .... 8D
Haha Bartolo wasn't born yet! And Franco was just a kid!!
leafyutube And Colon weighed a svelte 225 lbs.
Moyer was playing for the Mets AAA club in Norfolk
2:31:39 THAT WAS AWESOME!! Loved how Tom Seaver brought in Cleon Jones to talk to the National Television Audience and rightfully so, because Cleon Jones hit .340 for the season.
This just made me tear up because never got to see this series because I was too young but became a Mets fan in 1970 watching WOR-TV New York, Channel 9
Tom Terrific!
The final baseball game of the 1960's! What a way to end. Gil Hodges was a class act and was a superb manager. He got contributions from every man on his 25 man roster....on paper this team should have won 81 games....the Amazing Mets...the Miracle Mets...what a wonderful team...and a wonderful story. Thanks for uploading this historic game!
I was and am a Yankee fan but no team in my lifetime had the romance of the Miracle Mets.
Baloney
Americans have never liked soccer. Why? IT'S BORING.
@MANCHESTER UNITED There aren't 240 countries on Earth. You counting on other planets too ?
@MANCHESTER UNITED soccer sucks
@MANCHESTER UNITED Soccer is THE most BORING sport on the planet. I would rather watch paint drying. Also, Joe Ambrose is right. There are not even 240 countries in the world. There are only about 195. So much for your point.
I’m proud to be a Mets fan 1969 was my favorite team ever
Always loved Curt Gowdy--probably the best play by play announcer in the game (along with Vin Scully)--loved when he would announce the NBC game of the week every Saturday
This is when baseball was really baseball. Man I miss Kurt Gowdy’s voice . He was a perfect play by play guy during that time.
This Mets team won 46 of their last 56 games. That's a rampage!
Not quite. They went 41-15 over their last 56 games. Still a rampage, no doubt
Baloney. 38-11
@@joeambrose3260 ur facts are correct
@@joeambrose3260 Baloney Pony
@@joeambrose3260 41-15...from 59-47 to 100-62
www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/1969-schedule-scores.shtml
As great as this game would become, what a treat to hear 2 of the all time great players commenting on Game 4.
Koufax and Mantle on the pregame... It doesn't get any bigger than this for pregames.
Something about baseball in this era. True beauty of the sport on display here.
Jerry Koosman should be in the Hall of Fame. He was a brilliant pitcher, won well over 200 games in his career, Won 20 games two times, and 19 once on very weak hitting teams. World Series Star.
Two out of the 3 best World Series ever involved the Mets (1969 and 1986). The other greatest was the 2016 W.S. with the Cubs vs. Indians where the curse of the billy goat was broken. The '86 Series was great during the playoffs, too, when the "California" Angels were one strike away from winning the ALCS and they lost to the Red Sox. This '69 Series was especially great when they won Game 5 and all of the fans jumping onto the field (didn't need tight security in those days). The grass was completely ripped off the field by fans. When the Jets had to play football there that season, the field was still a mess. And did you notice that through about 1970, most all of the MEN in the stands were wearing suits and ties!! Early 70s is when it changed and turned into casual attire. I am so glad I am a Baby Boomer - I was born at the most perfect time!! One more thing....Curt Gowdy was the greatest baseball broadcaster ever! Glad they give broadcasting awards in his honor.
The 1991 World 🌎 Series was the best of all time the 🐐 GOAT I don't care what anyone else says about that one
Nice to see Gil Hodges with the trophy. He died way too young.
Indeed he did Lava1964. Just in case you don't know yet, Hodges had a prior heart attack before the fatal one that took his life on April 2, 1972 (he was only 47). ;-(
No shit,Sherlock
The cisco kid wasnt a friend of mine I can see why the Cisco kid wasn’t a friend of yours,given your attitude and spelling ability.
@@ChrisDutch Cisco Kid was a great hit by War in 1973
I am in love with the Koufax-Mantle pregame show. What wonderful insight from two easygoing, winning personalities.
Mantle sucked, saying the Mets where lucky? Hey Mickey how's that Scotch working for yah?
I'm a Second Generation Mets fan From Richmond Hill, Queens . I was born in 1985 . My late wonderful parents were both 1st Generation Mets fans .
This game left an indelible impression on my childhood. I turned 11 eight days later. My friends and I in 6th grade had no doubt the Mets would win, having followed their amazing end-of-season run for weeks. We listened to the whole World Series during class on our little transistor radios with earplugs. We were so cool. 😎 That was also the year of the Jets winning the Super Bowl and the first moon landing. Sweet times.
Thank you "MLB Vault" as a kid growing up in NYC, my family always talked about the 1969 Amazing Metropolitans and my father was at team's first game at the Polo Grounds in1962. I finally got the chance to watch this World Series ⚾️ game and I'm shocked how many people in the stands are wearing suits!
The suits amused me as well, and all the women in hats. The total lack of advertising was also really weird, along with the extremely sparse on-screen graphics, external chest protector for the home plate ump, and so much more. It was a different time, to be sure.
The Yankees can have all the world series they want. This one is worth more than the Yankees will ever have
Anthony Africano spoken like true Mets fan..and yep I'll take all the Yankees world series..and yep spoken like a true Yankees fan
Let me give you an historical perspective.No other team in baseball history bypassed mediocrity on the way to a title.The Mets went from horrible to champions.Other expansion teams have won soon,but they were never as bad as were the Mets.Even better,they started the year 18-23.The beat writers were saying that they were the same old Mets.
Anthony Africano Why do you say that?
And that is why the Mets only won 2.
iamhungey12345 And if the Red Sox bullpen didn't shit the bed in '86, it would've only been 1 WS.
The great Sandy Koufax with a prescient prediction at 9:20. Baltimore waited around for things to go against them. And they did.
Does this not give you chills? Still?. It's 2020. I was born 5 years later. I wish we had more organic celebrations like this one. Fans rushing the field. The guys celebrating in the locker room.
2:26:58 The celebration
Thank you, Mrs. Joan Payson and thank you Gil Hodges. I cry like a baby when Gil speaks.
M. Donald Grant who speaks next, is FOREVER remembered as the man who traded Tom Seaver. He turned Shea into "Grant's Tomb!"
RIP TOM SEAVER FOREVER THE BEST METS PITCHER🤗💗💗💗💗💗💗🤗
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I know it's biased, but I wish MLB went back to having a local broadcaster from each team as part of the coverage. Have the winning teams broadcaster do the celebration and I guarantee you'll have more players show their true emotion.
+lemmiwinks09 Totally agree
Very true I also feel like they should do that with the NHL as Sam Rosen (nyr broadcaster) had the amazing emotional experience when we won in 94
Totally disagree, the pregame was not bias at all. The pregame had no Mets personnel. Even the Mick picked the Orioles to win Game 5. Koufax said the Orioles woke up to find that the Mets were much better than the Yankees that year.
I agree. It was always special to have the local team announcer in booth for WS. ABC broke the tradition in 77 WS with NBC following suit in 78 ending the practice. So Phil Rizzuto in 76 WS was last local announcer in the booth.
@@camilohernandezii5985 It was a travesty to not hear the Mets' announcers call the Series. Thank God Lindsey was an NBC announcer (college football) so we got to hear him. Just LOVED the sound of Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner and Lindsey Nelson doing the play-by-play. And what would a Mets game be without Jane Jarvis at the organ and Dr. karl Ehrhardt with his in inimitable signs. Joy was being a Mets fan in 1969!
What a pitching staff, Seaver, Koosman, Gentry, Ryan and McGraw. Koosman pitched well in this series.
In this game, he got better as it went on.
Thanks sincerely for bringing this '69 world series back to life to bring each individual met players back to life again I was 9 yrs old when they won the series I use to the the Mets beginning around '65 '66 on they were really fun to watch even when they were awful in blk and wht these games are nice and sharp thanks alot for preserving these I consider priceless archive GODBLESS for these memories Wayne Garrett BudHarelson Ed Kranepool Jerry Grote Art Shamsky Ron Swaboda Tommy Agee Cleon Jones Duffy Dyer Ed Charles Al Weis Don Clendenon Tom Seaver Jerry Kooaman Gary Gentry Nolan Ryan Tug McGraw And most of al #14 GIL HODGES WHOM WERE THE FIRST MANAGER TO MAKE THE METS RESPECTABLE W/ HIS GO ALL OUT PLAY TO THE EXTREME HUSTLE IN EVERY MOMENT W/ FUNDEMENTLE MINDSET UNDERRATED MANGER
1969 was the year of Miracles. The New York Jets won the Super Bowl, Man landed on the. Moon, and the New York Mets won their first. World Series.
Good point. I did not notice that since the NY Jets beat the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl.
As a Red Sox fan, I admire the Mets for their 1969 year. After 7 years of misery, the came out of no where to win the World Series.
***** It was truly a magical time. 1986 was too, but not so much for Sox fans. But you've got your just rewards lately. What is it, three championships in the last 10 years? Pretty well speaks for itself.
And Baltimore will never live it down.
True, but they got their rewards the next year (and several more times after that). Just hang in there and keep pitching.
Swoboda's catch in right on Brooks Robinson had to be one of the best ever
DMR4736 that might be the greatest catch ever! How the hell did he make that catch
and Swoboda was a below avg fielder. just goes to show---Mets were just destined that year
I was there, sitting in right field. It was an impossible catch.
@@LazlosPlane I call BS. Post ticks and pics
Grow up
Lindsey Nelson had the greatest broadcasting voice of alltime! He used to do the Notre Dame highlights every Sunday morning before the NFL games on CBS.
Did the Cotton Bowl in Dallas for 26 years as well
In 1969 I was a lad of 10 and recall being elated when my 5th grade teacher Mr. Lipid announced that he had permission to bring the only television Broadway Elementary School (Newark, NJ) had into the classroom and we all watched the NY Mets become World Champions!!! Classic days long gone bye...
That psychedelic studio backdrop though...
Oh well
@@danielspallone5135 No
I'm in my mid fifties now... and I never get tired of seeing this most wonderful moment in Mets history. I was just turning 12 that year (in November)!
Also, both times, the victory that put the Mets within one win of the championship was on a 10th inning error: Pete Richert's throw hitting J.C. Martin on the arm in '69 and the ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs in '86.
I was a Mets fan since day one. My sister and my Dad were Yankees fans so I had to be different. Ron Swoboda was my favorite - actually I think he was my first crush ever, too. I still remember this game like it was yesterday. I was a freshman at UConn and watching the game in the lounge at McMahon Hall dorm. When the last out was called the place erupted into a madhouse. We trashed the place pretty nicely, as I recall. Those were the days...
Greetings to you who is from New York City or thereabouts from Scooby from near Chicago and a Cubs fan but does have a nice fascination about the Mets.
Can I send a pic of me yawning ?
@@scoobycarr5558 loser squared
Grow up
How is it possible that 50 years has passed ..seems like yesterday as I was 10 at the time and fell in love with the Mets this year as a Phillie fan.
Time to grow up gramps
@2:28:44....the legendary Gil Hodges accepting the World Series trophy...tragically, the Mets would lose this great man to a heart attack shortly before the end of spring training in 1972...a heavy smoker, Gil had suffered a heart attack just one year before, and his heart never fully recovered.....RIP GIL HODGES....he SHOULD be in Cooperstown IMHO
Sad but very true Will. Gil Hodges suffered a fatal heart attack on the afternoon of April 2, 1972 (Easter Sunday) in West Palm Beach, FL, as he was returning to his hotel room after a round of golf (18 holes) with his coaches Joe Pignatano, Rube Walker and Eddie Yost. ;-(
What a great tragedy. I never knew that Mr. Hodges passed away! And so soon. Anyway, my condolences go out to Mr. Hodges' family and may God bless Mr. Hodges in His heavenly kingdom through Jesus.
No shit, Dr DeBakey
@ 2:22:06... Want to see how the game has changed? Check out Frank Robinson going into second base to break up a possible double play. Wow!
And listen to what Curt Gowdy says afterwards. Today both he and Robinson would be fined!
I remember watching Game 5 in the cafeteria on a big tv that probably weighed almost as much as the cafeteria. Standing on the table and when the game was over they let us out of school (or school was done, I was in 2nd grade so kind of fuzzy). But it changed my life as I became a die hard Mets fan and went to my first game at Shea Stadium the following year.
Joe DiMaggio was such an O.G. Just the epitome of cool...classic
How do you know ?
Amazin,,,when it was a game.
they even rolled in big color tvs during school day games,,!!
cheers to all,!!
The Wonder Years...America it its peak. Nice while it lasted. No more though.
I love those Mets uniforms!!! I wish they could go back to the uniforms that don't have the names in the back.
+Andrew Schiff And where the pants the way they are meant to be worn.
Yes, absolutely....
@@edlewis167 So, you don't like men in pajamas?
@@c.a.g.3130 Nope
@@c.a.g.3130 no
Dang.. look at all the legends in this clip talking... Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Joe Dimaggio.
4:07
When someone as authoritative as Mickey Mantle says, "This is the best play I've ever seen in my life", that's something to note as baseball gospel.
People always rave about Tommie Agee's catches in Game #3--and they should--but Swoboda's in Game #4 was better.
@@Lava1964 but Agees' swung the series, dingleberry
He was probably drinking that morning and didn't know what to say on live TV.
@@josecarranza7555
Could be. And Billy Martin put him up to it.
If Billy Martin and Whitey Ford hadn't taken The Mick to The Copacabana, he would've hit 750 homers. But what kind of friends would they have been?
Still enjoy the irony that Davey made the final out. 17 years later, he'd lead the Mets to their second championship.
That aint the only irony. Kooseman, the Mets pitcher here, was traded to Minnesota Twins for Jesse Orosco, who tossed the last out to win the 1986 World Series for the Mets.
@@viralbuthow000
Then, there's Tom Seaver. He won a WS in '69, but saw his team win in '86 in Shea, but he was a Red Sox, though.
Note: RIP Tom.
@@jamesmatthew3681 I've always wondered what would've happened if a game went so far into extra innings that Tom had to pitch for the Sox against the Mets at Shea. Brutal. RIP Tom
The Pop Bubble In 1986 he wouldn’t have pitched. He was hurt and not on the postseason roster
Post-game interviews were candidate and fun to watch. Today, they are too short and overly associated with a sponsor.
Thanks for posting these legends being interviewed!
Serious. As a Met fan, all our memories are there. I love Citi Field. It's beautiful. But so far it's synonymous with losing.
The Mets leadoff hitter, Tommy Agee, led the team in home runs with 26 - more than twice as many as any other Met. Now, how often does the leadoff hitter lead the team in home runs? Only one of many strange facts about the 1969 Mets, one of the strangest success stories in baseball history.
Ricky Henderson?
Call them the Homerless Wonders if you will. In 1906 the White Sox won the World Series because of their Hitless Wonders.
Yawn
Didn't he also lead the club in RBIs that year?
Bah Humbug Yes. Who ever heard of the leaf off hitter leading a club in homers and RBI?
I love how they broadcasted these games without any commercials. I don't remember it that way, but I guess it was.
This is baseball heaven.
Pearl Bailey had such style and class.
Pearl was the bomb!
From a television broadcast perspective, for 1969, NBC hit it out of the park, especially this clinching game. Never mind the clear, colorful pictures. But Curt Gowdy's and Lindsey Nelson's microphones - as if NBC was experimenting with stereo sound, which wouldn't become the standard until the late-80's.
GOD BLESSED THE NEW YORK METS !
In '69 I was a big Birds fan growing up in Queens and to this day still feel the pain!
After bringing me to the Worlds Fair, My Dad, a hard working mason took me to the 1964 All Star game at Shea. I became a rabid Met fan, keeping box scores of every game. He would take me to local parks on Long Island where Met players would visit the public, take pictures with you and hang out. Ron Swoboda, Bud Harrelson, Tug McGraw, Jerry Grote, Tom Seaver...We would go back to a different park, where we would get autographs on the pictures we took prior after they were developed. Needless to say, they were all lost, but the memories have always survived. Took my two sons and Wife to Shea in 2008, before it was torn down.
It is 2021, I am drunk on Colombian rum. I am watching the 1969 world series on my device, just one of many devices, Mickey Mantel is talking. Life is good.
I'm a Cubs fan but that Mets team is still amazing to me.
The scar of 1969 is still present for me
I just shake my head every time i watch or think of this year
+David Dybalski What about the scar for 2015 lol
+David Dybalski Of course I'm a die hard New York sports fan. That said, I would like to see your Cubs team win it all someday-especially in our lifetime!
@@coreyveasey4153 They took it all one year later
@@TheAssasin2525 They did just that
I was 10. My Dad, an EX Dodger fan who learned to hate them, came home with Champagne from his Manhattan office after work. What a joyous day.
I was 11 years old in '69. I was a Yankees fan but nothing captivated NYC the way the Mets did in winning that '69 Series. They played amazing defense all year, not just in this Series.
I remember Cleon Jones in San Diego, in the rain, made like 2 or 3 incredible sliding circus catches. When I saw that I got the feeling this Mets team was for real.
I was totally taken in by Tom Terrific. He has the greatest most perfect motion and wind-up ever.
He and Nolan Ryan were great pitchers.
I will never forget the Miracle Mets of '69.
This video should have millions of views
What a great game and fan response. This team reminded me of the 1990 Reds who also slew a giant.
I saw this game game when I was 10 and couldn’t remember it thanks for posting and bringing this old man his memories
Can't help but think of Buckner/Mookie in Game 6 of the 1986 WS while watching Boog Powell's misplay of Grote's groundball to allow the winning run to score!
And it's weird that Davey Johnson went from being on this Orioles team to managing those '86 Mets. Baseball is a funny game.
RIP Ed Charles
The glider and he was a poet...that was his last game....RIP....well done!!!
And RIP Tom Seaver, Tug Mcgraw, Tommie Agee, Don Clendonon, Cal Koonce and Gil Hodges
This ia absolute gold, amazing post, thank you very much!!!
The airplanes at Shea was part of the charm.
I realize the O's didn't hit much in this series but the exit velo of that Robinson hr must've been 115 plus. Dude was an absolute beast.
Grew up next to Belanger and his brother was my gym teacher.His glove work was smooth as silk
Can we take a moment to note that the screen is not cluttered with stats or graphics. The announcers on tv and public address are not screaming. Some in the crowd are dressed nicely and not drunk or on cellphone (I know they weren't available then). When baseball was played and shown right and well. Also a day game. In this world, this would not happen for the sake of money.
A time when baseball was fun! As a kid, my friends and I would cut out and collect discount coupons from milk cartons to get $0.75 general admission tickets to Shea Stadium. Of course we were in the "nose bleed" section but we didn't care. Ball players freely gave out autographs before the game. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. Jets beat the Colts Jan. 1969 Super Bowl 3, Apollo 11 on the moon, Mets beat the Orioles Oct. 1969 World Series, Knicks beat the Lakers May 1970 NBA Championship. Such great memories. Sad that today's kids will never have that kind of innocent joy. Too many millionaire athletes today are more concerned with disrespecting the flag and using steroids/drugs.
Boomer
Amen
Thanks for sharing on Samy Cindy , Google , Facebook and Twitter . absolutely Wonderful to see play by play of Game 5 of 1969 World Series Win by New York Mets becoming World Series Champions . thanks NBC and TH-cam
Sensational video! Thanks for adding this wonderful piece of Americana.
I'm a Dodgers fan second and a baseball fan first. I watch these old games to appreciate and re-live how it was in the old, defunct ballparks. We're lucky in LA because Dodger Stadium has been here for 58 years with no signs of leaving.
Also of note regarding Shea Stadium...Jim Palmer and Davey Johnson were teammates on this Orioles team, and 19 years later in the 1988 NLCS, Palmer was on the broadcast team and Johnson the manager of his 1969 opponent! Great stuff.
Jesus, can I exhale now ?
Thanks so much for this! Bringin' back so many fond memories.
This kind of producing we saw here Finland in early 80´s...
But we´ve catched up a little from then;)
It's was really wonderful that there was no video replay. The umpire makes the call and that's it. The umpire's judgement is final and controversy continues but that is what made baseball great. take away human error or controversy and we become robots and the game becomes robotic. It was simply an amazing WS that probably can't be matched.
Yeah, it's always great to see somebody get screwed by a bad call.
That Swaboda catch from the game 4 is still awesome 50 yrs later.
This is the complete game. How sweet! ESPN Classic aired this game some years ago, but several innings were omitted due to time constraints. This was in an era when all World Series games were day games. We weren't even allowed to bring radios to school! Our principal promised to keep us up to date on scores and did so once - during Game 4.
I remember watching the Tonight Show soon after this day. Phyllis Diller was a guest and she brought in a tuft of grass from the infield. Supposedly, the entire infield grass was picked to the point that none was left. Great series even though I was a Cub fan. I rooted for the Mets of course since they were the NL representative.
Nobody gives a phuck
On July 17, 1969 I went to my first baseball game (a double-header) at Shea Stadium, the Mets played the Montreal Expos. The Mets won both games!
This was three days before Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin set foot on the Moon.
It was a very fun year!
Now what
Awesome!!!! Thank you !! Longtime Mets Fan. Met Boog Powell at Camden Yards. Special Moment in my Life 1969
What are u smoking?
So awesome.... Thanks for posting!
I was 12 yrs old and I remember it like it was yesterday ....
Sure, I was 17. Don't remember a thing
The bit at the end with Tom Seaver was great.
How many legends a kid can see watching this game, not only the players, Seaver, the Robinsons, Koosman ,Gil Hodges, Yogi, but the ones in the stands as well, Joltin Joe, Musial, Ted Williams, I forgot how great baseball was back then. Now you can have it, not the same. Better people in those days. I forgot about Koufax and Mantle in the pre game, you will never see another grouping of HOFamers like this again.
Ron Swoboda's catch is one of the best of all time! I never tire watching it! Truly Amazing!! Emily
In the series
Have really loved watching this on the 51st anniversary of the game and when it ended I was inspired to look up the wiki on Donn Clendenon. What an extraordinary life and story. God bless those '69 players. #LGM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn_Clendenon
Was there. What a memory.
Will will never see anything like the 69 Mets again from last to first in a era of no free agency
Family legend that my dad took some of the grass from the field after the win and planted in our back yard. Likely, it is continuing to grow today.
This WS had so much. A team that never placed higher than 9th place before. Clendenon being 1st NL player to hit 3 HRs in a 5 game series. Nolan Ryan saving a game. Agee’s and Swoboda’s catches. Shoe polish incident. Martin’s controversial bunt and being in the base line. McNally (pitcher) knocks a HR. Al Weis hits a HR after only hitting 2 that season. Weaver getting tossed. The foul tip called on F. Robinson’s HBP. So many good memories.