I love Roger Maris he was one of my favorite baseball players of all time Barry Pepper did a great job playing him I love Barry Pepper and his acting such a great movie I love this movie ones of my favorite movies I love to watch over and over great job 👍❤️❣️💖⭐️😍🙏😇🕊♥️🌹
I was a fan in 61. My uncle took me and my sister to a Sunday doubleheader. I experienced the awe of the color of green grass and the infield brown and Bob Shepherd’s “Voice of God”. The Yankees won two games that day, and Mickey Mantle hit 3 home runs.
I miss the old Yankee Stadium. When Billy Crystal walks out in the first minute of the video, the look of the stadium brought me back to my 90s childhood at Yankee Stadium. What a hell of a summer for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961. My late grandfather, who was in his 30s at the time, was at the game when Roger Maris broke the record on October 1, 1961. I had a chance to meet Mickey Mantle in 1994 before we lost him. A great ballplayer and a New York legend. Roger Maris was a great ballplayer and down to earth man. As far as I'm concerned, Roger Maris is still the home run king 60 years later.
I was seven and held my Dad's hand as we walked down the Metropollitan stadium in Minneapolis to watch my first game. As we walked to our seats which were near the batting cage and players doing some practice. My Dad stopped and was checking the tickets for our seats. I looked out into the field and the first players I saw had their backs to me. I noticed their numbers, 7 and 9. Mantle and Maris were the first players I ever saw in person. That day Mantle hit a home run. I have never forgotten that moment.
What a magnificent job I love baseball and this was right up there with best of them! I wish he would have made a life story movie about Mickey Mantle. Mantle had the perfect life story for an outstanding picture.
Redsox fan but I really liked this movie I used to have the dvd but lost it at some point. So I tried to find the extras on YT Thanks a lot for uploading!
Part of the bad feeling was because he did do it. He reminded them that Mantle was human. He did something Mantle, everyone's hero, couldn't do. And so they responded with indifference and diminished the achievement to avoid having to reckon with that.
You wish that Mickey and Roger would've been alive to see this movie. I'm sure for Roger especially, it would've been very painful to relive 1961 again, but he also would've been happy to see it done accurately, and the same for Mickey. They both would've said to Billy, "You did it right." 61* is still one of my favorite baseball movies.
My favorite baseball movie. I actually saw Roger hit a homer in 61. I was 6 years old in right field bleachers. Living in Arizona years later I saw McGuire hit #36.
I feel you Billy Crystal! As a longtime Detroit Tiger fan, my first Tiger baseball game was in 1961 at the age of 10, sitting with my parents in the right field bleachers in September. The game you depicted in 61*, I was there! It was far worse than Crystal depicted it too! The Tiger "fans" that threw things on the field that briefly stopped the game...we sat about 2 rows behind them. They broke up the wooden bleacher seats and tossed them out at Roger Maris. They threw pop bottles, beer bottles, coins, you name it at Roger! Far worse than depicted in the movie. My theory as to why.... the Detroit Tiger organization allowed Billy Crystal to use Tiger Stadium as a substitute for old Yankee Stadium. The people in the stands were actually Detroit Tiger fans! I don't think Crystal wanted to embarrass the Tiger organization that allowed him access to both their stadium and their fans. Just my opinion and theory. Crystal made of the best movies ever made about baseball. The attention to detail was PHENOMENAL! The uniforms, everything about it. The cast was uncannily real. Maris and Mantle actors were spot on! If you were there during that time, it was easily recognizable for you. Thank you, Billy, from this Detroit Tiger devotee, who wishes we had given you a better run in 1961 given how good OUR team actually was back then. Before the divisions and the Wild Card! We won 101 games that season...and finished 8 games behind the Yanks for the pennant!
Roger Maris belongs in the Hall of Fame. Ford Frick drove him to his death. Baseball owes this to him.
He’s eligible for the HOF next year!
The most underrated baseball movie ever
I love Roger Maris he was one of my favorite baseball players of all time Barry Pepper did a great job playing him I love Barry Pepper and his acting such a great movie I love this movie ones of my favorite movies I love to watch over and over great job 👍❤️❣️💖⭐️😍🙏😇🕊♥️🌹
I was a fan in 61. My uncle took me and my sister to a Sunday doubleheader. I experienced the awe of the color of green grass and the infield brown and Bob Shepherd’s “Voice of God”. The Yankees won two games that day, and Mickey Mantle hit 3 home runs.
Crystal did a great job. Baseball is America's game!
What a wonderful job he did on this movie this was his passion and it shows!!⚾️ I have always loved baseball so I’m very appreciative.
Billy Crystal should make another baseball movie. I loved 61*. Thx for posting this extra from the movie.
I miss the old Yankee Stadium. When Billy Crystal walks out in the first minute of the video, the look of the stadium brought me back to my 90s childhood at Yankee Stadium. What a hell of a summer for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961. My late grandfather, who was in his 30s at the time, was at the game when Roger Maris broke the record on October 1, 1961. I had a chance to meet Mickey Mantle in 1994 before we lost him. A great ballplayer and a New York legend. Roger Maris was a great ballplayer and down to earth man. As far as I'm concerned, Roger Maris is still the home run king 60 years later.
I was seven and held my Dad's hand as we walked down the Metropollitan stadium in Minneapolis to watch my first game. As we walked to our seats which were near the batting cage and players doing some practice. My Dad stopped and was checking the tickets for our seats. I looked out into the field and the first players I saw had their backs to me. I noticed their numbers, 7 and 9. Mantle and Maris were the first players I ever saw in person. That day Mantle hit a home run. I have never forgotten that moment.
What a magnificent job I love baseball and this was right up there with best of them! I wish he would have made a life story movie about Mickey Mantle. Mantle had the perfect life story for an outstanding picture.
Redsox fan but I really liked this movie
I used to have the dvd but lost it at some point. So I tried to find the extras on YT
Thanks a lot for uploading!
Part of the bad feeling was because he did do it. He reminded them that Mantle was human. He did something Mantle, everyone's hero, couldn't do. And so they responded with indifference and diminished the achievement to avoid having to reckon with that.
This was a great movie Billy. Many thanks from a fellow baseball lover.
best baseball movie ever
Great Flick !
I still cry, Billy Crystal nailed it.
Love This So Much!
You wish that Mickey and Roger would've been alive to see this movie. I'm sure for Roger especially, it would've been very painful to relive 1961 again, but he also would've been happy to see it done accurately, and the same for Mickey. They both would've said to Billy, "You did it right."
61* is still one of my favorite baseball movies.
I knew exactly where I was when it was announced on the radio that Roger Maris hit Homerun number 61
Orioles fan here. I can respect this
My favorite baseball movie. I actually saw Roger hit a homer in 61. I was 6 years old in right field bleachers. Living in Arizona years later I saw McGuire hit #36.
I feel you Billy Crystal! As a longtime Detroit Tiger fan, my first Tiger baseball game was in 1961 at the age of 10, sitting with my parents in the right field bleachers in September. The game you depicted in 61*, I was there! It was far worse than Crystal depicted it too! The Tiger "fans" that threw things on the field that briefly stopped the game...we sat about 2 rows behind them. They broke up the wooden bleacher seats and tossed them out at Roger Maris. They threw pop bottles, beer bottles, coins, you name it at Roger! Far worse than depicted in the movie. My theory as to why.... the Detroit Tiger organization allowed Billy Crystal to use Tiger Stadium as a substitute for old Yankee Stadium. The people in the stands were actually Detroit Tiger fans! I don't think Crystal wanted to embarrass the Tiger organization that allowed him access to both their stadium and their fans. Just my opinion and theory. Crystal made of the best movies ever made about baseball. The attention to detail was PHENOMENAL! The uniforms, everything about it. The cast was uncannily real. Maris and Mantle actors were spot on! If you were there during that time, it was easily recognizable for you. Thank you, Billy, from this Detroit Tiger devotee, who wishes we had given you a better run in 1961 given how good OUR team actually was back then. Before the divisions and the Wild Card! We won 101 games that season...and finished 8 games behind the Yanks for the pennant!
It is a really good movie just a bonus it’s a baseball movie
Jennifer C. Foley is so different in the interview, she was brown and wavy as Patricia Maris!
Wow Tom Jane is either an excellent method actor or he was possessed by Mickey Mantle because he became the young Mick completely