Tony Kubek should be in the baseball Hall of Fame as a broadcaster. He was the first one that I remember really explaining the game to the fans, giving insights that only one who played in the majors could give.
I was 8 years old when this game was played. My brother, who started my CUBS fandom, was in Vietnam serving a tour of duty with the Marines. We exchanged letters that year and a lot of the content was about the CUBS season.
I;m a Canadian and there is no doubt Ferguson Jenkins is Canada's greatest baseball player. I remember when Jenkins pitched and u could get the game on american television via Buffalo, the family was huddled around the old black and white tv.
Larry Hisle was a terrific ball player. He was one of the original "Bambi's Bombers" in 1978. Sadly, his shoulder gave out in 1979, and he was never the same after that.
I was twice that age and a Mets fan! Boy, I had no idea what I would be in store for when the Mets came to town a few days later as well as what they would accomplish three months later!
On 1969 As 12 year olds We would ride the Train 120miles and hop on the Subway which would turned into the L . We would get off at Wrigly field and watch a Double header and ride home again 120 miles back to the Farm .Greatest Memories ever !!❤
Sir, absolutely awesome stuff! I was born : July 16, 1996, and to see this is so fascinating, I just cannot get enough of baseball, and particularly old time baseball! Just great! Nick
I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings in the late '60s and early '70s during the spring and summer to mow the lawns I was hired to do in the neighborhood. I'd collect my pay , head to the convenience store for a Dr. Pepper and some Baseball Cards then head home to watch the game of the week . Baseball was at its best back then .
I wish we could have more complete NBC Game of the Week games in black and white. Especially with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. I wish we could also have more games with Garagiola and Kubek
I was 8 in 1969, And it was the first year I was even interested in baseball. But my lifelong love affair with the Cubs began that season, there's no denying it,.
Nothing better then getting home early from Saturday work with my dad and catching game of the week….just turned 11 would sit on the living room floor with my baseball cards while my dad relaxed in his lazy boy chair
This is a real treat to see these games again! My late cousin Julio and I use to watch these games in the Sixties! These broadcasts are truly a treasure trove! Thank You!!!
I used to go to so many Cubs games in 1969. I was 12 years old and saw so many great players. The Cubs blew it after a double digit lead to the Mets. Those days the Cubs with 4 Hall of Famers on this team had no night games. It had to be rough playing day games after West Coast games then the August and September heat, humidity played a factor. One of the greatest Cubs teams I ever saw that never won the pennant. They were really good. Banks, Williams, Santo, and Jenkins. Beckett and Kissinger were solid infielders. Ken Holtzman threw a couple of no hitters. Maybe with lights and night games things would have been different.
"The Baseball Hall of Shame 2" suggested Durocher himself, by a handful of absences (including the time he married Lynne Walker Goldblatt) and guiding his team through such side ventures as advertisements and a record ("Pennant Fever," written to the tune of the old Little Willie John song "Fever"), was another factor in why the Cubs lost their way after the summer, besides all else mentioned.
@@wmbrown6 that's true that Leo was gone when they needed a manager. I believe there was tension between Santo and "Leo the Lip"..We had often talked about him taking off during the most important time. Leo was at Summer Camp like all the good kids 🤣 went to.
Holtzman's no-hitters were 8/19/1969 and 6/3/1971. Ironically, the Phillies starter in this game, Rick Wise, no-hit the same Reds team Holtzman did 20 days later in 1971, hitting 2 homers on the process,the only pitcher to do so to this day.
1969, as close as Ernie Banks ever got to the post-season. Year of the Miracle Mets. I was in the army, stationed in Washington DC. I got permission to take a night job ushering at RFK Stadium for Senators games, watching my idol Ted Williams manage the hapless Senators to a respectful season. Great memories.
Born in 1953 and always a Cardinals fan I sure remember this 1969 season. I play the amazingiy realistic Strat-o-matic Baseball games and besdies other teams as well, I have all the contender teams from 1960-1969. Even though I remember this year as the collapse of the Cubs and the Amazing Mets, the Mets did win around 100 games and the Cubs won around 92 games. The Cubs had a good staff with Jenkins, Hands, and Holtzman, but that Mets staff with Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman was exceptional. Thanks for placing on TH-cam. I sure watched the Game of the Week in the 1960s.
I was born in 1953, and from Northern Illinois and lifelong Cub fan. I remember that whole season vividly. As a twelve year old boy, my heart broke as the Cubs season collapsed.
I love these old games from Wrigley Field. I am requesting Phenia Films to show more of the Cubs from Wrigley Field in the 50’s and 60’s.. Robert Gordon.
Gowdy and Kubek were such a great announcing team.They talked eating fish that Curt caught in Wyoming. In a few years Curt would host a great show called the American Sportsman.
This is so weird watching a game I probably watched as a 8yo kid in Philly. Two yrs later Rick Wise pitched a no-hitter and hit 2 HRs in the game., Amazing feat never to be duplicated.
Fergie won 20 games six straight seasons and had great duels with Gibson, Marichal, Koufax, Drysdale and Seaver to name a few. Fergie also played with Harlem Globetrotters.
This was my first year as a baseball fan/Cubs fan. I was 9 years old. This season taught me that life is full of disappointment, and how to brush it off.
Wow Hisle had his two best years in the AL right before 1979 where he never played that much after that After the 1977 season, Hisle became a free agent and signed with the Milwaukee Brewers. In 1978, Hisle turned in another productive year as he hit .290 and finished third in AL MVP voting. His 34 home runs, 115 RBIs and 96 runs scored placed second, third, and fifth in the American League respectively. A torn rotator cuff suffered in 1979 limited Hisle's playing time for the remainder of his career, as he played in only 79 games over his final four seasons before retiring in 1982.
Thank you!! This is fantastic! I was only nine years old when this aired. At sixty-four I can still tell you the Cubs line -up. Did you notice the Cubs batting averages? I believe the Cubs infield started in the National league All-Star game. But then came September 1969, my parents went to Rome. My dad called every night and he would asked "How did the Cubs do?" Every night I had to tell him they lost. After the ninth day , he wouldn't even talk to me anymore. He would ask the question, I would say they lost and he would hang up the phone. If I had one wish, my wish would have to be for him to still be alive when the Cubs won the World Series.
As a person who works during daytime, I would be a White Sox fan, if I lived in the Chicago area, because Old White Sox Park had lights, for night games.
This was a great Cubs team. Four Hall of Famers. Durocher wore team down keeping regulars in almost every game. Plus, wanted to be center of attention. As you can tell from his interview with Kubek, Leo had already antagonized some Chicago writers. This was not NYC or Boston. Chicago very forgiving of its teams. Mets caught fire based on great pitching, but this Cubs’ starting eight pretty tough to beat. Only issue was centerfield. Hickman the regular right fielder instead of Smith.
I was just under two months old at the time. If only they knew what was coming in just a few weeks. I hope all those that experienced the heartbreak of 1969 felt the tremendous joy of 2016.
The graphics look ...and we're so simple. Unlike all the distractions all over the TV screen nowadays. Kubek, Gowdy, the Yankees, and the NBC game of the week were staples of my youth A hot July day in Chicago. Imagine that!!!Today this would be called global warming
Johnny Briggs of Paterson, New Jersey. I remember back then, whenever the Phillies played the Mets whenever the Met announcers mentioned Johnny Briggs they'd say he was from Paterson, New Jersey, and later, when he was traded to the Brewers and they played the Yankees, the Yankee announcers would say the same thing. I used to think "of Paterson, New Jersey" was part of Johnny Briggs's name. I guess because being from Paterson made him a local product in the New York area they, the New York announcers, would bring it up. Jimmy Qualls in centerfield for the Cubs three days after he broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game.
I laughed when Curt G read the legal statement....No portion of this game shall be replayed without the express written consent of MLB. And then came TH-cam lolol
What’s really interesting is comparing the Cubs’ hitters production when this game was played (July12) to the end of the season. 2 1/2 months later and very little production from the Cub hitters. Blame Leo. Never rested his players and they became worn out. In comparison, Gil Hodges kept his guys fresh by platooning them.
Curt Howdy talked about the rough time the Cubs were having. Three nights before the Cubs almost got perfectoed by Tom Seaver of the Mets at Shea Stadium.
The now hard-to-find book "The Year the Mets Lost Last Place" by Paul Zimmerman and Dick Schaap is about those two series of July games between the Mets and Cubs, with a Mets-Expos series sandwiched between the others.
@@64yanks Fuck the bums. I always sat in right field and would hear them chant, right field stinks before each game. What a bunch of egotistical blowhards, they thought they were part of the team.
yes and no......I also read Leo's book and it is entertaining.......however in the many years since the book was published it has come out that many of Leo's stories were either exaggerated, greatly embellished, or just plain false. Among other things, he was not near as close to Sinatra as he claimed.
Mike Ryan was one of several catchers of that era (Dave Duncan and Frank Fernandez also come to mind) who had low batting averages but could hit home runs if they hit the ball at all. Rick Wise hit .270 that year, while Ryan finished at .204. Of course, it didn't occur to manager Bob Skinner to move Wise further up in the lineup.
It was also the year of expansion which I loathed and still do! Playoffs were now instituted. The following mediocre teams joined the leagues - The San Diego Padres The Montreal Expos The Seattle Pilots - This team only lasted one season! How embarrassing! The Kansas City Royals After all these years, these teams continue to play lousy!
Too bad Dave Cash didn't join the Phillies until after Don Money had been traded to the Brewers. Would have been a heck of a profitable double play combo - Cash and Money!
It's hard to believe now, but back then the Cubs weren't the favorites of the baseball world like they are now. Very few people outside of Chicagoland loved those "big, bad, mean Chicago Cubs." The Mets were viewed as Snoopy and the peanuts gang, while the Cubs were viewed as Charles Manson and the hells Angels. Ron Santo, worshiped by millions in Chicagoland was a hated villain thruout the rest of the league, while Leo Durocher, bore the wrath and grudges of the umpires.
Back in the day, all a relief pitcher had to do was get the last out to get a save. Fergie use to be a work horse. He use to finish what he started most of the time. The starters in today's game are lucky to go 6 innings or 100 pitches.
So different from today..Rick Wise gave up 6 runs in 3 innings and he stayed in the game..Even I would’ve yanked him..Although it wasent all his fault with those errors
Also, if it weren't the official scorer giving a hit to the batter when the shortstop couldn't get the ball out of his glove in 1985, Dwight Gooden would have had a no hitter.
in the pregame interview Leo says I'd rather have a losing streak now (July) then in September....Ha! Little did He know they would tank in September and the Mets caught fire at the same time- I was a serious Cub fan and this was the first Choke year in my life for the flubs....lol later chokes for the Cubs was '84 and '89 and of course the 2003 year
No baskets yet....Many folks may not know the real reason why the Cubs installed baskets on top of the outfield walls. It was because too many of the original Bleacher Bums were getting drunk and falling on to the field. True Story
Tony Kubek should be in the baseball Hall of Fame as a broadcaster. He was the first one that I remember really explaining the game to the fans, giving insights that only one who played in the majors could give.
He is! He was inducted in 2009!
I had been married two weeks when this game was played. Will celebrate our 52nd this June.
Congrats Ted Kuball
Awesome! Happy 52nd!👍
Congrats pal.....some dont get that opportunity so your a very lucky man.
Cool memories guys thanks for sharing them ✌️👊
Congrats!!!! She deserves a medal...;)
Saturday game of the week on NBC. The only time I got to watch the CUBS play.
No fans staring at their phones like mindless zombies. Just enjoying the ballgame in the sunshine.
well said matty
@@elwoodblues6663 his name is Matt
Um.... I watching this game on my phone!
The Phillies in the decade of the 60s were hideous
You can't watch this game without a phone
I was 8 years old when this game was played. My brother, who started my CUBS fandom, was in Vietnam serving a tour of duty with the Marines. We exchanged letters that year and a lot of the content was about the CUBS season.
When kids wore their baseball caps bill forward and only merchant sailors were tattooed.
@EmbassyRow37 nope.....a very respectful time.
And fans didn’t wear customized authentic Cubs baseball jerseys(or any MLB teams authentic jerseys back then in ‘69)only the players did
These videos are absolute treasures!!! Thanks so much for uploading these valuable pieces of history.
Yes they are!
Those were the great ole days for sure.
I;m a Canadian and there is no doubt Ferguson Jenkins is Canada's greatest baseball player. I remember when Jenkins pitched and u could get the game on american television via Buffalo, the family was huddled around the old black and white tv.
I agree..only LARRY WALKER approaches him.
He could bring it.
I was there when Durocher made him a starter. One of Leo's best moves as the Cubs' manager.
A fast 2:15 game with Fergie v.Gibby
Johnny Briggs was a terrific and highly underrated baseball player. He could have easily been named an all-star during his years with the Brewers.
My Dad would stand up and put his hand over his heart while the National anthem played on the tv.
I still stand up when the anthem plays on TV.
If only there were more men like your father.
Larry Hisle was a terrific ball player. He was one of the original "Bambi's Bombers" in 1978. Sadly, his shoulder gave out in 1979, and he was never the same after that.
Loved him on my Twins with Lyman Bostock in the outfield.
Tony Kubek was an absolute natural as a broadcaster. Proves it here as a young man.
This is some awesome stuff, I turned 5 years old the day after this game, Baseball should still be on NBC.
Me too, now that was baseball....now, boring
@@jaycompany4886 Absolutely, Boring indeed and for me its not just baseball it's the NFL as well and don't even get me started on the NBA and Nascar.
I was twice that age and a Mets fan! Boy, I had no idea what I would be in store for when the Mets came to town a few days later as well as what they would accomplish three months later!
@@jaycompany4886 it's Joe Buck and coverage by Fox that makes it boring
It should be on NBC not Peacock
On 1969 As 12 year olds We would ride the Train 120miles and hop on the Subway which would turned into the L . We would get off at Wrigly field and watch a Double header and ride home again 120 miles back to the Farm .Greatest Memories ever !!❤
This is beyond sublime. Thanks so much for posting! Fergie Jenkins was my grandmom's favorite pitcher.
And a pretty good hitter, too.
Sir, absolutely awesome stuff! I was born : July 16, 1996, and to see this is so fascinating, I just cannot get enough of baseball, and particularly old time baseball! Just great! Nick
Nick are we related? Cause i cant get enough of baseball too bro....lol
Very cool Nick glad your an old school fan (like most of us)
What a great treat, I really love these old games, I can watch and listen to them all through the day, really brings back fond memories of life
I remember getting up early on Saturday mornings in the late '60s and early '70s during the spring and summer to mow the lawns I was hired to do in the neighborhood. I'd collect my pay , head to the convenience store for a Dr. Pepper and some Baseball Cards then head home to watch the game of the week . Baseball was at its best back then .
I wish we could have more complete NBC Game of the Week games in black and white. Especially with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. I wish we could also have more games with Garagiola and Kubek
its Kinescope B&W film reels
the games were in color by then..but nbc didnt save them
Just turned 16 when this game was played. Live in NC now but still and always will be a Cub fan.
1969, As a Cubs fan of 11 years old, this season made me cry until spring training 1970.
I was 12 and went to alot of Cubs games. A hard season.
In the tribune starting august they were posting the cubs magic number to clinch the division.it never happened.
@@richardmorris7063 That's the same paper that had the famous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman."
I was 8 in 1969, And it was the first year I was even interested in baseball. But my lifelong love affair with the Cubs began that season, there's no denying it,.
you got us back 15 years later. the Mets should have won the division in 84.
Nothing better then getting home early from Saturday work with my dad and catching game of the week….just turned 11 would sit on the living room floor with my baseball cards while my dad relaxed in his lazy boy chair
What a sweet infield the Cubs had
Sweet All Star infield plus Billy in left.
This is a real treat to see these games again!
My late cousin Julio and I use to watch these games in the Sixties!
These broadcasts are truly a treasure trove!
Thank You!!!
As a long time Phillies fan I am thrilled to find this video. TY!
I used to go to so many Cubs games in 1969. I was 12 years old and saw so many great players. The Cubs blew it after a double digit lead to the Mets. Those days the Cubs with 4 Hall of Famers on this team had no night games. It had to be rough playing day games after West Coast games then the August and September heat, humidity played a factor. One of the greatest Cubs teams I ever saw that never won the pennant. They were really good. Banks, Williams, Santo, and Jenkins. Beckett and Kissinger were solid infielders. Ken Holtzman threw a couple of no hitters. Maybe with lights and night games things would have been different.
"The Baseball Hall of Shame 2" suggested Durocher himself, by a handful of absences (including the time he married Lynne Walker Goldblatt) and guiding his team through such side ventures as advertisements and a record ("Pennant Fever," written to the tune of the old Little Willie John song "Fever"), was another factor in why the Cubs lost their way after the summer, besides all else mentioned.
@@wmbrown6 that's true that Leo was gone when they needed a manager. I believe there was tension between Santo and "Leo the Lip"..We had often talked about him taking off during the most important time. Leo was at Summer Camp like all the good kids 🤣 went to.
Holtzman's no-hitters were 8/19/1969 and 6/3/1971. Ironically, the Phillies starter in this game, Rick Wise, no-hit the same Reds team Holtzman did 20 days later in 1971, hitting 2 homers on the process,the only pitcher to do so to this day.
I was an usher at the first night game 8-8-88
Leo ran the Regs into the dust
Hated young players
Never used his bench
Traded away Joe Neikro, Oscar Gamble, and Adolpho Phillips
Next question....
Curt Gowdy. Classic. Been stationed at Warren AFB yrs ago, been to Curt Gowdy National Park just outside of Laramie. Classic.
1969, as close as Ernie Banks ever got to the post-season. Year of the Miracle Mets. I was in the army, stationed in Washington DC. I got permission to take a night job ushering at RFK Stadium for Senators games, watching my idol Ted Williams manage the hapless Senators to a respectful season. Great memories.
Ty for putting these games on, I would love to see the Braves from this era
wish they existed games were not saved in the late 60s early 70s only bits n pieces thanks to kinescope 🎥😎
I was at this game.a very fast game if I recall.got into traffic & looked to my right & Ernie banks was in the car next to ours.
Looked it up - 2:31.
No one would have guessed a amazing happening was just around the corner in September! Seaver,Aggee,clendenon,and company would shock the world!
Mets lifespan=7 yrs.in last place
1969= Amazing
Born in 1953 and always a Cardinals fan I sure remember this 1969 season. I play the amazingiy realistic Strat-o-matic Baseball games and besdies other teams as well, I have all the contender teams from 1960-1969. Even though I remember this year as the collapse of the Cubs and the Amazing Mets, the Mets did win around 100 games and the Cubs won around 92 games. The Cubs had a good staff with Jenkins, Hands, and Holtzman, but that Mets staff with Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman was exceptional. Thanks for placing on TH-cam. I sure watched the Game of the Week in the 1960s.
I was born in 1953, and from Northern Illinois and lifelong Cub fan. I remember that whole season vividly. As a twelve year old boy, my heart broke as the Cubs season collapsed.
Im a Cub fan and we thought it would be the Cardinals that would challenge us. Nobody saw the Mets coming except the Mets. Hats off to them, for sure.
Four days before Apollo 11 took off from Cape Canaveral. Eight days from this broadcast, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.
I was thinking the same thing when i saw the date.
And within days you have Manson and Woodstock. Even the iconic Abby road photo would soon follow.
I love these old games from Wrigley Field. I am requesting Phenia Films to show more of the Cubs from Wrigley Field in the 50’s and 60’s.. Robert Gordon.
This was 10 years, to the day, before Disco Demolition across town!
Gowdy and Kubek were such a great announcing team.They talked eating fish that Curt caught in Wyoming. In a few years Curt would host a great show called the American Sportsman.
Love ❤️ the sixty nine cubs wonderful team ❤️ to bad they lost heartbreaking
Love the camera view from behind the catcher and batter.
Thank you, Arne Harris!
I was 7, living in Downers Grove, IL. Loved the Cubs then and now.
That opening music! Wow!!
This is so weird watching a game I probably watched as a 8yo kid in Philly. Two yrs later Rick Wise pitched a no-hitter and hit 2 HRs in the game., Amazing feat never to be duplicated.
No hitter against a really strong offense.
The '69 Cubs when everything was looking good. Before it wasn't.
I love watching Jenkins pitch. He could really deal.
He pitched quickly, and batters didn't stroll to the dugout and back after every pitch in those days, making for faster and better games.
Fergie won 20 games six straight seasons and had great duels with Gibson, Marichal, Koufax, Drysdale and Seaver to name a few. Fergie also played with Harlem Globetrotters.
He lost five games 1-0 in 1968 and still won 20.
AFRTS was also the reason why many kinescopes of Johnny Carson's first decade as "Tonight Show" host have been preserved.
Willie Smith was one of the best power hitters to come off the Cubs bench.
He should have started. Or Oscar Gamble should have. Don Young? Noooooo!!!!!!!!
Agree absolutely!! Not only did he not start, but Holland traded him away because he dated white girls. How stupid!!!
This was my first year as a baseball fan/Cubs fan. I was 9 years old. This season taught me that life is full of disappointment, and how to brush it off.
Wow Hisle had his two best years in the AL right before 1979 where he never played that much after that
After the 1977 season, Hisle became a free agent and signed with the Milwaukee Brewers. In 1978, Hisle turned in another productive year as he hit .290 and finished third in AL MVP voting. His 34 home runs, 115 RBIs and 96 runs scored placed second, third, and fifth in the American League respectively. A torn rotator cuff suffered in 1979 limited Hisle's playing time for the remainder of his career, as he played in only 79 games over his final four seasons before retiring in 1982.
September was brutal as it turned out
Thank you!! This is fantastic! I was only nine years old when this aired. At sixty-four I can still tell you the Cubs line -up. Did you notice the Cubs batting averages? I believe the Cubs infield started in the National league All-Star game. But then came September 1969, my parents went to Rome. My dad called every night and he would asked "How did the Cubs do?" Every night I had to tell him they lost. After the ninth day , he wouldn't even talk to me anymore. He would ask the question, I would say they lost and he would hang up the phone.
If I had one wish, my wish would have to be for him to still be alive when the Cubs won the World Series.
This is priceless
As a person who works during daytime, I would be a White Sox fan, if I lived in the Chicago area, because Old White Sox Park had lights, for night games.
This was a great Cubs team. Four Hall of Famers. Durocher wore team down keeping regulars in almost every game. Plus, wanted to be center of attention. As you can tell from his interview with Kubek, Leo had already antagonized some Chicago writers. This was not NYC or Boston. Chicago very forgiving of its teams. Mets caught fire based on great pitching, but this Cubs’ starting eight pretty tough to beat. Only issue was centerfield. Hickman the regular right fielder instead of Smith.
Durocher clearly still carried his New York mentality with him when it came to local sportswriters.
He also went to Regan too many times. Unlike Gil Hodges, who platooned every position player on the Mets and kept them fresh.
Jimmy won many games for the Cubs in '69-'72 !!
Commentators:
Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek.
Game of the week!
I learned the GAME from Curt and Tony, one week at a time!!!!
I was just under two months old at the time.
If only they knew what was coming in just a few weeks. I hope all those that experienced the heartbreak of 1969 felt the tremendous joy of 2016.
We did, thank you. Unfortunately, our dad did not. He died in 2008 at 84.
On July 12, 1969, they didn't even mention the New York Mets when discussing the pennant race.
The graphics look ...and we're so simple. Unlike all the distractions all over the TV screen nowadays. Kubek, Gowdy, the Yankees, and the NBC game of the week were staples of my youth
A hot July day in Chicago. Imagine that!!!Today this would be called global warming
Johnny Briggs of Paterson, New Jersey. I remember back then, whenever the Phillies played the Mets whenever the Met announcers mentioned Johnny Briggs they'd say he was from Paterson, New Jersey, and later, when he was traded to the Brewers and they played the Yankees, the Yankee announcers would say the same thing. I used to think "of Paterson, New Jersey" was part of Johnny Briggs's name. I guess because being from Paterson made him a local product in the New York area they, the New York announcers, would bring it up. Jimmy Qualls in centerfield for the Cubs three days after he broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game.
Back when America was truly great.
We'll get back there again, if we survive the inevitable march towards socialism the ignorant people of today are so determined to achieve.
sure it was
You mean when we were bombing the shit out of Vietnam?
Really awesome! Thanks.
I laughed when Curt G read the legal statement....No portion of this game shall be replayed without the express written consent of MLB. And then came TH-cam lolol
What’s really interesting is comparing the Cubs’ hitters production when this game was played (July12) to the end of the season.
2 1/2 months later and very little production from the Cub hitters. Blame Leo. Never rested his players and they became worn out. In comparison, Gil Hodges kept his guys fresh by platooning them.
Leo hated the young guys like Joe Niekro, Oscar Gamble and Adolpho Phiilllips
I came here because I was challenged to watch a game from the 60s/70s bc of the pitch clock.
Pitch clock games FEEL like this. This is great!
your new age baseball fans (who don’t know shit) have short attention spans 😫
Curt Howdy talked about the rough time the Cubs were having. Three nights before the Cubs almost got perfectoed by Tom Seaver of the Mets at Shea Stadium.
The now hard-to-find book "The Year the Mets Lost Last Place" by Paul Zimmerman and Dick Schaap is about those two series of July games between the Mets and Cubs, with a Mets-Expos series sandwiched between the others.
@@orbyfan that was a great book, especially the parts about the bleacher bums chanting at the Mets
@@64yanks Fuck the bums. I always sat in right field and would hear them chant, right field stinks before each game. What a bunch of egotistical blowhards, they thought they were part of the team.
Back when baseball and US were king
Durocher's biography is one of the best baseball books you could read. Durocher is the Forrest Gump of baseball history.
yes and no......I also read Leo's book and it is entertaining.......however in the many years since the book was published it has come out that many of Leo's stories were either exaggerated, greatly embellished, or just plain false. Among other things, he was not near as close to Sinatra as he claimed.
Except for his personality .
When men loved the game more than the money.
Mike Ryan was one of several catchers of that era (Dave Duncan and Frank Fernandez also come to mind) who had low batting averages but could hit home runs if they hit the ball at all. Rick Wise hit .270 that year, while Ryan finished at .204. Of course, it didn't occur to manager Bob Skinner to move Wise further up in the lineup.
$1 for general admission for under 13 $1.50 for an adult.
Nope...$1 for everyone in 1969. At least in the bleachers.
$1 gen admission at old Yankee Stadium. With 67,000 seats, lots of choices.
Umpires
HP Ed Sudol
1B Lee Weyer
2B Harry Wendelstedt
3B Ken Burkhart (Crew Chief)
Anybody else see baseball cards in their mind’s eye when hearing the names of these players?
I wonder if there are more nbc baseball game of game of the week from this time period?
1969.. year of the Black Cat at Shea Stadium and the miracle Mets.
It was also the year of expansion which I loathed and still do!
Playoffs were now instituted.
The following mediocre teams joined the leagues -
The San Diego Padres
The Montreal Expos
The Seattle Pilots - This team only lasted one season!
How embarrassing!
The Kansas City Royals
After all these years, these teams continue to play lousy!
@@raulmacias1311 The Kansas City Royals won World 🌎 Series in 1985 and 2015
The Washington Nationals( formerly the Montreal Expos) won the 🌍 World Series in 2019
Awesome! Thanks a lot!
Too bad Dave Cash didn't join the Phillies until after Don Money had been traded to the Brewers. Would have been a heck of a profitable double play combo - Cash and Money!
It's hard to believe now, but back then the Cubs weren't the favorites of the baseball world like they are now. Very few people outside of Chicagoland loved those "big, bad, mean Chicago Cubs." The Mets were viewed as Snoopy and the peanuts gang, while the Cubs were viewed as Charles Manson and the hells Angels. Ron Santo, worshiped by millions in Chicagoland was a hated villain thruout the rest of the league, while Leo Durocher, bore the wrath and grudges of the umpires.
Leo hated by fans, umps, opposing players, the Press
Cubs have no idea of the trails of tears that lay ahead.
“It ain’t over until it’s over” -Yogi Berra
Yogi. 1969 coach on the Mets.@@timdailey2690
I miss Curt and Tony and Saturday mornings.
Back in the day, all a relief pitcher had to do was get the last out to get a save. Fergie use to be a work horse. He use to finish what he started most of the time. The starters in today's game are lucky to go 6 innings or 100 pitches.
Yes, a "quality start" meant a complete game.
Actually it was more difficult to get a save in those days. You actually had to face the tying run.
Fergie was part of the Phillies
Billy Williams’ 909th consecutive game.
Great post
The Mets were rained out that day in New York. They were in second place and lost a half game in the standings.
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Don Wert, former Detroit third baseman?
Four players in that cubs lineup are in the Hall
That change up by Jenkins at 23:37 absolutely filthy
Three days after the Tom Seaver near perfect game.
Leo the Lip. Gotta love him.
So different from today..Rick Wise gave up 6 runs in 3 innings and he stayed in the game..Even I would’ve yanked him..Although it wasent all his fault with those errors
If it wasn’t for Qualls, we wouldn’t have been waiting all the way until 2012 for Santana to pitch the first ever NO HITTER for the METS
I was at both games.
Also, if it weren't the official scorer giving a hit to the batter when the shortstop couldn't get the ball out of his glove in 1985, Dwight Gooden would have had a no hitter.
Why would NBC make a kine of a middle of the season, regular game? Glad they did though.
Great stuff!!!
Do you have any more WGN broadcasts of Cubs or Sox games from 50s, 60s or 70s in your old VHS collection? Or in any form, really.
When the only ones in a baseball uniform where the guys on the field
1969 rhw year of the Mets
My favorite year in baseball. Tom Seaver 25 game winner for world champion ny Mets
in the pregame interview Leo says I'd rather have a losing streak now (July) then in September....Ha! Little did He know they would tank in September and the Mets caught fire at the same time- I was a serious Cub fan and this was the first Choke year in my life for the flubs....lol later chokes for the Cubs was '84 and '89 and of course the 2003 year
It's "Kubek"
where were Dick Allen and Johnny Callison?
Some players without batting helmets
They became mandatory a couple of years later, grandfathered in for players who still didn't wear one.
Those hats had liners for protection. Tony Taylor always wore that helmet hat.
Wow some hall of famers on the cubbies….
No baskets yet....Many folks may not know the real reason why the Cubs installed baskets on top of the outfield walls. It was because too many of the original Bleacher Bums were getting drunk and falling on to the field. True Story