Fun fact, he also spent parts of 1951 and 1952 playing for Atlanta's minor league team, before he got called up to the Boston Braves. When he came to Atlanta with the Braves, it was his second stay in Atlanta.
A couple of years after this Roger Craig, Charlie Neal & Felix Mantilla got a different type of glory as members of the record setting Original New York Mets!
The Marvelous Mets set the bar high for which several teams have tried but none have equaled. Casey Stengel was right when he mused ‘Can anybody here play this game?’ 😂😂😂
I was today years old when I learned that the Dodgers & Braves had a best-of-three playoff at the end of the 1959 season because they tied in the standings. I had no idea.
I was 9 years old. I grew up in Southern California and my dad would take us to the Coliseum to watch the Dodger games. I remember the big screen in left field with Moon hitting the "Moon Shot" over the screen. Sometimes the Dodgers would 70,000 for games and drew around 89,000 against the White Sox in the World Series. I can still remember the lineup: 1-Jim Gilliam, 3B, 2-Charlie Neal, 2B, 3-Wally Moon-LF, 4-Duke Snider, CF, 5-Gil Hodges, 1B, 6-Carl Furillo, RF (or Don Demeter), 7-John Roseboro, C, 8-Maury Wills, SS, 9-Pitcher. (Drysdale, Koufax, Stan Williams, Roger Craig, etc.). I still have a World Series program from 1959. (I can even remember the White Sox lineup: 1-Luis Aparicio, SS, 2-Nellie Fox, 2B, 3-Jim Landis, CF, 4-Ted Kluzewski, 1B, 5-Jim Rivera, RF, 6-Al Smith, LF, 7-Sherm Lollar, C, 8--Bubba Phillips, 3B, 9-Pitcher (Early Wynn, , Billy Pierce, Dick Donovan, etc.
1:05 The Braves have the newest Sultan of Swat but it’s not Eddie Mathews. It belongs to his long time teammate, Hank Aaron who went on to becoming the home run king in baseball.
The Dodgers and Braves played this playoff because they ended the regular season tied for first place in the NL; there were no divisions in either league then. Second place meant "see you next year." This Dodgers team later won the World Series over the Chicago White Sox. Vin Scully announced Dodgers game from their last years in Brooklyn until fairly recently.
I saw the Dodgers at the Coliseum in the late fifties and early sixties. It was built for the Olympics in 1932 and served as the Dodgers' temporary (and very awkward ) ball field when the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn in the late fifties. Dodger Stadium opened in 1962. The distance from home plate to the left field fence at the Coliseum was under 300 feet and so they attached a 25-foot screen to the fence to make it more difficult to hit home runs. Wally Moon of the Dodgers became adept at lofting balls over the screen for homers; they were soon nicknamed "Moon Shots." My first glove as a kid was labeled a "Johnny Logan," the name of the Braves infielder who was injured in the above clip.
Me too. Grew up in Southern Calif. Attend my first Major League game at the Coliseum in June 1960. Dodgers vs, Cincinnati Reds. Sandy Koufax pitching. He gave up a grand-slam in the first inning. A shot over the high screen in left field. Would have been a fly out in any other stadium. Dodger lost 4 to 3. Charley Neal struck out for the last out.
I remember watching the last few innings of this game on TV. I saw Desi Arnaz banging on the wall next to his seat in the front row. What a treat to see this film. Thanks.
WTF!!! Can you imagine this play happening today at 3:35 ??? I know people will say today's game is soft...but that play looks ridiculous even for those times!
Al DownIng, the pride of Wayne, New Jersey would surrender number 715 to Hammerin’ Hank. I remember watching that game live on NBC with Curt Gowdy’s excited call “He did it!”
More than 20 years ago I worked with a woman at the Del Mar Racetrack who had been dating Eddie when they both lived in Mission Valley. She really had no idea what his baseball background was, and she told me that she had noticed Eddie seemed to enjoy baseball enough that he might consider joining a softball league. P.S. Still have the ticket stub to the 1st game played at the Coliseum in '58.
Great to see this old footage, the game sure was different back then. I always get a kick out of the sound they used to simulate the ball hitting the bat in these old clips....
@@smilanesi98 Back then you were taught to go in any way you could as long you broke it up and got in the SS's head. There was nothing cheap about it, which is why the Braves accepted it.
What middle infielders used to do to combat this move at the time was to throw sidearm to force the runner to get down or he’d get hit in the face. In this situation the game was too important to risk an error by burying the runner in the chops. There’s nothing wrong with a hard slide or even a rolling block (see Hal McRae in 1977 ALCS) but this was brutal. Burdette should’ve beaned him next time up. An interesting side note to this game was Vin Scully got so excited when the winning run scored he said “We’re off to Chicago!” Scully was legendary for his composure and objectivity but he let his hair down when the Dodgers won.
It was deliberately sabotaged Logan b cuz of Logan's batting skills against Dodger pitching water tables visual mathematical display windows U can go back in the days of when baseball and football players played dirty Shadow Body victim victimizer software games by willing to deliberately harm another Soul Spirit essence B cuz their willing to hurt U no matter what it takes to take something from U which is ur feelings no different than what demons and parasites do to feed on ur Souls essence of how deeply U love and care about it own cells healthy reproductive systems of generating real living light Oversoul Creation spheres gifting pure internal eternal absolute love as the engine that Eye ManU fest New eternal life forms of Souls Go take a gander at some of the things that Ty Cobb used to do It was not unusual for baseball players who would take a metal file to their cleats and turn them into extremely sharp points to take ur feet out of the game Most people have no idea what these players actually were willing to do to one another Go ask for example Ron Maxwell who was the Director of programming coded visual mathematical display window Star Gate codes AI dead finite light network interface during the filming of the movie " GETTYSBURG" with Jeff Daniels remarkable performance as Chamberlain at Round Top that sealed the victory for the North during the Civil War Because movies are corporate military ( running visual mathematical psycho path way mental field operators) that accumulating more electrons is more vital to THEM as corporate military Pirates than Ur inner Heart and Soul Spirit essence electrical Heart wave form Spiral Spirit axial spin point tones rotation of elemental neuro Gyro eye on circuitry messengers of mathematical firing letter coded order of sequenced Holographic visual Biofield frame rate shutter ISO plasma wave form Spiral circulation speed Tempo of R inner URTHA UNEYE SIGNET NOMI Noble planet encryption MotherArk coded Spiral inner breathing. Their corporate fictional character phantom tyme Matrix echo maps cybernetic mercenaries like movie player CIA handlers where movie investors just like Treaties and Soul Spirit essence contract agreements change their minds energy tabulator like the contract Jeff Daniels had with playing Chamberlain The shooting water table schedule is based on numbers their inner cellular memories are held captive by another cell phone parasite feeding on their cellular transcription future memories so they throw fits of they don't get their way with U and if U stand Ur ground to Honor it word and that boxes them in a corner they can't escape from that TRUTH to live in Honor they fall into a state of RAGE and begin going chaotic cellular Holographic visual disturbances which is a mental disorder and that's what happened while the Director and cast of characters in that movie TRUMPED the corporate AI machine coded state of consciousness directed Black 🖤 Mirror Goo Cube Coded state of cellular dis orientation Their brain cells and circuitry reaction states start breaking circuits all over the place and FREAK OUT The actors told the Corporate Enforcer that if we cannot shoot the scene again tomorrow we're going Home Base and that's called " calling their bluff " The Corporate interplanetary military commander had to relent and Honor the original Contract And U can translate this through Cowboy and Indians directly related to the Crown City of London Corporation Their Crown chakra is inverted and upside down as energetic vampires feeding on the living Light ATP Kreb cycle immunity function Firewall Shield off every living cellular sentient life forms on this planet.. That's why we are here to set the record straight Stand Up Boomerang effect eat the Karmic energy debt directly Aurora Gyrodome Monopole technology Shields activations R UP and running Eternal Sun L UV phasing speed LUV Psonns Mu ah 💋🌈💜🌋
Thank you for the footage showing how the '59 Dodgers won the NL pennant, en route to the World Series showdown with the AL Champion Chicago White Sox, who edged the then-Cleveland Indians for the junior circuit title. Now it's off to see the first L.A. Dodgers game in 1958 on YT.
The coliseum,as one writer put it,held 90 thousand people and 2 outfielders! Did you see how bad that field looked? There were 3 football teams playing there the rams ,ucla,and usc.
Six years later in September 1965 the Braves would play their last game representing Milwaukee at Chavez Ravine before packing up the tepee and moving to Atlanta. With two out in the top of the 9th and a Brave runner on first (I think it was Don Dillard) a ground ball way hit to Dodger shortstop Maury Wills behind second base and he threw the ball to first but hit Dillard square in the forehead knocking him out cold. The Dodger second baseman picked up the ball and tagged the unconscious Dillard out and that was the ignoble end of the Braves 13 year run in Milwaukee. Five years later Bud Selig bought the Seattle Pilots and the Brewers were born. They also had trouble with Los Angeles as the Angels shellacked them 12-0 in their first game.
Yes a special 2 of 3 playoff since they ended the regular season tied. I remember Roger Craig was one of the better pitchers of the 1962 Mets with 42 games pitched for a poor team. He then managed the SF Giants to the 1989 pennant when I was stationed out there.
That field was ridiculous. In the World Series, the White Sox, who lived by good defense, were hit with so many bad bounces due to a shitty infield. Can you imagine what a Milwaukee Chicago World Series would have been? OMG. Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn playing in the old Commisky Park. It would have been one of the best Series ever. They never should have ever let the Dodgers move without a decent ballpark to play in.
MLB was quick to get established on the west coast and Walter O’Malley wanted to beat everyone out there. He saw the big money to be made in Los Angeles. I guess MLB could put up with subpar field conditions for a few years until Chavez Ravine was ready in 1962.
wow---a one game playoff that goes into the 12th inning, beating the champions of last 2 seasons Braves in come from behind fashion. you never hear this publicized very much, unlike the Dodgers Giants playoff series of 1951
They could have gone to four in a row but were caught by the Dodgers late in 1956 and 1959. Incidentally, they were damn lucky to win in 1957. That pitch hit the dirt before it hit Nippy Jones .
Craig Nettles of the Yankees did a similar football block on a double play breakup against the Royals in 1977 after Hal McRae had taken out Willie Randolph on a double play breakup earlier in the series.
Man, those are uniforms!...Dodgers uniforms have been consistently good...however, those double knits they got today look like pajamas, especially since they dont wear stirrups anymore..the pant legs today that go all the way past the tops of the shoes look ridiculous, just like the beltless uniforms that debuted back in '72...the Pirates were able to pull off that look though..thats my 2 cents worth..
Yeah the only reason the Pirates pulled off their unis is because of the stirrups. They gave the uniform some contrast and color. The pants over the shoes they wear now just look stupid... yeah like pajamas.
@Capital-Idea. I agree 100%. I've never liked polyester unis period. Those old flannel unis were beautiful. Although, I can't imagine playing in them on a hot, humid summer day game. Remember in the 70s and 80s when players used to grab and adjust their crotch area? I assume that was because the polyester unis were too tight back then. Today, they're baggie and you don't see players adjusting themselves anymore. 😊
@@jim72068I recall playing Little League baseball in the late 1960’s into the early 1970’s and we had the flannel uniforms that looked like they were left over from the 1950’s. They weighed a ton and had a zipper front on the top. But they sure were durable and had a shine/sheen to them. Seeing these highlights reminds me of my old LL uniforms.
First MLB game I ever attended was Dodgers vs Cardinals at the Coliseum in 1961. Bill White hit three homers in a 10-1 Cardinal win. Unless you sat along the infield area the seating was horrible. 03:38 Old time Baseball.
Interesting that they actually designed part of the stadium to look like the actual Colosseum. I wonder when this was torn down and got replaced by the current Dodger Stadium.
3:37 That might have cost the Braves the game, the series, the season. and the World champion. The Dodgers went on to beat the White Sox in the World Series.
Most of those guys were heavy smokers, didn't use sunscreen, and didn't have the healthiest diets. All of that affected their skin and made them look older. This was typical of most of the mid-century American adult population. Life expectancy was considerably shorter back then, as well.
MLB would never allow a absolutely ridiculous baseball stadium like this today. If Ford Frick and Warren Giles had any balls they should have given O’Malley 2 choices: Play in LA Wrigley or stay in Brooklyn until Dodger Stadium was completed. This Coliseum thing was absolutely ridiculous and stupid.
We went to the LA Coliseum many times when the Dodgers played there after they left Brooklyn and in my opinion is was an awful place to play baseball; 251 feet down the LF line with a 42 foot high screen. Watching the Rams and USC was far more enjoyable at the Coliseum than baseball. I did get hooked on Dodger Dogs.
@@michaelleroy9281 The LA dodgers could have played at Wrigley Field in South Central LA, but it only held 22,000 seats. There was talk about expanding seating in Wrigley Field, but it was easier to kick out a community living in Chavez Ravine to build what is now the third oldest field in MLB. Disclaimer I'm a SF Giant fan and hate the Dodgers and what they did to the Chavez Ravine community.
@@dan1oval well.....the City or State had to pay them for the land. That's how eminent domain works. Government can take your property for valid public purpose, but has to pay fair market value to the owners.
@@dan1oval Expanding the AAA ballpark wouldn't have been anything more than a temporary fix anyway. And it's questionable how many more seats they could shoehorn in there. At least they chose a site that had long-term viability & didn't make fans feel like they were on an Arctic expedition like in Candlestick.
Eddie Mathews was the only guy to play the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta
Fun fact, he also spent parts of 1951 and 1952 playing for Atlanta's minor league team, before he got called up to the Boston Braves. When he came to Atlanta with the Braves, it was his second stay in Atlanta.
That’s my goto trivia question. Only player to play 3 diff cities same franchise
Buried in Santa Barbara, not that far from Dodger Stadium.
My grandfather, who raised me, was the bullpen coach for Milwaukee. George. C. M. Susce. God bless
“Good Kid” Susce.
So cool.
I live in the hometown (Sarasota) of your grandfather. Wish I met him, but spoke to Jr when he was living in Lake Placid, Florida.
He pitched for the Tigers , didn't he?
I have George Susce, JR 1956 Topps Baseball Card. I had had it for 60 plus years. Are you his son?
A couple of years after this Roger Craig, Charlie Neal & Felix Mantilla got a different type of glory as members of the record setting Original New York Mets!
The Marvelous Mets set the bar high for which several teams have tried but none have equaled. Casey Stengel was right when he mused ‘Can anybody here play this game?’ 😂😂😂
40-120. Amazing!
Gil Hodges and Don zimmer too
@@eyesonyou99And one year later in 1963, the Duke of Flatbush also joined the Mets.
As of 12-8-24,Felix is still alive.
This is the best and only colour footage I have seen (so far) of the Dodgers when the Coliseum was their home! Really interesting stuff here!
Right? So cool to see.
They have color footage of the 59 World Series Chicago vs. L.A.
Opening Day 1958....footage exists....
When Wally Moon hit homer over the "Chinese Wall" it became a " Moon Shot"
Walter says it’s was call the Brooklyn bridge
I was today years old when I learned that the Dodgers & Braves had a best-of-three playoff at the end of the 1959 season because they tied in the standings. I had no idea.
Wow..Color footage of LA Coliseum Baseball. That Eddie Matthews home run similar to a Pesky Pole shot.
I was 9 years old. I grew up in Southern California and my dad would take us to the Coliseum to watch the Dodger games. I remember the big screen in left field with Moon hitting the "Moon Shot" over the screen. Sometimes the Dodgers would 70,000 for games and drew around 89,000 against the White Sox in the World Series. I can still remember the lineup: 1-Jim Gilliam, 3B, 2-Charlie Neal, 2B, 3-Wally Moon-LF, 4-Duke Snider, CF, 5-Gil Hodges, 1B, 6-Carl Furillo, RF (or Don Demeter), 7-John Roseboro, C, 8-Maury Wills, SS, 9-Pitcher. (Drysdale, Koufax, Stan Williams, Roger Craig, etc.). I still have a World Series program from 1959. (I can even remember the White Sox lineup: 1-Luis Aparicio, SS, 2-Nellie Fox, 2B, 3-Jim Landis, CF, 4-Ted Kluzewski, 1B, 5-Jim Rivera, RF, 6-Al Smith, LF, 7-Sherm Lollar, C, 8--Bubba Phillips, 3B, 9-Pitcher (Early Wynn, , Billy Pierce, Dick Donovan, etc.
1:05 The Braves have the newest Sultan of Swat but it’s not Eddie Mathews. It belongs to his long time teammate, Hank Aaron who went on to becoming the home run king in baseball.
The Dodgers and Braves played this playoff because they ended the regular season tied for first place in the NL; there were no divisions in either league then. Second place meant "see you next year." This Dodgers team later won the World Series over the Chicago White Sox. Vin Scully announced Dodgers game from their last years in Brooklyn until fairly recently.
I saw the Dodgers at the Coliseum in the late fifties and early sixties. It was built for the Olympics in 1932 and served as the Dodgers' temporary (and very awkward ) ball field when the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn in the late fifties. Dodger Stadium opened in 1962. The distance from home plate to the left field fence at the Coliseum was under 300 feet and so they attached a 25-foot screen to the fence to make it more difficult to hit home runs. Wally Moon of the Dodgers became adept at lofting balls over the screen for homers; they were soon nicknamed "Moon Shots." My first glove as a kid was labeled a "Johnny Logan," the name of the Braves infielder who was injured in the above clip.
I was there back when.....My dad caught a foul ball. Never will forget it.
We all know this already.
Me too. Grew up in Southern Calif. Attend my first Major League game at the Coliseum in June 1960. Dodgers vs, Cincinnati Reds. Sandy Koufax pitching. He gave up a grand-slam in the first inning. A shot over the high screen in left field. Would have been a fly out in any other stadium. Dodger lost 4 to 3. Charley Neal struck out for the last out.
they should have been forced to play in LA Wrigley Field or stay in Brooklyn until Dodger Stadium was completed.
I remember watching the last few innings of this game on TV. I saw Desi Arnaz banging on the wall next to his seat in the front row. What a treat to see this film. Thanks.
I was born in August of 1959, six weeks before this game. A lot of these guys were still playing when I was old enough to recognize them.
I was born the day before this game!...My dad saved the New York Daily News paper....Still have it.
Wild play breaking up the DP...Apparently that was legal
This is an amazing piece of footage👋
WTF!!! Can you imagine this play happening today at 3:35 ??? I know people will say today's game is soft...but that play looks ridiculous even for those times!
Juuuuust a bit outside....of the baseline.
Those days weren't soft.
That guy who got a hit off Drysdale was probably greeted with a fastball to the head on his next at bat. Drysdale was a beast. lol
He was a useless hack.
Drysdale’s book “Once a Bum, always a Dodger had some real great stories!”
Love this footage from my childhood.
This game kept the The Braves from being in their third straight series. Nearly a mini-dynasty for Hammering Hank and the Milwaukee boys.
Hank Aaron and the Dodgers would meet again on a spring night in Atlanta.
50 years again come Monday night
Al DownIng, the pride of Wayne, New Jersey would surrender number 715 to Hammerin’ Hank. I remember watching that game live on NBC with Curt Gowdy’s excited call “He did it!”
When the Dodgers first made there first appearance in Atlanta in 1966
Awesome footage. Thanks.
At 3 months old I lived not far from the Coliseum. Dad took us to a lot of games throughout the years and we saw Legends play.
More than 20 years ago I worked with a woman at the Del Mar Racetrack who had been dating Eddie when they both lived in Mission Valley. She really had no idea what his baseball background was, and she told me that she had noticed Eddie seemed to enjoy baseball enough that he might consider joining a softball league.
P.S. Still have the ticket stub to the 1st game played at the Coliseum in '58.
I love this thank you!
Great to see this old footage, the game sure was different back then. I always get a kick out of the sound they used to simulate the ball hitting the bat in these old clips....
Nowadays, that double-play breakup would've emptied benches.
yea it would
It was a cheap shot. Did not have to go in like that.
@@smilanesi98 Back then you were taught to go in any way you could as long you broke it up and got in the SS's head. There was nothing cheap about it, which is why the Braves accepted it.
What middle infielders used to do to combat this move at the time was to throw sidearm to force the runner to get down or he’d get hit in the face. In this situation the game was too important to risk an error by burying the runner in the chops.
There’s nothing wrong with a hard slide or even a rolling block (see Hal McRae in 1977 ALCS) but this was brutal. Burdette should’ve beaned him next time up.
An interesting side note to this game was Vin Scully got so excited when the winning run scored he said “We’re off to Chicago!” Scully was legendary for his composure and objectivity but he let his hair down when the Dodgers won.
It was deliberately sabotaged Logan b cuz of Logan's batting skills against Dodger pitching water tables visual mathematical display windows
U can go back in the days of when baseball and football players played dirty Shadow Body victim victimizer software games by willing to deliberately harm another Soul Spirit essence B cuz their willing to hurt U no matter what it takes to take something from U which is ur feelings no different than what demons and parasites do to feed on ur Souls essence of how deeply U love and care about it own cells healthy reproductive systems of generating real living light Oversoul Creation spheres gifting pure internal eternal absolute love as the engine that Eye ManU fest New eternal life forms of Souls
Go take a gander at some of the things that Ty Cobb used to do
It was not unusual for baseball players who would take a metal file to their cleats and turn them into extremely sharp points to take ur feet out of the game
Most people have no idea what these players actually were willing to do to one another
Go ask for example Ron Maxwell who was the Director of programming coded visual mathematical display window Star Gate codes AI dead finite light network interface during the filming of the movie " GETTYSBURG" with Jeff Daniels remarkable performance as Chamberlain at Round Top that sealed the victory for the North during the Civil War
Because movies are corporate military ( running visual mathematical psycho path way mental field operators) that accumulating more electrons is more vital to THEM as corporate military Pirates than Ur inner Heart and Soul Spirit essence electrical Heart wave form Spiral Spirit axial spin point tones rotation of elemental neuro Gyro eye on circuitry messengers of mathematical firing letter coded order of sequenced Holographic visual Biofield frame rate shutter ISO plasma wave form Spiral circulation speed Tempo of R inner URTHA UNEYE SIGNET NOMI Noble planet encryption MotherArk coded Spiral inner breathing.
Their corporate fictional character phantom tyme Matrix echo maps cybernetic mercenaries like movie player CIA handlers where movie investors just like Treaties and Soul Spirit essence contract agreements change their minds energy tabulator like the contract Jeff Daniels had with playing Chamberlain
The shooting water table schedule is based on numbers their inner cellular memories are held captive by another cell phone parasite feeding on their cellular transcription future memories so they throw fits of they don't get their way with U and if U stand Ur ground to Honor it word and that boxes them in a corner they can't escape from that TRUTH to live in Honor they fall into a state of RAGE and begin going chaotic cellular Holographic visual disturbances which is a mental disorder and that's what happened while the Director and cast of characters in that movie TRUMPED the corporate AI machine coded state of consciousness directed Black 🖤 Mirror Goo Cube Coded state of cellular dis orientation
Their brain cells and circuitry reaction states start breaking circuits all over the place and FREAK OUT
The actors told the Corporate Enforcer that if we cannot shoot the scene again tomorrow we're going Home Base and that's called " calling their bluff "
The Corporate interplanetary military commander had to relent and Honor the original Contract
And U can translate this through Cowboy and Indians directly related to the Crown City of London Corporation
Their Crown chakra is inverted and upside down as energetic vampires feeding on the living Light ATP Kreb cycle immunity function Firewall Shield off every living cellular sentient life forms on this planet..
That's why we are here to set the record straight
Stand Up Boomerang effect eat the Karmic energy debt directly
Aurora Gyrodome Monopole technology Shields activations R UP and running Eternal Sun L UV phasing speed LUV Psonns
Mu ah 💋🌈💜🌋
3:38 Jesus!! Glad that's not part of the game anymore.
That field looks like the Rams or SC or both had just played on it.
5-2 lead and the Braves could not hold it. Teams did not really use a closer the same way they did later on. Great comeback by the Dodgers.
Great color footage.
Thank you for the footage showing how the '59 Dodgers won the NL pennant, en route to the World Series showdown with the AL Champion Chicago White Sox, who edged the then-Cleveland Indians for the junior circuit title. Now it's off to see the first L.A. Dodgers game in 1958 on YT.
The coliseum,as one writer put it,held 90 thousand people and 2 outfielders! Did you see how bad that field looked? There were 3 football teams playing there
the rams ,ucla,and usc.
Six years later in September 1965 the Braves would play their last game representing Milwaukee at Chavez Ravine before packing up the tepee and moving to Atlanta. With two out in the top of the 9th and a Brave runner on first (I think it was Don Dillard) a ground ball way hit to Dodger shortstop Maury Wills behind second base and he threw the ball to first but hit Dillard square in the forehead knocking him out cold. The Dodger second baseman picked up the ball and tagged the unconscious Dillard out and that was the ignoble end of the Braves 13 year run in Milwaukee. Five years later Bud Selig bought the Seattle Pilots and the Brewers were born. They also had trouble with Los Angeles as the Angels shellacked them 12-0 in their first game.
Yes I know, I wasn't born yesterday ( 1955)
Charlie Neal is phenomenal, amazing clutch performance in all videos I see. Spokecto Logan when he lived in Milwaukee in 1995.
somehow his skills and career declined soon after
When Charlie Neal’s MLB career ended, he was a sportscaster on the CBS affiliate here in NYC from the 1970’s through the 1980’s. Great guy!
The short left field fence was called “The Chinese Wall” because it yielded so many cheap homers.
Fun fact: Eddie Matthews was the only Braves player to play in the all 3 locations Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta!
Yes a special 2 of 3 playoff since they ended the regular season tied. I remember Roger Craig was one of the better pitchers of the 1962 Mets with 42 games pitched for a poor team. He then managed the SF Giants to the 1989 pennant when I was stationed out there.
This is beautiful.
That field was ridiculous. In the World Series, the White Sox, who lived by good defense, were hit with so many bad bounces due to a shitty infield. Can you imagine what a Milwaukee Chicago World Series would have been? OMG. Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn playing in the old Commisky Park. It would have been one of the best Series ever. They never should have ever let the Dodgers move without a decent ballpark to play in.
times were different
MLB was quick to get established on the west coast and Walter O’Malley wanted to beat everyone out there. He saw the big money to be made in Los Angeles. I guess MLB could put up with subpar field conditions for a few years until Chavez Ravine was ready in 1962.
wow---a one game playoff that goes into the 12th inning, beating the champions of last 2 seasons Braves in come from behind fashion. you never hear this publicized very much, unlike the Dodgers Giants playoff series of 1951
@stevea Actually, it was a best 2 out of 3 series. LA had already won game 1 in Milwaukee. 😊
The Braves were so good back then, they could have went to three World Series in a row. Too bad the only won one out of two against the Yankees
well thats no slight against them, playing a Yankee team in midst of their dynasty and splitting 2 7 game WS matches.
They could have gone to four in a row but were caught by the Dodgers late in 1956 and 1959. Incidentally, they were damn lucky to win in 1957. That pitch hit the dirt before it hit Nippy Jones .
They blew a 3 games to 1 lead in the '58 series.
@@garyfaught3769 they were better than the skankees
Coliseum Left field was 250 feet to the 40 foot high fence..
Craig Nettles of the Yankees did a similar football block on a double play breakup against the Royals in 1977 after Hal McRae had taken out Willie Randolph on a double play breakup earlier in the series.
That's some double play breakup!!!
Utley had nothing on that double play break up, different time for sure.
tremendous footage, outside the peristyle still looks the same today with the existing box office
Would have been sweet to live in LA mid-century
It was safe back then.
That was long before California became a Third World Marxist dictatorship.
It’s a dangerous shit show now
except for that smog.
Man, those are uniforms!...Dodgers uniforms have been consistently good...however, those double knits they got today look like pajamas, especially since they dont wear stirrups anymore..the pant legs today that go all the way past the tops of the shoes look ridiculous, just like the beltless uniforms that debuted back in '72...the Pirates were able to pull off that look though..thats my 2 cents worth..
Yeah the only reason the Pirates pulled off their unis is because of the stirrups. They gave the uniform some contrast and color. The pants over the shoes they wear now just look stupid... yeah like pajamas.
@Capital-Idea. I agree 100%. I've never liked polyester unis period. Those old flannel unis were beautiful. Although, I can't imagine playing in them on a hot, humid summer day game. Remember in the 70s and 80s when players used to grab and adjust their crotch area? I assume that was because the polyester unis were too tight back then. Today, they're baggie and you don't see players adjusting themselves anymore. 😊
@@jim72068I recall playing Little League baseball in the late 1960’s into the early 1970’s and we had the flannel uniforms that looked like they were left over from the 1950’s. They weighed a ton and had a zipper front on the top. But they sure were durable and had a shine/sheen to them. Seeing these highlights reminds me of my old LL uniforms.
Amazing how well the players transitioned from black and white to color. I guess it was easier to see the ball though.
First MLB game I ever attended was Dodgers vs Cardinals at the Coliseum in 1961. Bill White hit three homers in a 10-1 Cardinal win. Unless you sat along the infield area the seating was horrible.
03:38 Old time Baseball.
The Bumbs won the NL pennant in this game, but eventually won their 2nd World Series over the Chicago White Sox.
Never knew my Sox nrly played Milw. In the '59 WS
Man, I never knew they allowed a base runner to clobber a fielder like that back then!
They played like that for about 100 years...
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This was a One-game playoff
Interesting that they actually designed part of the stadium to look like the actual Colosseum. I wonder when this was torn down and got replaced by the current Dodger Stadium.
it wasn't, it still stands today and USC football plays there
The “Chinese wall”? Ooooh, can do that today
There’s just a something about the soul of baseball in this footage that is completely absent in modern baseball.
Lou Burdette lived close to me in Sarasota, before moving closer to his son. Had the privilege ofvspeaking to him in 1990.
@aristotlewasnotafanofplato3661Lew Burdette played for the Braves at the time
3:37 That might have cost the Braves the game, the series, the season. and the World champion. The Dodgers went on to beat the White Sox in the World Series.
Electric ⚡️ scoreboard in 59
Huh 🤔
Where’s Vin Scully 🎙️📻
Was Joe Adcock in that game?
Johnny Logan left on a stretcher. Did Roseboro get bopped in the face at least twice the next season?
All those guys look so much older than guys of same age playing now. Except maybe Drysdale.
Most of those guys were heavy smokers, didn't use sunscreen, and didn't have the healthiest diets. All of that affected their skin and made them look older. This was typical of most of the mid-century American adult population. Life expectancy was considerably shorter back then, as well.
no botox, PEDS, steroids. around the clock health care.. times change
The Chinese wall??
Drysdale hit a legit singe to "help his cause". NL Baseball is the best.
ouch johnny logan!!!!!!!!!!
They need to add the Coliseum to MLB the Show posthaste.
Dull Crandall...hahahahaa!
3:39 Show that to Jeff McNeil.
The thumbnail looks like their playing in ancient Roman ruins
ホンマや…。（27年前と25年後、そして恐らく69年後も…の）オリンピックスタジアムでやってるわ…。
The Coliseum, A truly awful place to play baseball. Where a pop fly to left field was a home run.
But, stadiums take time to build.
That field looks terrible:(
"The Cinderella success story of the century"? Ummmm...1914 Braves, anyone?
"Milwaukee meets misfortune" How about a full-on assault on a defenseless second baseman. 3:36
Didn’t like that tackle at second base…. Try that today..can get you killed…..👎👎👎👎
The bases are bulging with bums lol.
Back when dodger fans were more civil and seem human. Now.....cesspit!
0:39 Insane, this guy is in his 20's ..looks like an old man.
Lived to 93.
What team won the most games between 1956 and 1959? Four consecutive seasons. Yanks? Dodgers maybe? How about those Giants? No, just the Braves!!!
3:38---Not exactly a clean slide
MLB would never allow a absolutely ridiculous baseball stadium like this today. If Ford Frick and Warren Giles had any balls they should have given O’Malley 2 choices: Play in LA Wrigley or stay in Brooklyn until Dodger Stadium was completed. This Coliseum thing was absolutely ridiculous and stupid.
And the Yankees have beaten them both in the World Series since then.
No, the first series between LA Dodgers and NY Yankees was in 1963 4 game sweep for the Dodgers
The honeymoon has never ended with the Dodgers. But games now feel strange without Vin, Newk, Maury, Lasorda!
The racist term "The Chinese Wall"definitely wouldn't work today 😆
No not in the current environment
Maybe they could have said Great Wall of a China. May have been taken differently.
Braves mgr should've allowed Burdett to pitch the 9th, sure his kicked himself.
That Chinese wall doesn't look so great
It's kind of clumsy.
We went to the LA Coliseum many times when the Dodgers played there after they left Brooklyn and in my opinion is was an awful place to play baseball; 251 feet down the LF line with a 42 foot high screen. Watching the Rams and USC was far more enjoyable at the Coliseum than baseball. I did get hooked on Dodger Dogs.
It's the only place they found they could play in until Dodger Stadium opened 3 years later
@@michaelleroy9281 The LA dodgers could have played at Wrigley Field in South Central LA, but it only held 22,000 seats. There was talk about expanding seating in Wrigley Field, but it was easier to kick out a community living in Chavez Ravine to build what is now the third oldest field in MLB. Disclaimer I'm a SF Giant fan and hate the Dodgers and what they did to the Chavez Ravine community.
@@dan1oval well.....the City or State had to pay them for the land. That's how eminent domain works. Government can take your property for valid public purpose, but has to pay fair market value to the owners.
@@dan1oval Expanding the AAA ballpark wouldn't have been anything more than a temporary fix anyway. And it's questionable how many more seats they could shoehorn in there. At least they chose a site that had long-term viability & didn't make fans feel like they were on an Arctic expedition like in Candlestick.
Dodger fans probably rioted after this win
No , they had a World Series to play in first
strange I don't see overweight, drunk, belligerent fans acting like absolute fools 🤔
I honestly never knew baseball was played at the coliseum.
Yes it was, the Dodgers needed a place to play after moving from Brooklyn in 1958 while a new ballpark was being built