4th grade. We'd run home from school fast as we could to catch the last couple of innings. My friend from Wisconsin and I were the only Braves fans in the whole South Carolina city. The following year the Braves came through town for a Spring exhibition and we got the autographs of Spahn, Burdette, Hank Aaron and the crusty old manager. Joy. I am overjoyed to see this posted. THANKS!!!
I love these old films of the greats of baseball. Thanks for posting these priceless memories. I've always been a Yankee fan, even when most seem to hate them.
My 2 favorite teams are the Reds and whoever is playing the Yankees. ;-) But I love the history of the game, and love being able to watch these old games/highlights, even of those amazing Yankee teams. Great players are great to watch, even if they do sometimes wear pinstripes. My dad was a lifelong Bombers fan, so I was always happy for him when the Yankees won.
Warren Spahn pitched 10 innings, in game 1, 9 innings in game 4, and then 9 2/3 innings in game 6 with only two days rest. We'll never again see that from a pitcher.
Pitchers nowadays have the ability to go the distance. If these relievers are that good get them in the starting rotation. Jacob Degrom recently pitched a no hitter probably out for the season
In 1969 I was in 10th grade in Pompton Lakes HS~NJ. I was a Hugh Mets fan. During an afternoon W S game vs Balt-I sat in Geometry class with a transsitor radio+a plug in the ear...I did Not get caught!
Some rightly point out Hank Bauer, USMC and Yankees great. Hats off. But I had the extreme honor to meet Warren Spahn at the HOF in 1974. Look up his WWII record if you haven't. The man was a hero before he became famous. Big time. I didn't know that when I met him. What a modest, unassuming guy...and an all time great on the baseball field and the battlefield.
The two great plays made by Elston Howard in the outfield must seem strange to those who only know him as a great catcher. Not so strange when you consider that the Yankees signed him in 1950 as an outfielder. After two years of military service, Howard spent two years in the minors, learning to be a catcher, a position he had never played before. And he became a superlative catcher. When Berra could no longer take the pounding behind the plate, Elston Howard became the regular catcher and Yogi went to the outfield.
My parents attended games 6 and 7 anticipating a Braves championship. Said 'you wouldn't believe how quiet 50,000 people could be' when they returned home.
I know the feeling well. As a Sixers fan I was in the first row of the second deck at Philly's old Spectrum watching Magic Johnson & Jamal Wilkes demolish my team while an injured Jabbar sat the game out in 1980. Also as a Milwaukee Braves fan back when I watched the '58 series and was bummed out by that...then there's the Phillies and 1964, 'nuff said on this.
I’m 81 years old but I remember this time in history well Baseball was king of all sports then I was a Yank fan from Georgia and some of my friends were Brave fans. What a great time to be an American
Mike Dunn Spahn was one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Incredibly, he did not win his first major league game until he was already 25 years old!
+Mike Dunn-Yes, your correct that 'Spahnie' was one of the best lefties around MLB in the 50's. However, I will do you one better & say he was one of the best lefties EVER!!! At least that's what my Pops has told me & hell, he's alway's right. ; )
Lewis Albert Fonseca (January 21, 1899 - November 26, 1989) was an American first, second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox over a 12-year career. (Wikipedia)
My first game was an August 1963 doubleheader at Tiger stadium in Detroit I was 10 years old and they played the Kansas City Athletics Jim Bunning started game one in what would be his last season with the Tigers and Frank Lary who was coming back from an injury started game two. My biggest impression like many people say was coming through the upper deck tunnel to our seat and seeing the grass.
Coincidentally, my first game was in June of '73, Athletics hosting the Tigers. SI had a story on that very game a week later. I couldn't believe my luck.
Notice how the home run hitters just circled the bases with no chest thumping or finger wagging? Notice how the pitchers didn't cross themselves and point to the sky after a strike out? Notice how the Yankees just ran off the field after the final out in Game 7, with no extended mound pile on? Notice how Mantle just nonchalantly trotted back to the dugout after catching the final out in Game 7, with no jumping, victory dance or other gestures? Notice how all seven games were played under October sunshine between two teams that never played each other in the regular season because the two distinct leagues had no inter-league play, adding to the drama of the Series? I am so glad I came of age in this wonderful era, before free agency, the DH, inter-league play, over expansion, a ludicrously prolonged post season, all night post-season games and hotdogging on the field ruined a once great game.
It's still a great game that people get excited about. Let the players get excited about making a great play or having a great hit. I hate when I see comments like this, let people enjoy what they're doing.
@@unamused9802 I came of age when sportsmanlike conduct was expected of athletes and when they were not paid tens of millions of dollars for playing a kid's game six months a year. It's a generational thing. You wouldn't understand. It is no longer a great game, it is a grotesque big business. That's why general admission tickets that cost me $1.75 50 years ago now cost 30 or more times as much and why "box seats" that cost $3.50 now go for hundreds of dollars. The players in the 1957 World Series clearly enjoyed what they were doing, just playing the game with no on the field antics. I guess you love the hotdogging in basketball and football as well.
Thank you. I told some punks I would have stuck one in their ear if they ever did that and they had a shit fit and didn't understand why. MANNERS. They have no clue this younger generation.
@@len9518 The greatest LH of all-time and along with Walter Johnson one of the 2 pitchers who rank with the greatest players ever. They were both superb hitting pitchers and excellent fielders.
And he had loads of complete games! Starting pitchers were expected to go all nine innings. There was none of this middle and late reliever specialist crapola.
@@dennismiddlebrooks7027 Nowadays pitchers get yanked for a reliever once they reach 100 pitches, so complete games are gone, plus ➕ the 300 game winner.
I was at Game 4...got down to the bleacher ticket area at 6 AM...$2.00 got me a seat in the right field bleachers...long before the Bleacher Creaters! Pete Foley
Ryne Duren threw 100 mph and had absolutely no control at all. He wore coke bottle glasses and was a heavy drinker. The batters did not dig in on him. They just hoped he didn't hit them in the head with a fastball.
clare howell Ha! I think he would throw the first pitch over the batters head just to keep them loose. Didn’t Yogi Berra once talk him down off a bridge?
the turning point of the 1958 world series: ELSTON HOWARD'S TREMENDOUS CATCH IN LEFT FIELD ON A shallow fly ball with the sun in his face!!!!!!! if he does not catch the ball their are runners on second and third with zero outs but his great catch plus the fact they got billy bruton out rounding back to first base made the scenario NO RUNNERS ON BASE PLUS 2 OUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,otherwise the braves would have swept the yankees!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,,,great defensive plays ALWAYS LEAD TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,the BEST example of great defense is the 1969 NEW YORK METS where instead of the mets winning in 5 games,the orioles would have won in 5 or 6 games !!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember seeing that game on TV, after school (daytime World Series---long gone, now). Howard was the Series MVP if I remember right. E.H was a GREAT Yankee!
The principal at my elementary school allowed the beginning of the games to be broadcast over the P.A.system. It was a huge deal. We'd then run home to watch the remainder. We were all afraid of Lew Burdette because of the previous series.
1958 marked the fourth consecutive year the World Series went the full seven games, the only time that's ever happened, and all four times, the VISITING team won the seventh game. The Brooklyn Dodgers won Game 7 of the 1955 World Series at Yankee Stadium, with the Yankees returning the favor in '56. In 1957, the Milwaukee Braves won the seventh game in Yankee Stadium, and again, the Yankees turned the table the following year. And the seventh game in 1958 ended up being the only time in those Game 7s that the home team wasn't shut out (2-0 in '55, 9-0 in '56, and 5-0 in '57). In fact, more often than not through the 1970s, when the World Series went the full seven games (other than the three World Series that saw 8 games played), the visiting team won the decider. But after the 1979 World Series, which saw the Pirates win Game 7 in Baltimore, 35 years would pass before another visiting team would win another Game 7.
+cjs83172 Great history, especially about the game 7 shut outs. Amazing also that during the '50's, the Big Apple claimed 8 of the 10 WS championships, with the Yanks winning 6 and Giants and (Brooklyn) Dodgers 1 each.
That's not as surprising as you might think it would be, especially considering how dominant the Yankees teams always were. For the Yankees, the regular season was simply a 154-game warm-up for the World Series because none of the other AL teams could compete with them on a consistent basis. The odd thing was that the strongest Yankee team of that era was one that failed to even make it to the World Series. I know this is hindsight, but had there been a best-of-five LCS between the teams in each league with the two best records, there's a chance that the wealth might have been spread out more, in terms of World Series appearances. Another factor in the dominance of the New York teams was the collapse of both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, as neither were particularly competitive throughout a good portion of the 1950s, something that opened the door for the Dodgers and Giants to reign supreme in the NL until the Milwaukee Braves snuck in to win back-to-back NL pennants in 1957 and '58, winning the World Series in '57. Of course, the pending cross-country move of both the Dodgers and Giants at the same time also benefited the Braves. And of course, it could also be said that the dominance of the 50s-era New York teams continued all the way through 1966, considering that the Dodgers won four NL pennants and three World Series titles and the Giants got to the 1962 World Series, all in the first eight years they were in California. Every World Series played from 1949-'66 had the Dodgers, Giants, and/or Yankees in it. Every single one for 18 years! And most of those World Series had the Yankees AND the Giants or Dodgers in it, all the way through 1963.
I'm not sure it had nothing to do with money. Certainly, money was not as big a factor as it would become as soon as the late 70s, but money was a smaller factor, because that's how the big teams, such as the Yankees, Dodgers, and later the Baltimore Orioles were able to keep their minor league structures as stable as they were for as long as they were that stable. The teams simply put a lot more money into the minor leagues back then. Teams like the Senators, Athletics (when they were in Kansas City), Phillies, and Reds simply could not afford to keep their top prospects, and so they would trade them to teams like the Yankees and Dodgers for big name players to keep fan interest in the team going. Money was still important, but the teams distributed it in a different fashion than they have over the last 25-30 years. The interesting thing is that the most of the greatest teams over the last 40 years were built the same way the teams of the 50s and 60s were, and that is from within. The great Orioles, A's, and Reds teams in the 70s were built from within, as were the 1984 Detroit Tigers, and even the great Yankees teams that dominated the late 90s and early 2000s were also built from within. Their edge began to dull when they brought in high-priced free agents in 2003-'04. And the Kansas City Royals team that nearly won the last two World Series was another great team built from within. There's a lesson to be learned here.
cjs83172 that is pretty weird. Wonder why the Braves went back to Spahn on only 2 days rest in game 6....They could have gave him another day of rest and pitched him in game 7.
Food for thought while viewing this historical site. The 3 lowest career ERA's by 300 game winners who pitched entirely during the live ball era belong to Seaver (2.86), Grove (3.06) & Spahn (3.09). Spahn is the only one who pitched the vast majority of his career after intergration & before expansion. Grove pitched entirely before intergration (1947) & Seaver pitched entirely after expansion (1961).
@@kevinmiller6380 looking the 1958 Yankees world series roster...Bobby Richardson Tony Kubek and Zack Moore are still alive...From the Braves world series roster Felix Mantilla is still with us.
This Braves team is one of the great ones of all-time. Came within 3 games of winning 4 straight NL titles and had 3 all-time greats (Spahn-LHP, Mathews-3B, Aaron-RF) in their prime. All 3 in the all-time top 5 at their positions. Spahn (won 20 in 13 seasons) who is the winningest LH in MLB history is the only pitcher in the last 100 years to go more than 9 innings in 3 WS games.
Don't forget that Burdette and Crandall also were legit stars at the time. If not for manager Fred Haney, the Braves probably win three World Series in five years.
@@RayManzarekRocks Burdette is equal to half the MLB pichers in the HOF & Crandall half the MLB catchers in the HOF. Haney was below average among MLB managers who may not be able to make winners out of teams but they can certainly hurt the chances of winning. His use of Spahn in the '58 WS & '59 play-off cost the team a much better chance to win both. He should have saved Spahn for game 7 in '58 & started him in game 2 of the play-off. With the AL being clearly inferior to the NL at that time, the White Sox would have been no match for this Braves team. Putting Mathews back to hitting 3rd in the lineup for the post season would have been better too.
@@nobodyaskedbut I would have moved Bruton to the top of the order, Aaron to the third spot and started Adcock at first base in the No. 5 hole. So it would have been Bruton, Schoendienst, Aaron, Mathews, Adcock, Covington, Crandall -- left, switch, right, left, right, left, right. Bruton had a very good series offensively (.545 OBP), while Aaron hit .464 in eight games in the third spot that season. Adcock was grossly underutilized as a platoon player. Seems that Haney had a thing for Torre, who should have been a late-game defensive replacement/pinch-hitter who started twice a week at most.
@@nobodyaskedbut I can't argue against the decision to start Burdette on three days' rest rather than Spahn on two days' rest in Game 2 of the 1959 playoffs. But why the hell was Spahn lifted for Joey Jay in the ninth inning of a tie game with runners at first and second and the pennant on the line? The Dodgers lit up Jay in a big win at the same site only two weeks earlier. At that late stage, you win or lose with your best pitcher, but Spahn faced only two batters that game.
Braves manager Fred Haney blew the series, pure and simple. His decision to start Spahn and Burdette each on two days' rest in Games 6 and 7 with a 3-2 lead in the series was among the worst gag jobs in World Series history. Start Bob Rush (who had a 1.81 ERA in the final two months of the regular season and pitched well in Game 3) and Spahn on normal rest in Games 6 and 7 (if necessary), use Burdette out of the bullpen and the Braves probably repeat. Basically, Mr. Haney tried to win a best-of-seven series with 2 1/2 pitchers -- Spahn, Burdette and reliever Don McMahon. The three combined to pitch 54 1/3 of the 63 innings, for crysakes.
@@mikeforte7585 What the '57 Braves pulled off was highly unusual. Wasn't about to happen against a quality team two years in a row. Haney tempted Fate, and it bit him in the ass. He was fired one season later.
The end of an odd four year stretch where each WS went seven games, and the road team won the seventh game each year: 55, Dodgers at Yankee Stadium, 56, Yankees at Ebbets Field, 57, Braves at Yankee Stadium, 58, Yankees at County Stadium.
The comment here that Spahn was one of the best LHPs of the 50s is the under-statement of the century. He was at least top 2 (he is only rivaled by Grove) all-time among LHP and has the most wins, IP & 20-win seasons of all LHP in MLB history.
The Braves got a new stadium in 1953, made tons of money and by 1964 they wanted to go to Atlanta and in 66 they did. What the hell happened in such a short time?
The arrival of the Twins in Minnesota in 1961 , attendance started falling with the 1958 season and kept going down from there, new owners bought the team in 1962 who were looking to move to team almost immediately
The trading of Antonelli in 1954 was the most signifcant player move by any MLB team during the 50s and alters MLB history. If the GM Quinn doesn't make that trade, the starting rotation of Spahn, Burdette, Antonelli & Buhl alone propels this team to win at least 5 pennants & 3 WS between 1954 & '60 no matter who the Mgr. is.
Antonelli was from my home town. A friend of mine married his niece. According to my friend he could still throw 80 mph when he was 70 years old! The Braves of the late 1950s were one of the best small market MLB teams of all time.
The Braves had the reputation of having too much fun off the field and perhaps enjoying too much of Milwaukee’s most famous product, which may be why they underachieved.
Bauer wound up hitting in 17 straight World Series games. Roberto Clemente reached 14... every game he appeared in. Tragically, he never got a chance to extend it.
In my opinion if the Yankees never traded Billy Martin in previous year ...they probably would have beaten the Braves in 57...Martin was a clutch player and played well in previous WSs..
The Yankees traded Billy Martin because the GM George Weiss hated him, there was the brawl at the Copacabana ( the hottest spot north of Havana) the GM thought he was an instigator, so at the deadline he was sent to KC A's
That's one of the things I enjoy about watching these old highlight reels -- how well dressed everyone was. Even into the 1980s, while people were no longer wearing suits to the games, it was still a small minority who were wearing jerseys in the crowd.
@@royrowland5763 Back in the old days, people didn't have tattoos or body piercings. Now you've got both men and women wearing jeans 👖 with holes ripped in them, plus men wearing shorts in cold weather.
EDDIE MATHEWS!! IN FACT, WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO MILWAUKEE, THE FANS COULD NOT PRONOUNCE HIS NAME AND CALLED HIS NAME "EDDIE MATTRESS"! WHEN THE NEWS BROKE OF THEIR DEPARTURE, SIGNS WENT UP THAT SAID. "TAKE THE TEAM, BUT LEAVE US EDDIE MATTRESS!"
This Braves team was the dominant team during the era of the finest major league in baseball history. That was the post-intergration & pre-expansion NL of 1954 to 1961. The Braves won 2 pennants, lost a play-off for a 3rd straight & finished worst than 2nd only twice during this stretch. Five different NL teams won pennants & 4 different NL teams won 5 of the 8 WS. The AL was, of course, dominated by the Yankees who won all but 2 of the pennants during this 8 year period. The AL was also far behind the NL in intergration with the Red Sox being the last team to play a black player in 1959.
In my opinion if the Yankees never traded Billy Martin in 1957 they wood have beaten the Braves. in 1958 the Yankees came to life when they got tired of Burette verbally abusing them on top of throwing spitters...Lew admitted to it years later but it was well known at the time..
Remember that! First bruise on my head! On my dads lap. Run scored and my dad jumped up and I went head first toward the floor ! Dad gave me a little whiskey, ice pack and said I was good to go for another inning
Your Dad would probably be charged with child abuse and serving alcohol to a minor if any busybody outside your family found out. It appears you survived just fine.
The only time you will see daylight in the World Series today is if the game is on the west coast and even that is for a couple of innings before sunset.
I noticed all those bitter Brooklyn Dodger fans (their team had just moved) at Yankee Stadium applauding the Braves. Boo on them. Little known story: Mantle got a fair number of boos from fans in the period between Dodger/Giants move and birth of the Mets. Some National League fans went to the stadium until they had a team to root for. Mantle as the blond Midwest type got booed. Yogi, the Midwest (St. Louis) "ethnic" was not booed. Yup, New York tribalism.
Frank Torre's brother Joe would 40 years later manage a Yankees mini-dynasty. And four months later the Braves' NFL sometime co-tenants would hire from the New York Giants Vince Lombardi to be their new head coach.
Agreed. Braves should've st-ayed in Boston. Lots of tea- ms have lousy seasons & fl agging attendance but you don't see them moving. The '52 Pirates had a worse sea son than the Braves but the u're still in Pittsburgh.
Milwaukee screwed up their pitching by starting _Lew Burdette_ in game five. You can tell that he and _Warren Spahn_ just ran out of gas at the end of the series. Great teams like the _Dynasty Yankees_ eat managerial mistakes like that up.
doesn't matter. great teams don't 'screw up' their pitching...they find a way.....not a one and done team like milwaukee....they are/were insignificant.....
Burdettes' turn was in Game 5 on his regular 3 day rest. Actually Haney rolled the dice by starting Spahn in Game 6 on short rest when he could have held him for Game 7 on regular 3 day rest. He wanted to use both his aces, Spahn & Burdette, but they were both on short rest and both got beat.
looking at the yankees bat rack at the 16:50 mark how much do you think those game used bats are worth in today's GAME USED memorabilia auctions market??????????????.........i would say at least $15,000.00 dollars !!!!!!!!!!!!
from Wikipedia: LewFonseca worked on World Series highlight films from their inception in 1943 through 1969, as an editor and director, and narrated the World Series films from 1949-'53 and 1955-'58 (Jack Brickhouse narrated the 1954 World Series film.) Television sportscaster Bob Costas wrote of Fonseca's narration: "[his] vocal stylings were somewhat less than mellifluous, but still endlessly entertaining." Fonseca was batting coach for the Chicago Cubs for many years, until quite late in life. "me"Lew Fonseca,(the announcer) a major league infielder for the Indians, White Sox and other teams. He led the AL in batting in 1929.
4th grade. We'd run home from school fast as we could to catch the last couple of innings. My friend from Wisconsin and I were the only Braves fans in the whole South Carolina city. The following year the Braves came through town for a Spring exhibition and we got the autographs of Spahn, Burdette, Hank Aaron and the crusty old manager. Joy. I am overjoyed to see this posted. THANKS!!!
I love these old films of the greats of baseball. Thanks for posting these priceless memories. I've always been a Yankee fan, even when most seem to hate them.
My 2 favorite teams are the Reds and whoever is playing the Yankees. ;-) But I love the history of the game, and love being able to watch these old games/highlights, even of those amazing Yankee teams. Great players are great to watch, even if they do sometimes wear pinstripes. My dad was a lifelong Bombers fan, so I was always happy for him when the Yankees won.
A longtime Orioles fan, I have come to like the Yankees if for no other reason they seem to be the only team left whose players are clean cut.
I met Warren Spahn at Cooperstown, the day Mickey, Whitey and Cool Papa Bell were inducted. What a great guy. What a great day!
Awesome!!
Warren Spahn pitched 10 innings, in game 1, 9 innings in game 4, and then 9 2/3 innings in game 6 with only two days rest. We'll never again see that from a pitcher.
Not with the way pitchers are treated likes babies for the past decade and a half! 😒😒😒😒😒
363 game winner , more than any lefty in history
Only Koufax came close, 1965
Pitchers nowadays have the ability to go the distance. If these relievers are that good get them in the starting rotation. Jacob Degrom recently pitched a no hitter probably out for the season
@@dariowiter3078 Yep.
Mantle, Berra, Aaron, Mathews, Spahn, Ford. Not just HOFers... Top shelf guys. Wow!
can you imagine watching these games?
There great to watch
Yogi Berra most underappreciated player ever. Never struck out 40 times in a season. Contact power hitter.
Ford vs Spahn, doesn't get much better than that!
One thing we will never see again: Daytime World Series on a weekday.
So true, my friend
On any day.
In 1969 I was in 10th grade in Pompton Lakes HS~NJ. I was a Hugh Mets fan. During an afternoon W S game vs Balt-I sat in Geometry class with a transsitor radio+a plug in the ear...I did Not get caught!
Good to see the game played in daylight on a grass field, the way nature intended.
That must have sucked though. People had work and school.
Some rightly point out Hank Bauer, USMC and Yankees great. Hats off. But I had the extreme honor to meet Warren Spahn at the HOF in 1974. Look up his WWII record if you haven't. The man was a hero before he became famous. Big time. I didn't know that when I met him. What a modest, unassuming guy...and an all time great on the baseball field and the battlefield.
Spahn was a hero of mine. I would imitate his high leg kick.
It was such a special occasion then, the Series. Baseball is a game meant to be played during the day.
Ýou dòn,t hear à ĺot òf people taĺk about Lew Burdette or Hank Bauer. Or the great Eddie Matthews of the Milwaukee Braves. You know it.
It's because of TV..bigger ratings mean bigger money..
And be played by grown men, again
"Hitting is all about timing. Pitching is about upsetting that timing." Warren Spahn.
Wonderful that these are available and this is much appreciated. God bless everyone from Patrick
TH-cam is our time machine for baseball classics. Without YT, we would not be back in time.
The two great plays made by Elston Howard in the outfield must seem strange to those who only know him as a great catcher. Not so strange when you consider that the Yankees signed him in 1950 as an outfielder. After two years of military service, Howard spent two years in the minors, learning to be a catcher, a position he had never played before. And he became a superlative catcher. When Berra could no longer take the pounding behind the plate, Elston Howard became the regular catcher and Yogi went to the outfield.
My first major league game was Warren Spahn vs Robin Roberts at Colt 45 stadium
Ur a lucky man
Two great pitchers. I bet it was a close game.
Two great pitchers at the tail end of their careers. Must have been 1965, Spahn’s last year in the majors.
Joe Morgan and Rusty Staub came from the Colt .45s. ( Gotta put the decimal in front of the "45" to be legit!!)
Cool
Yankees showed a lot of intestinal fortitude to come back and win this series after losing in 7 in 1957.
Hank Bauer the Marine, right after the Marine color guard. Perfect.
My parents attended games 6 and 7 anticipating a Braves championship. Said 'you wouldn't believe how quiet 50,000 people could be' when they returned home.
I know the feeling well. As a Sixers fan I was in the first row of the second deck at Philly's old Spectrum watching Magic Johnson & Jamal Wilkes demolish my team while an injured Jabbar sat the game out in 1980. Also as a Milwaukee Braves fan back when I watched the '58 series and was bummed out by that...then there's the Phillies and 1964, 'nuff said on this.
I’m 81 years old but I remember this time in history well Baseball was king of all sports then I was a Yank fan from Georgia and some of my friends were Brave fans. What a great time to be an American
Great footage. Thank you. I remember the 57 and 58 series very well. I was 13 years old in 58 living and going to school in the Bronx.
lm 76 now l remember this world series back when everything was good clean fun,,l would like to go back in time and stay there.
Warren Spahn...................... one of the best left handers of the fifties.
Mike Dunn Spahn was one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Incredibly, he did not win his first major league game until he was already 25 years old!
+Mike Dunn-Yes, your correct that 'Spahnie' was one of the best lefties around MLB in the 50's. However, I will do you one better & say he was one of the best lefties EVER!!! At least that's what my Pops has told me & hell, he's alway's right. ; )
+Mike Dunn of all time
he was also the most fleet-footed 30yo on the basepaths, and loved to run against opposing pitchers, blowing their concentration!
the hall describes him as 'arguably the best' of all time.
Lewis Albert Fonseca (January 21, 1899 - November 26, 1989) was an American first, second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox over a 12-year career. (Wikipedia)
The music at the beginning really gets me psyched!!!
The narrator is Lew Fonseca. He played and managed in the 20’s and 30’s. After retiring he did a lot of work in using film to promote baseball.
Thanks for posting this. Everything was so different back then.
My first game was an August 1963 doubleheader at Tiger stadium in Detroit I was 10 years old and they played the Kansas City Athletics Jim Bunning started game one in what would be his last season with the Tigers and Frank Lary who was coming back from an injury started game two. My biggest impression like many people say was coming through the upper deck tunnel to our seat and seeing the grass.
Coincidentally, my first game was in June of '73, Athletics hosting the Tigers. SI had a story on that very game a week later. I couldn't believe my luck.
This is spectacular!
Notice how the home run hitters just circled the bases with no chest thumping or finger wagging? Notice how the pitchers didn't cross themselves and point to the sky after a strike out? Notice how the Yankees just ran off the field after the final out in Game 7, with no extended mound pile on? Notice how Mantle just nonchalantly trotted back to the dugout after catching the final out in Game 7, with no jumping, victory dance or other gestures? Notice how all seven games were played under October sunshine between two teams that never played each other in the regular season because the two distinct leagues had no inter-league play, adding to the drama of the Series? I am so glad I came of age in this wonderful era, before free agency, the DH, inter-league play, over expansion, a ludicrously prolonged post season, all night post-season games and hotdogging on the field ruined a once great game.
It's still a great game that people get excited about. Let the players get excited about making a great play or having a great hit. I hate when I see comments like this, let people enjoy what they're doing.
@@unamused9802 I came of age when sportsmanlike conduct was expected of athletes and when they were not paid tens of millions of dollars for playing a kid's game six months a year. It's a generational thing. You wouldn't understand. It is no longer a great game, it is a grotesque big business. That's why general admission tickets that cost me $1.75 50 years ago now cost 30 or more times as much and why "box seats" that cost $3.50 now go for hundreds of dollars. The players in the 1957 World Series clearly enjoyed what they were doing, just playing the game with no on the field antics. I guess you love the hotdogging in basketball and football as well.
Thank you. I told some punks I would have stuck one in their ear if they ever did that and they had a shit fit and didn't understand why. MANNERS. They have no clue this younger generation.
@@unamused9802 FUCK OFF PUNK. MANNERS. UNWRITTEN RULES. GO AHEAD ACT LIKE THAT. I'm gonna PLUNK YOU NEXT TIME UP. GO AHEAD. Try it.... In the 60s.
@@dennismiddlebrooks7027 thank you
Spahn won 20 games 23 times, 369 wins, 63 shutouts, and 382 complete games. We will never see the likes of this again!!
My error on the 20 win game seasons...13
@@len9518 The greatest LH of all-time and along with Walter Johnson one of the 2 pitchers who rank with the greatest players ever. They were both superb hitting pitchers and excellent fielders.
And he had loads of complete games! Starting pitchers were expected to go all nine innings. There was none of this middle and late reliever specialist crapola.
@@dennismiddlebrooks7027 Nowadays pitchers get yanked for a reliever once they reach 100 pitches, so complete games are gone, plus ➕ the 300 game winner.
You can say that again sad too
I was at Game 4...got down to the bleacher ticket area at 6 AM...$2.00 got me a seat in the right field bleachers...long before the Bleacher Creaters!
Pete Foley
+peter foley $2 ? Geez. The sweet days of cheap living.
average salary in 1958 was $3700 a year though. it's all relative
I REMEMBER IN 1964 BOX SEATS 4 DOLLARS, CENTER FIELD BLEACHERS, 75 CENTS
I was also in the Bleacher line, but at 8 AM. It was cold, but when you’re 15 you can cope with anything!
@@XZOL445 Everything cost less in '58.
Ryne Duren threw 100 mph and had absolutely no control at all. He wore coke bottle glasses and was a heavy drinker. The batters did not dig in on him. They just hoped he didn't hit them in the head with a fastball.
I remember when he was warming up before an inning and nearly hit a batter in the on deck circle.
clare howell Ha! I think he would throw the first pitch over the batters head just to keep them loose. Didn’t Yogi Berra once talk him down off a bridge?
Yeah, that was part of the psychological part of the game. No one got suspended for hitting a batter and it was okay to pitch someone inside.
Thanks so much for posting.
Spahn won 20 or more games 13 times...last time he did it was agains the Mets in 1963 at the Polo Grounds, I was there !
the turning point of the 1958 world series: ELSTON HOWARD'S TREMENDOUS CATCH IN LEFT FIELD ON A shallow fly ball with the sun in his face!!!!!!! if he does not catch the ball their are runners on second and third with zero outs but his great catch plus the fact they got billy bruton out rounding back to first base made the scenario NO RUNNERS ON BASE PLUS 2 OUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,otherwise the braves would have swept the yankees!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,,,great defensive plays ALWAYS LEAD TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,the BEST example of great defense is the 1969 NEW YORK METS where instead of the mets winning in 5 games,the orioles would have won in 5 or 6 games !!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember seeing that game on TV, after school (daytime World Series---long gone, now). Howard was the Series MVP if I remember right. E.H was a GREAT Yankee!
you MUST have been a pitcher when you played baseball either in high school or little league!!!! great fielding saves runs!!
@@nedflynn6039 yes,i loved pitching!
The principal at my elementary school allowed the beginning of the games to be broadcast over the P.A.system. It was a huge deal. We'd then run home to watch the remainder. We were all afraid of Lew Burdette because of the previous series.
1958 marked the fourth consecutive year the World Series went the full seven games, the only time that's ever happened, and all four times, the VISITING team won the seventh game. The Brooklyn Dodgers won Game 7 of the 1955 World Series at Yankee Stadium, with the Yankees returning the favor in '56. In 1957, the Milwaukee Braves won the seventh game in Yankee Stadium, and again, the Yankees turned the table the following year. And the seventh game in 1958 ended up being the only time in those Game 7s that the home team wasn't shut out (2-0 in '55, 9-0 in '56, and 5-0 in '57).
In fact, more often than not through the 1970s, when the World Series went the full seven games (other than the three World Series that saw 8 games played), the visiting team won the decider. But after the 1979 World Series, which saw the Pirates win Game 7 in Baltimore, 35 years would pass before another visiting team would win another Game 7.
+cjs83172 Great history, especially about the game 7 shut outs. Amazing also that during the '50's, the Big Apple claimed 8 of the 10 WS championships, with the Yanks winning 6 and Giants and (Brooklyn) Dodgers 1 each.
That's not as surprising as you might think it would be, especially considering how dominant the Yankees teams always were. For the Yankees, the regular season was simply a 154-game warm-up for the World Series because none of the other AL teams could compete with them on a consistent basis. The odd thing was that the strongest Yankee team of that era was one that failed to even make it to the World Series.
I know this is hindsight, but had there been a best-of-five LCS between the teams in each league with the two best records, there's a chance that the wealth might have been spread out more, in terms of World Series appearances. Another factor in the dominance of the New York teams was the collapse of both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, as neither were particularly competitive throughout a good portion of the 1950s, something that opened the door for the Dodgers and Giants to reign supreme in the NL until the Milwaukee Braves snuck in to win back-to-back NL pennants in 1957 and '58, winning the World Series in '57. Of course, the pending cross-country move of both the Dodgers and Giants at the same time also benefited the Braves.
And of course, it could also be said that the dominance of the 50s-era New York teams continued all the way through 1966, considering that the Dodgers won four NL pennants and three World Series titles and the Giants got to the 1962 World Series, all in the first eight years they were in California. Every World Series played from 1949-'66 had the Dodgers, Giants, and/or Yankees in it. Every single one for 18 years! And most of those World Series had the Yankees AND the Giants or Dodgers in it, all the way through 1963.
The Yankee$ won because they had a payroll that was two to three times larger than the next highest team in an otherwise pathetic league.
I'm not sure it had nothing to do with money. Certainly, money was not as big a factor as it would become as soon as the late 70s, but money was a smaller factor, because that's how the big teams, such as the Yankees, Dodgers, and later the Baltimore Orioles were able to keep their minor league structures as stable as they were for as long as they were that stable. The teams simply put a lot more money into the minor leagues back then. Teams like the Senators, Athletics (when they were in Kansas City), Phillies, and Reds simply could not afford to keep their top prospects, and so they would trade them to teams like the Yankees and Dodgers for big name players to keep fan interest in the team going. Money was still important, but the teams distributed it in a different fashion than they have over the last 25-30 years.
The interesting thing is that the most of the greatest teams over the last 40 years were built the same way the teams of the 50s and 60s were, and that is from within. The great Orioles, A's, and Reds teams in the 70s were built from within, as were the 1984 Detroit Tigers, and even the great Yankees teams that dominated the late 90s and early 2000s were also built from within. Their edge began to dull when they brought in high-priced free agents in 2003-'04. And the Kansas City Royals team that nearly won the last two World Series was another great team built from within. There's a lesson to be learned here.
cjs83172 that is pretty weird. Wonder why the Braves went back to Spahn on only 2 days rest in game 6....They could have gave him another day of rest and pitched him in game 7.
Bauer and Skowron were under rated.
Hank Bauer was everywhere.
That hard-nosed Marine was a helluva Yankee.
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And a helluva Marine.
Also at the Copacabana in 1957 along with Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle punching out people
I love the narrator - he's a cross between Humphrey Bogart and Abe Vigoda!
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
I lived to see Mantle play many of times on nice sunny days!! Yep on u tube!
Food for thought while viewing this historical site. The 3 lowest career ERA's by 300 game winners who pitched entirely during the live ball era belong to Seaver (2.86), Grove (3.06) & Spahn (3.09). Spahn is the only one who pitched the vast majority of his career after intergration & before expansion. Grove pitched entirely before intergration (1947) & Seaver pitched entirely after expansion (1961).
Other than Whitey Ford and Hank Aaron, there are not many players from this World Series that are still alive today (2019).
Update: Other than Whitey Ford and Hank Aaron, there are not many players from this World Series that are still alive today (2020).
@@mikevanriel7573 - update. Whitey Ford is dead as is Hank Aaron. 1/2021.
@@MyVeryHappyDay and Hank just passed on..
@@mikeforte7585 So there's nobody alive on either side.
@@kevinmiller6380 looking the 1958 Yankees world series roster...Bobby Richardson Tony Kubek and Zack Moore are still alive...From the Braves world series roster Felix Mantilla is still with us.
This Braves team is one of the great ones of all-time. Came within 3 games of winning 4 straight NL titles and had 3 all-time greats (Spahn-LHP, Mathews-3B, Aaron-RF) in their prime. All 3 in the all-time top 5 at their positions. Spahn (won 20 in 13 seasons) who is the winningest LH in MLB history is the only pitcher in the last 100 years to go more than 9 innings in 3 WS games.
nobodyaskedbut Koufax, Carlton...but no ohevelse....
Don't forget that Burdette and Crandall also were legit stars at the time. If not for manager Fred Haney, the Braves probably win three World Series in five years.
@@RayManzarekRocks Burdette is equal to half the MLB pichers in the HOF & Crandall half the MLB catchers in the HOF. Haney was below average among MLB managers who may not be able to make winners out of teams but they can certainly hurt the chances of winning. His use of Spahn in the '58 WS & '59 play-off cost the team a much better chance to win both. He should have saved Spahn for game 7 in '58 & started him in game 2 of the play-off. With the AL being clearly inferior to the NL at that time, the White Sox would have been no match for this Braves team. Putting Mathews back to hitting 3rd in the lineup for the post season would have been better too.
@@nobodyaskedbut I would have moved Bruton to the top of the order, Aaron to the third spot and started Adcock at first base in the No. 5 hole. So it would have been Bruton, Schoendienst, Aaron, Mathews, Adcock, Covington, Crandall -- left, switch, right, left, right, left, right. Bruton had a very good series offensively (.545 OBP), while Aaron hit .464 in eight games in the third spot that season. Adcock was grossly underutilized as a platoon player. Seems that Haney had a thing for Torre, who should have been a late-game defensive replacement/pinch-hitter who started twice a week at most.
@@nobodyaskedbut I can't argue against the decision to start Burdette on three days' rest rather than Spahn on two days' rest in Game 2 of the 1959 playoffs. But why the hell was Spahn lifted for Joey Jay in the ninth inning of a tie game with runners at first and second and the pennant on the line? The Dodgers lit up Jay in a big win at the same site only two weeks earlier. At that late stage, you win or lose with your best pitcher, but Spahn faced only two batters that game.
Braves manager Fred Haney blew the series, pure and simple. His decision to start Spahn and Burdette each on two days' rest in Games 6 and 7 with a 3-2 lead in the series was among the worst gag jobs in World Series history. Start Bob Rush (who had a 1.81 ERA in the final two months of the regular season and pitched well in Game 3) and Spahn on normal rest in Games 6 and 7 (if necessary), use Burdette out of the bullpen and the Braves probably repeat. Basically, Mr. Haney tried to win a best-of-seven series with 2 1/2 pitchers -- Spahn, Burdette and reliever Don McMahon. The three combined to pitch 54 1/3 of the 63 innings, for crysakes.
Burdette did win game 7 in 57 on 2 days rest ....
@@mikeforte7585 What the '57 Braves pulled off was highly unusual. Wasn't about to happen against a quality team two years in a row. Haney tempted Fate, and it bit him in the ass. He was fired one season later.
I never realized this and now I'm pissed at Haney for ruining my all time favorite team's chance at a 2nd title.
@@mikeforte7585 Yes, but you can't tempt fate. Because fate just might bite you in the ass.
@@toddparke8535 Braves came thisclose to four consecutive National League pennants (1956-59). In that case, they might still be in Milwaukee today.
The Los Angeles Dodgers coming back from 3-1 down to beat the Atlanta Braves in the 2020 NLCS brought me here.
What a great time in a America.
Happy Days
Mantle timed scoring from third on sacrifice fly by Berra ... 3.2 seconds!
The end of an odd four year stretch where each WS went seven games, and the road team won the seventh game each year: 55, Dodgers at Yankee Stadium, 56, Yankees at Ebbets Field, 57, Braves at Yankee Stadium, 58, Yankees at County Stadium.
Best uniforms in the history of baseball ( Braves)
The comment here that Spahn was one of the best LHPs of the 50s is the under-statement of the century. He was at least top 2 (he is only rivaled by Grove) all-time among LHP and has the most wins, IP & 20-win seasons of all LHP in MLB history.
The Braves got a new stadium in 1953, made tons of money and by 1964 they wanted to go to Atlanta and in 66 they did. What the hell happened in such a short time?
The arrival of the Twins in Minnesota in 1961 , attendance started falling with the 1958 season and kept going down from there, new owners bought the team in 1962 who were looking to move to team almost immediately
Great summary. Historical footage. Hank Aaron.
The trading of Antonelli in 1954 was the most signifcant player move by any MLB team during the 50s and alters MLB history. If the GM Quinn doesn't make that trade, the starting rotation of Spahn, Burdette, Antonelli & Buhl alone propels this team to win at least 5 pennants & 3 WS between 1954 & '60 no matter who the Mgr. is.
Antonelli was from my home town. A friend of mine married his niece. According to my friend he could still throw 80 mph when he was 70 years old! The Braves of the late 1950s were one of the best small market MLB teams of all time.
The Braves had the reputation of having too much fun off the field and perhaps enjoying too much of Milwaukee’s most famous product, which may be why they underachieved.
Moose Skowron the big blow in game 7 that sealed it for the Yanks
Skowron played under the radar for much of his career. One of the few underrated Yankees players.
My first World Series, though at age 6 weeks, I was a bit young to be following it closely.
We can’t have live baseball now, but at least we can on video.
I believe 57 and 58 were two of the greatest series in history love the way my Yanks came back in 58 I remember it well, I was 13.
I was slightly younger. I was 41 days old on the day of game 1. I don't recall it. But then I was a Cardinals fan.
Bauer wound up hitting in 17 straight World Series games. Roberto Clemente reached 14... every game he appeared in. Tragically, he never got a chance to extend it.
Manager of the 1966 World Series Champion Baltimore Orioles
In my opinion if the Yankees never traded Billy Martin in previous year ...they probably would have beaten the Braves in 57...Martin was a clutch player and played well in previous WSs..
The Yankees traded Billy Martin because the GM George Weiss hated him, there was the brawl at the Copacabana ( the hottest spot north of Havana) the GM thought he was an instigator, so at the deadline he was sent to KC A's
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PEOPLE WEARING SUITS TO A BALLGAME, NOW THEY DON'T EVEN WEAR THEM TO CHURCH
That's one of the things I enjoy about watching these old highlight reels -- how well dressed everyone was. Even into the 1980s, while people were no longer wearing suits to the games, it was still a small minority who were wearing jerseys in the crowd.
How sad id that
Unless you're coming straight from work, wearing a suit to a ball game is MORONIC
@@royrowland5763 Back in the old days, people didn't have tattoos or body piercings. Now you've got both men and women wearing jeans 👖 with holes ripped in them, plus men wearing shorts in cold weather.
@Kevin Miller These days you can't even tell men from women
And the Braves move to Atlanta several years later.
After the 1965 season
I heard George Amberson over in Derry, Maine won a packet on this series from Chas Fratty.
Nobody knows what you're talkin about or cares.
Trivia question: What Braves player played for them in Boston, Milwaukee AND Atlanta?
Eddie Matthews!
Sports History Channel you got it Eddie finished his career playing in the 68 series for the Tigers.
EDDIE MATHEWS!! IN FACT, WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO MILWAUKEE, THE FANS COULD NOT PRONOUNCE HIS NAME AND CALLED HIS NAME "EDDIE MATTRESS"! WHEN THE NEWS BROKE OF THEIR DEPARTURE, SIGNS WENT UP THAT SAID. "TAKE THE TEAM, BUT LEAVE US EDDIE MATTRESS!"
@@gregtorrez6860 And he won a World Series with the Tigers before he retired
It's old news, I believe everyone who knows baseball already knows this
This Braves team was the dominant team during the era of the finest major league in baseball history. That was the post-intergration & pre-expansion NL of 1954 to 1961. The Braves won 2 pennants, lost a play-off for a 3rd straight & finished worst than 2nd only twice during this stretch. Five different NL teams won pennants & 4 different NL teams won 5 of the 8 WS. The AL was, of course, dominated by the Yankees who won all but 2 of the pennants during this 8 year period. The AL was also far behind the NL in intergration with the Red Sox being the last team to play a black player in 1959.
Classic series.
Note the Game 1 starting pitchers warming up in front of their respective dugouts…instead of in the bullpen. I’ve never see that before.
People with their cigarettes and cigars 😂😂😂
Had no idea that Spahn could hit so well
One of greatest hitting pitchers of all time and a little guy
@@lloydclaussen226 Not really little. Stood 6 feet even. Not a giant, but not small either.
Camera work back then makes my head spin. Just keep it behind the pitcher!
Lay off the maddog 20 20..
You'll feel better.
You have the privilege of watching the 1958 World Series and you complain about the camera work? What’s wrong with you?
One of them goood hittin' pitchers...
In my opinion if the Yankees never traded Billy Martin in 1957 they wood have beaten the Braves. in 1958 the Yankees came to life when they got tired of Burette verbally abusing them on top of throwing spitters...Lew admitted to it years later but it was well known at the time..
That's because of the Copacabana brawl the Yankees GM was looking for an excuse to get rid of Billy Martin even though he didn't even start the fight
Remember that! First bruise on my head! On my dads lap. Run scored and my dad jumped up and I went head first toward the floor ! Dad gave me a little whiskey, ice pack and said I was good to go for another inning
Your Dad would probably be charged with child abuse and serving alcohol to a minor if any busybody outside your family found out. It appears you survived just fine.
I meant to say if anyone found out about what you did today.
Back then no one would have cared. The good old days.
The only time you will see daylight in the World Series today is if the game is on the west coast and even that is for a couple of innings before sunset.
I was born the week after this series ended.
Braves let series slip away......they shuda won it again...
Yanks we're genetic superiors
Braves were great but the Yankees had more depth up and down the line-up.
@@jayritchie851 They were a very self-confident bunch. They never hurt themselves with errors or base running blunders.
Two words -- Fred and Haney.
And does it again in 1996.
I noticed all those bitter Brooklyn Dodger fans (their team had just moved) at Yankee Stadium applauding the Braves. Boo on them. Little known story: Mantle got a fair number of boos from fans in the period between Dodger/Giants move and birth of the Mets. Some National League fans went to the stadium until they had a team to root for.
Mantle as the blond Midwest type got booed. Yogi, the Midwest (St. Louis) "ethnic" was not booed. Yup, New York tribalism.
First World Series highlight film in color
Those were the days!,!,
Frank Torre's brother Joe would 40 years later manage a Yankees mini-dynasty. And four months later the Braves' NFL sometime co-tenants would hire from the New York Giants Vince Lombardi to be their new head coach.
There were 48 Stars in the American Flag back then because Alaska and Hawaii did not become States until 1959.
Jiltedin2007 has
Yup - The Great 48
First Alaska in January Hawaii in August
My grandfather tore his rotator in this series.
Braves should have stayed in Milwaukee
Braves should have stayed in Boston.
Rob soto yeah, that's fer sure! They shit all over their fans!!!!!!!! Anybody know why they left Milwaukee!!?!
Agreed. Braves should've st-ayed in Boston. Lots of tea- ms have lousy seasons & fl agging attendance but you don't see them moving. The '52 Pirates had a worse sea son than the Braves but the u're still in Pittsburgh.
Pilots should've stayed in Seattle.
The Browns should have stayed in St. Louis.
The days when people didn't leave the house in sweat pants and pajamas.
These were real and professional players not a bunch of theatrical self-centred actors
wow I sure wish baseball was played like that now I hate theatrics
These games look like they were edited so im guessing they weren't broadcasted live. Was they recorded live?
teamreckdjipod I listened to the 1958 WORLD SERIES on the radio!
teamreckdjipod I remember listening to the game on the radio and seeing the 1959 WORLD SERIES on TV!!!!!!!
I remember my grandfather watching this series on television.
Milwaukee screwed up their pitching by starting _Lew Burdette_ in game five. You can tell that he and _Warren Spahn_ just ran out of gas at the end of the series. Great teams like the _Dynasty Yankees_ eat managerial mistakes like that up.
doesn't matter. great teams don't 'screw up' their pitching...they find a way.....not a one and done team like milwaukee....they are/were insignificant.....
Burdettes' turn was in Game 5 on his regular 3 day rest. Actually Haney rolled the dice by starting Spahn in Game 6 on short rest when he could have held him for Game 7 on regular 3 day rest. He wanted to use both his aces, Spahn & Burdette, but they were both on short rest and both got beat.
In the 1960 World Series, Murtaugh beat The Ol' Professor like a rented mule. #Maz
@@RayManzarekRocks Ha Ha Murtaugh & Mario.
looking at the yankees bat rack at the 16:50 mark how much do you think those game used bats are worth in today's GAME USED memorabilia auctions market??????????????.........i would say at least $15,000.00 dollars !!!!!!!!!!!!
The announcer for the documentary sounds like Humphrey Bogart but he died the year before in 57
from Wikipedia: LewFonseca worked on World Series highlight films from their inception in 1943 through 1969, as an editor and director, and narrated the World Series films from 1949-'53 and 1955-'58 (Jack Brickhouse narrated the 1954 World Series film.) Television sportscaster Bob Costas wrote of Fonseca's narration: "[his] vocal stylings were somewhat less than mellifluous, but still endlessly entertaining." Fonseca was batting coach for the Chicago Cubs for many years, until quite late in life. "me"Lew Fonseca,(the announcer) a major league infielder for the Indians, White Sox and other teams. He led the AL in batting in 1929.
He also nearly sounds like Mel Allen too, I think.
Bogart was a big Dodger fan according to his website
Damn, I was pulling for the braves.
Yeah. But they’re champs now, and the Yankees have only won once since 2000.
Was this one of the first colored TV broadcasts? Most are black and white...
Wow! I had no idea that Eddie Mathews made zero impact in this series.
Young men in ties and now they are confused about bathrooms.
LOL - you nailed it, Brother - Great Comment!
@@dannyc1174 Leave 2023 out of the chat
Who was the narrator??
Lew Fonseca, former MLB player
Good times
Looks like Whitey Herzog at 6:14.
YO-gi 😄
I was born 5 years later 🌈. What a classic era here !
Bauer seems to always come through.