We Got A Bug on the Rug! We Need a Bloop and a Blast! There's a drive! Way way back..... You Can Kiss It Goodbye! We just missed that out by a Gnat's Eyelash! (On a big Strikeout.....) He Lit up the Lights on Broadway! And after Every Bucco Win......even a 3 run rally in the bottom of the Ninth..... " We Had ' em All The Way!" His sidekick Nellie King was all class.....but there was only one " The Gunner"!
@@michaelleroy9281 Top 5 WS ever #1-1975 #2-2001 #3- 1960 #4- 1926 #5- 1986 Though long ago 1926 WS was an all-time classic St.louis won its 1st Tittle over a NYY team feature Babe Ruth & lou Gehrig. Rogers Hornsby was a player/manager and The series went 7 games and remains the only WS to end with a player (Ruth) being tag out trying to steal a base. The NYY would win the following 2 WS 1927,1928 in sweeps. 13 HoF played in this series!
Was 14 and skipped school to watch the Pirates win the 7th.. game of the World Series. I was jumping up, and down as Maz hit the winning home run. My mother came running in, and thought something had happened to me.
I was five years old and don't remember it but heard about it growing up, but I do remember 1971 and 1979 last two times the Pirates won the world series.
I'll never forget this game. We were watching the game in school I was ten years old and I loved the Yankees more than life itself. Well it was time for school to let out and it was only three blocks to run home to watch the last inning. It was a tied game and I just got home in time to watch the bottom of the ninth inning. When all of the sudden Bill Maserosky hits the winning home run ! I ran out of the house yelling No no it can't be ! No no ! I was crushed my Yankee's have lost to Pittsburgh and I'll have to deal with this loss till next year ! It was devastating , heartbroken, Unbelievable who was this guy who broke my dreams ? I'm 74 now and can still remember exactly how I felt that day and laugh about it now because of a line in the movie A Bronx Tale " Do you really think that Micky Mantle cares about you ?". " No he doesn't" it kinda made me think about it and I'm sure that the Mick went out with Billy and Whitey and got drunk that night and really didn't give a shit about the loss .
Mickey may not have cared about you but he definitely cared about the loss! It was the only time Mickey cried after a World Series loss. He felt the Yankees were the better team and should have won. He was pissed that Stengel didn't start Whitey Ford for the first game. That way Whitey would've had 3 starts including the final 7th game.
The best time for baseball was the period of 1947 to 1969. My opinion is that was its best time. It was the national pastime and beloved. It mattered to people.
I was 7yrs old,in a hospital bed eating vanilla ice cream and drinking 7-up after a tonsillectomy when Mazeroski hit the home run..black n white hospital room tv mounted high ..marks my life
Of those Pirates that played in all 7 games, Maz lead the team in batting, hitting .320 (Clemente was second with a .310 batting average). But despite having a solid World Series and his Game 7 heroics, the MVP award went to Bobby Richardson of the Yankees. Only time a player from a losing team was named MVP.
As this and a few other videos on TH-cam successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
I know this is very late, but I only saw your comments today. I will briefly tell you my story. I grew up in Nashua, NH, but in 1961 my parents moved me to CA. For a summer I sat w/ my grandfather in LA, listening to Vin Scully call Dodger games, going to the Coliseum (Dodger Stadium was under construction), and learning to love baseball through my grandpa's eyes and ears. Then we moved to San Francisco, where for a year I was won over by Mays, McCovey & Marichal, and became a die-hard Giants fan. MY uncle took me to Candlestick almost weekly. I saw Spahn pitch against Marichal. The season ended with a 3 game playoff between the Giants & Dodgers. How lucky was I? Well - not so much. My parents abruptly moved me back to NH, where I kept up my love affair with the Giants. Every morning I woke up at 6am & turned on the radio to get the score of the Giants game the day before. Our local Red Sox were a sorry lot, but first we had Curt Gowdy (my all time favorite) doing the games, followed by Ken Coleman & Ned Martin, who called the Impossible Dream season in '67. I rarely missed a game. And to echo your love of the game back then, imagine doing this: it's August. The Sox are playing the Washington Senators at Fenway. There are maybe 5,000 fans in the stands. And I am sitting home, not only listening to every pitch on radio, but diligently scoring the game!!! (a completely lost art). Baseball was religion to me, like it was for my grandfather, so I leave you with this. In the 1940's the Dodgers had a Class D minor league team in Nashua, NH. My grandfather, who was a Boston Braves fan, began to secretly root for the Dodgers, because he got to see Campanella & Newcombe, amongst others, play in our tiny little Holman Stadium. Heaven forbid he should tell his buddies that he was into the Dodgers... Well, God shone down on him. In 1957 he moved to LA and got a tiny apartment on Venice Beach. Miraculously, the Dodgers moved to LA in 1958, and my grandfather was able to 'bleed Dodger Blue,' as the saying goes, for the rest of his days! That was baseball, in the 50's AND the 60's. Today's youth has no idea... And a final note - in any all-time matchup of the greatest players of either league, if I could choose my outfield, I wouldn't hesitate for a second: Aaron in Left, Mays in center, Clemente in right. Pick anyone you want, and I will take you on! Thanks for helping me to remember this stuff!
@garysaint-laurent6524 I'm glad I was able to inspire your memory. As for that outfield, it's a good one, and I'll go ahead and challenge you on that: Yastrzemski in left, Cedeno (He came up in 1970 but it's close enough to the 60s plus I'm an Astros guy) in center, F. Robinson in right
Fun fact...in the 1960 Series, writers had to have their MVP ballots in by the seventh inning stretch. With the Yanks ahead 7-4 at that time, the writers probably figured NY would win the series and that might have influenced their voting for Richardson. If the vote had been taken after the end of the game, who knows.
Dear Mister Euler, The reason why Bobby Richardson received the well-deserved Most Valuable Player award was because his exceptional record was in the winning games. He deserved it. But remember Mister Bill Mazeroski was the Most Valuable Player of the World Series for the original award. God Bless, Eric
@@johnnypastrana6727 You are correct it was the bigger blow. What happened to Shortstop Tony Kubek was a one in a zillion law of physics which is why Bill Virdon rightly got a base hit single. What contributed to the victory of the Pirates, BIG TIME, and is never observed nor spoken about, is that it was first baseman Bill Skowron who caused the Yankees to lose. Roberto Clemente hit a groundout that normally should be fielded by the pitcher, in this case Jim Coates, yet second basemen Bobby Richardson who covered more ground than any second baseman at the time, including Bill Mazeroski, was there on target like an angel appearing form heaven, But! Skowron left first base and ran over to the mound, therefore blocking Coates to advance to first base for the put out and Richardson having no one to throw to for the assist. Clemente was awarded a base hit single. Skowron did it! God Bless, Eric Galati
@@johnnypastrana6727watch replay of Hal s ab…he struck-out on a 3/4 check swing strike, ump didn’t call. Pirates had the karma…Yanks were the better team…Whitey Pitches Games 1 and 4 …we win Gm 7 easily. Plus Bob Turkey, gm 2 dominant pitcher…didn’t pitch again(injury?)
Vernon Law shutdown the Yankee lineup with two wins in games 1 and 4 and provided a quality start in the 7th game and was pulled with a lead...IMO he should have been the series MVP...he pitched his heart out on a bum ankle. That Pirate team was a team of destiny and everyone contributed...
A little bit lucky as well. No one knows why Stengel didn't start his best pitcher until game 3, instead of having him available for 1, 4 and 7 if needed. No one knows why he didn't bring in a warmed up Ford to pitch the ninth inning of game 7. And why he didn't shift Kubek to left field for defensive purposes for Berra and bring in DiMistri to short, as he usually did (and would have been at short for the bad hop, not that it would have mattered. And then there was the bad hop. The film doesn't show it, but Hal Smith swung and missed at strike three but the ump called it a check swing (at the time there was no appeal). Smith homered on the next pitch. The Yankees outhit the Pirates two to one, especially Richardson, and that's why he got the MVP. With all due respect to Law, Ford threw two shutouts. OK. With all that being said, even with the Pirates being blown out in three games, they showed a remarkable resiliency and played a game seven for the ages. Both teams did for game 7 and IMHO it was the greatest WS game ever. I'm a Yankees fan as you probably guessed, and this was my first WS. I think the Yankees had the better team but not the better manager and it was reflected in the results. And became part of baseball folk lore.
@@howie9751 This was my first World Series also...the at bat by Hal Smith was called a check swing...certain that your bias is showing there but I grant you it could have been called either way. It wasn't as clear cut as you describe it though. Others can watch it on the replay and judge it for themselves. Typical New Yorker tude... 🤣 The bad hop to Kubek was so game changing for that 8th inning Pirate rally where they scored 5 runs... just terrible luck. As far as the Yankees being the better team, the games that they did win were blowouts but as Gino Cimoli said afterwards: 'They broke all of the records but we won the game'. There are just a few points I'd like to make...the Pirates led the major leagues in team batting in 1960 .276 much better than the Yankees' team batting average .260. The Yankees had much more power of course but in runs scored that year it was very close 746 for the Yankees to 734 for the Pirates. Team ERA the Pirates team ERA was 3.49 compared to 3.52 for the Yankees in 1960... Vernon Law was a 20 game winner that year and tragically hurt his arm because of a prank played on him by Bob Prince...he was never the same after that Series where he compensated for his pranked bad ankle. In spite of being injured, he did have those two stellar wins and had the lead when he was relieved in the 7th game... Bobby Richardson had an epic performance at the plate that in retrospect, I concede that he deserved the MVP for the series. Why Stengel didn't start Ford in game 1, 4, and 7 might have been because the Pirates were considered not on par with the Yankees but the team stats tell a very different story but only if you are capable of being objective which you are probably not because you are a Yankee fan and perhaps a New Yorker? 🤩
@@johnnypastrana6727 I like to think of myself as objective and I grant you your Pirates points. However, it wasn't just me who thought that Smith struck out. Bob Costas had a reunion of Pirates and Yankees players from that series, showed the clip and no one argued that it wasn't a swing. (Are you sure it's not bias on your part?) The head of the bat almost faced the pitcher. At the time the series broke my heart, but today I see it as a great series for the sport. Same as when the Red Sox came back from three down in 2004 to beat the Yankees. More baseball folklore than if the Yankees had won.
@@johnnypastrana6727 Stengel told Ford he wanted to save him for the first home game. Made no sense. Stengel made two other mistakes. Kubek wasn't supposed to be at short when the bad hop came, he was supposed to relieve Berra in left field for defensive purposes and DiMastri would come in at short. Stengel forgot. Probably wouldn't have made a difference in that inning though. And Ford was warmed up and ready to pitch in the bottom of the eighth in relief but for some reason Stengel brought in Ralph Terry instead, and Terry gave up the HR to Maseroski in the ninth as you know. Stengel was fired right after the Series and these are probably the reasons.
Wow. No wonder Mickey cried in the locker room : he and Richardson , especially , virtually exploded with power . Mantle’s dive-back to first base , made the score 9-9. Plus, Mickey was the “old” Mickey ! He was back as the best in baseball , after slumping through mid 1959 into mid 1960, he was spectacular . I’m sure all the Yankees felt that after a poor team year in 1959, it should be easy to win back the ring . Plus, the Yankees scored 54 runs, to the Pirates 29. Plus, it was terrible to realize that a wicked hop to Kubrk opened the door for Maz! It was terrible for the Yankees but great for the Pirates (and baseball ).
All Mickey needed to do was to keep running long enough for the run to score, and the game would have been tied. He was extremely lucky he wasn't tagged out, because if he was, the game would've been over. Moot point anyway since they eventually lost.
1960 NYY team is the best team not to win the WS and this bizarre loss motivated them all the following season to win it all which they did over the Reds!
@@TheBatugan77 Nope, after the game Kubek asked Mantle why he ran back to the base and Mantle told him he froze mentally and that it was an act of confusion.
In 1960 I watched the LA Dodger and Pittsburg Pirates play at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. Vernon Law pitching. I was 15. The dodgers lost. I felt the Yankees should have won the series. They had superior hitting and excellent pitching.
Lew Fonseca was a former baseball player from 1921 until 1933 and manager from 1932-1934. He had a life-time average of .316. After he appeared in the 1927 movie, "Slide, Kelly, Slide," he became interested in how film could be used to enhance and analyze baseball. He became a pioneer in this field. He eventually became a baseball broadcaster where he applied the film techniques he has learn to make the game better.
Casey Stengel lost that Series for the Yankees by not pitching Whitey Ford in the first game. He was axed in the off season because of it. But the burning question is how did Mantle steal 14 of 17 bases in 1960, leading the team, running on one good leg?
In today's game it would've been appealed and the 1st base umpire likely would've called Smith out. In those days the umpires were a little more lenient on check swings.
This was the most lopsided World Series in history with the Yankees outscoring the Pirates 55 to 27. They out-hit them too, 91 to 60, and outhomered them 10 to 4. Casey Stengel's choice and handling of pitchers was much criticized and led to his early "retirement". He started journeyman Art Dimar, instead of Whitey Ford, in games 1 and 5. Ditmar had won 15 games during the regular season, the most of any Yankee pitcher that year. In the series, he was hit hard and only pitched 1.2 innings. Ace Whitey Ford pitched games 3 and 6, both times shutting out the Pirates. Jim Coates was brought in in the 7th game and made a number of bonehead plays. The most famous was his failure to cover first base in the 8th inning which led to journeyman catcher Hal Smith hitting a 2 run homer in the critical 5 run inning. The Yankees were able to tie the game up in the 9th. In the bottom of the inning, Ralph Terry's second pitch went over the famous left-field wall in Forbes field off the home run swing of Bill Mazeroski, who became the most popular man in Pittsburgh. Bobby Richardson was awarded the series MVP. This was the only time in history that the award has been given to a member of the losing team. Mazeroski's walk-off home run was the only time a World Series game a winner-take-all World Series game ended that way.
It should be noted in game 7 Hal Smith s HR never happens if u p doesn’t blow the call where Smith struck out on high fastball…ump called it a check swing. U can watch that game thanks to Bing Crosby.Freeze the pics of Hal Smith and ull see he easily struck out…also game 4 Berra was clearly safe at first , scoring another Run and would have kept rally alive…Bette teamCLEARLY. got gyped
@@jayclarke9611 And Stengel failed to bring in a warmed up Ford to pitch the bottom of the ninth in game 7, and brought in Ralph Terry instead. And Stengel forgot to move Kubek to left field in the eighth to replace Berra, and bring in DiMistri to short as he usually did. The bad hop probably would have happened anyway but it might not have hit DiMistri in throat. Stengel blew the series, but the Pirates showed remarkable resiliency, especially in game 7.
@@michaelleroy9281 the Yankees wanted to move Ralph Houk up to manage because he was being recruited by other teams...losing the series just made it easier to get rid of Casey..
Casey made a bad decision going with Art Ditmar. Ford went in game 3 and six. Ford was angry about it. Had he gone in 1, 3 and 7 the Yankees would have won it. Elston Howard was not available for game seven because of a broken finger. Mickey and Whitey went to Yankee management to complain. Casey was fired afterwards.
I wasn’t even born yet and this series pisses me off! Obvious blown calls in Game 4 turned the tide. Yankees could have gone up 3-1, instead, the series was tied. Yankees put scored them by an insane amount and if it wasn’t for those blown calls and Stengel waiting to use Ford until Game 3 that will never sit right with me!
In Game 6, Casey should have lifted Whitey Ford after 5 IP. The Yankees already had an 8-0 lead going into the bottom of the 6th. He could have inserted Ford in the 6th or 7th inning of Game 7 with the one run lead. Whitey was unhittable that Series...2 complete games and two shutouts. Casey could have given Whitey some rest in Game 3 also. Ah well....the game was different then.
Ford should have started game 1 and game 4, and game 7 if needed. Ford was also warmed up in the bullpen to come in the ninth inning of game 7 but Stengel went to Terry instead. Stengel was the difference in the series.
I just found out while watching this video that Roger Maris was left handed. For the longest time I thought he was right handed. You learn something new everyday.
Maris was right handed but batted lefty. That’s really quite common. Yankee Stadium was built fir left handed hitting power hitters with a short right field porch and Maris was a dead pull hitter in those days.
Maris was also a very good fielder...he told the guy who snagged his 61st homer to keep it and earn what he could with it...when fans do that nowadays they get an old glove and some old bats and a few autographs...
Johnny Pastrana Maris suffered a lot of serious injuries in 1963 and then in 1965 that basically ruined his career. Even in 1960, when was MVP, he was injured for a while and his numbers suffered. In 1961 and ‘62 he was healthy all season. But by ‘65, the injuries had robbed him of his home run power.
Fans had been rushing onto the fields after games since 1903. In fact, back in those days, for WS games, the management would set up temporary sets in the outfield for the overflow crowds. There are many pictures showing this. There is a video of Don Cardwell pitching his 1960 no-no against the Cards, and the Cub fans surrounded him after the game and would not let him leave. Announcer Jack Brickhouse interviewed him and then became worried about Cardwell's safety and called for guards to escort him back to the clubhouse in Wrigley field th-cam.com/video/fcSMgaga3V0/w-d-xo.html
Yanks won three games by scores of 16-3. 10-0. 12-0. That’s 38-3 in 3 games. And they lost the series. How is this even possible? Seriously. How did this happen?
Vernon Law shutdown the Yankee lineup with two wins in games 1 and 4 and provided a quality start in the 7th game and was pulled with a lead...IMO he should have been the series MVP...he pitched his heart out on a bum ankle. That Pirate team was a team of destiny and everyone contributed...
Ur right but in those days the writers voted for the MVP of the series before the last game ended...in the 7th inning of game 7 the Yankees led 7-4 the writers obviously (wrong of course) figured the Yankees would hold on a win the game..most of the writers were obviously from NY and had no respect for the Pirates so they never bothered to consider changing their vote to anyone from Pittsburgh after the game.
Bob Prince an incredible baseball announcer. Always my favorite.
He was!
We Got A Bug on the Rug!
We Need a Bloop and a Blast!
There's a drive! Way way back.....
You Can Kiss It Goodbye!
We just missed that out by a Gnat's Eyelash!
(On a big Strikeout.....) He Lit up the Lights on Broadway!
And after Every Bucco Win......even a 3 run rally in the bottom of the Ninth.....
" We Had ' em All The Way!"
His sidekick Nellie King was all class.....but there was only one " The Gunner"!
What a great time for baseball!
The Yankees scored twice as many runs as the Pirates but still lost. Incredible.
55-27
Casey cost us the Series
@@jayclarke5466 That’s why they fired him.
Excellent quality and in color no less!
Probably along with the 1975 WS,the greatest WS ever.
1991 was the best World Series of all time watch that one you'll see
Michael Leroy you mean 2011
@@michaelleroy9281
Not a shared opinion
Unless a fan of either the twins or Braves 1991 WS isn't on anyone's top10.
@@redbaronreborn3372 I confess I am a Twins fan
@@michaelleroy9281
Top 5 WS ever
#1-1975
#2-2001
#3- 1960
#4- 1926
#5- 1986
Though long ago 1926 WS was an all-time classic St.louis won its 1st Tittle over a NYY team feature Babe Ruth & lou Gehrig.
Rogers Hornsby was a player/manager and The series went 7 games and remains the only WS to end with a player (Ruth) being tag out trying to steal a base.
The NYY would win the following 2 WS 1927,1928 in sweeps.
13 HoF played in this series!
Was 14 and skipped school to watch the Pirates win the 7th.. game of the World Series. I was jumping up, and down as Maz hit the winning home run. My mother came running in, and thought something had happened to me.
I was five years old and don't remember it but heard about it growing up, but I do remember 1971 and 1979 last two times the Pirates won the world series.
You guys are old fucks.
I'll never forget this game. We were watching the game in school I was ten years old and I loved the Yankees more than life itself. Well it was time for school to let out and it was only three blocks to run home to watch the last inning. It was a tied game and I just got home in time to watch the bottom of the ninth inning. When all of the sudden Bill Maserosky hits the winning home run !
I ran out of the house yelling No no it can't be ! No no ! I was crushed my Yankee's have lost to Pittsburgh and I'll have to deal with this loss till next year ! It was devastating , heartbroken,
Unbelievable who was this guy who broke my dreams ?
I'm 74 now and can still remember exactly how I felt that day and laugh about it now because of a line in the movie A Bronx Tale
" Do you really think that Micky Mantle cares about you ?". " No he doesn't" it kinda made me think about it and I'm sure that the Mick went out with Billy and Whitey and got drunk that night and really didn't give a shit about the loss .
Then the Yankees won the next 2 World Series, 1961 and 1962
................and then they never won another one until the 70's@@michaelleroy9281
Mickey Mantle cared. He was disconsolate and cried on the plane on the way home. You bet he cared.
Mickey may not have cared about you but he definitely cared about the loss! It was the only time Mickey cried after a World Series loss. He felt the Yankees were the better team and should have won. He was pissed that Stengel didn't start Whitey Ford for the first game. That way Whitey would've had 3 starts including the final 7th game.
The best time for baseball was the period of 1947 to 1969. My opinion is that was its best time. It was the national pastime and beloved. It mattered to people.
I'd make that go through the 70s
Greatest hit in MLB history
Great clip, TY! Tom Tresh was one of my favorite Yankees.
Me also. I remember a game in which Tom T. hit FOUR home runs!!
I was 7yrs old,in a hospital bed eating vanilla ice cream and drinking 7-up after a tonsillectomy when Mazeroski hit the home run..black n white hospital room tv mounted high ..marks my life
Mickey, right handed, opposite field. 436 feet homer. The best! Period
Some scientists would day Mickey was impossible.
And he never even lifted weights!
Mike Trout could only dream
Of those Pirates that played in all 7 games, Maz lead the team in batting, hitting .320 (Clemente was second with a .310 batting average). But despite having a solid World Series and his Game 7 heroics, the MVP award went to Bobby Richardson of the Yankees. Only time a player from a losing team was named MVP.
My 1st cousin 2 times removed Roy Face played in this series as a relief pitcher for the Pirates! #26
As this and a few other videos on TH-cam successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here:
Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate.
The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball.
Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game.
The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe.
The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant.
And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
Lol
Thank you for taking time to share that perspective, very interesting! 👍
Agreed, up until the dead ball era, one of the best periods of baseball history
I know this is very late, but I only saw your comments today. I will briefly tell you my story. I grew up in Nashua, NH, but in 1961 my parents moved me to CA. For a summer I sat w/ my grandfather in LA, listening to Vin Scully call Dodger games, going to the Coliseum (Dodger Stadium was under construction), and learning to love baseball through my grandpa's eyes and ears. Then we moved to San Francisco, where for a year I was won over by Mays, McCovey & Marichal, and became a die-hard Giants fan. MY uncle took me to Candlestick almost weekly. I saw Spahn pitch against Marichal. The season ended with a 3 game playoff between the Giants & Dodgers. How lucky was I? Well - not so much. My parents abruptly moved me back to NH, where I kept up my love affair with the Giants. Every morning I woke up at 6am & turned on the radio to get the score of the Giants game the day before. Our local Red Sox were a sorry lot, but first we had Curt Gowdy (my all time favorite) doing the games, followed by Ken Coleman & Ned Martin, who called the Impossible Dream season in '67. I rarely missed a game. And to echo your love of the game back then, imagine doing this: it's August. The Sox are playing the Washington Senators at Fenway. There are maybe 5,000 fans in the stands. And I am sitting home, not only listening to every pitch on radio, but diligently scoring the game!!! (a completely lost art). Baseball was religion to me, like it was for my grandfather, so I leave you with this. In the 1940's the Dodgers had a Class D minor league team in Nashua, NH. My grandfather, who was a Boston Braves fan, began to secretly root for the Dodgers, because he got to see Campanella & Newcombe, amongst others, play in our tiny little Holman Stadium. Heaven forbid he should tell his buddies that he was into the Dodgers... Well, God shone down on him. In 1957 he moved to LA and got a tiny apartment on Venice Beach. Miraculously, the Dodgers moved to LA in 1958, and my grandfather was able to 'bleed Dodger Blue,' as the saying goes, for the rest of his days! That was baseball, in the 50's AND the 60's. Today's youth has no idea... And a final note - in any all-time matchup of the greatest players of either league, if I could choose my outfield, I wouldn't hesitate for a second: Aaron in Left, Mays in center, Clemente in right. Pick anyone you want, and I will take you on! Thanks for helping me to remember this stuff!
@garysaint-laurent6524 I'm glad I was able to inspire your memory. As for that outfield, it's a good one, and I'll go ahead and challenge you on that: Yastrzemski in left, Cedeno (He came up in 1970 but it's close enough to the 60s plus I'm an Astros guy) in center, F. Robinson in right
Pirates outscored 55-27 and they won the World Series
Maz showing a lot of power even before the one in game 7
When baseball was still real baseball. Shame what Manfred’s done to this once great game
Fun fact...in the 1960 Series, writers had to have their MVP ballots in by the seventh inning stretch. With the Yanks ahead 7-4 at that time, the writers probably figured NY would win the series and that might have influenced their voting for Richardson. If the vote had been taken after the end of the game, who knows.
True, but it might not have mattered.
Dear Mister Euler,
The reason why Bobby Richardson received the well-deserved Most Valuable Player award was because his exceptional record was in the winning games. He deserved it. But remember Mister Bill Mazeroski was the Most Valuable Player of the World Series for the original award. God Bless, Eric
@@ericgalati2721 The 3 run homer by Hal Smith in the 8th was by far the bigger blow though the Maz homer ended the game.
@@johnnypastrana6727 You are correct it was the bigger blow. What happened to Shortstop Tony Kubek was a one in a zillion law of physics which is why Bill Virdon rightly got a base hit single. What contributed to the victory of the Pirates, BIG TIME, and is never observed nor spoken about, is that it was first baseman Bill Skowron who caused the Yankees to lose. Roberto Clemente hit a groundout that normally should be fielded by the pitcher, in this case Jim Coates, yet second basemen Bobby Richardson who covered more ground than any second baseman at the time, including Bill Mazeroski, was there on target like an angel appearing form heaven, But! Skowron left first base and ran over to the mound, therefore blocking Coates to advance to first base for the put out and Richardson having no one to throw to for the assist. Clemente was awarded a base hit single. Skowron did it! God Bless, Eric Galati
@@johnnypastrana6727watch replay of Hal s ab…he struck-out on a 3/4 check swing strike, ump didn’t call.
Pirates had the karma…Yanks were the better team…Whitey Pitches Games 1 and 4 …we win Gm 7 easily.
Plus Bob Turkey, gm 2 dominant pitcher…didn’t pitch again(injury?)
Hal Smith !! What a guy !!
Good to hear the Gunner with a "you can kiss it goodbye" call.
Vernon Law shutdown the Yankee lineup with two wins in games 1 and 4 and provided a quality start in the 7th game and was pulled with a lead...IMO he should have been the series MVP...he pitched his heart out on a bum ankle.
That Pirate team was a team of destiny and everyone contributed...
A little bit lucky as well. No one knows why Stengel didn't start his best pitcher until game 3, instead of having him available for 1, 4 and 7 if needed. No one knows why he didn't bring in a warmed up Ford to pitch the ninth inning of game 7. And why he didn't shift Kubek to left field for defensive purposes for Berra and bring in DiMistri to short, as he usually did (and would have been at short for the bad hop, not that it would have mattered. And then there was the bad hop. The film doesn't show it, but Hal Smith swung and missed at strike three but the ump called it a check swing (at the time there was no appeal). Smith homered on the next pitch. The Yankees outhit the Pirates two to one, especially Richardson, and that's why he got the MVP. With all due respect to Law, Ford threw two shutouts. OK. With all that being said, even with the Pirates being blown out in three games, they showed a remarkable resiliency and played a game seven for the ages. Both teams did for game 7 and IMHO it was the greatest WS game ever. I'm a Yankees fan as you probably guessed, and this was my first WS. I think the Yankees had the better team but not the better manager and it was reflected in the results. And became part of baseball folk lore.
@@howie9751 The Pirates got a lot of help from the umpires and a lot of luck. There is no way the Pirates really 'won' that series.
@@howie9751 This was my first World Series also...the at bat by Hal Smith was called a check swing...certain that your bias is showing there but I grant you it could have been called either way. It wasn't as clear cut as you describe it though. Others can watch it on the replay and judge it for themselves. Typical New Yorker tude... 🤣
The bad hop to Kubek was so game changing for that 8th inning Pirate rally where they scored 5 runs... just terrible luck.
As far as the Yankees being the better team, the games that they did win were blowouts but as Gino Cimoli said afterwards: 'They broke all of the records but we won the game'.
There are just a few points I'd like to make...the Pirates led the major leagues in team batting in 1960 .276 much better than the Yankees' team batting average .260. The Yankees had much more power of course but in runs scored that year it was very close 746 for the Yankees to 734 for the Pirates.
Team ERA the Pirates team ERA was 3.49 compared to 3.52 for the Yankees in 1960...
Vernon Law was a 20 game winner that year and tragically hurt his arm because of a prank played on him by Bob Prince...he was never the same after that Series where he compensated for his pranked bad ankle. In spite of being injured, he did have those two stellar wins and had the lead when he was relieved in the 7th game...
Bobby Richardson had an epic performance at the plate that in retrospect, I concede that he deserved the MVP for the series.
Why Stengel didn't start Ford in game 1, 4, and 7 might have been because the Pirates were considered not on par with the Yankees but the team stats tell a very different story but only if you are capable of being objective which you are probably not because you are a Yankee fan and perhaps a New Yorker? 🤩
@@johnnypastrana6727 I like to think of myself as objective and I grant you your Pirates points. However, it wasn't just me who thought that Smith struck out. Bob Costas had a reunion of Pirates and Yankees players from that series, showed the clip and no one argued that it wasn't a swing. (Are you sure it's not bias on your part?) The head of the bat almost faced the pitcher. At the time the series broke my heart, but today I see it as a great series for the sport. Same as when the Red Sox came back from three down in 2004 to beat the Yankees. More baseball folklore than if the Yankees had won.
@@johnnypastrana6727 Stengel told Ford he wanted to save him for the first home game. Made no sense. Stengel made two other mistakes. Kubek wasn't supposed to be at short when the bad hop came, he was supposed to relieve Berra in left field for defensive purposes and DiMastri would come in at short. Stengel forgot. Probably wouldn't have made a difference in that inning though. And Ford was warmed up and ready to pitch in the bottom of the eighth in relief but for some reason Stengel brought in Ralph Terry instead, and Terry gave up the HR to Maseroski in the ninth as you know. Stengel was fired right after the Series and these are probably the reasons.
Wow. No wonder Mickey cried in the locker room : he and Richardson , especially , virtually exploded with power .
Mantle’s dive-back to first base , made the score 9-9.
Plus, Mickey was the “old” Mickey ! He was back as the best in baseball , after slumping through mid 1959 into mid 1960, he was spectacular .
I’m sure all the Yankees felt that after a poor team year in 1959, it should be easy to win back the ring .
Plus, the Yankees scored 54 runs, to the Pirates 29.
Plus, it was terrible to realize that a wicked hop to Kubrk opened the door for Maz!
It was terrible for the Yankees but great for the Pirates (and baseball ).
All Mickey needed to do was to keep running long enough for the run to score, and the game would have been tied. He was extremely lucky he wasn't tagged out, because if he was, the game would've been over. Moot point anyway since they eventually lost.
1960 NYY team is the best team not to win the WS and this bizarre loss motivated them all the following season to win it all which they did over the Reds!
@@robbenkovitz Yes you described it perfectly...Mantle's dive back in to first base was in fact a boneheaded move...
@@johnnypastrana6727
That's a boneheaded comment.
@@TheBatugan77 Nope, after the game Kubek asked Mantle why he ran back to the base and Mantle told him he froze mentally and that it was an act of confusion.
1:09 and where Three River Stadium will be completed some 10 years later
Bill Mazeroski was a powerful 2nd baseman
Best hit in MLB history
In 1960 I watched the LA Dodger and Pittsburg Pirates play at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. Vernon Law pitching. I was 15. The dodgers lost. I felt the Yankees should have won the series. They had superior hitting and excellent pitching.
Lew Fonseca was a former baseball player from 1921 until 1933 and manager from 1932-1934. He had a life-time average of .316. After he appeared in the 1927 movie, "Slide, Kelly, Slide," he became interested in how film could be used to enhance and analyze baseball. He became a pioneer in this field. He eventually became a baseball broadcaster where he applied the film techniques he has learn to make the game better.
This was a great World Series ❤
Game 7 was the best GAME Of the series
After ‘51 and ‘60, no pitcher named Ralph will ever again be on the mound in the bottom of the 9th with the season on the line.
The Yankees won game 7 of the 1962 world series with Ralph Terry shutting out the San Francisco Giants 1-0....
The Pirates won 5 World Series. All in the 7 game.
Casey Stengel lost that Series for the Yankees by not pitching Whitey Ford in the first game. He was axed in the off season because of it. But the burning question is how did Mantle steal 14 of 17 bases in 1960, leading the team, running on one good leg?
The film leaves out Hal Smith's "check" swing that should have been called a swing and a strikeout, and he homered on the next pitch.
In today's game it would've been appealed and the 1st base umpire likely would've called Smith out. In those days the umpires were a little more lenient on check swings.
This was the most lopsided World Series in history with the Yankees outscoring the Pirates 55 to 27. They out-hit them too, 91 to 60, and outhomered them 10 to 4. Casey Stengel's choice and handling of pitchers was much criticized and led to his early "retirement".
He started journeyman Art Dimar, instead of Whitey Ford, in games 1 and 5. Ditmar had won 15 games during the regular season, the most of any Yankee pitcher that year. In the series, he was hit hard and only pitched 1.2 innings. Ace Whitey Ford pitched games 3 and 6, both times shutting out the Pirates.
Jim Coates was brought in in the 7th game and made a number of bonehead plays. The most famous was his failure to cover first base in the 8th inning which led to journeyman catcher Hal Smith hitting a 2 run homer in the critical 5 run inning. The Yankees were able to tie the game up in the 9th.
In the bottom of the inning, Ralph Terry's second pitch went over the famous left-field wall in Forbes field off the home run swing of Bill Mazeroski, who became the most popular man in Pittsburgh.
Bobby Richardson was awarded the series MVP. This was the only time in history that the award has been given to a member of the losing team. Mazeroski's walk-off home run was the only time a World Series game a winner-take-all World Series game ended that way.
Yeah but the most important static was winning 4-3 Pittsburgh!!
Don’t knock the “h” out of Pittsburgh!
@@thomasburns858 fixed it. thanks
It should be noted in game 7 Hal Smith s HR never happens if u p doesn’t blow the call where Smith struck out on high fastball…ump called it a check swing. U can watch that game thanks to Bing Crosby.Freeze the pics of Hal Smith and ull see he easily struck out…also game 4 Berra was clearly safe at first , scoring another Run and would have kept rally alive…Bette teamCLEARLY. got gyped
@@jayclarke9611 And Stengel failed to bring in a warmed up Ford to pitch the bottom of the ninth in game 7, and brought in Ralph Terry instead. And Stengel forgot to move Kubek to left field in the eighth to replace Berra, and bring in DiMistri to short as he usually did. The bad hop probably would have happened anyway but it might not have hit DiMistri in throat. Stengel blew the series, but the Pirates showed remarkable resiliency, especially in game 7.
Good video, but do we really need the marching band music start to finish?
That’s the way these things were done
Who is "Bob" Clemente?
The three Yankee victories were by scores of 16-3, 12-0 and 10-0 but the Pirates won in seven games.
The Yankees out scored the Pirates by 55 runs to 27. Losing that series cost Stengel his job as Yankees manager!
@@stevenyourke7901 The Yankees said he was too old because of the loss to the Pirates that was never a problem before 1960
@@michaelleroy9281 the Yankees wanted to move Ralph Houk up to manage because he was being recruited by other teams...losing the series just made it easier to get rid of Casey..
Casey made a bad decision going with Art Ditmar. Ford went in game 3 and six. Ford was angry about it. Had he gone in 1, 3 and 7 the Yankees would have won it. Elston Howard was not available for game seven because of a broken finger. Mickey and Whitey went to Yankee management to complain. Casey was fired afterwards.
That infield at Forbes was horrible!
Any day the Yankees lose…
…is a good day!
did Ford Frick ever meet Chevy Chase?
loved it pirates won and casey got fired
I wasn’t even born yet and this series pisses me off! Obvious blown calls in Game 4 turned the tide. Yankees could have gone up 3-1, instead, the series was tied. Yankees put scored them by an insane amount and if it wasn’t for those blown calls and Stengel waiting to use Ford until Game 3 that will never sit right with me!
It when you score the runs
In Game 6, Casey should have lifted Whitey Ford after 5 IP. The Yankees already had an 8-0 lead going into the bottom of the 6th. He could have inserted Ford in the 6th or 7th inning of Game 7 with the one run lead. Whitey was unhittable that Series...2 complete games and two shutouts. Casey could have given Whitey some rest in Game 3 also. Ah well....the game was different then.
Ford should have started game 1 and game 4, and game 7 if needed. Ford was also warmed up in the bullpen to come in the ninth inning of game 7 but Stengel went to Terry instead. Stengel was the difference in the series.
@@howie9751 ur exactly right
At 38:55: looks like Groucho attended!
Sounds like this announcer is ahead of his time or theirs.
I just found out while watching this video that Roger Maris was left handed. For the longest time I thought he was right handed. You learn something new everyday.
Maris was right handed but batted lefty. That’s really quite common. Yankee Stadium was built fir left handed hitting power hitters with a short right field porch and Maris was a dead pull hitter in those days.
mdunn16 No, Maris was not a switch hitter. He batted lefty. Mantle was a switch hitter.
Maris was also a very good fielder...he told the guy who snagged his 61st homer to keep it and earn what he could with it...when fans do that nowadays they get an old glove and some old bats and a few autographs...
Johnny Pastrana Maris suffered a lot of serious injuries in 1963 and then in 1965 that basically ruined his career. Even in 1960, when was MVP, he was injured for a while and his numbers suffered. In 1961 and ‘62 he was healthy all season. But by ‘65, the injuries had robbed him of his home run power.
I had a professor in College who keep insisting pitcher Sonny Siebert was a southpaw. I insisted he wasn't. He failed me.
What's the deal? fans allowed on the field in those days?
Even into the 80's. Before America became a police state.
Yeah it was super common for baseball to let fans on the warming track for extra seats.
Fans had been rushing onto the fields after games since 1903. In fact, back in those days, for WS games, the management would set up temporary sets in the outfield for the overflow crowds. There are many pictures showing this. There is a video of Don Cardwell pitching his 1960 no-no against the Cards, and the Cub fans surrounded him after the game and would not let him leave. Announcer Jack Brickhouse interviewed him and then became worried about Cardwell's safety and called for guards to escort him back to the clubhouse in Wrigley field th-cam.com/video/fcSMgaga3V0/w-d-xo.html
@@Diosprometheus It was Don Cardwell, who later went to the Mets and was with them when they won it all in 1969.
@@8avexp Thanks, my mistake. I fixed it.
TO THIS DAY HOW DID THE YANKEES LOST THIS WORLD SERIES KENNETH O
Yanks won three games by scores of 16-3. 10-0. 12-0. That’s 38-3 in 3 games. And they lost the series. How is this even possible? Seriously. How did this happen?
Well, the score is 0-0 at the start of each game, so....
Because the Pirates won 4 closer games
Face should be in the hall!
The yankees by far had the better team
The better team doesn't always win a best of 7 series, fast forward to the World Series of 1969
The pirate annoucers. Were so good now pirates h a ve the worced anmoucers boring and dumb
Qyou haqd no.nfl and n I basketball no money-making then
Vernon Law shutdown the Yankee lineup with two wins in games 1 and 4 and provided a quality start in the 7th game and was pulled with a lead...IMO he should have been the series MVP...he pitched his heart out on a bum ankle.
That Pirate team was a team of destiny and everyone contributed...
Ur right but in those days the writers voted for the MVP of the series before the last game ended...in the 7th inning of game 7 the Yankees led 7-4 the writers obviously (wrong of course) figured the Yankees would hold on a win the game..most of the writers were obviously from NY and had no respect for the Pirates so they never bothered to consider changing their vote to anyone from Pittsburgh after the game.