Grew up a few blocks from Crosley. Walking to the park. You could smell the hot dogs rosted peanuts draft beer, cigar smoke, the cut grass, a distance away. Many times, we had no idea who was in town. Always took our gloves. Baseball had its own smell back then. Never to be replicated since. RIP peanut Jim.
I was only 10 years old in 1959. I liked Gus Bell and Frank Robinson. My mom ironed my dad’s shirts and my dad had a great job with no college degree and smoked chesterfields. This film is in color, but most of our daily life was in black and white
SInce this film first came out in '59, MLB has gone from 16 to 30 teams. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Reds would go on to take part in six World Series and three of those (1975, 1976 and 1990). The MLB schedule expanded from 154 to 162 games in 1961 (in the American League) and 1962 (in the National League).
"These boys.........now this boy.....scouts work hard to get this boy......this boy is destined to be a big star. Boy, talk about yesteryear mentality and jargon.
Yeah, and an entire highlight sequence of Vada Pinson without mentioning his name, only “this boy.” Pure Eisenhower-era industrial film pablum. NO players’ names uttered, only those of Gabe Paul and Powell Crosley.😂
Grew up a few blocks from Crosley. Walking to the park. You could smell the hot dogs rosted peanuts draft beer, cigar smoke, the cut grass, a distance away. Many times, we had no idea who was in town. Always took our gloves. Baseball had its own smell back then. Never to be replicated since. RIP peanut Jim.
Please post positive proof pronto
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I was only 10 years old in 1959. I liked Gus Bell and Frank Robinson. My mom ironed my dad’s shirts and my dad had a great job with no college degree and smoked chesterfields. This film is in color, but most of our daily life was in black and white
The team of my childhood.
SInce this film first came out in '59, MLB has gone from 16 to 30 teams. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Reds would go on to take part in six World Series and three of those (1975, 1976 and 1990).
The MLB schedule expanded from 154 to 162 games in 1961 (in the American League) and 1962 (in the National League).
Before the days of "The Big Red Machine".
Now it's "The Big Dead Machine".
The year they restored the team name to ‘Reds’, terminating the five-year interregnum when the club foisted the inane ‘Redlegs’ on itself.
And so many people think Redlegs is the historic name.
ha ha - killed a few minutes waiting for the NLCS series to start at 8pm.
wish i knew where the opening shot was filmed. im sure some of us have lived on/driven down that street
"These boys.........now this boy.....scouts work hard to get this boy......this boy is destined to be a big star. Boy, talk about yesteryear mentality and jargon.
Yeah, and an entire highlight sequence of Vada Pinson without mentioning his name, only “this boy.” Pure Eisenhower-era industrial film pablum. NO players’ names uttered, only those of Gabe Paul and Powell Crosley.😂
The opening day third baseman lived for another 64 years.
Those were the good ol' days where boys played ball after school. Now they are on Tic Tok or watching porno.
No longer the Redlegs
Between 1949-58 the Cincinnati Reds were
known as the Redlegs, due to communism.
The Red win win the World Series again one day soon!..I predict another 1970s Iike dynasty!
Was this the year that Frank Robinson got caught carrying a gun?
If you were black in 1959 Cincinnati, you would’ve too.
1961
That occurred during spring training in 1961, though I thought it was later in Cincy. Childhood memory.