I had the good fortune to be able to attend this game. My good friend, George Kell, was the starting third baseman for the American League. I still have my "scored" scorecard - with plenty of autographs - and my father's and my tickets (both autographed by Kell). Years ago, I bought this same "16mm film" of the game and got to show it to Kell here in my home in Little Rock. Over the years, I had "visits", at different times, with Al Kaline, Willie Mays, Stan Musial and Hal Smith (who did not get to play in the game). When I met Willie, I asked him if he remembered what he did in the bottom of the ninth of the 1957 All-Star game - he laughed and said, "I probably popped up" - but I was able to reply, "No, you hit a triple into the right field corner". When I met Kaline, I asked him if he remembered throwing out Frank Robinson at second base - and I can't honestly remember what he said. Brooks Robinson was standing by Kaline at the time - but Brooks was not yet an All-Star in 1957. I was also fortunate enough to be a guest of Brooks and George Kell when they were inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown on July 31, 1983.
And we Tiger fans had the good fortune of having Mr. Kell be the pbp announcer for many years here in Detroit(along with Mr. Kaline). A true gentleman, and a wonderful announcer. Sure do miss him. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the highlights of the '57 All-Star Game and interview with Curt Simmons. Back in the days when baseball WAS America's Pastime. It was more respected back then. And, then, the labor problems plagued the game. Plus, the emergence of pro football in the 60's and 70's as a spectator and television sport. It's always nice to remember what was once a treasure. A FOOTNOTE: The original Busch Stadium was, at one time, Sportsmen's Park, home to the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns before the latter moved to Baltimore, becoming the Orioles. In 1966, a new Busch Stadium opened in the era of saucer-style modern stadiums next to the fabled Gateway Arch. And in 2006, the current Busch Stadium opened their gates. It was blessed by a Cardinals World Series win.
In this game, Kaline had two hits, knocked in two runs, scored the winning run, threw out a runner at second base, and caught a drive to the right field wall. Maybe he was the player of the game. I believe his lifetime batting average in the All-Star game was over .300 and his world series average in 1968 was over .300. This compares favorably with Mickey Mantle.
Al Kaline was superb clutch hitter & NOBODY played right field like him. He was never out of position & had the most accurate most powerful arm ever. He was a class act & modest to a fault. Good pick for favorite player!
Hello 👋 Ed and Mike, thank you for sharing your kind comments. My goal in high school was to play center field for the Detroit Tigets, alongside AL Kaline and Rocky Colavito. Stay safe and healthy . 🤗
@@ronaldrose7593 Actually Ronald, my favorite players on Tigers was Dick McAuliffe during that era. My brother's pick was Mickey Lolich. Kaline was not allowed for fave player as he was too good. Our family would get tickets to doubleheader & get there for BP & fielding. First game I saw was a Tiger win & Rocco hit one right above the 340 sign. Entering Tiger Stadium was like a fantasy come true. The impossible green glass, the Crack of the bat, & watching
Still fun to watch in 2021! 😀 Wasn't around in 1957, so this is the closest thing to a time machine I have. Awesome to see the baseball legends of that era!
This is a real nice highlight film, almost as good as having the broadcast. I especially like the Curt Simmons interview. He is one of my all-time favorite pitchers. Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons, quite a one-two punch for the Whiz Kids. Don't forget, Curt was in the service for the World Series of 1950, and didn't pitch. That's a HUGE reason for why they got swept by the Yanks.
Once upon a time the All star game was fun, and during my early lifetime watching them, taken very seriously by the National League. These days with inter-league play they don’t matter any more.
There was a clip somewhere of Mantle hitting a grounder to third base and beating it out for a hit. My timing of his speed was 3.9 secs batting right handed.
I was in Kindergarten at that time but with a brother in high school and a dad who was a big fan I was already a Braves fan. It would be the next year when I went to my first game at County Stadium. Saddest time of my young life was when the Braves moved to Atlanta. I've never forgiven them.
Originally, seven of the eight starting National League position players (with the exception of Stan Musial) were members of the Cincinnati Reds (or Redlegs as they were sometimes called then) because the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper printed pre-marked ballots to make it easier for fans to vote for their hometown players. Consequently, Commissioner Ford Frick removed center fielder Gus Bell and right fielder Wally Post from the starting lineup and replaced them with Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. After the 1957 game the vote was taken from the fans and given to the players. Fan voting was not reinstituted until 1970. It is ironic that our values have so changed that Major League Baseball now encourages ballot box "stuffing".
Great to see to the still underrated Minnie Minoso (still no HOF call), as the game's hero. Also, this was the series that ended fan voting till 1970 due to Cincinnatti fans stuffing the ballot box so that all 8 NL starters would be Reds. Commisioner Frick had to install Robinson, Aaron and Mays in their place.
Huge Tiger fan, how cool was it Al Kaline got to play against his hero Stan Musial, and playing with George Kell who was traded to the Orioles and later did Tiger TV broadcast together.
Frank Robby, Willie and Hammering Hank in the starting NL line up...the reason the NL dominated the all star game from the mid 50s to the late 60s...NL was much quicker to sign great black players....
11:52. so right about the national league grabbing up all the great black talent, definitely a big reason they dominated the all star game for decades. too bad jackie robinson wasn't still around to pose with these guys, he retired after 1956.
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Your interjection is both untimely and rude. It's possible that even baseball fans would agree that soccer is bigger now, thanks to the ways that baseball has diminished its own sport. How's about you beat it dipsh*t?
I was 7 yrs old & still remember almost all of the lineup: Hank Aaron, Wes Covington, Billy Bruton, Del Crandall, Joe Adcock, Eddie Matthews, Johnnie Logan (?), + Warren Spahn, Lou Burdette.
Intriguing idea, Tee Jay! If I had a guess at the outcome, I'd say the Best of Today would win a single game, but the Best of That Era would come out on top over a full season. The Best of Today won't stay healthy.
@@marknowlin8356 Maybe. Bigger, faster, stronger does mean more injuries. But I have a feeling the last guy off the bench today might be superior than most all 60 years ago. Different games though. Fun to think about and totally improvable. Except with basketball. :)
@@teejay3272 Different indeed. Just what version of baseball are we talking about anyway? Surely the last guy off the bench today is a better conditioned athletic specimen.. But a better ballplayer? Not a chance.
@@marknowlin8356 I don't know. I see it a little differently. Athletes are better today. Like I said, they're faster, stronger and bigger. That matters in sports. They also have significantly more access to cutting-edge training tools, data and have FAR superior travel conditions. Teams today, in any professional sport, would destroy any team from the late 50's. Might there be some superstars from that time who could play today? Yeah. Some. Not many. Sports gauges our physical advancements. Athletes are better today. Just like those players were better than the guys in 1900.
2020 we now have the following jersey numbers which resembles a football team: 99, 79, 74, 68 and 72. These are not the pitchers numbers, but the guys on offense.
Curt Simmons considered washed up by the Phillies became a very good pitcher for the STL Cards in the early 1960s. Bob Gibson was still evolving and Simmons was the pitcher the Cards would go to many times to oppose the ace on the other team.
Esa era la verdadera grandes Ligas, los jugadores jugaban con una sonrisa en los labios, y disfrutaban el juego, y no ganaban casi nada por temporada, y ahora ganan cientos de millones por contratos desorbitantes y no le llegan, ni a los tobillos a esa gamas de jugadores de esa época.
Peculiar to see two lefties - Stan Musial and Johnny Antonelli - signing baseballs with their right hands. (As a side note, Brooks Robinson and Javier Baez, two infielders, are natural lefties.)
yep, he was fast alright, and already rejected by the army for a leg condition fans began to wonder if mantle wasn't getting special treatment, found this article from the reading eagle of reading pa. 11-4-1952. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19521104&id=noQtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w5sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3517,1614208
Looked just like Hal Smith's check swing in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Definitely went around. Three run homer on the next pitch.
10:31 tom yawkey on left, joe cronin on right.. the boston red sox still an all white team in 1957. would be another 2 years before yawkey would promote a player of color, 6 months after cronin's 11 year run as general manager ended... ironically 12 years after jackie robinson broke in. cronin would down play pee wee reese's ability as a scout because he would replace him at shortstop, the dodgers picked reese up. cronin also passed on willie mays... think about that boston fans, willie mays a red sox. babe ruth, pee wee reese, and willie mays all let go... can you imagine reese, mays, and ted williams all on the same team? also cronin passed on jackie robinson as well, and oh yeah, yawkee also protected a child molester for 20 years, so there's that.
Not sure, but the guy sounded like either Chris Schyenkel (a New York announcer) or Earl Gillespie, who broadcast Braves' games when they won back-to-backpennants in1957-8.
Was this the year that Cincinnati Reds fans stuffed the ballot box to get as many Reds into the game as possible? Don't see Hoak and Post as worthy of starting this game, while Matthews and Mays didn't.
it still goes on today. example 2015 KC fans did the same thing , 2016 Toronto fans voted in Saunders who should not of been voted in as a reserve instead of players who were better players that year Evan Longoria , Dustin Pedroia , Springer, Ian Kinsler who clearly better players
No , dope, race had nothing to do with it. Otherwise how do you explain Eddie Matthews not getting voted in, but Frank Robinson did?The fans in one town, Cincinnati, stuffed the ballot box for their players, which happens from time to time when you let fans select the starters.
Cripples our country? Really? According to who? We once had a big discrimination problem between the races, but like everything in America, we found a way to correct & almost eradicate the problem. America should be considered the least racist country in the world now.
@@bobmessier5215 You must be one of those Marxist authoritarian White Supremacist far left nuts that your black brethren dread seeing & hearing. Have you ever thought that maybe they don't want or need your "enlightened protection"?
I had the good fortune to be able to attend this game. My good friend, George Kell, was the starting third baseman for the American League. I still have my "scored" scorecard - with plenty of autographs - and my father's and my tickets (both autographed by Kell). Years ago, I bought this same "16mm film" of the game and got to show it to Kell here in my home in Little Rock. Over the years, I had "visits", at different times, with Al Kaline, Willie Mays, Stan Musial and Hal Smith (who did not get to play in the game). When I met Willie, I asked him if he remembered what he did in the bottom of the ninth of the 1957 All-Star game - he laughed and said, "I probably popped up" - but I was able to reply, "No, you hit a triple into the right field corner". When I met Kaline, I asked him if he remembered throwing out Frank Robinson at second base - and I can't honestly remember what he said. Brooks Robinson was standing by Kaline at the time - but Brooks was not yet an All-Star in 1957. I was also fortunate enough to be a guest of Brooks and George Kell when they were inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown on July 31, 1983.
And we Tiger fans had the good fortune of having Mr. Kell be the pbp announcer for many years here in Detroit(along with Mr. Kaline). A true gentleman, and a wonderful announcer. Sure do miss him. Thanks for sharing!
@@oldredbarnman The pride of Swifton, Arkansas! George Kell is still missed today.
you are lucky!
@@oldredbarnman thanks Larry, and good evening everyone
Wow, I grew up watching Gorge Kell and Al Kaline broadcasting tiger games. They had 2 hall of fame careers as players and announcers
Thank you for the highlights of the '57 All-Star Game and interview with Curt Simmons. Back in the days when baseball WAS America's Pastime. It was more respected back then. And, then, the labor problems plagued the game. Plus, the emergence of pro football in the 60's and 70's as a spectator and television sport. It's always nice to remember what was once a treasure. A FOOTNOTE: The original Busch Stadium was, at one time, Sportsmen's Park, home to the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns before the latter moved to Baltimore, becoming the Orioles. In 1966, a new Busch Stadium opened in the era of saucer-style modern stadiums next to the fabled Gateway Arch. And in 2006, the current Busch Stadium opened their gates. It was blessed by a Cardinals World Series win.
I saw this all star game on b/w TV. My favorite all time player was
Al Kaline. The good old days. 🤗
In this game, Kaline had two hits, knocked in two runs, scored the winning run, threw out a runner at second base, and caught a drive to the right field wall. Maybe he was the player of the game. I believe his lifetime batting average in the All-Star game was over .300 and his world series average in 1968 was over .300. This compares favorably with Mickey Mantle.
Al Kaline was superb clutch hitter & NOBODY played right field like him. He was never out of position & had the most accurate most powerful arm ever. He was a class act & modest to a fault. Good pick for favorite player!
Hello 👋 Ed and Mike, thank you for sharing your kind comments. My goal in high school was to play center field for the Detroit Tigets, alongside AL Kaline and Rocky Colavito. Stay safe and healthy . 🤗
@@ronaldrose7593 Actually Ronald, my favorite players on Tigers was Dick McAuliffe during that era. My brother's pick was Mickey Lolich. Kaline was not allowed for fave player as he was too good. Our family would get tickets to doubleheader & get there for BP & fielding. First game I saw was a Tiger win & Rocco hit one right above the 340 sign. Entering Tiger Stadium was like a fantasy come true. The impossible green glass, the Crack of the bat, & watching
He had a great game too!
So great to see The Mick running.
Look how rough the field is...like a little league field. Amazing upload thank you so much!
Still fun to watch in 2021! 😀
Wasn't around in 1957, so this is the closest thing to a time machine I have. Awesome to see the baseball legends of that era!
This is a real nice highlight film, almost as good as having the broadcast. I especially like the Curt Simmons interview. He is one of my all-time favorite pitchers. Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons, quite a one-two punch for the Whiz Kids. Don't forget, Curt was in the service for the World Series of 1950, and didn't pitch. That's a HUGE reason for why they got swept by the Yanks.
Love the special care taken to the manicured infield grass, sandlot style, play ball.
Once upon a time the All star game was fun, and during my early lifetime watching them, taken very seriously by the National League.
These days with inter-league play they don’t matter any more.
There was a clip somewhere of Mantle hitting a grounder to third base and beating it out for a hit. My timing of his speed was 3.9 secs batting right handed.
While being born on this 1957 All Starr Game day July 9th , my Mother said " God this isn't over until it's over ."!!!!!😁♥️🎂💪
I was in Kindergarten at that time but with a brother in high school and a dad who was a big fan I was already a Braves fan. It would be the next year when I went to my first game at County Stadium. Saddest time of my young life was when the Braves moved to Atlanta. I've never forgiven them.
The amazing MR. MAYS!!!
How many of these players are still alive.
Great looking uniforms back then. Simple and not flashy.
24:54 Don Mossi buckles Eddie Matthews' knees with a curve... crazy good pitch...
Ears!
Originally, seven of the eight starting National League position players (with the exception of Stan Musial) were members of the Cincinnati Reds (or Redlegs as they were sometimes called then) because the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper printed pre-marked ballots to make it easier for fans to vote for their hometown players. Consequently, Commissioner Ford Frick removed center fielder Gus Bell and right fielder Wally Post from the starting lineup and replaced them with Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. After the 1957 game the vote was taken from the fans and given to the players. Fan voting was not reinstituted until 1970. It is ironic that our values have so changed that Major League Baseball now encourages ballot box "stuffing".
Sounds suspiciously like 2020 Biden heist.Except in the baseball voting, fans had to actually fill out their ballot.
Great to see to the still underrated Minnie Minoso (still no HOF call), as the game's hero. Also, this was the series that ended fan voting till 1970 due to Cincinnatti fans stuffing the ballot box so that all 8 NL starters would be Reds. Commisioner Frick had to install Robinson, Aaron and Mays in their place.
Huge Tiger fan, how cool was it Al Kaline got to play against his hero Stan Musial, and playing with George Kell who was traded to the Orioles and later did Tiger TV broadcast together.
Same...Bunning and Kaline had great games!! Loved seeing Kuenn who has almost identical numbers to Kell and should also be in the Hall of fame.
I was five months old when this game was played wow
I was three months old.
Great to hear Chris Schenkel
I think the special effects messed up when they were showing Al Dark practicing his bunts. Those are some loud bunts going on.
Frank Robby, Willie and Hammering Hank in the starting NL line up...the reason the NL dominated the all star game from the mid 50s to the late 60s...NL was much quicker to sign great black players....
11:52. so right about the national league grabbing up all the great black talent, definitely a big reason they dominated the all star game for decades. too bad jackie robinson wasn't still around to pose with these guys, he retired after 1956.
And your point is?
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C STFU any old soccer vids have this many views. JS
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Your interjection is both untimely and rude. It's possible that even baseball fans would agree that soccer is bigger now, thanks to the ways that baseball has diminished its own sport. How's about you beat it dipsh*t?
However, the Indians had players like Larry Doby and Vic Power.
That Braves team of 57: one of the all time best.
I was 7 yrs old & still remember almost all of the lineup: Hank Aaron, Wes Covington, Billy Bruton, Del Crandall, Joe Adcock, Eddie Matthews, Johnnie Logan (?), + Warren Spahn, Lou Burdette.
@@robertallen4434 Yes, Johnny Logan. Don't forget Red Schoendienst, Bob Buhl, et al.
Should have won again in '58, but the bottom dropped out.
If I had a magic wand I'd love to see a game between the best of that era with the best of today. In all major sports.
Intriguing idea, Tee Jay! If I had a guess at the outcome, I'd say the Best of Today would win a single game, but the Best of That Era would come out on top over a full season. The Best of Today won't stay healthy.
@@marknowlin8356 Maybe. Bigger, faster, stronger does mean more injuries. But I have a feeling the last guy off the bench today might be superior than most all 60 years ago. Different games though. Fun to think about and totally improvable. Except with basketball. :)
@@teejay3272 Different indeed. Just what version of baseball are we talking about anyway? Surely the last guy off the bench today is a better conditioned athletic specimen.. But a better ballplayer? Not a chance.
@@marknowlin8356 I don't know. I see it a little differently. Athletes are better today. Like I said, they're faster, stronger and bigger. That matters in sports. They also have significantly more access to cutting-edge training tools, data and have FAR superior travel conditions. Teams today, in any professional sport, would destroy any team from the late 50's. Might there be some superstars from that time who could play today? Yeah. Some. Not many. Sports gauges our physical advancements. Athletes are better today. Just like those players were better than the guys in 1900.
How about Mantle roaming center at 17:50
Unfortunately 1957 was the year Giant and Dodger fans would say goodbye to their teams as both teams would move to the West Coast for the 1958 season.
Kaline was a King!!!!
I thought that Frank Robinson came from Oakland, CA (McClymond HS ?) . . ..
Ricky Henderson, Dimaggio,Stargell,Tolan, Billy Martin, Lefty Gomez, Lazzeri. Just a few Bay Area guys ...
Ennis Whalen-Frank Robinson was born in Beaumont, Texas, but attended McClymond's High School in Oakland.
Willie standing on third base without his cap, which is probably somewhere between first and second.
2020 we now have the following jersey numbers which resembles a football team: 99, 79, 74, 68 and 72. These are not the pitchers numbers, but the guys on offense.
Curt Simmons considered washed up by the Phillies became a very good pitcher for the STL Cards in the early 1960s. Bob Gibson was still evolving and Simmons was the pitcher the Cards would go to many times to oppose the ace on the other team.
Whole Cow , this game was playing while mom was giving birth to Me in New York City !!!!⭐💫👏🇺🇸♥️🙏😇🍀😁
Walter Alston, one of the best managers of all-time
When the All-Star Game meant something.
Is that Chris Schenkle (sorry for the poor spelling!), later of the Professional Bowlers Tour, doing the narration?
Yes, it's THAT Chris Schenkel.
@@felixmadison5736 Thanks, Oscar!
Anyone who thinks Mike Trout is the greatest player of all time needs to watch this and learn more about these players.
The Cincinnati
Voting surge of 1957
The Final All Star game for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.
1957. The last year the Dodgers and Giants would call New York home.
Esa era la verdadera grandes Ligas, los jugadores jugaban con una sonrisa en los labios, y disfrutaban el juego, y no ganaban casi nada por temporada, y ahora ganan cientos de millones por contratos desorbitantes y no le llegan, ni a los tobillos a esa gamas de jugadores de esa época.
Is that Chris narrating?
yes, in the first part it's Chris Schenkel, later of ABC sports.
Peculiar to see two lefties - Stan Musial and Johnny Antonelli - signing baseballs with their right hands. (As a side note, Brooks Robinson and Javier Baez, two infielders, are natural lefties.)
you can time Mantle's speed to first from the right side...just under 4 secs by my reckoning as he beats out a bouncer to third in the first inning.
yep, he was fast alright, and already rejected by the army for a leg condition fans began to wonder if mantle wasn't getting special treatment, found this article from the reading eagle of reading pa. 11-4-1952. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19521104&id=noQtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w5sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3517,1614208
Timed once at 3.4 seconds from the right, 3.1 from the left.
Ted Williams' "check swing" was such a joke. In today's game he'd be called out without a question.
Looked just like Hal Smith's check swing in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Definitely went around. Three run homer on the next pitch.
10:31 tom yawkey on left, joe cronin on right.. the boston red sox still an all white team in 1957. would be another 2 years before yawkey would promote a player of color, 6 months after cronin's 11 year run as general manager ended... ironically 12 years after jackie robinson broke in. cronin would down play pee wee reese's ability as a scout because he would replace him at shortstop, the dodgers picked reese up. cronin also passed on willie mays...
think about that boston fans, willie mays a red sox. babe ruth, pee wee reese, and willie mays all let go... can you imagine reese, mays, and ted williams all on the same team? also cronin passed on jackie robinson as well, and oh yeah, yawkee also protected a child molester for 20 years, so there's that.
A short street next to Fenway Park was renamed Yawkey way in 1977. Forty years later the name was removed. What goes around, comes around.
Yogi looks OLDER when he was YOUNGER
Victor Contreras-I wonder what kind of Yogiism he'd come up with for that?
@@kevinmiller6380 he'd be stuck like the whose on first riddle.... lmao 🤣
Is that Mike Wallace narrating the preview? Sounds like him.
Not sure, but the guy sounded like either Chris Schyenkel (a New York announcer) or Earl Gillespie, who broadcast Braves' games when they won back-to-backpennants in1957-8.
@@williamsnyder5616 It's Chris Schenkel.
Pay attention it tells you who it is in the beginning
Holdenon3 No. Great
Was this the year that Cincinnati Reds fans stuffed the ballot box to get as many Reds into the game as possible? Don't see Hoak and Post as worthy of starting this game, while Matthews and Mays didn't.
Burdette mvp
Frank robinson youngster
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Are you sure this is 1957? BrooklynHAD MOVED EARLIER BUT YET ALSTON HAS A BROOKLYN HAT ON?
The Dodgers played in Brooklyn in 1957. The final game was played in Ebbets was played on Sept. 24, 1957.
@@Noname-ni1dy The beloved BROOKLYN Dodgers moved following the 1957 season. 1957 was in Brooklyn. A pox on Walter O'Mally.
This was the year the Reds stuffed the ballot box so it’s a bit unrepresentative
Reds fans stuff the ballot box and make a joke out of the all star game
it still goes on today. example 2015 KC fans did the same thing , 2016 Toronto fans voted in Saunders who should not of been voted in as a reserve instead
of players who were better players that year Evan Longoria , Dustin Pedroia , Springer, Ian Kinsler who clearly better players
@@jimanderson7648 True - -- but the players from Cincinnati were mostly deserving of being in the All-Star game.
and it cost them...
Say the All Star Game has changed....a pitcher batting not only batting but and the ninth inning and a sacrifice bunt!
I noticed the fans did not vote Aaron and Mays to play, but were put in by the commissioner. 63 years later and racism still cripples our country.
That was back when America was great!
No , dope, race had nothing to do with it. Otherwise how do you explain Eddie Matthews not getting voted in, but Frank Robinson did?The fans in one town, Cincinnati, stuffed the ballot box for their players, which happens from time to time when you let fans select the starters.
Cripples our country? Really? According to who? We once had a big discrimination problem between the races, but like everything in America, we found a way to correct & almost eradicate the problem. America should be considered the least racist country in the world now.
@@Mister8224 WAKE UP!
@@bobmessier5215 You must be one of those Marxist authoritarian White Supremacist far left nuts that your black brethren dread seeing & hearing. Have you ever thought that maybe they don't want or need your "enlightened protection"?