Extremely rare color footage of the 1939 World Series between the Yankees and Reds. Many consider the 1939 Yankees one of baseball's greatest teams. www.rumorintown.com
No one in that audience or baseball field would realize that a brand new generation of baseball fans would still be watching them on computer screens...72 years later.
Football may be America's game now, but upon watching this, it's obvious it will never approach the appeal of baseball back in the day. It's transcendent.
I should this to me late Grandfather a year ago he was dying from cancer, he remembered this series from when he was just 10 years old. It brought him joy to this again, sadly he past one month later. Thank you.
this is really a special movie to me. the music is absolutely perfect. so eery, like a set of moving pictures, trapped, frozen in time. the color makes it so real and when you see Dimaggio at about 3.00 that's really cool. makes you realize how real history really is. you do indeed get an amazing indescribable feeling of sadness watching this, knowing that one day your life and moments will be moving pictures trapped, frozen in time. this is what these types of movies should bring out of us.
Maybe it's the evocative music in this clip, but yes...seeing this made me think of how much life would change, just two years later, for every person in that ballpark.
It's interesting. The most celebrated and historical sporting stadium in the world torn down. what constitutes a museum? This edifice certainly qualified. With it's demolition went the memories of the greatest exhibitions of sport this country had to offer throughout the twentieth century and it's legacy of which will buried from sight from our future generations. One man's greed for more, really gave those who cherish history nothing in return. History gives people as sense of belonging.
This is wonderful film. I noticed Al Shack, the baseball clown entertaining on the pitchers mound in tails prior to the game. I remember he was still doing that in the late 50's early 60's when I was a kid.
I'm amazed by the clarity of this footage, a lot of film taken from those days is pretty grainy, especially color rolls. It's honestly breathtaking to watch this and see what baseball was like when my father and grandfather talked about it.
Love the video and music together. The music has a ethereal surreal quality that conveys the message that you might be granted a glimpse of this wonderful long-ago world, where men long dead are young and playing ball again---but you can never go back there and possess it. It is gone forever.
They sometimes had fans on the field DURING the games. Behind ropes, of course. lol Photographers would also be on the field during games, crouching 10 or 15 feet behind the batter. And the players would toss their gloves on the field instead of taking them into the dugout when they went to bat. They did this until 1953. A rule prohibiting that practice went into effect in '54.
i love the music you put to this. this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen I don't know why it's so captivating but it is seriously amazingly beautiful
Wonderful footage, so rare to see video from 72 years ago in color, and in such nice condition. We see the old footage in black and white so much we almost think these people lived in black and white. The color really brings things to life.
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING....I'm only 24 years old, but this footage, set to that gorgeous music gives me goosebumps every time. What track is that? And if you have anymore footage of anything from time period (doesn't have to be baseball), please post it!
it's like seeing something live from the past, in color no less. Seeing Dimaggio gives me chills, the familiar #5. At around 2:30, is that Max Patkin clown prince of baseball or someone like that mocking the pitcher?!! LOL Simply astounding. bdog
the music is so epic it makes me cry everytime i watch this. beautiful. Thank you baseball for impacting my life so heavily. I would love to wake up to this soundtrack every morning. T_T
@nick4285 That was Al Schact;he was a comic who would perform at baseball games.He was pretending to pitch and pretending that a line drive had just whizzed past him.
One of the great regrets have is that I never made it to Yankee Stadium. We actually drove in to go twice and something came upp each time that kept us from getting to the ball park.
Wow. I could think of so many words to describe this video. Its like looking at ghosts at a by gone age but yet they seem so real. Not to take away anything that black and white offers. Beautiful. Favorited!
Haunting with the music and a chance to look back in color. Someday films from my era of the mid-60s on will seem just as magical (hopefully) for fans. Baseball rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic video ... put a lump in my throat. It's interesting that the starting pitchers used to warm up behind home plate then, instead of in the bullpen like today.
You both do realize that while the war started in 1939, the US didn't start involvement until, at the earliest, September 16 of 1940 when the draft was instated by Roosevelt. Lots of famous players in the majors were drafted, and they fought in the war.
so sad! looking back into a porthole of our deep past in it's still splendor. To think this timeless shrine of our cultural history time was made to Disappear for money. History is better served with physical evidence for the curious young to be able to visit their ancestors. Shortsightedness destroyed the greatest and most storied sports edifice the world has ever known. I was there in 1949 and can still to this day feel the heavy weight of it's history.
this is amazing! how beautiful, i shed a few tears im not gonna deny that, wow baseball will with stand the test of time. thankyou for uploading this !
This is incredible! Thanks for showing this. I dare ask, if they may be an inane question or one that has been asked thousands of times but did you colorize this yourself with an advanced editing software or is it colored film?
Great stuff! Just mesmerizing! Wish I could have enjoyed a seat at a game in those days at that park. Just me, my top hat, a program, a bag of peanuts, and thoughts of Ruth and Gehrig.
Love watching old video, this was only 20 years after WW! and right months after the outbreak of WWII in Europe. I try to get into the time period, get my consciousness really into it
@nick4285 That was Al Schacht, "the Clown Prince of Baseball," a former (briefly) major league pitcher who took to entertaining audiences as a baseball comedian (note the ridiculous tuxedo jacket he wears). That part of the footage is taken during warmups, and Schacht is no doubt doing a comedic impersonation of a pitcher being knocked down by a line drive.
@Synicaalescape the world series started in october. the war didn't start for the us til dec7 1941 some 2 years later. the only men fighting in wars today are volunteers. back then, you had no choice.. every able-bodied man was DRAFTED.the only guys who didn't go into the army during the war were physical wrecks. there was even a guy with one arm who played mlb during ww2. that's how thin the abled bodied men ranks were.
@chargerfan64 Color photography has been around as far as the 1870's. The first color movie, "La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ", was in 1903. Kodak began selling Kodachrome film in 1935--by then, 149 motion pictures were made using one form or another color process. Check these things out before you make such proclamations, my friend.
People talk about the Murderer's Row Yanks, the Mantle and Maris Yanks, the Big Red Machine, the Stengel Yanks, the Reggie Jackson A's, and the 90's Yankee dynasty as the greatest teams ever...this team is the greatest in history...the McCarthy Yanks won 4 straight WS (1936-1939) and would have won six in a row if Gehrig did not succumb to ALS
Far cry from the game today, where people come out in a jersey and ball cap with jeans or shorts today compared to the male spectators wearing suits and women wearing dresses.
RUMORINTOWN did you know that this yankee team outscored there opposition by more than 410 runs, your franchise is simply the best in the history of all sports and i'm a giants fan
great footage. interesting music, made me look up when world war 2 started, the series started oct 4, 1939. nazi germany invaded poland sept 1, 1939. big changes a comin.
