Ah! The first WS I remember as a kid. Watched the last few innings of each game on my way home from school from a TV in an appliance store window. Yankee fan ever since!
it doesn't show Mickey Mantle lying on the outfield grass in Game 2 after ripping his ACL in a drainage ditch on a fly ball hit by Willie Mays or Mickey being carried off on a stretcher. It should show that.
Mantle batted lead off. He started game 2 with a drag bunt single. That gives some idea how fast he was at that time. Later in that game, he sustained a terrible knee injury chasing a fly ball when his spikes caught in an open drain in right field. He would never be quite that fast again.
Bobby Thomson was an excellent CF moved off it to 3B to make way for rookie Mays… His 3b play almost cost them the playoffs vs Dodgers in gm3 and definitely helped Yanks beat Giants
Giants played in Manhatten , Yankees in The Bronx you could walk but there was a subway line years ago. We forget at that time The Giants had been in the series 14 times in 1951.
DAVID R Joe didn’t win; the Yankees won. They were the greatest dynasty in the history of professional sports. Between 1921 and 1964, the Yankees won 29 American League pennants and 21 Works Series. Between 1927 and 1953, they won 16 pennants and they won the World Series all 16 times! 16 out of 16! They were just incredible! Joe had the good fortune to play with a very great team. He played 13 seasons in all and the Yankees won 9 pennants and 9 World Series. Just amazing.
@@syourke3 No. No! No, no, no!!! From ‘21-‘64 the Yankees won 29 pennants and won 20 (not 21) World Series. They lost NINE times: 21 v Giants, 22 v Giants, 26 v Cards, 42 v Cards, 55 v Dodgers, 57 v Braves, 60 v Pirates, 63 v Dodgers, 64 v Cards. Also, they did NOT win 16 World Series out of 16 from ‘27-‘53. They only won 15 times. They lost to St. Louis in 1942. For comparison, over that very same period, the Indians were undefeated - winning in ‘48 and not losing even once!!! Now, THAT’S something to be proud of. DiMaggio played in ten series with New York and was on the losing ‘42 team. He was in the military in ‘43 when the Yankees won the championship, proving that they were better off without him. So typical of you Yankee fans. You can’t brag about your team’s actual accomplishments so you inflate and exaggerate and expect to be able to buffalo folks into thinking your team is so great. But some of us pay attention and won’t let you get away with it!! Hate to tell you, but they might have done ok if they hadn’t fielded so many stiffs.
1939 MLB Film after series, featuring Bill Dickey, Hank Thompson, and a young combo of Joltin' Joe DiMaggio and the Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams. Awesome!
The narrator of the official 1951 World Series film was former major league infielder and manager Lew Fonseca, who also directed and narrated several other official World Series highlights films between 1949 and 1953.
@@jaycompany4886 Jay, you might be thinking of John Facenda (1913 - 1984), who was associated with NFL Films from 1965 until his death. Facenda, who began anchoring news broadcasts for Philadelphia's WCAU-TV in 1948, was chosen by NFL Films founder, Ed Sabol, to narrate NFL highlight films. You can read more about him at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Facenda
@@jaycompany4886 At first, I wondered what you meant by "411". As an old retired phone company employee, I should have remembered that 411 was the number subscribers dialed to reach an information operator. Speaking of information operators, you might enjoy this routine I posted from the mid-1960's by the comedy team of Nichols & May: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SfLaY-R9kaU.html
@@pianopappy thank you, I really enjoyed it, really funny...good times back then, you can't get anything with a dime these days....when i was a kid, I'd buy a candy with a penny...take care
Cheating Giants had a spy in center field at the Polo Grounds who told their batters what pitch was coming. That's how they caught the Dodgers in 1951. True fact.
wow...game 1...some rookie named MICKEY MANTLE lifts a high fly to another rookie named WILLIE MAYS to end the game...game 2..Mays hits a high fly to Center that nearly ends the career of that kid named MANTLE...wonder whatever happened to those two guys?
The Yankee Clipper's Last Hurrah! Hit a 2B his last time up (T9 of game 6), but then Gil McDougald tried to bunt. Gil hit it to third, where Joe got nailed for a fielder's choice.
Robert Heck Thanks. I read something about Branca going into deep depression after the home run. I can’t imagine how he ever went to Brooklyn again after that. I recall when Bill Buckner was blamed for the Red Sox loss to the Mets in 1986 (?) and the awful way he was treated by the fans in Boston. I think fans tend to forget that the players are human beings and are vulnerable to insults and scapegoating just like the rest of us. Just because a guy pays for a ticket to a ball game doesn’t give him the right to humiliate a player for having made an error. The player feels bad enough without the fans rubbing it in.
@@syourke3 Wow, I visit older games to hear intelligent, beautiful words people speak like you that are so rare. I'm blown away, you take the cake. I will get back to you for sure. I hope your wife, kids, friends and others appreciate you. You made my day!
Yankee pitching was superior, even without Whitey Ford, who was in the service. The Yankees would have started Johnny Sain, who they got from the Braves for Lew Burdette in September, in the fourth game. But it rained, and they started Allie Reynolds the next day. Reynolds had pitched two no-hitters that September! And Lopat with the clutch single! DH sucks. And I think that Kusava closed out 3 of the Yankees 5-peat. What's missing from this video is Mantle's horrendous knee injury on a Willie May's blooper to right center. But we do see DiMaggio tip his cap after his final MLB home run.
