Our school principal allowed us to listen over the PA system, a huge treat, after which I ran home to watch on TV. Being a big Yankee fan, Lew Burdette was the Bad Guy. We got him in 1958. This is a precious memory. Thanks for the upload.
Wow, thank you! It's my first Milwaukee sport's experience as a child. Many of us can still name The Braves entire lineup. Johnny Logan lived 3 blocks from my childhood home. Great team!
Thanks for placing on RU-vid. Born in 1953 this was just a little before my time remembering following the STL Cardinals for the first time in 1960. I sure remember most of these players. Some even ended up later playing with the Cardinals and of course Red Schoendienst and Enos Slaugher were famous Cards in this game. From St. Louis
These old films are always so dry but that game 4 looked like an absolute heartstopper. A forgotten all time classic where the series hung in the balance. Wish there was a more modern recap for just that game with a better narrator, suspenseful music and player interviews spliced in.
tom talley-Unfortunately those days are long behind us. No longer do pitchers go the distance; when they reach a certain pitch count, they are immediately yanked by the manager for a reliever. The only way a pitcher would go nine innings is if he's got a no hitter going. Scheduled doubleheaders are are a thing of the past as well because players don't want to play them anymore. Complete games have disappeared as well game winning rbis.
As nature intended before 1994 ruined it for baseball purists(sp?) like me with moronic changes that began creeping in a gradual manner that year, along with that highly unpopular player strike. 😒😒😒😒😒
I became a Yankee fan in 1957 when they lost to the Braves. I was 7 yrs old and some older kids in the neighborhood were so happy they lost. So 1958 was their greatest season to me. In the 1990s I went to some games at COUNTY STADIUM in Milwaukee. I was like a pilgrim visiting a holy place.
I have this 1957 Braves team among my oldtimer teams playing Strat-o-matic. I know this team well and have seen how they played with their stats being so realiistic in Strat-o-matic. My closest Yankee team to play them is from 1961. From St. Louis
I also had the 1957 Braves with Stratomatic baseball. I also had the 1954 Giants, 1954 Indians, the 1961 Yankees, 1927 Yankees, 1936 Yankees among others. Good times. We also played half around 80 games for each team of the 1973 season. The Mets won the NL East in reality but they stunk in Stratomatic games. 1973 Braves were also fun with three forty homer sluggers.
@@stuartmcalpine9468 I do not have the 1936 Yankees but do have the 1953 Dodgers and the 1934 Cardinals among my sets like yours for what at the time I got them were oldtimer teams. The game is just so realistic. Most of my teams are from the 1960s (memories of growing up with Baseball in St. Louis) but I also have some from the 1970s and 1980s that were contenders for some of those years. The 1973 Oakland A's are the team that seems to always lose for me. I once played 162 games with the 1961 Yankees and kept home run totals. Mantle hit something like 46 homers but in the last game Maris hit number 60 and in his last at bat almost hit number 61 but missed out on a dice roll as it was not an automatic number for a home run. Of course The Yankees were only playing very good teams in my season. The 1927 Yankees and 1961 Yankees play the best for me. My best Cardinals team is 1967. The 1969 Mets play well for me as pitching dominates. I have really been playing it again during coronavirus. Good talking to you.
@@stuartmcalpine9468 I forgot also having the 1946 Cardinals and the 1950 Yankees among my oldtimer teams. The 1950 Yankees, 1954 Giants, and the 1953 Dodgers really battle it out in Strat-o-matic.
Back then, pitchers were expected to pitch more than 5 or 6 innings a game. With no DH, there were strategic decisions in a ballgame that are missing now.
An iconic moment which remains fastened in my mind after 64 years is Nippy Jones claiming he'd been hit on the foot by a Tommy Byrne pitch (22:08). The umpire didn't buy it until Jones showed him a smear of bootblack on the ball. Today, Jones would be out of luck as the old-style leather shoes are no more. This lead to the Braves evening the series at 2. As I was angry at my Dodgers moving to California, I'd taken the Braves as my team at the start of this season.
Yes John, back then they looked like major leaguers. Athletic haircuts, stirrups over white socks, traveled wearing suits. Not like the pampered, primadona, juiced up slobs we have today.
This was the first time that the Yankees faced the Braves in a World Series. Prior to 1957, they had faced (and beaten) each of the other seven NL teams at least once. (Dodgers 6-1, Giants 4-2, Cards 2-2, Cubs 2-0, Phillies 1-0, Reds 1-0, Pirates 1-0) Since then, they’ve beaten the Braves more than anyone (Braves 3-1, Dodgers 2-2, Reds 1-1, Giants 1-0, Phillies 1-0, Padres 1-0, Mets 1-0, Cards 0-1, Pirates 0-1, Diamondbacks 0-1, Marlins 0-1)
R. Jay Stewart-What are you talking about? Cleveland has the longest World Series drought, having last won it all in 1948 over the same Boston Braves, a span of 72 years.
It would have been interesting to see how the series would have turned out if the Yankees never traded Billy Martin....Billy was a great player in the post season....
I just loved watching the highlights of this series. Game 7 and my Dads, Del Crandall, 9th inning home run were one of my Adam’s greatest memories during his playing career.
....was classmates with your sister, then. 1st grade, Miss Mc Bride. Thanks to Delette, we got to listen to a few innings of the 1957 World Series! Still remember that!!
Thank you to your dad , for his never ending dedication to baseball in the City of Milwaukee. As a great player on the Braves , a great coach with the Brewers , and then a great broadcaster for the team after coaching . Not to forget ..a great all around person to know. God bless you Del .
@@michaelleroy9281 To me the Milwaukee Braves never existed. Lou Perini could have put his team through a rebuild, instead of looking an excuse to leave Boston. Two to three years of rebuilding, and the Braves would have been contending and possibly outdrawing the Red Sox in attendance.
I remember running home from school and watching this game on TV. They played afternoon games rather than night games. I was a BIG Braves fan, and loved that they won !!! My Hero was Eddie Matthews and I wore his number in Little League. Others on that team Lew Burdette, Red Schoendinest, Del Crandall, Warren Spahn, Joe Adcock, and Hank Aaron...All heroes to me for beating the Yankee Dynasty.
Thanks for sharing. My National League team is the Braves and American League is the Yankees. I know that it is an odd combination, but my father is a Yankees fan because he liked the pinstriped uniform as a kid. And we are from South Carolina, hence the Braves fandom.
This was great , iam 72 and remember watching this game with my Dad and hollering all thru the game . We were both yankee and Braves fans, but happy the Braves won . I got to meet Hank Aaron 10 years ago and it was a thrill I'll never forget .
Weren't many regular season TV games in 1957. I think there was a game of the week and certainly local tv for fans lucky enough to have a team in their city. I was 7 when Hank Aaron joined the Braves and he stood out right away in the sports pages of the newspaper. Became a lifelong fan before I actually got a chance to see him play in the series. What a great life lived, on, and off the field.
@@Realistic316 When I was A kid in the 50 's we watch the game of the week on Saturday with announcers Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese . Most of the time it was the Yankees an some other American league team , but being a Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra fan I was happy . I got see Mickey hit the longest home run in Yankkee stadium . I live here in Chattannogs , Tennessee , and we have the farm team Chattanooga Lookouts . I met and got to see Harmon Killebrew play before he went to the Minnesota Twins , and boy did he have a career . Oh the memories , thanks for listening , be safe my friend we're expecting snow and ice tonight .
@@kenyork1107 yea that’s awesome… and i still love watching the 1-on-1 home run derbys from the 50s and 60s…they are on youtube too….and take care as well.
@@lauracrandall1362 My Mothers cousin. Family name was Porter. She called him Uncle Del. I found out when she gave me a '57 team signed baseball he gifted her for my 48th. I am a huge baseball fan and was shocked she didn't tell me before that..
@@bencovington1121 During the 1963 Dodgers vs Yankees World Series, Frank Howard of the Dodgers hit a ball off the center field wall at the 463 ft sign. It hit the number 4 on the sign. Dodgers swept series, Koufax struck out 15 Yanks in game 1, including Mantle 4 times.
@@oldude979 Nothing better...than reliving the Brooklyn Dodgers...beating the Evil Empire. Thanks for the history lesson. Going to see if I can find that game on RU-vid. I love RU-vid. (I believe God allowed RU-vid to be invented...just so we today, can watch and relive, old classic baseball games...😎).
I was 7 years old then , all I can recall is the braves and the yanks played each other two years in a row 57 and 58 the braves winning one and the yanks the other one
I was part of the 50s and only 2 people represented that sports period mantle and msrciano.i miss both of them during the ike presidency.not time too .the start of rock and roll and technicolor I'm films and great film stars from the 30s still around.😅
I'm 77 & born in NY 3 TEAMS YANKS GIANTS & DODGERS UNTILL O'MALLEY & STONEHAM DECIDED TO MOVE TO GREENER ($$$$$) PASTURES.I REMEMBER THAT WS AND '56 WHEN LARSEN PITCHED HIS PERFECT GAME.NY IN THE 50'S WAS GREAT FOR A KID WHO LOVED THE GAME.I WENT TO ALL.THE BALL PARKS BLEACHERS WERE VERY CHEAP A COKE AND A DOG 1.5O THE SUBWAY COST A DIME AND STOPPED A BLOCK AWAY FROM EVERY PARK.OF COURSE AT THAT AGE ONLY DAY GAMES FOR US.GOOD BASEBALL MEMORIES I HAVE
It was simply a better time. I'm 24 and I can see it plain as day. The world was like a playground back then, it seems. Like everyone was just living for the moment and doing what truly made them happy. I know there was still alot of segregation and obviously that's no good but I think there was change in the air. seeing African Americans playing on sports teams obviously the tension was starting to ease up a bit.
I agree and I'm 42. Everyone was an AMERICAN only and nothing else. During the civil rights movement of the 60s more rights were secured and that is where it should have stopped. After the 60s and entering into the millennium year of 2000 everything was great and stable but little by little the liberals continued to divide insisting that we not say merry Christmas, insisting that we first look at the race or ethnicity of the person and then call them an American, insisting that they allow more and more perversion in movies and on television screens, etc. I can go on and on but you see where it has all led us to in 2021. Nothing but hatred for America, division among American citizens, sexual perversion of children at an early age, homelessness in all the big liberal cities etc. Kids don't know whether they're a male or female. Full term abortions allowed in certain states like New York. I'm glad I'm 42 and experienced this country when it was still the America we knew and loved . It's something else now and it's only going to get worse.
@@richflores1558 Yeah, I'm glad you're 42 too. You stil have another 40yrs to learn how to think OBJECTIVELY. Blaming anything on one group of people is idiotic and narrow minded. In your mind all conservatives are great and all liberals are bad? That's crazy. Tomorrow's a great day to begin your education.
@@oldude979 and in typical democrat fashion you spew hate and supposed superiority, but wait all the racism is in the corner of the democrats history and still runs thru it today. “ if you don’t vote for me you ain’t Black”. Let go Brandon. Just one of many from sleepy. And his democrats ..
In the South, Black people couldn't vote. Don't say tension was easing up just because some Black people were playing in the majors. It took until the mid-60s for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills to pass. Things always look better and simpler in retrospect. If you were black, I don't think the 50s were so great.
Bob Buege "The Milwaukee Braves - a baseball eulogy" is a MUST READ for Milwaukee Braves fans. I am 75 now and grew up in Milwaukee. Those were the days. Chuck Tanner lived right down the street from me.
Those 1957-58 Braves teams were great teams. Mantle got hurt in game 4 when Schoendist fell pell mell on his shoulder at 2nd base in game 4. He missed game 6 and also the 1-0 Braves win in game 5. He was still hurt but played in game 7 because it was desperation time. He never was the same hitting from the left side of the plate. Always been a Mantle fan. How much better would he have been if not for all the injuries including the main one, tearing up his knee in ‘51 World Series. He essentially played on one leg for the rest of his career. Yanks got revenge in ‘58 behind Bob Turley who was magnificent.
It amazes me...how fast the pitchers worked back in those days. Almost immediately after receiving the ball from the catcher...the pitchers immediately go into their windup. You just do not see that today. As a side note...it is a great pleasure, to see the great Yogi Berra...playing and smashing home runs. Yogi...was a true blue baseball man. And Yogi, was a man of great character as well. Yogi Berra...one of the greatest men...to ever play the game of baseball. Being a Houston Astros fan...I remember seeing him in the Astros dugout as an Astros coach, in the Astrodome, during the 80's. My favorite Astros jersey...is my number 8 Berra, Astros rainbow jersey. Yogi Berra...a name that will live in baseball lore...forever.
WOW! Can everybody count all the future Hall of Famers in this Yankees vs Braves 1957 World Series ! . Yankees -Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra. Braves-Warren Spahn, Eddie Matthews, Hank Aaron. ETC... Thanks for upload. :)
I recall this series from when my elementary school teacher, Mr. Radke saying he was rooting for, "Milvaukee." As they used to play these games during the day (guess they were too cheap to pay for the lights) we were fortunate to have Mr. Radke have the 7th game on his transistor radio. What a treat!
Please research your rantings before you accuse someone or something as being "cheap". MLB did not schedule WS games until 1971 (Balt. @ Pitt.) because TV did not have the equipment (or the demand) for night baseball with quality pictures, and the network (NBC) did not include it in their contract with MLB. You can look it up.
@@markpotter8831 Fair enough Mark. I'll research my rantings (and will become a minority on social media) when you take the time to thoroughly read comments, nowhere did I write MLB, before you took unbridled umbrage and spouted off with great indignation. And just as a segue, recall I wrote being in the elementary school and was writing from that age perspective. Guess that got lost in your 20-20 rear view vision of history. You can scan back and read it again.
@@geou1606 To me I feel the Braves should have stayed in Boston. All Lou Perini should have done was put his team through a rebuild, spend the money necessary to improve the farm system and obtain quality players instead of looking for an excuse to leave town. A few short years later the Braves would have been contending again, and the fans would have been coming back out to Braves Field to see them play, instead of waving the white flag because they were losing out to the Red Sox in attendance. I'm a diehard Chicago White Sox fan, and they've always played second fiddle to the Cubs, but you don't see them moving, although they threatened to leave town if they didn't get a new ballpark.
HANK ARRON OUT PLAYED MICKEY MANTLE IN THE 1957 WORLD SERIES I AM A YANKEE FAN HANK ARRON DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE A. BACK SEAT TO NOBODY IN BASEBALL EVEN WILLIE MAYS RIP KENNETH O
I grew up in the 1950's in New York and there were endless comparisons of three of the greatest centerfielders of all time, who just happened to be playing in front of our eyes in NY--Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider. In the second inning, Mantle turns the wrong way on Aaron's prodigious clout to center, then boots Adcock's single, allowing him second base. Despite his great speed, I would have to say that in general, in terms of fielding, Mickey was third, behind Willie and the Duke.
Neither Mantle nor Snider was a great fielder. Mays was in a class by himself defensively. Mantle was honest about his defensive limitation, and said his speed let him outrun a lot of mistakes.
@@olivercrangle7160 Ritchie Ashburn wasn't really part of the discussion. But over Ashburn's 15 year career, he had 5.4 defensive wins above replacement (dWAR). In Mays' first 15 full seasons, he had 18.7 dWAR.
@@marksieving7925 I have to disagree about Snider's defensive abilities. I was a Brooklyn kid and saw the Duke on numerous occasions make leaping catches against the short Ebbets Field centerfield wall and strong throws to keep runners from advancing.
True statement. Mantle's speed saved Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Gil Hodges hit a rocket into Death Valley at Yankee Stadium (deep left-center field), but Mantle tracked it down at the last second and made a spectacular one-handed catch. I think that a video clip of that play is on RU-vid somewhere.@@marksieving7925
During the time I avidly followed baseball, up to 1965, Willie Mays was slightly better than Henry Aaron overall, except for batting average. But when I looked at baseball again in the mid-70's, I realized Hank had just glided on and on, eclipsing Willie's home run and rbi totals, and when I see how Hank performed in World Series play, he did much better than Willie offensively. I have a newfound appreciation for Aaron, especially having seen him on a Letterman collection of interviews and seeing what a beautiful good-natured soul he was.
Aaron was very fortunate. He played 22 seasons without any serious injuries and he didn’t lose two years to the armed forces like Mays did. He also spent half his career in Atlanta, a great hitters park. Aaron was a great base runner and outfielder, too. His longevity was incredible.
@@stevenyourke7901 Aaron was also very fortunate he didn't play in a major media town like NYC or L.A...he was always under the radar...it wasn't until he came up on Ruth's HR record that he had to deal with the ugly side of America...Hank was pure class and a real roll model..
It would have been interesting to see how the series would have turned out if the Yankees never traded Billy Martin...Billy was never a favorite of GM George Weiss and Weiss finally found an excuse to rid of Billy with the night club incident in June..Billy was a fiery competitor and preformed well in past world series..
@@44032 ur totally right ...I wrote Bobby a fan letter in 1962 when I was 8 years old and he sent me back an autographed picture...Bobby was a great ball player and a perfect roll model..I have always felt that Bobby deserved a plaque in Monument Park..not to take any thing away from Billy...the Yankees have 2 nunber 8s for Berra and Dickey...why not 2 number ones??...
@@michaelleroy9281 The Yankees I think we're too strong to get embarrassed like that in the series, especially with Casey Stengel managing. Really, Casey had never lost a series in a sweep or at least 4-1. That's how dominant the 1950s Yankees were. 1959 (when the Yankees started in last place) though was just a dent.
I attended game three of that series with my dad and a sturdy Wisconsin famer named Ernie. There was a Yankees fan sitting in front of us. When they played the National Anthem, that Yankees fan refused to stand up and sing. My dad asked him why he didn't stand up. He said he wasn't going to sing about the land of the free and the home of the Braves. Ha-ha. Ernie wasn't impressed, but he stayed silent. Game three was a blowout for the Yanks. Every time the Yankees scored, that Yanks fan cheered wildly and made remarks about hick Wisconsin farmers. Finally, after the Yankees scored about their 10th run , Ernie couldn't sit still any more. With one hand he shoved that fat Yanks fan back into his seat and said, "That'll be enough out of you." That Yanks fan never said another word the rest of the game. Larrupin' Lew Burdette and his spitball and the whole Braves crew were sensational that year.
The fourth game was the pivotal game.First Nippy Jones and the shoe polish and then the Mathews home run. Bob Grim led the American League in saves in 1957 but always came up with arm trouble in the second half of the season . Stengel should have taken this into account when deciding whom to pitch in the tenth inning.
when baseball was baseball...not a single advertisement billboard in sight . Thats when players played to win not for fun... Baseball watered down with players now 1957 16 MLB teams Best players then 2021 30 now watered down hitters and pitchers,short fences and golf balls for baseballs... all greed now...in 57 players best of the best..
34:06 what a horrible called 3rd strike on hank. great series, these old films need to be colorized and restored, even so, it's still great to watch them 65 years later. and frank torre, joe's big brother getting two big home runs. what a series by lew burdette, 3-0, 3 complete games, 2 earned runs in 27 innings. milwaukee has always been a good baseball town.
