I missed the days when World Series Games were played at daytime. When I grew up in the 1970’s, I remembered seeing World Series Games being played at daytime only on Weekends. Monday through Friday World Series Games were played at night, most likely so the “9 to 5’ers” can get home in time to watch The World Series. But now, Every World Series Game is played at night. Long gone are the days of Daytime Baseball Games that either determine a Pennant or a World Series.
First World Series NIGHT game, Pirates v. Orioles, 1971 (I had a dental appointment that afternoon). Last World Series DAY game, Yankees v. Dodgers, 1981 (Ron Cey nearly gonzoed by Goose Gossage fastball 🤕).
@@jamesrivera4947 Thanks for that explanation. Oh for your information, Game 6 of the 1987 World Series between the Twins and Cardinals was played in the Daytime at The Metrodome in Minnesota, won by the Twins to force Game 7.
It’s all about money. The good old days of sports will never be seen again. The World Series was the highlight of the year for tens of millions of fans. Now it is considered boring to young people. I feel that a lack of violence might be a major reason. Sad.
What still makes the Babe stand out for me given all the home runs hit in Baseball in the current era and the home run hitters that followed him like Mays and Aaron is that before the Babe became known as a great hitter he was first a great pitcher for the Red Sox.
Mantle was in this series with a bad hip. As I recall Mantle had a bad cold and Mel Allen told him to go see Allen's doctor who gave him a penicillin shot and gave him the infected hip. Players got to see how bad that infection was for Mickey most could not look and some threw up after seeing how bad it was for him. Damn Mantle was some kind of player to play in so much pain through his career
That was the story at the time. Another later story was that Mantle went to see the doctor that was prescribing steroids for President Kennedy's back. He supposedly gave Mantle some steroids but they ended up infecting his hip and keeping him out of the Series except for one at bat. I don't know which story is true; it is certainly true that Mantle had a bad hip going into the Series, but I don't think penicillin, being an antibiotic, would have caused an infection. A steroid might have. (And these weren't PEDs like we heard about years later.)
Ehhhh... but NO NL team in 62 had what the Bombers had the year before...the 62 Mets and Colts were a hitters dream....but no M&M boys were to be found....not even among Willie, Henry, Ernie, or Frank Robinson....
What an idiotic argument. The hitting numbers are always inflated in an expansion year. Learn your baseball history. Just because no NL team hit 240 homers doesn't mean the numbers didn't go up. What did Maris do after the expansion year.... yeah, not much.
You sound a little bitter. Baseball history tells us the 61 Yankees was one of best teams ever. By the way, Maris had a wrist injury. Could it be you're a Yankee hater?
@@dariowiter3078 It's carousing, dumb ass And I bet there was plenty of taunting. There damn sure was a lot of riding and name calling of other players from the dugouts. Like I said, I doubt it was as pure as you want to think.
I was at this game with my Mother and three older brothers. Mickey Mantle put on a show in batting practice that was amazing. I remember Vada Pinson having to field a lot of base hits and make a lot of throws toward home plate. I hated Whitey Ford for beating my team that day. I was seven years old.
Dwight, I was six going on seven and was growing up in Boston area. I was a Yankee fan then and until 1964. Believe it or not the NFL Giants were popular in Boston and the Yankees were not universally hated in Boston back in 1961 by young Boston athletes.
Have you ever been back to the former site of Crosley Field?....I saw online that the location of the old home plate is painted on the ground in an industrial area parking lot.
+Bill Smith LOL....I think they even had a baseball card from the late '50s with Big Klu not wearing an undershirt. Too bad the Reds don't go back to those sleeveless uniforms with the names UNDER the number on the back and the baseball with the mustache on the front side. They ranked up there with the Kansas City A's with the most colorful uniforms of that era.
@@charliekucharski2079 I agree. I wish the Reds had kept those cool looking uniforms during the '70s when The Big Red Machine was on top of the world. I grew up 130 miles east of Houston and got to meet Pete Rose, Sparky Anderson and George Foster when getting autographs outside the Astrodome back in 1973.
My father went to WS games at Crosley in 1940 and in 61, and all the home WS games at Riverfront in 1972 , and 75. He and I went to all the playoff games against Pittsburgh in 90 and then one WS game that same season against Oakland
See now that Aaron Judge is one away from tying Roger and two for surpassing him for the most home runs in a season in the AL, Maris family is attending Yankee games to see if he can surpass him.
I remember going to crosley field in the early 60's. it seemed like an explosion of color after watching them on black and white tv. also liked to hear the beer sellers say "Hudy here" for hudepohl beer.
That man was an incredible glove. Not a great hitter, though he had some long ball pop in his bat, but there were several years he deserved the AL GG ahead of Brooks.
The Reds put up a pretty good fight through 3 1/2 games. Their pitching was unreal that year, as you had Jay, Purkey, Hunt, Ken Johnson. Then you had the three Jim's: Maloney, O'Toole, and author Brosnan. Henry, who split the closer role with Brosnan, was unreal with a 2.19 ERA! Then you had Jones, who's nickname was "Roadblock". Cincinnati didn't include Nunn on the postseason for some reason. Oddly enough, in the Fall Classic, it was their catchers who kept it close. Edwards hit, I kid you not, .186 in the regular season, but revved it up in the World Series, batting .364 in three games. Darrell Johnson, who wasn't even an active player when the season started, went through three teams, the Reds being the last. He hit over .300 with Cincinnati, and got into two Fall Classic games, going 2-4. O'Toole really pitched well, as well. The Yankees two big guns were Hector Lopez and Bobby Richardson in this Fall Classic. Lopez only came up to the plate a dozen times, but hit a home run, a triple, and drove home seven men! Richardson didn't have an RBI, but collected nine hits, plus was robbed of one on a great catch by Chacon @ 27:36! The Reds actually fielded amazing in the fourth contest, but the Yankees overwhelmed 'em. For those wondering, that's the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge @ 14:11, which crosses the Ohio River. It was opened in 1866, by the same man who designed the Brooklyn Bridge (which opened seventeen years later). Both are still in service.
I play Baseball strat-o-matic and have both these teams in my collection offered by the game for purchase. The 1961 and 1927 Yankee teams are the best I have in my collection so no surprise there. The 1930s (late 1920s) A's teams with Lefty Grove are an overlooked great team. I am sure familar with the 1961 Yankees and Reds teams through this very realistic stat game. This was a very good Reds team. Post, Coleman, and Freese gave them power but were weak on defense. A great team needs the balance of hitting, pitching, and defense. Most of the teams in my collection are all the contender teams from the 1960s (1960-1969) when I was a kid born in 1953 and growing up in St. Louis when most in to Baseball. Thanks for placing on RU-vid.
Remember being in Junior High down south in Texas at that time with the old transistor radio pealed to my ear during recess period in 1961. I was a big time Yankee fan, and an avid baseball card collector.
I would sneak radio into the class room. Had to listen to the world serious down Texas way back then. Other boys would ask for the score. Some Octobers, it would still be HOT down here. Windows open in the class rooms. Sometimes hanging our heads out hoping for a breeze.
Probably for a number of reasons. First, Mantle and Maris, 1961 regular season. It was magic. The World Series was going to be anti-climatic, regardless of what happened. Also, it was only five games, which was the fewest games the Yankees needed to win any of there World Series won in the Mantle era. In fact, at this point, it was the only World Series that Mantle's team played in that lasted less then six (win or lose). Also, Mantle only played 2 games and Maris got only 2 hits (But his game 3 hit was HUGE). The "other" stars like Richardson, Skowron, Lopez, Blanchard and Boyer in this Series weren't BIG NAMES (Although Ford sure was). The Reds, meanwhile, would soon field even better teams (Like in '63, when they added someone by the name of Rose to the lineup). Their 1964 team was much better then this (Not that this team was any slouch. Robinson, Pinson, Post, were amazing). 1960, 1962 and 1964, were awesome World Series.
One of the greatest teams ever! They had no weakness and mashed the ball up & down the lineup. Their pitching and fielding was just as good! Their backups like Blanchard and Lopez could of been starters on most other teams!
The Cardenas drive that hit the scoreboard in game 3 haunts me. Yes, if it was on either side it would have been a homer instead of an extra-base hit. .Surely this was a matter of how the Reds had set up their ground rules. In many parks a scoreboard hit above the fence line would be a home run. Had the pitching-rich Reds deliberately set up their ground rules to be pitcher-friendly? if so, it sure backfired on them.
Could very well be. Remember the time Jim Wynn hit it over the scoreboard in 1967? Right up on HW 52! That ball might still be travelling. Incidentally, Cardenas was hitting for Johnny Edwards, who ended up leading all Reds' hitters with a .364 batting average in the World Series. I am currently completing a book that includes a chapter on the 1961 World Series. Edwards is a huge part of the chapter.
Games 1 and 4. Whitey threw two shutout games, and in the latter game (if Maris broke the Babe's singular season home run season in 61 homers), Ford broke the Babe's 29 inning shutout record with 32 2/3's. As said by Mel Allen by 22:55.
After reading his books numerous times, I get a chance to see Jim Brosnan ( aka "Broz"), pitch in the World Series, which he did not cover in his 1961 bestseller, "Pennant Race". I highly recommend this book, as well as his preceding book about the 1959 NL season, entitled "The Long Season"...
I read "Pennant Race" as an 18 year old in 1985. 35 years later I'm now reading it for the 2nd time and "The Longest Season" for the first time. They're what led me to find this video. Great stuff.
@@0Yemiserly1 I enjoyed reading both these books found in our public library. Born in 1953 my best memories of Baseball are from growing up in St. Louis in the 1960s and starting to follow Baseball well in 1960. I also recommend the book October 1964 by David Halbertstam of the Cards and Yankees season. Of course this book is likely more enjoyable if you are a Cards or Yankees fan but is still enjoyable if you are just a Baseball fan. Cards fan
As this and a few other videos on RU-vid successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
Great post, I agree, especially about the classic ballparks. I started collecting Baseball Cards in 1962 at the age of 5. Dizzy Dean & Pee Wee Reese were doing the Yankee TV broadcasts then. And later in the 60’s I never missed the Saturday Game of the Week.
When I was about six years old, my Dad bet me 25 cents that the Minnesota Twins were going to win a game. It turned out the game was a re-run on the TV, and Minnesota had actually won the game the previous day. So my Dad had tricked me and taken my money! My Mom got so mad at him, she talked about the incident for years. This was my life!
Actually, Gordy Coleman (1st base) and Gene Frees (3rd) each hit 26 hrs, and Vada Pinson hit .343. Wally Post had about 20 hrs in a part-time role, and Jerry Lynch, pinch-hitter extraordinaire, hit a number of pinch-hit HRs. Crosley Field had the smallest park ion the majors, so that helped, too..
This WS would have been much different,if the great knuckleball😢er,Bob Purkey would have stuck to the knuckler against Blanchard who admitted Purkey could have thrown the knuckler in the dugout and and he'd have swung at,but Purkey threw a slider,home run that tied it in the 8th. Maris' homer won it in the ninth.
Very, very different Yankee team: they relied on the speed of Mickey Rivers and Willie Randolph. When I saw Johnny Bench's first throw in that series, I knew our goose was cooked!
The 1961 Yankees were certainly one of the all-time great teams, no doubt. Not only did they have great power and starting pitching but they had Luis Arroyo closing games. Marshal Bridges wasn’t bad in that role in 1962 but those Yankees never replaced the loss of Arroyo. Everyone also knows how great the 1927 Yankees and the Yankees of 1936-1939 as well as the 1976-1978 and 1996-2001 Yankees were. But somehow the great Yankee teams of the 1950s get overlooked. Their main architects were the team of Casey Stengel and George Weiss. Stengel was a baseball genius, Weiss was a business genius, and together they made a brilliant team building those Yankees. Thus their first five years together Stengel and Weiss won the World Series and after they were forced out the Yankees won four more pennants in a row. The business genius of George Weiss was (with Stengel advising him on which players) to purchase minor league players for e.g. $25,000 and sell them for e.g. $50,000. They made millions of dollars for the Yankees that way and did it so cleverly that for years rival organizations never caught on.
Mantle was playing injured, as he did so often. But the injury was largely the fault of Yankee announcer Mel Allen, the same guy who is narrating this video! Mickey caught a cold near the end of the season and Allen advised him to go see a certain doctor in New York City who would fix him up quick, he was assured. Well, it turns out that the doctor was a rotten quack who was infamous for giving his patients shots of amphetamines. The quack used a dirty needle on Mickey and sure enough he developed an abscess in his hip and missed the last two weeks of the season, ending his chances for breaking Ruth's home run record for a single season. He finished with 54.
+Steven Yourke From comments made to Jane Leavy in her terrific book on Mantle, The Last Boy, the injections made by Dr. Jacobson were made to treat VD, not a "cold".
+Steven Yourke I remember that. Mantle could not finish the season and ended up in the hospital. If that had not happened, certainly Mantle would have had 56 or more homers. Maybe 60 or more. Mantle finally appeared in the World Series and the game I saw in Ohio, Mantle couldn't make it to the end. Outfielder Jack Reed took over for Mantle about the 7th inning. Reed spelled Mantle often in late innings for the next few years. I think that must have been why Reed was called up for he rarely started a game and seldom came to the plate. But could really go get the flies. John Blanchard was huge for the Yankees when Mantle couldn't play at all. Decent average and could deliver the long ball. I thought Tom Tresh would be another Mantle. He was speedy, switch hitter and could hit. And put of some good number for a few years but never panned out like a Mantle or Maris.
Your memory is a bit off Steven Yourke. Mantle missed the final four games of the season, not the last two weeks. He hit his 54th and final home run in game 157 on Sept. 23 in Boston. www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=1961&t=NYA
Yogi possibly is the best player to have play....he owns so many world SERIES RECORDS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS...I think he plays a part in 18 different world SERIES I named my horse after him so I may be a little bias.he holds a hot bat...🧜♀️♥️🧘♂️🧘♀️😇i love yogi and yogisms.fun SERIES ....GOD BLESSINGS 🎯✔💯🇺🇸🌴
The Reds have their own dancers 19:02 - how cool is that? :) Also, the Reds' shortstop Eddie Kasko will be familiar to Red Sox fans as the future manager of Boston in the early 1970's. He led the Reds in hits against the Yankees, with 7 (although all were singles).
"Life imitates art" best describes Mickey Mantle's hip boil he suffered. He got a flu shot but the needle was infected and he suffered the boil on his hip which broke open in Game 4. Kind of like the "Flu Shot Fiasco" "Patty Duke Show" episode where Cathy Lane developed an allergic reaction to Patty's flu shot! (In real life Patty Duke was allergic to the flu vaccine!)
Brooks is the best…not close Look up Graig Nettles fielding record..he had many seasons where he made more errors than Miguel “we’ll keep u down”Miguel Anduhar (Who made 15 errors) Nettles had several years of 20 plus errors.
@@jayclarke5466 and Brooks made 3 errors in ONE inning--stats stats stats, don't mean a damn thing when the game is on the line and 2 strikes/2 outs, etc etc. Going by your paradigm, Brooks would have to be the worst since he's the only 3rd baseman to make 3 errors in one inning. Clete Boyer is the best defensive 3rd baseman I've seen -ever... I did see Brooks and Nettles and Aurelio Rodriguez. Clete was best I've seen - PERIOD
The Ken Burns crowd neglects the fact that NY's sheer dominance in the 50s to early 60s nearly bankrupted the sport resulting in countless franchise shifts. Fans get sick of being the Washington Generals as this era proved.
This is way more entertaining than a ws game by fox with joe buck and all their human interest garbage, the music sounds more appropriate for football tho!
short low rf wall n Yankee stadium led the likes of Ruth,Gehrig,Mantle & Maris to their homerun prowess.Yet Mantle was a switch hitter he still faced mostly rh pitchers as an overwhelming number of pitchers were and are right handed,as customary a switch hitter bats opposite of the opposing pitcher.Even with updated Yankee stadium in 1976 the Yankees sought out lefty hitters as recent as Curtis Granderson 40+ homer seasons and the recent retired Mark Texira
Roberto a point well accepted.Thanks for the facts,though as most left handed power hitters pull the ball,Yankee stadium thru the '60's was right around 300 feet with a low wall in right field yet center field was at 445+ in its years thru 1960's and early part of the 70's.Maris was a pull hitter as was Ruth,Gehrig,Mantle.
bruce....you are someone who can't see the forest from the trees. You can probably count on one hand the number of "cheapie" HRs Mantle and other TRUE power hitters at Yankee Stadium. Would love to see No. 7's numbers with the benefit of today's maple bats and "string bikini-sized" strike zone.
@@brucedigiorgio366 .... native NY'er and lifetime Bronx Bomber fan here. Mantle was NOT a pull hitter !!! Where do you come up with this revisionist history. Mantle was left center to right center. And he had more 400 foot + outs than any hitter I ever saw. And when he pulled to right they were towering and deep. I have been watching the Yanks and MLB for 60. years ! The right field porch meant nothing to Mantle.
Poor old Yogi....he learned that playing left field at the Stadium was no cakewalk....the sun at that time of day was murder....game 2...Wally Post hits a sinking liner to left.....WHOOOPS....LOL
They’d have given ‘27 team a tough time w Ford and other lefties. 61 had more power by a lot…27 pitching a lil better 61 had great defense…and a better bench
