Charles McCarron Spoken like a true Giants fan! I feel your pain, losing a 7th game 1-0 with the bases loaded in the 9th, with your “hammers” coming up to the plate has to be devastating ! I got a taste of it the following year when the good- pitch, no-hit Dodgers swept the Yanks in four!
Not really. Deep in the game like this they SF should have had a pinch runner at first. Fellpe Alou nor his brothers were not speedsters. Plus Maris was just avg fielder. If Mays was on first.I bet he Scores. This was a mental error by the manager. The Yankees were NOT the better team. Remember they got beat bad in 63 and beaten again in 64. The only series in the 60s they should have won Was against Cincy. NY would not sign black or latin players. Plain racism. It cost them. The teams that beat them had plenty of both. I don't hate the Yankees, but I am glad they got beat 3 out of 5 series in the early 60s. I really wish the Giants won this one.
I was lucky to see Mays, Clemente, and Aaron play...you can't do better than those three outfielders IMO. When Clemente died I lost interest in baseball...it hit me hard.
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.
The game 7 win for the W.S championship for the Yankees was 57 years ago today. I remember Richardson catching the final out for the Yankee victory as if it happened today.
richardson made a TREMENDOUS RELAY CATCH 2 inches off the ground from roger maris in the 9th inning where the ball was sinking since maris was slightly off balance from PREVENTING THE BASEBALL from going into the right field corner!!!!!!!!!9 out of 10 times nobody will catch that baseball cleanly like bobby richardson did because if he does not catch that SINKING relay throw from roger maris the runner approaching 3rd base will easily score and the runner heading to 2nd base will be on third base with one out and a tie game!!!!!!!!richardson's "SAVING" grab saved the world series for the yankees along with tom tresh's great catch off willie mays in the 7th inning!!!!!!! now with one out and a man on 3rd base they for sure will walk willie mccovey intentionally but nevertheless the giants would win the world series BUT THE Y DID NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!after such heartbreak for ralph terry in the 1960 world series poetic justice was deserved for such a MASTERFUL complete game performance for ralph terry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@robertperrella4194 I remember reading where Felipe Alou never forgave himself for not advancing the runner to second ... the runner (?) ... younger brother Mateo.
@MANCHESTER UNITED Yes soccer is watched by Approx 3.2 billion people. But unfortunately it is also the most boring sport, played by a bunch of pussies that lay on the ground if they hurt their little toe. Soccer is about as interesting as watching 2flies having sex.... Real Men who play hurt are Rugby, and American football....
I'm watching this historical video from the year of 1962, coincently the year I was born and turned the same 62 years old , excellent coincidences, by the way Iam a fan of the fabulous Broklyn Dodgers, today in Los Angeles.
I'm so grateful that this film contains footage from Game 2 ~ October 2,1962 and Game 3 ~ October 3,1962 of the 1962 Three Game National League Playoff between The San Francisco Giants & The Los Angeles Dodgers. In Game 2 Maury Wills slid home to win the second game 8~7. It was Maury Wills' 30th Birthday! Sadly, though Tommy Davis homered off Giants Juan Marichal to give the Dodgers a 3~2 lead and Maury Wills stole his 103rd and 104th bases, the Los Angeles Dodgers lost Game 3 in the 9th inning.The Dodgers went into the 9th inning leading 4~2. Instead of bringing in Don Drysdale as a reliever to nail down the pennant, Manager Alston saying he wanted Drysdale to start Game 1 of the 1962 World Series!!!, instead brought in Stan Williams and the Dodgers eventually lost 6~4. It was a heart breaking loss! Sandy Koufax was on the disabled list for a couple of months which resulted in the Giants and Dodgers ending up tied at the end of the season. Koufax pitched Game 1 of the Playoff in San Francisco but was rusty and pitched only a few innings and lost. Koufax left the game after home runs by Willie Mays and Jim Davenport gave the Giants a 3-0 lead when Sandy left the game. The Giants won Game 1 8-0. The Dodgers played in all four three game playoffs in Major League Baseball history ~ 1946 vs The St. Louis Cardinals, 1951 vs The New York Giants, 1959 vs The Milwaukee Braves & 1962 vs The San Francisco Giants.
You can't beat a World Series with the the Yankees and either the Dodgers or Giants. But after 1958, it would only be a coast to coast World Series not an intracity one. Not bad at all. A lot of great pennant races in 1960s before the 2 leagues went to divisional play in 1969. 1967 AL pennant race with 4 teams in the hunt on the last weekend. 1964 NL pennant race with the Phillies choking and the Cardinals getting the pennant instead. 1966 NL with the Pirates, Dodgers, and Giants trading 1st place. 1965 NL between Dodgers and Giants. Roseboro messed with Marichal. But I am a child of the 1980s and the 1986 was the best World Series in the 80s or 1982 or 1985 or 1987. 1988 had a Hollywood ending in Game 1 of the World Series! In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.
The year I was born and the team that I grew up with ... the Giants. Love seeing the open cyclone fencing from back then. Started going to the Stick in 1969. Great memories ......
... I was 15 at that time, and was massively disappointed that the Giants did not win the last game.... that was so close. Had Willie's liner been a foot or two closer to second base, Richardson would not have been able to get it... the tying run would have scored from third... and who knows regarding the runner at second . . . .
I use to go to the Polo Grounds to watch my Giants. Had to wait 56 years between W.Seris wins, 1954-2010. But it was worth it, I consider myself to be the number 1 fan of the Giants....now I saw 4 wins....no more I know for me..lol..
when the giants left the polo grounds for san francisco did a lot of fans in the new york area followed the giants like yourself????? i t looks like in the 1962 world series there might have been a few thousand fans at yankee stadium still rooting for the giants!!!!!
@@robertperrella4194 My father worked for Knickerbocker beer who sponsered the Giants in the 50s, use to get free tickets, maybe 10games a year. Polo Grounds could hold 40-45 thousand maybe more. Between 51-57 there was usually 10-20tops very poor attendance. Except for 54 season...they were losing money and owner H. Stoneham was convinced to go to California by Dodger owner Omalley A great number of fans remained Loyal. And NY still has a lot of Giant fans...but attendance was the reason they left.....I became a die-hard fan in October 51..and still follow today...Tks
@@robertperrella4194 Just a bit of info. About Bobby Thompson. Homer in 51 playoff.against the hated Dodgers.. Take a few minutes and Google Russ Hodges call..the Giants win the Pennant. it is the most amazing sport story ever. 1 out of a million people know the true story about the famous call, we all have seen it a thousand times...it will blow your mind. How a young fella from Brooklyn saved that call with a tape recorder, or nobody would ever have heard it...tell your friends to Google it, amazing amazing.....
A few years ago I replayed this World Series using Strat-O-Matic's advanced board game. (They hadn't come out with a Super Advanced version yet.) In a hard fought contest, the Giants swept the Yankees in 4 straight games. The scores were close and the Giants didn't by any means blow the Yankees out. These were two very good teams and the Giants winning in the real World Series OR in a simulation shouldn't be a surprise at all.
I key was the most gifted player ever. If he had taken care of his body like he should have he would have set untreatable records for home runs. He hit 536 without trying to take care of himself. I guess that all adds to his legend.
So how many HRs would Ruth have hit had HE tried to take care of himself? As Yankee sluggers have historically proven, one can reach that short porch drunk as well as sober.
Agreed! Mickey thought he was going to die early like his dad and another one of his family members so he wanted to get the most out of life and abused his body! Mickey lost a lot of chances to hit more monster home runs because he walked so much. About 120 times a year.
I have read a book entitled “World Series” a thousand since I came across it in the school library in 1968. I just received the book as a gift from my son. It recounts every World Series from 1903-1967. The final out of the 1962 series describes Bobby Richardson “leaping high, high in the air to grab a line drive by Willie McCovey. I finally got to see the play he described and see that it was a line drive about neck high that Richardson grabbed! I guess it reads better the way Robert Smith described it in his book. None the less, every baseball junkie should go online and get a copy of this great book, you can read about baseball when it was the greatest American sport, not like the political trash that we are stuck with now.
Slo-mo makes that play look more routine than it was. It was a sharp liner that Richardson was able to corral without finding his feet. Never had to elevate, but you can see how tough a catch it was from the way he stumbles trying to hold on.
This is the first WS I ever watched. Unfortunately we had a little black and white TV with an antenna that you always had to screw with. Thrilling finish in the last game.
Yeah, Willie was not a great Wiord Series performer. Mickey Mantle had some good series and a couple of so so. But he did hit 18 Wod Series Homer's including a grand slam.
This is also the first time you saw a big celebration on the field. Usually you see the players happy but racing into the dug out. Here they did a celebration, Dodgers did an even better one this year so I guess this is where it started.
Fourteen glorious years in between!! After 1978, we got another seventeen year reprieve (well, if you’re fussy, you can point out there was no championship 1994 so they missed “only” 16 years.) And don’t forget that their first twenty years in New York went by without a championship. Finally, now that the Diablos have been eliminated in 2021, we’ve got another twelve year term of remission.
My Dad use to call Tom Tresh, Tom Trash. 😆 Oh by the way, why not enjoy an icy cold Coca-Cola! (27:15), (36:22) Also, the ghost of Ernest Hemingway is in the stands (35:15), having died in July of the previous year!
at the 4:00 minute mark that is leo durocher(#2) the third base coach stumbling as he is trying to wave maury wills to come to home plate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many WS did Willie win? Did he ever win a Triple Crown? Yes, Willie was a great one too......saw him in May 1964, first game of Memorial Day doubleheader at Shea Stadium, play shortstop late in blowout win by Marichal, whom I met in the Met Diamond Club well into the 23 inning second game where I got his and Jose Pagan's autographs. Great memories!!!
