Thanks for the great video if this game. Things sure have changed. No appealing every checked swing, no throwing out every ball that touches the dirt, no 100 pitch limits, fast paced with shorter commercial breaks between innings, and as someone else mentioned here, no constant chatter from the announcers. Baseball was very watchable back then.
I loved this! The starting pitchers go nine plus innings, there's no clock on the pitchers,no clock on the batters, no ghost runners on second base in an extra innings game. Also no one goes on the injured list from running the bases, throwing a baseball, or hitting one.
Loved the Hamms commercials with the bear, and the canoe. Also Brickhouse yelling "hey, hey," when a Cub hit a home run. From the land of sky blue waters, Hamms Beer. As Ernie would say "it's a beautiful day, let's play two!"
Fun fact: As you can see, the Reds caps are two-toned with a red bill and light colored crown. Their home caps crowns were white with red pinstripes matching their home uniforms. Their road caps were light gray without pinstripes matching their road uniforms!
A weekend summer day as a kid, helping my dad paint the garage, or wash the car in the alley, or washing window and screens, Jack Brickhouse, Lloyd Pettit, or Lou Boudreau voice on the transistor radio, announcing the game in a not too fast, steady metered pace, everything seemed right in the world during those hours.
This is such a great video. WGN shot this game with just 4 cameras and it still looks great. No replays, no animated graphics, and no scorebug. Just shoot the scoreboard occasionally for those people watching in a bar somewhere. Bars were some of the earliest customers to purchase color tv sets. Very few people had them in their homes yet.
I can’t get over how crisp the audio sounds on this. Outstanding quality. Listen to all those kids in attendance! They’re really into the game too. MLB could sure use some of that today.
I've been saying for years MLB should be giving tickets to kids, youth groups and youth teams especially on weeknights when barely a quarter of the park is full. MLB are the worst self marketers ever.
Baseball and baseball players seemed more accessible to kids back then, ballparks were affordable. Us kids would get there early and get autographs while they were warming up. Leo Durocher (coaching then for the Cubs) once good naturedly called us truants and told us we better do well in school. They were our heroes back then, boys could be found in every neighborhood playing baseball in the streets (rubber ball) and parks, or playing "fast pitching" using a brick wall like that of a school in the summer, chalking in a strike zone box. They certainly were the good old days, I, like many others, would gladly go back in a flash.
This is so much faster than today, it's remarkable. On the other hand, it's wild how the game looks very much the same otherwise. Baseball is timeless.
Maloney pitched 190 plus pitches and an extra inning for no hits allowed.Thats what I call being at cause over your own body.The hell with the body. Get the win without giving up a hit
As a kid in the 60s, watching the Cubs at Wrigley, there were so many such disappointments. Yet the cerebral pace, the character of baseball when it wasn’t so commercial as it is today, was golden.
Yeah amazing that he pitched 184 pitches. It wouldn't be allowed in today's game and I miss that aspect of the starting pitcher role. AND I don't understand why management has changed the game like this, really. I mean, they say it is due to pitch count to avoid injuries, but those guys like Maloney and Jackson seldom went down with injuries. It doesn't make any sense and no one ever presents statistics about injury correlation with numbers of pitches pitched. Also note that teams bunted more often then (although most of the players, just like today, stink at laying down a good bunt.) The current 2023 Reds team play the game like back then.. more running game with exceptionally good bunting (except the starting pitching pitches short of course) It was fun to see this "old fashioned" no-hitter in spite of the 10 walks and 1 HBP.
Thanks for posting, really fun to watch. Five years later, Tommy Harper would be the first ever all-star game representative for the Milwaukee Brewers. Used as a pinch runner in the game, tried to steal & was thrown out by Johnny Bench. Funny the things we remember.
I stopped watching MLB years ago but sure love these old broadcasts because I love baseball. No interest in modern day players and the way they play today.
I love the camera angle at 1:36. Behind and slightly to the left of home plate instead of directly behind the catcher. You can see more of the field, and the view isn't blocked by the catcher/hitter/umpire/pitcher. . Maloney was still around by the time I started watching baseball, around 1969-70, but he was shot by then. I think he was still on the roster when they won the pennant in 1970, but he wasn't pitching much even though he was still young, because his arm went bad. The Reds had a lot of pitchers in those days who were really good young, but all ended up with sore arms. I'm thinking of Maloney, Don Gullett, Gary Nolan, Wayne Simpson, Milt Wilcox and even Wayne Granger, their relief ace. Even Jim Merritt, who they picked up from Minnesota had one good year and his arm was ruined. I remember seeing Wayne Simpson as a rookie and never saw a more impressive young pitcher, but his career was basically over after half a season. From what both Nolan and Simpson have said, it was no coincidence all these guys had shortened careers (not Wilcox, but he had to change his style to compensate for lost speed, then he lasted a long time as a junk baller). Simpson and Nolan, as VERY young pitchers, were worked a lot and if they complained their arms were sore, they were told to "suck it up" or were called babies. So they kept sending them out until their careers were ruined. The great Reds teams of the 70s were weak in one department-they never had a Seaver/Palmer/Gibson type ace to anchor their pitching staff. They could have had one in Maloney or Simpson or Nolan or Gullett if they had used even basic common sense in using them and treating their ailments. As good as they were, they could have been even better with their already deadly line up and a pitching staff like the Orioles or Mets had. But love the Reds uniforms from this time. The name under the number seems like a gimmick, but it actually does make them easier to read. I remember Tommy Harper with the Brewers in the early 70s and he was really good. The Cincinnati organization was producing one great player after another in those days. Too bad they didn't know how to manage their pitchers or they could have won 5 or 6 World Series instead of two.
Jim Maloney snapped his achilles tendon running to first base on April 16, 1970; he returned before the end of the season, but was ineffective, and never won another major league game. He and Wayne Simpson, with his undiagnosed torn rotator cuff, were both left off the Reds' post-season roster in 1970.
Amazing how different the game was played and managed in these days compared to now. Maloney, obviously working on a no-hit shutout, was allowed to walk 10+ guys including the opposing pitcher to load the bases in the ninth, and he was left in by his manager. No way that would happen today, DH or no DH.
One of the main reasons nobody other than Pete Rose has even gotten within a dozen hits of DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak since 1941. DiMaggio played in many games where he faced the same pitcher all game or most of the game. Today, the average batter faces 3 different pitchers every game, keeping batters off balance and practically eliminating batters being able to face tired or overworked pitchers.
Jim Maloney was one of the forgotten power pitchers of the decade of the 1960's. He won 134 games with a .615 winning percentage and a 3.19 ERA. He threw 30 shutouts and struck out more than 200 batters four times, with a high of 265. He tended to walk a lot of batters, however. In his career he pitched a nine inning no hitter, a ten inning no hitter, and lost another no hitter in the eleventh.
Maloney only pitched seven full seasons as a starter and he was washed up by age 30. He threw very hard but his control was always a problem. He averaged 3.9 walks per nine innings and led the league in wild pitches twice.
@@syourke3 He tore his achilles after only 3 starts 1970. That effectively ended his career. While his K's/9 was lower in 1969, he also had a lower WHIP, lower ERA and higher win % than he had in 1967 or 1968. That injury had a potentially huge impact on the trajectory of the Big Red Machine in the early 70s.
@@syourke3 He 'was washed up' because he tore his Achilles running out an infield hit. He was a standout all round athlete. He also was known to take a drink or two.
Pitching style similar to Nolan Ryan......k's and bb's........threw hard and effectively wild. Oh, and his right arm was probably 2 inches longer than his left after this game.
Wasn't Jim Maloney one of the most feared pitchers to go up against? Right up there with Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale? He walked 10 batters and hit another in this 10 inning no-hitter. He seemed to have control problems. That could've been part of the reason. Great video from the glory days of MLB. Thanks for posting.
The Cubs had Fergie Jenkins as a reliever but obviously that didn’t last long. Jenkins went on to have a stellar career at one point amassing 6 straight 20 or more win seasons
These were the Reds of my youth, best offense in baseball. The outfield could play offense and defense, Harper, Pinson, Robinson were a tight unit. Reds nearly won the NL in 64. Dodgers had too much great.pitching in 65 and 66 for Reds to beat them. HoFers on the field: Rose, Robinson, Santo, Williams, and Banks. Perez did not play as Deron Johnson had his best season at 3rd with over 100 RBI. I loved the Reds uniforms, the helmet color was gray white.
I did some research, and it was 3 weeks later that Sandy Koufax had a perfect game against the Cubs in LA. So 1965 saw the last Wrigley no hitter by an opposing pitcher and the last time the Cubs were no hit until Cole Hamels accomplished both on July 25th 2015.
Gotta love the Reds white batting helmets! Notice the players who didn't wear a batting helmet? Billy Williams is playing right field! He was in left field shortly after.
That same season, Koufax tossed a perfect game vs Chicago. The losing pitcher was Bob Hendley, and he gave 1 hit. The only other base runner reached on an error, and the run was unearned. Two base runners in the game.
I'm at a loss as to why "Jim Maloney" and "No-hitter" do not appear in the title of this video. If you wanted views, why omit those crucial details? All the same, thank you for posting this. And thank you for leaving the commercials in! 28:33 Now I know what the line "when the Hamm's bear says it's closin' time, you won't have far to crawl" is alluding to in the David Frizzell song "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino". Makes sense now.
Those terms are in the tags for the search algorithm. My goal is not just 'views' in numbers but more of a archival function in which I share these videos with members in my Reds FB group. This video was not made by me and not monetized , I discovered this in a Reds video archive this is how it was titled I uploaded here for easy sharing but I'm also thankful that commercials remain. Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching.
The National league played a different type of game from the American League. Every game was "get on base" conscious and used speed, sacrifice bunts & fly balls, and singles to score. It was perfect for Pete Rose.
Frank Robinson's batting stance was different before he came to the Orioles the next year. It became more upright with the bat away from his body more.
Banks had a different one as well. Way off the plate. Not sure how Mr. Cub handled pitches on the outside corner, but at 34, he had a productive season.
Was balk rule different in 65?? Maloney never comes to a stop with runners on base. Just curious. Great to see the game being played the way i recall it from my youth.
...I Agree with you! Very sad time for him. I remember his announcement to leave prof baseball. In MHO he was a player destined for the Hall. Imagine how much greater the 1970-to-'79 "Big Red Machine" might have been with Jim still on board? .A notable 2 time 20 game winner. In his last year Jim went 12-5, w/a 277 era. Overall went 134-84 over 12 years & he was just establishing his groove. A selfless hard worker he gave over 200 innings a season multiple times, with two 250 + innings pitched seasons!' its hard to get that kind of work ethic in today's baseball players! Also, In the career stats category "Most Similar Careers By Ages" he's paired up with Roger Clemens, Steve Carlton, and the great Sandy Koufax, not bad company for a pitcher most newer fans never even heard of.
I had to look up his stats. He would command a $100 million bucks a year today looks like he was double figures wins losses complete games most years and multiple shutouts most years, way over 200 plus innings most years. He's not a 300 game winner but I take him into the first game of the world series and the last
The most amazing thing to me in this game, besides Maloney, was the Cubs sending the pitcher up to bat in the bottom of the ninth, with two out and two on. Talk about balls of steel. Both managers would be fired after the game today.
Larry Jackson was a good hitting pitcher (hitting .225 in 1965, better than a lot of everyday players back then). There was no reason to pinch hit for him, especially since he got on with a walk the previous inning. I wonder if he got called on to pinch-hit in a situation where he was not pitching.
@@WaltGekko I wasn't aware of Jackson being a good hitting pitcher. I just watched the beginning of the video again, with Maloney getting a base hit. Looked like he could swing the bat well too.
Yeah that was an unreal move even by the standards of the day, leaving the pitcher in to hit in the bottom of the ninth in such a crucial situation. Must have had something to do with the so-called "College of Coaches", which always sounded like a hair-brain idea to me ..
The Red Sox had Ken Brett. There's a video of him hitting a double against the Senators. He was the youngest player in World Series history (only 19, Game 6, 1967). I can't understand how a guy with so much talent got traded so many times.
Remarkably, 6 of the Reds and 3 of the Cubs players in this game are *still alive* as of June 2023. *REDS LINEUP:* #17 *Tommy Harper (LF) - 82 years old* #14 *Pete Rose (2B) - 82* #28 Vada Pinson (CF) - died in 1995 at the age of 57 #20 Frank Robinson (RF) - died 2019 @ 83 #18 Gordy Coleman (1B) - died 1994 @ 59 .....#25 *Marty Keough (1B) - 89* #11 Deron Johnson (3B) - died 1992 @ 53 #6 *Johnny Edwards (C) - 84* #16 *Leo Cardenas (SS) - 84* #46 *Jim Maloney (P) - 83* *CUBS LINEUP:* #20 Don Landrum (CF) - died 2003 @ 66 #27 *Doug Clemens (LF) - 84* #26 *Billy Williams (RF) - 85* #14 Ernie Banks (1B) - died 2015 @ 83 #10 Ron Santo (3B) - died 2010 @ 70 #6 Ed Bailey (C) - died 2007 @ 75 #18 Glenn Beckert (2B) - died 2020 @ 79 #11 *Don Kessinger (SS) - 80* .....#19 Jimmy Stewart (PH-SS) - died 2012 @ 73 #46 Larry Jackson (P) - died 1990 @ 59
This was on WGN-TV Channel 9 Reds pitcher Jim Malhoey No-Hit the Cubs. Till the Phillies Cole Hamels broke that streak of a visiting pitcher No-Hitter at Wrigley Field was seen on WLS-TV Channel 7 and NBC Sports Philadelphia.
There was a better one about 5 years later. Harry thinks he's still on break when he remarks to Arty. " omg would you look at the size of...Hello again this is Harry Carey back with you Wrigley Field...". I laughed my ass off seeing it live. I miss Harry, Steve, Tom and Arty...good times
Great color video. I used to run home from school to watch the Cubbies on good old Channel. Does anyone know who played the opening of WGN baseball telecasts with the dixieland jazz version of "Take me out to the ballgame?"
actually the only time fake crowd noise was used by certain teams was when the stadiums were empty during the pandemic . If you've been to a ballpark in the last 20 years you'd realize parks are more family friendly so you hear a lot of kid chatter. Now 30 years ago at Riverfront Stadium you rarely heard the kids. ;-)
And even when Durocher took over, the it was lean, especially in September 1966 when they had a game draw just 530 fans and the Cubs had quite a few games back then when they drew fewer than 1,000 fans (which would NEVER happen now).
Up until this point the Cubs had only surrendered four no hitters against them. This would make five. A month later, the Cubs would suffer their sixth when Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers pitched a perfect game against them. After that, the Cubs would not fall victim to a no hitter for 50 years, when Cole Hamels of the Phillies no hit them at Wrigley Field, breaking a streak of 7920 games without being no hit .
That Koufax PG vs Cubs a month later …No hit for Cubs, 1 Hit for Dodgers…Lou Johnson scored 1 run on a SF. Unreal…no wonder they lower the Mound after Gibson s 1.12 ERA
Even Brickhouse said how those high pitch count wreaked a lot of wear & tear on arms. So even as early as the 60s the wisdom of leaving a pitcher in the game late was debatable.
It's no wonder Maloney was done by 30; I'm surprised any pitcher lasted past 35 in this era. Now managers get anxious when a pitch count reaches 100. On this day, Maloney threw A HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE. Koufax was also done by 30; Walter Alston had worked him to death.
Maloney's number of pitches had nothing to do with his achilles injury. What a pitcher is able to handle as far as work is an individual thing-there are no hard and fast rules. Ferguson Jenkins, when with the Cubs, through 20 - 30 complete games year after year with no arm problems. As far as Im concerned a lot of modern players make so much money they are afraid to work too hard
@@wizardglick9609 Pretty sure Koufax would readily agree that Alston overused him, especially in the '65 WS, but during other crucial stretches as well.
@@kurtwehrmeister5684 oh? Has it been documented that that's how he felt? I've never seen anything that says that. I have read that the arthritis that stopped his career was not pitching related.
Jim Maloney reminds me in one way of Don Gullett: Beastly fastballs, could throw it for strikes all day, but did not mix in enough curveballs. Both had very good hooks, seemed to not show much confidence in them.
The Reds might have been the first team to have names on their uniforms. Notice that the names are UNDER the numbers, as opposed to nowadays when they are over the numbers.
