I hated the Mets ( as a 10 year old, in 1969) because they had blown past the Cubs to get there and thought that they stood no chance of beating that Orioles team. Years later, I realize that they were a team who made their own destiny and the story of their miracle year contained everything that is great about baseball. The next year the Birds were right back there putting one on the first great "Big Red Machine" team. In 71, they were back against Clemente's Pirates. What a team they had and what a great era for baseball.
We hated the Cubs players equally. They had a Met killer in Ferguson and a superior lineup on paper. The Mets had the lowest team batting average of any World Series champion. They won on pitching and defense.
Not to mention that after the '78 season, the Mets traded Jerry Koosman to the Minnesota Twins. Jesse Orosco, whom the Mets ultimately acquired to complete the trade, was on the mound for the final out of that '86 World Series.
I was six years old when Nolan Ryan pitched in the World Series, and I was 30 when he finally retired in 1993. I spent my childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood watching him pitch, and he just seemed to always be around my entire life. Even though he's been retired for almost 27 years, he's still a big presence in the game.
I remember that World Series I was 12 year's old and Lol I had every Topps baseball card of every player but what I remember most was the outstanding play of Brooks Robinson and the 2 great catches by Tommy Agee I will never forget that.
I was 12 and my younger brother was 10 years old. I was the sports fan, he wasn't. At the beginning o the season, we made a $1 bet who would win the World Series. I chose the Yankees and he chose the Mets. I told him, "No way! They aren't a very good team." I was more-thn-happy for him when I handed him that dollar. 1969- A truly Amazing year!
I remember crystal clear watching The Mets on TV in all of 1969. I was 12 in 1969, living in Brooklyn, NY..Baltimore was like.."Who are these Mets? How can we have a problem with them?.."We're superstars. We're bigger and badder..We look better on paper. No one outside of NY ever heard of those guys..Why should we have a problem with them?" Well I figure, if you're an underdog team with good players, you might need a little help to win a World Series..Like a little World Series MAGIC. And the other team has to have a measley little bad week..Bill Buckner catches that ball every time in a regular season game..Magic..So who were those 1969 Mets..Everyone knew after this series here. THEY were Superstars..Like Joe Nameth and The Jets in '69..Like the 1986 Mets..And those Cubs in 2016..And The Red Sox after that curse was finally lifted..The Mets were my favorites.The Yankees were my favorites. In The 70s especially..And before and after. My dad took me to many games when I was a kid..But only when they played Detroit or Boston. And when The Mets played The Cubs or The Braves..We were supposed to hate those teams..It was a law in NY..After awhile I was like..Hell..Can't The Red Sox finally win a World Series..The freaking Yankess won a hundred times no magic..They just win....But in 1986 I loved seeing Wade Boggs crying in the Red Sox dugout after that game. Mets Magic..I go for the World Series magic..Those Cubs games in 2016..The Big Red Machine, The 1979 Pirates. Red Sox 2004. Just some awesome stuff..So here it was 1969.. My first experience of World Series Magic. The Miracle Mets. The Amazing Mets. Same as 1986..It felt exactly the same..Only I was like 29 in '86....MAGIC..Like when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat..I love that stuff. lol. Can't wait till The Mets do it again frankny65yroldwhitekid
I loved it when every World Series game was played in daylight. Yes, I am familiar with the reasons MLB gives for why they now play all WS games at night, but I do not agree with them. I'm glad I can remember a better time, when a World Series champion was crowned at 4 pm rather than 1 am.
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@vitoduval it was more than just tom terrific. The Mets outfield had a say in this too along with Koosman and Clendenin. It was an an embarrassment for the birds.
Not only were they crowned at 4PM, they were crowned in Mid October instead of November . I remember sneaking transistor radios into class to listen to the games. For the 73 division clincher, my shop teacher let us watch the game on TV in class.
@@bernardoconnor1502 Back then the teachers seemed more willing to allow for slight interruptions in the classroom for at least one week every October, being as this was about as "American" of an activity as any of the scheduled curriculum. I remember during the 1967 Series, I lived in an area that was almost 100% Cardinals fans, yet our school had one teacher who was a New England transplant, and a RABID Sox fan. This teacher would roll out one of those big tube TV's that was on a rolling 5 feet stand every day of a game and she made sure we all got to see the opening ceremony, throwing out the "first balll", introduction of the line-ups and the Star Spangled Banner. That teacher didn't teach Civics, but she might as well have. We all learned a certain reverence for an American institution under her guidance. It didn't matter so much that we weren't able to watch the entire game, first pitch to last out. Just being able to see the first few innings was a big deal. Needless to say, that teacher was well-liked by all, and converted a lot of young Cardinal fans into Bosox fans.
@@jgowin66 Back then teachers had more leeway in how the did their jobs, some were very creative in their methods. Their job was to teach students various skills needed to move ahead in life, to be well rounded individuals, not social indoctrination. Now they are hamstrung by over reaching political agendas, incompetent administration, lack of funding and parents who now expect the teachers to do their jobs as well as their own. Teaching has always been a difficult job, but a good teacher today really has an uphill battle.
Then 12 years old, I was a huge Baltimore Orioles' fan, (not as much today) and I thought after they defeated the Mets easily in Game #1 that perhaps NY would be swept out in 4 games. Baltimore won 108 games that season, the Mets prior to '69 were the laughing stock of baseball ever since their inception in 1962 losing 120 games that first season. Little did I know that after first game it was the Orioles who never won another game. It was the miracle Mets that year, even overcoming a big deficit to the Cubs from the month of August onward to capture the East Divsion. A kid who moved from Baltimore up to the town that I lived in, in CT and myself were the only kids in most of our 7th grade classes who were not voting for the Mets. My then 11 going on 12 year old girlfriend even rooted for the Mets in the World Series even though I highly doubt she could have named players who were on the team other than their star pitcher Tom Seaver. Some crazy things also took place during the last 3 games played in NY. Unbelievable catches by Tom Agee and Ron Swoboda in the outfield, a Mets' player getting hit in the foot by a pitch, (shoe polish found on the baseball itself) which led to the winning run in game #4. Baltimore blowing an early lead in the final game as their star hitters - future Hall of Fame player Frank Robinson and Boog Powell the team's cleanup hitter suddenly could not hit the broad side of a barn. After game #5, when the Mets clinched the World Series, my friend and I had to lick our wounds as many a 7th grade classmate gloated how NY had come out of nowhere to be the champions of baseball. Baltimore did win in 1970. My friend had ended up moving back to Baltimore, as only I could gloat about the Birds wining the 1970 World Series over Cincinnati. The Mets were nowhere close to getting back to the Series. Finally, I agree James about when they play those World Series' games now. It's all about money as baseball has prostituted itself for television and getting the all mighty dollar. World Series games that start at 8 pm and nowadays, last 4 hours + long are a travesty. And the dimwits who run baseball can't seem to understand why young kids no longer get into baseball as I did growing up back in the 1960s. What kid living in the Eastern and Central time zones can stay up to midnight or later on a school night to watch an entire World Series game? Baseball, (which thanks to greed might not even have a season in 2020) has long been replaced by both football and basketball in popularity here in the U.S.
We lived on Long Island then. Mitchell Manor, Military housing. I was at Barnum Woods, 4th grade. Everyone was ecstatic the whole series. I was the only Orioles fan in the entire school. It was great for New York! What a freaking series. My mother was a Mets fan and she went nuts every game. I Love New York.....
Agee's two catches in center to save five runs were two of the best ever. he always had a habit of pounding his glove, right before he made the catch, like he did off paul blair.
Agee’s robbery of Blair, prevented what might have been an inside the park, grand slam home run had it gotten past him. Also, don’t forget about Rocky’s catch in the top of the ninth of G4, as it stifled the Orioles’s rally that would have otherwise given them the lead. As a Mets fan you always held your breath when the opposition hit a ball Rocky’s way. But he saved the game
24:24 Oh to be young and beautiful at the World Series with your entire life ahead of you. This film beautifully captures a bygone era. _Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end..._
In 1969, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in the Superbowl, the New York Knicks upset the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA playoffs, and the Mets upset the favored Baltimore Orioles in the Wold Series. A true trifecta!
If we want to go a little further ahead, starting in January of 1969 and ending on May 8th 1970, New York City was treated to about 17 months of inspirational victories. We know about the Jets and the Mets, but in Game 7 of the NBA Finals Willis Reed heroically stepped onto the court despite being in great pain. The building exploded, the Knicks were inspired and the Lakers were done.
I remember this WS like it was yesterday. Attended many games during the stretch drive of the 1969 season at Shea, including the black cat game vs the Cubs.
50 years later in 2019, the parking lot behind the outfield is now Citi Field and Shea Stadium was demolished and turned into a parking lot for Citi Field. How sad.
What's even more sad is that the Mets if they wanted to, they could have been a dynasty after their win in 1969. But sadly it was not to be. It took until 1986, 17 years to be exact, for the Mets to win another World Series. And following 1986? The Mets went back to their old ways of mediocrity. That's quite pathetic if you ask me. And I'm a Cubs fan of all people.
What's really amazing is that before the 1969 season, the Mets had never won more than 73 games in a season, and that happened in 1968. Before that the Mets were awful... 100+ losses in 5 out of 6 seasons and 96 losses the other season. Even in 1969... the Mets did not start playing great baseball until mid August. The Mets were swept in a 3 game series at Houston ending August 13th. That put the Mets record at 62-51 and 10 games back of first place. Then it got really amazing for the Mets as they would blow by the rest of the teams in the NL East by going 38-11 in their last 49 games to win the division by 8 games. Even more amazing was that 15 of those 38 wins were shut outs. 15 shut outs! The Mets starters in September were (19-6) 2.07 ERA and 15 complete games. Oh, and this is when you know it's your year. On Monday September 15th, the Mets played a game in St. Louis. Steve Carlton of the Cardinals threw a complete game against the Mets striking out an MLB record 19 batters. However, Carlton also allowed two 2-run homers to Ron Swoboda and the Mets won the game 4-3. The Mets hitters strike out 19x but still win the game... Amazing!
I remember that disastrous doubleheader at Shea against Houston, who hit two grand slam home runs in one inning of the first game, and had a ten-run inning in the nightcap
Consider this. In 1965, the Mets had the first draft pick and passed up the best college player in the country, one Reggie Jackson, for a non-entity named Steve Chilcott. Jackson was grabbed by the delighted Oakland A's and the rest was history. In 1966, the Mets had Paul Blair in their farm system and gave him away to the Orioles, where he became a Golden Glove centerfielder and a fine hitter. In 1968, the Mets gave away a young Amos Otis to the Red Sox, where he went on to stardom as a third baseman. Of course, then there was the Kenny Singleton, Tim Foli and Mike Jorgensen trade for Rusty Staub, a fine player, but whom the Met unloaded a few years later for washed up Mickey Lolich. The topper was the Nolan Ryan for washed up Jim Fregosi trade in 1974. So the Mets could have had an outfield of Cleon Jones, Paul Blair and Reggie Jackson, an infield with Kenny Singleton and Amos Otis at the ends, (what a line-up!)and a pitching staff of Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Nolan Ryan, Gary Gentry and Tug McGraw, Ron Taylor, Dick Selma, Don Cardwell and Jim McAndrew. Mike Jorgensen, Ed Kraepool, Ron Swobada and Tim Foli would have been fine backups. We are talking dynasty here. Of course, the Mets gave away Tom Seaver in the late 1970's when he was still in his prime. No team in baseball history had more inept senior management than the Mets.
plus that was before free agency so they could have held on to all those players at until at least the late 70s. i like to think in some alternate universe that is exactly what happened.
Amos Otis became a steady outfielder withthe KC Royals(not the RedSox).....as I grew up as a child during these years the Mets did, in factmake horrible GM decisions with Bob Scheffing and M. Donald Grant(after Joan Payson passed and team ownership changes).....the core of the remaining '69 Mets did it again in 1973 dismantling the Big Red Machine in a 7-game NLCS only to give the A's a second consecutive WS championship(en route to 3 straight)......you make great points, Dennis....if only they were smarter this team could've been a dynasty.....if Ryan, Seaver, and Koosman stayed together they could've carried them through to1977 if only the team had more batting power and better trades
@@carolelees.2107 The League Championship Series was a best-of-5 affair in that era, Carole! It didn't become a best-of-7 affair for both leagues until 1985. Research your history better, lady! 😠😠😠😠😠
@@carolelees.2107 Yes, Otis started out in the Red Sox system and wound up with the Mets. But get this, as per Wikipedia, the Mets were offered Joe Torre from the Braves prior to the 1969 season in exchange for Otis, but the Mets turned them down! Torre went on to the Cardinals and had a series of fine years behind the plate and at third base, including winning the NL batting title and making the All Star team one year. Instead, the Mets sent Otis to the Royals for drug troubled Joe Foy after Otis resisted Gil Hodges efforts to play him at third base! So the Mets could have had a line-up of Joe Torre (or Amos Otis), Reggie Jackson, Paul Blair, Kenny Singleton and Cleon Jones, with a staff featuring Seaver, Koosman, Ryan and Tug McGraw. A tough team to beat!
Yeah, the Mets were notorious for the myriad of bad trades they made during this period but thankfully they completely turned it around in the early/mid 80s while building those glory years teams, starting with Mazzilli for Darling and Terrell (who ended up turning into Howard Johnson a year later). Also Keith Hernandez, Sid Fernandez, David Cone, Bobby Ojeda, all of the trades that got these players can be fairly characterized as steals or at the very least one sided. Unfortunately they then reverted back to their inept ways with trades like Juan Samuel for Dykstra and McDowell
The 1960s marked an era when expansion teams were coming into baseball. The New York Mets premiered in 1962. It took them just eight seasons to be World Champions.
It’s midnight late in 2020, and I’m just seeing that my childhood baseball hero, Texas Rangers number 34, the 5700+ strikeout, 7 no hitter pitcher Nolan Ryan Express, had already been playing Major League for a year when he helped the New York Mets win a World Series, in 1969.
The amazing Mets of 1969, I remember running home from school to watch this great game.I was just nine years old and still a fan of the Amazings mets do or die.
I remember 69 well, I went to my first cub game on my 10th birthday in Aug. Then came Sept. And the Mets overtook my beloved cubbies and end up winning the world series
I remember that summer the Mets won 100 games saw them win a double header both games ending 1-0 against the Pirates in Forbes Field and in each game the Pitcher drove in the winning run. I was 14 years old, it surely was their year
I was 11 yrs old... the doubleheader where Cardwell and Koosman drove in the only runs! How about Steve Carlton striking out 19 batters against us, but we still beat St. Louis 4-3 on two (2 run) homers by none other than Ron Swoboda! Yep-you just can't make this up!! :)
What a memorable year 1969 was. I appeared (and got paid) for the appearance on the 1st pilot introduction episode of Sesame Street...... but more importantly our Mets shocked the baseball world and became world champions!! I was 11 years old... just AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
I remember what a big shock the WS turned out to be. Everybody was pretty astounded that the Amazins won the NL pennant that year, but nobody expected them to defeat the mighty, stacked Oriole team that won 109 games during the regular season and steamrolled the Twins 3-0 in the ALCS. And in five games, no less!
The music really gets you revved up and you want to go out on a field and pretend to get big hits and make great catches! That's what I did the next day as a 14 year old after watching this hi lite film during a rain delay in Cincinnati in 1973!
Hard core Orioles fan here! First, I want to give everyone on this thread a big Pat on the back! I read all of the comments and you guys know your sports and your baseball. Very high quality content here and it was very impressive to read. I was only a year old when this series was played, and I barely remember '71. We lived in a apartment in the basement at the time, and a really nice old man was cursing his ass off all baseball season, and I remember him telling my mom that the Orioles and Colts can make a grown man cry. Those words stuck with me as I officially became a Bird in 1972 when a Orioles hat was under the Christmas tree. The next season I would find myself battling my little brother for control of the TV on the weekends when the Orioles game was on. The Birdseed lost 2 excruciatingly tough Championship Series to Oakland in '73 and '74 but I wasn't old enough to feel that real fan hurt when your team loses in a championship scenario yet. In 1975, I really started to understand the game, and enjoy the players. The '75 Series still resonates to this day because it was then, I wanted to see my Orioles on NBC with Curt Gowdy or Joe G say we're the World Champions! We had Reggie in '76 but all I remember people saying is we better win it in '76 cause Reggie is gone in '77! It happened just like that, except for we came in 2nd and had to watch Reggie win it all, and be "The Man" in '77 for the Yankees, who I didn't hate until '78 when they had 3 straight Pennants and back to back World Championships. Then came '79! Oriole Magic...Feel It Happen! I saw it happen, many times from '79 - '83! Those years I lived, cheered, cried, n died Orioles baseball. Those teams were the most exciting team in baseball hands down. What they accomplished and how they did it was remarkable. Real baseball fans from that era can vouch that those Orioles teams were exciting, and fundealmentally excellent. I went to bed going "WOW" a many night. I knew though, if the '83 team didn't get it done, we were going to be in big trouble because the core was aging fast and everyone knew that after the disappointments of 1979, '80, '81 and '82 (walking down the Brewers in the last weekend only to lose the Division at home, in game 162, and it was Earl Weaver's last game) we has been so damn close, we had no choice but to Win It All or else! You guys know exactly what I'm talking about! The team was going to look a lot different in '84 regardless (the didn't like to say "rebuild" in Birdland) but everyone knew what was going to go down, and that made it even more sweeter when they got it done. The 1983 edition of my beloved Birds were on a mission and they won with a urgency and class befitting a true Champion, and if you ask any hard core fan, they will tell you that the '83 team was the best of them all for all the reasons I mentioned and more.
A very young Nolan Ryan's 3rd game appearance in relief...was his only World Series appearance of his career. His only World Series ring. Every team he ever played for, was an expansion team. In the case of the Texas Rangers...they were the 2nd incarnation of The Washington Senators. (The Minnesota Twins being the 1st). Who could have known then...he would go on to achieve 7 no-hitters, and break the all-time strikeout record? Both records...he still holds today. 👍☀️👍
Both records will never be broken because of the way the pitching diagram is set up as well as the shrinkage of the strike zone today. When a pitcher reaches around the 100th pitch mark, he might as well call it a day and let the setup guy and closer finish the rest of the game. It's all about the home runs, but I'd rather see good pitching instead.
I remember writing a poem for my high school English class. It celebrated the success and anomaly of three amazing New York sports stories. The NY Jets beat the highly favored Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl or the NFL Championship, the NY Mets beat the highly favored Baltimore Orioles, and before the NY Knicks beat the highly favored LA Lakers for the NBA Championship they had to go through Unseld, Marin and the Pearl and the Baltimore Bullets to win it all. NY beat Baltimore three times to win three separate championships. Yup, I got an easy A on that paper. Too bad I didn't save it. But I have the memories.
We were so naive when this was made. I remember my uncle, who grew up watching Babe Ruth, telling me, after seeing this after one rain delay, "I was watching the '69 World Series highlights last week. What a difference in the contact the hitters were making that year versus now!" Lol, it took me years to realize the crack of the bat was piped in post-production!
The theme music used in the opening and the ending reminds me of Brian Bennett's "Capitol City" used in the MLB's 1976 World Series Highlight Film. Filled with rock music, and trumpets......
Great video. I showed up here to get more info on the underlying story line from one of my favorite movies, Frequency. I can't believe I didn't know that my favorite all time player, Nolan Ryan, played in this series.
I remember when I was 13 in my Junior High science class, when the Mets went ahead of the Orioles in game 5, everyone cheered and the teacher couldn’t get us to calm down for most of the rest of the class. One of the students had a transistor radio with an earphone to hear it and called it out. The memories.........
That man at 0:42 saying 'Asombrosos' ('Amazing' in Spanish), is, like Joe Garagiola, a Ford C Frick Award honoree, Buck Canel (1906-1980). He was a Spanish language broadcaster for the Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees & NY Mets, and called 42 World Series for Latin America. In the HOF ceremonies of 1985 he was posthumously recognized with the Frick Award.
A time before I-phone, head phones, Sony Walkmans, etc... The transistor radio and ear piece were the tech of the time. I was 2.5 years old at this time.
Edition blooper at 10:02: Game 2, Don Clendenon at bat with Elrod Hendricks catching behind him, which is a shot from the previous game because Andy Etchebarren started catching duties in Game 2. A couple of seconds later from another camera angle now you see Etchebarren (#8) catching.
The Mets have won two World Series in their history. The two series MVPs were Donn Clendenon, featured here, and Ray Knight. Both wore number 22. Both were acquired by the Mets in their early 30s, Knight at 31, Clendenon at 33. Clendenon played in 281 games with the Mets, with 957 plate appearances. Knight played in 254 games with the Mets, with 932 plate appearances. Two years after winning World Series MVP Knight was out of baseball. Three years after winning World Series MVP Clendenon was out of baseball.
That man at 0:42 saying 'Asombrosos', 'Amazing' in Spanish, is none other that the1985 Ford C Frick Award honoree Buck Canel (1906-1980), a broadcaster for the Spanish speaking fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees & NY Mets who also called 42 World Series for Latin America.
Was there ever a more enjoyable World Series? I was 10; watching this series hooked me on baseball for 25 years. (Until they cancelled the 1994 series - I never forgave baseball for that.)
FDzerzhinsky same as me, i never forgave them either. i think wanting to see if Gwynn would hit .400 or not was the last time i actually cared. i don't follow the NFL or NBA anymore either. what a shame it's all become, sports used to be fun to follow.
Good times, seeing Yogi coaching first base. And I was happiest for Kranepool, who suffered through a shit-ton of astonishingly bad baseball leading up to the Miracle
I been watching these world series videos. And it was here in 1969 where I noticed the difference in how people dressed. Literally 2 years ago fans would wear church clothes to games, now fans dress up casually in jeans ect...
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.
Game Four saw Baltimore manager Earl Weaver get the rest of the afternoon off when he argued balls and strikes with plate umpire Shag Crawford. Weaver became the first skipper since Charlie Grimm in 1935 to get ejected from a World Series game.
@@ANTHONY0808able Weaver got ejected because he followed Crawford out to the plate after being warned he can't argue balls and strikes...As far a bad blood goes u probably have a point because the Mets won the game on an obvious interference call when JC Martin was hit on the wrist in fair territory...Gowdy is wrong the interference does not have to be intentional...Martin should have been called out..Crawford wasnt going to give the Orioles a thing after listening to Weaver argue close pitches...hence a no call to end the game..
Brooks Robinson was a great one on defense, but my choice in the early 60's would have been a man with a totally different style, Clete Boyer. I watched him for years weave his magic around 3rd base for the Yankees and never did he ever disappoint. I don't know how many times I saw him dive across the foul line behind 3rd base and while on his knees gun some unsuspecting runner down at third base. Brooks was like a cat. He would jump and dive too, but would always quickly spring to his feet before tossing his runner out!
These 1969 Orioles made the AL All-Star team-Brooks Robinson,Frank Robinson,Boog Powell,Mike Cuellar and Davey Johnson, who was selected to particpate, but was injured and did not play. The All-Star Game was played in RFK Stadium in Washington. Earl Weaver was selected as a coach, along with Washington's Ted Williams.
I wonder if Davey Johnson of the Baltimore Orioles knew in 1969, that he would be back at Shea Stadium in 1986 to win the World series as manager of the New York Mets.
terrific background , dennis , on the mets ..........thanks for the info ....would rather watch this condensed version of the 69 series ........ thann anything in mlb today
The late 1960 -early 1970's were a great period for sports in New York, with the Jets winning the Super Bowl in football. In baseball, the Mets making two World Series appearances, winning in 1969 against the Orioles and losing in 1973 against the A's. And in basketball, the Knicks winning two NBA titles in 1970 and 1973. In hockey, the NHL decided to award Long Island a team that would be named the Islanders in 1972. However, it wasn't so great for the once-mighty Yankees, who went through a struggling period until the late George Steinbrenner bought the team in 1973.
Editing error at 13;19...Game 2 was in Baltimore, but the close-up clips showing Frank Robinson batting are from a later game at Shea...he is wearing the gray flannel with "Baltimore" displayed across the chest!
yeah, it has taken me 54 years to enjoy this World Series. I mean, the New York Mets finished In last place EVERY YEAR of their existence: '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67, and '68! then the Baltimore Orioles let the upstart Mets beat them in a 5 game World Series. I hated and rooted against the Orioles for years for letting the Mets beat them!!! (but I did like Earl Weaver getting thrown outta a World Series game, and Gil Hodges pointing out the 'shoepolish baseball' to the umpire and getting his batter on first base with it)!
