You heard ALL about the Legend of Babe Ruth, and then Nolan Ryan, after coming to Texas, well, it was the experience of a lifetime ACTUALLY seeing a LEGEND in the flesh, SO cool!!!!!!!!
As a life long Sox fan I have fond memories rooting for this team. These are best Sox uniforms ever. This video also reminds me of the weird, unique field configuration for Comiskey in those days. Artificial turf infield with natural grass outfield. Has anyone else ever did that? And I always think of Haray Caray more as a Sox announcer than a Cubs announcer or Cardinals for that matter.
@@screenwriter44 There aren't many "sluggers " today that would be able to hit the monster shots Dick Allen hit with a bat as heavy that he swung. Go back in the archives and see how many of the bats back then shattered into toothpicks.
"Memories galore watching this. I have been a Sox fan for 62 years, I am 72. I loved "Ritchie "Dick" Allen, he is my all time favorite Sox player. He literally saved the Sox from moving from Chicago with his MVP year in 72. The Sox were not drawing at all and he brought people back. He was one of the few players, maybe the only player for the Sox that no matter what the score, no one would leave the game until he had his last at bat. I saw him hit a home run that went to straight center field over second base at about 20 feet high and when it went into the center field bleachers it was still going up. I have so many stories about the Sox that I could tell that are truly unique but if I told them all it would look like a book".
Not mine .He didn save the team from leaving, the American league wouldn't allow it. In fact he ran away. Quit on the White Sox in Sept 1974 and didn t come back the next year. A primadonna.
@@mariocisneros911 , I disagree with you in regards to Dick Allen. However, I'm with 100% on Derrick "I'll play if I feel like it" Rose. That asshole was a cancerous growth. Sadly, with Garpax and Jerry Reinsdorf we'll never see another championship in Chicago.
I remember watching this game like it was yesterday. I even remembered Sharp's winning single to the right side! Ryan dominated until the 9th. Good to hear Harry in his prime again, including a Falstaff to ya!🍻
@@roseforyoubabe It ALL depends on how the team is supporting you with runs and HOW the bullpen handles things when they enter the game, Nolan would have won up to 100 plus more games with more SUPPORT, he did HIS job, he didn't care about records he ONLY wanted his team to succeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@davidgee2988 No kidding, pretty much EVERY team that Nolan played for had trouble scoring runs, relief pitchers providing, NO relief and BLOWING leads that Nolan helped build, pretty much, SINGLEHANDILY, errors at the worst times, as far as ruining no-hit bid's, and of course, "A FEW" wins!!!!!!!!
I was at this game Frank Robinson hit a home run to give the Angels the 1-0 lead we had free tickets from school perfect attendance my buddies and i went down by first base for the 9th inning I was 15 my mom drove us all probably 5 or 6 guys Great memory
Oh I can relate to those free tickets...Interlake who was a major Sox sponsor had a program where you got 2 pairs of general admission tickets for perfect attendance, and the same for straight As. I was lucky enough to have both so I earned 4 sets, and since most students at my high school were Cub fans, a couple of students I knew gave me their tickets too since they had no interest. So we had several outings to Comiskey in the 76 and 77 seasons, including the first time the Sox wore shorts, and a Saturday afternoon game when Harry broadcast from the center field bleachers. We just took the L... Great times and memories indeed!
Nolan Ryan's career in a nutshell: his determination, his competitiveness, his defense, his offense, his teams..... imagine him on the Orioles or the Yankees during the 70s that's all I'm saying
If he pitched for the 70s Red Sox they would have won a couple. I'm not even a huge Ryan fan. But, if he was backed by that offense, good for an extra 5 or 7 team wins a year.
Adrian Garza Tom Seaver buddy was more a dominate pitcher remember this Seaver got 3000 S.O. and 300 wins 10 years before Nolan even thought about it!! Ryan is a 500 pitcher Seaver I think has 125 victorys over 500
Dick Williams once described this game as one of the most heartbreaking losses he’d ever witnessed during his HOF managerial career....he had just recently taken over the club; but the Angels roster was filled with rookies and old has been veterans...once said that Nolan Ryan would have won THIRTY GAMES on his World Champion A’s teams..
I watched this game at my Grandmother's house (It was a Wednesday afternoon if I remember correctly). I had just turned 14 and Ryan was THE pitcher I wanted to see. He had 2 no-hitters the year before and everyone in baseball was talking about that fastball. I am a Cubs fan and so we didn't get to see him pitch too often - only against the White Sox on channel 32 out of Chicago. He ALMOST did it!
Nolan Ryan had 12 one-hitters in his career, which means he was 12 outs away from 19 no-hitters. Also, 18 two-hitters. 2:08 that ball just explodes out of his hand.
The crazy thing about those insane stats is,, he never pitched a perfect game, or won a Cy Young award. Speaking of Cy Young, Nolan Ryan is only second in games started, to,,,Cy Young. What fricken career!!!
Easily the most impressive thing I've seen in a athletic event. A 1972-77 Nolan Ryan Fastball. As exaggerated as it might sound I believe that it was well well over 100MPH. Today an elite pitcher throws 180-200 Innings. To put this in perspective that year Ryan issued 202 Bases on Balls (and still had an ERA under 3.00, he would do this twice in his career). Now that I've seen this video it all makes sense. Ryan definitely had a weapon (an equalizer) that allowed him to bend the rules of pitching. He did not have to locate the ball. HE JUST NEEDED TO THROW STRIKES. That doesn't apply to the other mortals.
Couldn't agree more. I've never seen a human being throw a baseball harder than I have in this exact video. No exaggeration at all, most of those pitches were well over 105. Easy...
He was rated as maybe the best baserunner in baseball behind Joe D. Pretty good praise. And if want to check it, he should have won the Gold Glove at 1B in 1972. He had a far superior year with the glove compared to the winner, George Scott of the Brewers.
I saw Nolan Ryan's last game. It was in the Seattle Kingdome on 9/22/1993. I was a Mariner's fan, but I went to see Nolan Ryan pitch. He threw 29 pitches, pitched to 6 batters and didn't record an out. He gave up a single, 4 walks, and a grand slam. He threw his arm out. They pulled him in the middle of an at bat because he just couldn't throw any more. It was a sad ending to a great career.
"Hah-rey...Cah...rey back at the ballpark....we move into the bottom of the 9th...Jorg Orta is going to lead it off"...LOL! I watched this game sitting on my in my porch in Edgebrook. I loved when Harry refers to Falstaff beer after the game....LOL!
14:03 Caray's on-camera post-game recap/rant here is fabulous, in particular as the calls out major leaguer hitters for not running hard on ground balls, including guys on the White Sox, the team he was working for at the time. THEN he raises a bottle of Falstaff in salute to that night's victorious Sox squad, with a 'We'll be enjoying this in a moment' as he sets it aside to wrap up. They don't make 'em like Harry any more.
Great hustle by Dick Allen to first base, and later by Ken Henderson to 2nd base. Today, Dick Allen went into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Heaven. He was the most exciting player I watched in person or on TV; oh that 1972 season! If only Melton had not fallen off his roof and injured his back. His Grace ad Atonement, Kyle Kyle2020.com
Holy S**t!.I've watched a alot of baseball over the years but I've never seen a ball get there as fast as it did at around 3:27 against Dick Allen.It looked like it was going 110 mph..Geeze..
There’s no way anyone today has that type of velocity. The jugs gun was so different back then. So in accurate. The ball is jumping out of Ryan’s hand it doesn’t even look normal
Those first few pitches were smoke, I found another Ryan game on here it's from playoffs about 5 years later with Ryan against the Oriolesru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ihxh4yQJqNA.html
From what I've seen of video Ryan almost certainly hit 105+ regularly up until 76-77 or so, then he started dialing it back a bit. Still capable of high 90s up until the end.
He lost 16 games for the Astros in 1987 and won the NL ERA title. Go figure. Most of his starts that year were like the one in this video. He'd pitch great but then there'd be some freak play and that was all she wrote. And, of course, the other team's pitcher, no matter who he was, would pitch the game of his life.
I maintain to this day that if Nolan Ryan had been on the Cincinnati reds and New York Yankees in the seventies and eighties, he would have had 400 wins when he retired. This guy played for mostly last place to lower third place teams in his career. The Texas rangers never contended, the California Angels never contended, and the only have one good year with the Mets. Had Ryan played for a team that gave him a lot of offense, or a world series contender at least half of his career, the win total would be a modern-day record.
Damn right he was. Until he got hit over the shoulder with a bat by that asshole Frank Thomas, he was a complete ball player. He was an outfielder with a good arm, but the Phillies just jammed him at 3rd, which he had never played before. That's how he got the rep as a bad fielder, which was bullshit.
It was such a different game back then. Harry Carey doing the play by play all by himself. No mention of pitch count. No one up in the pen. No one, apparently, even considered the possibility of bringing in a relief pitcher.
Well when a check swing accident turns into the first hit of the game, you know that you're dealing smoke. The batter wasn't even trying to swing at the pitch, and it was a bang bang play. Nolan Ryan lost so many no hitters in the 8th and 9th innings that way. Had he and Adrian beltre playing third base, that would have been an out.
Ryan threw just as hard, if not harder, than anyone since. Plus, he’s throw 300 innings in the 70’s, and was still throwing 200 innings into the 90’s. How did he do it? Why can’t anyone else do it? Chapman can maybe throw harder, but I doubt he can do it for more than two innings.
not sure of how far into the season it was for this game, but not the batting averages and how much higher they were than what they are now. to much emphasis on long angle and exit velocity and how far is goes crap. Sad that you so many times just need a sacrifice fly or move the runner over and it can't be done . would love to know how many teams even practice hitting sac flys ?
exciting stuff. dick allen had speed for a big man, it all started unraveling for ryan right there, ryan overpowered jorge orta (a really good hitter who didn't strike out much) striking him out 4 times, the great harry caray on the mic. ryan is the hardest thrower of all time, and he was a freak, *able to do it for 27 years!!!* not only does ryan have the most no-hitters with 7, he's tied with the most 1-hitters with 12, and 18 two-hitters. this was a 3-hitter.
@@lawnboyfreak you're right, allen not as big as i thought he was, and i saw him live, players weren't the tree trunks they are now, 5-11 190 is what i've seen for dick, he always looked bigger, 190 lbs without an ounce of fat, and that huge bat he swung.
