. Will FOREVER remember the EXCITEMENT I felt back then as a kid watching the All-Star game every year on TV. Cut to 2002 when I finally got the chance to 'live the dream' by attending the INFAMOUS Miller Park All-Star game (here in Milwaukee) that ended in a 7-7 tie, as a 40 year old adult! As disappointing as the finish of that game was, STILL a dream come true for the little kid that used to WORSHIP getting to see the All-Star game every year on TV !! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game .
Thank you Reuven for pidgeon-holing those times; very helpful. What a thrill for Tom & everyone there to be part of & a witness to that ovation! May still be the longest one I’ve ever heard. I remember watching this live on TV & being thrilled out of my mind. I was a teenage Met fan back then, still crushed by Tom Terrific’s trade in the infamous “Midnight Massacre”…@@spinedoc18
@@SSNESS he was a patsy of the cult that controlled him...a country wide cult of pure evil that did evil to innocents like arlis Perry....they ranged from minot to Hollywood to NYC...berkowitz was the ' fall guy'
Unbelievable to be able to see this again after all this time. I was at this game with my uncle and cousin. Seats off third base on lower level. Was my 10th birthday a week before the game. Words can't describe how excited I was to be there, being a Yankee fan. Hearing Bob Shepherd and seeing a lot of these players. Its like I'm at the game again. All I can say is Wow!! Speechless
MLB's collection is limited. I speak from having worked there with it. They'd love to have this and a bunch of other stuff floating around. For example, the earliest World Series they have in color is 1969, despite NBC having aired it in color as early as 1954. But color videotape wasn't available until '58 and it was expensive. A lot of precious TV archives got wiped as tape was reused. However, a lot of stuff has resurfaced thanks to private recordings such as this. When I was working there, MLB.com had purchased a collection of cassette tape archives of many marquee games dating back to the 1950's. I had the privilege of playing a tape of Vin Scully calling the last Giants-Dodgers game at Ebbets Field in 1957 while he was live on the air calling that night's Dodgers game. Vin sounded the same 50 years apart.
@@msquaretheoriginalvery interesting and explains a lot of gaps. I'm thankful for what we have but it's a shame there isn't more. RU-vid is a literal gold mine for vintage games. Phenia Films has done an amazing job posting all these games for us to enjoy and I am trying to watch every last one literally. It doesn't seem like classic mlb is going to post much else on RU-vid, but maybe they posted most of what they've actually got.
Griffey's Dad had the ugliest swing of any good hitter 😆 He had a higher career batting average than Jr ! He was super fast too and a good outfielder. Not much power but a very good player nonetheless.
Growing up with the Game of the week with Kubek and Garogiola was memorable. I forgot how great they were as a team. Now putting up with Joe Buck makes me year for this tandem
Nice to have the announcers let the public address do the inductions with out talking over him. Pros…..look at the players … Happy to be there and each player giving one another respect. Seems we have lost this feel for the game.
Yes he was heh - Same or similar colors, eh ? - I take it they didn’t have his Batting helmet - Or Parker just picked it up by mistake heh... I think the former is quite possible, As I noticed Tiger Lance Parrish had to use a Cleveland batting helmet For just that reason in the ‘82 AS game 😉✌️...
Still have my ticket stub to this game. The game was good but BP was amazing! Greg Luzinski hit 8 to 10 consecutive pitches into the left field seats. Parker, Valentine and Winfield took turns throwing bullets from deep right field to home plate on a line to the catcher. Seats were third deck between home plate and 1st base. We could see everything! Great memories.
When having less meant having more. No cable TV No commentary that was too complicated for kids to grasp,& understand. No "interleague" No internet...had to get the box scores from your local newspaper. No FRIKKIN ANALYTICS!!!! Baseball of yesteryear....you are missed.
I remember watching this broadcast. Game was faster, not much stepping out of the batter’s box and look, no ads behind the plate. Back when I followed baseball more due to the quality of play. Best of all, miss the old stadium very much. Don’t like the new Yankee Stadium.
As a 12 year old at this game I was sitting in the left field bleachers and remember this play. Morgan hit that ball sky high and it looked like a routine fly ball but carried out. Right field is ridiculously short.
I was at this game with my dad, and I still have the ticket stub! I correctly remembered the final score after 46 years. I had forgotten, however, that the late, great Thurman Munson had struck out to end the game...
Bless you for posting this. I watched every game for the decade of 1974-84 but this one had been missing. So many great players and the first in Yankee Stadium #2.
@@johnlevalley521 As a Yankee fan, each day I checked the standings to see where we stood and how Cincinnati was doing. I wanted no part of them after '76 and hoped someone else was leading their division.
@@fjr70ify the Yanks beat a good Dodgers team that year. The Reds should have never traded away Tony Perez after the 76 series. The management completely underestimated how important he was to the club
That was a week after the big blackout that devastated the area from the looting that happened. NYC was not a happy place then, this and the World Series helped the Bronx get its good image back till a building fire was broadcast during the game, thanks abc and Keith Jackson for pointing out that fire
Tony Kubek: "Reggie Jackson is pretty confident he will have a good second half." The Future.: "Oh, he will...he will." In a few months the legend of Mr. OCTOBER is born.
Garvey has 80 RBI's at the break, Parker is hitting .330 with 64 RBI's and Foster has already driven in 90. Impressive! I understand that Foster's career numbers don't support it, but why aren't Garvey and Parker in the M:B Hall of Fame?!
dave parker tremendous speed especially for a man that size scoring from first amazing not even running with the pitch incredible look at his strides around third base
So many there that night who George lusted for, many went through the 80's revolving door - Gossage, LaRoche, Winfield, Reuschel, Wynegar, Campaneris, Jones, Griffey, Candelaria. One there who saved the '78 season was Bob Lemon. Singelton grew up in Mt. Vernon, both Carew and Ken played in McCombs Dam Park - fields that were taken away for the current Yanks Mallpark.
Don't forget the Reds had swept the Yankees in the World Series the previous October. But those boos quickly changed to cheers when Seaver was introduced.
I haven't watched an ASG in years. I like when they wore their own uniforms. It made things colorful and interesting. Now everything is water downed, corporatized, sanitized, and double sealed for your safety. (I'm starting to sound like George Carlin.)
great nicknames: the Bull(Luzinski), the Cobra(Parker), the Penguin(Cey), the Goose(Gossage),the Candy Man(Candaleria) and the Rooster(Burleson) and not 2 forget the Sparkys Lyle & Anderson.
'The Bronx Zoo'- Sparky's book chronicling pieces of this season and 78 season is one great work of literature. The days when Americans might have been still in shock from all it had witnessed on the world stage - baseball was the greatest escape. Lyle told his Truth and it was hilarious to this baseball junkie.
Still have my ticket stub! Game was good, but BP was amazing. Greg Luzinski hit around 8 to 10 consecutive pitches into the leftfield seats. Parker, Valentine and Winfield took turns throwing bullets from deep right field to home plate...all on a rope to the catcher. Seats were third deck between home and 1st base so we could see everything !
The Reds had the most talented core players in the 70’s . Two mistakes Management made 77-79. Going cheap on starting pitching and not keeping Sparky and Pete.
Ron Cey 1977 first half stats: .272 18 HR 76 RBI. Mike Schmidt 1977 first half stats: .292 26 HR 58 RBI. That must have been a very close vote. Ron Cey got the start.
In 1977 and 1978, Hall of Famer Jim Palmer looked very mortal against Allstar competition. I remember his interview after getting shelled at Yankee Stadium in '77, blaming his poor performance on warming up for nearly an hour before the 1st inning, as all of the pageantry and pomp took forever. I only wish the broadcast team was measuring and displaying pitch velocity back in those days...
With 293 career homers coming into this game, Reggie is just past half of his career homers... ATP he’s played with Oakland , Baltimore and now the Yanks ... Rest of career will be with Yanks, Angels and finishing back with Oakland...
I saw the LAST home run (#563) that he hit at the Oakland Coliseum, before the "Mount Davis" era. A titanic blast to center, into the night, still in Low Earth Orbit.
I remember this game well. I lived in Johnstown, PA and never got to see the end of the game because power went out and we were devastated by a major flood.
