1977 Phillies 

I'm watching anything that John Facenda calls

The first game i ever went to was in the summer of '76, I snuck down to the picnic area and watched Jay Johnston in right field warming up with Gary Maddox before the start of the 1st inning. I kept yelling "Hey Jay" and JJ never looked my way and then he caught the ball from Maddox as the inning was about to start and JJ ran over to me and personally handed me the ball and said "here ya go kid". It was the coolest thing ever. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Amazing time, those days were awesome....going to a baseball game back then for a kid was the ultimate. It would make your whole summer. All us kids back then not only knew every Phillie but just about every player from every other team too.

John Facenda is a legend. What a voice.

12:50 I was there for this game. I was 12 sitting in the 600 level(orange seats in the old Vet) down the first base line. If you liked HR's you saw a lot of them that night. 8 hit that night 5 by the Phils(Schmidt had 2) and 3 by the Reds but the shocking one was Bowa who hit a grand slam in the 7th. The Reds had walked Seizmore to get to Bowa who was 3 for 3 at the time and his homer wasn't a cheap just cleared the fence homer either. It was a line shot to the right of the Reds bullpen. Man we had a ball that night. I didn't know it then but what legends we saw that night. George Foster, Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Ken Griffey, Joe Morgan, Dan Dreissen(who used to kill the Phillies). The Big Red Machine. God baseball was so fun back then.

I was 14, living in Germantown. My dad did not like sports so I listened on a small transistor radio. Not complaining, made me have to use my imagination. Of course having Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn doing the play by play was a big plus.

I never thought I’d see this video from ‘77 again. I remember loving these videos during rain delays. Thank you very much for posting it. The best memories.

We as Philadelphia sports fans suffer so much but despite this we will always love our teams. Always.

It's really amazing how loaded The Phillies were in the mid to late 70's. They finally harnessed all of that talent in 80'. It was long overdue for such a superb collection of talent. And I'm a NY fan.

Began following baseball this year. I lived in MD, the Orioles were my favorite team, the Phillies were my favorite NL team. Went to a couple of games in 77’ Tim McCarver hit a grand slam in my very first Phillies game against the Mets.

I remember watching this during a rain delay in 1990. I always wanted to see this again. Thanks for posting.

Went to Phillies games as a kid/teenager in the 70’s and 80’s, they still have the same PA announcer wow!

This absolutely needs a restoration! Because this is such a gem!

1977 Phillies great team! Classy players humbly answering reporters' questions; accepting disappointing playoff loss minus excuses.

I'm watching this til the playoffs start. Can't bear watching that blown game to the Dodgers.

I'm glad the film mentions Jim Lonborg who pitched a one hit shutout against the Cardinals in the 1967 World Series.

Thank you so much for the video . Only John Facenda can make getting called for jury duty exciting only three more years that we will have a championship

Steve Carlton now lives in Durango Colorado

Thank you so much for uploading this. I used to have all of these Phillies team films as a youngster from 1976-1993. To see this again brought me to tears. Thank you for the great memory

Awesome-thanks for posting this! What a pleasure to watch. Thanks to the Sabols for making it in the first place and to John Facenda for narrating. We are so lucky to be across the river from NFL Films. No other baseball team was putting together highlights films anything like this in 1977!

24:40 Luzinski kicked back with bottle of beer, Love it!! 🤠

This is great. Hadn't seen this film in years. If you have other films please upload

By Gosh , do I admire that parachute jumper 👌🏻

Game 3 still makes me mad all these years later.

This the 1st time I see footage of a baseball team other then an NFL Team shot by NFL Films and is Nararated by John Fasenda

Someone has to have the 1979 Phillies season film. I would be grateful if you posted it to RU-vid ❤❤❤

So far, the only internet video that shows me Mike Schmidt (10 gold gloves) making actual defensive plays (Six).

With instant replay would have been a Phillies NLCS victory party.

That’s when baseball was baseball. No it’s just a watered down version of what it was

Thanks for posting this!! For a Phillies fan - so tough to watch... but the Sabols and Facenda did a spectacular job on it... so incredibly good... brings a tear to my eye... 77 Phillies... by far my favorite team... immensely talented but star-crossed. Kind of the '64 Phillies of my generation. I was 12 when Black Friday happened. Remember going up in my room after they lost and I wouldn't come out. Cried for an hour. My dad thought I was nuts... after all he'd been a Phils fan since the 30's. This was nothing for him. It's why never needed Novacaine when he went to the dentist's office! Phillies made him numb to pain!

This was great, thanks! Loved watching these during rain delays when I was a kid. There was one I still haven’t seen on here yet that I remember, it featured Blondie singing “One Way”. Don’t remember which one it was.

1977 was the BEST Phillies team ever...

I grew up in the Boston Mass area, and this for some reason became the year I started following the Phillies. I have never been to go with the trend or what the majority wants, would also explain why i became a Browns fan back in the 80's, but I truly loved this team back then and have many fond memories. thank you for uploading

Thank you Rob for the upload!

A subtle dig at Bruce Froemming at 7:40-"were villains plotting against the team?". it was Froemming who made the infamous safe call on Davey Lopes in NLCS Game 3.

i remember alot of this when i was still in school, great to see these old highlights,... this team would still be great even in todays baseball, .. could you imagine how much it would cost for schmidt or carlton today??? it would have to be 300 million a piece

Anything with John Facenda doing the voicework is the best

That Philadelphia Phillies team had host of All-Stars with Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski, Bob Boone and “The Sarge”(Gary Maddox) along with A Deadly Closer named Gene Garber. The way they overcame the Chicago Cubs for the N.L. East Division was phenomenal. The Cubs actually dominated the East Division for most of 1977.

Cool video....never saw it or knew much about them. I was born in '86, so '93 was my first real run with the team. The 1st play with Boone watching him chase down a runner between 2nd and 3rd from home plate is pretty wild to see. I want to know the context of that play.

Beautiful

Anyone wonder what would have been if the Phillies had kept. Cash at second ???? Dodgers were the better team. Just like we were in. 2008. 2009.

Who's watching this after Phillies first ever game 7 10/24/23

Bowa has said a number of times "yeah we won in 1980, but the 1977 team was better"..and I agree, they were a powerhouse. You just couldnt write a script like Black Friday, it all came apart. I they had won that, i truly believe they win Game 4 and go onto play the Yanks...it wasnt meant to be.

Great intro with the sky diver.

Phillies finished 1st place in 76-77-78 but lost in playoffs Royals finished 1st place in 76-77-78 but lost in playoffs Finally in 1980, Philly vs KC in the World Series (two greatest 3B ever)

3:53 "The Bull" ready to launch!

Was this an experiment by Sabol and NFL Films? I know Steve Sabol was a Philadelphia native.

There was a big, big, post-game fireworks finale-spectacular (albeit brief) a year prior to 1977 after the "Bicentennial All-Star Game" of 1976 at Veterans. The fireworks were celebrated because the National League (which included the Phillies) won that All-Star Game on that mid-summer classic.

Tim McCarver getting the opening day start over Boone because Carlton was pitching.

Hi Rob, This is such a cool film. Do you mind if I share it and upload it to the Classic Phillies page that I started? Thanks - Mike

So glad this team won the World Series because all these division titles and pennants from 76-83 and to not win at least one would have been terrible. They could have won 3

If ever a team deserved to win a pennant, it was the 1977 Phillies.

So disappointing more MLB teams did not make season highlight films like these....

The Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners first season. Time flies.

Do you have 1978 & 1979 Phillies highlights?

The late 1970’s NL Beast…World Champs w/ 1979 Pirates &1980 Phillies 😎😎😎😎😎

Glory years

Very cool. Disappointing ending to an otherwise great season.

Why would the yearly rundown of a Major League baseball team be done by NFL Films? Isn’t this one of the many reasons the popularity of baseball was surpassed by the NFL during this period of time?

Still waiting for my jet pack…

14:40 the girl wearing #00 was left field ball girl Mary Sue Styles. Man she was a hottie. She had the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle even before Farrah was famous. I really miss these days. And Bill Giles might have been a horrible owner but he was a damned good showman when it came to the goofy gimmicks from this video. He even had the late great Carl Wallenda walk across the Vet one year. 21:15 Black Friday. Ugh

Just wanted to be the "77th" comment for the 77 Phillies 😁

Anyone else find yourself just laughing??

How is it that NFL Films did these films?

It's ironic at 4:15 Dusty Baker is thrown out at home and today he retires from baseball.

Like seeing this with the Voice of God.

12:50 Larry Bowa's grand slam!

I hate when they say grown men playing a kids game. the game was invented for men to play 😮

If Bill Mazeroski got into Cooperstown based on his defense, then Larry Bowa should too!

Steve Sabol at 2:50 and 26:50!

Wait....NFL Films made this documentary? I thought they made only NFL documentaries

The story is they collapsed against LA . Losing 3 games to one in the nlcs.

The only voice other than John Facenda's that is Golden is the Lord's

Narrated by John Facenda

The play at 23:30 the first basemen at fault for not stretching for that throw.

Strange to notice a sexual assault occuring in a video from 46 years ago. Wow.

Dodgers clearly the better team. But phils had them beat and choked it away in 77. I was there on black Friday which is a cautionary tale about how important it is to have a manager that can make the proper decisions in crunch time.

Nfl films? The phillies were mlb, not nfl.

Why does this look like a news reel from the 40S? 77 wasn't that long ago

The only thing not appealing about 1970's baseball was that awful artificial surface.

He was out. Terrible call. Should never have gotten to that. The Bull should have been pulled for defense, in the 9th

The champagne was chateau deerpathe? Unfit for drinking bud good for anything else? 😂😂😂

Ump don't chew gum

Did somebody drag this filmstock behind their car for a few miles? lol

City of losers, choked away this game…