What's sad is 23 days after he started this All-Star Game, J.R.Richard on July 30,1980 had a stroke, ending his career. He was a unbelievably good pitcher. Deceptive stuff, and a wicked fastball. Sadly he just passed away last year, in 2021. RIP J.R.Richard🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏☮🕊🙏☮ Before anyone comments anything about him please remember 🙏 this man's family just lost a wonderful person and a exceptional player.
Big J.R. Richard was a sensational pitcher. Was as dominant as they come before he got the tragic stroke. Was on his way to the Hall of Fame! One of the best pitchers in the late 1970s !
Houston royally screwed J.R. Richard in 1980. If they had actually treated his injury concerns as legitimate he might have recovered. He was only dealing with thoracic outlet syndrome and not getting proper treatment turned into a debilitating stroke.
He only pitched one more major league game, 6 days later (July 14), going 3.1 innings and giving up 0 runs and 1 hit before leaving the game, complaining of arm weakness. He went on the disabled list, and suffered a stroke on July 30. He had a near-complete recovery, but the risk of complications ensured he'd never pitch in the majors again.
Howard cosell knew alot about sports, but he lost alot of friends in the broadcasting business because he criticize them love his voice, i miss the old broadcasting crew
I was a kid in the 70's. I got to see ALL of these players at County Stadium 🏟 in Milwaukee. The Brewers were my favorite team! Still are. Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Cecil Cooper, and MY FAVORITE BREWERS Mike Caldwell. But the teams they played in the AL during the 70's and 80's? WOW! The 1978 Yankees were sick. Ron Guidry deserved the Cy-Young Award. 25-3 1.74 ERA. Getting to watch Jim Palmer, Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry, Carl Yaztremski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Jack Morris, and so many more! Even Reggie Jackson. It was a beautiful time to be a kid!
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 kind of like now right ? High gas prices, being held hostage by a president who cant walk up stairs or count his nuts and come up with the same number twice.
Speaking as a Phillies fan, I seriously doubt the Phils beat Houston had Richard not suffered his stroke. What an overpowering pitcher he was. And think about that pitching staff with Richard, Ryan, and Joe Niekro. 2 flamethrowers then a knuckleballer.
Studa Baker And if Richard was healthy he and Nolan Ryan would probably start games 1 and 3 and have Joe Niekro in the middle with the knuckleball. A flame thrower a knuckleballer and a flame thrower could mess up a hitters timing.
Great times to watch baseball, this is around the time i was heavily into collecting cards as a kid, would say Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson were as big as stars as anyone in any sport, minus Ali, its just not that way with baseball anymore. Big market teams like the Yankees, Phillies and Dodgers were consistently good, but many of the other model franchises when i was a kid are what we would consider small market teams now, like the Reds, Brewers, Royals and Pirates, just great times growing up as a kid in this era
Don't forget the Astros who were perennial contenders as well as the Orioles. Then a couple of years later the Braves were contenders. Definitely a different time.
All my childhood heroes here. I forgot about Ken Reitz. It's also funny to see some guys with their former teams before you knew them better-Winfield as a Padre, for example, though I knew him more as a Yankee (did the teams switch Nettles for Winfield?). Or Landreaux before he came to L.A. I could watch Rod Carew all day-just a pure example of batting grace and hitting strategy.
News crawls were used occasionally for years, mostly by local stations, if there was a story that was 'important, but not enough to break in to a show'. CNN started doing them during the first Gulf War, and for other really major stories. Then, on 9/11, everyone used them, and they've never gone away.
Lynn missed the previous five games and then started the all star game??? Would that happen in today's game? Also shot of former president Ford smoking a pipe cracked me up
It's very strange that the two starting third baseman who were voted starters on the 1980 All-Star Game both Mike Schmidt of the Phillies and George Brett of the Royals both missed the game due to injury would go on to win the MVP of their respective leagues and would face each other in the World Series in October.
@@Rockhound6165 I'm for KC. Brett once said the best thing to ever happen to him was the "Pine Tar Incident." He became known for that instead of hemorrhoids.
Wow, 44 years ago, how time flies! So many of these greats are no longer with us. Looking back, the 80s was so different, so much better! For the love of God, please bring back MLB to ABC, NBC, or even CBS- Anything but FOX & Joe Buck, it's run its course
The first time a jumbotron was used. It's actually called a Diamond Vision from Mitsubishi Electric because the first jumbotron wasn't until 1985 at the Worlds Fair in Tsukuba, Japan. This big screen TV was 5 years before and looked fantastic ❤❤❤
unfortunately interleague play pretty much diluted the All-Star Game (World Series too). One of the things that made baseball unique from the other sports were the distinctiveness among the leagues. The DH, league rotation where the All Star Game and Game 1 of the World Series was held, even the Home run derby competed by leagues. Add the Brewers and Astros switching leagues too. Not with universal DH coming soon, it will be the end of this.
Richard wasn't the only one who would suffer a bad break after the 1980 ASG. Graig Nettles would soon contract hepatitis and miss the rest of the regular season. He was able to return for the playoffs vs Kansas City.
Notice at 1:41, it says that, between 1950-62, the record is 5 and 11. Sixteen all star games in twelve years? Moreover, Keith said this was the 51st game - in 1980. 1980 minus 1933 equals 47! I just answered my own question. During a four year stretch in the late 50's, they had two all star games per season.
The "dead arm" feeling JR had was a sign of things to come not too long after this, as they found a clogged neck artery that caused a collapse about 3 weeks after this game. After that, he never pitched in a game again. He tried to come back but his stroke affected his timing and vision.
I just came across a copy of this broadcast (likely from the Albany, NY area) but unfortunately the recorder ZAPPED virtually all the commercials out of the game, not only ruining the "complete" TV experience, but resulting in some brief loss of coverage coming out of the various breaks. It's a shame as the quality was very good for 1980, and something similar happened with another tape that contained Super Bowl XIV in terms of zapping out commercials (also played in the LA area). It's also a shame as there was more than enough room at the end of the tape to leave them in, and whoever recorded it could have just relaxed, enjoyed the game, and press fast forward when watching if they didn't like them. It's so ironic because I'm sure if you played that LA Rams/Steelers game, viewers would say "Why didn't you like the commercials? They're some of the best of the year?" It's also a shame as there was also the Red Sox-Yankees 1978 AL East playoff game (AKA Game 163) in there that was also zapped. Still, a nice game back when baseball cards were only made from Topps, ESPN was in its infancy airing third-rate sports, and Cal Ripken, Jr. was just a farm prospect.
You have to realize that the cost of a video tape back then was very very high (about $20...adjusted for inflation that’s about $60) Also the video tape machines of that era did not allow six hour recording times on a single tape. 4 hours was the max in most cases. In a three or four hour sports program it was very important not to have to use a second tape. Since you didn’t know if it was going to go into extra innings cutting commercials was really the only way to make sure that you could fit it all on one tape. Whoever taped this included all of the pregame festivities which adds even more time. I would’ve done the exact same thing.
Los jugadores se ven bien delgados y en forma, nada de esteroides, ni grasa.lean muscle. En esa época no cualquiera bateaba un home run. Murphy deberia estar en hof
Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell...no announcers today even come close. Many people didn't like Cosell but he made it interesting. Keith Jackson was simply the gold standard for announcers. Don Drysdale was great as well. RIP to all three. Joe Buck sucks and is a clown in comparison.
Having a great list of legendary announcers in one broadcast is very classic. Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, Al Michaels, Don Drysdale and Bob Uaeker. An "A" list of legendary announcers.
Most people associate Keith Jackson with college football. But he was a surprisingly good baseball announcer. He and Curt Gowdy were my two favorites. They were both born to broadcast sports!
This would be the only ASG at Dodger Stadium. Whenever it comes to SoCal, it will go to Anaheim or SD. Lodging prices are higher in LA, especially in the summer. It's a hassle especially in the summer months, plus LA is a prime summer destination spot, making accomodations ever so difficult. Anaheim and SD is easier for the players, media, etc.
I don't think lodging prices are a concern since ASG tickets cost considerably higher than regular season games anyways. Plus, Dodger Stadium has a higher capacity than Petco or Anaheim. It's more about playing in stadiums that are due or relatively new. That's why we just had this year's game in Miami, next year's in DC, and probably in Minneapolis (Target Field) and Atlanta (new stadium) before long. Then probably during the 2020s, when relatively few new stadiums will have been built, a return to the classic stadiums, including Dodger Stadium.
Loved how during the player introductions, the announcers say, "This guy, Ken Griffey of the Reds, will likely be MVP of this All Star Game. He's probably going to hit a home run off of Tommy John. And he'll probably utter a quote for the ages during the post-game like, 'The guys and I decided to just go out and play baseball tonight instead of doing our famous impression of the Radio City Rockettes!'" And how about that Bowie Kuhn, huh? You wanna talk about magnetism! You wanna talk about 'Mr. Excitement'? That guy has "electrifying" just drippimg off of him! And back to Griffey, when the announcers said, "Yeah this Griffey guy is good. But he's got this 10-year-old kid who smacked a wiffle ball so hard it traveled from home plate at Dodger Stadium all the way until it ga-schmacked off of the Hollywood sign. This kid has some power!" What a ballgame! Oh and when the announcers wrapped up by saying, "Yeah, the Phillies are probably going to win this year's World Series over the Royals in six games," how coud they have said anything else?
JR Richard facts...he finished in 1980 at 10-4 and never and I repeat never pitched in the majors again...both starters were done so quickly after the 1980 season...it's just unbelievable...JR the five previous years won 18 for 4 years and 20 the 5th year and then gone...something is going on
Rod Carew's at-bat in the 1st inning shows why J.R. Richard had, at age 29--with only two weeks remaining in his MLB career yet already holding the Astros' career strikeout record--yet to reach his full potential. Alongside his tremendous strikeout totals (first NL righthander to K 300 in a season) he was perennially among the tops, and usually the NL's leader, in both walks & wild pitches allowed. If you had a good batting eye, which Carew had in spades, Richard would give you a base per game. This is usually not a crushing issue when you strike out a dozen during that game, as J.R. often did, but control was J.R.'s prominent flaw. Richard seemed to be getting this part of his game into somewhat better shape during 1979 & 1980 (very bad news for NL hitters) before he was tragically afflicted.
@@KardiFan2000 what are you talking about .look at his rookie year photos then his last 3 years photos.he goes from 150 pounds to 200 pounds.and all cut....your a idiot
@@randyjohnson6845 Guess what genius, everyone naturally gains weight between the ages of 20 to 40. Lol. Like I said before, Rickey was an All-American running back in high school who preferred football over baseball, until his mother convinced him otherwise. When he got to MLB, he continued doing football workouts, which explains his super-cut physique.
I think, I may be wrong, but I remember listening to Vin SCULLY call this on the radio. I stayed home from school to watch it because it was at Dodger stadium and had so many Dodgers starting. I’m pretty sure half way thru, I turned tv down and listened to am570? For at least last three innings. 14 years old!
J Ru Peroit: Thank you! I was pretty sure I tuned it in on my parents great big stereo, record player, and yes!! Am/fm. What a great time to be alive!!
Ricardo Moreno Make it, 2022. With this Corona Virus, The 2020 Baseball Season will being in Late July canceling The All Star Game, so MLB gave Dodger Stadium the 2022 All Star Game.
Wow! This completely threw me. Forwarded to see the National League starting lineup. Where the heck is Mike Schmidt? Especially 1980 of all years. I have to go see what happened. Went and looked it up. He leads the league with 48 home runs and 121 RBI's and he's a reserve? He must have been hurt or something.
Schmidt sat out the game for an elected NL starter at 3rd. Same went for George Brett as well to sat out the game for the AL for an elected starter at 3rd. Ironic as it was for both to win MVP from their respective side of the league, not to mention facing one another for the World Series same year.
Howard ripping on Davy Lopez... is not appreciated... "he's hitting .236..." he points out.... Lopez was a great player for a great organization at the top..
Steve stone facts...in 1980 he finished 25-7 in 1981 he finished 4-7 and was done in baseball...his 25 wins in 1980 was almost double his next best year in the majors and he played 11 years...that is very unusual..in the steroids Era that could be explained...I was just over 16 years old during this game and in my high-school they were just started to take steriods...I'll bet that Ricky Henderson and Reggie Jackson took steroids before they became common
Trumpenstein: Get a life and go away. When you grow up and move from mommy and her basement, you can have big people discussions. Try hard. You may do it one day. Jesus loves you.
Theres no doubt that Ricky Henderson took steroids...hes about 160 to 170 pounds in this game...then in several years hes 215 pounds and played forever
With the current Player’s Lockout in Major League Baseball. Could the City of Los Angeles be screwed out of another All-Star this year? Originally they were have supposed to have hosted the 2020 All-Star Game, which never occurred because of COVID-19 which cut the season down to 60 games. Because of that, Major League Baseball decided to give the 2022 All-Star Game to Dodger Stadium, which will be upcoming(Comment posted in 2021). The question is: How long will this Player’s Lockout go on until everything will be resolved and we can go back to playing Baseball? Could it be resolved before The All-Star Break?
When All Star Games were fun and exciting, Now I cannot get through ONE inning they are so boring. And the "experts" that thought it would add something to the game by having the players all wear the same dull uniforms.
Ha, it was funny, when it first started in black and white, and Keith Jackson was talking with a real old-timey affectation for some reason, and I'm like, "Is this mislabeled? Is it 1950, not 1980?"
@Trumpenstein 1982 steve Rodgers starting pitcher and batting 9th for national league......2018 they went DH......before its obvious that went with out DH and when the pitchers come to bat they use a pinch hitter....I think they didn't start the DH until 1973