Love, love, love the fact that the broadcasters didn't feel the need to talk every second. They just allowed the sights and sounds to speak for themselves.
True. But when they DID talk...they didn't have very enlightening comments lol)) Joe Garagiola may have had an announcers voice...but if all he had to say was the ball-strike count and where the ball was hit...I think he was over-payed lol
You should listen to announcers in today's game. They talk constantly on every pitch, every swing, even to the colors of their uniforms. Half the time I watch baseball games, I just put it on mute because of the constant talking. They need to shut up every once in awhile just to let the play develop. Especially, Jason Benetti and Gordon Beckham of the White Sox.
I notice the exact same thing watching this. I learn so much from Garagiola, Kubek, and Enberg. They're a therapeutic alternative to Joe Davis and John Smoltz, who refuse to STFU.
Back then, Lonnie Smith was the guy you wanted on your team. Not just because he was a solid contact hitter and base stealer, but because every team he spent time with ended up going the the Series (Royals, Cardinals, Braves.)
Excellent Series-was able to watch every game. Sutter was a monster- bringing the splitter into the spotlight, where today, it's the most potent pitch, when mastered.
I dig them too! It's amazing the fashion sense that teams had to know of which who COULD get away with wearing the blue and which should wear the gray instead. (My beloved Baltimore Orioles wearing the latter)
Outstanding!!! From the year of my birth. Ozzie Smith and the mighty St. Louis Cardinals vs. Robin Yount and the (then American League) Brewers. Harvey’s Wallbangers. Dick Enberg, Joe Garagiola, Tom Seaver, and a young Bob Costas. Are you kidding? This is beyond classic. I’ve been a Cardinals fan basically since birth. And I was born into this. 👍🏻
I remember 1982 and watching this game like it was yesterday. As a young adult I was back into baseball cards, going to card shows at the Anaheim Convention Center. Boggs, Ripken, Gwynn, McGee, Gaetti, Sandberg, Hrbek were all rookies. It was a great time in Baseball.
I met Pete Vukovich at Shea Stadium in 1979. He was doing warmups on the field, pregame. A sweaty, hairy, gentle giant, who was like a kid himself, and took time to interact with little kids. My hand disappeared when I shook his huge mitt.
One of the interesting dynamics of this series is that Vuckovich, Ted Simmons and Rollie Fingers were previous Cardinals, sent to the Brewers in a trade. Simmons will go into the Hall of Fame as a Cardinal player. I loved Simmons as a Cardinal - still tough to see him in a World Series against the Cardinals.
And many of the cards off centered or miss-cut, ah the early days of fleer and donruss. Love those 82 fleer cards with their out of focus photos and many so dark you cant even see the player. Lol
How do we NOT remember Willie McGee's catch with revered tones. Im sure in St Louis they do, but that was one of the greatest plays Ive ever seen in a WS
Who would've thought that some 30 years later, the Brewers would be in the National League (thus, can no longer face the Cardinals in the World Series) and the Houston Astros would be in the American League?
Wow! I watched this game on TV at Graham dormitory of Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. It refreshes all those good memories in my college days. Many thanks, MLB Vault. Now the new ball game season begins. Go CARDS for title #12!
Brewers-Harvey's Wallbangers! Spring training Cecil Cooper playing left field accepted a tall can of Schlitz from my buddies and me in Palm Springs Ca. End of the inning he came over, stuck it in his jersey on the way back to the dugout. How cool was that!
Eras come and go. I assume with more research into sabermetrics will lead to other types of approaches then only the 3 true outcomes. So I think contact hitters and fast baserunners can make a comeback. We’ve already seen younger players and stars with have an exciting way to play. So the future can be bright and fun. Also more of these new stars show a lot of charisma and express themselves, which I like.
Well had he stayed with the Cubs, Bruce Sutter would never have been in a World Series. Signing with the Cardinals was a strategic move to make a significant contribution in a post-season.... which paid off.
Ahh the Brewers, couldn't beat 'em in "82, couldn't bet 'em in 2011 and can't beat em' now. The MIlwaukee Braves and Hank Aaron did beat 'em in 1957 with a walk off home run to clinch the NL Pennant. That is a long reach to find some consolation. Thanks MLBClassic. Last time I searched RU-vid for the "82 series there was a three minute series highlight the 9th inning Game 7 radio broadcast.
I was 21 in '82 when the Cards won it. I just can't get over how different the game was. Whitey had switch hitters up and down the line up, most of the guys still didn't wear batting gloves and, of course, those crazy Astroturf bounces. I was a die-hard Cardinal fan and it had been a long time between drinks of water for the Cards to get to the WS (14 years since the loss to the Tigers in '68). I remember they called the Brew Crew "Harvey's Wallbangers" back then.
2:29:46-2:29:53, "SWING AND A MISS! AND THAT'S A WINNER! THAT'S A WINNER! A WORLD SERIES WINNER FOR THE CARDINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"-Jack Buck. IIRC, 24 years later, when the Cardinals won the 2006 🌎 Series, his son Joe Buck said: "For the first time since 1982, St. Louis has a 🌎 Series winner!" And it's also a coincidence that both the 1982 and 2006 🌎 Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals delivering the final strikeout!
Thanks man, brings back memories. I was holidaying in your country (I'm from Australia) and cheering on the Brewers via the TV coverage as we travelled around in our mighty Buick Skylark !!!! Dioes anyone else notice how 'normal' these guys look compared to now ?
It's hard to believe the Brewers didn't have more success with those teams. They had the misfortune of battling some powerful Orioles and Yankees teams in the A.L. East those years (77 through 83).
I was initially laughing at your comment because I thought you were kidding. I was expecting a cheesy 80s montage but wow you are right, that was pretty awesome.
It's cool to see how there are some images in that montage that we consider iconic today, here in 2020, that were also considered iconic in 1982! I guess the world knows a great moment when they see it.
2:29:43 “Sutter from the belt - to the plate - a swing and a miss! And that’s a winner! That’s a winner! A World Series winner for the Cardinals!” - Jack Buck
The Cardinals should have won two World Series in four years. Don Denkinger blown call cost us that championship in 1985. To this day, I am still bitter about it.
I don't think Don Denkinger should shoulder all the blame for the Cardinals losing the 1985 World Series for three reasons. 1: The Cardinals, who had the highest team batting average in the National League during the regular season in 1985, only managed to hit .185 and scored only 13 runs in the 1985 World Series, both all time lows for a seven game World Series. (Until the Yankees only managed to hit .183 in the 2001 World Series against the D'Backs) 2: Vince Coleman who was a catalyst for the Cardinals with his 110 stolen bases during the regular season, suffered a broken ankle due to a freak due to the automated tarpaulin at the old Busch Stadium in St. Louis prior to Game 4 of the 1985 NLCS. Making him unavailable for the rest of the postseason. 3: After Denkinger missed the call, Jack Clark, who sent the Cardinals to the World Series with his three run home run against the Dodgers in the NLCS, failed to catch a playable pop up in four territory. And Darrel Porter allowed the passed ball that allowed the tying and winning runs to get into scoring position. Jorge Orta, who Denkinger incorrectly called safe, was thrown out at third on a fielder's choice, the only out the Cardinals recorded in the inning. I will admit, Denkinger's call was wrong, but if the Cardinals did not lose the services of Vince Coleman or have a team batting average below the Mendoza line, the Royals would of never overcame their three games to one deficit to force that game six in Kansas City, thus there would of never been "The Call."
+Patrick Krier I'm a lifelong Cards fan and just thinking about Denkinger use to make me mad as hell. But it's been 30 years and the Cards have won two recent World Series. I've let it go.
Didn't realize it was Dekinger's fault Jack Clark didn't catch a routine pop up. It was probably Dekinger's fault Porter gave the baserunner a wide open path to the plate when the winning run scored also. Yes, it was a brutal call but a CHAMPIONSHIP club would have won anyway
Lonnie Smith's single @ 1:04:14 Ben Oglivie's homerun @ 1:10:40 Joaquin Andujar's error @ 1:20:57 Cecil Cooper's sac fly @ 1:23:40 Keith Hernandez' single @ 1:36:31 George Hendrick's single @ 1:40:51 Darrel Porter's single @ 2:19:44 Steve Braun's single @ 2:20:13 top of the ninth @ 2:22:36 last batter Gorman Thomas @ 2:25:56
As a 12-yr-old die-hard Angels fan, I took great, GREAT pleasure in watching the last inning of this series! Thank you, Cardinals for that sweet justice... It took a Dave Henderson home run, four years later, for me to forget about this Brewers team and make me shift my hatred elsewhere, hahaha.
Bobby Costas with the long hair of his youth. KMOX radio GM Robert Hyland Jr. recruited young Costas to ultimately replace Jack Buck upon the latter's retirement yrs in the future as the next Generation's Cardinal's broadcaster. That never came to be, but what an eye for talent did Bob Hyland have! In the interim if memory serves me, Bobby Costas started off announcing S. Louis University basketball and Spirits of S. Louis games in the old ABA on KMOX.
We were having breakfast in Abilene, TX the morning after Game 1 reading about the Brewers 10-0 W, when New Padres mgr Dick Williams pulled up in his RV. He told us the Cards would win.
Have to say, Yount sure looked safe at third to me on the throw from Hendricks in right. I'm not sure Obkerfell even tagged him. But baseball as played in the late 70s-mid 80s was like that. So bang-bang. Really miss that kind of play.
You don't see as many hard-nosed plays like that these days- Yount really went in hard, and Oberkfell had no problem casually putting his knee in the way of Yount's head. Both players could've been injured (luckily neither were). Watching that made me wonder if Oberkfell might be called for interference on it today, due to blocking the bag. Not sure what the rules are on that.
Quite a contrast in teams. The Milwaukee Brewers with a lineup of great hitting and power that included former Cardinals Pete Vukovich and Ted Simmons. . The Cardinals played small ball with team speed. I play these teams in Baseball strat-o-matic even today and it makes for a very close series. Thanks for placing on RU-vid. My memory of this game in St. Louis is of my wife in bed who had 2 days prior broken her leg falling at a garage sale almost ready for the birth of our daughter Lisa now 40, I was going back and forth in the house between my wife's misery in bed and my excitement watching this game on television. Lisa's brother Keith 1 year old was named after Keith Hernandez.
Yeah I was pissed watching the ALCS that year. But MAN the broadcasting was great qith Dick Enberg, Joe Garagiola, Tony Kubek, Tom Terrific, and a young Bob Costas. Loved when we would get Vin later on.
@@turtle19dad, and to think while Bob Costas and Tony Kubek became one broadcast team, calling MLB Game of the Week on NBC, Dick Enberg was primed to be in a broadcast team with Joe Garagiola, before NBC ultimately went with Vin Scully and Enberg got a raise from the network, calling NFL games with Merlin Olsen. This was the only World Series that Enberg announced!!!
@@michaelpowell5266 cool story. I'm glad Vin was on the Mic with Joe for my Padres first ever World Series in 1984. LA/SoCal was spoiled with Bob Miller (Kings), Enberg (Angels/NFL/Padres/Tennis), Chick, and Vin. 💔😭😇
Brewers should have won this series. They were the best team in baseball and everyone knew it. No Rollie, weird bad weather in game 6, turf etc...all contributed to Cards hitting the lotto.
This was the only World Series that Dick Enberg announced- BTW, he and Joe Garagiola were the two game show hosts to announce the World Series, that season. Joe hosted He Said She Said, Sale of the Century, To Tell The Truth and Strike It Rich, while Dick hosted Sports Challenge(1971-79), Baffle and Three For The Money!!!
I never understood how Andujar goes 2-0 and a 1.35 era winning games 3 & 7, and they give the MVP to Darrel Porter who hit .286 with only 1 run scored and 5 rbi? This comment is coming from someone who did not care for Andujar as a person.
@@clubhouseme Video Game systems were so popular at this time in October 82 from Atari, Coleco Vision, Intellivision, the Apple Computer and Commodore 64 for video games. Remember there was no renting movies at this time. Video stores for renting movies i remember opened up in Spring 84. Not many people had VCRS in the Spring of 84. It really took off for renting movies in 1985
Sutter, Smith, McGee, Herr, Herzog, have sat down several times and talked about the series. They talked about Adujar and Porter. My favorites on this team were Hernandez and Iorg.
42 years later and I still get goosebumps. Also, fans can still rush the field now. They just don’t bc, you know, it’s the time for the players to celebrate. When I was 8, I got list on Hat Day in the crowd at Busch Stadium. Can you imagine letting your own child get lost in a crowd like that? The “good ol days” didn’t have anything to do with rushing tbe fields. Perhaps ppl forget that in 1974 a fan RAN ONTO THE FIELD IN ATLANTA despite security for potentially breaking Ruth’s record, and rounded the bases with Hank Aaron, a man who’d been receiving multiple d3@threats as he neared tbe record? That was ONE MAN. Security can’t stop fans rushing the field, literally ever. Stop pretending those were pillars of the game. They’re not. Just revel in the glory of this sweet victory.
You literally don’t understand what that phrase means. That type of field was really actually bad. And fans back then would rip up fields and take them home as “souvenirs” of their reminders of when they freely destroyed property. This was r the good ol’ days bc you had mobs of fans run onto the field. I’ve even been able to run into a field at a sporting event, so I’ve seen others rip up fields. That wasn’t good, for the fans or the sport.
NBC Saturday Morning Schedule for the 1982-83 Season: 8:00am-8:30am: The Flintstone Funnies 8:30am-9:00am: 👚 Tales 9:00am-10:30am: The Smurfs 10:30am-11:00am: The Gary Coleman Show 11:00am-12:00pm: The Incredible Hulk and The 😉 Spider-Man 12:00pm-12:30pm: The Jetsons 12:30pm-1:00pm: Flash Gordon
Increible la hazaña del Joaco, que le pidió al manager que tenia que lanzar en este septimo juego, a paesar del pelotazo que le dio Ted Simmons en el primer juego, que lo lesionó permanentemente. El cuenta que prácticamente lanzó en este juego con un solo pie, para poner la bandera de su pais. Reoublica Dominicana , en alto, le dijo al manager que antes muerto que no lanzar el séptimo juego. Dio te bendiga Joaco, que estás en el cielo y hoy yo reconozco tu grandiosa labor.
Not even 5 years later. Watch some of the games from then (especially the Mets-Red Sox series) and there are police by the stands. I think they learned some lessons, and probably hit a tipping point of complaints from players who were mobbed on the field after a win.
Great game, great series. Much better game than that clown show they put on the field today. Rare are the days a closer will throw multiple innings, and Sutter and most other closers did it regularly.
UPDATE! I'm a little skeptical this year now, because they're 7-18 and have just fired their manager, Ron Roenicke after about four years. I wonder what the future holds for them. *Edit* Never mind still no promise
it was soooooooooo awesome at Busch stadium when the pitchers and catchers practiced right in front of you! I was blessed to experience a baseball game front row, first baseline, right in front of the Bullpen Bob Forsch, Bruce, many players were amazing, Porter, Smith,,,,,,,,,,,not that world series
NBC were originally gonna have him call the whole series. they were in talks to make him the new MLB PBP guy, but when vin scully left CBS over not getting the call for SB XVI it fell apart. so he ended up doing split PBP in this series and hosting along with costas
Check out the end of the 1980 World Series Phillies/Royals. Not one single fan tried to get on the field because the mounted police surrounded the field while the game was still playing.
Perhaps this WS would have had a different outcome if Rollie Fingers wasn't injured for Milwaukee. I loved those "Harvey's Wallbangers" Brewers. Fun team to watch. But the Cardinals pitching got the best of their powerful offense.
Heywood, slugging first baseman for the Yankees, here pitching in the World Series for the Brewers before finishing a close second to the Indians in 1988!
