61 years ago. A lot of these young, healthy, and vibrant men have now gone to their maker. The rest, old and frail! And to them, this probably seems like it was yesterday! Love your life, people! It does go fast!
Have been a lifelong Angels fan since 1961 when I was 7. Now 70, this film brings back many great memories - a vivid one being Felix Torres always striking out in critical moments. Glad to see Stephen is another lifelong Angels fan. BTW, does anyone remember the Dodgers cancelling spring training games against the Angels one year?
@donsharkey116 @donsharkey116 At one time there was a Freeway Series trophy, but I wonder if that has meaning any more ... I remember those games were sellouts, even though they were exhibitions. Interleague play has rendered them fairly meaningless. The Dodgers moving from Vero Beach to Camelback Ranch means the Angels and Dodgers meet several times in Cactus League play.
The Angels swept both games played at Chavez Ravine in 1963 & 1964. Apparently, the Dodgers organization was embarrassed and decided to not to play any more exhibition games until 1969. Yes - all the games were sellouts. Interleague play has ruined both the All-Star game and World Series for me. @@StephensBaseballArchives
It’s hilarious how Dodgers fans hate on the Angels when the Angels are LA’s original team, and are named after Los Angeles. And the Dodgers are from Brooklyn.
The Dodgers' L.A. logo is based on the old PCL Angels logo. You can see it on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels_(PCL) As part of the move, the Dodgers had to buy the Los Angeles territorial rights from the Chicago Cubs, which owned the PCL Angels franchise and the south-central Wrigley Field. The Dodgers sold it to the City of Los Angeles, which leased it to the A.L. Angels for 1961.
One team had multiple years of success in LA and the other only had one WS It’s sorta like the Rams and Chargers now: the Rams had success in LA with the last title (they may get more fans soon idk) and the Chargers still lack the large fanbase because they’re all 2 hours south of LA
Yes Angels and Chargers started in Los Angeles as the Dodgers started in Brooklyn,NY as the Rams started in Cleveland,OH only the two NBA Teams Lakers and Clippers are not from California but the Lakers won more Championship of all the LA teams
@@Jayaar_85 I wouldn't say that. The Dodgers were born and raised IN Brooklyn where they played from the 1880's to 1957. They weren't raised in Los Angeles, they simply relocated there.
This is great. I'm 70 years old, and was just a boy in '62, and remember the Angels' surprise 3rd place finish very fondly... hey, I was young, dumb and gullible. I'm still looking foward to even better things ahead in 1963!! (Where have you gone, Bo Belinsky?)
And they did so because O'Malley needed to pay off the loans he used to fund the stadium. After the Dodgers won the WS in '63, Autry knew his club couldnt continue to be the AL stepchild tennants hence AS
@@sweetmapleleafs There was a whole complicated deal. Bill Veeck went into it somewhat in his book. It went like this: O'Malley agreed to allow the American League into the LA area if Autry agreed to play in his new stadium for a few years to help pay for the new stadium. The Angels would receive nothing but ticket revenue. All concessions & parking money would go to the Dodgers. At the same time, Autry had to give the construction contract for his new stadium to Yankee owner Del Webb in order to get Webb's approval as the new owner of the AL's LA team. Webb and the Yankees, of course, pretty much ran the American League and had the veto on who the league's new LA owner would be. Webb shortly afterwards sold the Yankees, but was playing a long game. He hoped to get the KC Athletics with the idea of moving them to Oakland, Atlanta or Seattle and then get the contract for building a municipally financed new stadium in one of those cities. Unfortunately for him, Charlie Finley wouldn't play along.
As this and a few other videos on RU-vid successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
The Dodgers assumed the PCL Angels's logo when they moved to Los Angeles to Brooklyn. They just changed the color to all-white. Walter O'Malley bought the PCL Angels to get the territorial rights (and the rights to the logo). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels_%28PCL%29
@@StephensBaseballArchivesYep, we as Angels fans have really been cheated of our team history. The Dodgers just stole LA cause they couldn’t make it in NY. Angels and San Diego born and breed in CA. Dodgers and Giants are just transplants cause they couldn’t compete with the Yankees.
These sports franchises moved over the years the Lakers from minneapolis to los angeles the rams from Cleveland to LA to orange county to st.louis and back to los angeles again the chargers originally LA then to san Diego and back to L A again and the Raiders left Oakland came to los angeles then back to Oakland then left to Las Vegas a sports history and oh the angels were once the California angels then anaheim angels and stadium now comings and goings many
Rare footage. You never see any film or even photographs of the Angels playing in Dodger Stadium. Unfortunately 1962 was a fluke and the Angels would fall into the usually expansion team funk for the next 15 or so years and wouldn't get into a World Series till the team was 40 something years old.
