Baltimore ORIOLES at Detroit TIGERS 7/1/72 Original NBC Broadcast (Kinescope) 

Mickey Lolich should be in the Hall of Fame, Period!

So great to see BASEBALL again.. no graphic barrage; no heavy metal jams.. just ball players playing the game. And announcers who KNEW how to call a game and fill time. Love seeing MY Tigers playing again after all these years! Aurelio Rodriguez, Mickey Stanley, Willie Horton, Freehan, Lolich, Kaline... even Eddie Brinkman and Tony Taylor. Not to mention the great Orioles! Boy, I was lucky to be a kid at that time!

You young people are privileged to see the great Mickey Lolich here. And Dave McNally ain't too shabby, either.

Wonderful to see this game and hear Curt and Tony. Thanks! More, please.

What a find! This was the first MLB game I ever attended! I'm sitting in a box seat along the third base line somewhere.

Lolich , Freehan , Kaline , Horton , Stanley and Northrup . Wonderful childhood memories .

Thank you for uploading this. I was eight years old, and this was the year that I really got into baseball and the Tigers and have been ever since! I’m not sure, but this must’ve been the last year that batters did not have to wear helmets if they did not want to. I see Tony Taylor did not, but Al Kaline did. Man I miss baseball in the 70s.

I had just turned 5 years old...2 days before. Hard to believe...how far we have come in television technology. At that age...I do remember black and white only TV's...but only a very few were around. Now...I can watch this game, (or even the 1952 World Series, or the 1979 All-Star Game...etc....), on RU-vid...on a phone. Absolutely amazing.

The great Al Kaline went on to become one of the most beloved Tiger broadcasters along with George Kell for many seasons.

I love these old broadcasts especially watching Hall of famers like Al Kaline!!

Wow, 50 years ago. Can’t say I remember this specific game, but I remember the ‘72 season well. Came down to the Red Sox and Tigers, last three games of the season. Kaline went nuts at the plate for the last couple weeks, leading the Tigers to the Eastern Division crown.

Wow, a 1972 broadcast of a regular season game on NBC! It's a shame that the major networks erased a lot of their programming because of the expense of storing videotape and their belief that everyday events like a Major League game would be of no interest in the future. Fatal error.

Nostalgic game of the week from 72. Two good teams. Tigers won the division and played the A's in the chanpionship series. Thanks for posting!

Ohmigod the banter between Earl Weaver and Billy Martin pregame at 2:23 is just classic, never seen that before.

Doyle Alexander (13) warming up in the bullpen for Baltimore. He would be on the Tigers '87 team that went to the playoffs. Paul Jata (31) was just 22 years old. He played in just 32 games in the majors. So brief. Stayed in the minors until 1976. Wonder what he did with the rest of his life.

No fans staring at their phones like mindless zombies. Just enjoying a great baseball game long ago,

Anything better than seeing Al Kaline trotting out to right? RIP AL.

That interlude between Weaver and Martin was awesome.

Wish there were more Tiger games from 72 floating around RU-vid.

Like going back to my childhood. Watching the great Al Kaline hit a long ball off of the crafty left hander Dave Mc Nally. I am sure I probably had this game on TV back in 72 when it originally aired.

I probably watched that game here in Detroit. I was only 25 yrs old then, and Al Kaline was my favorite Tiger player then and ever. Grew up watching him from the time I was just a snot nosed kid. Now, I'm a snot nosed old geezer.

Great interview in the beginning with Weaver and Martin.

Great broadcast of the game of the week, I remember this game very well, so nice to be able to see again after 50 years. Love all the old games on Y Tube, what a great treat, thank you so much for sharing

Thanks for sharing, The Good Old Day’s.

Great Tiger Stadium memories! Thanks Phenia films

Thanks for posting this. Being a Tiger fan since the early 60’s it was always a thrill to attend a Tigers game at Tiger Stadium especially when Al Kaline parked one in the seats!

I was 9-years old and the '72 Tigers were my team! It was the year I really started collecting Topps cards and I still remember that feeling of getting a Tiger in the pack! I'm sure I watched this game...unless Sir Graves was on. (Detroiters will get the reference)

I was there, too. We visited a friend of my dad's in Detroit that weekend. I was 8 years old.

Rare game when Billy Martin was managing...wish there were more! I know you also have the Tigers vs A's 1972 in color....awesome as well. I love the charm of these old kinescopes!

A good reason to stay home on a Saturday afternoon.

Lolich was the Schnizz! Thanks for posting.

Lolich, portly all right, but his ball is SINGING. This is him right in the middle of a powerful four year prime, in which he pitched over 1300 innings! Amazing.

Comerica Park is nice enough...but Tiger Stadium was an amazing place to watch a game

Liked that Tiger team!

Amazing footage I’m a pirates fan and one of our glory eras in our history was during this time too. We just beat the Orioles In the World Series in the year prior. The footage looks more like it was made in the 50s and 60s tho cause obviously color television has already been around for some years by this time.

Interesting to see the managers banter, especially those 2! They should do that today

Commentators: Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek

A great ballpark, and filled on a Saturday afternoon. What a matchup, McNally versus Lolich.

Happy Birthday Bobby Gritch. 4 GG 6 all stars & a Silver Slugger. Lead the league in HR in the strike year of 1981. That scout wasn't too far off. Decent player. Looks better on the advanced metrics too.

I remember watching this game that day! Too bad there isn't the ninth inning. No spoilers, but I remember that play specifically. Many thanks for posting!

Used to love watching the game of the week. No matter who was playing.

Entertaining 3 way interview between Gowdy, Weaver and Martin started at 2:23 and lasting two full minutes. Today's world cannot permit such a thing anymore since hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of advertising money will be lost. What a shame.

I remember my 6th grade teacher bringing in her tv and us watching part this series!

Billy the Kid's kid! God bless you for posting this!

Funny how they mentioned the infield all being 6'2" or taller as a sign of the times. They still talk about that today as if it's new.

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What a gem of a video you posted here. My compliments. If you ever happen to come across any copies of the 1971 ALCS / NLCS games please post them.

Gowdy-Kubek awesome 😎 team.

Thanks for this

When baseball mattered

Two excellent teams and pitchers on this day. Also Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek were the best!

I’m amazed to hear them talk about how much bigger athletes were then, because my first impression was how much smaller guys who could hit for power like Kaline and Freehan looked.

Classic stuff here, When the Orioles were competitive and baseball drew fans.

Last year without the DH in the American League,1972

Wow, so awesome to see all these old players I used to watch as a young buck with my (now late) brother, Eddie. We would sit at the table and have a bottle of Coke and a bag of chips and dip and root for our wonderful home team while living in Saginaw, MI, where we were born. Memories...

Did you see how Aurelio Rodriguez played that chopper bare handed and threw out Merv Rettenmund? How often would you see that today?

This would have been shown in Baltimore on WBAL-TV 11 which was with NBC before switching to CBS in 1981 before going back to NBC in 1995.

It would cost a trillion dollars today to have a pitcher staff like Baltimore had in the early 70s

Interesting to see how the batting stances and swings differ from today's "swing for the fences". Also, the game moved along at a brisk pace unlike today's snail's pace.

Everybody was right. Rodriguez was a damn good defensive third baseman.

Baltimore was a powerhouse then. They use to beat the lowly Yankees like a drum .

Most of the former stadiums should have been rebuilt like they were, with the same architecture(except Candlestick and few others).

Love that camera shot of the hitter with the upper deck of center field in the background. None better.

I appreciate this.

Tigers ended up winning the east,then lost to the A’s in a tough fought Alcs . Many Tigers did not like playing for Martin

Love that centerfield overhang.. awesome design...

Love that camera angle from behind the home plate umpire.

Detroit kid, here. Always loved the cannon arm of Aurelio Rodriguez

4:34 Paul Jata???? Dammit, Stormin' Norman brought me here

4 teams in the AL East were fighting for 1st place down to the last few days....I was a disappointed 12 year old Yankee fan....

A Saturday game of the week on NBC with Kubek & Curt Gowdy. Man this is awesome stuff.

!!!! Wow!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

I was at game 5 of the 1972 Tigers playoff with Oakland. oakland scored the winning run when the 1st base umpire called a guy safe at first when he was literally out by 2 feet. Norm Cash was besde himself. The fans were so mad that there were whiskey and beer glass bottles thrown on the field in centerfield. George Hendrick caught the final out in centerfield- he easily could have tripped on a bottle. It was insanity that the umpires let the game continue under those circumstances but I think they were afraid of a riot or something.. It was a shame to lose like that as this was the last hurrah for the 1968 Tigers heroes.

FUN BASEBALL FACT: A low end VHS player recorder cost was the equivalent of $7000 dollars in 1972 dollars!

Interesting in that verbal exchange with Earl Weaver, he remarked sarcastically “they are going to have a TV dugout?”

Two of the best teams in 1972.

I watched this game on TV. This game ended with a fantastic catch by Jim Northrup to start a double play.

Lolich 376 innings in 71... pitcher today lucky to go 176 hate todays baseball to soft!!

I couldn't help but notice the absence of Norm Cash and Boog Powell in the lineups.

Tony and Curt were good. As was Vin and Harry and Red. When you grow up TIGER..there was no voice like Ernie and George that meant Tiger baseball is on the air! Small shout out to Larry Osterman as well.⚾️👍 R.i.p. Norm, Al, Jim, Ernie, George, Mark, Gates, Billy, Joe, Earl, Don, Tommy, Ray, Mayo, 1968' " Sock It To Em" Tigers. Forever! The last true champions of baseball.

Umpires (6:52) HP Lou DiMuro 1B Bill Deegan 2B Larry McCoy 3B Jim Honochick (Crew Chief)

Baltimore took 3 out of 4 in this series, but slipped in September and Detroit won the division-the only time from 1969-1974 that Baltimore didn’t finish 1st.

opening graphics are sick!!!!

The time it took to play games then is often mentioned, but pace of play is more important. When the between-inning breaks were changed from one to two minutes, that instantly added 18 or more minutes of elapsed time to each game, even the quick ones. Post-season breaks (which were also a minute) are now three minutes or more. Keep the action moving and the length of the game doesn't matter as much.

Kind of feel bad for the Detroit Tigers shortstop & 3rd baseman, Ed Brinkman was a great shortstop and could of won more than 1 gold glove in the '70s... but in the way was Luis Aparicio and Mark Belanger as for the hot corner Aulerio Rodriguez got his in '76 cuz Brooks Robinson didn't play much and was about to retire, but before 1976 Brooks (the human vacuum cleaner) won an astounding 16 gold gloves ... WOW !! ... By the way , speaking of gold gloves , the birds succeeded in 29 gold glove earnings in the 70s while the tigers at the same span ('70 thru '79) captured 4 gold gloves ⚾️🌟🌟🌟

I went to my first Major League game at Shea Stadium three weeks prior to this: Mets beat the Astros, 5-3, Jerry Koosman over Don Wilson. I believe the date was June, 10th- you wouldn't happen to have that game?

1972 was the first year of polyester uniforms I believe. Not that that's important or anything, I just thought I'd throw that in just for the heck of it. 😊

82 minute game u don’t see that anymore

If only these games could be complete games

At 20:30 Curt Gowdy mentioned that Freehan hit a Grand Slam in Boston. I remember watching that game. I believe the Tigers were down 4-0 going into the ninth. Freehan's Home run cleared the stadium making it an 8 run ninth for the win.

Are there any NBC baseball games from the 1970's--particularly 1974 and 1975--whether they were played on a Monday or a Saturday? One of those was the White Sox against the Yankees at Shea Stadium in 1974 (yes, Shea Stadium--Yankee Stadium was too busy being remodeled as a new park to begin in 1976)!

Al Kaline to the rescue

That year the Tigers won the AL East by only one half game over the Red Sox

Diyle Alexander was a great ground ball pitcher

When I was a young tot I wanted my Mom to but Vernor's Ginger Ale because Bill Freehan was used to advertise the drink.

why does it look like 1922 instead of 1972?

Just looking at a few pitches from Lolich to Paul Blair. 12 to 14 seconds between pitches.... Looked up the game (Yeah I know - get a life) Tiger win 2-0. Time of the game - 2 hours and 5 minutes....

Great add to here. It was 3 years before I was brewing in my momma tummy but I was ready for some ⚾

The fans then seemed to really be into the game, unlike now when people feel obligated to go.

Them playing the National Anthem with the players at position... Not in line. That's different