Cincinnati Reds vs New York Mets @ Crosley Field June 6, 1970 

Great video! I was exactly one day old when this video was taken.

Man, that's a beautiful scoreboard.

I like that stadium a lot more than Riverfront.

It's almost hard to believe this was from 1970, it has the feeling that it could be much old older.

really nice pictures. interesting year, frank robinson with the orioles, the reds and orioles in the world series that year. the reds last game at crosley would be june 24th 1970. the world series played in riverfront.

Very cool to see Tommy Seaver here, prior to his stint with the Reds -- which didn't begin until 7 years later.

I miss Crosley Field. It looked lube it had a similar atmosphere and vibe to Wrigley Field. Seeing Ted Klezuski and Yogi Berra coaching first base also brought beck great memories, as well as seeing a young Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver and Pete Rose. Where has the time gone? I miss those days. 😀

The runner on 1st at 2:57 is Tommie Agee. The Reds won this 5-1 in front of 25,266 fans. 2:08 was the length of the game. The umpires that day from Home to third were Dick Stello, Al Barlick, Ed Vargo and Paul Pryor. Great video. Thanks for posting.

Went to my first baseball game in July of 1970, after the Reds had moved into Riverfront. I remember seeing Crosley Field as we drove past it to the game. They played the Padres who had those yellow away uniforms & it rained on & off the whole game.

Saw Pete Rose when he was a Rookie At Crosley Field Slide Head First Steal'n Second !!!!! Remember it like was Yesterday

Thanks for the upload. It brings back great memories of the Miracle Mets. Also seen are Don Clendenon (holding Rose at first) and Tommy Agee (being held by Lee May at first). Bench was a monster in '70.

I watched this game in 1970, Wor9.....

This was shot a week before my 5th birthday, and coming south towards downtown on I-75 out beyond the outfield fence is what I can vaguely remember about Crosley Field. I can remember seeing the flags waving atop the stadium, as you went by it in a vehicle, I hate that I was so young then, it doesn't help with retaining what you did see. That's the late Don Clendenon at 1st base for the Mets, he was a standout in the 1969 WS upset by the Mets, over the Baltimore Orioles. Seeing Ted Kluszewski from behind, truly gives you the perspective of how huge he was, I'm sure he had offers from pro teams to try football. I'm so proud to hail from Cincinnati, a city that will forever be synonymous with the game of baseball...

Great stuff - thank you. Looked up the game on the MLB reference site - too much time on my hands. A Saturday night - Reds won 5 to 1. Game time - 2 hours and 8 minutes.

When stadiums had character.

Watching this video made me moody for a Hude. I grew up in Covington, Ky in the early sixties. That reds team was the beginning of the Big Red Machine. What a great time to watch Reds baseball. Does anybody remember the pre-game show Dugout Dope?

Beautiful...well done Steve

50 years ago. The world was different then. Yes, the world had its problems, but it truly was a better place. Back then.

thanks for uploading and big thanks too for not backing it with some cheezy "music"

I really enjoyed your sharing this video. Born in 1953 in St. Louis and always a Cardinals fan I sure remember our Busch stadium number one used until 1966. Busch stadium number two was used until 2005 and now we are on Busch stadium number three since 2006, which I like the best as it was built with the older historical stadium feel in mind. You sure have videos of greats from the Mets and Reds in 1970.

Great rare video glimpse of the past and what once was. We were All so young and much more innocent then, and I'm talking about Society as a whole. Also, YES!!!!!, why did we destroy most our historical stadiums. Even more of a Pure Tragedy was the destruction of Old Yankee Stadium. Crosley yes too, but Yankee stadium??? With its deep rich history tied to All cities??? A Pure Tragedy. This video has pure BEAUTY and innocence. TY whoever you are for its upload.

I'm 56 years old using my girlfriend's computer and I just found out about the Terrace in left field of Crosley what a feature! It really doesn't show up on my PS2 2K baseball games but I'm going to find a book about it and find out about it I hope Frank Robinson's got a book. myself I miss Tiger Stadium

I wasn't born until 1981 but I would have loved to grown up during this era in Cincinnati.

Yogi '10 ring' Berra was the name branded on the bat I used back then. So many memories of baseball & billboards @ Crosley Field.

My first game was the Mets vs. Reds at Crosley 2 years earlier, 1968 when I was 5 and my family was driving from Long Island to California. We got about a dozen Mets autographs on a baseball which went way up in value when the Mets won the Series the next year.

Kluzewski looks like a building with a Reds uniform draped over it. Geez he was huge.

If this was filmed in June 1970, it was filmed in the year they moved to Riverfront Stadium. They basically played the first half of the season at Crosley and the second half at Riverfront. June 24th was the last game at Crosley. I was very young, but I was there.

Agree about how great is the footage, the menories it evokes... but that can't be Bobby Tolan swinging from the right side, he batted left

Amend my comment, I see now that the ID at 2:26 goes with the Reds' runner at first, who is indeed Tolan. The ID stayed on the screen into the RHB. Sorry for my oops!

This is amazing

With Rose on first at 2:40, that appears to be Mets starting pitcher Ray Sadecki (a left-hander who wore # 33 with the Mets) in the upper-left part of the screen. Rose got hits off of both him and Tug McGraw on this day. At 3:04, the first of two double-plays hit into by Cleon Jones on this day, top of the 4th.

They even throw in some slo-mo (1:12)--nice! (Seaver with Mets pitching coach Rube Walker.)

@:16....to the left of the batting cage....two of the greatest pitchers of all time, as well as close friends....Tom “Terrific” Seaver, and Nolan “The Express” Ryan...

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: (Disclaimer: I know this video took place in the 70s, but since it was 1970, just one year after, many of the attributes I'm about to illustrate still apply.) Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, etc) or in more modern parks (Giants' Candlestick Park, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Astros' namesake Dome, 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, ties, caps, and black 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. 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.

beautiful

The batter after Tolan was identified was Tony Perez

A couple of mistakes in the description. The Reds moved into their new home, Riverfront Stadium, later that season, not the following season. And the Mets won the World Series the previous year, 1969.

Too bad they didn't play the entire season at Crosley in 1970, it would have been fun watching the World Series and All-Star Game played there before moving to Riverfront.

I caught a Reds/Cubs game @ Riverfront Stadium back in '96. It had absolutely NOTHING appealing about it. It made me appreciate what a unique place Crosley Field once was.

Does anyone know what year the yellow "home run" line was finally placed on the scoreboard? I want to say it was only on there for 2-3 years. Perhaps 1968 to 70. Many players, including Frank Robinson, were robbed of a lot of home runs due to the entire scoreboard being "in play."

Great film. You or whoever brought the camera picked a great day to bring it. There's a few Hall of Famers there in a legendary ball park. Thank you for sharing!

#30 for Mets is Nolan Ryan.

Who is the Reds lefty pitcher? Don Gullett or Freddie Norman?

Oh man 1970! I was 9 we were in our new house for a year in Caldwell NJ! Wish I could go back to that time!

BEAUTIFUL. This footage is great! It is in fact the 6th of June 1970. Just a couple of weeks before the move. Big Klu wasn't a coach until that season.

the building in the background at 3:28 is still there it looks exactly as it did a 1970 all boarded up just like it was in the building the 2018 in the building looks the same as amazing

Interesting seeing Seaver in the bullpen without his hat,way different time,no hype,just the game!

These teams reversed roles in 1970. The Mets went from 1969 World Series champions to struggling through most of 1970. They had one hot streak, a 22-8 run that belatedly pushed them over .500 and into first place, but after that they were only 36-43 and they ended up third, behind the Pirates and Cubs. The Reds, who finished third in 1969, swept this series to take a 9-game lead in the NL West. By late July they were 70-30, after which they coasted to win the division by 14.5 games over LA.

The Big Red Machine in it’s infancy

Even the Beatles played there in 1966!!

This is 1970. At 3:17 you can see #11 Hal McRae talking to umpire. McRae was injured in 1969.

For the sake of acknowledgement, "this one goes to the Reds," 5-1. (It would be four years later when Marty Brennaman would get to town and eventually coin that phrase) Jim Merritt pitched a complete game and moved to 11-3 with the win, beating the Mets' Ray Sadecki. Hal McRae and Johnny Bench had solo shots in the game, Bench doubled in two more in the eighth. Time of the game, two hours, eight minutes, which certifies it was a different place and time.

Never would have guessed "Mountain Dew" was even a thing back in 1970.

Early stages of "The Big Red Machine".

the reds pitcher was Jim Merritt. he won 20 games in 1970.

I agree 1970 but obviously not August as move to Riverfront in June. Remember 1970 all star game. Not 1969 no centennial patch on uniform that was worn in 1969.

My family had season box seats, and that’s where I attended my first World Series. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you . . . my childhood.

This was just a few weeks before the Reds moved into Riverfront.

I was almost six months old.

I was 59 days old.

The Reds won this game, 5-1, and Johnny Bench hit his 17th homer of the season that night.

That hill in the outfield.

They moved into Riverfront less than a month later.

It's to bad the Reds couldn't finish the season at Crosley, they could have had one last World Series there, but I get the thinking at the time, MLB and the Reds were on a modernization kick at the time and getting into the new stadium as fast as they can, was priority. I remember the 70's well, modernization of Baseball was such a trend at the time, new style polyester uniforms, modern lighted score boards, and new larger multi purpose stadiums were in vogue.

Lots of Hall of Famers.

the new riverfront stadiam was being built in 68

Good Stuff! It's too bad the Reds didn't go the way of Chicago Cubs and expand the park and rehab the surrounding area. Riverfront had no character. GABP is fabulous though. It should have been the one built in 1970

Loved Crosley Field. But I believe this film is 1970 around Spring. Still a great clip. The Reds routinely beat up 20 game winners in 1970.

Are you sure this is from 1969? Looks like 1970 to me.

Mets tried to be ‘69 in ‘70. They were too serious, got old, and didn’t have any punch to their lineup. Starting Pitching was great though but teams like Sparky’s Reds started to go relief on them due to their lack of offense.

Rube Walker pitching coach watching Seaver

Nice ballpark in a very bad neighborhood. To park you had to pay a fee to the locals, otherwise, your car would be damaged.

redsland field crosley 1912-1970

lots of hall of famers

1970 riverfront

world champion mets

when she opened in 70 davie gets called up from indianapolis davie shows them all how to play on astro turf

Date is definitely wrong. Riverfront Stadium was already being used.

I liked Jonny Bench, but l wasn't a Red's fan. It was a real game back then, with real superstars. Then Mets, after winning the championship, and trading about a third of the team away, weren't the same.

Crowley Field where the Cincinnati Reds hosted the defending World Champion New York Mets, with their ace, Cy Young Award winner Tom Seaver starting.

It’s too bad Riverfront and 3 rivers were not ready until 71 then the 70 NLCS would have been played at Crosley and Forbes field not 2 similar cookie cutter stadiums .

the reds moved downtown just in time for mid season classic this movie was shot in 69 not in june 70 reds pete rose knocks out ray fosse and young davie concepion joins the during the midseson classic after being called up from indianapolis aaa to the reds

The Reds won that day 5-1, although Seaver was throwing on the side he did not pitch that day as Ray Sadecki was the NY pitcher. Johnny Bench and Hal McRae would homer for the Reds and Bench and Tommy Helms also had doubles. It was a 2-1 game until the bottom of the 8th when the Reds got 3 runs off a young Tug McGraw. Jim Merritt threw a complete game giving up only 6 hits and 1 run. The Mets 1B #22 was Don Clendenon who had just joined the team. The catcher in the Tony Perez AB is Duffy Dyer. The Mets base runner that Berra walks up to is Tommie Agee. Finally the DP turned by the Reds was Woody Woodward (SS), to Tommy Helms (2B) to Lee May (1B),

Meanwhile in the jungles of Vietnam, American's were dying. Enjoy the game.

a false tagg here yes

It was filmed in August of 1969 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Doesn't anyone see this? What is with 1970? Jimmy Wynn hit a ball on the highway one time for a home run. What a shot for the Astros.

Riverfront Stadium awaited the Reds, welcome to the cookie-cutter, concrete floored, Astro-Turfed, knee ruining stadium of the Seventies & Eighties.

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