Jim Rice CRUSHING home runs! The Red Sox slugger had INSANE power! 

You hit the nail on the head Sean. So true! Jim had ridiculous strength and a level swing compared to most homerun hitters. He hit the ball harder than anyone in his day, but he hit line drives. Downside, he got robbed of a ton of homeruns at Fenway and grounded into a lot of doubleplays, but he made contact more than most longball hitters of his day. This is why he consistently batted over .300

Jim Rice had superman 🦸‍♀️ homeruns power

My favorite player as well.

Hobson

@buckstraw925 Of course. Pretty sure he was the first guy ever to hit 30 home runs hitting 9th in the lineup. Maybe the only guy to do it, but I'm not sure about that.

@@richardsiciliano7117 Killer lineup with the two guys at the top good at getting on base and base running and then seven guys with huge monster bats. I used to tune in on my little AM radio all the way from outside Philly to listen. I could just barely get the Sox station from Hartford.

@buckstraw925 Those were great days. For years, I always wished that the late 70's lineup was mixed with the late 80's starting pitching. THAT team could have won a title. Oh well, we got there eventually, buddy.

@@richardsiciliano7117 Well, they nearly did in 75 and against a great great team. I was glad to see them finally win but by that time my childhood love of the Red Sox had long ended when I got a bit older and I stuck with just the Phillies, my home town team.

🦸‍♀️ superman homerun power; Jim Rice

That homer came off KC's Steve Busby. Unfortunately, those were the days when teams didn't have huge TV contracts. Not all games were televised, including this one. Local TV stations would send a cameraman to the game to shoot(on film) highlights for the evening news, and then the film was discarded.

@@swami1 You can hear the radio call from Jim Woods (it’s epic) on the Super Sox 75 LP. It’s on RU-vid, 13:40 is the time stamp.

@@AdventuresWithMe00 I know. I bought the album later that year.

Jim Rice own the green monster

LOL, I knew that was not Rice.

He's wearing number 15.

Boomer wore 5 not 15

@@Anotherinthefire That was George Scott 100%

@@Anotherinthefire He wore # 15 also.Go look it up

that home run was against Steve Busby - there's actually an article on the internet about it. Jim Rice did state that it was his longest home run. Tom Yawkey also said it was the longest he'd ever seen at Fenway.

@@mikegulliver4885 Thanks. It's almost weird to describe a mammoth home run that you didn't really see a lot of, it just was this line drive that went into the darkness. I wish it would've been a day game.

1978 Jim Rice was unpitchable? could only 🚶‍♀️ walk Jim rice 6:31 6:31

Rice had a parallel stance. Stanton had a closed stance.

Not only his eyesight, but knee and elbow injuries.

It's just a series of random clips. Mostly from the old show "This Week in Baseball" with some ESPN and Red Sox broadcasts at the end 1987-89. Also a couple of 1978 clips, maybe from an old HBO show hosted by Len Berman called."Race for the Pennant."

Alot of Mel Allen. Probably TWIB This Week in Baseball