Whatever the Orioles gave Cincinnati before the 1966 season to get Frank Robinson, it was more than worth it. Robinson was The Key to this World Series Championship!
This was a very special time to be living in Baltimore. I was in grade school at Marrs Estates, in Essex. Man, we loved The Orioles, The Colts and The Beatles.
To understand how dominant the Orioles were in this series - Not only did the Orioles sweep Los Angeles, but McNally was the ONLY Orioles pitcher to give up a single run in the series. The entire Orioles staff only gave up a total of 17 hits across 4 games. The Orioles two closers, Eddie Fisher and Stu Miller, didn't pitch once in the series. While every single Dodgers pitcher, except for Don Sutton, saw action in this series. Might just be the most dominant team performance in World Series history.
I watched Game 2 of the '66 World Series on Television. Game time was 2:26 pm. I got out of school at 3:00pm and raced home. Sandy was still on the mound. I watched in frustration as the Dodgers defense let Sandy Koufax down! Frank Robinson's misplayed flyball in the 6th Inning was ruled a Triple. Boog Powell singled in Robinson effectively ending Sandy Koufax's World Series Conservative Scoreless Innings streak at 24 Innings. I'll never forget how sick to my stomach I felt watching this unfold on television that day! Interestingly, Sandy Koufax got out of the 6th Inning with a most unusual bases loaded double play ~ Andy Etchebarren hit a ground ball to Jim Gilliam at Third Base who threw to John Roseboro at Home who stepped on Home Plate and then threw to First Baseman Wes Parker! This play is featured briefly at the beginning of this video.
Thank you so much for posting this. It means a lot. I immigrated to the USA in 1963 as a 3-year old, and it's only now that I got to watch this much of my beloved Orioles in the 1966 World Series! God bless you.
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.
Hank Bauer and his birds swept the Dodgers 4-0. If I remember well, Orioles pitchers allowed 4 runs total in that WS. But they then fell apart in 1967.
In fact, Oriole pitching only allowed TWO runs in the four game sweep, and none after the third inning of game one. The only runs the Dodgers got in that series, both of which came in the first game, came on Jim Lefebvre's second inning HR and four walks in the third inning. They were skunked the rest of the way. It was a combination of a great pitching staff and an awful line-up. A complete and total mismatch.
And won in 1970. With an appearance in both the 69 and 71 series. They regrouped quickly. Not to mention one of those teams had 4 20 game winning pitchers.
you're exactly right-the Bird hurlers dominated the Dodgers like no other team had been dominated before (or after) in World Series history. Keep in mind Koufax blew his arm out, even though he was still out there. Sutton and Palmer were rookies.
vitoduval I never said when Earl took over, I said they won three straight pennants and the 1970 World Series under Earl. His first year they were rebuilding.
@@remmymafia3889 What the Braves did to the 1995 Indians lineup was pretty impressive but it wasn't on this level. To be fair though, that 1995 Indians lineup was stacked.
Boog still says that it was him that made Brooks look so good. Brooks doesn't disagree. Watching them together at an event is terrific. There's an argument that the infield was better defensively with Belanger at short (not offensively, however).
Brooks Robinson's lifetime record at the plate doesn't give justice to his clutch hitting in important games. During those types of games he was a power to be reckoned with.
@@patgalvez4563source of a pretty funny Palmer quote actually. He didn’t really outpitch Koufax, by his own admission. Three of the runs Koufax gave up in this game were unearned, and the fourth really should have been as well, because Robinson’s double in the 6th was also a catchable ball. Palmer was asked about this game years later as a broadcaster. One of his partners commented that he “beat Koufax in his final Major League start,” to which Palmer’s sardonic reply was “I didn’t beat Koufax-Willie Davis beat Koufax!”
Gree up listening to him by the time I started listening to him Brooks Robinson had joined him in the broadcast booth. I live in Maryland they were broadcast on channel 2,11, and 13.
Luis was a great short stop. Looked like a batboy when he first came up with the White Sox and didn't hit much his first year or two, but he could always field like a HOF'er.
Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale ultimately went on to work with Vin Scully as the voice of Dodger baseball broadcasts. Sadly in 1993 Mr. Drysdale while in Montreal, Canada covering a game between the Dodgers and the Montreal Expos died of a heart attack in his hotel room.
That song played at the start of the video--"It's a beautiful day for a ball game ..."--for years in the 1960s was played before Cubs games on WGN radio!
I'm a big fan of the 1960s Los Angeles Dodgers! I turned 5 years old in 1962 and I fondly remember my father buying my brothers and I Dodgers drinking cups from the Union 76 Gas Station. I saw Sandy Koufax pitch against the Houston Astros at Dodger Stadium in '65! My God! What a competitor! It was practically a religious experience! Sandy Koufax was mesmerizing to watch on the mound with his white Dodgers uniform. He truly looked like a movie star! Needless to say, The Dodgers won the game. I have never gotten over this game which was played on October 6,1966 at Dodger Stadium which turned out to be Sandy Koufax's last Major League Baseball game. I remember getting home from Elementary School in time to see the game on NBC Television. Sandy Koufax was still on the mound. The nightmarish 5th Inning occurred and I felt a sickening feeling come over me as Willie Davis committed those three errors! I felt such empathy for my hero Sandy Koufax! Three runs crossed the plate which were unearned and didn't affect Koufax's World Series Consecutive. Innings streak. It was in the Sixth Inning that Sandy's Scoreless Innings streak was ended. Frank Robinson hit a deep fly ball to deep Right Center which Willie Davis and Right Fielder Ron Fairly misplayed and let fall in between them which was ruled a Triple! Boog Powell then Singled him home! The Dodgers committed 5 errors behind their Ace Sandy Koufax. You know, Sandy Koufax got out of a bases loaded situation with a most unusual Double Play when Andy Etchebarren hit a grounder to Third Baseman Jim Gilliam who threw home to Catcher John Roseboro who stepped on home plate then he threw to First Baseman Wes Parker! That Double Play is shown at the very beginning of this MLB documentary. That was Sandy Koufax's last play ever in Major League Baseball. Sanford "Sandy" Koufax retired on November 18,1966.
my experience mirrors yours. Sandy was my all-time favorite player and the Dodgers my team although I lived in NY. I was in shock when Davis lost those balls in the sun. What a different experience from the previous year when Sandy and the Dodgers beat the Twins.
@@gerrydooley951 The Dodgers were doomed from winning it all in '66 for two main reasons. Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter 0'Malley, whom I have the deepest respect for, committed the Dodgers to playing exhibition ball in Japan "after" the '66 season! I believe this put undue pressure on the Dodgers and were unfocused during the '66 World Series. The other reason was, The Dodgers played a Double Header at Philadelphia on the last day of the '66 season. There was a rained out game, earlier in the season, that had to be made up. Well, Don Drysdale lost the first game which meant Sandy Koufax had to pitch the second game to nail down the 1966 National League Pennant which Dandy Sandy did defeating the Phillies 6~3. Had Drysdale won the first game, Sandy Koufax wouldn't have had to pitch the second game of the Double Header and would have rested and pitched the first Game of the 1966 World Series in Los Angeles against The Baltimore Orioles lefty Dave McNally. It was not to be. The Japanese trip turned out to be a disaster for Maury Wills. Sandy Koufax didn't go because he had decided that the 1966 Season would be his last. Don Drysdale refused to go. Wes Parker didn't go. Maury Wills also didn't want to go because his legs were banged up, but Mr. O'Malley told Wills he had to go because the Japanese wanted to see a Dodger star! Wills traveled with the team to Japan and hurt his knee during the first exhibition game. Maury later said he felt a pop in his knee rounding second base. Wills called Mr. O'Malley and explained what had happened and that he'd like to come home but Mr. O'Malley told him to stay the two weeks and sign autographs. Well, Maury defied Mr. O'Malley and took a flight home! The plane stopped in Hawaii for refueling so Wills decided to take a vacation in Hawaii! I must say "unbelievable"! The next day Mr. O'Malley opened the newspaper and was shocked to see that Wills was pictured playing his Banjo in a nightclub! Mr. O'Malley was furious and told Buzzie Bavasi that Maury be traded. Maury Wills was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. I believe it is this incident that has prevented "Maurice Morning "Maury" Wills" from being inducted into Major League Baseball's Hall Of Fame. I have tried to lobby the Major League Baseball writers and I was thrilled to hear that Wills may just make it this year! Maury Wills is the most exciting player I've ever seen play Major League Baseball! We'll see. I'm praying to the Lord that Maury Wills finally gets inducted. The 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers team broke up after the sweep by The Baltimore Orioles. Here's a list of some of the trades that occurred in 1966, which changed The Los Angeles Dodgers forever ~ May 10,1966 ~ Sent Johnny Podres to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal. October 31,1966 ~ Released Jim Gilliam. Gilliam became a Dodgers coach. November 18,1966 ~ Sandy Koufax retired, at the young age of 30, from Major League Baseball. November 29,1966 ~ Traded Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith to the New York Mets. Received Jim Hickman and Ron Hunt. December 1,1966 ~ Traded Maury Wills to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Bob Bailey and Gene Michael. The Los Angeles Dodgers didn't win another National Pennant until 1974.
@@raulmacias1311 wow, fantastic info, I was not aware. I also had respect for the O'Malleys', Walter and Peter but some bad decisions that you mentioned. I couldn't believe it when Maury was traded.. Having said that, the Dodgers still could've won that series with a break here and there, but to get swept was ridiculous. What do you think?
Ok, time for MLB or anyone to post the NBC live coverage replay, I understand that the “missing” games can be posted for us fans during the COVID pandemic. C’mon I have watched the highlights film but post the live games for us fans!!!! If anyone can assist, it would be most appreciated!
Pre-series, the media claimed this Dodgers pitching staff may be the best ever seen in a World Series. This Orioles pitching staff was the most dominant ever in a World Series. Orioles humiliated the Dodgers, who scored just 2 runs in 4 games. The Great Koufax was knocked out of the game, outpitched by a 20 yr old Rookie...the Great Jim Palmer.
@@brianarbenz1329 are you speaking of the shanty town that existed in Chavez Ravine in the 50's? The Feds and local government were going to bulldoze it, and build multiple high rise welfare units- they started the process, then the Dodgers showed interest in the location? Eminent domain? evidently, but look at the over sixty years of what the property has produced revenue wise for the city and county. Had they built those welfare towers that suck up $ instead of producing revenue. These towers of welfare largesse, have failed miserably wherever they were built in other cities.
@@remmymafia3889 Oh well, this being a social media thread, factual statements have no place here. So your drivel about welfare and other stigma buzz words are right at home here. I don't oversimplify, whitesplain, or falsify history, and I don't leap from one false assumption to another to another. You're clearly the kind to do all that, so I'm no match for your brand of arguing.
Dodgers always had a popgun offense, but Koufax/Drysdale shielded that until this series. Drysdale was mediocre & Sandy was sabotaged by Wille Davis' defensive choke in game 2. Sandy retired after this series & Dodgers wouldnt win another WS for 16years!
Boy, this was an odd series that could've gone either way. 2 games were 1-0 and Koufax pitched six innings and gave up one earned run but the Dodgers lost the game 6-0. They ended up getting swept, but with a break here and there could've won in, anywhere from 5- 7 games
This series, ironically, is proof that “pitching wins championships” isn’t always true. The Dodgers put all of their eggs in the pitching basket and had a terrible lineup. The Orioles, on the other hand, were far more balanced, with a lineup at least 10x better and a rapidly developing pitching staff. LA had incredible pitching… but that was it. Baltimore had a great lineup, great pitching, and probably one of the best fielding teams ever. They were the better team overall, and it REALLY showed here. Also, Jim Palmer’s performance needs to be talked about more. The dude literally threw a shutout in the World Series before he was even allowed to legally drink. That’s never happening again.
By the way, the first three years of the ALCS ('69-'71), the O's won all three...without losing a game. (9-0) Almost as dominating as the O's pitchers were in this series.
@@remmymafia3889 as dominating as the Oriole pitching was the Dodger pitching only gave up 2 runs in the final two games and like, 2 earned runs in game #2.
Chris Pike Willie Davis was not "stoned" as you put it, idiot! He just had a bad day that Wednesday, October 6, 1966(I didn't exist at the time this World Series was played, yet I know more about it than you'll ever know, you dolt!). Foolish idiot! 😠😠😠😠😠
Chris Pike Jim Palmer had a funny line later on about this game, he referenced it when he was a broadcaster saying that everyone congratulated him as the young up-and-comer who "beat Koufax" and he replied, "I didn't beat Koufax, Willie Davis beat Koufax!" Not exactly true since the O's still did get one earned run off of Koufax independent of the Davis errors and Palmer pitched a shutout, but still showed his regard for Sandy. Though actually that run in the 6th was counted as earned because Robinson's ball was credited as a hit, but it really was a catchable ball, so even that run was really not Koufax's fault.
@@ADEAL918 That really was an accurate comment by Palmer. Koufax pitched 6 innings and gave up one earned run. I think Willie dropped two fly balls and another dropped between he and Fairly that should've been caught. On one play Willie made two errors. So yeah, the Orioles didn't beat Koufax, the Dodgers beat Koufax.
Greg Torrez these teams were fairly evenly matched. I guess a sweep was unexpected but this doesn't rise anywhere near the level of the 1954 Giants' sweep over the Indians or the 1990 Reds' sweep over Oakland.
Being a Dodger fan back in (1966), I never hated the Baltimore Orioles more than this World Series! Sure they beat the Dodgers fair and square, but to take all four games from the Dodgers, even with Sandy Koufax, just pissed me off to high heaven. I hated the Orioles ever since. Sorry, even hearing about the passing of Brooks Robinson (the player I hated the most from that series) did not faze me one iota. Again...sorry Orioles fans, but that scar still burns after all these years!
OMG, I was a Univ of Louisville basketball fan who was burned by the Cards blowing it against UCLA at the '75 final four, but David Meyers' death was very sad for me. It made me see the people, not the uniforms.
The two greatest pitchers of my lifetime, Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson, both had lousy bow out performances totally not befitting their greatness. Bob’s final pitch was a grand slam. So depressing.
I loved the 1966 WORLD SERIES because BALTIMORE was my team and I hated the DODGERS. I was especially pleased because it played out the way I thought it would. I doubt the ORIOLE pitching record will ever be broken.
Yes he was. In the previous year's World Series, he said he could not pitch on a Sunday. He won a lot of fans by taking such a stand with so much professionally on the line.
Had Don Drysdale won the first game of a double header against the Philadelphia Phillies on the last game of the 1966 season, October 2,1966, Sandy Koufax would have started Game 1 against Dave McNally and pitched again in Game 4, but Drysdale couldn't nail down the Pennant! Sandy Koufax pitched the second game and wrapped up the '66 National League Pennant 6~3.
I'm glad you asked - Chavez Ravine is a shallow canyon in Los Angeles, California. It sits in a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles, next to Major League Baseball's Dodger Stadium named after Julian Chavez, a Los Angeles councilman in the 19th century who originally purchased the land in the Elysian Park area. Anyway, I think the narrador meaned that Dodgers had never losed a World Series game since they moved to Los Angeles, but narrators sometimes got a little tacky sometimes.
I remember Game 1 starting after supper time in the Eastern time zone. I was a 3rd grader and the two Robinson home runs on consecutive pitches made such an impression that one classmate told of that in show and tell in school the next day.
The first of Baltimore's 3 World Series Championships, their last one in 1983. All 3 of those World Series Championships by the Orioles came during The Jim Palmer Era of the franchise.
anyone know / remember how it was out in LF that day? Was the sunlight causing a glare that a sure fielding Willie Davis had so much trouble finding the ball in the sun?
yes, he was in center and supposedly lost the ball in the sun. Another ball hit between Davis and Fairly should have been caught: they both appeared to give up on it so they could avoid a collision.
"The Baltimore Orioles" have been to the World Series in 1944 as the St. Louis Browns. So no, this is not their first World Series, contradicting what the narrator said at 1:30. In 1954, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.
Wow, no way to figure exactly what this question means, but I'll take a stab: Since they went from L.A. to Baltimore between game 2 and 3, perhaps the different climate made the sky 's look change?
Give the Dodgers credit for scraping through to 2 world Series in a row, but the Pirates would have been there in 1965 if they had not gotten off to a very slow start, and the Giants were probably a better overall team in 1966.
races both years were very close. margin was only 1-2 games. Dodger pitching was just awesome, as was their speed and defense. But they were prob the worst hitting team in history of anyone in post season
The Pirates were in 1st place for a good part of the season , they could have also been better than the Dodgers, they had some big bats in their lineup
Great pitching will always shut down anyones major league lineup.The Orioles 4 pitchers were all flame throwers Jim Palmer,Dave McNally,Wally Bunker and Moe Drabowsky very similar to the New York Mets big 6 of Tom Seaver,Jerry Koosman,Gary Gentry,Nolan Ryan,Jon Matlack and the screwballer Tug McGraw coming out of the bullpen which completely shut down the very powerfull 1969 Atlanta Braves with Hank Aaron,Cepeda,Carty.,as well as the 1969 Orioles with Boog Powell,the Robinsons and a 109 win team,the 1973 Reds with Rose,Bench,Morgan,Perez,George Foster,and Concepcion and the 1973 Oakland A;s who had Reggie,Bando,Rudi,Tenace,Fosse and the Alou brothers who won three straight world series from 1972 through 1974.
Even funnier is that the Dodgers were seen as having the better pitching staff. But the gap between Baltimore’s offense and LA’s offense was much bigger than the difference in pitching. This series showed just how much better of a team Baltimore was.
