Ticketstub to the Impossible Dream

Kutcher55 · #1 02-11-2022, 01:37 PM

Thanks everyone for reading. A friend of mine made an interesting point recently, that the Red Sox franchise was not doing well at all in the 1960s. In 1965, they averaged a pathetic 8,000 fans a game at Fenway. This went up to 10k in '66 and 21k in '67. In some ways, the 67 season doesn't get enough credit because they didn't win it all, which had a lot to do with a guy named Bob Gibson.

In any event, here is the rolled-up pennant almost 55 years later. The thing is a scientific marvel. My dad and I had to team up to pry it open so we could get the second photo.

jingram058 · #2 02-11-2022, 02:09 PM

I have (I think) the color telecast of this game. I will have to get out my external hard drive and check, but I think it is this game, when the Red Sox won the 1967 AL pennant vs the Twins. I was told it is the oldest full-color complete telecast of a MLB baseball game in existence.

Kutcher55 · #3 02-11-2022, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jingram058

I have (I think) the color telecast of this game. I will have to get out my external hard drive and check, but I think it is this game, when the Red Sox won the 1967 AL pennant vs the Twins. I was told it is the oldest full-color complete telecast of a MLB baseball game in existence.

I would love to see that. You can find the penultimate game of the season (sep 30, 1967) on YouTube almost in its entirety. I was watching some of it. Quite a contrast to today�s game in the sense that the entire focus was on baseball with much fewer distractions in the ballpark and by the announcing team.

jingram058 · #4 02-11-2022, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Kutcher55

I would love to see that. You can find the penultimate game of the season (sep 30, 1967) on YouTube almost in its entirety. I was watching some of it. Quite a contrast to today�s game in the sense that the entire focus was on baseball with much fewer distractions in the ballpark and by the announcing team.

Shucks! I pulled out my hard drive, and the game I have is the day before, the 9/30 game!

I have the NBC audio of all 7 games of the 1967 World Series. Sadly, there is no NBC telecast video of the Series, other than what is on the official World Series video highlights. The NBC broadcast audio and highlights are up on YouTube.

But the 9/30 game is still a treasure!

mortimer brewster · #5 02-11-2022, 06:49 PM

The 10 1 67 tv audio is available on youtube also.

Dewey · #6 02-11-2022, 07:06 PM

That program tells the tale. I love it.

MRSPORTSCARDCOLLECTOR · #7 02-11-2022, 10:51 PM

That 1967 Red Sox team was loaded with young talent. Yaz, Lonborg, George "The Boomer" Scott, Rico Petrocelli, Reggie Smith and of course Tony C.
They probably would have been a WS winner in the future years after 1967, But Jim Lonborg got injured in a skiing accident in the 67 off-season, plus sadly what happened to Tony C getting beaned.
That 1967 Red Sox team did put the Red Sox back on the map here in New England.

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