Watching Full Vintage Games on Youtube...

[campyfan39]

Thanks for posting this! I was watching this afternoon and my 13 year old came over and said "Hey did that guy just say Campanella as in Roy Campanella?"
I told him it was 52 World Series between yanks and Dodgers. Then he asked which team Campy played for..... I swallowed hard and calmly said Dodgers. He watched over my shoulder and said "Jackie Robinson? You never told me Campanella was on his team!"
Good stuff and I gave him one of my copies of Campy's book "it's good to be alive" to read!

[pokerplyr80]

I remember a few years back ESPN classic came out and would show games like that. I'm guessing they're not around any more. That or the channel isn't part of my direct tv package.

[JTysver]

I always was fascinated with Gil MacDougald and his unusual protocol in the batters box. He would slide his hand all the way up the bat right before the pitch. Seems like I remember kids dong this when i was young in the mid 70s.

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Thanks for posting this! I was watching this afternoon and my 13 year old came over and said "Hey did that guy just say Campanella as in Roy Campanella?"
I told him it was 52 World Series between yanks and Dodgers. Then he asked which team Campy played for..... I swallowed hard and calmly said Dodgers. He watched over my shoulder and said "Jackie Robinson? You never told me Campanella was on his team!"
Good stuff and I gave him one of my copies of Campy's book "it's good to be alive" to read!

Wistful story, with a happy ending. Thanks for loaning him IT'S GOOD TO BE ALIVE. That's a terrific book that made me a Roy Campanella fan in junior high back in the late 60s.

Bro, maybe you could follow that up with THE BOYS OF SUMMER. Like Bogie said to Claude Rains, "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Thanks for sharing, bro. ---Brian Powell

PS--I've asked more than a handful of people if they've ever heard of Mickey Mantle that had not. Time marches on.

[Harliduck]

Ive got both of those books in my collection...I love reading baseball player biographies, I think I have about 30 on the book shelf. I travel a lot for work and have lots of plane time for reading. Still one of my favorites was Rico Petrocelli's book on the Sox of 67...just loved that one, and I'm not a big Sox fan. I guess where they came from that year gives a lowly Mariners fan something to hope for. But the Campy book is great...


Glad to hear some are enjoying the link...my 11 year old who is infatuated with Jackie Robinson was in awe watching him actually play "live".

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Ive got both of those books in my collection...I love reading baseball player biographies, I think I have about 30 on the book shelf. I travel a lot for work and have lots of plane time for reading. Still one of my favorites was Rico Petrocelli's book on the Sox of 67...just loved that one, and I'm not a big Sox fan. I guess where they came from that year gives a lowly Mariners fan something to hope for. But the Campy book is great...


Glad to hear some are enjoying the link...my 11 year old who is infatuated with Jackie Robinson was in awe watching him actually play "live".

John, the "Impossible Dream Red Sox" (taken from the song, "The Impossible Dream", the most popular song from the 1965 broadway musical, "Man of La Mancha", and was sung for years afterward by various artists) is a great story. My White Sox were battling them for the pennant in '67, but come September they folded badly. Of the four AL teams contending for the pennant, the Sox wound up fourth!

The main reason I wanted to post is to say that YOUTUBE offers several games from that great '52 Series. In Game 1, the first time Jackie Robinson came to bat, he blasted a homer off the Yanks' ace, Allie Reynolds. I mention this just in case you two hadn't seen that one. It would be easy to locate since it was early in the telecast.

Regards, Brian Powell

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by brian1961

The main reason I wanted to post is to say that YOUTUBE offers several games from that great '52 Series. In Game 1, the first time Jackie Robinson came to bat, he blasted a homer off the Yanks' ace, Allie Reynolds. I mention this just in case you two hadn't seen that one. It would be easy to locate since it was early in the telecast.

Regards, Brian Powell

Hey thanks...I didn't even notice that. I know what we will be watching tonight...

[Rich Klein]

There is a limited amount of full pre-1977 games available on You Tube and some of them get taken down out of no where as well.

But it's always good to search and hear or watch those games as if we were watching live

I think from the 50's we have game 6 and 7 from 1952; Larsen's Perfect Game; one or two games from the 57 World Series and perhaps an All-Star game (not sure on the ASG)

Not much but it gives great insight into a few players even if just a snapshot of those games -- and the oldest known regular season game saved in Color is a late season Red Sox Twins game from 1967. That is also on You Tube

I recommend watching/listening to any or all of these games if you collect post-war cards

Rich