Friday nite TRIVIA QUIZ....1st correct answer wins a T206 or DIA STAR or 1933 GOUDEY

[jingram058]

Ted,

Fortunate and unfortunate.

Fortunate that you got to see all that, as they say, when baseball truly was the national pastime.

Unfortunate that folks like me can only read about it, watch what little actually exists of old game telecasts, and collect cards in a weak effort to somehow recapture that era.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Ted,
Fortunate and unfortunate.
Fortunate that you got to see all that, as they say, when baseball truly was the national pastime.
Unfortunate that folks like me can only read about it, watch what little actually exists of old game telecasts, and collect cards in a weak effort to somehow recapture that era.

James

There's a Net54 member in the Chicago area who is a great source of many videos of classic MLB and NFL games. Doak Ewing can be reached at...... doakewing@raresportsfilms.com

Over the years, I have acquired quite a number of BB and FB videos from Doak. One of my favorites is the NY Jets vs Baltimore Colts, Sept 24, 1972. I was at that game in Baltimore.
It was an amazing football game. Joe Namath completed 15 passes for 496 yards (6 TDs)....Johnny Unitas 26 passes for 376 yards....Jets 44 Colts 34.
Sometimes, seeing a film of an event after you experienced it live many years before can be almost as enjoyable.


TED Z

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[jingram058]

Originally Posted by tedzan

James

There's a Net54 member in the Chicago area who is a great source of many videos of classic MLB and NFL games. Doak Ewing can be reached at...... doakewing@raresportsfilms.com

Over the years, I have acquired quite a number of BB and FB videos from Doak. One of my favorites is the NY Jets vs Baltimore Colts, Sept 24, 1972. I was at that game in Baltimore.
It was an amazing football game. Joe Namath completed 15 passes for 496 yards (6 TDs)....Johnny Unitas 26 passes for 376 yards....Jets 44 Colts 34.
Sometimes, seeing a film of an event after you experienced it live many years before can be almost as enjoyable.


TED Z

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You are right, Ted. I have heard of Doak Ewing. They say he has perhaps the biggest collection of sports films from the past there is. I will get an email to him and see what baseball telecast films he has available. Many thanks!

[Yoda]

Ted, since we are contemporaries, I will admit watching the 1951 Playoff Game for the National League pennant between 'Dem Bums and the hated NY Giants on a TV the size of a postage stamp. I can still hear, "The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant". Some memories never die.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Ted, since we are contemporaries, I will admit watching the 1951 Playoff Game for the National League pennant between 'Dem Bums and the hated NY Giants on a TV the size of a postage stamp. I can still hear, "The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant". Some memories never die.

John....ole buddy

I too, still remember that event as if it was just yesterday.

My two schoolmates (both Brooklyn Dodger fans) and I scooted out of school (at 3 PM) and ran to my house and turned on the TV. Bobby Thomson was at bat.
Then Bobby hit.... "the shot heard around the world".... to win the National League Pennant for the NY Giants.

My two school buddies didn't talk to for 2 weeks, since I was rooting for the Giants.


TED Z

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[jingram058]

I have the entire 9 inning radio broadcast of that game. But it's Gordon McClendon on the call, not Russ Hodges. Now that would be really something if telecast video footage of that game ever turned up! McClendon was something, but every time I listen to the beginning or pre-game of that broadcast I get the chills with his history of the Giants, "Big Jim" Mutrie and John McGraw...

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by jingram058

I have the entire 9 inning radio broadcast of that game. But it's Gordon McClendon on the call, not Russ Hodges. Now that would be really something if telecast video footage of that game ever turned up! McClendon was something, but every time I listen to the beginning or pre-game of that broadcast I get the chills with his history of the Giants, "Big Jim" Mutrie and John McGraw...

I work with John Miley and have been for 20 years, selling his audio broadcasts. In fact I'm the guy who got him started with putting his material onto CDs. If your recording is on tape, it's before I got involved with John; if it's on CD, I'm the guy who originally transferred it from cassette to digital, cleaned it, cut it into innings, and put it onto CD. John and I have had kind of a running joke, because back then, I thought Gordon's voice sounded a bit slow in places, like the tape speed wasn't always quite right. But yes, it's a great game. One of the first half dozen we put out on CD.

I love Gordon's talking about Maglie right before the first pitch, and his describing Don Newcombe as "elephantine."