Old baseball games on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gyc3XCj_Fg

Please post old youtubes where it's not clear who wins the game. no spoilers are allowed. this is a late season 1985 matchup between the cardinals and expos, a game of the week called by vin scully and joe garigiola (they're great), and with lots of pre-game stuff featuring the mets (the other game of the week - dwight gooden is pitching) and interviews with cesar cedeno and vince coleman. good game, to boot

watching a nice 1979 doubleheader at wrigley, celebrating jack brickhouses's 5000th broadcast. i believe this is the first game i've heard him call. he's wonderful. i love the pace of this broadcast and the way they capture the game. they almost always show a full instant replay, after every single play, no matter how mundane, and it's from the same angle as the original live shot, and at the same speed. it's so nice to just get a chance to see it again. there are a lot more long, lingering shots of...nothing. players just standing there, adjusting their balls, or a 30 second shot of the dugout as some pinch-hitter takes fucking forever to find his bat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rz3V01lD-M

i didn't realize garry templeton was kind of a side-arm thrower? (maybe he wasn't, and just happened to be going in a phase in 1979)

keith hernandez just made a very nice defensive play at first. :)

if it's just me on this thread, every single fucking youtube is going to involve the cardinals

Miguel Dilone - kind of a proto billy hamilton, except he's not a good fielder?

Posnanski has a post today on this game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svy3bpCapHc

Yes, I had plans on Monday. We all have plans, right? Then Brandon McCarthy sent me this YouTube link. That is the TBS broadcast of an entire baseball game, 1994, Montreal Expos at the Atlanta Braves. It was exactly 30 years ago Monday.

Atlanta’s pitcher that night: An in-his-prime Greg Maddux.

Montreal’s pitcher that night: An up-and-coming Pedro Martinez.

Absolutely, yeah, my plans went right out the window.

one of the rabbit holes i got into a couple weeks ago was old radio broadcasts up through the end of the '70s. idk, there's something about the flow and pacing of baseball radio broadcasts. the amount of chatter and filler and stuff inherent in that.

I’ve been semi-watching this “Great Games” MLB channel on PlutoTV, lots of great stuff but way too many recent games. This morning it was game 7 of the 79 World Series, tho, super duper classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiNn3Gi7sL8

idk, there's something about the flow and pacing of baseball radio broadcasts. the amount of chatter and filler and stuff inherent in that.

man that braves/expos game. i used to love watching terry pendleton at third.

learning some interesting facts keeping this on in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQk_khDik6Y

-denver used to be covered in a cloud of pollution
-pittsburgh in the 80s tried to rebrand itself as the "silicon valley of the east"

-people used to accuse nolan ryan of scuffing the ball

Talk about nostalgia, this thread is giving me goosebumps

A game I think I was at that I've mentioned before--a friend told me it was on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gdiK57B1NE

The key play is at 41:43: Madlock takes out Fernandez at second base, fracturing his wrist and ending his season. Toronto won the game, then won the next two against the Tigers, before their infamous seven-game losing streak to blow the division.

I'm just not sure if this was the game I was at (4-3) or if it was the next one (3-2).

sorry clemenza, no spoilers allowed.

Something to think about, yes--I'll hide text next time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SPYhMypwXE

what the everliving fuck

that's just how baseball was back then

Belle and Vina, my favourite twee-pop band of the mid-'90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRwf4wId78

it’s kind of amazing that belle wasn’t tossed out of the game after that second collision on the basepaths!

C'mon, they were real men back then, playing a real man's game. None of these excuse-me rules around second base and home plate. And if you felt like flattening someone with a good stiff foreman, you just did it.

The internet hadn't even been invented yet...I mean, it had, but not for very long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAMbv3WEovc

Three days after I post a 20-year-old Belle-Vina clip, it gets taken down? That is very weird.

Another clip from the mean old days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJPpTXzPxFs

(Age-restricted? It's Lenny Randle, in full uniform and on a baseball field.)