[4k 60fps Colorized] Walter Johnson - Washington Senators Spring Training--Outtakes. March 12, 1931.
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The backstory: Various scenes of spring training. Scenes of pitchers warming up. Participants include Lloyd Brown, Sam Jones, Bump Hadley, and Ad Liska. Manager Walter "Big Train" Johnson demonstrates pitches while standing behind the catcher. Johnson discusses the team's prospects with Clark Griffith, the owner. Nick Altrock and Al Schacht act out a comic routine between a batter and an umpire. Filmed March 12, 1931!
Camera Crew
Orr, Leroy (Camera operator)
23 (Production unit)
Bradshaw (Sound)
Newsreel Producer
Fox Movietone News (Production unit)
Physical Format
Film: 35mm. Sound. B&W. Negative. 1.15:1 (Movietone). Variable-density optical. Nitrate.
Citation
Washington Senators spring training--outtakes. 1931-03-12.. (Fox Movietone News Story 9-514.) Fox Movietone News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. The University of South Carolina.
Rights
Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact the University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.
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✔ Colorized*
*Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and does not represent real historical data. The AI still struggles with the separation between infield dirt and grass, etc.
Original video source: University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections (CZcams)
AMAZING. History alive. Just friggin so cool.
Fun fact! This club is now the MLB Minnesota Twins.
baseball is such a timeless game
That's what I said to myself. Besides the older fields and other esthetics, it's the one game that resembles itself the most 100 yrs later.
Hard to believe this was filmed almost 100 years ago.
Its hard to believe you commented on this 1 day ago
Can hear a train whistle in the background. Just amazing footage
I know walter was the Mgr and is just screwing around here but its amazing how he generated so much speed and control with his throwing style when he pitched. Even in game film. So smooth but lethal.
They were 92 and 62 coming in 3rd. Hit .286 as a team but no power with only 49 homers and little speed with only 72 stolen bases. The team was second in the league with a 3.76 era with 60 complete games. They were first in fielding% at .976 which was amazing with those little gloves.
Griffith Stadium had much to do with their lack of overall team power.
1930 to 32, Johnson won 94, 92, and 93 games in a 154 game season. Over 60% and one 2nd and two 3rd place finishes and he was fired.
Great video! I always thought that Walter Johnson is one of the best pitchers ever!
History in my own city and state of Biloxi, Mississippi
He's just casually instructing and in his 40s but you can see how he'd generate tremendous speed with that side arm motion if he put a little mustard on it.
Was that Altrock and Schact? Classic stuff! Great to see Big Train whipping that effortless curve. As much as I believe that Lefty Grove was the greatest pitcher of all time, I’d be a fool to lament having Walter Johnson on the mound. This man won over 400 Major League Baseball games!
❤️ walter johnson & his bullet fastball
Baseball’s Big Train 😊
After he left the team, it was "First in War, First in Peace, and Last in the American League"!
He won his ONLY World Series 3 years before he retired in a game 7 … he pitched the last scoreless innings … for a pitcher this is like hitting the buzzer shot 😊
Time Machine.
1:11 how does he pitch underhanded?!?!?
Ad Liska was a submarine pitcher, like we later would see (some more pronounced than others) with Pat Neshek, Kent Tekulve, Chad Bradford, Dan Quisenberry and Adam Cimber
Back in the day the rag on the Senators was:
"Washington...First in war...First in peace...
and last in the American league.
3:20- is this baseball or a gangster movie?
Johnson was a very big man. If he had put his full weight into his throw not telling how fast he could have pitched.
From what I’ve read using math to time the ft/sec from footage that threw his fastball 93-95mph. Combine that with the side or 3/4 arm angle he threw at, it had to be nasty.
Wow
A left handed catcher what? Now my coach has to let me catch.
Good stuff! Last one to catch in the MLB was 1989! I had ti check!
At the end,the Ump should have said "He's out" !
Walter Johnson faster than speeding bullet fastball
Thats called "pepper".
🥹
Pitching in Johnsons time, was significantly slower than today.
It just spring training , save fast/ bullet fastball pitching for reguiar season
@@lloydkline1518 true. But , in my opinion , even during regular season play , the pitching, on average , was significantly slower and less lively, than today.
@@joeypatrilla7460
You know jackshit.
@@joeypatrilla7460 MANY of us do NOT concur.......Just saying.
@@lloydkline1518Johnson Retired in 1927, he was just the manager in 1931