MLB's Best Forgotten Rivalry: Yankees vs. Royals
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 29. 06. 2024
- The rivalry between the Yankees and Royals that peaked from 1976-1980 was one of the best in MLB history. They played each other in the American League Championship Series 4 times in those 5 years. Some of the most iconic games of the Old Yankee Stadium took place during these series. There were also legends like Reggie Jackson, George Brett, Goose Gossage, and more! With the current day New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals off to great starts in 2024...maybe this forgotten rivalry will make a comeback.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Setting the Stage
03:14 1976 Season
05:33 1976 ALCS
09:03 1977 Season
10:32 1977 ALCS
16:33 1978 Season
17:45 1978 ALCS
22:35 1980 Season
23:41 1980 ALCS
28:09 Outro
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Reply which forgotten rivalry you want to see next!
The Marlins Fanbase and their many Owners
Dodgers and Giants. Ebbets Field, the polo grounds....across the span of a continent to continue....
Reds vs. Pirates in the 1970's, they met several times in the playoffs.
@@flame-sky7148 Big Red Machine was absolutely dominant.
@@jritechnology Oh yea, the Big Red Machine was dominant. the Reds and Pirates met in the NLCS in 1970, 1972, 1975 & 1979. But as the Pirates won the world series in 1971 & 1979, the Reds won twice as well in 1975 & 1976. The Pirates won their division in 1971 and 1974 but didn't face the Reds during the NLCS. While the Reds lost the world series in 1970 & 1972. There were great teams back then including the A's which won 3 championships in a row during that period, while the Pirate, Yankees and Reds won 2.
It might be forgotten elsewhere, but here in the Kansas/Missouri area, it's still talked about by us fans that are old enough to have lived though those great games!
Goose nearly breaking his neck looking for the bomb that George hit in 1980 ALCS. Cool video. Forever Royal.
1977 ALCS may have been one of the best postseason series that was hardly talked about. You could even argue that the WS championship was decided on that series.
That Chambliss homerr...that crushed the Royals the year before. Gearge Brett was not screwing around this year....the fight with him and Nettles in game 5, classic! Billy Martin being Billy Martin....I was a year old, but I saw footage when I was a young kid on ESPN replay and WOW what a series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers were also an outstanding team representing the National League in the 1977-'78 World Series. Could the Royals have beaten those Dodgers teams like the Yankees did? We'll never know but your point is valid
@@searchforthestrangler5034 For 1977 they probably could have.
I can't count how many absolute BOMBS (way way up into the upper deck) I've seen George Brett hit at old Yankee Stadium on highlights.
That guy would've hit 50-plus a year if he was a Yankee. George loved playing there.
Iâm too young to have watched him play, but I canât believe how good of a hitter he was. Great hitter AND he was clutch.
This was an exciting great rivalry. In the 1970s another great playoff rivalry was The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds. They met in 1970, the thrilling '72 series, ' 75 and '79.
Great job, brought back a lot of memories. Those collisions at second base, man.
As a Yankees fan I hated BrettâŠmainly cuz I was scared to death of him.
That game 4 in the 1978 series was vintage Catfish Hunter. Brett dinged him for three homers but the score was just 3-3 after the third one. Catfish gave up a lot of gopher balls in his career but he didnât give up many with men on base when it counted. RIP Catfish.
I remember this one also. Loved Yankees at that time. Gossage in particular. That homer Brett Hit off him in playoffs was unbelievable. Brett was awesome.
Thank you for this. I started watching baseball in 1987, so the feud had died down, but the older I got, and the more the media pushed the Yankees/Red Sox feud, I was more interested in this one. Felt like genuine hatred.
How about the rivalry in the 1980s between the other NY team against the other Missouri team next đđ
Speaking of, there was the WS rivalry between the Yankees and the Cards in the 1940s that was rooted in the late 1920s before it got overshadowed by the one with the Dodgers in the following decade. We nearly had the Cards again in 1996 only for them to die after Game 4 in the NLCS.
@@Iamhungeyyeah, it used to be the Yankees-Giants as the subway series until the Giants stopped being relevant for a long time
Great video,this was really cool,bringing me back to my younger days.........I was a Red Sox fan and my second favorite team was always,and always will be whoever plays the yankees,thanks for a great show!!
Yankees/Royals was a good time!
I always went to see both teams whenever they played at Comiskey Park here in Chicago.
Nice to have this video and show some respect for this rivalry. Brett was a superstar at that time and these were both strong teams during thst period with multiple heated moments.
Boston and Cleveland faced off three times in the later 90âs in the LDS, and if any series deserves a video in full, itâs the 1999 ALDS.
Also, technically the late 60âs and early 70âs was the Yankees longest drought since their first title in the 20âs. Before 1921 they went longer.
'95, '98, '99 - talk about star power... Nomar, Varitek, Vizquel, Lofton, Thome... Manny Ramirez ON THE INDIANS
I feel like I needed more on the hemorrhoids and the plane crash đ but great video. I feel like I was there
Excellent job. I can tell you all put a lot of work and research into this. I never really dug into the Yankees/Royals rivalry. I'm very impressed and hope you continue to increase your sub count and keep creating great content.
Not only the 1977 ALCS. But, also the 1976 & 1978 ALCS. respectly
Now do another forgotten âWSâ rivalry: Yankees-Dodgers
How Brett didn't get suspended for attacking the umpires after the pine tar decision was insane
Fantastic mini doc!..This channel is gonna pop off for sure!
Awesome video! Thanks for bringing up some fun memories for me. Sure do miss that era of Major League Baseball.
Something that also made it intense was the arrival of Willie Wilson. He was the number one high school football recruit in America. Being from North Jersey obviously he was on the Yankees radar. But he really fit in with the Royals style of play. He also became tight with White and Otis. His collision with Munson at home plate was something people donât remember. His inside the park home run against the Yankees during the Saturday afternoon game of the week is a CZcams sensation. Great rivalryâŸïž
Excellent job.
Wow!
Just watching the replay of the different games during that time got my heart pumping and saliva spitting up!
That was a glorious time in baseball!
Great job on making me go back to my junior high school and high school days!
This was truly a hot rivalry that has been forgotten about.
Once a giant fan of baseball. I remember this rivalry....it was great!! Great teams with great talent. I can make a list why not a fan now, but I'd get banned.
The Kansas City Aâs were a farm club for the yankees in the 50s/60s so that history was there as well
Same with the Pittsburgh Penguins being a farm for the Montreal Canadiens in the 70s
That takeout slide was awesome
Great job. Loved this video.
Love it! Great video!
Terrific job on this video
PLEASE KEEP MAKING VIDEOS LIKE THIS , PLEASE!
Great video
An era when there was really competition in baseball. Look at the Yankees lineup with Chris Chambliss Cliff Johnson, everyday players. Now one through nine in the Yankees lineup is the most expensive higher guns available at each position. It just takes any real fun out of the game
Those Yankees teams got so good in part due to the advent of free agency. Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Goose GossageâŠthey were as much hired guns as anyone in the Yankee lineup today.
As a Yankee fan, looking back in hindsight, the 1977 Royals were a slightly better team. But they didn't have a closer. But as they say every dog has its day - I still would take the 1980 Yankees over the 1980 Royals.
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Very very well done. Wow
Like the background music!
Everytime these Two Good teams met in the playoffs i watched every Game every inning of those 4 playoffs games 1976 1977 1978 & 1980 all 4 playoff games were very Good very intense right down to the final out the Yankees did beat the Royals 1976 1977 1978 except 1980 which went to the Royals it took 3 tries to beat the Yankees but the Royals finally did it after that no more heated rivalry intense playoffs games they Lost to the Phillies in 1980 world series but finally won a world championship in 1985 against the St.louis Cardinals but the rivalry was gone forever too Bad i really enjoyed those intense playoffs games against the Royals đđ†that fight with graig nettles & George Bret at 3rd base in kanas city was a Good fight. đđ
I was born in 67 and grew up in New York. So many childhood memories captured in this video, Who can blame George Brett for going ballistic over the pine tar ruling ? I remember watching it on the sports report and shaking my head.
"...and the Ford Pinto exploded on the scene...."
Lol! I see what you did there....
Iâm glad somebody noticed đ€Ł
"Controversial call at first base . . " What about Frank White stealing second in the fourth inning, but being called out? Which was followed by a Sheridan single. Or later in the Ninth: What about the dropped foul ball?? What about the pass ball??? And where were the Cardinals in game 7???? Great and informative video, but please don't neglect the other facts of game 6.
Maybe controversial only in St. Louis.
Like George Brett said, âThey still drop the pop up that inning. They still have a passed ballâŠYou didnât show up for Game 7, you lost 11-0. Suck on it.â
The problem with acknowledging that Frank White actually shouldâve been called safe and of course wouldâve scored on the next single by Sheridan is that it doesnât support the narrative that Cardinals need which is denkinger blew the series they need that narrative thatâs why they donât ever wanna acknowledge Frank White like Yankee fans in the pine tar game Cardinal fans and 85 World Series are big bunch of crybabiesđđ
@@DoubleStar92 The Denkinger bumble put the leadoff man on. I say the Royal's go down 1-2-3 in the ninth.
11:02 Yeah this should never have been legal, I don't understand what the thought process was there. Like thats "sliding"? Really? They may as well just punch the SS in the face to stop him turning the double play lol
the listed 1977 numbers for nettles, munsons and jackson are a little off. the .286 32HR 110 RBI next to munson were jackson's numbers that year. munosn's numbers were .308 18 HR 100 RBI. nettles were the only numbers that were correct for that season.
Great video ! I was a baseball freak back then & watched all this stuff happen. One thing though, at 9:19 I did double take. You got Thurman's & Reggie's stats reversed.
I see what you did there with the Ford Pinto comment.
; )
How about the Orioles and Yankees rivalry in the early 90s?
I tell you another great rivalry was! The Astros and Cardinals when they were in the same division! Holy Cow it was intense!
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Don't know if it has already been mentioned but the video said the Royals had only one winning season before 1976. In fact, they had three winning seasons prior to '76. This is too important to miss since they had won 85 games in just their third season (1971) of existance. No expansion club had ever come close to such immediate improvment unil the 1990's and those were done with heavy free agency.
I want to say in the 76 ALCS the bottom of the ninth inning was delayed because McRae was getting hit with d size batteries from a fan. I mean you know who knows if the inning started on time maybe Chambliss wouldn't have hit that home run off of Littell.
I wish I wouldâve highlighted that. There was a really long delay before the Chambliss at bat. Also in another year after, Reggie ran in from RF to switch his hat for a helmet before the final out was made because Yankee fans were ALREADY starting to hang over the wall. Crazy times!
Martin was a baseball man, even if he had problems of the field. Now tell whole story about the pin tar!
*How about A's vs the Twins?* I mean they were in the World Series every year from 1987-1991. You had Stars on both teams: Mark McGwire, Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Jose Canseco, Kent Hrbek, Jack Morris, Gary Gaetti and RIP Kirby Puckett!!
23:00 Does anyone else think that George Brett kinda looks like a buff, young version of Woody Harrelson?
Lmao I see it đ€Ł
1978 ALCS ended 3-1 not 3-2. the graphic at 28:17 is incorrect.
About 19 minutes in you called Freddy Patek Frankie Patek. He would take out his step stool, climb up 2 steps, look you in the eye, and call you Bush.
It was a slip of the tongue!! Sorry frank- err, Freddie!! đ
All jokes aside Freddie Patek was a GAMER
In 1978 the series was 3-1 Yankees
Damn George Brett was good. đ
Billy Martin didnt have the Yankees not pitch to Brett in 1980, he wasnt the manager at all that year. Brett's future manager (who he would get his only ring with) Dick Howser
Larry Gura is the only MLB player to give me a baseball (before a Royals and Angels game in the 80s; I lived in Anaheim). I loved the Dodgers best, but as a kid, my fave, most exciting players were George Brett and Willie Wilson.
19:24 Goose Gossageâs card was so hard to get that yearâŠI only got one and never had a duplicate
I have that 1978 Rich Gossage card. If you notice the picture is air brushed with the Yankee uniform. He should be wearing a Pittsburgh Pirate uniform on that card.
23:24 Billy Martin was not with the team in 1980
Dick Howser managed the Yankees in 1980 - he wouldn't put up with Steinbrenner. Eventually Howser became the Royals manager and won the World Series in 1985, defeating Whitey Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals
I still for the life of me cant understand why having pine tar on the bat is remotely concerning. Surely if anything the extra weight/drag and increased stickiness make it HARDER to hit with, if anything. But realistically it just...does nothing
Nice, how about the Reds and the Dodgers and the Phillies and Pirates? I hear those teams were like families. And like the Royals and Yankee the core of all 4 teams won a World Series
Good one, the other one was the Reds vs. Pirates in the 1970's, and it could have been better had not Clemente passed.
Great video... but I'm going to be the jerk who points out some errors in the graphics:
At 20:24 we see the results of game 2, not game 3, which was just summarized.
At 26:13 we see the final score too soon - it should read Yankees 2 Royals 1.
At 28:19: NY won the '78 series 3 games to 1, not 3-2.
Please hire me as your editor!
Gossage also gave up the pine-tar homerun. You could do a video about Brett and Gossage.
If you werenât around, you missed some classic MLBâŠâŠno fucking bat flips, or a bitch head band!
Fuck yeah....GO ROYALS!
Those were great series when baseball was baseball however you made one blunder you called the KC shortstop Frankie Patek his name was Freddy Patek
I like turtles
Forgotten by who? Certainly not by me...
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You forget to mention that the Royals won the pine tar game because in the chaos, they stole the bat so that no one in the commissioner's office could confirm it had too much tar on it, forcing them to side with them
YES! Crazy that the Royals stole the bat and ran into the clubhouse with it, while the umpires and league officials chased after them to retrieve it. Essentially the commissioner determined that the rule on pine tar was to limit discoloration of baseballs and had nothing to do with unfair competitive advantage. Now whether or not we believe the commissioner is up to us.
Damn.
@@StealingHomeShowI believe the Yankees lost the protest because they were too late getting the bat removed before the game. Who knows if Brett knew it had tar on the bat too much in violation of the rules. I agree with the Royals winning 4-3 because the violation notice occurred after the at bat and was never checked by the teams or umps. Although we donât know if the tar on it violated the rules. We also donât know if it was deliberately used to cheat. Maybe there was a coverup, but the best thing to do was uphold the ruling against the Yankees.
Iâm biased. I hate the Yankees. The rules in sports is all equipment is checked before the game in any sport. If they cheat in the game and proven, toss the player. Since it wasnât proven Brett deliberately cheated until after the at bat, his home run counts. If they caught it before the home run, they can toss him and replace him. Could have Brett hit the home run without the tar? Yes.
Reminds me of Deflategate with Brady. Different sport, same issue. You hit a home run, the only way it shouldnât count is if you miss a base running.
It was a dumb protest. It was a regular season game. Just move on.
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Boo Hoo! Poor poor BABY! Too bad the whiny Yankees lost that game! đđ Yankee tears are delicious!
Royals finally got em in 1980ââŠâŠ Fuc the Yankees
That's as far as they went taken out by the Phillies in the World Series
@@michaelleroy9281kept the whiny Yankee fans out- thatâs a win win đ
As a Yankee fan I knew they were due to lose to the Royals after beating them 3 consecutive years 1976 1977 and 1978.