WHDH-TV/Channel 5 Red Sox special 1967
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- These are a few excerpts from a 1967 WHDH-TV/Channel 5 retrospective about the "Impossible Dream" Boston Red Sox. Ken Coleman and Don Gillis are the hosts.
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Carl Yastrzemski's one handed, sprinting all out, his back to home plate, last minute diving head-over-heals catch was absolutely the greatest catch I've ever seen in my life and it also preserved a no-hitter in the 9th inning.
It was the bottom of the 9th at Yankee Stadium when he made that catch.
You're right, of course. Sorry for the typo...
Yaz has been my baseball hero since I was 11. I still say this was THE greatest catch I've ever seen in my 50 years of watching baseball. His amazing catch preserved Rohr's no-hitter in, I think, the eighth inning. Boy, I still miss watching him play . . .
Ken Fougere
Everett, MA
i remember a line from the impossible dream "rohr winds here it comes, fly ball to deep left yastrzemski is going hard way back way back and he dives and makes a trememendous catch!!!" :)
Actually, the radio play-by-play on the old WHDH radio (850AM) was done by Ned Martin--Coleman did the TV play-by-play on the old WHDH-TV (Channel 5). It is my recollection that it was Martin who uttered the famous "There's pandemonium on the field" line. The triumvirate of WHDH Red Sox coverage after that, for a few years was Coleman (TV), Martin (radio) & Johnny Pesky doing color for both.
This is the first time I have seen Ken Coleman on a telecast..He had just arrived in Boston from Cleveland, where he had been from 1953-66 as sports anchor and TV Play By Play voice of the Browns and Indians..
Great posting...thanks alot! Even the commercials were fun to watch. What a year to be a kid back then...I was 10.
"And he makes a TREMENDOUS catch!" - Ken Coleman
That's 1967 AL Rookie of the Year, and future 7-time batting champion Rod Carew at 4:41.
Thanks so much for this great post!
I'm a Giants fan, but collected tapes on all teams. Had the album from Fleetwood Records. Love this stuff!!!
Two wonderful broadcasters from an era of class and professionalism.
They're both missed.
The quality of this video is far superior to that on the 2-DVD "Impossible Dream" DVD set. That one looks as if it came off a color kinescope. This one looks like it came directly from the 2" video master.
Bravo!
The closest thing to this in my generation in my 06 Tigers and the 07 Rockies. and the 08 Tampa team. That Rockies team in 07 will always stand out especially.
It gives me chills. It is wonderful when a team and its fans become one. Baseball is a sport like no other because you feel like you are along for the ride. Day after day !
Rest in Peace Dick Williams.
that 1 handed grab ive never seen before that was a fucking awesome play?!?!
The "modern" Bell System logo first came out, I believe, around late 1969.
But this does look like one of the few surviving remnants of the "old" Channel 5 before original owners the Boston Herald-Traveler lost their license and WCVB took over the spot.
"The Impossible Dream" was originally a radio documentary, but positive reviews and listener feedback resulted in a TV version, using the same script as the radio version (with some new narration written since the radio version was 45 minutes and the TV version an hour).
Also noteworthy, we have Mel Parnell's TV call of Yaz's catch from that Bill Rohr 1 hitter. On the scoped, we have Ken Coleman's famous radio call dubbed over Parnell's original TV audio.
Actually, that Joe Garagiola who made the call of Yaz's catch. He was a colorcaster for the Yankees before his days on the NBC Game Of The Week.
What an intro for a local TV station in 1967!
With an original commercial for what would later become SNET, later SBC.
And did you hear the term PIX playback--that was of course WPIX, which aired the Yankees at the time. And many say this 1967 team began what is known as Red Sox Nation.
You may buy it on DVD.
I know, then all of a sudden, everything just fell apart for St. Louis in the World Series, and lost to the Detroit Tigers in 7 Games. The last 2 Games in St. Louis.
Also, I should say. Good old Western Electric phones.
And of course, we lost it again and again, but as "Section 9, Row 12, seats 1 & 2" said, they'll be back again, and we came back... nearly 50 years later.
Incredible story and I'm not even a Red Sox fan. Still gotta give it mad respect though.
screw excerpts! Post the complete show, if you have it. This is too precious!
AND I"M A YANKEE FAN
all the best
@mitjazz That was the year of the pitcher. They raised the pitching mound like 6 inches higher. Tiant led the AL in ERA with a 1.60 average and Gibson led the NL with a 1.12 ERA. Pete Rose won the NL betting title at .335. In 1969 they lowered the mound back. The Billy Rohr game was the Yankee TV broadcast with Joe Garagiola. The Red Sox only had radio broadcast that day.
A 2nd video version was made on 16mm. It is this color washed edition which appears on the recently issued "Impossible To Forget" DVD set. Coleman's radio call is dubbed over the original Joe G TV call. Coleman also recreated his original radio commentary for the remainder of the 9th, and in this now commercially released edition, it too is dubbed over the Joe G. original. It is indeed very evident that Coleman has faked it.
I'm going to get an extension phone from New England Telephone and some Black Label beer. Aside from that, thanks for the memories Vintage Television.
A hint of the "5" logo in that period can be seen in the ending slide card.
@jaytf123 1967 DID save baseball in Boston. Fenway had been more than half-empty for an average home game since Ted Williams hung it up, and with no sizable TV revenue to speak of, you had to survive on what you made at the gate and on radio.
does anyone know how Tony C died ? and if his death was related to what happened to him in "67"
why havent i seen that yastrzemski catch before that should be on best damn list
No, Elston Howard singled with two out in the ninth. He was traded to the Sox later that season and played in the Series!
I think that call was made by Ken Coleman on WHDH-AM.
I was a senior in High school going home thru Roslindale square on the bus going to the Dedham line listening to that game on a transistor radio hanging it out the window with no out in the 9th inning I dropped the radio and when Yaz made the catch and I had to run home to hear that Elston Howard broke up the no-hitter with 2 out in the ninth
It's funny, the New England Telephone commerical seems so early 1960s, as opposed to 1967.
I've since found out that WHDH acquired TK-43 cameras just in time for the 1967 baseball season; four TK-43's were in service at Fenway Park. Just want to know if there were TK-43's at their studios then.
@SuperDurango99 Thanx. I'm bad with words but what I'm trying to ask is lets say he never got hit by that pitch in 67 do you think he would still be alive today ? its rare at 37 to have a heart attack. because he did play again after getting hit although he was never the same so I'm thinking the hit might have done more damage to his health overall. his baseball career was before my time but I'm a big admirer of his
Am I correct in assuming that at this point, WHDH (Mk. I) used RCA TK-41 class cameras - or had they upgraded to TK-42 or 43 already? Or if not that kind of camera, then what?
that's Bob Wilson announcing, did Bruins games during 1970's
Anyone know when this show was broadcast?
Isn't the entire TV version of :"Impossible Dream" out on DVD as an "extra" in a DVD that contains the original Boston telecast of the second-to-last Red Sox game of the 1967 regular season??
Not only is the video quality far superior to the scoped version, the portions with Ken Coleman and Don Gillis are indeed different takes than what we see on that more common scoped edition. In addition, we do not see the large blue Red Sox hat behind them on the scope. Nor do we see the listings of the sponsers at the end. Who posted this, and how on earth did you get your hands on what are seemingly original reel to reel videotape sources!!!
No you are wrong. It is Mel Parnell that made the call on the yaz Rohr catch on WHDH-TV. Ken Coleman made the famous radio call on WHDH-AM. The common scoped version takes the WHDH TV video, and dubs Coleman's truly classic radio call over it. Mel Parnell's voice DOES sound very much like Joe G.'s.
I have done some more research on this and I am afraid that you are incorrect. Coleman + Martin were in the radio booth when Coleman's classic call was made. This Friday afternoon game was not broadcast in Boston. It was televised in New York on WPIX TV. Joe G made the only TV call. When the TV version of "The Impossible Dream" was aired by WHDH TV, it was exactly as it is here, using Joe the G. call.
1967, the year they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
Bob Gibson was too good that year, and had the Red Sox in shackles!
The pitching mounds were raised in 1962 because commissioner Ford Frick didn't like these modern players hitting homer like his friend, Babe Ruth, who, of course, had never had to play any night games or bat against any black pitchers. But in a typical fit of crotchety old man attitude, Frick couldn't stand that people not see things as being better in his days.
The mound was lowered back to where it had been before the 1969 season. It was high from '62 to'68.
They could have used some of the latino and black players they have now, but Mr. Yawkey didn't really want too many of them, so they were in the NL playing for St. Louis.
@geocgeo McClains was 1.96 over in the AL. Then Tiant was something 1.67...pitching! Drysdale had six straight shutouts, 58 2/3 scoreless innings and 8 shutouts overall. But just 14 wins?
do you have the whole program???
Sorry, but I am afraid that is not correct. The game was telecast by WPIX-TV, as this was the Opening Day game at Yankee Stadium 1n 1967. At 2:52 of this video, you will Gariagola say: "Here is the PIX Playback".
This Friday afternoon game was not televised in New England by WHDH-TV.
just use a cell phone! ..love that HUGE phone though.
i'm glad to see dick williams finally go to the hall of fame what he did for that 67 ball club and the a's in 72and 73 he was a great manager taking teams from nothing to something
@jaytf123 The YAZ man(carl Yaztrimsky) won the triple crown and a legendary BoSox player
What did Bob Gibson win in 1969? In 1969, the Mets won the World Series. When I was saying "Falling Apart", if my memory served me correct, the Cardinals were up 3-1 in the Series, and all of a sudden, they couldn't close out the Tigers, like those Yankee Asshole couldn't have finished in the 2004 ALCS.
Yes those Tigers had Hall of Famer Al Kaline on that team, and Catcher Bill Freehan. Along with Mickey Lolich and Denny McClain, and deservingly so the Tigers were the 1968 World Champions.
At 2:40 check out Yaz's catch !!! WoW !! #8 Name a better Left Fielder,
its true but yaz made a great catch when tom tresh hit a fly ball
it was
Most on these clips are on camera, not film.
I agree--pink hats are absurd, so are the black & camouflage ones. There should be only one cap design--navy blue & red, period! People who were never baseball fans are now so because it's become chic--I mean, "Gay Day" at Fenway? C'mon. Fenway and the Red Sox are just another attraction like Disney World.
Derek Jeter and the NY Yankees never had and never will have a seson like Yaz and the '67 Sox. Derek never came close to a Triple Crown or MVP award.
They hadn't won since 1946...they sucked
...until 1967.....100 to 1 at the beginning of the season..then they win the pennent on the last day of the season...YAZ won the MVP and is the last man to with the Triple Crown..and Jim Lonborg won the Cy Young...and Dick Williams was named manager of the year!!!!