First game I went to at Ebbets Field, 1957, sat in left bleachers, Willie Mays hit a first inning homer. Second visit sat behind home plate upper reserved seats. Carl Firillo hit a foul ball and my father who had my glove on his hand caught the ball. Great memory
For New York baseball fans, the 1950's was the Golden Age of Baseball. Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants, three historic franchises playing in three historic ballparks. If time travel were possible, I would love to go back to that time, and experience it all.
It almost killed baseball everywhere else, especially in the American League. By the late 50's, the AL was practically a minor league with only one major league team. And the Yankees had 3 other AL teams (Orioles, A's & Senators) that were basically farm teams for them. The reason baseball was dying into the early 60's, with the declining attendance and the greater popularity of NFL football, was because of the lack of competitive balance in the Major Leagues. The reason baseball came back so strongly in the late 60's and especially in the 70's was because the decline of the Yankees. Other teams had a chance to win, so you saw smaller market teams like Baltimore, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Cincinnati winning pennants or championships instead of the same parade of Yankees-Giants-Dodgers.
Thanks for this great video from the greatest baseball season of all time - 1955 ! I was in the 8th grade and they piped the 7th game of the Series into the classrooms on the intercom system. When Johnny Podres got the final out, the entire school erupted with cheers. That year, one of my Topps bubble gum packs included a Sandy Koufax rookie card.
yeah and your mother threw it away when you moved out of the house...like my mom did with my Mickey Mantle 1953 card! btw where is Mantle in this Series?
Duke Snider told the story that when he played with the Mets in 1963, Casey Stengel would tell stories about all those great World Series between the Yankees and Dodgers - 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1956. But whenever Duke would bring up 1955, Stengel would say, "We'll talk about that later."
18:00 Game three in Brooklyn, and the Yanks are up in the Series, 2 games to 0. When the Dodgers load the bases in the 2nd inning with Jackie Robinson leading off 3rd base, look how far Robinson is coming down the 3rd base line. He is literally daring the pitcher to make a play for him. In Ken Burns' Baseball, author Roger Creamer remarked how Robinson would get on base and distract pitchers so much they would lose concentration and walk batters. Right on cue, Robinson's base antics draw a bases-loaded walk.
I used to sit near the RF foul pole. Great seats! Low fence! A kid's dream. To clarify... The RF pole at old Yankee Stadium. 296 feet with a 4 foot wall, I think. I was only 6, and I was taller!
Things will never be quite right with the world until Dem Bums return to Flatbush! Oh how I loved the Boys of Summer. Man was Johnny Podres good in this series! Finally bested the Bronx Bombers. Very sweet. I was a kid in the 50s and was a big time Dodger fan. Gil Hodges grew up in Princeton, Indiana just up the road a short piece from where I grew up in Evansville, and Pee Wee Reese grew up just a short distance from me over in Kentucky. So I had some local guys on the team that made it even more attractive. Oh man I sure wish we still had Ebbets Field!
Perhaps if they had stayed in Bklyn, they would've. Once they got to LA, they fared better... Won in 1963 & 81, lost in 77-78. Of course, LA also beat the Chisox and Twins too. And later, the A's.
I got home from school just in time to see Sandy Amoros maked his great catch and watch the last innings --sure wish there was a film of tne whole game
I'm not an LA Dodger fan but a huge Brooklyn Dodger fan. I bought a New Era fitted 1955 Brooklyn Dodger hat to pay my respects to that team for finally winning the WS against the hated Yankees. Going down 2-0 in the series and winning the next 4 of 5 was fantastic. Gotta love Dem Bums!
Brilliant work uploader,you could almost smell the hot dogs at Ebbets Field.MLB-expand,bring baseball back to Brooklyn,call the team the Robins,name the park Jackie Robinson Field & have a brass band playing in the stands....who wouldnt wanna see that?
8:05. Game 1 of the '55 World Series is at Yankee Stadium, but it's Tex Rickards, the Ebbets Field P.A. announcer's voice you hear instead of Bob Sheppard's.
Notice how many players bunted back then! Mickey Mantle must have been injured and sat out most of the series. He was in only one highlight and wasn't in center field most of the time.
It's Great to see Hodges drove in the 2 runs to give DEM BUMS the only tittle in Brooklyn and it's about time that Gil is in the HOF well deserved and he should have been in the HOF a long time ago.
As a kid I always assumed he was. Gil was on the first (and only) Bklyn WS winner, skippered the first Mets WS win, and was an original Met! He also, I believe, led all National Leaguers in RBI in the 1950s. He was a superb defensive first-baseman too. That's a HOF resume. I just fact-checked... Gil was second only to Duke Snider in both HR & RBI in the 1950s.
But my beat friend father told me that way Jackie Robinson's foot hit the plate that made him safe, because if you see the play you see that Yogi Berra tags him but his foot is on the plate
Not a Yankee fan (or Dodger fan), but that umpire (Somers) got both calls wrong. Martin was safe and Robinson was out. If you look close, Berra had the plate blocked with his glove and Robinson slid into it. The Martin play wasn't even that close. He was WAY safe. And he didn't even argue much. And it was an American League umpire at home plate (inflatable chest protector means AL umpire). So I guess you can say at least he was being unbiased. Well, I guess the Dodgers deserved to have some breaks go their way after years of the Yankees getting all the lucky breaks against them. One funny thing watching a bunch of these old WS films in a binge-they use the same crowd shots over and over. Some of the crowd shots used in this film are from the highlights of Bobby Thompson's HR in 1951! LOL. A couple of years later when they went to color film, I guess they couldn't recycle the crowd shots any more.
On the controversial play at the plate in the 8th inning ...Yogi got up out of his crouch when he saw Jackie coming down the line....Yogi cought the ball on top of the plate..the umpire could have called a catchers balk because Yogi left his box before the ball left Whitey's hand....and Jackie would have been awarded home..also when Yogi cought the ball he was on top of the plate...if the batter had any sense instead of backing out of his box he should have swung at the pitch...he would have hit Yogi and would have been awarded 1st base with catchers interference and Jackie wood have been swarded home because he was moving on the pitch ..the call that set up this call was Billy Martin being called out at home when it was obvious he was safe...and the Yankees new Billy was safe so they expected Jackie to be called out...as far as the call on Jackie goes I'm a Yankee fan but it looks like Yogi cought the ball and set the tag down in the middle of the plate and Jackie slide across half of the plate to get to the tag...Jackie from that angle looked safe....the umpire definitely blew the call on Billy..had a no call in the catchers balk and there wasn't enough to over turn the call on Jackie..
Very interesting, Mike. I didn't know Yogi had moved out of his crouch prematurely. Yes, Martin was safe in his attempted steal of home. Imagine seeing two attempted steals of home in one World Series game nowadays.
If Ford steps off the rubber he becomes a fielder. Yogi can do whatever he wants. If Ford stayed ON the rubber, of course, you are correct. And of course, the batter can swing. Yogi could get pole-axed and called for interference at the same time! I have no idea what Whitey did!
Drysdale broke in with the Dodgers in 1956, not 55, although he was in the Dodger dugout when Don Larsen threw his perfect game in Game 5 of the '56 World Series.
I am especially impressed with how it took nearly a full minute before the video actually began. Perhaps, in future uploads, you could include thirty seconds or so of VHS head tracking adjustments. The "no edit" quality is so terribly avant garde.
It's 32 seconds. I transferred the VHS tape to DVD years ago. When I converted the DVD to MP4 I gave little thought to the 32 seconds of blank video tape.
First game I went to at Ebbets Field, 1957, sat in left bleachers, Willie Mays hit a first inning homer. Second visit sat behind home plate upper reserved seats. Carl Firillo hit a foul ball and my father who had my glove on his hand caught the ball. Great memory
For New York baseball fans, the 1950's was the Golden Age of Baseball. Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants, three historic franchises playing in three historic ballparks. If time travel were possible, I would love to go back to that time, and experience it all.
Between 1949-65, every World Series had either a NYC team or a transplant...meaning the Giants or Dodgers after they left.
It almost killed baseball everywhere else, especially in the American League. By the late 50's, the AL was practically a minor league with only one major league team. And the Yankees had 3 other AL teams (Orioles, A's & Senators) that were basically farm teams for them. The reason baseball was dying into the early 60's, with the declining attendance and the greater popularity of NFL football, was because of the lack of competitive balance in the Major Leagues. The reason baseball came back so strongly in the late 60's and especially in the 70's was because the decline of the Yankees. Other teams had a chance to win, so you saw smaller market teams like Baltimore, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Cincinnati winning pennants or championships instead of the same parade of Yankees-Giants-Dodgers.
I’m a pirates fan and we were TERRIBLE in the 1950s but then at least we had the Cinderella season of 1960.
@@TheBatugan77 1966*
@@TheBatugan77 From 1949-1956 every single World Series game was won by a NY team.
Thanks for this great video from the greatest baseball season of all time - 1955 ! I was in the 8th grade and they piped the 7th game of the Series into the classrooms on the intercom system. When Johnny Podres got the final out, the entire school erupted with cheers. That year, one of my Topps bubble gum packs included a Sandy Koufax rookie card.
yeah and your mother threw it away when you moved out of the house...like my mom did with my Mickey Mantle 1953 card! btw where is Mantle in this Series?
Fantastic! The legendary World Series that is part of Dodger and baseball folklore! ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 😁😁😁😁😁
Duke Snider told the story that when he played with the Mets in 1963, Casey Stengel would tell stories about all those great World Series between the Yankees and Dodgers - 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1956. But whenever Duke would bring up 1955, Stengel would say, "We'll talk about that later."
18:00 Game three in Brooklyn, and the Yanks are up in the Series, 2 games to 0. When the Dodgers load the bases in the 2nd inning with Jackie Robinson leading off 3rd base, look how far Robinson is coming down the 3rd base line. He is literally daring the pitcher to make a play for him. In Ken Burns' Baseball, author Roger Creamer remarked how Robinson would get on base and distract pitchers so much they would lose concentration and walk batters. Right on cue, Robinson's base antics draw a bases-loaded walk.
I used to sit near the RF foul pole.
Great seats! Low fence! A kid's dream.
To clarify... The RF pole at old Yankee Stadium. 296 feet with a 4 foot wall, I think. I was only 6, and I was taller!
Old fuck.
Things will never be quite right with the world until Dem Bums return to Flatbush! Oh how I loved the Boys of Summer. Man was Johnny Podres good in this series! Finally bested the Bronx Bombers. Very sweet. I was a kid in the 50s and was a big time Dodger fan. Gil Hodges grew up in Princeton, Indiana just up the road a short piece from where I grew up in Evansville, and Pee Wee Reese grew up just a short distance from me over in Kentucky. So I had some local guys on the team that made it even more attractive. Oh man I sure wish we still had Ebbets Field!
thomas holden-Unfortunately that's not going to happen.
My all-time favorite team - the Brooklyn Dodgers - them Bums!!
Too young too remember them, but fell in love when they came to Los Angeles.
They wasn't Bums that year,and "Next Year" finally came in 1955.
Too bad they didn't beat the Yankees several times, but they were baseball's greatest dynasty. I'm so glad they at least got them once.
Perhaps if they had stayed in Bklyn, they would've. Once they got to LA, they fared better... Won in 1963 & 81, lost in 77-78. Of course, LA also beat the Chisox and Twins too. And later, the A's.
I got home from school just in time to see Sandy Amoros maked his great catch and watch the last innings --sure wish there was a film of tne whole game
What was really amazing was relay.
I'm not an LA Dodger fan but a huge Brooklyn Dodger fan. I bought a New Era fitted 1955 Brooklyn Dodger hat to pay my respects to that team for finally winning the WS against the hated Yankees. Going down 2-0 in the series and winning the next 4 of 5 was fantastic. Gotta love Dem Bums!
Brilliant work uploader,you could almost smell the hot dogs at Ebbets Field.MLB-expand,bring baseball back to Brooklyn,call the team the Robins,name the park Jackie Robinson Field & have a brass band playing in the stands....who wouldnt wanna see that?
Well, you now have the Cyclones of course. Brooklyn is a very difficult drive from New Jersey, Long Island and the city's northern suburbs.
I'm glad they got rid of artificial turf; it just caused more trouble than it was worth
8:05. Game 1 of the '55 World Series is at Yankee Stadium, but it's Tex Rickards, the Ebbets Field P.A. announcer's voice you hear instead of Bob Sheppard's.
BAD Officiating is timeless!
Thanks so much for uploading this. It's brilliant.
Notice how many players bunted back then! Mickey Mantle must have been injured and sat out most of the series. He was in only one highlight and wasn't in center field most of the time.
It's Great to see Hodges drove in the 2 runs to give DEM BUMS the only tittle in Brooklyn and it's about time that Gil is in the HOF well deserved and he should have been in the HOF a long time ago.
As a kid I always assumed he was. Gil was on the first (and only) Bklyn WS winner, skippered the first Mets WS win, and was an original Met! He also, I believe, led all National Leaguers in RBI in the 1950s. He was a superb defensive first-baseman too. That's a HOF resume.
I just fact-checked... Gil was second only to Duke Snider in both HR & RBI in the 1950s.
Over half century to win a series.
Billy Martin was SAFER than Jackie Robinson!!!
Martin definitely got under the tag...
He's a Yankee. Who cares?
@@michaellapointe7743 Exactly!
It was a judgment call. Martin did appear to get underneath Campy's tag.
But my beat friend father told me that way Jackie Robinson's foot hit the plate that made him safe, because if you see the play you see that Yogi Berra tags him but his foot is on the plate
Any footage out there in color?
I’m glad Brooklyn won but Mickey Mantle did not play in game 7. He regularly torched Brooklyn in the World Series.
Neither did Jackie Robinson. Don Hoak played third base in the critical Game 7.
Awesome
Not a Yankee fan (or Dodger fan), but that umpire (Somers) got both calls wrong. Martin was safe and Robinson was out. If you look close, Berra had the plate blocked with his glove and Robinson slid into it. The Martin play wasn't even that close. He was WAY safe. And he didn't even argue much. And it was an American League umpire at home plate (inflatable chest protector means AL umpire). So I guess you can say at least he was being unbiased. Well, I guess the Dodgers deserved to have some breaks go their way after years of the Yankees getting all the lucky breaks against them.
One funny thing watching a bunch of these old WS films in a binge-they use the same crowd shots over and over. Some of the crowd shots used in this film are from the highlights of Bobby Thompson's HR in 1951! LOL. A couple of years later when they went to color film, I guess they couldn't recycle the crowd shots any more.
Nope
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On the controversial play at the plate in the 8th inning ...Yogi got up out of his crouch when he saw Jackie coming down the line....Yogi cought the ball on top of the plate..the umpire could have called a catchers balk because Yogi left his box before the ball left Whitey's hand....and Jackie would have been awarded home..also when Yogi cought the ball he was on top of the plate...if the batter had any sense instead of backing out of his box he should have swung at the pitch...he would have hit Yogi and would have been awarded 1st base with catchers interference and Jackie wood have been swarded home because he was moving on the pitch ..the call that set up this call was Billy Martin being called out at home when it was obvious he was safe...and the Yankees new Billy was safe so they expected Jackie to be called out...as far as the call on Jackie goes I'm a Yankee fan but it looks like Yogi cought the ball and set the tag down in the middle of the plate and Jackie slide across half of the plate to get to the tag...Jackie from that angle looked safe....the umpire definitely blew the call on Billy..had a no call in the catchers balk and there wasn't enough to over turn the call on Jackie..
Very interesting, Mike. I didn't know Yogi had moved out of his crouch prematurely. Yes, Martin was safe in his attempted steal of home. Imagine seeing two attempted steals of home in one World Series game nowadays.
If Ford steps off the rubber he becomes a fielder. Yogi can do whatever he wants. If Ford stayed ON the rubber, of course, you are correct. And of course, the batter can swing. Yogi could get pole-axed and called for interference at the same time!
I have no idea what Whitey did!
Kofax and Drysdale both on 55 dodgers.
Drysdale broke in with the Dodgers in 1956, not 55, although he was in the Dodger dugout when Don Larsen threw his perfect game in Game 5 of the '56 World Series.
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu i thought I saw team pic of 55 team that includes Drysdale
2:31 STYLE POINTS
I am especially impressed with how it took nearly a full minute before the video actually began. Perhaps, in future uploads, you could include thirty seconds or so of VHS head tracking adjustments. The "no edit" quality is so terribly avant garde.
It's 32 seconds. I transferred the VHS tape to DVD years ago. When I converted the DVD to MP4 I gave little thought to the 32 seconds of blank video tape.
This guy is seriously complaining about a half minute wait. smh
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You again? Pipe down!
Or you'll get bitch-slapped by girl scouts selling cookies.
TheBatugan77 Your mom likes me though.
Why be such a d-bag? Probably a Yankee fan