Heaven is going to be I'm 17 and Yankees are playing the Red Sox. The Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer are broadcasting and the game goes on forever.
I have been saying for years and I will keep on saying it: This 1978 Yankees team is the greatest Yankees team ever. The 1927, 1939. 1949, 1953, 1961 and 1998 Yankees all great in their own right. But this team I would proudly and respectfully stack up against any other Yankees team, and any other MLB team. I was 14 when the 1978 Yankees accomplished this and the only thing I can say to younger fans: If only you had been here to experience it!
@@dannyspitzer1267 Big time! From the one game winner take all playoff in Boston, the ALCS against the Royals then the epic WS against LA: The 1978 NYY kept coming back.
I was there opening day in "78 with my Dad...God rest his soul. A sea of orange!! Thank you for all the memories Reg!! This should be required viewing for "23 Yanks.
Red Sox fan here. This season ruined our childhood. We refer to Bucky as Bucky "F***ING Dent! We all hated the Yankees, but deep down, we respected them. They were talented and tough. 1978 was an incredible season!!
Yankee fan here, and of course this was one of my favorite days, along with Guidry's 18 strikeouts. But I like your Red Sox when you're there, The Impossible Dream, your 1986 Series, 2004 after your revenge, and later. I give you credit for playing in your original, historic stadium. Now lets see the Indians win one in our lifetimes.
What is it white!!!! Haha Loved that Phil made no bones about what he was about!!!!! Our Bombers!!!!...RiP philly boy...an fellow BROOKLYNBOY when their was one!!!! an Italiano haha!!! Yeah!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐻🐳🐅🐕🐖🐄
Hey Sox fans stop saying that the greatest comeback was 2004. that was the playoffs not the regular season. 1978 Yankees greatest comeback ever! deal with it.
Exactly. The Yankees had to climb over many other teams just to get to 2nd place. Then they crushed the Sox in the Boston massacre. And then the extra game at the end of the season.
@@robertszekely8686 maybe that can be the case in 2021 if you remember Boston we’re 1st place in the al East before the all star break while the Yankees were 10 games back. Now Boston is fighting for their playoff lives and the Yankees came back to climb back in the standings
The greatest under pressure team ever..Reggie thrived on that shit and Guidry was unhittable. Nettles Thurm,Chambliss,Randolph,Rivers,Pinella all solid pros and Billy and George,Jeez..Legends!!
They were money players. No one was hitting .350 or 45-50 homers but when the game was on the line, they were unbeatable. In what was arguably the most exciting season ever for a team, they proved their resiliency and resourcefulness right to the end.
I remember when the Yankees were 13 games behind Boston in mid-July and I was sure the season was over. I never even imagined the Yanks could come back and win it all. But they did! As soon as Billy Martin was fired, the Yanks started winning and they didn’t stop until they had won it all! Greatest comeback I ever saw.
William Mohan I'll never forget making a bet with a friend when the Yankees we're 13 or so games back for a case of imported beer) that NY would win the AL and play in the series. He was a bar tender BTW so three other guys jumped right in and I wound up winning $50 and the brewski. Great club those Yanks!!!
This was the year I got into baseball as a seven-year old kid. I remember early in the season how the Yankees were losing a lot, and my family got a kick out of me complaining that they sucked. Then when they started coming back and gaining on the Red Sox I got totally obsessed. When Bucky Dent hit that home run at Fenway we had the game on in the car as we drove to my grandparents' house for dinner on Rosh Hashanah. We went to game 5 of the World Series, which the Yankees won something like 12-2. I remember people running around screaming after the game ended.
RIP George Shame your son Hal recently said he DOES Not want to be like you.. Shameful George U belong in the Hall Baseball history Cannoy be spoken about without mentioning you.Sincerly , a NY Yankee fan since 1973
Too bad they didn't mention the real catalyst for the comeback (Lemon said it did more for the team than picking up a 20-game winner would have): the newspaper strike in August, which effectively shut down the Bronx Zoo, as the clubhouse and road trips were cleansed of the NYC sportswriters (each a viler POS than the last) who did everything in their power to make the players hate each other.
I was home from my new prep school that Thursday night after the year began (7th grade), and tuned into the Yankee game when they won 15-3, then watched Friday night as they won 13-2....then closed out the series.
Dodgers got revenge in the 81 World Series and overall as LA, Dodgers are 12-10 in World Series games. Royals swept them in the 80 ALCS to get over that Yankee hump, and all the heartbreak that Boston has endured with the Yankees, it will eventually be used as finally getting over that Yankee hump in historic fashion in 04 and the years following.
i was at the last game of the seaon at yankee stadium a loss to the cleveland indian 9-2 to force a coin toss one game do or die against the hated red sox the next day..i was 13 yrs old and learning to be a yankee..never stopped since..fuckin bucky dent is the man.
What people tend to forget is that while the Red Sox did have a 14-game lead on the Yankees on July 19, they did not lead the AL East by 14 games. The Yankees had slid to third place by that time and the Red Sox led the Milwaukee Brewers by nine games. Someone else mentioned that Boston had to rally in the final week of the season just to get into that playoff with New York, and that's exactly right. They trailed the Yankees by 3-and-a half games heading into the final week and ran off eight straight wins to pull even with the Yankees on the final day of the season and force the playoff. What I did find surprising, however, was that even when the Red Sox went on their mid-season rampage and appeared to be running away from the rest of the AL East, they were a very mediocre road team for much of that season, and were never more than four games over .500 on the road at any point that year. They would finish just 40-41 that season away from Fenway.
I often wondered if the guy who jumped over the wall @ 2:50, got to keep Reggie's home run ball, got 86d from the stadium or broke his legs and was escorted out of the stadium with no ball.
He absolutely did deserve it. I remember the pundits saying that he wouldn't get it though, because pitchers could get the Cy Young but position players couldn't. But there was no single player more valuable to their team than Guidry.
Feels odd that... ...while I was watching this LIVE, the "Bucky F*n Dent" at-bat would become one of those legendary moments in sports, just like the ones I wasn't alive for, (or too young to remember) that I've seen a few hundred times, Still remember being razzed, relentlessly, by kids in my neighborhood that summer. I was a HUGE fan. At the 14 and a half games out mark, I thought I would NEVER hear the end of it. But, on THAT day... "Bucky F*n Dent". Oh yeah. Vindication.
@@JWBlys It was a brutal summer. A lot of the kids around the neighborhood were Yankees, Red Sox, & Phillies fans. And they were HARD CORE. Moving into that area was a real culture shock, as I had to find out (the hard way) that they were MEAN as snakes. When their teams lost, they got ignorant. So... you can imagine my joy after that game. Dent's & Reggie's HR's, Lou's "heaven-sent" plays in right, & Yaz's pop-up in the 9th REALLY made my day.
Never understood how Billy Martin got fired but only for a little while and I’ll hire you back on this date. If I was Bob lemon I’d tell George to pound sand.
0:17 Oct 2nd 1978...What a game! Both teams would have made in the playoffs today. Here's the standings before the game. 4 teams in the AL EAST had 90 wins or more. Boston went 13-2 .867 the last 15 games of the season and won 8 straight. Since Aug. 4th, the Yankees went 40-14 .741 pct.in their last 54 and won their last 6 of 7. Since July 13th, the Yankees went 52-21 .712. On JULY 19TH Boston was 62-28, the Yankees were 48-42, 14 games back. W L GB PCT NEW YORK 99 63 ---- .611 BOSTON 99 63 ---- .611 MILWAUKEE 93 69 6 .574 BALTIMORE 90 71 9 .559 DETROIT 86 76 13.5 . 531 CLEVELAND 69 90 29 .434 TORONTO 59 102 40 .366
Harry Peltz yes, and it looks like the beginning of this was severely edited so all of Bucky Dent’s narrative was cut out; the first installment of the 4 part “it don’t come easy” program has also been taken down from CZcams; I think someone refused to sign a release. What remains is exactly the same as “it don’t come easy” only with Phil Rizzuto narrating it instead of Bill White.
We can all go on with what would have happened, as with the sentiment below that Boston, when healthy, would have been superior in a seven-game series. That's conjecture and cannot be asserted as fact. The Yankees won, following Boston coughing up, (clear throat for effect) a 14 and 1/2 game lead in July. Ah yes, and, as we speak the tally is New York 27 and Boston 9. Not in your grandchildren's grandchildren's lifetime will that lead be overcome. Next. Y-A-N-K-E-E-S "We love the Yankees..."
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 Considering the moves the Sox made in the 1977 off season, I seriously doubt they're that far behind as they also have the resources as well.
As for which was a bigger comeback 1978 Yankees or the 2004 Sox, any team can win 4 in a row. Yankees had to get over many teams to get to 2nd place and then beat the Sox. And when they played the Sox in September at Fenway they crushed them 42 to 9 in that series. And then of course beat them in the extra game that year. Again in Fenway park. There's no doubt the Yankees comeback was the better one.
I was in Kansas City when Reggie and Blair collided-had Reggie not screwed up the Yankees would have won and as a result there would not have been a playoff game and Bucky Dent would not be the Hero/Scourge he is today!
I ate some Reggie bars they were good but big, like the man himself. Was playing stickball on East 82nd Street in a garage with tennis balls using the walls for bases while this game played on the radio.
The greatest comeback ever was the 2004 ALCS. Boston was down 3-0 against the mighty Yankees. Then they won 4 in a row including the last 2 at Yankee stadium. As a Yankees fan I was devastated. Even Mariano Rivera could not win a game.
Was it the Yankees comeback, or the Red Sox collapse? Dave Kingman played a big part in the month of September for the Yanks, but didn't have enough games to make the playoffs. Bucky Dent's 3 run Homer was a miracle.
Kong played for the Yankees? No way, I thought! I had to look that one up. But he did, for 8 games. But it was in 1977, not the Great Comeback of 1978.
Energy Plus, The question was, How'd Boston blow a 14 and a half game lead. Tores was pitching a great game until he gave up that three run Homer to Dent in that one game playoff.
Reggie Jackson, game 6, 1977 saw 7 pitches. At bat1: Ball, ball, ball, ball (He walked) At bat2: First pitch: Home Run At bat3: First pitch: Home Run At bat3: First pitch: Home Run And then... First pitch, opening day, 1978: Home Run
I think only Jackson, Gossage and Hunter are in the hall from this team. That's sick. Nettles was one of the most consistent players of the decade and had numbers very comparable to Brooks Robinson.
The greatest comeback ever and the one game playoff in Boston bucky dent hitting that homer no one seen that coming and and they sweep Boston in the last series of the season in Boston to force the one game playoff
And although I'm not expecting the Great Scooter to admit it, the most important thing in that run was the NYC Newspaper strike, when all the sleazeballs that manipulated and disrupted the clubhouse were gone and the team could operate without any of those weasels around. THAT was the reason they started winning in August of 78'. You can draw a direct Iine of demarcation from August 10 when the strike began to the rest of that baseball season. Period.
@@andymaccracken5132 It was a twist of fate that Dent w/ 5 HR would be the guy to put one over that wall and put the Yanks in front. Of course the game was still far from over, but you get the point.
That would be something considering that it would be impossible since both teams are in the American League and can't face each other in the World Series.
No it still is yes what you did was unpresident but to be down all those games IN August and go to Fenway for the legendary playoff game then beat KC and fight back against the dodgers is stuff of Legends
@@billny33 Because back in those pre-Internet and 250 cable channels and sports 24 hours a day times, many people relied on newspapers for information and that included sports. There wasn't the same kind of pressure on the Yanks being behind the Red Sox for most of the season as there would have been if the NY Post and Daily News were blasting headlines about the Yanks situation. And Steinbrenner used to react to negative stories also, so he wasn't as vocal as he might have been.
Your right. At the time Ruppert Murdoch brought the NY Post. The back pages of the Daily News and Post became gossip columns even the Times would investigate the Reggie-Thurman-Billy and George soap opera. Reporters cared less and less about on field issues. The newspaper strike paralleled the comback. There where scab papers but had no columnists. The NY Post came back the day of game six
The other version with Bill White as the narrator was much better. They played the Beatles and even had the Star Wars disco theme! Lol it was called It Don’t Come Easy. The narration is almost exactly the same only Bill White speaks instead of Phil Rizzuto.
@@loyaldude10 I loved Billy if the Yankees didn't trade him in June of 57 they wood have beaten the Braves in the series.. he was a winner but alcohol did him in.
Billy was an ass to Reggie and it's funny when I read that Thurman wanted Reggie to go up in he's plane and spend time with him at he's home in Ohio I guess Reggie wasn't a complete ass as people say he was.
I don't think this was the greatest comeback in baseball. The 1914 Boston Braves were 15 back and in last place on July 4th and eventually got very hot, beating the NY Giants by 10.5 games. They then swept the 3 time world champion Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series. The 1977 Yankees were World Champions, so it was evident that the 1978 Yankees did have a lot of talent. The 1913 Braves finished 5th with a losing record in the National League. The Braves comeback was much more unexpected and stunning than the Yankees. Then there was the 1951 Giants' comeback, though of course they got swept by the Yankees in the World Series.
2004 was “The Greatest Comeback Ever” with the Boston Red Sox coming back from 0-3 to win the 2004 American League Pennant. A feat that will forever be Unmatched!
The greatest comeback ever happened in 2004 when the Yankees choked away a 3-0 lead and lost the series 4-3. The only team in baseball history to blow a 3-0 lead.
I'll go with the 1978 Red Sox. 14 game lead at one point following the All-Star break and yet somehow they choked away that massive lead all the way into a 1 game playoff at Fenway. Yeah, the 1978 Red Sox belong up there with the 1986 Red Sox, 1946 Red Sox, the 1967 Red Sox, the 2003 Red Sox, the 1948 Red Sox, the 1949 Red Sox, the 1972 Red Sox, the 2008 Red Sox and the 1975 Red Sox as the 10 greatest chokers in MLB history. Amazing that the Red Sux would hold all 10 positions in this list but it is true for the worst most-hated professional franchise in the history of the world.
Big difference between a short series and blowing a 14 game lead. You can suck for a few days and blow a short series (as the Yankees did) but you really have to suck every day for a long time to blow a 14 game lead.
I liked Billy Martin as manager. But, he didn't deserve to have his uniform number (1) retired. He and Steinbrenner had a love-hate relationship. Steinbrenner's decision to retire Martin's uniform number after Martin's tragic death was purely an emotional decision.
there were a few, very few times boston was > NY. This was not one of those times. Pre or post asb. That being said I was a Yaz fan...he should have been a yankee.
Well, you're entitled to your "guess" but what happened....happened and no amount of conjecture can change it. Jets weren't supposed to beat the Colts, Mets weren't supposed to beat the Orioles, Giants weren't supposed to beat the Patriots. Yankees weren't supposed to catch the Sox, but all the weren't supposed to's happened.
My memory of Reggie was as a teenager going to see the Yankees in Cleveland at the end of 1979. The game was meaningless, and I think there were about 800 fans in that giant cavern. I had just gotten Billy Martin's autograph on my scorecard (before Ebay, when we got autographs just because it was cool). Anyway, Reggie looked right at me when I asked "Mr. Jackson" to sign my card too, and he walked away. :( He was the only man in uniform that I didn't see sign anything at all. Even the nobodies on the Indians were signing for the kids.
Didn't Reggie sort of help force Sparky out the door? Seems I remember something like that, that he hated Lyle for some reason. 40+ years ago though, my memory could be fuzzy.
No! The greatest comeback of all time was 2004 when the Red Sox were down three games and nothing and they came back and beat the Yankees and then also won the World Series.
Heaven is going to be I'm 17 and Yankees are playing the Red Sox. The Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer are broadcasting and the game goes on forever.
I watched so many of those games during that magical 77-78 period. Big part of my life.
Me too
Radio too, for the west coast games
@@dannyspitzer1267Thurman 👍
I have been saying for years and I will keep on saying it: This 1978 Yankees team is the greatest Yankees team ever. The 1927, 1939. 1949, 1953, 1961 and 1998 Yankees all great in their own right. But this team I would proudly and respectfully stack up against any other Yankees team, and any other MLB team. I was 14 when the 1978 Yankees accomplished this and the only thing I can say to younger fans: If only you had been here to experience it!
I was 18, and I echo your sentiments 100%!
@@JWBlys Thanks, Jeff, Class of ‘78!
I was 12 going on 13, great memories! Best Yankee year ever!
@@dannyspitzer1267 Big time! From the one game winner take all playoff in Boston, the ALCS against the Royals then the epic WS against LA: The 1978 NYY kept coming back.
I was there opening day in "78 with my Dad...God rest his soul. A sea of orange!!
Thank you for all the memories Reg!!
This should be required viewing for "23 Yanks.
Red Sox fan here. This season ruined our childhood. We refer to Bucky as Bucky "F***ING Dent! We all hated the Yankees, but deep down, we respected them. They were talented and tough. 1978 was an incredible season!!
What about Dodgers' fans? we were up two-0...after having lost to them the previous year.
Yankee fan here, and of course this was one of my favorite days, along with Guidry's 18 strikeouts. But I like your Red Sox when you're there, The Impossible Dream, your 1986 Series, 2004 after your revenge, and later. I give you credit for playing in your original, historic stadium. Now lets see the Indians win one in our lifetimes.
Lasorda stalling at the mound letting his reliever get his throws in: “What do you think I should do?”
Bill Haller!
R.I.P. the Scooter Phil Rizzuto
What is it white!!!! Haha Loved that Phil made no bones about what he was about!!!!! Our Bombers!!!!...RiP philly boy...an fellow BROOKLYNBOY when their was one!!!! an Italiano haha!!! Yeah!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐬🐻🐳🐅🐕🐖🐄
Rest In Peace to Thurman Munson
My favoirt player. #15
Great clutch hitter and leader
always my favorite yankee and leader of the bronx zoo team that got me into baseball as a kid. Loved the rivalry with Fisk too. /miss baseball
@@rickchyczewski576 that yankee team never won another world series, they tried to replace thurman Munson
#15 still waiting for the Hall of Fame
My HS years
No matter how many WS the Yanks won or will in my life 77/78 will always be my teams
Also Phil , Bill & Frank my guys in the booth
That one game in Boston was one of baseball's best baseball games ever the pressure was unbelievable. Great games do not have to be 12-10
Billy was a classic. The bottle ended up killing him.
Sad but true.
Yep
I remember watching this when it originally aired on WPIX-TV in New York.
Same here, i noticed, that this was edited big time.
Hey Sox fans stop saying that the greatest comeback was 2004. that was the playoffs not the regular season. 1978 Yankees greatest comeback ever! deal with it.
Exactly. The Yankees had to climb over many other teams just to get to 2nd place. Then they crushed the Sox in the Boston massacre. And then the extra game at the end of the season.
@@robertszekely8686 maybe that can be the case in 2021 if you remember Boston we’re 1st place in the al East before the all star break while the Yankees were 10 games back. Now Boston is fighting for their playoff lives and the Yankees came back to climb back in the standings
The Yankees at there finest, that was the ultimate team..
Where?
The greatest under pressure team ever..Reggie thrived on that shit and Guidry was unhittable. Nettles Thurm,Chambliss,Randolph,Rivers,Pinella all solid pros and Billy and George,Jeez..Legends!!
They were money players. No one was hitting .350 or 45-50 homers but when the game was on the line, they were unbeatable.
In what was arguably the most exciting season ever for a team, they proved their resiliency and resourcefulness right to the end.
Willie Randolph should be in the HOF.
He was a much better player than was that out maker,Jeter.
Yes!! This was the team. I now feel so privileged to have been a 10yr old Yanks fan this season!
The 1st full season I followed as a kid.
Good times at 8.
I remember when the Yankees were 13 games behind Boston in mid-July and I was sure the season was over. I never even imagined the Yanks could come back and win it all. But they did! As soon as Billy Martin was fired, the Yanks started winning and they didn’t stop until they had won it all! Greatest comeback I ever saw.
No one could have predicted the NYC Newspaper strike.
Roy White never got enough credit
I remember he just showed up and played every day, without causing any drama. Dignified and professional.
@@JWBlys Bernie Williams was similar. Both center fielders and quiet leaders on the Yankees.
What a year that was!!!!
William Mohan I'll never forget making a bet with a friend when the Yankees we're 13 or so games back for a case of imported beer) that NY would win the AL and play in the series. He was a bar tender BTW so three other guys jumped right in and I wound up winning $50 and the brewski. Great club those Yanks!!!
The day Bucky Dent got his middle name.
Bucky "Effin" Dent 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@user-gu4tv4hp6s Go away, foreigner!
Yup! Great memories
What a magic year for New York Fans!!!!
Man I remember that season well.
This was the year I got into baseball as a seven-year old kid. I remember early in the season how the Yankees were losing a lot, and my family got a kick out of me complaining that they sucked. Then when they started coming back and gaining on the Red Sox I got totally obsessed. When Bucky Dent hit that home run at Fenway we had the game on in the car as we drove to my grandparents' house for dinner on Rosh Hashanah. We went to game 5 of the World Series, which the Yankees won something like 12-2. I remember people running around screaming after the game ended.
RIP George Shame your son Hal recently said he DOES Not want to be like you.. Shameful George U belong in the Hall Baseball history Cannoy be spoken about without mentioning you.Sincerly , a NY Yankee fan since 1973
Too bad they didn't mention the real catalyst for the comeback (Lemon said it did more for the team than picking up a 20-game winner would have): the newspaper strike in August, which effectively shut down the Bronx Zoo, as the clubhouse and road trips were cleansed of the NYC sportswriters (each a viler POS than the last) who did everything in their power to make the players hate each other.
As a kid couldn’t wait to go to bed put the radio on and listen to these great announcers and players. A magical time.
I don't know what's better, the video or your shirt!
I wasn’t born yet. Back before the days of smartphones and social media. Also analog photography and technology.
I was home from my new prep school that Thursday night after the year began (7th grade), and tuned into the Yankee game when they won 15-3, then watched Friday night as they won 13-2....then closed out the series.
My favorite month, Sept. 1978 of that season.
WHY'S THAT ?
I was 19 and all was right with the world
Yep
12 going on 13 here
The 3 teams the Yankees terrorized throughout the 70's: Red Sox, Royals, and Dodgers.
As a Dodgers fan since 1974, I can attest.
Heck of a road that year to win the World Series
Dodgers got revenge in the 81 World Series and overall as LA, Dodgers are 12-10 in World Series games. Royals swept them in the 80 ALCS to get over that Yankee hump, and all the heartbreak that Boston has endured with the Yankees, it will eventually be used as finally getting over that Yankee hump in historic fashion in 04 and the years following.
Gossage really had a hard time of it early in the season. But eventually he figured it out.
This comeback will never touch 2004 and the Sox comeback from 3-0 in the ALCS. Greatest comeback / CHOKE in the history of sports.
i was at the last game of the seaon at yankee stadium a loss to the cleveland indian 9-2 to force a coin toss one game do or die against the hated red sox the next day..i was 13 yrs old and learning to be a yankee..never stopped since..fuckin bucky dent is the man.
When baseball was great. Not any more.
Agree
that 1st base umpire was on fire with that call
What people tend to forget is that while the Red Sox did have a 14-game lead on the Yankees on July 19, they did not lead the AL East by 14 games. The Yankees had slid to third place by that time and the Red Sox led the Milwaukee Brewers by nine games. Someone else mentioned that Boston had to rally in the final week of the season just to get into that playoff with New York, and that's exactly right. They trailed the Yankees by 3-and-a half games heading into the final week and ran off eight straight wins to pull even with the Yankees on the final day of the season and force the playoff.
What I did find surprising, however, was that even when the Red Sox went on their mid-season rampage and appeared to be running away from the rest of the AL East, they were a very mediocre road team for much of that season, and were never more than four games over .500 on the road at any point that year. They would finish just 40-41 that season away from Fenway.
A magical time
It was the greatest comeback at That time......but then came 2004, and a rewriting of history.
I'd have to agree with you on that.
I often wondered if the guy who jumped over the wall @ 2:50, got to keep Reggie's home run ball, got 86d from the stadium or broke his legs and was escorted out of the stadium with no ball.
He probably got both... got the ball but broke his leg in the process... lol
Guidry deserved MVP that year he dominated baseball including MVP Jim rice
He absolutely did deserve it. I remember the pundits saying that he wouldn't get it though, because pitchers could get the Cy Young but position players couldn't. But there was no single player more valuable to their team than Guidry.
Agree!!
Feels odd that...
...while I was watching this LIVE, the "Bucky F*n Dent" at-bat would become one of those legendary moments in sports, just like the ones I wasn't alive for, (or too young to remember) that I've seen a few hundred times,
Still remember being razzed, relentlessly, by kids in my neighborhood that summer. I was a HUGE fan. At the 14 and a half games out mark, I thought I would NEVER hear the end of it. But, on THAT day... "Bucky F*n Dent". Oh yeah. Vindication.
I hear ya, bro! I had almost forgotten, but your post reminded me how often I heard "Bucky F'ing Dent" around town in those days. :)
@@JWBlys It was a brutal summer. A lot of the kids around the neighborhood were Yankees, Red Sox, & Phillies fans. And they were HARD CORE. Moving into that area was a real culture shock, as I had to find out (the hard way) that they were MEAN as snakes. When their teams lost, they got ignorant.
So... you can imagine my joy after that game. Dent's & Reggie's HR's, Lou's "heaven-sent" plays in right, & Yaz's pop-up in the 9th REALLY made my day.
I miss the BOSS!.his kids dont understand baseball
Never understood how Billy Martin got fired but only for a little while and I’ll hire you back on this date. If I was Bob lemon I’d tell George to pound sand.
Got to love that fake crowd noise. Same as This Week in Baseball I think
Yep, it's a loop... you can hear that one guy cheering "woo" every 7 to 10 seconds or so
0:17 Oct 2nd 1978...What a game! Both teams would have made in the playoffs today. Here's the standings before the game. 4 teams in the AL EAST had 90 wins or more. Boston went 13-2 .867 the last 15 games of the season and won 8 straight. Since Aug. 4th, the Yankees went 40-14 .741 pct.in
their last 54 and won their last 6 of 7. Since July 13th, the Yankees went 52-21 .712. On JULY 19TH Boston was 62-28, the Yankees were 48-42, 14 games back.
W L GB PCT
NEW YORK 99 63 ---- .611
BOSTON 99 63 ---- .611
MILWAUKEE 93 69 6 .574
BALTIMORE 90 71 9 .559
DETROIT 86 76 13.5 . 531
CLEVELAND 69 90 29 .434
TORONTO 59 102 40 .366
This is the exact same script as "It don't come easy" narrated by Bill White.
Harry Peltz yes, and it looks like the beginning of this was severely edited so all of Bucky Dent’s narrative was cut out; the first installment of the 4 part “it don’t come easy” program has also been taken down from CZcams; I think someone refused to sign a release. What remains is exactly the same as “it don’t come easy” only with Phil Rizzuto narrating it instead of Bill White.
They probably didn't have the rights to the song, and had to take it down.
Good show. Thanks for showing the World Series. Back then we had the Dodgers number.
But in the end the Dodgers got the last word on the Yankees, and as LA, the Dodgers are 12-10 in World Series games vs the Yankees.
We can all go on with what would have happened, as with the sentiment below that Boston, when healthy, would have been superior in a seven-game series. That's conjecture and cannot be asserted as fact. The Yankees won, following Boston coughing up, (clear throat for effect) a 14 and 1/2 game lead in July. Ah yes, and, as we speak the tally is New York 27 and Boston 9.
Not in your grandchildren's grandchildren's lifetime will that lead be overcome. Next. Y-A-N-K-E-E-S "We love the Yankees..."
Not a fair comparison due to financial inequity.
Fuck the Sox--chokers
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 Considering the moves the Sox made in the 1977 off season, I seriously doubt they're that far behind as they also have the resources as well.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 lol yeah the poor broke Red Sox.
As for which was a bigger comeback 1978 Yankees or the 2004 Sox, any team can win 4 in a row. Yankees had to get over many teams to get to 2nd place and then beat the Sox. And when they played the Sox in September at Fenway they crushed them 42 to 9 in that series. And then of course beat them in the extra game that year. Again in Fenway park. There's no doubt the Yankees comeback was the better one.
That team had half a season to overcome the Red Sox lead.
The '64 Cardinals comeback,just to name one,is far better.
I was in Kansas City when Reggie and Blair collided-had Reggie not screwed up the Yankees would have won and as a result there would not have been a playoff game and Bucky Dent would not be the Hero/Scourge he is today!
45 years and 3 World Series titles later, and he's still Bucky FUCKING Dent LOL.
What is amazing is that game 3 against the Dodgers is that for the constant trouble Guidry was that he pitched a complete game.
If not for the guy playing third base Gator would have taken an early shower .
@@psychguy2838 Very True, the only other guys in NY who could defend like Nettles where Billy Smith and John Davidson.
I ate some Reggie bars they were good but big, like the man himself. Was playing stickball on East 82nd Street in a garage with tennis balls using the walls for bases while this game played on the radio.
The greatest comeback ever was the 2004 ALCS. Boston was down 3-0 against the mighty Yankees. Then they won 4 in a row including the last 2 at Yankee stadium. As a Yankees fan I was devastated. Even Mariano Rivera could not win a game.
This was an RCA Selectavision Video Disc. I know, my family owned it!
It was indeed! I loved mine! :)
At 14:59 a great play by Guidry and an emphatic OUT call by the umpire.
Ron Luciano! 😆😆
Was it the Yankees comeback, or the Red Sox collapse? Dave Kingman played a big part in the month of September for the Yanks, but didn't have enough games to make the playoffs. Bucky Dent's 3 run Homer was a miracle.
Kong played for the Yankees? No way, I thought! I had to look that one up. But he did, for 8 games. But it was in 1977, not the Great Comeback of 1978.
Was it a great Yankee comeback, or a great Red Sox collapse?
@@robertromeo3765 Both!
Though Boston won 99 games. They had a great team, even with their collapse.
Energy Plus, The question was, How'd Boston blow a 14 and a half game lead. Tores was pitching a great game until he gave up that three run Homer to Dent in that one game playoff.
15:03 ump feeling the greatest comeback vibe
I think that was the ever-colorful Ron Luciano, who did stuff like that all the time. :)
@Jeffrey Blystone, that's who it is! 😆😆 He's also the author of "The Umpire Strikes Back"
Reggie Jackson, game 6, 1977 saw 7 pitches.
At bat1: Ball, ball, ball, ball (He walked)
At bat2: First pitch: Home Run
At bat3: First pitch: Home Run
At bat3: First pitch: Home Run
And then...
First pitch, opening day, 1978: Home Run
I think only Jackson, Gossage and Hunter are in the hall from this team. That's sick. Nettles was one of the most consistent players of the decade and had numbers very comparable to Brooks Robinson.
What did Billy Martin say?
The greatest comeback ever and the one game playoff in Boston bucky dent hitting that homer no one seen that coming and and they sweep Boston in the last series of the season in Boston to force the one game playoff
What was the off the cuff comment Martin made ?
"One's a born liar, the other's convicted", referring to Reggie and Steinbrenner.
And although I'm not expecting the Great Scooter to admit it, the most important thing in that run was the NYC Newspaper strike, when all the sleazeballs that manipulated and disrupted the clubhouse were gone and the team could operate without any of those weasels around. THAT was the reason they started winning in August of 78'. You can draw a direct Iine of demarcation from August 10 when the strike began to the rest of that baseball season. Period.
Bucky Dent had 22 career HR in 2,600 AB going into this game and choked a third of the way up on the bat like a Little Leaguer.
What's your point? Over that shitcan called the Wall for 3 runs
@@andymaccracken5132 It was a twist of fate that Dent w/ 5 HR would be the guy to put one over that wall and put the Yanks in front. Of course the game was still far from over, but you get the point.
Bucky was a ballplayer who always choked the bat with 2 strikes.
Twist of fate maybe or a slider that didn't "slid".
You do not under any circumstance ask Reggie to bunt.
Hoping to see these two teams in the 2018 WS. 40th Anniversary of the 1978 WS. That would be VERY awesome!
That would be something considering that it would be impossible since both teams are in the American League and can't face each other in the World Series.
Bottom of the 7th? Come on how could you screw that up..
Yankee Stadium killed the Dodgers 4 power hitters. Especially with ☠️ Valley in left center...
Billy was wearing shades because he was crying the whole time.
It WAS...until 2004!
No it still is yes what you did was unpresident but to be down all those games IN August and go to Fenway for the legendary playoff game then beat KC and fight back against the dodgers is stuff of Legends
The '78 New York Newspaper Strike helped the Yankees.....A LOT!
How so?
@@billny33 Because back in those pre-Internet and 250 cable channels and sports 24 hours a day times, many people relied on newspapers for information and that included sports. There wasn't the same kind of pressure on the Yanks being behind the Red Sox for most of the season as there would have been if the NY Post and Daily News were blasting headlines about the Yanks situation. And Steinbrenner used to react to negative stories also, so he wasn't as vocal as he might have been.
@@fscap811 wow, thank you for that. Mind. Blown. Lol
Your right. At the time Ruppert Murdoch brought the NY Post. The back pages of the Daily News and Post became gossip columns even the Times would investigate the Reggie-Thurman-Billy and George soap opera. Reporters cared less and less about on field issues. The newspaper strike paralleled the comback. There where scab papers but had no columnists. The NY Post came back the day of game six
Bucky "Effin" Dent!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Buckys HR hurt the red sox but Reggie had the game winning RBI..
Thumbnail looks like Ben Stiller as Maury Finkel
Do you have a better thumbnail image for this video? As much as I like Rizzuto, his head looking at us like that doesn't do the video justice.
The Reggie bars had to be very delicious.
Bob lemon never argued and it worked, think about it. The exact opposite of billy Martin!
The other version with Bill White as the narrator was much better. They played the Beatles and even had the Star Wars disco theme! Lol it was called It Don’t Come Easy. The narration is almost exactly the same only Bill White speaks instead of Phil Rizzuto.
So what exactly did Billy say that led to his departure in 1978? Of Reggie and George he said: "one's a born liar and the other's convicted."
I think Martin needed treatment for his alcoholism also
@@loyaldude10 I loved Billy if the Yankees didn't trade him in June of 57 they wood have beaten the Braves in the series.. he was a winner but alcohol did him in.
yep---every managing job he had, he self-destructed due to alcoholism. not due to team not performing well.
Billy was an ass to Reggie and it's funny when I read that Thurman wanted Reggie to go up in he's plane and spend time with him at he's home in Ohio I guess Reggie wasn't a complete ass as people say he was.
Lol I use that saying when describing The Clintons.
wait, this isn't about the 2004 ALCS. Clickbait
2:50 so do you think that kid just broke both ankles or did he crack his tibias too
I don't think this was the greatest comeback in baseball. The 1914 Boston Braves were 15 back and in last place on July 4th and eventually got very hot, beating the NY Giants by 10.5 games. They then swept the 3 time world champion Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series. The 1977 Yankees were World Champions, so it was evident that the 1978 Yankees did have a lot of talent. The 1913 Braves finished 5th with a losing record in the National League. The Braves comeback was much more unexpected and stunning than the Yankees. Then there was the 1951 Giants' comeback, though of course they got swept by the Yankees in the World Series.
The 78 Red Sox were a pretty good team, but you make good points. So were the Royals and the Dodgers.
2004 was “The Greatest Comeback Ever” with the Boston Red Sox coming back from 0-3 to win the 2004 American League Pennant.
A feat that will forever be Unmatched!
Is that Epstein in the fingernail?
I still hate the Yankees
No…69 Mets
Gossage is so overrated. Choked so many times in big games.
The greatest comeback ever happened in 2004 when the Yankees choked away a 3-0 lead and lost the series 4-3. The only team in baseball history to blow a 3-0 lead.
I'll go with the 1978 Red Sox. 14 game lead at one point following the All-Star break and yet somehow they choked away that massive lead all the way into a 1 game playoff at Fenway. Yeah, the 1978 Red Sox belong up there with the 1986 Red Sox, 1946 Red Sox, the 1967 Red Sox, the 2003 Red Sox, the 1948 Red Sox, the 1949 Red Sox, the 1972 Red Sox, the 2008 Red Sox and the 1975 Red Sox as the 10 greatest chokers in MLB history. Amazing that the Red Sux would hold all 10 positions in this list but it is true for the worst most-hated professional franchise in the history of the world.
Ah yes, I'm getting warm. What is it now? Oh yes, I have it. It's New York Yankees 27, Boston Red Sox 9, as we speak.
The greatest comeback was on 08-November-2016, when Donald Trump pulled the impossible upset over the unbeatable Hillary Rodham.
Big difference between a short series and blowing a 14 game lead. You can suck for a few days and blow a short series (as the Yankees did) but you really have to suck every day for a long time to blow a 14 game lead.
The Wild Card ruined baseball.
bar none
You mean 2004 gtfoh with 1978
Bronx zoo
I liked Billy Martin as manager. But, he didn't deserve to have his uniform number (1) retired. He and Steinbrenner had a love-hate relationship. Steinbrenner's decision to retire Martin's uniform number after Martin's tragic death was purely an emotional decision.
oh stop..he won 5 rings as a player and one as a manager.
I disagree Billy was a great manager
What actually happened..
NY had injuries pre ASB
BOS had injuries post ASB.
Two great teams. Boston > NY in a 7 game series..when both healthy.
that pretty much sums it up. Boston had injuries too, though not as severe as the yanks had had earlier in the year.
Bullshit with your Boston>NY. The Yankees beat them, period. Fuck Boston.
lol
there were a few, very few times boston was > NY. This was not one of those times. Pre or post asb. That being said I was a Yaz fan...he should have been a yankee.
Well, you're entitled to your "guess" but what happened....happened and no amount of conjecture can change it. Jets weren't supposed to beat the Colts, Mets weren't supposed to beat the Orioles, Giants weren't supposed to beat the Patriots. Yankees weren't supposed to catch the Sox, but all the weren't supposed to's happened.
This was the second biggest comeback ever. The biggest was the 2004 ALCS disgrace!
Reggie Jackson is so full of shit it's not even funny.
My memory of Reggie was as a teenager going to see the Yankees in Cleveland at the end of 1979. The game was meaningless, and I think there were about 800 fans in that giant cavern. I had just gotten Billy Martin's autograph on my scorecard (before Ebay, when we got autographs just because it was cool). Anyway, Reggie looked right at me when I asked "Mr. Jackson" to sign my card too, and he walked away. :( He was the only man in uniform that I didn't see sign anything at all. Even the nobodies on the Indians were signing for the kids.
@@JWBlys If you want to know who Reggie Jackson is, read a book called "THE BRONX ZOO" by Sparky Lyle.
Didn't Reggie sort of help force Sparky out the door? Seems I remember something like that, that he hated Lyle for some reason. 40+ years ago though, my memory could be fuzzy.
@@JWBlys All Lyle did was rip Jackson in his book. He also ripped into George Steinbrenner. It's a very funny book. I recommend it.
@@antonioacevedo5200Maybe I'll give it a try. :)
George should have stayed banned.
Get real
No! The greatest comeback of all time was 2004 when the Red Sox were down three games and nothing and they came back and beat the Yankees and then also won the World Series.
Doesn't come close to the 04 Red Sox!! ..GO SOX!!!