Arguments can be made about different generations of players, but I think a big part of why they played their hearts out in old All-Star Games was that they were still two different leagues at that time, with two different league presidents, and no interleague play. There was actual pride to be had, unlike the meaningless conferences in MLB -- and every other sport -- today.
I barely remember Kubek and Joe G broadcast team of this time period. However from the YT I seen of Joe G and Kubek, especially the 1978 and '80 World Series, they did a good job. NBC in this era I am assume following the trend of former players doing both Play-Play and Color Analysts being a popular staple especially in the late 1970's following the popularity of NFL Monday Night Football i.e Gifford, Meredith and Cosell. Now in period of defined roles, Commentators/Analysts doing any Play-Play rarely exists any more in MLB or on NBA, NFL and NHL TV broadcasts as well. Just surprised NBC did not add in say either a Scully, Harwell or say a then unknown young man Al Micheals to be the main Commentator after Curt Gowdy was fired following I think the 1975 World Series. And say Joe G doing the middle innings as say Don Drysdale did with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell for ABC during this same era as well.
@@americangiant1003 Joe G was great at play by play. I know Joe G was a baseball guy but I think he would have called good football if NBC gave him a chance.
One of the best moments of my life so far was seeing this live with my Dad and Grandpa. The best and the brightest under the big Dome..."There's no place like Dome, there's no place like Dome, there's no place like Dome!"
The best allstar game I ever saw. Watched it with my Grandma Eva McCauley. She let me stay up to watch the whole game. She loved basebal and loved her Yankees but hated, "that George Steinberger".
This was the best MLB All Star game I can remember ever played. I was 14 at the time and remember how this was the most competitive of any sports all star games.
I agree these were the best uniforms of all-time in any sport really as well so much color and great looks. They got back to being boring later in the 80s.
@@rickirubio3973, HOUSTON ASTROS post 1969 Navy as the primary color= early 1970's to mid-70's only NON-RAINBOW, with Orange as the primary, no yellow or red or burnt orange stripes was their best uniform ever. The Navy of the '65-69 era was second best. Third best was the COLT 45's, saw them play in those in '63 vs. NY METS, even though I knew nothing about baseball and tried to fall asleep in the eighth inning. Fourth best was the non-rainbow, but striped rainbow shoulders, very light gray roadies, of the 80's till early 90's when they went to the god-awful blue and gold. I could tolerate the brick red of ENRON/MIN.MAID early years, then the ones now have grown on me, somewhat. I am no longer a Stros fan since they moved to the A.L. with my KC ROYALS in 2013 or '14, can't remember. But, I'm qualified to talk Astros unis since I was a fan from '66-2013('71-2013 or '14 as fave N.L. CLUB, KCity from '71-present as fave A.L. CLUB, AND KC AS FAVE MLB TEAM 2013 OR 14 till present)or '14, lol. I did root for them in the 2017 playoffs& W.Series. I know what the fans in Houston went through all those years. I even went to the WCHAMPIONSHIP PARADE, ONE OF 800,000 THAT DAY.
Not weird at all, I'm in my 50's and I enjoy these games more then what the game has turned into, money,money,money, I'm grateful for these games, thank you.
Wow! What a game. John Goodman at 3:15:00. don't have announcers babbling about bs like "so-and-so is batting .362 against left-handers in his last 14 night games".
i was so into baseball as a little kid in the late 70's and 80's, used to watch local sports on the 11 o'clock news to see any highlights, then this week in baseball on the weekends. Read the box scores and league leaders every day in the Paper, the Sunday Paper always had the expanded baseball stats. Collected baseball cards, so I knew all the players, just Great times to be a baseball fan. Really in those days baseball stars were the biggest sports stars in team sports in the 70's
Dave Parker saved 2 runs on 2 incredible, never-before seen All-Star throws from right field corner, and had a sacrifice RBI. Plus it came from the best all-around player in the league at the time. MVP vote to "The Cobra" was a no-brainer!
43:45 Morganna time! This camera view of Brett's at bat, they should do more of that now, it's the same view all the time, more variety would spice games up when they come back .
I remember watching these Allstar games in the 70's and 80's such great players on both sides. I still don't understand how Garvey and Parker are not in the MLB Hall of Fame??
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I was a 16 y/o suffering Mets fan and Lee Mazzilli gave me a taste of future Mets glory with his game-tying and winning efforts in the 8th and 9th innings (Off Guidry no less!). And future Mets World Champions Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter hitting back-to back....little did I know what was to come!
Notice how Andrea McArdle absolutely nailed BOTH national anthems? Up-tempo, the right phrasing, didn't change the melodies, no over-singing. I wish the pop-tart singers of today and recent years would watch this to see how those two tunes SHOULD be performed.
What a fun game in a wierd stadium! Like a game on concrete the way the ball bounces and every flyball is an adventure getting lost in the ceiling. Seaver was an astute analyst.
I really enjoy watching these old All Star games. Noticed that for AL reserves, only Reggie Jackson was a HOFer. No wonder the NL dominated these games for so many years. The NL had so many good players.
I was 8 in 1979 when the All Star game happened at the Kingdome in Seattle. A great game I watched on King 5 TV (NBC affiliate in Seattle), but the Kingdome was an ugly concrete and ceiling tile blob that more than served the purpose to house the MLB Mariners, the NFL Seahawks and the 1979 NBA champion Seattle Supersonics !!! Thanks for this upload!!!
I know Tom Seaver is a Hall of Fame 1st ballot inductee but I feel he should also be in the announcer hall of fame as well. One of my favorite World Series is game 6 of the 1977 World Series. Keith Jackson Howard Cosell( (my all-time favorite) and Tom Seaver He is so knowledgeable of the game and makes it so exciting.
When the players took it seriously, you can tell by their reactions to each pitch, play and out. BTW Dave Parker was my favorite player growing up in the 70's and 80's. "We Are Family" (79 Pirates)
There's so many greats out there, but it was fun to see Dave Winfield, who was announcing for a while out here in So Cali, and I really enjoyed listening to him.
Him and Dave Parker. The “journalists” blackballed both those guys for their personal hardships. Because we know how perfect those journalists are they are all saints bahahaha!
Just think ... it would be more than a decade before the Mariners would make the playoffs and have one of the best teams in baseball with The Kid, Edgar, ARod, and the big unit.
And that 95 team was what went on to save baseball in Seattle, who I believe were bound for Tampa Bay, if that miracle run didn't happen. That which got them their needed new building, and a long term secure future in Seattle down the road too.
I went to High School with Lonny Parker. Dave Parkers little Brother. He too was a good Baseball player too! I always wondered how come the Cincinnati Reds didn't get Dave Parker like they got Pete Rose? Because in 1979 The Pirates swept the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 to win the National League Pennant and go to face the Baltimore Orioles. I remembered that because I just completed my Freshman year at the University of Cincinnati. Also my Grandpa played baseball with Danny Murtaugh in Philadelphia when he was younger. What a small world it is!
This game was the highlight of the Mets season in ‘79. Mazzilli hits a pinch hit HR off Kern to tie the game and then walks off Guidry to drive in the go ahead run. The Mets were brutal in ‘79.
"Dave Parker, great defensive player with a strong arm..." Foreshadowing one of the greatest plays in all star history as Parker nailed Brian Downing at the plate keeping the game tied. And back in the days when the Phillies were stacked. Schmidt, Boone, Bowa, and Carlton started with Rose on the bench. They would finish 4th that year but won it all the following year.
And that was the 8th inning. Can you imagine a starter in today's era playing into the 8th inning? I think Dave Winfield also played deep into the game - 8 inning?
I am enjoying several of these games on your channel. I watched 1974, 75, 80. And this one is my favorite because of the two Dave Parker plays. Thank you so much! By chance do you have 1977?
Baseball...When the grass WASN'T real! LOL!! Sure was great to see 'The Meal Ticket', the late, GREAT Carl Hubbell...KING CARL!! It seems 'weird' now when the ump doesn't throw that ball out of the game when a pitch hits the ground! LOL!! It also is nice to see just the game on the screen and not all the freakin' crap they have on the screen today!
Dave Parker's throw is/was certainly great, but Gary Carter's protection of home plate is/was just as instrumental for the out being recorded. Gary Carter would've been the best overall catcher in the National League, if it wasn't for a HOF MLB player named Johnny Bench...
1:40:36 Chet Simmons left NBC Sports to pursue other opportunities. That opportunity was being the first president for some little station called ESPN. He oversaw the development of SportsCenter, first broadcasts of the NFL draft and was the first commissioner of the USFL. He died in 2010 at the age of 81. What an amazing life.
Crazy stuff in these older games: garbage all over the field in New York which isn't all that surprising but in Game 4 of the '76 World Series and a car driving on the warning track (to bring pitchers in from the dugout) and here @ 52:23 as Fred Lynn hits his first inning HR a baseball goes flying behind him. I wonder if it distracted Steve Carlton or if he even knew it?
I have read that this ASG was the last time any umpires wore ties in a major league game of any kind. I was unaware of that fact when I was watching this live on TV at age 12!
How sad that I have to watch old baseball games to watch REAL Baseball 😢no instant replay, no pitch clock, no overshifting or shift rules ..pure baseball
Aaron Boone was just a kid back then at 1:24:51 into this game. But now he looks so mightily stressed. Difficult to even believe he ever was a little kid to look at him now. Wow! Being Yankees manager is massively stressful.
@@tommyparkerparker I don't know if Joe Garagiola would be good at football. He was a baseball man his entire life. He worked mainly with Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek for his entire NBC career.
@@daBEAGLE1017 Yeah, I had the Brett. Unfortunately, I don't have any of the cards anymore but I am in the process (literally, as you sent this message) of recreating my collection electronically. I collected 1975 to 1978 (we moved overseas in 79) and I had over 270 cards.
@@uncletony6210 dont feel bad, i had many, many, many more than that. I too lost mine when i moved out. Oh well. Stupid us along with the millions of other kids who collected cards. Now everyone saves everything and they are worth bumpkins. Remember beanie babies?
@@daBEAGLE1017 Hey, I got more enjoyment flicking through my stacks as a kid than I would have from the few hundred dollars I would have gotten for them today.
@3:14 is the greatest play, Dave Parker with that cannon arm (Again) and Gary Carter with the play at home. Nowadays theyd call the runner safe and both dugouts and bullpens would empty after that and theyd all stand there looking tough hahahaha 😂
These guys played their hearts out! I missed the old days.
Arguments can be made about different generations of players, but I think a big part of why they played their hearts out in old All-Star Games was that they were still two different leagues at that time, with two different league presidents, and no interleague play. There was actual pride to be had, unlike the meaningless conferences in MLB -- and every other sport -- today.
Always loved the Game of the Week with Kubek and Garagiola.
I barely remember Kubek and Joe G broadcast team of this time period. However from the YT I seen of Joe G and Kubek, especially the 1978 and '80 World Series, they did a good job. NBC in this era I am assume following the trend of former players doing both Play-Play and Color Analysts being a popular staple especially in the late 1970's following the popularity of NFL Monday Night Football i.e Gifford, Meredith and Cosell. Now in period of defined roles, Commentators/Analysts doing any Play-Play rarely exists any more in MLB or on NBA, NFL and NHL TV broadcasts as well.
Just surprised NBC did not add in say either a Scully, Harwell or say a then unknown young man Al Micheals to be the main Commentator after Curt Gowdy was fired following I think the 1975 World Series. And say Joe G doing the middle innings as say Don Drysdale did with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell for ABC during this same era as well.
Best broadcasting team ever for baseball
@@americangiant1003 Joe G was great at play by play. I know Joe G was a baseball guy but I think he would have called good football if NBC gave him a chance.
Sounds like Saturday in the 70s!
same here. reminds me of the red sox teams of 77 and 78. i was always excited watching them if they were on nbc that saturday
One of the best moments of my life so far was seeing this live with my Dad and Grandpa. The best and the brightest under the big Dome..."There's no place like Dome, there's no place like Dome, there's no place like Dome!"
that Dome was shit
At 3:13:30 is the greatest OF throw and catcher play in All-Star game history. Parker for the HOF.
The Cobra!
INSANE THROW off that Massive Astor Turf Hop.
@@Zorn76 it was to the catcher with no hop. 👍
Nothing beats the 1st pitch by Danny Kaye and friends..even Parker's toss
Tks my favorite catcher growing up. These guys played hard in the old all star games!
I was 10 years old and will never forget this game. Parker's arm!!@
The best allstar game I ever saw. Watched it with my Grandma Eva McCauley. She let me stay up to watch the whole game. She loved basebal and loved her Yankees but hated, "that George Steinberger".
Will never forget it. Was a NL fan and will never forget Dave Parker's throw to home to nail Brian Downing.
This was the best MLB All Star game I can remember ever played. I was 14 at the time and remember how this was the most competitive of any sports all star games.
the 1970s were the greatest decade for major league baseball uniforms. plus it was great to see my cousin roy smalley.
I agree these were the best uniforms of all-time in any sport really as well so much color and great looks. They got back to being boring later in the 80s.
Roy batting .341 at the break ended up at.271 for the season holy cow....
Sorry I disagree the 60's was the greatest decade for baseball uniforms..
TOMMY HUBBS, Ken was your cousin really, the '62 NL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, killed over the offseason?
Was it a plane or car crash? Just terrible..
@@rickirubio3973, HOUSTON ASTROS post 1969 Navy as the primary color= early 1970's to mid-70's only NON-RAINBOW, with Orange as the primary, no yellow or red or burnt orange stripes was their best uniform ever. The Navy of the '65-69 era was second best. Third best was the COLT 45's, saw them play in those in '63 vs. NY METS, even though I knew nothing about baseball and tried to fall asleep in the eighth inning. Fourth best was the non-rainbow, but striped rainbow shoulders, very light gray roadies, of the 80's till early 90's when they went to the god-awful blue and gold. I could tolerate the brick red of ENRON/MIN.MAID early years, then the ones now have grown on me, somewhat. I am no longer a Stros fan since they moved to the A.L. with my KC ROYALS in 2013 or '14, can't remember.
But, I'm qualified to talk Astros unis since I was a fan from '66-2013('71-2013 or '14 as fave N.L. CLUB, KCity from '71-present as fave A.L. CLUB, AND KC AS FAVE MLB TEAM 2013 OR 14 till present)or '14, lol. I did root for them in the 2017 playoffs& W.Series. I know what the fans in Houston went through all those years. I even went to the WCHAMPIONSHIP PARADE, ONE OF 800,000 THAT DAY.
Call me weird, but I love these simpler telecasts of the late 70s thru the 80s.
Me too
Not weird at all, I'm in my 50's and I enjoy these games more then what the game has turned into, money,money,money, I'm grateful for these games, thank you.
You’re weird
weird
Wow! What a game. John Goodman at 3:15:00. don't have announcers babbling about bs like "so-and-so is batting .362 against left-handers in his last 14 night games".
Great to see Mike Schmidt who isn't heard from or about much. What a superstar of a 3rd baseman. My God was he good! Hell of a hitter with style.
I was an Expos fan and nobody scared me more as an opposing hitter more than Schmidt. And he usually killed us.
@@AndrewSmith-vr8kd expos fan?????everyone pretty much killed you
@@AndrewSmith-vr8kd Schmidt did the same in Cincinnati
Yet it was a home run by Rick Monday that haunts Expos fans to this day.
Mike Schmidt has to be one of the top 5 pure right hand hitters of all time.
The old Seattle Kingdome that brings back memories. This was played a year before I was born. This was a treat to watch
Peaceful to watch a game without being bombarded with advertising
Wow, the commercials bring me back!
Those were the days. Loved the all star games back then. NL was stacked. Cobra w that cannon. Dios mio.
What an arm Parker had. Like he knew the trajectory and arm strength needed. No bounce. Right into both gloves. Incredible.
i was so into baseball as a little kid in the late 70's and 80's, used to watch local sports on the 11 o'clock news to see any highlights, then this week in baseball on the weekends. Read the box scores and league leaders every day in the Paper, the Sunday Paper always had the expanded baseball stats. Collected baseball cards, so I knew all the players, just Great times to be a baseball fan. Really in those days baseball stars were the biggest sports stars in team sports in the 70's
When I was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington in 1969, I was fortunate enough to attend a few of the Seattle Pilots games at Sicks Stadium.
Nice to see the pitchers pitching from the windup and not the stretch, unless men were on base of course. BTW...LOVE those old Lite Beer commercials!
I loved how the Kingdome had the team logos on the fences Instead of the advertisements we see today.
If they had had a homerun derby in 1979 at the Kingdome, it probably would’ve gone to 3 o’clock in the morning.
How did Mazzilli not win the MVP of this game ? Game tying HR off Jim Kern and game winning RBI with the bases loaded walk off Guidry.
Dave Parker saved 2 runs on 2 incredible, never-before seen All-Star throws from right field corner, and had a sacrifice RBI. Plus it came from the best all-around player in the league at the time. MVP vote to "The Cobra" was a no-brainer!
Maz greeted by two future teammates on the '86 WS winning Mets after the homer in Carter and Hernandez.
43:45 Morganna time! This camera view of Brett's at bat, they should do more of that now, it's the same view all the time, more variety would spice games up when they come back .
I love those road blues from the National league teams.
I loved this era of baseball
I remember watching these Allstar games in the 70's and 80's such great players on both sides. I still don't understand how Garvey and Parker are not in the MLB Hall of Fame??
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It’s a crime that Parker is not in the Hall of Fame
I agree on both counts. They were dominant players of their era..
I used to watch the All-star Game every year in 70s-80s-90s. I can't even sit through regular season games anymore. They've really ruined baseball.
Parker and Garvey were studs. Both should be in HOF.
Don Baylor R.I.P
jesusisnotallright s Tom Seaver is not dead.
Mike Vanriel he is now
Most famous COVID-19 death up there w/ Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) 🌴
Gary Carter also R.I.P
I was a 16 y/o suffering Mets fan and Lee Mazzilli gave me a taste of future Mets glory with his game-tying and winning efforts in the 8th and 9th innings (Off Guidry no less!). And future Mets World Champions Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter hitting back-to back....little did I know what was to come!
when Mazzilli homers, he's congratulated near the dugout first by Carter and Hernandez. All 3 were members of the '86 Mets. Boom.
These names brought back memories.
All we kids could talk about the next day was Dave Parker. He was a beast!!!
Notice how Andrea McArdle absolutely nailed BOTH national anthems? Up-tempo, the right phrasing, didn't change the melodies, no over-singing. I wish the pop-tart singers of today and recent years would watch this to see how those two tunes SHOULD be performed.
actually, she sang the canadian anthem wrong. Missed many words.
What a fun game in a wierd stadium! Like a game on concrete the way the ball bounces and every flyball is an adventure getting lost in the ceiling. Seaver was an astute analyst.
What a great All Star game, the Kingdome sure made it an adventure . Even the commercials were entertaining.
Nolan Ryan was a freak of nature. No one will have have the power pitching like the Alvin Express
I really enjoy watching these old All Star games. Noticed that for AL reserves, only Reggie Jackson was a HOFer. No wonder the NL dominated these games for so many years. The NL had so many good players.
And the NL didn't have Johnny Bench for this game as he was out with injury.
Dwayne Coy Or Ted Simmons, another HOFamer.
These guys are playing like its a play-off game! Watched this live when I was 13. Good times
I was 8 in 1979 when the All Star game happened at the Kingdome in Seattle. A great game I watched on King 5 TV (NBC affiliate in Seattle), but the Kingdome was an ugly concrete and ceiling tile blob that more than served the purpose to house the MLB Mariners, the NFL Seahawks and the 1979 NBA champion Seattle Supersonics !!! Thanks for this upload!!!
Thank you for keeping the commercials. I enjoy them as much as the game.
I know Tom Seaver is a Hall of Fame 1st ballot inductee but I feel he should also be in the announcer hall of fame as well. One of my favorite World Series is game 6 of the 1977 World Series. Keith Jackson Howard Cosell( (my all-time favorite) and Tom Seaver He is so knowledgeable of the game and makes it so exciting.
He was always a side commentary guy, and none of them ever get in the hall of fame as broadcasters.
Loved the Cobra growing up!
Take a look!!! This was the only NBC game of the week telecast from Seattle.
Back when the players went all out and really loved competing in the midsummer classic!!
"Ryan starting this game with three days rest, so he should be strong." LMAO!
He started something like a third of his career starts pitching every 4th game instead of every 5th so that wasn't a big deal for him.
I do too! If we could turn back the clock, I’d be there forever.
Loves 1970&1980s all star baseball ⚾️ games
I remember watching this All Star Game and seeing all the exciting action. Dave Parker had an outstanding throw to the plate.
When the players took it seriously, you can tell by their reactions to each pitch, play and out. BTW Dave Parker was my favorite player growing up in the 70's and 80's. "We Are Family" (79 Pirates)
There's so many greats out there, but it was fun to see Dave Winfield, who was announcing for a while out here in So Cali, and I really enjoyed listening to him.
This was Baseball - REAL BASEBALL
Steve Garvey was one of the most disciplined hitters I have ever seen play. Shame he didn't make the HOF.
Him and Dave Parker. The “journalists” blackballed both those guys for their personal hardships. Because we know how perfect those journalists are they are all saints bahahaha!
Garvey made the Lothario Hall of Fame on the first ballot.
@@navyguyinvawhile he was married to Cyndy Garvey.
Hopefully he gets the next important job and kick schiff butt
At the 3:15 mark, after Parker's throw, the Skin Bracer commercial, that's John Goodman !
It's at 3:14:56.
Man, talk about letting yourself go!!! He doesn't even look like John Goodman!
Just think ... it would be more than a decade before the Mariners would make the playoffs and have one of the best teams in baseball with The Kid, Edgar, ARod, and the big unit.
And that 95 team was what went on to save baseball in Seattle, who I believe were bound for Tampa Bay, if that miracle run didn't happen. That which got them their needed new building, and a long term secure future in Seattle down the road too.
I went to High School with Lonny Parker. Dave Parkers little Brother. He too was a good Baseball player too! I always wondered how come the Cincinnati Reds didn't get Dave Parker like they got Pete Rose? Because in 1979 The Pirates swept the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 to win the National League Pennant and go to face the Baltimore Orioles. I remembered that because I just completed my Freshman year at the University of Cincinnati. Also my Grandpa played baseball with Danny Murtaugh in Philadelphia when he was younger. What a small world it is!
Yes some were gaudy looking but i love most of the old uniforms.
This game was the highlight of the Mets season in ‘79. Mazzilli hits a pinch hit HR off Kern to tie the game and then walks off Guidry to drive in the go ahead run. The Mets were brutal in ‘79.
Brett ("midget on steroids") & Aaron Boone sighting with dad Bob around the 3rd inning.
Three 86 Mets in the game. Carter, Maz and Keith
“Every shave is like a trip to the tropics.”
My dad took me and my brother to this game. They almost ran out of balls during BP ... a lot of souvenirs in left and right field
Bruce Bochte was a legend in his own pants.
The last great All Star game was 2002. Yet 1979 was clearly one of the best.
"Dave Parker, great defensive player with a strong arm..." Foreshadowing one of the greatest plays in all star history as Parker nailed Brian Downing at the plate keeping the game tied. And back in the days when the Phillies were stacked. Schmidt, Boone, Bowa, and Carlton started with Rose on the bench. They would finish 4th that year but won it all the following year.
And that was the 8th inning. Can you imagine a starter in today's era playing into the 8th inning? I think Dave Winfield also played deep into the game - 8 inning?
phillies were ravaged by injuries that season.... they were probably the best team when healthy
@@gary6754 well, we had a hell of a bounce back year the next year.
I am enjoying several of these games on your channel. I watched 1974, 75, 80. And this one is my favorite because of the two Dave Parker plays. Thank you so much! By chance do you have 1977?
Baseball...When the grass WASN'T real! LOL!! Sure was great to see 'The Meal Ticket', the late, GREAT Carl Hubbell...KING CARL!! It seems 'weird' now when the ump doesn't throw that ball out of the game when a pitch hits the ground! LOL!! It also is nice to see just the game on the screen and not all the freakin' crap they have on the screen today!
Love the introductions, especially Bruce Botche! Love all the old stuff! Pure Golddd!!!
Dave Parker's throw is/was certainly great, but Gary Carter's protection of home plate is/was just as instrumental for the out being recorded.
Gary Carter would've been the best overall catcher in the National League, if it wasn't for a HOF MLB player named Johnny Bench...
rip to so many.at this game. i loved joe"s voice. takes me to a beautiful, simpler place in the past. wish i could go back
Saturday afternoon game of the week was classic!!
1:40:36 Chet Simmons left NBC Sports to pursue other opportunities. That opportunity was being the first president for some little station called ESPN. He oversaw the development of SportsCenter, first broadcasts of the NFL draft and was the first commissioner of the USFL. He died in 2010 at the age of 81. What an amazing life.
Crazy stuff in these older games: garbage all over the field in New York which isn't all that surprising but in Game 4 of the '76 World Series and a car driving on the warning track (to bring pitchers in from the dugout) and here @ 52:23 as Fred Lynn hits his first inning HR a baseball goes flying behind him. I wonder if it distracted Steve Carlton or if he even knew it?
Steve Garvey's helmet looks like it's the wrong shade of Dodger blue.
looks like they forgot to bring his and just resorted to spray painting one.
Those were the daya when 31 hrs led the league.
I was 16 on this day 🌈 Classic times indeed ⭐️full of Hall of Fame players ⭐️
The 1979 MLB All-Star Game, at The Kingdome, in Seattle, Washington, is unforgettable. 7-6 NL All-Stars!!!
Roy Smalley. One of the all time greats.
Cant figure why Dave Parker isn't in the Hall of Fame
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It just hit me. There was no DH in this all-star game, but it’s played at an American League Park. When did they start allowing the DH?
...on a very dark day.... ;(
The trainers got more applause than some of the players
Want that new 1979 Dodge truck 23:14
3:15:00 - that's a young, unknown John Goodman in a Mennen SKin Bracer ad....lol
I was wondering why he looked familiar.
JOE G was awesome... loved NBC sports Tony Kubick was great too
I have read that this ASG was the last time any umpires wore ties in a major league game of any kind. I was unaware of that fact when I was watching this live on TV at age 12!
How sad that I have to watch old baseball games to watch REAL Baseball 😢no instant replay, no pitch clock, no overshifting or shift rules ..pure baseball
Aaron Boone was just a kid back then at 1:24:51 into this game. But now he looks so mightily stressed. Difficult to even believe he ever was a little kid to look at him now. Wow! Being Yankees manager is massively stressful.
Joe Garagiola, Tony Kubek & Tom Seaver on NBC.
Garagiola (PBP) Kubek/Seaver (C) 1-4/7-9
Kubek (PBP) Garagiola/Seaver (C) 5-6
NBC should have given an opportunity to Garagiola to call some of their NFL telecasts. He would have been good although he was a baseball guy.
@@tommyparkerparker I don't know if Joe Garagiola would be good at football. He was a baseball man his entire life. He worked mainly with Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek for his entire NBC career.
Being a Philly Boy, Carlton & Michael Jack were really something special. They were BIG time!
R.I.P. Lou Brock.
Check out the commercial with Carlton Fisk at 2:36 (hours and minutes). You don't see those anymore!!!!
My first all star game I watched when was 8. Back when I gave a shit about it.
All star baseball ⚾️ game used to be best game of the year 1970s, early 1980s
They respected the flags, which is as it should be.
Annie did both great,
This is the year i started following BB at 9 yrs old.
I was 9 also but believe it or not started following in 74. By 75 I had collected over 120 topps cards with the quarters my Grandpa would give me.
@@uncletony6210 the Geo Brett, Robin Yount rookies. Good year to be a fan.
@@daBEAGLE1017 Yeah, I had the Brett. Unfortunately, I don't have any of the cards anymore but I am in the process (literally, as you sent this message) of recreating my collection electronically. I collected 1975 to 1978 (we moved overseas in 79) and I had over 270 cards.
@@uncletony6210 dont feel bad, i had many, many, many more than that. I too lost mine when i moved out. Oh well. Stupid us along with the millions of other kids who collected cards. Now everyone saves everything and they are worth bumpkins. Remember beanie babies?
@@daBEAGLE1017 Hey, I got more enjoyment flicking through my stacks as a kid than I would have from the few hundred dollars I would have gotten for them today.
RIP, Thurman Munson. who perished in a plane crash the following month.
Much Gratitude
Nolan Ryan absolutely a one of a kind pitcher half a season look at the complete games frightening
I really enjoyed the deodorant guy taking his girl to Fire Island in the commercial in the middle of the 2nd.
Baseball wll always be great .
do you think it's still great today?
Never was a fan of each team getting an all star appearance. Too many real stars missed out because of that.
Hey, as a met fan, I resemble that remark! I agree with you but it was one of the few thrills we had in the late 70's-early 80's here
ANDREA MCARDLE with the anthem(s)?! The original Orphan Annie on Broadway! Love it!
Who is the Cubs oldtimer in the wonderfully hokey potato chip commercial at 1:38:50? (Batboy? BATBOY??) is that Fergie Jenkins?
Awesome opening highlights, all from the 1978 WS. Munson with nothing left in his arm only allowed on stolen base
Back when America had promise and baseball had character.
if you could change 3 things about the sport today, what would they be?
@3:14 is the greatest play, Dave Parker with that cannon arm (Again) and Gary Carter with the play at home. Nowadays theyd call the runner safe and both dugouts and bullpens would empty after that and theyd all stand there looking tough hahahaha 😂
Just noticed someone threw a ball behind the catcher just as Fred Lynn was hitting a home run in the first inning. Strange