1949 WS Film NY Yankees

[@hunterpope9216]

No phones, everyone happy, just wonder what this felt like!

[@rodneywhite4029]

Roy 'Campy' Campanella was one hell of a catcher. Most Valuable Player in the National League in 1951, -53 and -55. 1955 set the season record for most RBI by a catcher (146) & at his retirement held the career home run record for catchers. All this in only 10 years playing time. In my book the top three all time catchers are Campanella, Berra and Johnny Bench, in whatever order you want

[@leonlong4736]

Duke Snider was a very good centerfielder in this series and his post-season stats are impressive. He may be kind of lost in the Dimaggio, Mantle, Mays, Griffey, etc. arguments but he is certainly worthy of a mention as one of the best.

[@robertmortensen]

10:42 Yogi Berra was one hell of a catcher. Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1951, -54 and -55.

[@areguapiri]

He was ok.

[@rodneywhite4029]

Roy 'Campy' Campanella was one hell of a catcher. Most Valuable Player in the National League in 1951, -53 and -55. 1955 set the season record for most RBI by a catcher (146) & at his retirement held the career home run record for catchers. All this in only 10 years playing time. In my book the top three all time catchers are Campanella, Berra and Johnny Bench, in whatever order you want .

[@iamhungey12345]

@@areguapiri lol

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Over a twelve year period, from 1946 until 1957, Yogi hit 262 home runs… …and struck out 252 times. Mull that one over for a while!!

[@whitneywilliams317]

Baseball looks fun as hell back then lol

[@howie9751]

One thing I've learned watching these old WS videos is how many errors or bobbles major leaguers used to make. Fielders are much better today.

[@sdgakatbk]

I agree with you about this that the fielders are SO much better today. I think fields are also in so much better shape today.

[@howie9751]

@@sdgakatbk Thank you.

[@mrlafayette1964]

Much better gloves today.

[@howie9751]

@@mrlafayette1964 That too, but the fielders are still much better, and more emphasis is put on defense.

[@George50809]

Perhaps they are much better...

[@mstrunn]

When baseball was #1!

[@sdgakatbk]

Besides baseball, I think horse racing and boxing were very big. Also college football. As far as professional sports, baseball was way ahead. Pro football hadn't taken off yet and the NBA was just formed by merging the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. Hockey wasn't as popular as it is today and the NHL was a 6 team league until expansion in 1967. There were a number of players in the minor league AHL that were NHL level or very close.

[@jingram58]

My 2 favorite all-time teams in a fantastic World Series...the Yankees and the BROOKLYN Dodgers. This after incredible pennant finishes in both leagues. Like football, baseball was way more fun...less money, fewer teams, just win the pennant and play the World Series. And Tommy Henrich really was Mr. Clutch for the Yankees. Who has even heard of Tom Henrich today?

[@jhanser]

Ol Reliable

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

Yes, and back then there were no steroids! Baseball players did not bulk up like they do today. Few worked out much at all (really, not until Carl Yastrzemski started working out during the off season in the mid-sixties). The game was a great deal more interesting. Also, these October games were played during the day when the weather was mild, unlike today where they are played in cold weather (far too often) because of television ratings. Baseball was really not meant to be played in the cold.

[@jaycompany4886]

He was a tremendous hitter

[@johnnyjustice9988]

@johnnyjustice9988 1 second ago My father and grandfather were there at game 1 and ran into Jackie Robinson afterwards getting a milkshake. They got his autograph on a ticket stub. Jackie sat right next to my grandfather. I've still got the stub!

[@44032]

Interesting camera work. A zoom lens. Shots of both batter and fielder edited together. it has a modern, professional look to it, unlike some earlier series highlight films.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

nice to see a straight up film of the series. Compare this to the 1964 ws on youtube filled ads for major league baseball at the beginning

[@joejoewest]

Even though game 5 was the first World Series game to be played under artificial lights, the first scheduled World Series game played at night was game 4 of the 1971 World Series.

[@shannonreed5]

Hey there, was wondering if there's any way to download this video. The cute little boy at 3:49 throwing out the first pitch is my dad, who passed recently, and I'd love to have this memory of him to share with our family if this KZbin video should ever go away. Let me know if this is possible. Thanks!!

[@moboutmen]

4:19 Weird to see someone else wearing number 7, and great to see number 5 patrolling center.

[@rauljosepenahernandez3295]

Me gusta Ver la serie mundial de 1949

[@jamesmatthew3681]

RIP Don Newcombe, 1926-2019.

[@oldude979]

HERE, HERE, I MISS HIM SO

[@rodneywhite4029]

Only man to win the Cy Young Award and the MVP in the same year.

[@kathleenbonner4146]

why, oh why did fonseca have to show close-ups of batters taking leisurely swings. always turns me off. i saw a few games at the YS that year, when i was 12/13 yrs. hiking up to 161 st with sixty cents from the so. bronx. a great season. i remember one game ( i always had a bleacher bench) that Dimag won in the ninth with a screaming line-drive homer deep in the seats next to the left bullpen. i'll never forget it, myself and a black boy had struck up an acquaintance during the game, we were both hot Dimag fans. we pounded eachother on the back and cheered until we were hoarse. God bless that young boy, i'll never forget him. pat bonner

[@nickpetrillo]

The game you are referring to is most likely the August 6, 1949 game against the Saint Louis Browns, with Joe hitting the HR off Cliff Fannin for a 9-8 win. (Looked up Joe's walk off HRs on baseball-reference.com and that's the one that came up)

[@RRaquello]

Originally he started taking films to find flaws in players' batting and pitching motions. I understand that's how he got into making films. Those were probably mostly pretty close-up shots. So I guess he never got away from that.

[@moboutmen]

Great flyover at 2:05

[@RRaquello]

AT 3:51, "Young Bruce Howard, a polio victim" throws out the first pitch. In the early 60's, the White Sox had a pitcher named Bruce Howard. He would have been around the same age as this kid. Is it the same guy? From his baseball card pictures, it looks like it might be.

[@shannonreed5]

I can confirm that it's not the same guy. That little guy throwing out the first pitch was my dad, and I happened upon this video looking for some footage of this event. We have lots of newspaper clippings and photos but this is the first video I've ever seen of the event. My dad passed very recently so it's lovely to see him as such a cute little guy. But I can tell you Dad would have been tickled to be mistaken for a professional ball player.

[@iamhungey12345]

Beginning of the 5 peat.

[@tree7249]

Ground balls were tough in the outfield back then. Lots of bad hoops in the thick ruff grass. Today they dont have to worry about bad hoops. The game died in the 70s. Money ruined it.

[@George50809]

Isn't baseball still popular?

[@willdrucker4291]

@4:19....”then Cliff Mapes goes down swinging”....who could have known back then that only three years later, that #7 would be worn for 17 seasons by arguably greatest Yankee of all time...

[@michaelstearnesstearnes1498]

Originally he wore #3. The last Yankee to wear the Babe's uniform number. You can look it up.

[@rodneywhite4029]

"#7 would be worn for 17 seasons by arguably greatest Yankee of all time." Greater than Babe Ruth ?????? I don't think so

[@rodneywhite4029]

@@michaelstearnesstearnes1498 In Babe's day the uniform number indicated where in the batting order a player was hitting. Babe always hit 3rd, Lou Gehrig 4th and so on.

[@RRaquello]

Mantle originally wore #6. Who knew that years later Roy White would wear that same number for about 15 years!

[@howie9751]

Hermansky was safe on the play at the plate, and I'm a Yankee fan. At least in this case the ump was in good position, unlike with Robinson in the 1955 series.

[@George50809]

The Yankees won this series, the first of 5 straight from 1949-53.

[@martinober249]

Fonseca sounds a lot like Humphrey Bogart

[@jnolette1030]

Why is all footage from those days such close-ups of the player. To just see an entire pitch would be nice

[@jaredmiller9205]

it's kinda cool to see fans wear nothing but suits

[@mortimerzilch2608]

would be nice to get the video un stuck at 15 minutes til 17

[@markroberts9577]

I guess they ran out of film waiting for the lights to come on?

[@44032]

The picture quality is great. it's too bad the transfer to You-Tube was so choppy.

[@RRaquello]

There was a rule in baseball at the time that if a game started in daylight, they weren't allowed to turn on the lights later when it got dark. A very dumb rule that was eventually thrown out, but there it was.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Did anyone else notice that the opening credits were similar to a Popeye cartoon?

[@jamesmatthew3681]

Lew was wrong. 1949 was the THIRD time the Yankees and Dodgers faced each other in the World Series.

[@unclebobunclebob]

Hermanski was safe.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

The Yankees were a mess in the outfield!!

[@mortimerzilch9437]

Very sticky video.

[@danielshanetzky3714]

How did Branch Ricky let Walter Glover O'Malley get control of the Brooklyn Dodgers blubber O'Malley did know anything about baseball he never played any sports in his life even as a child he dressed up and dresses and played Hopscotch with with girls how did he become in charge of the Brooklyn Dodgers what the heck happened

[@RRaquello]

O'Malley was smarter than Rickey.

[@danielshanetzky3714]

@@RRaquello No that's not true. BLUBBER OMalley was a conniving liar who would lie in your face. Branch Rickey was a man of integrity.He was a world War 1 veteran who actually played professional baseball and broke the racial barrier with Jackie robinson. He made the minor league farm system ,he started florida spring training. Blubber made his money by foreclosing on people's houses during the great depression. He never played any sports except food eating contests and did serve his country during world War 2 even through he was eligible.

[@danielshanetzky3714]

@@RRaquello blubber omalley swindled the people of brooklyn and stole their team and stadium away from them he always hated brooklyn he was born in Manhattan went to school in the Bronx worked in Manhattan and lived in long island he had nothing to do with brooklyn

[@RRaquello]

I'm not talking about morals here, but business smarts. O'Malley was a scheming shyster lawyer, but those are the guys who always win. Also, I don't share your high opinion of Branch Rickey. Yes, he was the most successful operator in the history of Major League Baseball, but he was a lying hypocrite and sanctimonious scumbag. There's an interview on here with Frank Thomas (the one who played with the Mets). Watch that. Also, his breaking the color line, he's made a saint for that, but as Ralph Kiner pointed out, that was his way of getting good players without having to pay for them. Read the opinions of the guys who played for Rickey and how they were cheated, lied to and swindled. When Giants owner Horace Stoneham went out and got black players, like Monte Irvin, he bought their contracts from the Negro League teams, so at least they were able to get back some money on their investments, but Rickey just signed the players and gave the Negro League teams nothing. To me, O'Malley and Rickey are two sides of the same coin, only O'Malley out-swindled Rickey. I'm sure Rickey had the knife out for O'Malley as much as O'Malley had it for him, only O'Malley stuck his in faster. Stoneham was at least an honorable man, so he got swindled by O'Malley too.

[@therealgoodmoney]

Joe DiMaggio aint do shit this world series and they still won..

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