1957 04 21 Pirates vs Dodgers Complete Radio Broadcast Vin Scully

[@larryloveless2967]

I sure enjoyed hearing this radio broadcast as I was born in 1953 so this was a little before my time as my baseball memories as a Cardinals fan start around 1960 but am familiar with most of the players. Also, I play the baseball strat-o-matic baseball game and have the 1953 Dodgers and the 1960 Pirates offered by the game. It is interesting the 1953 Brooklyn team offered is maybe their best Brooklyn team even though they lost the world series to the Yankees. That was a very good team.

[@robertandmarieraas7744]

Would love to hear every game of the 1953 season, home & away. That was my favorite year for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

[@kevinmadden1645]

More than 1955?

[@bettyolzick8799]

I remember my Grandfather smoking these cigs Lucky Strike, I can assume he must have listened to the ads on these games to be persuaded to smoke them! I've listened to Vin's golden voice all my life calling the Dodgers games in California with my Dad and his transitor radio at home or at the stadium! Vin was just part of our lives in our So Cal summers

[@carlsmith3214]

Vin sounds the same today as he did 63 years ago.... GREAT

[@kfmidd83]

I love listening to the play-by-play for insight into the culture of the time. “For every HR Lucky Strike donates 1000 cigarettes to the Brooklyn VA hospital.” Mapping items like that one over time, makes listening to these games even more enjoyable.

[@douglaslowe5]

straight to the lung cancer icu...by 1970 ciggy ads were banned from tv and radio

[@nealpomea2836]

I heard the announcer on one of those cigarette commercials pronounce PALL MALL as PELL MELL, which I believe is correct. Doesn't rhyme with PAUL like it looks. HA!

[@kevinmadden1645]

It would have been a better idea to destroy 100 cigarettes. Of course the Surgeon General's report was not released until seven years later .

[@emeek91]

More Vin please........You Tube will keep the maestro alive for all time.

[@robertandmarieraas7744]

Part Two: would love to hear every game of the world series of 1953

[@jakedasnake7703]

Just realized if skinner just hit the ball ten or more so feet the Bucs would have hit 4 STRAIGHT homers which would have been an all time record at the time. Crazy

[@Mr130mph]

In 1957 it was VINCE Scully.

[@Mr130mph]

I shook Vince's thumb in the Ebbetts Field rotunda. He walked in, was mobbed by fans who grabbed this hand. I got his thumb.

[@kevinmadden1645]

Lee Walls was nicknamed Captain Midnight because of the thick glasses he wore. Walls played for the Dodgers in 1962.

[@jakedasnake7703]

Pretty cool to hear Clemente’s name on here as well.

[@44032]

Cool to hear it pronounced correctly, not "Bob Clement"

[@kevinmiller6324]

@@44032 In the first game of a Memorial Day doubleheader at Forbes Field against these same Pirates, Scully referred to Clemente as 'Bob Clemente.' This was an Easter Sunday doubleheader against the Pirates. Brooklyn first baseman Gil Hodges would die of a massive heart attack on Easter Sunday, 1972 at the age of 47, two days shy of his 48th birthday, and one day after MLB went on strike for the first time.

[@timrobinson7373]

Interesting trivia question about the 4hr's hit by Gehrig in 1932 I bet most forget that would have been big news back then but it was also the day John McGraw called it quits for the Giants that same day

[@jakedasnake7703]

Right Before the 3 straight homers bob skinner just missed hitting a homerun himself and flied out to the warning track. If he managed to hit a dinger there it would have been 4 consecutive home runs which would have been an all time record at the time.

[@glennlaird2899]

I wish that someone could come up with the last EBBETS FIELD game, also against the PIRATES.

[@Ed3737]

At 32:00 "Let's send 5000 free Luckies (cigarettes) to the Veterans Hospital." How times have changed...

[@atlantapinstripes5362]

5000 free Luckies to the Veterans Hospital!

[@JohnSmith-xn5qw]

Vin Scully makes you feel you’re at Ebbits Field. That’s the closest you can get…

[@clouddweller1195]

The Gunner.Bob Prince.

[@44032]

The Dodgers are 3-0 on their way to an 84-70, 3rd place finish in their last year in Brooklyn. the Pirates came in at 2-1 and would win this one but then stumbled their way to another poor season at 62-92, in 7th place, the 8th straight year in which they finished 7th or 8th. But they would be a surprise 84-70 and finish 2nd in 1958, slip back a bit in 1959 but Bill Mazeroski's homer was on the horizon as well as an excellent record in the 60's and 70's.

[@jakedasnake7703]

Three straight dingers that’s rare af even in the 50s. Let’s go Bucs!!

[@MickTheQuickk]

Dodgers lost first game, won the second. Their last season in Brooklyn. The following day, they would play their first of seven home games in Jersey City in a failed attempt to convince NYC that they needed a new ballpark.

[@kevinmiller6380]

MickTheQuick-You can thank Robert Moses for that. 😤😤😤😠😠😠

[@NinaSChronicles]

Hi, Do you know if there’s a radio broadcast of the Pirates v Cubs game from July 25, 1956, when Clemente hit an inside the park grand slam? Thanks!

[@matthewbulger5876]

Do you have the. Complete Radio Broadcast Of The Last Ever Game At Ebbets Field from September 24th, 1957?

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires (Game 1) HP Ken Burkhart 1B Dusty Boggess (CC) 2B Tom Gorman 3B Hal Dixon

[@beakt]

Umpires: HP - Ken Burkhart, 1B - Dusty Boggess, 2B - Tom Gorman, 3B - Hal Dixon per Retrosheet. Also 7:52.

[@kevinmadden1645]

The other Frank Thomas who at one time studied for the priesthood.

[@williamdunphy352]

Vin Scully (PBP) 1-3 Jerry Doggett (PBP) 4-9

[@kevinpyne5808]

You no longer hear or see the National Anthem on radio or TV. Shame, the entire world revolves around money.

[@sportsmedia25]

The SF Giants radio broadcast the anthem every game because it's sponsored

[@beakt]

Poor Newks.