1959 World Series Highlights

[@timrobinson7519]

This series is kind of special for me. In Game 2 my father is at this game and he would tell the story about the HR Neal hit and the beer bath. Years later I would find a photo of my father at the game its just too bad my father died a few years before so he never got to see what I had found

[@bobs.183]

Ted Kluszewski, bad back, 36 years old, and weight up to 240 lbs, plays like the BIG KLU all his fans remember. He was a great player, and even greater gentleman.

[@teembo]

it was very nice to hear a young Vin Scully. I very much miss his broadcasting skills.

[@lionheartmerrill1069]

I was born in LA/1950, I listened to Vinny & Chick Hearn all the time.

[@johntaormina1084]

Yea just like we miss the Great Ernie Harwell in Detroit!

[@dennisromero4757]

Good to see all the Dodger fan's in attendance, there will never be another Vince Scully. 1 year down only 66 years to go. Thanks Mr. Scully. And thanks for the post.

[@SuperIliad]

So right. I tell you as a Brooklyn Dodger fan, it's "Vin" Scully. What a man.

[@scottyb83]

Holy cow, that has to be Vin Scully broadcasting. His voice is as recognizable as night and day.

[@tomfreese5190]

Go Go Sox. This is before I was born, but I grew up going to games at Comiskey Park every summer. I would still recognize the smells of that place.

[@tomfreese5190]

Not by today’s standards. Though the big, exploding scoreboard in center field was ahead of its time. Like most old parks you sat closer to the field, with the trade off of some obstructed view seats due to poles. When built in 1910 it was called a baseball palace. I liked that you could look though the arches between the first and second deck in left field out to a park where kids could be playing during the game. It was a bit like old Yankee Stadium except no short right field and no facade. Comiskey Park was designed to be a pitchers park. At great pitcher Ed Walsh request is the rumor.

[@tomfreese5190]

Greg Pettis I’m glad you asked. My grandfather started taking me to Comiskey Park when I was 2 years old (I was told). I first remember at 8 years. I saw Frank Howard hit one on the roof. My grandfather saw DiMaggio and Mantle and Williams play there.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, I saw many a game in Ol' Comiskey!!! I read that the farest seat away in Ol' Comiskey was closer than the closest seat in new Comiskey.

[@ultrametric9317]

I was 2 months old in LA during these games :) My Dad said the outfield situation in LF at the Coliseum was totally ridiculous. He also said he saw Frank Howard hit the most colossal shot he had ever seen. It struck the upper rows of the the Coliseum in LF and was still rising.

[@larryloveless2967]

This Dodgers team is such a mix between the Brooklyn Dodger veterans and the young Los Angeleas Dodgers of the 1960s. Sandy Koufax had not become a great pitcher as that started in 1961. I sure remember most of these young Dodgers players growing up a Cardinals fan in St. Louis. I remember hearing how Wally Moon was the one that got away and remained a fan favorite in STL when the Dodgers visited. I was old enough to remember really following Baseball for the first time in 1960. Thanks for placing on KZbin.

[@MrJsmith49]

That was the year I became a baseball fan (I was 10) the Coliseum was a horrible place to watch a baseball game, but being a kid I didn't care (or know any better) all I knew is I loved baseball & the Dodgers. Good times

[@BUCK762MM]

They replaced the Coliseum with a magnificent ballpark within I watched my Cubs pull ahead of the Dodgers.

[@deborahcecil200]

Jack? Who cares about your little boy experiences. Gawd yack!

[@Finarphin]

Day games in October: couldn't listen to it on radio because school was in. This is nice to see after all these ages and ages. Plus Vin Scully doing the audio. We didn't realize it at the time how good he was.

[@timrobinson5626]

My father was at game 2 of this series and would talk about it for years. He was in left field close to the BEER BATH on Al Smith. Years later I found a photo of that moment with more crowd in the back and I found my father in the shot

[@billsmith5985]

@ 18:30 a fan listens to Vin on the radio. An L.A. tradition.

[@larrywiggins2846]

Vin Scully captivated La at that time. And did for many years as youngsters we all listen to him in the series games too. Seems like all of La was there for that 59 series and everyone was listening if they weren't there he was really phenomenal and probably the best baseball announcer of all time and if you've ever heard his football he's at the very top unbelievable he's done some games in the '80s big playoff games the San Francisco Dallas won in 1981 and it is the most phenomenal broadcasting you've ever heard in addition to his baseball we miss him dearly

[@felixmadison5736]

This is good stuff!!!! Shows you why baseball will always be our National Pastime.

[@issacjett7346]

I guess im asking the wrong place but does someone know a trick to log back into an instagram account..? I was dumb lost my account password. I love any help you can give me!

[@angelquinn3378]

@Issac Jett Instablaster :)

[@larrywiggins2846]

The Dodgers were so great that year. They beat the Braves in that playoff and then went on to beat the White Sox . I remember being so captivated by it as a 9-year-old youngster our teachers let us listen to games and it was really great largest world series attendance for any game ever. Really brought back memories to be there in 2008 when the Dodgers and Red Sox played a charity exhibition game there Drew 107,000 largest crowd they ever see a sporting event in the US. So much history in that building and the buildings they've torn around down around it there in the sports arena so much La history and sports history in that area and with the SC games also. Those were the good old times if only they were here now.

[@lionheartmerrill1069]

I was 9 too, born in LA. My father's company had Dodger season tickets & as I recall attended 1 of these games. I for sure saw a World Series game in '65 in Dodger Stadium. Those were the days my friend.

[@ultrametric9317]

Game 5 in LA still holds the record for the largest WS crowd - 92,706.

[@jdsol1938]

the dodgers drew the largest live audience ever for a world series game, it was glorious, i had a seat

[@deborahcecil200]

Yeah so did i. And i didn't see you. Liar.

[@craigkoenig6289]

to this day is sad that the Dodgers left Brooklyn and Giants left New York baseball team

[@MrAquinas1]

@@craigkoenig6289 I'm old enough to have been a Brooklyn fan. For a couple of years they still broadcast the Dodger games from LA on the radio. It was throwing salt in the wound when they talked about the nice weather in LA, and it was a cold rainy early spring day in Brooklyn.

[@craigkoenig6289]

@@MrAquinas1 not me personally Ed but my dad was a big Brooklyn Dodgers fan and told me that a long time ago that wasn't happy when the Dodgers left Brooklyn

[@markalbert9390]

I was 12 and at the first game back in the Coliseum. So excited. My dad had to inform me that this was the first World Series game on the west coast. Wally Moon. The left field fence. My. My.

[@donclark4685]

Remember it well. It was the first W.S. I ever saw. I was 11 years old. Still a Dodger Fan.

[@chatman2a]

Don Clark As an 8 yr old boy, I attended one of the WS games at the Colisseum with my dad. . I was a Dodger fan then. A few years later, I became a huge Yankee fan, Still am. Sorry. (I’m a West Coast transplant. Now live in NY City, very close to my beloved Yanks), But the tall ugly screen in left field made the LA Colisseum one of the weirdest places to play baseball,

[@edwardcricchio6106]

@@chatman2a Los Angeles never seems to want to be reminded that the Dodgers came from Brooklyn.

[@mikeforte7585]

@@edwardcricchio6106 yeah LA almost got the Washington Senators.....I wonder how they would have handled that!

[@Cleme21]

Great game, I was there at 15 with pops. His birthday.

[@olofpalme63]

That beer bath jinxed the Sox.

[@DyreStraits]

Gino Cimoli was the first major league batter to bat in California. He was traded to StL in '59 for Wally Moon. He also was the Pirates' baserunner who was safe at second on the 'Kubek hop' in the '60 WS. After retiring from baseball he was a delivery driver for UPS for 21 years. What a guy!

[@mikeforte7585]

I always liked Gino!.....he worked in the real world like the rest of us!

[@TheBatugan77]

Whitey Ford worked for UPS one winter. Later, former Yankee Frank Tepedino also did - alongside my Dad, who introduced Frank to me!

[@davidcurran-z8g]

Names from my youth. I close my eyes, listen to Vin Scully, and I’m 10 years old again!

[@Doones51]

I saw this series on TV when i was 8 years old. The Coliseum was such a weird field for baseball. It was less then 300 feet to the high screen in left field, so it was kinda like Fenway Park. The only weirder field was the Polo Grounds. The outfield was so huge there but short down the lines on both sides. Lots of extra base hits, very exciting baseball.

[@ernestolombardo5811]

While a fascinating historical document as it was seen the moment it happened and with the attitudes of the time, what puts this highlight film over the hump has got to be Vin Scully as narrator. Like fine champagne and caviar.

[@josemeda4592]

No doubt!

[@michaelsemmijr2095]

This is b4 Sandy Koufax came into his own. It's also great to see Hodges and Snider, in the twilight of their careers, getting their last hurrahs. Interesting to note that Nellie Fox was Joe Morgans (Reds 2B)baseball hero. Fox was MVP that year.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, and Fox and Morgan played on the same team in Houston when Morgan was a rookie!

[@jaycompany4886]

​@@samuelmoulds1016 wow!

[@robsoto6602]

I wish the MLB network would show more of these clips

[@mattgregory971]

Good Luck on that

[@barbbrooks6222]

Rob soto .

[@barbbrooks6222]

Pp

[@conni70]

only if it's the yankees and red sox..

[@deborahcecil200]

Rob is sad? Sad Robbie? Oh poor rawbi.

[@ultrametric9317]

This is a great find! At 11:45 - that's the old 48-star flag, although Alaska and Hawaii were already states - Alaska since 5/28/1958 and Hawaii since 8/21/1959.

[@flames24lightning]

Alaska officially became a state on January 3, 1959

[@deeptime5]

The flag being flown at 00:58 is a 49 star flag - seven rows of seven stars.

[@JMKrech-o5v]

The star for a new state is added on the July 4 following statehood. So with Alaska statehood in January 1959, the 49th star added July 1959, in October 1959 the 49 star flag would be accurate as deeptime5 notes. My hunch is that the clip of the 48 star flag at 11:45 is stock footage from an earlier time, and perhaps they did not think anyone would notice. The 50 star flag (adding Hawaii) would become official on July 4, 1960.

[@magpie1869]

Don Zimmer pinch running. Didn't see that coming.

[@glennevans5824]

These films are really appreciated...golden days of baseball...not like today with pitchers going 5 innings and free agency no loyalty ...not their fault free agency big money.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Don't forget interleague play, wild card teams, division playoffs. Too much expansion.

[@slaqasdq8787]

came across this randomly from looking at Early Wynn's baseball stats. What a name.

[@faffaflunkie]

Gotta be at least _90,000_ people in attendance for the games in *Los Angeles* at the _Coliseum-_ the strangest place ever to host a major league baseball game.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The Los Angeles Coliseum was the Dodgers temporary home from 1958-61, while Dodger Stadium was being built. The Dodgers moved to their new home for the 1962 season. The team still plays there today.

[@justindailey7488]

MANCHESTER UNITED F.C I’ve seen you copy paste this comment on at least 40 baseball videos why?

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

The city wanted them to play in the old Pacific Coast League minor league park wrigley field but O’Malley said no. The expansion LA Angels played Wrigley in 1961 but moved to Chavez Ravine until their new stadium in Anaheim opened in early 1966.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

@@justindailey7488 He’s a Britt who doesn’t understand a damn thing about our side of the pond.

[@8avexp]

All three games at the Coliseum drew over 90,000. The total attendance for that Series was around 420,000, a record which will probably never be broken.

[@robertaxel]

The Dodgers were an interesting team in transition - Hodges and Snider were holdovers from the Brooklyn championship days, while Koufax ,Wills, and Drysdale were to be stars of later teams. On paper, the Braves were stronger, but the Dodgers squeezed past them in the playoffs.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

They didn't have playoffs back then.

[@robertaxel]

@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 No they didn't, but since the teams ended the regular season in a tie, they had a best two out of three playoff. The same thing happened in 1951 and 1962.

[@ultrametric9317]

Walk-off pennant win in 12 innings. Would be fun to see some video from the 2 playoff games. The Dodgers ended the season with an 8-game road trip to SF, STL, and CHI. They went 6-2 to pull even on the last day, necessitating a playoff series. The Braves lost 2 1-run games.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

amazing! this was the first World Series I saw on tv! I did not know there was a playoff game between Milwaukee and LA! all of the sudden I AM thinking: WOW! if the Braves had won, it meant they would have played in 3 World Series in a roll! instead, it would take the Braves years to get back to the World Series! can you imagine a Milwaukee versus Chicago in the World Series!!?! only 99 miles apart and NO LOVE LOST THERE!!!

[@samuelmoulds1016]

@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 aaah...actually....they did! if two or more teams from the same league were tied in the standings at the end of the season, they would have a playoff to determine who went to the World Series.

[@HassoBenSoba]

Thanks for posting. My first baseball (and World Series) experience (age 8). My dad was a well known Chicago DJ, and we attended a number of Sox home games that summer, and were down on the field to meet and be photographed with Aparicio, Torgeson, and Bob Shaw on Saturday afternoon, Sept 19 (Sox lost to Tigers). The pictures currently adorn my studio wall. The LA Colisuem was a particular problem for the Sox--- the LA fans purposely wore white shirts, which made it almost impossible for batters to pick up the ball, since there was a sea of bright, gleaming, sunlit WHITE wherever you looked (the Dodgers were much more used to this than the visiting teams). Several Sox players vividly recalled this. ALSO-- Game 2--the Al Smith double (10:10) off of Larry Sherry was a pivotal point in the Series; the fact that heavy-footed Sherm Lollar was waved home by 3rd base coach Tony Cucinello (Sherm was out by 10 feet), was a major gaffe, ended the Sox's momentum and chance for a rally and, in the opinion of some, ultimately led to their downfall in the series. 26:02 -- could that be actor Conlan Carter (who played "Doc" on TV's COMBAT a few years later) on the right in the red shirt?? Decent quality color footage, much better than much of the official film from the era. But what's with the sound effect of the bat hitting the ball? Sounds like Moe Howard's patented slaps to his Stooge pals. LR

[@deborahcecil200]

hassleio? Live much in the past. Like your studio? Just like daddy dj studio? Gawd get some help. We are strangers and you want us to care about your little adorning pics? Really? Meds brah. Gotta get meds.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

@@deborahcecil200 daddy issues?

[@HassoBenSoba]

@@deborahcecil200 Hope you've been able to solve your problems during the past 4 years. Jeeezzz...

[@buddmannable]

2:54 and 4:57...love that King Kong swing by the Big Klu....... He looks more like the first baseman on my Softball Team.

[@ryanstrnad8442]

I was born in 1971, but I still cant believe they actually played baseball in the LA Coliseum. I heard a rumor they were actually considering the Rose Bowl as their home before Dodger Stadium. I also heard that the White Sox actually played a game at Soldier Field around this time as well. Probably a Bill Veeck thing,

[@mecormany]

+Ryan Strnad Sox never played at Soldier Field.

[@ryanstrnad8442]

+Mouk Wray ok. thanks.

[@markjasper1127]

Larry Sherry was my son’s pitching coach in the 90’s.

[@TheBatugan77]

Always feel a little bad that Al Smith's signature moment in a fine baseball career... Is getting beer poured on his head.

[@robertaxel]

It is interesting how the players took winning in stride. Wally Moon caught the last out, casually flipped the ball up, and ran in to celebrate. They don't get crazy as if they had cured cancer...

[@anthonyventimiglia2244]

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[@MrHmg55]

... or COVID-19!

[@SuperIliad]

Excellent editing. It sounds Vin Sculley's voice. I recall the series and love to see again the cigar smoking men and women with "ciggies." The yard markers on the field for the Rams and the SC Trojans. And it's fun hearing those names again. Norm Cash. Wally Moon. Repulski, Ted Kluszewski, etc. Wally Moon flips away the last out-ball, never thinking it might at least be worth a memento.

[@trevorhembrough1290]

John Morris UCLA, too. They didn’t move into the Rose Bowl until ‘82.

[@michaelsemmijr2095]

Why isn't Hodges in the HOF. Great slugger, and great glove man @ 1B, not to mention, the 69 Mets is his auxiliary credit. Shame he died at 48 yrs old. He should be in the Hall.

[@JimInNashville]

Idiotic WAR statistics show him as a below average defensive first baseman. Anyone who watched baseball in that period knows that Hodges was an absolutely superb first baseman, perhaps the best in baseball.

[@deborahcecil200]

Mikie? Way too many words. Did you take your meds?

[@dannyc1174]

I couldn't agree more! Look at him go in this Series!

[@tommccord4397]

Yeah, I don't understand Hodges not being in the Hall (I'm a Cardinal fan, by the way). Perennial all-star, great glove, World Series star, managed the 69 Mets to the miracle world series victory, and, oh, by way, when he retired he held NATIONAL LEAGUE LIFETIME RECORD for homeruns by a right-handed hitter. No 1. (yes, more than Ralph KIner). I don't get understand that at all.

[@josecarranza7555]

@@tommccord4397 Steve Garvey should be in the hall of fame too.

[@KittyPurrfect100]

The White Sox were the team that got into the World Series or playoffs between the Cubs 1945 World Series appearance and 1984 NLCS. The 1959 World Series and the 1983 ALCS. Look it up.

[@Scoclamor]

The 1906 World Series was between Chicago and ????

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The Los Angeles Dodgers bring the first West Coast World Series Championship in 1959. The Dodgers are the only franchise to win the Fall Classic in two different cities during the 1950s (Brooklyn 1955,Los Angeles 1959). The Dodgers would wear the World Series crown in Southern California for six more seasons (1963,1965,1981,1988,2020).

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Five. You listed five post-‘59 years and that’s all there are (so far).

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 Okay, five.

[@smith4496]

The Dodgers won the 2024 World Series.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

Fantastic old footage. Very enjoyable.👍🎯

[@davidgee4399]

2:53 Klu standing there at home plate admiring his first-row home run LOL.

[@soolly357]

He was looking to see if it was a hr or not

[@mike89128]

Today that ball would have been far into the bullpen or several rows into the stands in the modern parks. It was 352 feet down right field with a 14 foot wall. No cheap home runs in that park.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw 'Klu' hit his homers! maybe Reggie didn't invent 'posing' after each home run.

[@jpeterrich]

And that would be it for the Sox. All downhill from there, other than a single 1-0 win

[@peace-yv4qd]

Saw several Dodger games as a kid at the Coliseum.

[@deborahcecil200]

And . . . Peace will never be with those who live in the past. Pease of brain matter dislodges and peace is a piece of grunt.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

@@deborahcecil200 skank

[@peace-yv4qd]

@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 No. Her soul is just empty.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, I saw my 1st game in Dodger Stadium on my birthday in 2010! I called every Dodger fan I knew on my cellphone! now I have been in every mlb stadium, field, coliseum, park and dome west of Toronto! only missed: Toronto, Philly, New York meties, Miami and Tampa Bay!

[@peanutsmcgonnagle2458]

The Dodgers didn't get Sandy any runs in that Game 5. The one run that he did give up was a fluke.

[@dannyc1174]

Another great WS film and series. Two good teams, but, man, them Sox! Big Klu...only guy on the Sox not wearing a black LS shirt underneath....why?...cause he had the guns and he wanted to show 'em! What a hitter! And Nellie Fox...defense and offense...and that big chaw visible from far away! Anyway, even though I'm a life long Cubs fan, I still loved this Sox crew.

[@stevstevhoov8288]

Say it ain't so ,...

[@swaugertim]

oh I miss the old days when there were still some world series games played in the daytime.

[@rylandawe93]

ALL World Series game were in the daytime until I believe 1971.

[@jmaster38]

+TL swog I too wish they'd go back to those days. damn big TV money

[@MyXxx77]

When I was in 5th grade we were allowed to watch two of the World Series games (Dodgers vs A's) in school. I miss that too. (Super Bowl as well)

[@deborahcecil200]

Tl? Cry in public much? Gawd what a hasbro toy.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

@@deborahcecil200 stfu

[@福田博-g9b]

Hiroshi Fukuda How many Americans remember the name of Chuck Essigian even though he hit two pinch hitting home runs？He played for Japanese League in 1964.In an issue of Baseball Digest of 1980´s a writer wrote Essigian was said similar to actor Richard Kimble.

[@Tanamarito]

Aparicio is the only 1959 Sox still living.

[@Jiltedin2007]

After the Dodgers got shelled in Game 1 of this World Series, they literally turned things around and could’ve wrapped things up in Los Angeles had it not been for the superb pitching by Bob Shaw in Game 5 shutting out the Dodgers over 7 Innings Plus while scattering 9 Hits and One Walk while out dueling Sandy Koufax who also pitched 7 Innings giving up the game’s only run and 5 Hits while striking out 6 Chicago South Siders.

[@joebarr725]

The average time of 1959 World Series games was 2:30. No game took close to 3 hours. In the 2016 NLDS betweeen the Dodgers and Nationals, the average game time was 4:02, with no games going into extra innings.

[@jamesmatthew3681]

Narrated by Vin Scully.

[@deborahcecil200]

jimie knows things.

[@gomezesmorticia]

I had most if not all of the White Sox baseball cards.

[@billsmith5985]

1950' AL pennants--Casey Stengel 8,Al Lopez 2

[@deborahcecil200]

Bill? So fing what? bill? shuddup.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Al Lopez Indians 1954 White Sox 1959.

[@williamsnyder5616]

@@deborahcecil200 He's only showing that Lopez was the only thing between the Yankees winning the entire decade. >That there were eight teams in the American League then , the A,L, were known as "The New York Yankees and the Seven Dwarfs." To long suffering A.L. fans (I am a Tiger fan.), Al Lopez was like Patton freeing us from the Wehrmacht,

[@Santos1967]

Yeah and the Yankees bought all 8 of ‘em. I was 10 years old and the only White Sox fan in Orange County (or so it seemed). It’s a cliche but I hollowed out a book and put my transistor radio inside. Got busted by the nun in the second game of the series. Funny I don’t remember my punishment, probably a swat on my hand.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Great year on the South Side of Chicago

[@super63strat]

Nellie Fox ,Luis , Big Red Klew , Go Go sox , wow 1959

[@NoswalEvad]

The American flag shown before game three (October 4, 1959) at Memorial Coliseum is out of compliance. It has 48 stars. Alaska and Hawai'i had become the 49th and 50th states in January and August respectively. Flag code states that new stars are to be added the July 4 after each state is added. Thus, a 49-star flag should be in use at the 1959 World Series. The current 50-star flag was adopted on July 4, 1960, the first July 4 after Hawai'i's admission. Drop mic.

[@JeffHoots]

I wonder if in some of these old highlight reels they edit in stock footage, sort of like stock photos in websites today? Thinking of the flag you reference, and maybe some of the up close crowd scenes. Don't know, just wondering.

[@NoswalEvad]

Jeff Hoots Perhaps. Or maybe because Hawaii joined in August they just decided to wait until July 4, 1960 so they'd only have to make one flag purchase.

[@brianarbenz1329]

4:23 a run scores because a throw hits a bat lying in front of the plate. So does that count as an RBI by the batter?

[@loyaldude10]

pretty cool to see some clips of Koufax pitching before he became a star.

[@Scoclamor]

loyaldude10 Interesting you mention that. He pitched well. 7 IP 1 R 5 H. He also pitched 2 hitless innings in game one! He fanned 18 batters in a game that year and 16 in another. Not all that bad, 8-6, 4.06 ERA, but he fanned 173 batters in just 153 1 /3 IP!

[@loyaldude10]

Sports History Channel of course a 4.00 ERA was pretty bad back then. I guess Dodgers saw his potential and were patient

[@theSocal515]

+Sports History Channel shaw outpitched him in game 5..

[@ryanstrnad8442]

+loyaldude10 Kind of like the 1981 series and we saw Dave Stewart pitch for the Dodgers before HE became a star.

[@felixmadison5736]

The first and only time too!

[@2scoop831]

Classic Series 59'

[@syourke3]

Crazy dimensions to that Dodger playing field.

[@stevstevhoov8288]

92,650 ,..Still the biggest crowd in the history of sports !

[@mayhemjr.803]

There has been bigger audiences for sports since then

[@GSMSfromFV]

At 21:20, the Game 5 attendance of 92,706 is the World Series Record.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

On March 29, 2008, 115,300 fans showed up for an exhibition game between the Dodgers and the Red Sox. Both USC and UCLA men’s football played several games with attendance over 100,000.

[@robertwayne808]

I never realized that coliseum out there in L.A. was so oddly configured for baseball. It looked next to impossible to hit a home run to right field.

[@loyaldude10]

and left field was ridiculously short

[@fredkruse9444]

251 feet down the left field line; 320' to left center.

[@8avexp]

It was built for football, plain and simple.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, I heard it was 251 down the line in left, with a chicken wire fence.

[@robertwayne808]

@@samuelmoulds1016 That is amazing. And I enjoy watching the old films like this. The first World Series I can remember watching was in 1971 between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Then the following year between Oakland and Cincinnati. I grew up about 130 miles east of Houston and during the '72 season I was able to get Pete Rose's autograph at the Holiday Inn near the Astrodome. He seemed like such a nice guy and I was really disappointed when the Athletics beat the Reds in 7 games. Then years later I really got disappointed when Rose got kicked out of baseball for gambling on games.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

Baseball was a great game back in the day.

[@randydubin7118]

RIP Vin Scully. 😥😭😭😭😥😢

[@cardinalsfan8182]

My birth year-the immortal Vin Scully!!

[@currypablo]

Why can't MLB have at least one day game for the World Series, have the Series start on Sunday afternoon.

[@heynow5000]

Hardeep Singh N ot F ricking L ikely

[@Bestroblozianxxx]

Hardeep Singh It’s all about the Benjamins, You’ll never see day games in the World Series against. Unless the players want to take a pay cut, because you know damn well the owners won’t go to Siri tooth 00TH2TOOT

[@mikeyposs7790]

I know Larry Sherry won or saved all 4 Dodger wins but omg Charlie Neal was sensational!

[@joebarr725]

Chuck Essegian had 2 pinch-hit homers in the Series.

[@marvindavis3327]

Charlie is my uncle may he rest in peace great man

[@jimbest7104]

Vinnie is amazing

[@b.w.barbee2269]

He was 2nd to NONE!........The BEST!

[@michaelleroy9281]

The series started going the Dodgers way after Al Smith took the beer 🍻 shower 🚿

[@obbor4]

So, that great Braves team of Aaron, Mathews, Spahn, etc. was just one win away from playing in three consecutive World Series. This one looked like a good one though. I had no idea that big Ted Kluszewski hammered three homers in that series. Those upper deck shots in Chicago were most impressive. How many balls did we see here hat were home run distance only to be reduced to fly outs or doubles in that massive expanse that was right and center field at the Coliseum. The guys weren't as big, but they could sure hit them just as far as the boys of today!

[@Shindler39]

That 1957 Milwaukee Braves team who won the World Series has to be considered one the best in MLB history. Don't forget Burdette, Schoendienst, Covington.

[@DoubleAgents]

The White Sox brought the all white socks back for this series.

[@philippejoseph3499]

It's nice to see how everyone dressed up for the game. They had more respect for baseball than they do today.

[@bryangarling6824]

They didn't dress up to show baseball respect...this is how people dressed then. Remove the tie and hat and you're then in what we would call street clothes.Furthermore, the clothes we wear in public these days, say, to a baseball game, isn't people not respecting the game or anything, other than maybe an individual depending on style/clothes. So our social practices and habits have changed, as have our attitudes toward these, that's it.

[@liammcintyre8970]

Martin Jones That is also because of changed social norms and habits..

[@dannyc1174]

I see disagreeing comments here, but, man, I'm with ya!

[@mikeforte7585]

@@bryangarling6824 ur right...in those days my grandfather always wore a shirt n tie around the house when he wasn't doing house hold chores...he never attended a baseball game.

[@barryallen5313]

More respect for themselves

[@syourke3]

Just three years later, Roger Craig would lose 24 games for the Mets. And 22 the season after that. Ouch! But he great in 1959 winning 11 games with an ERA of 2.09.

[@orlandovaca8478]

Can you please add the 1955 world series?

[@michaelleroy9281]

After the White Sox won the first game 11-0 ( as a Sox fan) I thought it was going to be a walk in the park, not so fast

[@gomezesmorticia]

Wow women dressed up like June Cleaver with pearls and white gloves

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, this was when American women were ladies. I heard, in the South, some women still are!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Leave it to Beaver was big on TV in 1959

[@PeekaPeep]

90,000+ seating capacity of the Coliseum obviously played a role in the Dodgers taking the '59 WS from the Chisox, lol! Like all of L.A. showed up for those games... O_O

[@ziggymorris8760]

Bad enough Brooklyn lost the Dodgers, but to have to watch them win a WS just two years later when they had to wait 40+ years and with mostly players developed in Brooklyn is just cruel.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Amen. Do you remember Howlin’ Hilda, the Dodgers greatest fan? After the Dodgers left for the coast she said she “wouldn’t be caught dead” watching the Dodgers again.

[@Alvious]

Last World Series for the Baseball Palace of the World.

[@stewartberger7734]

LA Coliseum quite the venue

[@chatman2a]

Stu Berger As a boy, I attended one of the WS games at the LA Colisseum. The one lasting memory that stands out is the ugly, high screen in left field. The screen was less than 300 feet from home plate, but it was so tall that it took a Herculean effort to hit a ball over it. I guess you could have called it “The Screen Monster!”

[@fallen4life080]

@@stewartberger7734 Actually the baseball Palace of the world was Comiskey Park.

[@54GARYBOY]

@@fallen4life080 Amazing anyone would think the Coliseum was a "palace"? It was hideous.

[@MrHmg55]

@Omar Morales Luna Comiskey Park was dark and dingy. I went to a game there in 1977. Even Bill Veeck couldn't make that place attractive. It's a shame its replacement has no personality either. Maybe they'll get it right the next time.

[@natch27]

From 1949-1964, the Yankees won 14 AL pennants. The other two were won by teams managed by Al Lopez.

[@vladimiralvarez1162]

They had a band in the stadium? Nice!!!

[@deborahcecil200]

vald you idiot they brought their own horns. No band in the stadium. Gawd the minds of some!

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

And this world series was brought to you by Robert Moses, the prick who forced the Dodgers to move to LA when he refused to let them build a new park where the Barclays center stands today.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

@James Spun only because Branch Rickey threatened to start a 3rd league so MLB stopped him by adding two teams in the AL and NL.

[@josecarranza7555]

First World Series title for Los Angeles

[@michaelleroy9281]

2 nd overall for the franchise

[@rayman46]

Ted Kluzewski should be in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown .

[@hamburg1306]

Boy the Dodgers take forever to win World Series in Brooklyn then only 2nd year in LA they win series and avoid Yankees too.

[@cuznvinnie818]

They got the Yankees in 1963, 4-0.

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

and in 1981!!!!!

[@LEETCH_2]

And in 1955 too. Dodgers actually caught up a little to the Yankees in head to head matchups for the title. They beat em a few times.

[@conni70]

Dodgers have had more success in Los Angeles than they had in Brooklyn..

[@conni70]

in the 60 seasons the Dodgers have been in Los Angeles, they've played the Yankees in October more than any other two organization have faced each other in the fall classic....Dodgers won in 1963 & 81, Yanks in 1977 & 78

[@wholzman2]

Big Klu hits 2 Home Runs, as the Soxs win first game.

[@robertaxel]

@Jim Stark Yogi Berra was another HR hitter who did not strike out that often. In 1950 for example, he blasted 28 HRs, knocked in 124 runs and only struck out 12 times!

[@salvadorcamacho9151]

CtpyThank

[@fredmar6436]

@@robertaxel Babe Ruth was good at both. HRs and Ks.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

First WS since 1948 without at least one Nyc based team.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

Must of been a breath of fresh air for a change not having to suffer through another Yankees world series.

[@michaelleroy9281]

​​@@dr.migilitoloveless2385A break for one season 5 more New York appearances would be coming in a row

[@michaelleroy9281]

​@@dr.migilitoloveless2385A break for one season, the Yankees then would make 5 World Series in a row

[@kennetholiver9651]

OLD BROOKLYN DODGERS WERE SICK TO THEIR STOMACH TO WATCH THAT 1959 WORLD SERIES KENNETHO

[@connecticutskier]

Someone has written Nellie Fox, White Sox second baseman, didn't deserve to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. WTF!!. He didn't get in until 1997, 22 years after his passing. How was he ignored. In an era of low batting averages he hit lifetime 288, 790 RBI's mostly with a low scoring White Sox team, 15 all star games, 1959 MVP, 8 other years he was in the top 18 in voting. If you don't think that is impressive, take a bunch of other great players and see how many years they made the top 20 MVP. He also won 3 Gold Gloves and they didn't award them until his eleventh season, .984 fielding average.. Finally he often led the league in at bats, not one year did he ever strike out more than 18 times. The question is, why did it take Veterans' Committee to recognize the greatness. P.S. I had a Nellie Fox glove in the little league so I am biased.

[@dannyc1174]

I'm 100% in agreement with you on this. I love Vin calling him "Nelson" Fox, but, yeah, Nellie - one of the best 2nd base men ever but also a geat hitter. And I love this film cause he can see Nellie's big chaw from the camera way back in the stands! lol

[@robertpea124]

I had a Nelson Fox glove. My first baseball glove. Still love the game of baseball today

[@jamescampione8531]

Lopez had a lot to do with that

[@robertharkins5737]

Tough outing for Roger Craig. I guess he hadn't invented the split fingered fastball yet.

[@samuelmoulds1016]

yeah, incredible pitcher, though! an Original Met, who set a major league record for most one to nothing loses.....in a season!

[@markalbert9390]

I like sound of the bats. And boy, the men sure liked cigars.

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

2 days rest for Early Wynn before Game 6?

[@michaelleroy9281]

No big deal, Sandy Koufax pitched game 7 of 1965 with 2 days rest in pitched in game 5

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

@michaelleroy9281 Jim Lonborg also pitched Game 7 in '67

[@8avexp]

This was Carl Furillo's last hurrah. The following spring, he was released after tearing a calf muscle while running out a ground ball and sued for back pay. After that, no one wanted to hire him to play or coach. He always maintained he was blacklisted, but that claim could not be substantiated.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Though the Dodgers won, the White Sox bullpen was well-rested as Chicago was watching the Best-of-3 playoff (NL Tiebreaker).

[@Jiltedin2007]

Why did they show The American Flag with 48 stars at 11:40 if this is the 1959 World Series? Did Alaska and Hawaii not receive Statehood in 1959? If so, when did the United States change over to the flag with 50 stars, and when in 1959 did Alaska and Hawaii receive Statehood?

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

This really was ridiculous allowing the Dodgers to play 4 seasons in the LA Coliseum. The left field screen was like the little league world series dimensions and the people sitting in center were over 710 feet from home. There was virtually no foul territory down the first base line. MLB should have forced them to play in Wrigley Field LA or stay in Brooklyn until Dodger Stadium was completed.

[@jpeterrich]

True, but both teams in every game had to play there…

[@ab8588]

22:21 catchers used to run to first to back up the pitcher

[@rambojambone4586]

I listened to every game.