1961 World Series Highlights

[@Jiltedin2007]

I missed the days when World Series Games were played at daytime. When I grew up in the 1970’s, I remembered seeing World Series Games being played at daytime only on Weekends. Monday through Friday World Series Games were played at night, most likely so the “9 to 5’ers” can get home in time to watch The World Series. But now, Every World Series Game is played at night. Long gone are the days of Daytime Baseball Games that either determine a Pennant or a World Series.

[@jamesrivera4947]

First World Series NIGHT game, Pirates v. Orioles, 1971 (I had a dental appointment that afternoon). Last World Series DAY game, Yankees v. Dodgers, 1981 (Ron Cey nearly gonzoed by Goose Gossage fastball 🤕).

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@jamesrivera4947 Thanks for that explanation. Oh for your information, Game 6 of the 1987 World Series between the Twins and Cardinals was played in the Daytime at The Metrodome in Minnesota, won by the Twins to force Game 7.

[@jamesrivera4947]

@@Jiltedin2007 Thanks. See that now. 4:00PM ET start.

[@Noname-ni1dy]

It’s all about money. The good old days of sports will never be seen again. The World Series was the highlight of the year for tens of millions of fans. Now it is considered boring to young people. I feel that a lack of violence might be a major reason. Sad.

[@docadams7099]

@@jamesrivera4947 Last day WS game was actually Game 6 in 1987. 1982, 1983, and 1984 all had some day baseball.

[@dwightstenson8559]

I was at this game with my Mother and three older brothers. Mickey Mantle put on a show in batting practice that was amazing. I remember Vada Pinson having to field a lot of base hits and make a lot of throws toward home plate. I hated Whitey Ford for beating my team that day. I was seven years old.

[@KMK7355]

Dwight, I was six going on seven and was growing up in Boston area. I was a Yankee fan then and until 1964. Believe it or not the NFL Giants were popular in Boston and the Yankees were not universally hated in Boston back in 1961 by young Boston athletes.

[@johnsain]

Have you ever been back to the former site of Crosley Field?....I saw online that the location of the old home plate is painted on the ground in an industrial area parking lot.

[@jayclarke5466]

Whitey set the record forWS scoreless inn (past the Babe)In this series…even Koufax, Gibson, Pedro,and Bumgarner couldn’t beat it

[@charliekucharski2079]

That actually looked like a pretty competitive World Series.

[@JamesPappas-ki8jc]

I was 7 yesterday old then too. Baseball was everything.

[@timrobinson7519]

Mantle was in this series with a bad hip. As I recall Mantle had a bad cold and Mel Allen told him to go see Allen's doctor who gave him a penicillin shot and gave him the infected hip. Players got to see how bad that infection was for Mickey most could not look and some threw up after seeing how bad it was for him. Damn Mantle was some kind of player to play in so much pain through his career

[@marcschneider4845]

That was the story at the time. Another later story was that Mantle went to see the doctor that was prescribing steroids for President Kennedy's back. He supposedly gave Mantle some steroids but they ended up infecting his hip and keeping him out of the Series except for one at bat. I don't know which story is true; it is certainly true that Mantle had a bad hip going into the Series, but I don't think penicillin, being an antibiotic, would have caused an infection. A steroid might have. (And these weren't PEDs like we heard about years later.)

[@karencarter8292]

@@marcschneider4845 It was the dubious Dr. 'Feelgood' Jacobsen's who was recommended by Mel Allen to Mickey, which was a big mistake.

[@glenndotter5065]

Today they stub their toe or get a hang nail and cant play

[@billsmith5985]

Bad year for the Babe. Maris hit 61, and Whitey broke his World Series record of consecutive shut-out innings.

[@johntaormina1084]

I'm surprised Ford Frick didn't have a asterisk put on Ford's shut out innings like he did to Maris's homerun record

[@8avexp]

@@johntaormina1084 Probably didn't want to push his luck.

[@larryloveless2967]

What still makes the Babe stand out for me given all the home runs hit in Baseball in the current era and the home run hitters that followed him like Mays and Aaron is that before the Babe became known as a great hitter he was first a great pitcher for the Red Sox.

[@peace-yv4qd]

Love to watch these old time players. No showboating no bat flipping or taunting. Just good solid baseball.

[@kennethlucas7473]

Mr. Stiff Ass

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

@@kennethlucas7473 dumbass

[@marcschneider4845]

I bet there was. They just didn't report it. There were a lot of things the players did that no one talked about.

[@dariowiter3078]

@@marcschneider4845 He isn't talking about corousing, dummy!

[@marcschneider4845]

@@dariowiter3078 It's carousing, dumb ass And I bet there was plenty of taunting. There damn sure was a lot of riding and name calling of other players from the dugouts. Like I said, I doubt it was as pure as you want to think.

[@flashman8835]

This is the first WS i remember following. My family were all old Brooklyn Dodger fans so we couldn't root for the Yankees. The Mets would be formed the next year and we rooted for them. Thanks for the video.

[@frankmessina534]

One of the greatest teams of all time ! They put on a clinic in 61.

[@michaelwainscott2633]

Numbers were inflated by expansion. They always are when teams are added. The NL had its expansion in 1962.

[@willdrucker4291]

Ehhhh... but NO NL team in 62 had what the Bombers had the year before...the 62 Mets and Colts were a hitters dream....but no M&M boys were to be found....not even among Willie, Henry, Ernie, or Frank Robinson....

[@michaelwainscott2633]

What an idiotic argument. The hitting numbers are always inflated in an expansion year. Learn your baseball history. Just because no NL team hit 240 homers doesn't mean the numbers didn't go up. What did Maris do after the expansion year.... yeah, not much.

[@frankmessina534]

You sound a little bitter. Baseball history tells us the 61 Yankees was one of best teams ever. By the way, Maris had a wrist injury. Could it be you're a Yankee hater?

[@kevinkingsley8398]

Frank Messina my man what happened in 64 when cards nation and Gibson came to N Y C

[@abelincoln5698]

My father went to WS games at Crosley in 1940 and in 61, and all the home WS games at Riverfront in 1972 , and 75. He and I went to all the playoff games against Pittsburgh in 90 and then one WS game that same season against Oakland

[@charliekucharski2079]

Exciting to see all those World Series games !

[@freddylubin]

I love these old sports films, where they show random insert shots of people getting up to look at something.

[@KMK7355]

Wonder if some of them were family or friends?

[@dariowiter3078]

Why don't you focus on the game instead of the stupid crowd, idiot? 😠

[@donaldreaves3533]

Times were simpler it seemed..listen to the music, check out spectator sunglasses and attire, and finally the voice of Mel Allen

[@gomezesmorticia]

Men wore suits, dress shirts and ties and the women were dresses, heels and pearls.

[@robertwayne808]

That's very true. Even back in the late '60s, people would still dress nicely to go to ballgames.

[@rogerwilliams5366]

Clete Boyer highly underrated 3B. He had great years with his glove on some good Atlanta Braves teams after being traded from the Yankees.

[@sl5932]

he was as much of an athlete as todays 3rd basemen.

[@tomtalley2192]

Three brothers, Clete, Cloyd, and Ken. I think Cloyd might have been on that 64 Cardinal team.

[@robertwayne808]

I always get a kick out of these old films. And the Redlegs had those cool looking sleeveless uniforms.

[@billsmith5985]

and perfect for Ted Kluzewski to wear w/out a shirt........

[@robertwayne808]

+Bill Smith LOL....I think they even had a baseball card from the late '50s with Big Klu not wearing an undershirt. Too bad the Reds don't go back to those sleeveless uniforms with the names UNDER the number on the back and the baseball with the mustache on the front side. They ranked up there with the Kansas City A's with the most colorful uniforms of that era.

[@charliekucharski2079]

That was my favorite Cincinnati Reds uniform when Robby and Vada Pinson were playing.

[@robertwayne808]

@@charliekucharski2079 I agree. I wish the Reds had kept those cool looking uniforms during the '70s when The Big Red Machine was on top of the world. I grew up 130 miles east of Houston and got to meet Pete Rose, Sparky Anderson and George Foster when getting autographs outside the Astrodome back in 1973.

[@irishman8485]

those Reds uniforms were the very essence of beauty...

[@melanoma07]

I remember going to crosley field in the early 60's. it seemed like an explosion of color after watching them on black and white tv. also liked to hear the beer sellers say "Hudy here" for hudepohl beer.

[@mikerichards6608]

Get moody with Hudy

[@melanoma07]

@MANCHESTER UNITED Big deal

[@jayclarke5466]

@@melanoma07 baseball fans don’t care bout trolls nor soccer…buzz off

[@impassable]

Day time World Series..I miss that

[@billsmith5985]

Clete Boyer was the Brooks Robinson/Graig Nettles of this Series.

[@robertaxel]

His throws to Skowron were perfect, waist high throws; even from his knees!

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

you are right! just like brooks robinson the best third baseman ever. greatest fielding series ever in 70 when they wrecked the reds

[@robertperrella4194]

clete boyer is the most underrated and possibly the best fielding 3rd baseman of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@howie9751]

@@robertperrella4194 Check his fielding percentages. Lower than you would think.

[@howie9751]

@MiserableOldFart Robinson's fielding percentages were higher than Boyer's.

[@larryloveless2967]

I play Baseball strat-o-matic and have both these teams in my collection offered by the game for purchase. The 1961 and 1927 Yankee teams are the best I have in my collection so no surprise there. The 1930s (late 1920s) A's teams with Lefty Grove are an overlooked great team. I am sure familar with the 1961 Yankees and Reds teams through this very realistic stat game. This was a very good Reds team. Post, Coleman, and Freese gave them power but were weak on defense. A great team needs the balance of hitting, pitching, and defense. Most of the teams in my collection are all the contender teams from the 1960s (1960-1969) when I was a kid born in 1953 and growing up in St. Louis when most in to Baseball. Thanks for placing on KZbin.

[@pfromturri194]

I always loved Mel Allen’s voice....voice of the Yankees

[@hughcapetien]

Remember being in Junior High down south in Texas at that time with the old transistor radio pealed to my ear during recess period in 1961. I was a big time Yankee fan, and an avid baseball card collector.

[@caddothegreat]

I would sneak radio into the class room. Had to listen to the world serious down Texas way back then. Other boys would ask for the score. Some Octobers, it would still be HOT down here. Windows open in the class rooms. Sometimes hanging our heads out hoping for a breeze.

[@scottmorissey8915]

The Reds put up a pretty good fight through 3 1/2 games. Their pitching was unreal that year, as you had Jay, Purkey, Hunt, Ken Johnson. Then you had the three Jim's: Maloney, O'Toole, and author Brosnan. Henry, who split the closer role with Brosnan, was unreal with a 2.19 ERA! Then you had Jones, who's nickname was "Roadblock". Cincinnati didn't include Nunn on the postseason for some reason. Oddly enough, in the Fall Classic, it was their catchers who kept it close. Edwards hit, I kid you not, .186 in the regular season, but revved it up in the World Series, batting .364 in three games. Darrell Johnson, who wasn't even an active player when the season started, went through three teams, the Reds being the last. He hit over .300 with Cincinnati, and got into two Fall Classic games, going 2-4. O'Toole really pitched well, as well. The Yankees two big guns were Hector Lopez and Bobby Richardson in this Fall Classic. Lopez only came up to the plate a dozen times, but hit a home run, a triple, and drove home seven men! Richardson didn't have an RBI, but collected nine hits, plus was robbed of one on a great catch by Chacon @ 27:36! The Reds actually fielded amazing in the fourth contest, but the Yankees overwhelmed 'em. For those wondering, that's the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge @ 14:11, which crosses the Ohio River. It was opened in 1866, by the same man who designed the Brooklyn Bridge (which opened seventeen years later). Both are still in service.

[@Noname-ni1dy]

There were 3 future Red Sox managers in this series. Eddie Kasko, Darrell Johnson, Ralph Houk.

[@Mark-sj3xb]

Notice how EVERY batter goes hard and nose down out of the box? Don't see that anymore

[@howie9751]

Not all, watch more closely.

[@daleh7733]

Thank you so much for these videos! Very much appreciated and very awesome to see!

[@rentslave]

For some reason,I cannot recall watching this Series.For 60 and 62,I can recall what I was doing for most of the games,but I draw a blank here.

[@Scoclamor]

Probably for a number of reasons. First, Mantle and Maris, 1961 regular season. It was magic. The World Series was going to be anti-climatic, regardless of what happened. Also, it was only five games, which was the fewest games the Yankees needed to win any of there World Series won in the Mantle era. In fact, at this point, it was the only World Series that Mantle's team played in that lasted less then six (win or lose). Also, Mantle only played 2 games and Maris got only 2 hits (But his game 3 hit was HUGE). The "other" stars like Richardson, Skowron, Lopez, Blanchard and Boyer in this Series weren't BIG NAMES (Although Ford sure was). The Reds, meanwhile, would soon field even better teams (Like in '63, when they added someone by the name of Rose to the lineup). Their 1964 team was much better then this (Not that this team was any slouch. Robinson, Pinson, Post, were amazing). 1960, 1962 and 1964, were awesome World Series.

[@1985OldSkool]

Last World Series ever for the Reds at Crosley Field (Next time, they would have it at Riverfront Stadium in 1970).

[@samkohen4589]

The Reds trade of Frank Robinson to Baltimore has to be one of the worst, stupidest trades in history

[@johngurlides9157]

I think they got Milt Pappas in return?

[@marcschneider4845]

Or the best from the other point of view.

[@michaelleroy9281]

The Reds said he was an " old" 30

[@jayclarke5466]

Never ever understood trade…Baby birds were deep in pitching

[@georgejuniorleedom4476]

@@michaelleroy9281 He was black. You didn't want to be black AND in southern Ohio, well, even today and certainly not then.

[@michaelrinella6384]

They win the World Series and just jog off the field ... never see that now ...

[@toddrandall68]

And the sun was up

[@dariowiter3078]

Indeed.

[@MrAquinas1]

I miss the era when men didn't have to hug each other all the time.

[@df5295]

Back then the Yankees were use to winning the World Series almost every year.

[@hughcapetien]

Oh hum, another World Series victory for that Yankee team at that time.

[@JENDALL714]

Today, MLB will usually put together a World Series DVD, but for some reason it's not the same.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

That's because interleague play has ruined the world series and the all star game.

[@smilanesi98]

You are so right.

[@michaelshields415]

There was no way the Yankees were going to lose this World Series! They had a wrecking crew that year with Mantle and Maris and company!!!

[@kipfogarty6832]

And they well remembered what happened in 1960- somehow managing to lose in 7 games to the Pirates despite outscoring them by a wide margin.

[@df5295]

One of the greatest teams ever! They had no weakness and mashed the ball up & down the lineup. Their pitching and fielding was just as good! Their backups like Blanchard and Lopez could of been starters on most other teams!

[@jamesgalloway6180]

Those are the kinds of infields that we used to play on back in the day.

[@howie9751]

Boy, the Yankee infield throws to first base were right on the money.

[@shanemorris1108]

That's why they were Yankees

[@massvt3821]

After reading his books numerous times, I get a chance to see Jim Brosnan ( aka "Broz"), pitch in the World Series, which he did not cover in his 1961 bestseller, "Pennant Race". I highly recommend this book, as well as his preceding book about the 1959 NL season, entitled "The Long Season"...

[@0Yemiserly1]

I read "Pennant Race" as an 18 year old in 1985. 35 years later I'm now reading it for the 2nd time and "The Longest Season" for the first time. They're what led me to find this video. Great stuff.

[@larryloveless2967]

@@0Yemiserly1 I enjoyed reading both these books found in our public library. Born in 1953 my best memories of Baseball are from growing up in St. Louis in the 1960s and starting to follow Baseball well in 1960. I also recommend the book October 1964 by David Halbertstam of the Cards and Yankees season. Of course this book is likely more enjoyable if you are a Cards or Yankees fan but is still enjoyable if you are just a Baseball fan. Cards fan

[@0Yemiserly1]

@@larryloveless2967 Thanks so much for the recommendation! I'll definitely check it out.

[@richierugs6544]

61 Yankees one of the Greatest teams of all time and probably my favorite team, i was 10

[@jamesluly6063]

I was at 1961 All-Star in SF. That is the one where Stu Miller got blown off the mound. The game was at the infamous Candlestick Park.

[@SarahOstrin1]

This is great!

[@brentsenior7830]

My goodness that yankees 3rd baseman was a freaking stud on the hot corner.

[@samuelbarrett5648]

As this and a few other videos on KZbin successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.

[@rogerwilliams5366]

Great post, I agree, especially about the classic ballparks. I started collecting Baseball Cards in 1962 at the age of 5. Dizzy Dean & Pee Wee Reese were doing the Yankee TV broadcasts then. And later in the 60’s I never missed the Saturday Game of the Week.

[@georgejuniorleedom4476]

The equipment is better from a safety point but the gratuitous, garish colors are distractions.

[@samuelbarrett5648]

@georgejunior leedom Yeah I'm not a fan of these Reds uniforms. The young Big Red Machine ones from '68-'71 are their most ideal for the Golden Age.

[@irishman8485]

I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes. that would be a heaven to die for...

[@jamesmatthew3681]

Games 1 and 4. Whitey threw two shutout games, and in the latter game (if Maris broke the Babe's singular season home run season in 61 homers), Ford broke the Babe's 29 inning shutout record with 32 2/3's. As said by Mel Allen by 22:55.

[@jamesmatthew3681]

In other words, Whitey was the MVP of that Series.

[@tjcassidy2694]

"See a ball game often."

[@ericselvig5808]

Jocko Conlon is a Hall of Fame umpire

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

ahh...the real Yankee stadium

[@fredericwidlak2071]

Where fly balls in other parks become homers.

[@johngurlides9157]

@@fredericwidlak2071 ...and home runs in other parks become cans of corn!

[@howie9751]

@@fredericwidlak2071 Only in right. In left they die in "death valley".

[@jayclarke5466]

Said best…the real YS

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

Vada Pinson should be in the hall of fame.

[@福田博-g9b]

Hiroshi Fukuda Both Blasingame of Reds and Boyer of Yankees played in Japan in 1972.

[@johnsakelaris7]

The Cardenas drive that hit the scoreboard in game 3 haunts me. Yes, if it was on either side it would have been a homer instead of an extra-base hit. .Surely this was a matter of how the Reds had set up their ground rules. In many parks a scoreboard hit above the fence line would be a home run. Had the pitching-rich Reds deliberately set up their ground rules to be pitcher-friendly? if so, it sure backfired on them.

[@scottmorissey8915]

Could very well be. Remember the time Jim Wynn hit it over the scoreboard in 1967? Right up on HW 52! That ball might still be travelling. Incidentally, Cardenas was hitting for Johnny Edwards, who ended up leading all Reds' hitters with a .364 batting average in the World Series. I am currently completing a book that includes a chapter on the 1961 World Series. Edwards is a huge part of the chapter.

[@luismontes4273]

RIP Roger Maris

[@rumarspencer7302]

See now that Aaron Judge is one away from tying Roger and two for surpassing him for the most home runs in a season in the AL, Maris family is attending Yankee games to see if he can surpass him.

[@socialstudies7]

This was the first World Series I ever paid attention to. I was 9 years old…

[@7425park]

What is the opening theme song? The one that begins with the NY skyline. I recall it from detroit Tigers mid 1960s broadcasts.

[@oakroyal]

Pinson was safe at second (34:09). He beat the tag. Oh, by the way, why not enjoy an icy cold Coca-Cola! (8:28), (33:55)

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

Yogi always looked like an old man, even in his younger years.

[@huascariglesias7155]

Muy buen vídeo del recuerdo, disfruto mucho ver este partido de Serie Mundial de béisbol de Grandes Ligas.

[@Steveross2851]

The 1961 Yankees were certainly one of the all-time great teams, no doubt. Not only did they have great power and starting pitching but they had Luis Arroyo closing games. Marshal Bridges wasn’t bad in that role in 1962 but those Yankees never replaced the loss of Arroyo. Everyone also knows how great the 1927 Yankees and the Yankees of 1936-1939 as well as the 1976-1978 and 1996-2001 Yankees were. But somehow the great Yankee teams of the 1950s get overlooked. Their main architects were the team of Casey Stengel and George Weiss. Stengel was a baseball genius, Weiss was a business genius, and together they made a brilliant team building those Yankees. Thus their first five years together Stengel and Weiss won the World Series and after they were forced out the Yankees won four more pennants in a row. The business genius of George Weiss was (with Stengel advising him on which players) to purchase minor league players for e.g. $25,000 and sell them for e.g. $50,000. They made millions of dollars for the Yankees that way and did it so cleverly that for years rival organizations never caught on.

[@docadams7099]

You mention the 1976 Yankees. They got bulldozed by the Big Red Machine. I conveniently forgot to mention the Yanks sweeping the '39 Reds.

[@trapezemusic]

Wow. Crosley Field was 366 feet down the right field line! If memory serves, Yankee Stadium was 296.

[@scottmorissey8915]

@18:16, it's Maris who will field Edwards' 2B, not Johnny Blanchard. Blanchard did have one awesome arm, since he was a catcher. Funny, Blanchard and Edwards should each have played more in the Fall Classic! Blanchard PH in games 1 & 3 (and as you will see, came up with a big hit in the third contest), and started games 2 & 4 (in RF). The reason, of course, that he didn't play more is Mickey Mantle played all of game three and the first three innings of the fourth contest. Hector Lopez replaced Mantle after Mickey singled with Maris on first in the T4. The outfield starting lineups for the New York Yankees went like this in each contest: Game 1: Berra, LF. Maris, CF. Lopez, RF (Blanchard batted for Lopez in the B8, after which Jack Reed came in to play CF and Maris went to RF) Game 2: Berra, LF. Maris, CF. Blanchard, RF Game 3: Berra, LF, Mantle, CF (Reed takes over in B9). Maris, RF Game 4: Berra, LF. Mantle, CF (Lopez comes in to PR in T4, Maris moves to CF in the B5, Lopez moves to RF). Maris, RF (until B5) Game 5: Lopez, LF (Berra got hurt in game 4), Maris, CF (Reed again takes over CF in B9, Maris to RF). Blanchard, RF (until B9) For Cincinnati: Games 1 + 2: Frank Robinson, LF. Vada Pinson, CF. Wally Post, RF Games 3-5: Post, LF. Pinson, CF. Robinson, RF Meanwhile, the Reds use three catchers: Game 1: Darrel Johnson (Cardenas PH for him in the T8, then Jerry Zimmerman takes over behind the plate in B8). Goes 0-2 (against Whitey Ford, his old teammate!) Game 2: Edwards plays full game, 2-4, 2B (x 2), RBI (x 2) Game 3: Edwards plays until B9 (1-3, 2B, run. PH Cardenas just misses game-tying HR in ninth inning). Game 4: Johnson (Gus Bell PH for him in the B7. Johnson is 2-2 against Ford!) Zimmerman takes over beind the dish in T8 (Edwards is implied to be in the on-deck circle when the last out is made in B9) Game 5: Edwards goes 1-4, almost adds a BB in B4.

[@kvernon1]

The Reds have their own dancers 19:02 - how cool is that? :) Also, the Reds' shortstop Eddie Kasko will be familiar to Red Sox fans as the future manager of Boston in the early 1970's. He led the Reds in hits against the Yankees, with 7 (although all were singles).

[@jamesmatthew3681]

Are you talking about Darrell Johnson?

[@gomezesmorticia]

Gorgeous ladies dancing

[@orlandohernandez8463]

Creo que debería haber un "Salón de la fama" para cada Liga, en las mayores. 6/4/2020

[@Jiltedin2007]

Without Frank Robinson, the Reds would’ve never seen the World Series! This was Two Years before Pete Rose’s Rookie Season.

[@trc3675]

Very true! Although, Robinson had great stats he didn't receive as much praises as other players, imo.

[@massvt3821]

Actually, Gordy Coleman (1st base) and Gene Frees (3rd) each hit 26 hrs, and Vada Pinson hit .343. Wally Post had about 20 hrs in a part-time role, and Jerry Lynch, pinch-hitter extraordinaire, hit a number of pinch-hit HRs. Crosley Field had the smallest park ion the majors, so that helped, too..

[@basilsmith104]

Great series.

[@lesyankee6129]

It's an Edsel! at 33:47

[@richierugs6544]

look at that grass, it's a wonder they ever caught anything! and in Cincy the outfield grass is like an alfalfa patch

[@haroldgillette7157]

This WS would have been much different,if the great knuckleball😢er,Bob Purkey would have stuck to the knuckler against Blanchard who admitted Purkey could have thrown the knuckler in the dugout and and he'd have swung at,but Purkey threw a slider,home run that tied it in the 8th. Maris' homer won it in the ninth.

[@basilsmith104]

Awesome baseball.

[@denniskramer9657]

cool old Reds sleeveless unis.

[@irishman8485]

we'll never see the like of those uniforms again...the Pirates sleeveless tops were cool too...

[@jamesmatthew3681]

RIP Frank Robinson.

[@bishlap]

Frank was an ugly human being, not a nice man -PERIOD

[@jayclarke5466]

My fav player F. Robby ,after the mick retired

[@basilsmith104]

Classic series.

[@surferpam1]

When we were good.

[@jackkerfoot8693]

The third string catcher for Yanks, Johnny Blanchard hit 20 HRs.

[@Juscz]

Check out the Edsel at 33:46!

[@Mark-sj3xb]

They won the Series with a defensive liability such as Yogi in left field

[@dariowiter3078]

Beginning in 1958, the Yanks put 'em there due to his knees not being what they used to be.

[@michaelproctor1996]

Yogi possibly is the best player to have play....he owns so many world SERIES RECORDS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS...I think he plays a part in 18 different world SERIES I named my horse after him so I may be a little bias.he holds a hot bat...🧜‍♀️♥️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️😇i love yogi and yogisms.fun SERIES ....GOD BLESSINGS 🎯✔💯🇺🇸🌴

[@8avexp]

The following year, Chacon would wind up with the Amazin' Mets.

[@irishman8485]

Chacon didn't do much with his chance to be a regular...out of MLB after '62...

[@terencediamond356]

❤️ love the mic

[@oswaldboelcke5470]

It looked like a rout, 4 to 1, but was actually fairly close until game 5.

[@chrisdennehy9425]

Fun film, however, too bad the color is so washed out. Would like to see an original print

[@syourke3]

Mantle was playing injured, as he did so often. But the injury was largely the fault of Yankee announcer Mel Allen, the same guy who is narrating this video! Mickey caught a cold near the end of the season and Allen advised him to go see a certain doctor in New York City who would fix him up quick, he was assured. Well, it turns out that the doctor was a rotten quack who was infamous for giving his patients shots of amphetamines. The quack used a dirty needle on Mickey and sure enough he developed an abscess in his hip and missed the last two weeks of the season, ending his chances for breaking Ruth's home run record for a single season. He finished with 54.

[@thomaswolf723]

+Steven Yourke From comments made to Jane Leavy in her terrific book on Mantle, The Last Boy, the injections made by Dr. Jacobson were made to treat VD, not a "cold".

[@boblackey1]

+Steven Yourke I remember that. Mantle could not finish the season and ended up in the hospital. If that had not happened, certainly Mantle would have had 56 or more homers. Maybe 60 or more. Mantle finally appeared in the World Series and the game I saw in Ohio, Mantle couldn't make it to the end. Outfielder Jack Reed took over for Mantle about the 7th inning. Reed spelled Mantle often in late innings for the next few years. I think that must have been why Reed was called up for he rarely started a game and seldom came to the plate. But could really go get the flies. John Blanchard was huge for the Yankees when Mantle couldn't play at all. Decent average and could deliver the long ball. I thought Tom Tresh would be another Mantle. He was speedy, switch hitter and could hit. And put of some good number for a few years but never panned out like a Mantle or Maris.

[@30dizzy34]

The quack's name was Dr. Max Jacobsen and he also treated JFK and Jackie..

[@michaelwainscott2633]

Your memory is a bit off Steven Yourke. Mantle missed the final four games of the season, not the last two weeks. He hit his 54th and final home run in game 157 on Sept. 23 in Boston. www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=1961&t=NYA

[@melbias5046]

he lost his license over someones death shooting the person up with amphetimanes and giving the person a overdose.

[@johnrsanchez3890]

You can’t beat the old timers I refer to them as the All timers

[@Poe912]

Cool vid

[@richarddenny5340]

although Cincy lost, one of my favorite players, Wally Post had a good series, batting.333 which included a long homerun

[@irishman8485]

Wally had some real pop in his bat...

[@richarddenny5340]

@@irishman8485 he sure did, he blasted a lot of tape measure homeruns

[@scottmorissey8915]

@@richarddenny5340 He was a very good player. From 1954 to 62, Post hit over 200 HR while batting .270. That 1955 season of his was awesome. In '61, Wally hit 20 HR (while batting .294) in only 99 games. The Reds team of 1961 was underrated. They had amazing pitching, hitting and fielding. Their reserves were great, too.

[@bishlap]

Clete Boyer is best defensive 3rd baseman I've seen... better than Brooks and Nettles by an inch.

[@jayclarke5466]

Brooks is the best…not close Look up Graig Nettles fielding record..he had many seasons where he made more errors than Miguel “we’ll keep u down”Miguel Anduhar (Who made 15 errors) Nettles had several years of 20 plus errors.

[@bishlap]

@@jayclarke5466 and Brooks made 3 errors in ONE inning--stats stats stats, don't mean a damn thing when the game is on the line and 2 strikes/2 outs, etc etc. Going by your paradigm, Brooks would have to be the worst since he's the only 3rd baseman to make 3 errors in one inning. Clete Boyer is the best defensive 3rd baseman I've seen -ever... I did see Brooks and Nettles and Aurelio Rodriguez. Clete was best I've seen - PERIOD

[@Noname-ni1dy]

Don’t say Brooks and Nettles in the same sentence. Nettles not in the same league.

[@bishlap]

@@Noname-ni1dy Disagree, u wanna separate greatness, be my guest.

[@walkergillette3918]

Don Blasingame led off for the Reds, why? he had a .222 batting average for the Reds that year

[@Scoclamor]

Hector Lopez also hit .222 that year, btw!

[@willdrucker4291]

Shockingly, at season's end, there was the NL expansion for 1962....Manager Hutchinson had to choose between keeping Blasingame and Elio Chacon....but because Hutch had managed Blas for years in Saint Louis, he sent Chacon packing to the Mets....a year later, Blasingame lost his job for good in Spring Training...to some 22 year old rookie named PETE ROSE!!!!

[@nealkaye9056]

Mantle was injured late in the season and only played in 2 games out of the 5 game series.

[@greglehmann7234]

"Life imitates art" best describes Mickey Mantle's hip boil he suffered. He got a flu shot but the needle was infected and he suffered the boil on his hip which broke open in Game 4. Kind of like the "Flu Shot Fiasco" "Patty Duke Show" episode where Cathy Lane developed an allergic reaction to Patty's flu shot! (In real life Patty Duke was allergic to the flu vaccine!)

[@dariowiter3078]

Chacon overran the ball is what happened; the ball hit the palm part of the glove, not dropped as Mel Allen says in the narration(17:45).

[@b-zoneonroku2020]

The Ken Burns crowd neglects the fact that NY's sheer dominance in the 50s to early 60s nearly bankrupted the sport resulting in countless franchise shifts. Fans get sick of being the Washington Generals as this era proved.

[@roseandbench]

1976 would be different.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Revenge of the Big Red Machine.

[@johngurlides9157]

Very, very different Yankee team: they relied on the speed of Mickey Rivers and Willie Randolph. When I saw Johnny Bench's first throw in that series, I knew our goose was cooked!

[@TheBatugan77]

@@johngurlides9157 I remember Bench. No shame losing to that team. Lifelong Yankees fan, but those Reds teams were loaded!

[@willdrucker4291]

Poor old Yogi....he learned that playing left field at the Stadium was no cakewalk....the sun at that time of day was murder....game 2...Wally Post hits a sinking liner to left.....WHOOOPS....LOL

[@insolubletoaster8133]

yo, they just skip over William "Dummy" Hoy throwing out the first pitch in Game 3!

[@TheBatugan77]

99 years old, I think!

[@bradnoneofyourbusiness9984]

The 1961 Yankees was probably the greatest team that ever played the game. The Yankee subs would have played first string on any other team.

[@jayclarke5466]

They’d have given ‘27 team a tough time w Ford and other lefties. 61 had more power by a lot…27 pitching a lil better 61 had great defense…and a better bench

[@RickB1792]

Back when baseball was worth watching.

[@sirlordsoul]

8:28 Awesome sandwich.

[@johnsain]

A Bronx Bomber

[@vasquez.i.4250]

sirlordsoul They don't make them like they used to lol

[@rascal211]

If you like bread.

[@miguelantonioparrodiarroyo6900]

When the game was THE GAME no si-si allways crying

[@geraldbalzano431]

Add closed captions please - thank you

[@gomezesmorticia]

Love those ladies dancing.

[@54GARYBOY]

Man the crowds in the early to mid 60s was really "old" and you saw some kids but looks like most were left home with baby sitters/family.

[@howie9751]

Vada Pinson was safe at second in Game 5.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Agreed.

[@howie9751]

@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 Unless he came off the base for a second. But he did beat the throw. And I'm a Yankees fan.

[@lloydfishman3532]

Yes he was but what was he doing trying to stretch into a double when down by 8 runs.

[@terencediamond356]

I think I saw an Ford Edsel in the parking lot.

[@Mark-sj3xb]

Poor ole Yogi is a fish out of water in LF

[@dariowiter3078]

Yog was placed in left field in 1958 when his knee not being able to withstand all that squatting from catching behind the plate like he used to.

[@Mark-sj3xb]

I’m sure Yogi’s knees were going nuts having to navigate that terrace in the outfield at Crosley

[@bjhutson1901]

I watched the 61 world series.

[@rifham]

This is way more entertaining than a ws game by fox with joe buck and all their human interest garbage, the music sounds more appropriate for football tho!

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

buck has a mouth problem, like his dad...they both talked way too much...hate the son almost as much as the father....almost

[@howie9751]

Well all the dull parts were cut out. Duh...

[@dariowiter3078]

The music is supposed to make the World Series exciting, stupid! 😠

[@geewhizz1970]

@@graciemaemarie11jones16 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😃🤣

[@howie9751]

The batters then seemed to pull into the hole before hitting the ball. Doesn't happen today.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

The Reds got revenge 15 years later when they swept the Yankees four straight in 1976.