1969 09 08 New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs (Kiner, Murphy, Nelson) Radio Broadcast

[@arnoldgratacos5460]

the broadcast is music to my ears with announcers Lindsey, Murphy and Kiner masters of their craft... all though I was only 10 years old at the time and living in Jersey I was a huge Met fan and clearly recall the players the pitching rotation and the coaching staff... what an amazing year that was lead by manager Gil Hodges...fast forward fifty years now living in Florida and I still hear the cries of " Lets go Mets"... you gotta believe....thanks for the memories.

[@joeambrose3260]

Grow up6

[@stupaul3233]

I was only 10 then and living in Brooklyn and Agee was my favorite! I broadcast for the Triple A Baseball team in San Antonio, Texas, Jerry Grote’s hometown and yes, we are friends!

[@MarkHarrellPhotos]

I love Classic Baseball! I go to bed and pick out a game to listen to go to sleep. I am usually out by the end of the first and wake up to turn off the video around the 6th or 7th. Just like I did as a kid!

[@c.a.g.3130]

Remember when a game only took 2 hours? And pitchers pitched COMPLETE games!?

[@gilbertgiles]

Best ever. Such a terrific post, for true 69 Mets fans. This was a real "muscle" win that year. So many things are revealed- that Agee had been dusted the day before and homered on next pitch, that his blast here off Hands was hit so hard he thought it would hit the wall and missed first; had to go back and touch it, that Hands dusted Koos on his last at bat, the dual standing O for Koos and Agee... and on and on. A real gem of a game... ps the black cat appeared the following night.

[@joeambrose3260]

Thanks for the bedtime story,worked great

[@stupaul3233]

I became an announcer because of Bob Murphy! When the Mets swept the Cubs in this brief 2 game set, I knew they were going to win it all! I started the 6th grade at PS 253 in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn that day! I watch this game on Channel 9 that night! Boy, was I pissed when Bill Hands low bridged Agee in the first inning! Glad that Tommie got even! Sad though they both have since passed away! I will never ever forget 1969!

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

murphy was bush league, bush league-at best

[@stupaul3233]

@@graciemaemarie11jones16 , I respectfully disagree! The man spent 50 years broadcasting Major League Baseball and he would not have lasted that long if he wasn’t any good! You’re talking about a broadcaster who’s in the Hall of Fame but you’re entitled to your opinion and I will leave it at that!

[@larryloveless2967]

I am a Cards fan who bought the Baseball strat-o-matic game seeing it being played by a buddy my first year in college. I have kept it and still have all the 1960s contenders teams and what then were some of their oldtimer teams from the 1920 - 1950s offered by the game. I bought a few more teams unilt the Cards world series winning year of 1982. When I play the 1969 Mets and Cubs in ths very realistc baseball game the Mets usually win a 3 game series. The Mets pitching with Seaver and Koosman was outstnading with a very good bullpen. Just enough hitting. These Classic baseball games are great.

[@tommandia972]

Best channel on KZbin for baseball fans

[@randydubin7118]

thomas mandia ClassicMLB11 says hello. 😉

[@willdrucker4291]

This was the game played one night before the infamous “Black Cat” contest....sure wished they had that broadcast here on CBOTR

[@richardsantalone9380]

At 5:30 -- Shea Stadium PA announcer Jack Lightcap asking fans to stand for organist Jane Jarvis's rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. In this version, Jane uses an arpeggio one chord intro instead of her usual four or five chord intro. It's a damn shame we don't have classy ballpark organists like Jane Jarvis anymore.

[@schwei56]

Network and cable MLB $$ force the old ways down to A-ball, if even that. Jane Jarvis eventually evoked Bob Ralston and champagne music making... and time marches on.

[@richardsantalone9380]

@@schwei56 Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but Bob Ralston was the organist on "The Lawrence Welk Show", was he not?

[@PaulHellerRealtor]

What an amazing game with the best announcers ever.

[@c.a.g.3130]

And stay tuned for the happy recap!

[@fredzeller2768]

I love this.... Mets on the radio.. the theatre of my mind has reopened.. thank you!

[@arnoldgratacos5460]

thats awesome Paul, Grote held that pitching staff together and was an all-star himself ...

[@williamdunphy352]

Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy & Lindsey Nelson on the Mets radio network.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

Good Game! I started first grade on that very day, I became a regular at getting My Mouth washed out with Soap that School year, can still remember that taste when the Teacher was scrubbing My Mouth with the Bar of Soap in the small Bathroom, that must have been for the Teachers, and unruly Pupils occasionally!!!

[@SweetbJames]

That’s child abuse I’m sorry you experienced that

[@drj602]

What a time it was. Some beautiful memories.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

yes, the joy of the smell of new yorkers....rotting meat.....rotting vegetables, rotten eggs....and a mediocre baseball team, a 82 win team-at best, somehow defeating FAR superior teams to win their division....ed charles? huh? wayne garrett?,huh? al weis? HUH? ron (i hurt my arm) swoboda...a what? .245 hitter? huh? the astros EXTERMINATED this umm, met team, umm.....what 8 of 10, or was it 10 of 12? yet this charlie brown team, swept the powerful braves 3 straight?? where is big DUMB bubba smith, the mentally challenged conspiracy theorist on the faltimore bolts?? big duuma bubba claimed that the suprr bowl game was fixed' yeah, ok, returd bubby if that be the case, then why didnt you, in all your 'brilliance' expouse the same thing about the events of 10 months later?

[@marktorak5578]

13 strikeouts for Jerry Kooseman. A complete game win in a big game

[@thomasspearance7176]

with this game it began...even jane jarvis, with such deliberation...most especially mr. koosman do not mess with still

[@rentslave]

The Mets no longer have Senior Citizen Days.The black cat must have been the next night,another game I was at.They sang Goodbye Leo to him during that game.

[@rentslave]

It was easy to get to then without all the illegals clogging the roads.Also things were cheap and I had no responsibilities as a 19 year old.

[@bigzach79]

You have the following game from 9-9-1969?

[@joeambrose3260]

@@rentslave Time to grow up, Tommy boy

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires HP Satch Davidson 1B Paul Pryor 2B Tony Venzon 3B Frank Secory (CC)

[@c.a.g.3130]

Why did someone 'pitch' the recording down?

[@schwei56]

Analog audio was like that: Over multiple playback and rewind, the analog medium of audio tape was subject to physical stretching, which would slow down the content slightly (plus the possible differences in the actual machines providing the playback) . It is less apparent as the game progresses.

[@mbroadnax1]

Randy Bobb??? Wow...he did have a cup of coffee with the Cubs!!!

[@joeambrose3260]

Who the phuck is that ?

[@rentslave]

Bill Hands died a few weeks ago.I was at this game,but I don't remember the rain.

[@rentslave]

Not that much.

[@scoobycarr5558]

Oh geez, I did not know that Bill Hands passed away! He was the kind of second fiddle to Cubs ace Fergie Jenkins, but he was pretty adept at being a pitcher nonetheless.

[@joeambrose3260]

So was I. I remember the rain, but I don't remember you

[@beakt]

30:00 Mangino's is still at that same location. Their website currently says it's been there "over 70 years" and "over 55 years" on the same page! LOL.

[@joeambrose3260]

That's a real rip roarer

[@brianfoti4696]

This game was actually on 9/7. The game on 9/8 the Mets won 7-1.

[@gilbertgiles]

no

[@williamdunphy352]

Bob Murphy (PBP) 1-2/5-6 Ralph Kiner (PBP) 3-4 Lindsey Nelson (PBP) 7-9

[@SweetbJames]

William T Dunphy the same three also did TV!. Nelson was the best

[@joeambrose3260]

@@SweetbJames No shit, Sherlock

[@williamdunphy352]

@@SweetbJames Mets Television: Nelson (PBP) 1-4 Kiner (PBP) 5-6 Nelson (PBP) 7-9

[@wmbrown6]

@@williamdunphy352 - Murphy didn't do TV that day? Or was he PBP for 7-9 if Nelson was on the radio?

[@scoobycarr5558]

Was this the Black Cat Game or was this before the Black Cat Game?

[@ClassicBaseballontheRadio]

This is the day before the black cat incident, I believe.

[@scoobycarr5558]

+Classic Baseball on the Radio OK thanks for the info

[@joeambrose3260]

That cat should be in the Mets Hall of Fame

[@jeffteyrosado9966]

Trying tying flat

[@dalephewski2021]

no video of any met games telecast in 1969 with the exception of the WS

[@rayoyler7382]

dale phewski buy some Kleenex tissues , crybaby

[@joeambrose3260]

@Matt Pizzano Thanks for the history lesson, professor

[@Tommy-76]

The NBC telecasts of games 3-4-5 of the Series are the oldest existing color telecasts of Series games

[@timrobinson7373]

Yeah this must be the game where Agee is called safe and Huntley goes nuts and I am pretty sure Agee was out

[@timrobinson7373]

In 1986 the Cubs and Mets of '69 got together in AZ for an old timers game and before that in Chicago they had a look back at the '69 Cubs and Harry Carey did an interview with Huntley and Agee on that play at the plate and for Huntley to react to the call the way he did would tell me he knew he had Agee but Davis missed the call

[@gilbertgiles]

never touched him, but sure tried to deke the ump

[@sawguidryk18]

Koosman only 12-9 going into this game. Must of had a lot of hard luck losses and lack of run support. Tom.Seaver was waiting for his start the next day, he was already 20-7 on his way to 25 wins. This is one of the few games that Swoboda and Shamsky both played in as they were the righty / lefty platoon in right field.

[@swabo1960]

Koose won his last 5 starts to finish 17-9

[@mbroadnax1]

Kiner announced Ken Holtzman would start the 2nd game. Leo Durocher made a last minute switch...Ferguson Jenkins started that game...

[@SweetbJames]

Seaver also wins 5 from here on in. (I believe he actively won his last 10 Games of the season. ). Seaver and Koosman, Frazier and Reed, and Namath and Maynard, three dynamic duos, three 19 69-19 70 championships. have New York Mets New York Knicks and New York Jets fans known the likes of them since?

[@SweetbJames]

Mark Broadnax Durocher's managing probably accounted for at least 5 games lost down the stretch.

[@SweetbJames]

Bob Swanick Seaver won his last 10... What a duo