1970 MLB All Star Game Highlights (includes Pete Rose interview)

Highlights of the 1970 All-Star Game from newly-finished Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Commentary by Chris Berman and narration by Curt Gowdy, as well as an interview with Reds legend Pete Rose. This was recorded when I was eight years old onto VHS on July 13, 1987 - the night before that year's All-Star Game in Oakland - as part of a special night of programming on ESPN saluting the annual MLB All-Star Game. The introduction (first five minutes) was recorded off ESPN Classic in 2004.

[@raulmacias1311]

I'll never forget this game! What a different world it was in America in 1970! A few weeks before the All-Star Game, my late cousin Julio and I were issued citations by a Los Angeles Police Department Officer for riding our bikes on the wrong side of Van Nuts Boulevard in Pacoima,CA. My cousin was 13 years old and I was 12 years old. We both appeared before a Judge in court, the day of the All-Star Game, and paid our citations. It was a scary and intimidating experience standing their looking at the Judge who told us he didn't want to see us in his court room ever again! We couldn't wait to get home to watch the 1970 All-Star Game.and we weren't disappointed! Pete Rose's play at home plate is one of most iconic plays in Major League Baseball history!

[@jamesdelap4085]

Today, Judges are ruling on tickets for "special" drivers licenses given to illegals.

[@swalterstennis]

The MLB All Star Game in the 1970’s was HUGE for me as a kid and a fan. Johnny Bench!! Pete Rose!! Joe Morgan!! Reggie Jackson!! Hank Aaron!!

[@SL-vi4tk]

The All Star game was THE test to show the better league. Serious stuff - much more than today.

[@patrickgray5633]

Pete Rose played the game right hustled all the time. Growing up he was the best player the Reds had.

[@coilmanjoe]

When they were really ALL Stars!

[@lloydkline6946]

r ❤ 1970s baseball

[@jaycompany4886]

They played hard back then, even in a all-star game.....that was exciting baseball....now i fall sleep in the 4th inning.

[@lloydkline6946]

@@jaycompany4886 I'll star games used to a super great games, it not as goods baseball, players would rather rest,

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The 1970 All-Star Game in Cincinnati marked the return of the fans vote, thirteen seasons after the Reds had that infamous ballot box stuffing incident. Between 1958-69, the All-Star vote was done by players,coaches and managers.

[@easyenetwork2023]

For fairness, might be best for the people who play or are involved the most to pick All Stars. They will probably pick the true best players that year.

[@mikeforte7585]

It was great to see Frank Robinson get a great ovation at the pre game announcement of the batting order....in my opinion the Reds trading him was one of the worst trades in their history..

[@easyenetwork2023]

It kind of set up the Reds in the 1970s though. But having him in the OF and as a hitter might have made it easier to beat the A’s.

[@timothymarsden2802]

An impressive array of ML stars...i born in 68', but these names are nostalgic, for sure...

[@rogerwilliams5366]

True baseball history! I remember watching this game with my Father. We were American League fans and were excited about the possibility that American League would win this one. The drama & excitement were incredible. Rose crashing into Fosse is one of the most memorable plays in MLB history.

[@toyman81]

At 6:48, Big Frank Howard, had his Sport Illustrated Poster hanging in my room as a kid around 1970 or so..

[@lloydkline6946]

r ❤ 1970s all star baseball games ⚾️

[@sampsellmark]

when Roberto is a backup that national league had to have had a hell of a team

[@nealrothchild3470]

What a year for baseball. All the great all stars at that game. How many hofmrs? Bench, Rose, Morgan, Perez, Robinson, Robinson, Seaver, Gibson, Palmer, Arron, May's, Yastremski, Killebrew, I lost count

[@reidfleming2k6]

It's amazing how little the unis have changed in 50 years

[@carseye1219]

I just wish teams would go back to the stirrups. Can't stand the pajama pants down to the shoes or the solid colored sock from knee into the shoes. Yes, I'm old and a traditionalist.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

Most of today's unis look like Halloween costumes.

[@richardgarrahy1238]

Last year the angels wore the silver halo on there caps. Easily the best cap in history

[@wiedep]

@ 3:25 great reax by Tommy Helms when Johnny Bench turns around. BTW - Bench played 6 different positions in 1970. Kessinger was having problems with the carpet HP ump Barlick wearing the white chest protector that pitchers like Seaver wanted banned.

[@holmeed]

ed brinkman also could not field on plastic even though he, like Donny was a great fielder on grass. To slow?

[@thegoose0m1]

As I recall, Kessinger was pretty fast and had great range. I was a big Cubs fan back in the late 60's and loved their infield and their second most famous double play combo (after "Tinker to Evers to Chance), that being "Kessinger to Beckart to Banks."

[@ynotttt]

@@thegoose0m1 ....it was interesting watching all those killer hitters in that lineup.....until you got down to Kessinger, Beckert and Seaver.

[@thegoose0m1]

@@ynotttt as I recall, Beckert was swinging a very hot bat during the '70 season. He never hit with a lot of power, but he always made contact (struck out seldomly) and hit something like .340 that year. I remember listening to Cubs games on the radio while in the car, and he was "slapping" the ball all over the field. '69 was an exciting season but also a huge disappointment. The very first game I saw live at Wrigley was Holtzman's no-hitter against the Braves...

[@ynotttt]

@@thegoose0m1 ....very good. Beckert I think almost won the batting title...but I thought that was 72. I’d have to look it up. Yes, struck out seldom. A good player. Yes...Holtzman’s first no hitter. My first game was in 69. I was at Burt Hooten’s no hitter in 72. Yes... Cubs has a 4 year window 69 to 72. Bad ownership couldn’t upgrade those teams. Holtzman got out of town just in time to win some titles. He would have rotted away here.

[@darreljohnson3644]

Morgan of the Astros....Cool!!!He scores and the guy waiting to bat next is Rose....a future teammate..

[@barbaracaroll]

MLB used to have the best all star game of all sports

[@jamesrivera4947]

"Breaking both collar bones" is right. Exactly the kind of injury that's sustained when falling straight forward onto a hard object or surface 😣

[@ronmackinnon9374]

The shot of the scoreboard they show at 19:58, supposedly with Rose at bat with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th, is actually out of sequence, being taken from the bottom of the 12th inning instead. At that moment in the 9th, the hit totals were 9 for the American League and 7 for the National, but the scoreboard shows them as 12 for the AL and 8 for the NL--how they would have appeared after Rose had singled off Wright with 2 outs in the bottom of the 12th.

[@robertwesley4416]

Cool music

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

I liked those Astro uniforms from the late sixties.

[@dr.migilitoloveless2385]

I remember watching this on TV when I was 13 years old. Never forgot the dramatic ending of Pete Rose barrelling over Ray Fosse to score the winning run

[@scottharris8654]

I'm so excited to watch this I'm about ready to pee on myself

[@willp6422]

Joseph Melcher, you are soooo correct.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

At 20:54, Gowdy says of the tag play on Torre at first, 'Yastrzemski makes it two outs.' No, Torre was leading off--after Yastrzemski's tag-out of Torre at first, Clemente grounded out before Rose came to bat.

[@martinavila4424]

I remember that collision Wille Mays and Bobby Bonds had. The year might have been 67 or 68. It was on a Saturday afternoon. Mays fell on Bonds knee. Took the wind out of Willie

[@tomitstube]

4:04. two 30-30 guys in the same outfield.

[@Wixom2200]

I was watching that game. Game of the week. Baseball NL in the 60s THE BEST! Think of it: in 1965 Frank Robinson wasn't even the BEST p[layer in the NL. He comes to the AL and wins the MVP right away.

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

That game took place on April 11, 1970.

[@basilsmith104]

Great game.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Poor Jim Hickman... nobody remembers he was the one how got the hit to win the game for the NL LOL

[@thegoose0m1]

Jim Hickman's game winning RBI single up the middle. He was one of the original NY Mets, and quite an average player in all respects. Decent enough, but nothing special. Then he's traded to the Cubs and has the kinds season that, if he had strung together 10 -12, he'd be first ballot Hall of Fame. Over 30 home runs, well over 300 batting average and we'll over 100 RBIs. Interesting how sometimes an average player can turn in an exceptional season sometimes!

[@ynotttt]

That’s a great observation. Not even Hickman’s surging bat could push the Cubs over the top in 1969 or 1970.

[@williamdunphy352]

Narrated by Curt Gowdy.

[@Rubberfooted]

Love all the music in this video. Only one I could find is that classic Keith Mansfield funky fanfare series song, “Funky Flight”. If anyone here knows or is able to identify the other songs please reply and I will love you dearly.

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

The song under the Yazstremski highlight segment is "Pop March".

[@raulmacias1311]

1970 Major League Baseball Expansion. The American League ~ The Seattle Pilots ~ file for bankruptcy after only one season. Milwaukee interests bought the club less than a week before the 1970 season began. Team became ~ The Milwaukee Brewers

[@scottharris8654]

They wasn't making s*** they played for the Love of the game

[@rayjr62]

If you believe that folklorish bullshit I've got some swamp land in Arizona I will sell you. "Love of the game" my ass. Free Agency was already ramping up. And Curt Flood was the sacrificial lamb. Get a clue, will you?

[@tomitstube]

@@rayjr62 scotus ruled on flood v. kuhn in the summer of 1972. the reserve clause and anti-trust clause had been challenged many times over the decades... rick barry of the nba challenged the reserve clause in 1969 and lost. originally the owners liked the decision, leaving in tact mlb's omission of anti-trust laws. which unbelievably still exists today. it would be the seitz decision with the "national labor relations board" in 1975 that would put the final nail in the reserve clause, meaning players were no longer "property" of the team they played for. this ruling involved andy messersmith and dave mcnally. as for salaries, babe ruth made $80,000 in 1930/31. about 2 million in 2020 money... a huge drop off after ruth, it would be 19 years before joe dimaggio would break that with $100,000. lou gehrig only made 31,000 in 1935, 39,000 and 35,000 in 1938/39. in 1945 the top salary was $25,000. wille mays 105,000 in 1963, sandy koufax 130,000 in 1966. salaries really started taking off in 1979 with mike schmidt, from 2001 to 2013 alex rodriguez was the highest paid player for 12 of 13 years making 20 to 30+ million a year... here's a list of the highest paid mlb players by year. sabr.org/research/article/mlbs-annual-salary-leaders-since-1874/

[@kenlucas7025]

@@tomitstube Thank you for your research. 👍

[@Fresh-tw7ev]

Nobody outruns the arm of Johnny Bench!

[@irar4665]

I'm surprised haven't seen comments debating whether what Rose did was the right thing to do:Yes , in a typical situation, the only option he had was to run into him, but this isnt a typical situation and its questionable whether he should have jeopardized Fosse's health in an All Star game.

[@Mark-sj3xb]

Fosse shouldn’t have been five feet up the line without the ball. What is Rose supposed to do?

[@kennethbrady]

@@Mark-sj3xb Exactly.

[@dantheman5745]

Listen to Curt Gowdy's description of the play at 21:53. With each angle, you get to hear one of the premier baseball announcers of that era saw Rose's actions. NOWHERE do you hear even 1 ounce of criticism of Rose. "He was FORCED to run over catcher, Ray Fosse." Through the eyes of those who covered the sport AT THE TIME, this was all on Fosse. Only bleeding-heart, myopic idiots who've never played the game, or who just want a reason to hate Pete Rose, view this as a dirty play. In the 60s & 70s, guys played hard, every play. And they took the All Star Game _very_ seriously. Notice how all of the NL players were congratulating Rose. They took a moment to show their concern for Fosse, but you don't see any of them acting shocked & appalled at Rose for running into Fosse. Rose didn't jeopardize Fosse's health. Fosse did by straddling the baseline, 6 feet up the line, without the ball, know full well that Pete was coming in at 100 MPH. Fosse created the collision, not Rose. And as Gowdy goes on to correctly point out, on Rose's 11th step (left foot) after touching 3rd base, you can CLEARLY SEE him lean forward to dive head first. But in the next split second, because of Fosse's positioning, Rose realizes he CAN'T dive. All he would be doing would be diving head first into Fosse's shin gard, risking breaking his collar bone, Fosse's leg or both. So as he plants his 12th step (right foot), he keeps his legs under him instead of going through with the dive. But he's still in a forward-leaning position, so there is ZERO way for him to change direction. His only option then is to brace for impact. Impact that Fosse made inevitable by blocking the plate the way he did. If you're going to criticize Rose for running too hard in an All Star Game (that meant a whole lot more to the players then than it does to ignorant fans today), then where is your criticism for Fosse for going and blocking the plate in this alleged exhibition game? If Rose shouldn't have taken it so seriously, why is it okay for Fosse to have done that? Fact is, they BOTH took it seriously. They both played to win, because that's how these guys played back then. Also, back in 1970, guys cared about how much extra money they got for winning. Some guys supplemented their income during the off-season. If the winning team got more money in the All Star Game, then you'd better believe they were playing for that larger check. Because back then, that mattered.

[@aaronesq]

RIP Ray Fosse!

[@ProfessorTime]

Fosse was too far up the line because the throw was too far up the line. Just a tragic set of circumstances for Ray Fosse. RAY FOSSE 1947-2021

[@karlmoles6530]

Damn Tom Seaver Vs Jim Palmer

[@johnwheet7037]

Ray Fosse was never the same player after that

[@karlmoles6530]

Sudden Sam!

[@retiredusvet4396]

WHAT happened to the SOUND???

[@tomitstube]

3:32... that would have started a brawl today. 4:04... willie mays and bobby bonds, multiple 30-30 players in the same outfield, and if willie had known 40-40 was a thing, he would have no doubt accomplished that. bobby bonds and barry bonds did 30-30 10 times, 5 apiece. 6:18... check out the cincinnati ovation for frank robinson. 8:06... wow, there's a name i haven't heard in a long time. rico carty, what a tremendous hitter, fascinating character, some devastating injuries and illnesses marred his career, and he apparently had personal conflicts with all-stars ron reed, ron santo, and hank aaron of all people... rico is still with us in 2020, someone should write a book about him. 8:40. nixon; "i am not a crook." trump; "i am not an idiot." 9:32... sam mcdowell was a dominating pitcher, would strike out 12 all-stars in 8 innings, when he was healthy mcdowell was as good as they get, he unfortunately played for the lowly cleveland indians during his prime... and he unfortunately had substance abuse and some tough times later, the character "sam malone" in the sit-com "cheers" was based on mcdowell's life. mcdowell also still with us in 2020. 13:12... little did he know... ray was having a great game... 21:14... no mention of billy grabarkewitz's single to get rose to 2nd. who?

[@darreljohnson3644]

I remember Grabarkewitz.I think 1970 was the year he batted around .340 or .350 for the season.Not a superstar, but somebody who had an abnormal GREAT year in 70 like Jimmy Hickman.I remember early in the 1970 season Johnny Bench and Tony Perez were going back and forth for the HR lead in the NL....

[@davanmani556]

The White Sox uni’s looked like the Royals.

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

The Royals didn't rock white stirrups with blue sanitary socks, though!

[@brandonmorris92]

I'm watching this now and I never thought the White Sox wore Blue back then!

[@1983jblack]

Then they went to red unis before the collared unis with shorts lol

[@arthurshannon1851]

Did the plate umpire really yell back then on swinging strikes? They should only display such emotion on pitches in the strike zone where the batter doesn't swing.

[@tomloft2000]

4:12- the best centerfielder of all time takes a put out away from Bobby Bonds.

[@mikelogan629]

And Yastrzemski got the MVP of the game

[@DonQwantsyou]

that's bone

[@glennrauch1499]

So we're not going to talk about the MVP being on the losing team?!?

[@ronmackinnon9374]

It's only happened twice, the other time being four years before, in '66, when Brooks Robinson got it even though the NL won 2-1 in 10 innings.

[@raulmacias1311]

1970 was the last year Major League Baseball uniforms were, no pun intended, uniform! In 1971, some teams in both leagues adopted those awful looking beltless uniforms!

[@ronmackinnon9374]

The first instance of that was actually mid-1970, right after this All-Star break, starting with the Pittsburgh Pirates. When the regular schedule resumed a couple of days after this game, the Pirates began playing in brand new Three Rivers Stadium rather than old Forbes Field. And with the new stadium came new uniforms--those beltless kind you mentioned, that would become widely adopted by 1972. See Clemente in this game wearing the sleeveless Pirates jersey over the dark-sleeved undershirt? That uniform was done after this All-Star break. In their place were the ones they would be wearing when they won the 1971 World Series against Baltimore.

[@1983jblack]

I used to hate them too but as I have gotten older, I kinda dig them. I saw them still around in the late '80s and the Reds were the last holdouts in 1992. They worked though, being a lighter more comfortable uniform in the Summer

[@roseandbench]

Pete Rose:WARRIOR

[@herbpetrillo163]

Pete was the man

[@wmw3629]

Jackass

[@winkhopson8217]

Rose should be in the Hall Of Fame, but that description of the play is BS, the ball hopped 3 times, not one and his knee is nowhere near Ray Fosse's shoulder.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Does anyone know who that player is at 00:57?

[@tomloft2000]

Vada Pinson?

[@0010Kev]

I remember watching this game. It would have been just a few weeks before my 11th birthday so I remember it well. Pete Rose's charge into home was the show stopper for sure! That was the way baseball is supposed to be played! This watered down, anemic, 'gotta be so careful so no one gets a boo boo' version of the game we have now is so lame. We will never see a dramatic play at home plate, a take out slide into second base to break up a double play ... we'll never see a manger lose his s*&t all over an umpire because of a bad call.....the game today is just a pale shadow of what we used to watch. It's getting to the point where they might as well just run a computer simulation to determine who wins every year and let the players stay home so they won't get hurt while they 'earn' their millions upon million of dollars. OK that's my rant! It was a great game with great players!

[@DonQwantsyou]

rose and his wife went to dinner with the fosses the night before, then the orangutan tries to kill fosse the next night

[@brandonmorris92]

What music is that at 9:33?

[@brandonmorris92]

@M J No one asked you.

[@j5muscle]

Dick Allen HOF

[@hotwheel6663]

Glen Becker was an all-star 😮

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

*Glenn Beckert

[@brettoleskow4867]

Before big money.

[@dariowiter3078]

Pete should have done what Ty Cobb did during his playing days: jump in the air and used his feet to hit Ray Fosse in the stomach(or Fosse's 'nads, for that matter!). ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 😁😁😁😁😁

[@tomitstube]

that's mostly myth about ty cobb, he famously said he watched the fielders eyes and slid to the opposite side he was looking, the famous "flying slide", has been propagandized into cobb intentionally trying to hurt people, the catcher is st. louis browns paul krichell, who later became a scout and would sign lou gehrig. but krichell would later admit cob's feet hit his glove and knocked the ball loose, he wasn't spiked. here's a great lecture debunking most of what you now about ty cobb. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZvFga2ll9Scoq8

[@Autshot20]

Rose starts to slide head first, stumbles and then realizes he needs to blindside Fosse. Very good job plowing an unexpected catcher Pete. Sidelined his career. You should be very proud of that level of hustle.

[@tomitstube]

can't tell if you're being sarcastic, ray was unfortunately vulnerable because of the throw, he was reaching out for the ball when rose hit him causing the injury, why rose would say it was his knee is a mystery.

[@Autshot20]

@@tomitstube Being sarcastic. To blindside Fosse (or any other catcher) in that way was ridiculous. And then to simply attribute it to his form of 'hustle' made it worse. A player's career is significantly impacted in a way that just didn't need to happen. Agree, Fosse was very vulnerable and Pete obviously didn't care.

[@ruthlesshack1279]

@@Autshot20 Bullshit, Fosse had no business being four feet up the line blocking the plate without the ball, it was Fosse that set the collision in motion. Rose wanted to slide, but couldn't. You can obviously see that Rose was concerned for Fosse after the play, that Rose never wanted to collide with Fosse to hurt him, but didn't have a choice. And your statement about Rose sidelining Fosse's career is also Bullshit, as Fosse played 42 more games after the All-Star game, hit .297 and won the AL Gold Glove Award. He played for two Oakland As Worlds Series team and didn't retire until 1979. Try doing some damn research next time before you spew hate and lies, just like #Bunkerboy does.

[@SpaceCadet48-j9t]

@@ruthlesshack1279 Facts Jack; Im not sure what planet the Ray Fosse apologists are from. They must lead insufferable lives generally because what you and I saw in that all star game is beyond is plain to see.

[@joefaller4525]

The All Star game was much more competitive then. Both leagues played that game to win. It wasn't a spectacle as it is today. It was a true game. Today it is basically a bonus written into the stars' contracts. Fosse was blocking the path and Pete ran him over. You did not plant yourself in the basepath . You blocked the plate in the batters box, if you dared. If you think that is bad, research what happened to players who ":dug in" against Gibson & Drysdale. They got put on their butt and the batter had better not get up staring and acting all bad or the next one is in his ear.

[@ronaldwayne5593]

I will defend Rose all my life he played to win and Fosse was blocking the plate and baseline.

[@carseye1219]

Fine but I lost all respect for him as he NEVER reached out to Fosse. Not saying he owed an apology but he could have just checked up on him. Ray was never the same again. He should have had a ten ASG career. Rose was a great player but not an all star human being.

[@ronaldwayne5593]

@@carseye1219 watch the video again he leaned down at that time to Fosse. And yes they did talk after that a few times.

[@carseye1219]

@@ronaldwayne5593 He never even called the hospital, let alone visit. I've heard Ray talk many times (I lived in Cleveland when he was an announcer and now live on the west coast as he announced A's games) on the subject and you can clearly tell he's still pissed about it. And they even had dinner together the night before that '70 game. Ray has no use for Pete.

[@ronaldwayne5593]

@@carseye1219 how many catchers got an apology over the years when they got run over? Probably not many.

[@carseye1219]

@@ronaldwayne5593 This one's different and you know it. Ray Fosse was on his way to being the Bench of the AL. It ended there. He hung on a few years as a sore armed catcher whose power bat was gone.

[@AlysiaWilkins-t9v]

Pete’s DRAgone… I’m so blue… 🥲

[@philipprebble7089]

I'm sure Kurt Gowdy was crying .

[@mrnjo7]

This mlb all star game and some player's dirty like Pete rose did !! He tackled a catcher in order to score by knocking the ball out of his hands ! Pete Rose knows why he never made it into the hall of fame and it wasn't illegal gambling !!!

[@davidthompson4649]

Fosse had nothing to bitch about, blocking home plate, up the line , in an all star game, he played to win, so did Rose, "when the train is coming, get off the tracks"

[@DonQwantsyou]

that's bone

[@wmw3629]

Rose destroyed Ray Fosse’s career over a meaningless exhibition game 🤬