Swingin' A's 1972 World Series Gm. 2 vs. Reds

[@bamafan62]

it's like i'm 10 years old again....remember watching this live

[@dariowiter3078]

It's amazing how well restored this game video really is! ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 📺📺📺📺📺 😀😀😀😀😀

[@riptheripper9060]

Great teams, great game and great announcers. Love Curt Gowdy and post game interview by Tony Kubek was fantastic. Loved it.

[@keithshultz7436]

A young Al Michaels too.

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

MLB needs to get on the ball an remaster more games like this. This looks amazing in 720p. Would love to see these and more games in 4K

[@rockintetster]

There is practically no television footage saved of MLB prior to the 1969 World Series. All you get are those corny old World Series news reel type films. Video tape was too expensive, so they erased all of it to be reused.

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

​@@rockintetster I realize that, but there are plenty of games from the 1970s on that are available and could be remastered. Most games on their DVD collections that were released in the last decade look awful. Even games as late as 2006 were never remastered. Some times you can't even see the ball on base hits to the outfield, because the digital artifacting is so bad. Go watch the end of the 1992 NLCS Game 7...You can't even see the ball bouncing in the outfield on Cabrera's game winning hit.

[@NkrumahTure]

Agreed. They're punishing us by not doing that.

[@michaelabrams7345]

Actually the entire 1968 series exists in B/W as well as at least 3 games from the 65 series. Back in the 1950's pre video tape all WS game Broadcasts were recorded on film for the armed forces. Quite a few of them survive including games 6 & 7 of the 1952 Series.

[@rockintetster]

Michael Abrams Thanks for the information. I’ve seen game seven of the 1952 World Series. Also game seven of the 1960 World Series.

[@romelovesdan]

MORE Swingin A's please! This was a pleasant surprise to be able to see a 1972 World Series game we thought 'lost'!!! What else can you surprise us with?

[@iljackb]

All time clutch world series catch by Joe Rudi!! Lets go Oakland!!!!!

[@wildforthecats661]

Great video. Loved the A’s back in the day.

[@macddezy101]

Incredible how fast Catfish worked. Seems like he throws a pitch every ten seconds. Young Al Michaels on the call. Very cool

[@williamdunphy352]

His 1st World Series.

[@randy4395]

To Hell with Al Michaels,he is extremely overrated.Announcers like him are why there is a mute button.

[@philiptucci2458]

Great World Series, two wonderful teams, really brings back very fond memories of life

[@epaddon]

This has been unaccounted for in the MLB vaults for decades. FINALLY, it's great to see it liberated. And boy, what a reminder of how poor off we've been that Al Michaels hasn't called a World Series since 1995.

[@michaelabrams7345]

Instead we are forced to hear Joe Buck.

[@dariowiter3078]

Al does call a mean football game, don't forget that! 🏈🎙️📻📺😁

[@rmartin7558]

This was Michaels' first World Series. He'd only begun calling MLB games a year earlier.

[@rmartin7558]

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Soccer sucks.

[@richardsmith6496]

Ok we get your point, but nobody gives a crap about soccer here.

[@justyndelbridge7467]

I can’t believe that such high quality videos like this and can’t be seen by the public. This is amazing!

[@rmartin7558]

@MANCHESTER UNITED Yep, toddlersss love sssoccer becaussse it'sss sssooo sssafe.

[@dwaynecoy1871]

Wait, aren't we the public? And are we not watching it right now? Anything up on KZbin is available for anyone to "see"

[@dwaynecoy1871]

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C - uh, no. Soccer is bullshit sport that is for communist countries. Any sport that doesn't allow you to use your hands is a communist sport and not suitable for right thinking Americans, who are very good with their hands.

[@wilburwood8261]

@@dwaynecoy1871 Americans play soccer too, they even go to the World Cup. Most countries that play soccer are not communist countries. No communist country has won a soccer world championship.

[@NicanTlacaWarrior1]

@M too bad for you this isn't a soccer video and hardly anyone here in the United States gives a shit about the sport

[@stevecvino]

Love how professional they are. The game ends and they run out there shaking hands. Post game interview fantastic.

[@PatriotDave87]

That catch by Rudy was one of the best ever. I remember it being on the LP cover of The Swinging A's 1972 recap. As kids we always emulated that catch

[@charlessmith263]

I saw that greatest catch, and Rudy almost did a DP - he almost doubled-up Cincy's Tony Perez who had to hustle back to first. It was a close play but Tony was safe. If he were to be out, this would be the more-than-greatest play in MLB history, and Rudi would likely get the WS 1972 MVP (because he already blasted a sky-high dinger in that game too).

[@mortimerzilch2608]

crowd is quiet because they are shocked at how GREAT The Catfish is.

[@Tuning_Spork]

Outstanding picture quality. It's like it's 1972 and I'm 9 years old, sitting cross-legged on the living room floor eating a silver foil wrapped Hershey bar and watching the World Series on our Magnavox color TV. :-D

[@romelovesdan]

Or our "Jiffy POP" popcorn!

[@HRGreenShark]

Joe Rudi climbing up the wall ..."Highway Robbery" at it's best !!! The Oakland A's dynasty was the Best !!!!

[@josephsantoro5682]

Look at the quality of the video! Excellent! Why isn't the '73 series like this?

[@elvis55555]

Great quality! I was in grade school in SiouxCity Iowa in '72. My 3rd grade teacher wheeled a tv into the room and we watched the games live!

[@michaelvronsky2013]

The video quality here is amazing! It looks like this game was played last week. Thanks for posting this!

[@joedimaggio3687]

Al Michaels is only 27 years old here. Unbelievable.

[@travismaxwell9115]

Because he was W_____

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

yeah,ok,he still a whiner.....

[@richardsmith6496]

The Catfish Hunter interview is priceless.

[@gilbertdennis4872]

This is incredible go a’s

[@craiggibson4037]

YES! I felt certain that this game existed on video. In Ken Burns Baseball documentary from the early 90's there were a few brief broadcast clips from this series that gave me hope, but 'experts' would say "no they were wiped." Yet here it is.

[@JayDogTitan-he6wo]

The A's were not only the best team fundamentally but they were also the best looking team, Even back then they had different varieties of uniforms.

[@kevinmadden1645]

I think you are kidding yourself if you think the A's had a better team than the Reds . I am not a Cincinnati fan -Yankees since 1954.

[@michaelcrockette8694]

I think 3 consecutive WS wins kinda speaks for itself. (not an A’s fan but did enjoy their style).

[@bengaljam4550]

@@michaelcrockette8694 A's had good pitching. Except for Reggie Jackson most of the players were average to a little above average. Of the 8 starting lineup only Reggie Jackson is a HOF'r. Reds had 3 Hof players and the Hit king. None of the A's players except Jackson would have started for the Reds. Gene Tenace was a one man wrecking crew accounting for 9 of the 15 RBI's the A's had in the series. That and some lucky breaks for the A's doomed the Reds.

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Oh heck yes. Never thought I'd ever see any of the games played in Cincinnati.

[@lennyparadise4303]

Ty for the game it was wonderful try game 7 and game 1

[@joejoewest]

Looked like a beautiful day to play baseball on that day even though it was chilly.

[@BallparkHunter]

This is some great color for 1972!

[@arthurbaker8703]

Not to getgreedy but I would love to see game 5 '72 ALCS or any NLCS ALCS from the early 70's.

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Someone has the highlights of the 72' ALCS if you type it.

[@arthurbaker8703]

@@BAYAREA-kd1ig Thank you!!

[@rayjr62]

Awesome. But good luck finding any video tapes from either the ALCS or NLCS from 1971. It's as if they do not even exist.

[@kencummings953]

Johnny Bench played this series knowing that he had a spot on his lung that would have to be removed to determine whether or not it was cancerous. Fortunately it was benign.

[@gmaqwert]

Ahh, day World Series games.

[@flconductor2]

Great quality of a classic World Series. More please! The blurry sides are stupid - we can deal with black sides.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

announcers don't even mention Catfish's PERFECT GAME he threw 4 years earlier.

[@peterthart531]

Notice how different the swings are.

[@darrinbaker00]

At the microphone: 27-year-old Al Michaels.

[@rockintetster]

Wow has his voice changed over the years! I think he intentionally annunciates differently today. A different style of announcing is in vogue.

[@tgrsmuggs]

He sort of sounds like Vin Scully at this point.

[@justinellison4214]

Great qwality of video for 1972. Must be the master tape?

[@bobbyg433]

Omg such amazing quality

[@philippliskin9196]

Ohhhh what a catch !!

[@loyaldude10]

A's won the Series without Reggie Jackson. Shows how deep and balanced the team was. Dick Williams was a great manager also

[@dmutant2635]

Love Catfish Hunter.

[@bobgeorge413]

This was during the time when NBC used the local announcers on their WS telecasts. That is why Dick Stockton and not Joe Garagiola called the Fisk HR in 1975. Here, you have the first of three straight years of Monte Moore for Oakland. For this series, the Reds were represented by this young guy named Al Michaels. I remember both Moore and Michaels when I watched this series as a 13-year-old. I had absolutely no inkling that Michaels would go on to become one of the all-time greats. You listened to him back in 1972 and had no idea that eight years later he asked if you believed in miracles. He also called the Malcolm Butler interception for the Patriots against Seattle in SB XLIX. Anyway, this is a treat to hear Michaels as such a young man. You can go back another three or so years on one episode of the original "Hawaii Five-O" when he played a lawyer and had a brief exchange with Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord).

[@RRaquello]

I remember s a cynical little 11 year old watching this game saying, "Ahh, that wasn't such a great catch by Rudi. They're just making a big deal about it because they're trying to hypo the series and get more people to watch." See, after the game and in the papers, they were all saying it was one of the greatest catches in World Series history, and I wasn't buying it. But watching it all these years later, it really WAS one of the greatest catches in WS history, considering the circumstances of the game and the way he had to fight the sun. I guess I'm smarter now than the little wise guy I was back then. Even though I wasn't an A's fan, I was rooting for them because I always rooted for the American League teams, and Catfish Hunter was (and still is) one of my all time favorite players.

[@orbyfan]

I was 11 and listening to the radio broadcast, and had to take their word for it that it was a great catch. He made some other great catches in the World Series of '73 and '74 and in at least one All-Star Game.

[@kevinsablay7093]

Fantastic that this is the entire game 2 of the 1972 world series ! I would love to see game 7 from 1972 and 1973 and game 5 in 1974 vs the Dodgers and also see footage of the A's celebrations in their clubhouse..does that footage exist ?

[@stevonyl]

Indeed it does, but sadly you will have to search ebay for an out of print dvd titled "Vintage World Series Films" Oakland Athletics. It was distributed by MLB in 2006 and is amazing in every way as it covers all four of their championships in detail. They also issued this for other notable franchises

[@michaelabrams7345]

Game 7 from 73 exists. But missing the last 2 outs in the top of the 9th.

[@luisvaldes1568]

The Tigers where mention a couple of times from ALCS. They would not make the playoffs again till 1984 winning it all vs the Padres, who where Managed by Dick Williams. The Tigers manager in 1984, Sparky Anderson.

[@RichardFong]

The Catch!

[@jacksonj3082]

WOW - no batting gloves, elbow protectors, sliding mitts, didn't even see pine tar. Still very high quality play.

[@michaelleroy9281]

For 1972 only from mid season the A's had numbers on the right side in front

[@angusshaw5954]

I was able to download it. You have been redeemed. :)

[@jamesmmahoney]

Some might disagree, but as a 55-year MLB fan, I vote for Rudi's catch shown at 1:13:00, considering the blinding sun and the velocity of the hit ball, as the greatest in World Series history.

[@stevecvino]

💯 my father was an A's fan from way back when they were in Philly.

[@1189paris]

Arguably the Big Red Machine were the best team in the 1970's but it's hard to go against the Swingin' A's for their 3 peat.

[@angelic7007]

Yes really enjoyed watching the big red machine get battered again by the swinging A’s

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

fantastic defense by rudi and hegan

[@rhondareichner7369]

That. Was. A. Great. A’s team

[@RoundingThird]

Thank you Oakland!

[@travismaxwell9115]

KZbin, time machine strikes again 😂

[@williamthaxton2065]

The A's or Reds won every World Series from 1972 to 1976.

[@beltoldomaldonado5474]

Jackson and Jim Hunter wins 1977, 1978 Worlds Series

[@orlandovaca8478]

Can you please post the rest of the Series on this channel?

[@JBJB-uk7xu]

Could you please post game 7?

[@rockintetster]

The second World Series appearance for the Big Red Machine. Like the first one in 1970, they lost.

[@charlessmith263]

Kurt Gowdy, who was the narrator of the 1972 WS Highlight film, said this, and I can paraphrase what he said here - "On that final-out pop fly to bring the As that Game 2 victory, the Reds are now in big, big trouble--No MLB team in 1972 and before had come from behind from 2 games down in the WS and win the championship. The Big Red Machine has a lot of work to do if they want to win this 1972 series." (This is my paraphrase, not Gowdy's.)

[@sshaffer462]

AWESOME

[@bowlersinger]

1:13:00......Rudi's catch

[@roseandbench]

Two great teams...razor close. Reds got jobbed on Concepcion being called out at second.

[@rjpsuh06]

Before doing primetime NFL football, Al Michaels was the lead baseball announcer for ABC and before that did SF Giants, Reds and Triple A baseball in Hawaii. He was the Reds announcer from 1971-73, before Marty Brennaman. Doesn’t he sound a bit like Vin Scully?

[@americangiant1003]

rjpsuh06 Don’t forget Micheals also called the NBA Finals in 2004 and ‘05. Plus was the Studio Host for the Stanley Cup Finals from 2000-‘03 and of course the play by play for Olympics Hockey Tournament in 1980, ‘84 and ‘88. Talk about a diverse amount of world class sporting events he has covered in almost 50 years of his illustrious career. 😳

[@kencummings953]

@@americangiant1003 also covered the Hagler Hearns fight in 1985.

[@paulmorin6569]

Yeah to a degree (like Scully) that was my thought

[@timtebowsleftarm5368]

Wow. Al Michaels on the call!!

[@Scott-ly2nk]

I went to see the reds play the giants when al michaels was the broadcaster for the giants i had blue seats right by the resd dugout and al michaels was on the field and i said to him hay all do you like it in sanfranciso he looked at ne and said with a grin i like it except for the standings and chuckled a real down to earth guy taking his time to talk to me like that real pro

[@70Eldo]

loving the voice to text conversion same as my phone- nearly useless LOL

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

greatest team of the 70's,3 straight championships.....a no brainer lol

[@LovelyAbyssinianCat-ye6bd]

Curt and toney was the best curt helped toney alot in his deliverys

[@rafaelramirez1507]

What a catch by Joe Rudi 😳

[@angelic7007]

Gene I’m freaking MVP Tenence

[@rmartin7558]

Interesting that there's no chalk line denoting the outer edge of the infield. Michaels says they removed it that season. Anyone know the reason?

[@anduflah7513]

can y'all please upload 2006 ALDS game 3 vs minnesota next.

[@StFidjnr]

Jackie Robinson's final public appearance before he passed away

[@dariowiter3078]

Yeah.....WE KNOW!!!!! Idiot! 😠

[@michaelleroy9281]

He passed away 2 days after game 7

[@sharksice1]

They don’t include the opening ceremony with Jackie Robinson.

[@romelovesdan]

Now uploaded on the A's you tube page. Missing the team introductions, but still great! Check it out!

[@jonathanswift2251]

55:22 perhaps the last video image the world saw of Jackie Robinson. He would die 10 DAYS later!!!

[@jeffwright1722]

Fingers, Hunter, Jackson, Perez, Bench, Morgan (Rose), Anderson, Williams......all HOFers or should be.

[@roseandbench]

Bobby Tolan cost the Reds the 1972 World Series with a horrific game 7

[@bengaljam4550]

It's incredible the breaks the Oakland A's got in that series.

[@Scott-ly2nk]

Kubek was the man he really liked it when they had a play in the infield he would tell it like he was in the game cause toney was a good infieder himself it was a shame of his injury

[@kevinmadden1645]

An English teacher would have a field day with you.

[@charlessmith263]

Of course, it was the game where Pete Rose of Cincinnati becomes sort of a superstar. Through the power of the throwing arm as he played LF for Cincinnati. Just like Joe Ferguson did with the Dodgers (when the As were in the World Series in 1974), Rose almost gunned down Oakland's George Hendricks of the As trying to score home. It was a close play but George was safe. But Dick Green of the As was unlucky this time. Trying to score just like George, Rose does the same thing - fires a throw from outfield to home - caught by Johnny Bench, and Green was just 10 feet before him---Bench does the turnaround swipe tag, and Green was gunned down. Out at the plate. So what was going to be 2-0 Oakland is only 1-0 Oakland after 5 singles in Game 2's opening innings (1st and 2nd). The As offense never said die in Game 2, and that is how they won Game 2 despite Pete Rose, and the As led the series 2 games to 0.

[@BigChill73]

Right field blue seats used only for NFL and college football games. LOL 😂

[@dougmilesmedia]

Al Michaels sounds a lot like Vin Scully early in his career.

[@williamdunphy352]

Al Michaels (PBP) Curt Gowdy-Tony Kubek (C) 1st half Gowdy (PBP) Kubek-Michaels (C) 2nd half

[@rockylum6947]

Look at the Flintstone club that Bert Campaneris is swinging.

[@angelic7007]

Big red machine just broke down.

[@Daisyno2]

whats this BS with the sides of the frame being blurry

[@teddavidson]

"Due to time constraints"? What constraints are those? Anyway, you really should let us know ahead of time that you cut out 2 1/2 innings in the middle of the game. Other than that, the video quality is excellent.

[@jefflouis3113]

What would have been called if Rudi had been ruled to trap the ball against the outfield wall?

[@lorenanders702]

It would be a live ball, batter takes all he can get.

[@ericn1450]

Al Michaels was better than Gowdy as a play by play guy back then. You forget how good he was at baseball.

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires (Game 2) HP Jim Honochick (AL) 1B Mel Steiner (NL) 2B Frank Umont (AL) 3B Bob Engel (NL) LF Bill Haller (AL) RF Chris Pelekoudas (NL) (Crew Chief)

[@JoseTwitterFan]

This was only the 2nd national assignment Al Michaels, then the local voice of the Reds, ever had. 8 months prior, he was NBC's ice hockey voice at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics in Japan. Lightning really struck twice. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4Sql36cjL2qf5osi=yM55m6V1nfz3BxJn&t=1135

[@ronaldringler1497]

Time constraints? BS!

[@williamdunphy352]

NBC Radio: Monte Moore (PBP) 1st half Jim Simpson (PBP) 2nd half

[@RayManzarekRocks]

The A's were not the first major professional championship team in the Bay Area. The Oakland Oaks won the ABA title three years earlier. Would appreciate a correction here.

[@dominictant]

Screw the resolution.... The 72 73 and 74 Oakland A's were the best baseball team of all time.... And the best announcer of all time is hands-down Curt Gowdy.

[@kevinmadden1645]

You are out of your mind.

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

35:26 enter Earl Morrall. What a cosmic coincidence.

[@kencummings953]

Imagine that. A hitter complaining about the position of an infielder in 1972. Just like 2021. Make him pay for his shifting and he will stop doing it.

[@piustwelfth]

The A's, led by Gene Tenace, destroyed the heavily-favored Big Red Machine. A's pitching was outstanding.

[@RRaquello]

The only person I heard picking the A's in this series was my father. I remember us kids before the series talking about how the Reds were going to win easy and he interrupted us and said, "The A's are gonna win. Pitching. Pitching. Pitching. Always go with the team with the better pitching." He was right.

[@piustwelfth]

@@RRaquello I attended this World Series in Oakland when I was a kid. My Dad got tix because my great aunt was a huge A's fan but had never attended a game. She was born in Oakland in 1886! She was in her late 80s but attended the game where the A's scored in the bottom of 9th to win the game. She had a smile from ear to ear!

[@RRaquello]

@@piustwelfth That's cool. Oakland in 1886 must have still been the wild west. And she would have experienced the big earthquake in 1906-as an adult.

[@piustwelfth]

@@RRaquello Thanks for your reply. Her father came to Oakland in 1868 when the population was approx. 3,000! It's amazing you mentioned the 1906 earthquake because she used to me stories of the huge fire and smoke and all the people who came across the bay fleeing from SF. The population of Oakland tripled in the 10 years after the '06 quake. She also told me stories about taking the horse & buggy to Sacramento! She was an amazing person, made the best cookies and pies, and was a diehard A's fan. She never left the side of the radio while the game was on. She lived to see all three of their World Series victories. She died on the eve of Thanksgiving 1976.

[@marknapiorkowski]

4 games to 3 is destroyed? What do you call 1990?

[@RayManzarekRocks]

A's-Pirates would have been a better matchup. The Buccos were defending WS champs and had the best record in MLB in the regular season.

[@stevep8445]

Really? The '72 series went 7 games, with 6 of the games being 1-run games. Sounds like a good matchup to me..... Another uninformed you tube comment...

[@RayManzarekRocks]

@@stevep8445 Don't let an agenda get in the way of the facts, brah. The '72 Reds were the first team in major league history to advance to the World Series without the best record in its respective league, By virtually every stat and metric, the Pirates were slightly better than the Reds in the regular season. The Reds didn't earn the home field advantage in the playoffs. A cockamamie playoff system gifted it to them much like the Giants one year earlier and the Mets one year later. #DoYourHomework