I'm glad I accidently found this gem. I love baseball nostalgia.
@Tsip895 жыл бұрын
Same here. Somebody posted it on a 70s baseball Facebook page today and I've been sharing with like-minded baseball friends like mad.
@hawkrolla2 жыл бұрын
me too
@javenjohnson1742 жыл бұрын
This is the greatest price of content ever made.
@georgehoban62394 жыл бұрын
This footage was way ahead of its time . HBO's Hard Knocks was 30 years behind ! Thanks for posting
@joemeehan93293 жыл бұрын
This film is pure baseball gold.
@buckminsterfullerene116 ай бұрын
Not even a Cubs fan, but this is pure gold!
@broken19655 жыл бұрын
I loved WF in those days a kid in the 60's it was a day in heaven going to a Cubby game still have all my roster programs
@seabrook19768 жыл бұрын
This was amazing. Unbelievable footage. Thank you for posting this.
@seabrook19764 жыл бұрын
MANCHESTER UNITED no one cares. Go away until 2040 then.
@Local1Laborer6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Canada for saving this masterpiece. And a big flying F you to WGN for scrapping all their shows made before 1980.
@wadegarrett20535 жыл бұрын
nothing exists in their archives before 1980? what happened?
@TheCrazyCanuck4205 жыл бұрын
@@wadegarrett2053 Really that sucks.... if that's true don't let them off the hook
@douglaslowe54 жыл бұрын
Is that true about WGN? Lots of old Cubs Brickhouse era footage is out there. Even old Newscasts and Bozo shows.
@dianerand55044 жыл бұрын
Ppp0
@dianerand55044 жыл бұрын
@@wadegarrett2053 p
@kurtwehrmeister56844 жыл бұрын
A few tiny inaccuracies here and there (Kokomo is in Indiana, not Michigan), but there is all sorts of stuff here that you'll never, ever find in the sanitized stuff that used to air on WGN Channel 9 in Chicago. All the dugout language completely unbleeped, intimate closeups of the whole early-Seventies crew you do NOT see elsewhere, reminders of how tightfisted teams were before the ending of the Reserve Clause, a rich look at all aspects of early-Seventies fashions and culture, and with Jenkins especially, an in-depth look at how surprisingly fragile his pitcher's psyche could be. Must viewing for ANY fan of the late-'60s/early-'70s Cubs.
@eddiewilbanks13825 жыл бұрын
this is so awesome ! Didn't know this existed... but so glad it does. I was just a boy at this time and loved baseball. I remember my baseball cards and radio broadcasts during this period. I grew up in a small town in West Tennessee so not a lot of MLB on TV but KMOX and Cardinals baseball was my connection. Even though this is a Cubs thing i still love it !!! Thanks for uploading
@benncranklin33343 жыл бұрын
Great footage and commentary. Amazing Fergie Jenkins won 284 games while having to play the vast majority of his career with the Cubs and Rangers. Both were hitters parks too.
@jasonamico46806 жыл бұрын
Joe Pepitone part is unbelievably golden. Can see why he's Larry David's favorite player
@smartluck1002 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful. A fantastic snapshot of history. I would love to see what was left on the cutting room floor.
@czrad81254 ай бұрын
My team forever
@mausolos82 жыл бұрын
The first ballgame I ever saw was at Connie Mack Stadium in June 1967. I was 9 years old. Ferguson Jenkins vs. Jim Bunning. Cubs won 3-1. Billy Williams hit a 3 run homer for the Cubs. Tony Taylor hit a solo shot for the Phillies. I am a lifelong Phillies fan, hands down. …….but next to the Phillies I always root for the Cubs.
@TheCrazyCanuck4205 жыл бұрын
Never saw him pitch first hand, but damn look at that fast ball in this video, that's figgen nuts
@piedmontphilly4 жыл бұрын
The game against the Phillies is not opening day, but June 27, 1972. The Cubs won 6-3.
@herschie914 жыл бұрын
I finally get the reference from "The Boys of Zimmer" when Wayne Messmer says "eat your heart out, Carmen Fanzone" when Dwight Smith sang the National Anthem.
@TruthHasSpoken6 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine a starting pitcher today pitching into the *** 10th *** inning !?
@TheCrazyCanuck4205 жыл бұрын
Without an O2 mask? Never, but that's what I think of all sports outside of hockey :)
@joeferguson26064 жыл бұрын
harvey haddix
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
Yes. If it's Jenkins, Gibby, Seaver or Marichal... Ryan...
@SwoteOffical3 жыл бұрын
Back then they had lower pitch counts.
@logalogalog11 жыл бұрын
Once Jenkins was traded to Texas, he had the best season of his entire career with 25 wins. Fergie was a class act and still is today.
@jim720683 жыл бұрын
@M What's that got to do with anything? You can't even use your hands when playing soccer... hand dexterity is the one thing that separates humans from animals. The only reason soccer is even remotely popular in the USA is because it was a good sport for Thalidomide children in the 70's.
@Matthew-kv7nx2 жыл бұрын
Met him at the hall of fame classics hotel he stood outside talking to us for like 40 minutes
@akbarlebowitz8151 Жыл бұрын
@M Soccer's A Third World sport. This is America BITCH!!
@42.0fmthefever55 жыл бұрын
I am also from Chatham, Ontario and I just meet Fergie Jenkins during Rogers Hometown Hockey and he sign my baseball for me such a amazing guy thank you Fergie :) also my grandma use to play baseball with him when they were children :)
@tomace194 Жыл бұрын
From chatham as well glad they just had a statue of him made. He has had a crazy life. Even after baseball
@orbyfan8 ай бұрын
I saw this when it was first broadcast on CBC on April 3, 1974.
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
Ernie Banks still looks younger than most of the still active players.
@zach71934 жыл бұрын
That was something. You don't see that on WGN. Players, umpires, managers swearing, what happens after the game ends, behind the scenes in the game. It had all. It was great.
@TheCrazyCanuck4205 жыл бұрын
From the stories my family have told me about working around Fergie Sr. he was one hell of a funny character. I could tell them but social justice warriors would have a hay day. Fergie Sr. had all the makings of being a stand up comedian as far as I can tell. Very proud of Fergie since I never though our people would make it big in MLB (and by our people I mean Canadians). Fergie showed them that's for sure!
@Matthew-ph9hp5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking me back in time
@bmorebob66245 жыл бұрын
This is awesome, a treasure really. Thanks for posting!
@BarryJowers7 жыл бұрын
11:03 The ladies at Wrigley have always looked great
@corn19718 жыл бұрын
Santo & Hundley. I sure miss hearing them call Cubs games.
@michaelward98802 жыл бұрын
I miss watching them play.
@stevenmccart54552 жыл бұрын
I have always been a die hard Dodger fan. And also an Angel fan because I'm a Homer. But for some reason I always pulled for both the Cubs and the Red Sox.
@samuelbarrett5648 Жыл бұрын
The only thing that would've made this video better is if the footage had been taken a year earlier in the 1971 season, so the team's uniforms would still be wool and have button-front jerseys and belted pants. I can only imagine seeing film of the Cubs in the Astrodome just a season prior to this when the Astros still had Joe Morgan during their first season of orange being their dominant color, making them the first MLB team to ever use orange as their primary color (Giants and Orioles both have black predominantly). Or even film of Fergie Jenkins' 20th win in '71, also against the space-age Astros but this time at Wrigley Field. If anyone reading this has any footage that fits with what I've said here, PLEASE let me know.
@aboxofbroken8tracks9837 жыл бұрын
I've been a fan for 50 years and I have absolutely no memory of that bullpen cart.
@akbarlebowitz81514 жыл бұрын
The irony is that it went under the bleachers where the bullpens are actually located now.
@tonydio6663 жыл бұрын
Fergie's pitching book taught me how to pitch as a kid. Great guy!
@durielroberts99865 жыл бұрын
My late mother's favorite player
@Tsip895 жыл бұрын
Outstanding.
@MrCorinth10 жыл бұрын
I just met him, great guy
@TheCrazyCanuck4205 жыл бұрын
Well he's Canadian so what did you expect? :)
@nickpappas53995 жыл бұрын
great pitcher terrible guy....hunting and demanding trades...pure trash.
@chriszenko35985 ай бұрын
Great video can’t believe I’ve never seen it before 10 out of 10
@gmaneis3 жыл бұрын
The last time I was at Wrigley, Fergie hit two home runs and beat the Expos 5 to 2. Amazing game. That was almost 50 years ago. No desire to go back. $119 average ticket price now. Most expensive seat in 1971 was about $3.50. Today's ballplayers are spoiled rotten. Fergie and those Cubbies were the last of a forever lost golden era.
@whocares62834 жыл бұрын
I miss baseball
@1withtheflow1025 жыл бұрын
I got to drive Furgeson Jenkins today from a hotel to his home in the outskirts of Phoenix. Never knew about him until today. This was an awesome video.
@akbarlebowitz81516 жыл бұрын
A's manager Dick Williams at 7:05. He managed the SD Padres team that beat the Cubs in 5 games in the 1984 NLCS.
@StFidjnr4 жыл бұрын
after the padres lost the 2 games at Wrigley
@DeadAbeVigoda6 жыл бұрын
Nice seeing Wrigley Field before Ricketts turned it into a corporate beer tap.
@kurtishess88835 жыл бұрын
It was turned into that a long time ago
@latouselatrec5 жыл бұрын
Imagine the nerve of them winning the World Series
@justinriddick12505 жыл бұрын
Nice seeing it the way it was in the old days, but we wouldn't have Wrigley Field anymore if a lot of that commercial stuff wasn't added.
@Newmanart774 жыл бұрын
Great show old school Canadian tv
@CapAnson1234511 жыл бұрын
wow how have I never seen this?
@danholm495211 ай бұрын
Then fergies 2nd wife died, then fergie trusted a old GF to help him and she murdered his daughter and killed herself! This dude has been through..
@deco98312 жыл бұрын
amazing video!
@65mcman9 жыл бұрын
Fergie Jenkins is best friends with my grandparents
@doctorspencer90019 жыл бұрын
65mcman Fergie Jenkins played 1976-1977 with my team the Red Sox also.
@RovingRoy11 жыл бұрын
Why can't we just go back to simpler days in sports? It's so commercial now.
@kjchicago17 жыл бұрын
And they're making money off of it
@spcwrnglr4 жыл бұрын
watch minor league baseball
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
@M fk soccer ⚽ fk U.
@Cockmaster27able3 жыл бұрын
M I love playing both sports lol
@lwcowgirls10 жыл бұрын
six consecutive 20 win seasons
@jacobthorson17495 жыл бұрын
That never happened the worst record in baseball by a team that is still around today came from the 62' Mets in their inaugural season. They went 40-120 with a .250 win percentage.
@RobertGerman3 жыл бұрын
This is great!
@Packsuperbowl7 жыл бұрын
By the early 70's the Cubs became a powerhouse once again.....LOLOLOLOLO.
@gjmaztr78 жыл бұрын
Its strange at 40:00 in the vid clip, young 10 yr old sports fan only want Fergie Jenkins autograph, and not Starting '72-'73 NL All-Star outfielder Billy Williams autograph. During the yr. Fergie won 22 games. Funny Joke, at 45:00, when the Sports agent asked Fergie,, So how are going to pitch Ron HUnt tomorrow? Fergie says 'we'll pitch him in, and hopefully he puts his head in the way. That's funny....since Ron Hunt led the MLB in getting hit by a pitch ("for a walk") about 5 seasons in a row, from 1969 to 1973. In 1972-73, 5 time All-Star Cub 3rd baseman Ron Santo had the 'best sideburns in Baseball' about as great a sideburn as Wayne Osmond...of 'the Osmonds". Cool Video clip...for any Baseball Card collector like me..
@vaughnmild44674 жыл бұрын
I miss you Grandma
@philrivera11633 жыл бұрын
Is that her at 11:03
@vaughnmild44673 жыл бұрын
@@philrivera1163 Naw man. She was a 2nd generation Cub fan born in 1918 a never saw them win. It just made me think of her. I found out after my Grandfather past in 2002 that he had to play the role of a Cub fan cause my family was from Bucktown on the Northside. My Grandma listened to EVERY game on the radio for almost her whole life. My Grandpa was in an orphanage as a kid on the Southside and was a Sox fan right before the infamous "Black Sox Scandal". I woulda been a 4th generation Cub fan, but seeing Harold Baines hit a homer a row in front of me at the old park MADE me defect. Bums me out that my Grandfather didn't hold on a few more years to see the Sox win in 05, but he saw them win as a kid. Poor Grandma past a year after Grandpa, but NEVER got to see the Cubs win. Seeing some of these older guys just made me think of her. She REALLY loved that 69 team as did the rest of my family. And the 84 team and the 89 team etc lol
@philrivera11633 жыл бұрын
@@vaughnmild4467 that’s awesome man. My grandma just passed away this summer, like yours, she was a huge Astros fan. We even got her a cardboard cutout for the past season and had it placed behind home plate. I miss her
@MGAF6885 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when Wrigley wasn't packed out every game.
@richiebambara398010 жыл бұрын
Good stuff.
@dwightschoener59313 жыл бұрын
Its Hundley not Huntley
@NkrumahTure8 жыл бұрын
Fergie won that 1971 N.L. Cy Young Award.
@kjchicago17 жыл бұрын
First Chicago Cubs Pitcher To Do So
@marcomacias39604 жыл бұрын
well at least we got the World Series in 2016
@aaronanon30568 жыл бұрын
I didn't know Abraham Lincoln liked baseball.
@jgarrison13094 жыл бұрын
Ernie Banks coaching first base at 13:50
@paul353 Жыл бұрын
why can't i find an online account of the Cubs / Phils opening day game shown here
@dansasveld95648 ай бұрын
I thought the same thing. It seems that they have the audio from the Cubs 2-1 opening day victory over the Cardinals in 1971 with video from a game against the Phillies.
@whyicare3 жыл бұрын
I believe Fergie Jenkins ranks second behind Bert Blyleven in all-time wins by a pitcher born outside the US.
@willdrucker42918 жыл бұрын
ehhhh I just knew something was wrong with this video...Opening Day, April 15th, 1972...the Cubbies LOST to the Phillies on that day....Fergie only pitched the first 6 innings....Bill Hands came in in relief and gave up the winning runs in the top of the 9th...still pretty cool stuff
@maxwethersfield8 жыл бұрын
Will Drucker I think Burt (or Bert, however you spell it) Hooten threw a no hitter against the Phillies the next day.
@waynemegaman8 жыл бұрын
Possibly the specific footage youre referring to was actually opening day 1973. The info above says this film is a composite of the 72 - 73 season but they never tell us the dates during documentary.
@aboxofbroken8tracks9837 жыл бұрын
Cubs hosted Montreal on opening day in '73. So I guess they just made up Fergie's opening day victory out of whole cloth and stock footage here. Still a fascinating movie.
@akbarlebowitz81517 жыл бұрын
Opening day footage is actually from 6-27-1972, first game of a Doubleheader. Jenkins pitched and #12 J.C. Martin was the catcher. Cubs won 6-3 and Jenkins went 2 for 4 batting with two RBI's. Yes, they looped and canned the broadcast footage. The Astros game was the first of three in Houston, yet Brickhouse said it was back to Wrigley Field after they lost.
@aboxofbroken8tracks9837 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for that research. Damn, makes you wonder why they didn't just hire actors to play the Cubs.
@simplygu8 жыл бұрын
The footage presented in this documentary is incredible. But we didn't need to see naked ball players in the club house.
@posysdogovych20658 жыл бұрын
Here you go: 11:05 Feel better?
@jorgejohnson4514 жыл бұрын
36:42 “When Leo Durocher was permitted to step aside.” Nice of Jack not to kick Leo on the way out.
@johnnyso19795 жыл бұрын
Jenkins and Maddox #31
@Lava19644 жыл бұрын
Who is the narrator? I suspect it is Jack Dennett from Hockey Night in Canada.
@orbyfan6 ай бұрын
Donald Brittain, the director. He did sound like Dennett, who was still alive when the film was made.
@bobbyhullfan10778 жыл бұрын
The ivy looks too lush for opening day. Even if they opened on the road, the ivy takes a while to get that mature...strange. I wonder if it was an early, warm spring or they just used the wrong footage with the audio. Still, this thing about Fergie and the Cubs is pure gold, so much up close and personal insight you will never hear or see today. Pepitone called the umpire a sissy fag...do you think that would ever get on T.V. today? Not that it was a good thing Pepitone did that, just the realness of it. When I was a kid I was at Wrigley. I went to the Cubs dugout and layed on my belly and looked in the dugout. There was Leo, he face not two feet away from mine. I said "Give me an autograph" he said "I can't the umpires are on the field, I would get fined!" I then looked down the dugout and there was Billy, we locked eyes, he then looked away because he knew I was going to ask him next. Anyway, this is the real Wrigley, and Jack was the real Cubs announcer, he really got screwed... it was Milo Hamilton who replaced Jack, and the Cubs screwed Milo too, they promised him a career with the Cubs, then Harry the drunken shill for Budweiser came over and muscled him out. Notice the red doors in the outfield, no seats in the right and left bleachers, they were still catwalks, no rooftop seats. This was the real Wrigley, and I would trade the Cubs playing one game under .500 for the next hundred years to play in this Wrigley, not the glitzy, hyper, digitalized piece of garbage that Wrigley is now. The buildings across the street look so cluttered with all that crap...they look like a hoarders living room in a trailer park.
@aboxofbroken8tracks9837 жыл бұрын
It's pieced together from different games. Brickhouse's commentary sounds "looped" as well...just too "stagey" to be from actual broadcasts.
@brettrhyno2556 жыл бұрын
i'm not sure I do think that might be opening day though, they did play the Phillies to start the season. Who knows.
@akbarlebowitz81516 жыл бұрын
The first footage of them in Montreal, they are wearing the 1972 road uniforms, then Durocher is fired. Then you see Fergie talking about Leo's firing in the 1973 road uniform. Then they show Burt Hooten's grand slam at home in 1972. Yeah, it's pieced. Badly!
@latouselatrec5 жыл бұрын
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
@ooammo6323 жыл бұрын
As soon as i saw Canada in knew what was up
@rushmore1204 жыл бұрын
Theres Yosh at 15:38
@simplygu8 жыл бұрын
@ 51:16... How about this for a "fuck you to Cubs ownership." Fergie Jenkins was traded from the Cubs to the Texas Rangers on October 25th, 1973. His first season with the Rangers in 1974 Jenkins made 41 starts, had 29 complete games, threw 6 shutouts, had 225 strikeouts, pitched 328 innings, and had a record of 25-12 with a 2.82 era. He finished second in the Cy Young award voting. Jenkins was traded for Bill Madlock.
@akbarlebowitz81517 жыл бұрын
And future HOF 2nd baseman Vic Harris. Oh, wait!!
@durielroberts1673 Жыл бұрын
At least Ferguson “Fergie” Jenkins ended his career with the Chicago Cubs
@danholm495211 ай бұрын
Where are the loyal cub fans? I went to games then... now the rich from the north side buy all the tickets! Loyal fans? They forget 1972! And the cubs were very good that year, never out of it. And look at all the empty seats!
@flame-sky71483 жыл бұрын
How can Canada document and preserve this and not America? I mean it's the Cubs!
@sandyboggs80992 жыл бұрын
1972
@andrewjames2278 жыл бұрын
Why is Fergie pitching into the 10th ? Was that normal ?
@joeferguson26068 жыл бұрын
+andrewjames227 heck yes, look at his stats for complete games during the late 60s and early 70s
@boataxe46057 жыл бұрын
Yes, while the "experts" claim that today's athletes are better conditioned than those in the past that does not apply to pitchers, compleat games were once the norm.
@marksieving79255 жыл бұрын
Actually, he pitched into the 11th. He pitched 10 1/3 innings that game, before giving up a walkoff homerun.
@chadguendelsberger2193 Жыл бұрын
Mixing chewing tobacco with bubble gum??? To “kill the taste”??? The taste is what makes chewing tobacco great. Golly. Bubble gum and red man sounds vomit-inducing
@johnrobinson18404 жыл бұрын
11:03 Hot Pants 'memba dem?
@philrivera11633 жыл бұрын
Somebody grandma was out there being cheeky lol
@chrisbawksL16 жыл бұрын
8:00
@pbrickley62477 жыл бұрын
Ferguson needs to tell his teammates to shut the hell up during the national anthem and show some respect.
@akbarlebowitz81517 жыл бұрын
Bill Hands #49 is the one blabbing.
@latouselatrec5 жыл бұрын
Oh you wouldn't get bored here at 162 times a year
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
I guess Durocher wasn't the problem, eh?
@whyicare3 жыл бұрын
Why is Joe Pepitone constantly yapping.
@paul3534 жыл бұрын
only 86 players chewed tobacco in the early 70s?!!! maybe 86 didn't
@TheBatugan773 жыл бұрын
Jenkins... Over 3000 Ks. Less than 1000 walks. Find another pitcher that can claim that. Hint: You won't.
@nathanielmcdonald173 жыл бұрын
Maddux, Schilling and Martinez too.
@latouselatrec5 жыл бұрын
I can't stand people that disrespect the Ricketts because they want to make money you know just be glad that he doesn't tear Wrigley down and make a much bigger more improved Stadium
@danholm495211 ай бұрын
The so called 'LOYAL'' Cub fans booed Fergie? Again.. Cub fans have never been the best fans....Until they won in 2016, and the rich that were the only ones to afford tickets were asking? 'Did someone get a touchdown'? F the Cub fans...
@2Sugarbears4 жыл бұрын
Seemed to be more about others than about Fergie.
@rhill5410 жыл бұрын
"Trust in God". On the Cubs. That kills me.
@danielwells62903 жыл бұрын
12:48 if this was true then 2016 would have been 100 years as well as the same year they won the world series.