1968 MLB All Star Game HOUSTON Original NBC Broadcast (Kinescope)

Original NBC Broadcast of the 1968 All Star Game from Houston Astrodome 7/9/68 Kinescope
Taken from the original pre recorded VHS Master tapes color corrected and Frame Rate corrections from my original VHS/DVD archives
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[@eddiesimms9301]

I looked at the starting lineup for both leagues. Very few of them are STLL alive....Willie Howard Mays Jr. passed away this week at the ripe young age of 93.....Willie, you made the game FUN. You played with a lot of FLARE and EXCITEMENT, and you also made it FUN to watch as well... But more importantly than anything else.. You PROTECTED the IMAGE of the game both on and off the field....... Thank you.......R.I.P

[@docadams7099]

This was the first MLB All-Star Game to be played at night, and it was also the first to be played on that wonderful stuff known as AstroTurf.

[@RRaquello]

There actually was one previous All-Star game played at night. It was surprisingly early, during the war, 1942 or 43 around there. There was an interesting double All-Star "event" that year. The first game, I believe, was played at the Polo Grounds in NY, the AL vs. the NL. The second game, in Cleveland, was the MLB All-Stars vs. the Service All-Stars, players who were in the armed services. This was to raise money for the USO. Both were played at night.

[@robertclifton2211]

First time seeing this game, I was in the jungles of Vietnam. Thanks for uploading. Appreciate the b/w but thought it would be in color at that time.

[@pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229]

if you don’t understand Kinescope do some research, will explain why it’s in black n white

[@EdsterIII]

This All-Star Game happened 9 months after I was born. So many iconic players were playing, pitching, hitting! This is pure history!

[@edwardanthony7283]

I believe it is The Killebrew hamstring split game. Saw this too way back when.

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

40:10

[@jacksonj3082]

1968 Year of the Pitcher stats are mind-boggling - 37 pitchers with 10 complete games or more (Marichal, McLain, Gibson had 30, 28, 28 CG's), McLain 31 wins, Gibson 13 shutouts (another 19 had 5 or more SHO's, Cardinals had 30 SHO's as a team), Gibson's 1.12 EAR (next lowest by starter in modern era Justin Verlander with 1.75 in 2022 which is magnificent given changes in MLB rules), 4 pitchers over 300 innings pitched, 52 others over 200 innings pitched, Mike McCormick & Ray Washburn back-to-back no-hitters, Don Drysdale 58 scoreless inning streak

[@donpietruk1517]

Tiger catcher Bill Freehan was selected to 11 All Star games and somehow isn't in the Hall of Fame. Baseball is so weird sometimes.

[@SteveAustin-jp3ev]

I agree

[@petes2feet]

This is wonderful

[@iangraham9988]

I would’ve thought Denny McLain and Bob Gibson would have been the starters

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

McLain was supposed to start, but he had a dental appointment he just couldn't miss - at least that's how the story goes...

[@johnvrabec9747]

I had all their baseball cards, too. Almost all of the starters are Hall if Famers, too. That's when baseball was basebakl.

[@barbaradarnell7376]

I like any all star game Willie Mays is in!

[@cb8868]

Tommy Helms underrated 2nd baseman. Fielding wizard

[@spcooper94]

1:26:00 Rare Footage of Sam McDowell pitching

[@jimdep6542]

"Sudden Sam" McDowell. One of the best.

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

My Giants got him in a trade for the 'washed up' Gaylord Perry, I think we all know how THAT turned out 😢

[@billbergendahl2911]

Jim Fregosi would be traded by the California Angels to the New York Mets in 1972 for Nolan Ryan.

[@ricjan58]

How in the hell did Willie Mays get game MVP over Tommy Helms?

[@glmike523]

Because it is Willie Mays!

[@michaelleroy9281]

If you like offense, this wasn't your game

[@williammize8270]

1968 this look real old world series tigers cards didn't look like this

[@RichMansour]

Why on earth does this game look like it was in 1930s?

[@pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229]

kinescope

[@davidkester7750]

Kinescope involved using a film camera to record the live video feed, hence the poor quality. This was how they would take the live east coast broadcast of early tv shows to replay them in the other time zones.

[@chrisnalina1755]

@@davidkester7750 Video tape was actually available as early 1958. Kinescopes are the absolute worst. No reason that they used a kinescope in 1968, that was ancient technology, even then.

[@RRaquello]

@@chrisnalina1755 Kinescopes don't look bad if they are well preserved, but what's really bad is a B&W kinescope taken from a color TV picture, like this. The kines from the 1968 WS, which were also from a color broadcast, aren't bad at all. Probably this kinescope was made for Armed Forces Radio & TV, to be shown overseas. Probably used film instead of videotape because a film projector were probably more easily available overseas.