San Francisco Giants vs. St. Louis Cardinals, June 8, 1962 - Baseball Radio Broadcast

[@henrykonkel6030]

Its always a pleasure to listen to Harry Caray. He always made every game exciting no matter what the score was.I miss you Harry.

[@Pookiepup1]

After the Giants and Dodgers moved to California, and the Cardinals would go on the road, it was very strange to listen to Carey and Buck broadcast until after midnight in St. Louis. A transistor radio under your pillow would do the trick without your mom finding out.

[@dhornjr1]

Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Stan Musial, Curt Flood, Ken Boyer. Some of the best players to ever play the game. It would have been nice to have been there that night and watch those legends while knocking back a couple of Busch Bavarian Beers.

[@daniellack3559]

My sentiments exactly...you nailed it....Such a powerful Giants lineup they could afford to bat Mays 2nd...Unreal!!!

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[@jayb8745]

So many legendary names! Wow! Fun to listen to!

[@SuperJeffreyt]

The Cubs never won the Series, but they did get 20+ years of Harry. What a consolation.

[@oklahomahank2378]

I listened to this today while grilling hamburgers and scored it. Ken Boyer comes through in the clutch and a great job by Lindy McDaniel setting down eight in a row. I resisted the repeated calls to smoke a Tarleton cigarette, even though it apparently has more flavor than you would expect in a filtered cigarette.

[@BluesImprov]

I did the same thing. . .Love to keep score. . .I remember learning how to keep score at old Busch Stadium 1 (Sportsmans Park). . .My Dad used to take me and my younger brother to Cardinals games there in the early 60's. . .And Ken Boyer was my favorite as a kid. . .I always had a fantasy of playing 3rd base for the Redbirds!

[@oklahomahank2378]

BluesImprov If you haven’t read it, I recommend “The Joy of Keeping Score” by Paul Dickson. Scoring keeps me in the game. We are a Cardinals family, too. Supposedly my dad took me to Busch 1 as an infant, but I don’t remember it. I live in Oklahoma and usually make one or two games a year.

[@robheaton]

Hopefully you enjoyed yourself an ice cold Busch Bavarian!

[@brendanjobe6895]

Just smoke a Lucky Strike. Amazing that Luckies were a leading-selling cigarette in 1961. Today, you can hardly find a pack.

[@scmager]

There's nothing like hearing old Harry Caray call a Cardinal game. Thanks for posting this.

[@kentschmitt9368]

Fun to listen to again. I was fortunate as a kid to see all these guys play in person when we lived in the Bay Area. Dad took me to Candlestick to see the Giants and Cardinals play 2 or 3 times in the early 60's. And I got to go to one game in old Busch Stadium (Sportsmans Park) in '61 while visiting family. Thanks for posting these great memories.

[@rogerlambert9316]

This is so much better than WWE.

[@johnholman1132]

Harry at his best. Jack Buck was consistently good throughout his career.

[@perryickes8991]

What a pitching match up Gibson verse Marichal

[@markstlcard]

I was there (age 11) Dal Maxvill was brought up that weekend. I idolized him

[@larryloveless2967]

Born in 1953 in St. Louis with baseball memories that start in 1960 or so this is a great find. From my mom's baby book on me that reads more like a diary we started going to Cards games in 1961. I relive this era by playing strat-o-matic with my 1964 Cards team versus the 1962 Giants, so I have gotten to know this Giants team even better. Stan Musial batted .330 this year at age 41. This Giants team is fun to play because they are loaded with home run hitters. My Cards and Giants teams play pretty even in a 4 game series. I really liked Jack Buck but Harry Caray is just so exciting and likely why I grew up a baseball fan. The Giants had a dilemma of two great first basemen in Cepeda and Mc Covery and if both played they gave up outfied defense so someone like Harvey Kuenn would play. I also really liked this Cards era with Ken Boyer and Bill White. Curt Flood and Javier of all the 1960s are there It's a great 4 game series for me playing Gibson, Simmons, Sadecki, and Craig versus Sanford, O'Dell, Pierce, and Marichal. I think an average bullpen the Giants' weakness. Thanks for placing on KZbin.

[@brendanjobe6895]

You just missed my cousin, Don Blasingame! I think his last year with St Louis was 1959.

[@larryloveless2967]

@@brendanjobe6895 Yes, I can tell from their roster in 1959 I was too young. I still on occasion play a baseball probability game called Strat-o-Matic that is very realistic bought in 1971 seeing a college buddy play it. I right away bought the 1960s teams offered from the game. Blasingame played second base and is on my 1961 Reds team that won the pennant that year. I still have that game and play it on occasion. It's like re-living those days with my 1964 and 1967 Cards teams. That is neat about having a cousin who played in the MLB.

[@brendanjobe6895]

@@larryloveless2967 Yep, he wasn't much of a long ball hitter, but man, he was fast. His son Gregg was/is just like him. I guess it's more "was". I tend to forget how old we are.

[@larryloveless2967]

@@brendanjobe6895 i knew he had played for the Cardinals in the 1950s. I can tell looking at the old baseball cards that 1964 was when I started buying Topps bubble gum packs that had 5 baseball cards in each. I did that for about 4 years. Good talking to you. In my game, those players are still playing in their prime.

[@BluesImprov]

brendanjobe6895 I was born in1950 in St. Louis. And as a kid during the mid-'50's I used to play ball (wiffle ball) with two kids who lived across the street from me. Their Dad supposedly played in the Cardinals minor league system, but never made it to the majors. I don't remember ever seeing their Dad, but twice one summer two Cardinal players showed up at their house to sort of hang out for a bit with their Mom. I guess these two guys had played with my friend's Dad who was still playing in the minor leagues. The two Cardinals were Joe Cunningham and I remember the other one being Don Blasingame. I knew who they were because I had both of their Topps baseball cards. I remember they hooked up a garden hose and started spraying it and chasing us kids around the yard with it. I had your cousin's Topps cards from both his days as a Cardinal and also as a San Francisco Giant. Fun memories from so long ago!

[@8044868]

We lived near Jefferson Barracks in 1962. Evenings with Harry and Jack are a great memory.

[@kipfogarty6832]

The Giants had to make up 4.5 games on the Dodgers in the final week to tie and force a 3 game playoff. We always listened to Russ Hodges and Lon simmons in SF, our longtime broadcasters, so it was fun to hear Caray and Buck's call for the Cardinal fans.

[@garywest8250]

LOVE the Miley Collection; it's a great way for the iPhone generation to see what they missed NOT growing up with Baseball's Golden Voices...

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

Think about all the future HOF'ers in this game- Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, Marichal, Bob Gibson, Stan Musial. And the Giants also had Gaylord Perry.

[@terrihenricks4160]

Not to mention the Hall of Fame broadcasters, Harry Caray and Jack Buck.

[@Tanamarito]

You forgot Lou Brock.

[@terrihenricks4160]

The Cubs didn't trade Lou Brock to the Cardinals for Ernie Broglio until early in the 1964 season. Incidentally, the trade made sense for both teams at the time. Broglio had been a decent pitcher for the Cardinals, and the Cubs needed pitching. Unfortunately, he developed physical problems and his career was soon over. If modern-day sports medicine had existed back then, the trade might not seem so one-sided today.

[@dhornjr1]

WILLIE MAYS CAN'T FIND IT!!! I got excited like it just happened instead of 56 years ago.

[@michaelmeyers3664]

@MUFC Why are you listening to this baseball broadcast????

[@Thekukills]

"His hobby is reading comic books and watching motion pictures" It's crazy how similar our lives really are to those men that came before us

[@maxand.1462]

"watching motion pictures"....I died of laughter...back in muh day, for a dime, I could watch a motion picture double header, eat 5 hot dogs with a side of fries with enough change left over for the bus ride back home...

[@submarinebells6853]

Rip Willie McCovey

[@toddcampbell5603]

How come Harry Caray isn't in the St Louis Cardinal Hall of Fame? He and Jack Buck are huge reasons I chose to be a Cardinal fan. As a kid, I listened to them every chance I could. The fact that he left St Louis under curious circumstances shouldn't have any bearing on the 25 years he excelled in the booth, championing the Cardinals !!

[@gls600]

Harry took a huge dump where he ate.

[@brian9670]

He fucked around with the Kings of STL

[@FerrellKatz]

He was 'dipping his pen' in the 'company ink'.

[@MrBlinkee]

When Harry hawked Busch Bavarian he knew what he was talking about!

[@terrihenricks4160]

Busch Bavarian was the beer that is now simply called Busch. And yes, nobody could sell beer like Harry Caray. Incidentally, Jack Buck was a more low-key beer salesman. I once heard him say, "Have a cold Busch. I would, but I just had an ice cream."

[@busterlouie6176]

MrBlinkee sure did

[@barbaradarnell.3802]

In the1962 world series,Giants catcher Tom Haller became the first National League player to hit a grandslam in a world series.42:11Mays and McCovey go back to back.

[@bruceaguilar8921]

It was Chuck Hiller not Tom Haller.

[@carlsmith3214]

The most amazing thing about this game is that Willie May's lost a routine fly ball that fell for a triple.

[@daniellack3559]

And such a rare, rare occurance...generally if Willie could even get in the vicinity of a fly ball ,it was an out:}

[@cadaverdog1424]

His play on Vic Wertz in 1954 is the most overrated play in MLB history _______________ Jim Edmonds made plays that were just as good __________

[@brendanjobe6895]

Makes me want to light up a Lucky and pop open a Mountain Dew (I don't drink beer).

[@Alan-lv9rw]

I was a month old living in a NYC suburb.

[@bto13e]

Just imagine if sporting events were still sponsored by Busch Bavarian Beer and Tareyton dual filtered cigarettes.

[@terrihenricks4160]

Thank goodness cigarette commercials are a thing of the past.

[@fatfreddyscat5767]

Now they're sponsored by Condoms!

[@brendanjobe6895]

@@terrihenricks4160 Cigarettes brought us programs and broadcasts that never would have occurred without them, from I Love Lucy to Jack Benny to numerous baseball games. Even Johnny Carson was sponsored by L & M for years. They are a legal product. I'd way rather hear a cigarette ad than a "feminine hygiene product" or a condom ad.

[@danjameson1572]

"too big to be a man and not quite big enough to be a horse." different world.

[@michaelmeyers3664]

How can we get more games from 1962 and 1963.

[@byrd56]

53:29--It's not Harry Caray without one of these.

[@williamdunphy352]

Harry Caray (PBP) & Jack Buck (C) 1-3/6-9 Buck (PBP) 4-5

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires HP Paul Pryor 1B Augie Donatelli (CC) 2B Frank Secory 3B Tony Venzon

[@cadaverdog1424]

Where was Angel Hernandez??__

[@michaelmeyers3664]

I am still waiting. It's been a year.

[@jamesm.3967]

Harry Caray is NOT a Cubs announcer...he was drunk in Chi. Jack Brickhouse is THE MAN. But he was a good announcer when he wasn't drunk, he was the Cards guy tho...

[@Frisco1522]

Caray became a total buffoon as he got older.

[@seangoodwin3046]

Different scenario to consider. All his years he was in St. Louis, the team won a few pennants and were usually in the first division. He didn't have to be at the show in St. Louis. He did in Chicago, especially with the White Sox, less with the Cubs.

[@patrickramirez5840]

Aay I want Russ and Lon.

[@Cb489]

Gibson vs. Marichal.

[@mascolo9987]

My dad was born in 1962

[@jimsmith6547]

Does any one really know the reason why harry Carey left the cardinals?I always heard he left because of an encounter with mr bush wife I always wondered if that was truth or fication

[@oklahomahank2378]

Had a fling with Mrs. Busch and Mr. Busch fired him.

[@jamest.byrnes8142]

Too true.

[@bobbydowns5506]

Taryton cigarettes were terrible.

[@terrihenricks4160]

ALL cigarettes are terrible. Today it says so right on the package.

[@user-vk8dp6gm7r]

i'd rather fight than switch!...(the only fighting the tareyton smokers ever did was fighting cancer...some fight...)

[@dhornjr1]

Elvis Presley was a surreptitious Tareyton cigarette smoker.

[@rayray4192]

Never ever saw Mays bat second. Cepada became a Cardinal.

[@BluesImprov]

Oh yeah, Orlando Cepeda as a Cardinal. . .We called him "Cha-Cha" and he called the Cardinals the "El Birdos". Cha-Cha won both the 1967 World Series and the National League MVP award in '67 as an "El Birdo."

[@rayray4192]

@@BluesImprov Giants never should have gotten rid of Cepeda. He was Cha Cha in the city as a Giant. You can.buy a Cha Cha bowl at Giants games. Chicken, rice, and black beans.

[@rayray4192]

The cigarette commercials are disgusting.

[@sidstorch2615]

You’re just desperate to feel sophisticated, like every other millennial. Hate to break it to you, but none of these players or announcers believed in any “climate emergency,” none of them believed everyone in Africa or Asia had some kind of cosmic “right” to move here, and none of them believed that black people should be exempted from the criminal law, ala BLM. In other words, they all would have viewed you and your blue-haired friends as freaks.