1946 world series

[@timothycollins4143]

I had the privilege to discuss that game in 1988 on Sunday morning church step with Dave Boo Ferris himself. I love Baseball and he described how they lost the game down to detail as if had happen five minutes before even though it was 40 years before. What a privilege to have know that man. He was truly An amazing player and Coach.

[@steverenom.299]

Boo would be in the Hall of Fame today if his arm didn't give out.

[@MrTrackman100]

Great Series. I'm most impressed by the all-out hustle on bothe sides. Every man ran all out all the time.

[@tree7249]

They played for the love of the game. Now its money and love of themselves. No need to hustle when you get paid either way.

[@Diosprometheus]

@@tree7249 Today's players are told today not to hustle for fear they will injure themselves, and this criticism is re-inforced by baseball announcers.

[@tree7249]

@@Diosprometheus yes money ruined the game. I could see that coming the minute cable TV came into the home.

[@westhoodqualzini7884]

@@tree7249 in 1946 the average mlb game was 1 hour 45 minutes long. The game had such rhythm and flow. Today the average game is 3 hours and 10 minutes long. Notice a trend the game has become longer and the ratings have dropped. MLB needs to address pace of play and eliminate the boring parts of the game or mlb will continue to suffer

[@jaycompany4886]

@@Diosprometheus yep, money is the root of all problems.

[@sonnycorleone7461]

Great highlights. This series was super-close. Most memorable Play in series was probably Enos Slaughter mad dash run from first to home. Joe DiMaggio was probably there to see his Brother Dom DiMaggio play.Plus rip Bobby Doerr, Red sox second baseman, who died in 2017 just months away from his 100th birthday ! Plus I heard Ted Williams cried after series was over thinking he let down the owner of the Red sox. Ted shouldn't of cried. The red sox wouldn't be in without you Teddy Ballgame. Plus last line when they said at 26:17 old stars back and new stars coming up.......Namely Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ! Thanks for the upload !

[@philiptucci2458]

Great World Series, thank you for sharing

[@georgestevens1502]

This shows a major difference between where hitters stood in the batter's box then and the change that developed over the succeeding decades. For roughly the first 50 years (1900-1950) batters where either centered over the plate, or even in front of it. The first batter shown in this video even steps his front foot out of the front of the batter's box at contact with the pitch. Clips of Ruth and Gehrig also show them landing their front foot out of the front of the batter's box on contact. Hitters were trying to hit the pitch before it moved over the plate. Nowadays most hitters stand as far back on the box as possible, and even rub out the back line of the box with their shoes to fudge where that line is. But, this approach also allows the pitch to break as much as possible. It would be interesting to see a modern hitter move up to the front of the box like in the old days. Technically, contact with a pitch with a foot out of the box is supposed to be an automatic out. It was and has been rarely enforced, either in the old days or now.

[@terryp3034]

This was a great Series. The baserunning was so aggressive. Just in the highlights alone, I was amazed at the doubles that barely beat the throws to second. Ted Williams always maintained that the late Forties was the best played MLB ever. And he followed the game into the late 80s, early 90s.

[@Diosprometheus]

@Nelson's Rudolph [I would even bet DiMaggio had just as good numbers facing right handers as Williams had facing left handers and vice versa.] You would lose your bet. Ted Williams hit .463 against left-handers and .387 against right-handers in 1941. www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=willite01&year=1941&t=b Joe DiMaggio hit .391 against left-handers and .342 against right-handers in 1941. www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=willite01&year=1941&t=b Williams played in the '46 series with a sore elbow. A few days before the series began, Williams was hit on the elbow by a curveball thrown by the Washington Senators' pitcher Mickey Haefner during an exhibition game in Fenway Park against an All-Star team. His elbow swelled up, as he said, "like a boiled egg". He could barely swing the bat the day before the series began. The injury accounted for his poor Series. In his 1966 Hall of Fame Speech, Ted Williams called for opening the Hall to the Great players of the Negro Leagues. He specifically mentioned Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson as belonging in the HoF. Ted was also critical of the Red Sox anti-integration policies while he was a member of the team saying he felt the team would have been much better in the 1950s had it integrated sooner than in 1959.

[@davids9520]

The 1940's World Series are interesting for the fact, so many different teams got a chance to play in the series. Unlike the 1950's, when the New York teams dominated the World Series.

[@timothycollins4143]

Coach Ferris as I new him who started games 3 and 7. Was an amazing player and coach throughout his life. What honor to have know him. He played with such zeal. I will never forget that day I spoke of. He described the play with such zeal. Complaining that they should not have scored on that play. He was frustrated about that play 42 years later. U hear about all the great players on that team. Boo Ferris went on to affect baseball at the College level and change lives with his abilities but also with his zeal for caring for his players and friends. He wrote. Birthday cards to all his players even after they played for him. One more thing I was little ole college kid who wanted to Coach. I will never forget the day Coach invited me into his office and spoke with me for few minutes and offered to let me copy his handbook for coaching baseball and told if I had any other questions just ask. Maybe that’s silly to y’all. But I was not a player. And just college kid trying to get better. I was humbled. Great man. Anyways just wanted to share! My experience let y’all know about Boo Ferris

[@felixmadison5736]

Thanks for this video! This is great stuff as I'm replaying the 1946 Series using the Strat-O-Matic board game. Cards won Game 1, 5-2 behind Howie Pollett's complete game.

[@tonyvanderlinden1353]

They don't come any better than Musial and Williams!

[@oldeconomist4235]

It's such a shame that Williams injured his elbow just before his one and only World Series.

[@theID2]

and they don't come any worse than garagiola and slaughter.

[@theID2]

@Nelson's Rudolph i'm white and from chicago and i do!

[@jaycompany4886]

No it doesn't

[@felixmadison5736]

Stan 'The Man' Musial was the National League's answer to the American Leagues Ted 'Teddy Ballgame' Williams, and vice versa.

[@Veesaki]

Enos Slaughter ! When ever there post season on the line you should see all the tributes and favorite snacks Enos knoshed on in the dug out ❤️

[@remmymafia3889]

Sportsman's Park St. Louis These two teams would next meet again in the World Series in 1967.

[@mikeyoung9810]

my first year of paying attention to professional baseball with my Cardinals when I was 12.

[@mackenziegareau6161]

And 2004 & 2013

[@Jiltedin2007]

Joe Garagiola was on the St. Louis Cardinals during this World Series.

[@johnleber3369]

Stan the man was.not only a great hitter, but fast.Williams didnt have a good WS but even Ty Cobb had a bad WS.

[@TheBatugan77]

So did Musial. He hit .222. Williams hit .200.

[@mikeyoung9810]

We sometimes forget that they were human and not always on their game and they were always at the mercy of the pitcher.

[@danielclark241]

23:05 They reference Pesky's hesitation before throwing home in the movie "Game 6", which starred Michael Keaton and a pre-Tony Stark Robert Downey Jr. LoL

[@QED_]

Sheeesh 70 years ago. Seems like yesterday . . .

[@steverenom.299]

Read the book "Teammates". Man, is it ever great.

[@tomitstube]

just thinking about that yesterday, on the anniversary of the pearl harbor attack, (2020). the only people still alive from world war II would have to be 92 years old or more... amazingly pew research says some 300,000 world war II veterans are still alive. (as of may 8th 2020) that approx 245 were dying every day, and that was before covid-19.

[@jonnydanger7181]

This is great commentary!

[@christopher-xi2ey]

Is this the series Gordie Richardson pitched in?

[@kk5508]

Awesome year of baseball even though I wasn't alive!

[@2345allthebest]

They didn't make a big deal out of it here but I grew up hearing about the legend of Country Slaughter scoring from first on what was then called a single by Harry Walker... It was one of the great plays of the World Series

[@steverenom.299]

DiMaggio left the game after his double. Hurt his leg. If he was still in center Slaughter would not have even tried to score. Slaughter says that, not me.

[@2345allthebest]

@@steverenom.299 just to clarify, you're talking about Dom DiMaggio lol... A very solid player

[@steverenom.299]

@@2345allthebest Of course I'm talking about Dom DiMaggio. Cardinals played the Red Sox in that World Series not the Yankees. Dominic DiMaggio was a terrific defensive centerfielder who when Walker came up to the plate tried to wave his replacement in centerfield (Leon Culberson) over more towards left center. Also, when you watch that play watch how Culberson lobs the ball into Pesky. Not even aware of Slaughter running hard. If you need further clarification I didn't mean VINCE DiMaggio either, who was, of course, the older brother of Joe and Dominic. The stands in Boston (Fenway) used to chant, "Better than his brother Joe, Dominic DiMaggio". I was raised (correctly, I might add) to hate the Yankees. And I will until the day I die. lol

[@2345allthebest]

@@steverenom.299 wow you must have died and went to heaven in 2004... I can't even imagine...

[@steverenom.299]

@@2345allthebest Oh man, 2004........ Funny though that coming back from 0-3 to beat the Yankees to get to the World Series sometimes now after winning a few World Series is a fonder memory than that 2004 Series. Only the Red Sox have done that in baseball and we did it to the Yankees. My dad (b1920 - d2001) never did get to see his beloved Red Sox win a World Series. I remember after the 2003 heartbreaking loss to the Yankees telling friends that the Red Sox killed my father and now they're coming after me. After the 2004 Series a lot of family members put Red Sox pennants and balloons and such on my father's grave. A lot of cemeteries in New England had that because it was an entire generation that had never seen them win. It was special to be driving past a cemetery and you could tell who had been a die-hard (no pun intended) Red Sox fan. Hey, thanks for listening. Hope I haven't bored you.

[@felixmadison5736]

This is pretty much how Fenway Park looked when I went there for the first time in 1963 at age 14.

[@remmymafia3889]

Slaughter scoring from first, when by all rights he should have been out. I was just watching a replay of game four from the classic 1980 NLCS (Phillies/Astros). In the top of the tenth, with the score tied 3-3, Pete Rose singles with two out. Naturally on the crack of the bat, his heads down and he's running. The hitter, righthander Greg Luzinski, batting against lefty Joe Sambito, hits a bullet to left off the wall-Jose Cruz plays it perfect, and it caroms back to Cruz who turns and hits the relay man Landestoy, who turns towards the infield from maybe 150 ft (tops), and briefly hesitates, because of this hesitation, Rose who's has his head down and is obviously intent on scoring with the hit right in front of him, is just rounding third-he should have been a dead man. Still, with Landestoy's hesitation, they should get him easily. His throw is coming in right on target, and third string catcher Bruce Bochy instead of coming to the ball before it short hops him, he waits for it, blocking home plate. Sure enough, he can't handle the short hop, and it bounces off his chest protector, and dribbles a bit up the third base line and slightly into the foul side of the baseline-and Rose still hasn't gotten to the plate. But as Bochy goes to retreive the ball, it takes him right into the path of a barreling (and non-sliding) Rose, which knocks Bochy back and prevents him from retreiving the ball, and is safe with the go ahead run. As the announcer Don Drysdale said at the time, after viewing the replay, that bochy had all the time to come up and catch the online throw on the fly, and he still would have had plenty of time to get Rose out, and get the Astros to the bottom of the tenth, with a chance to win the game and the series. Instead, the next batter (Trillo) doubles in Luzinski from third, before Sambito can get the third out (finally), with the Phillies taking a 5-3 lead into the bottom of the tenth. They hold the Astros, and win the game, then go onto win another extra inning game in the deciding game five (in Houston). It's a classic series, with four of the five games going to extra innings.

[@kennethbrady]

Great comment. Great Series too!

[@df5295]

Supposedly Pesky double clutched the relay throw.

[@shelbinamo]

What is not mentioned is that the Cardinals had a hit and run on, and so that is why Slaughter was off with the pitch. Pesky said that he never dreamed that Slaughter would try to score from 1st on a single, and so the double clutch before throwing home.

[@timothycollins4143]

REMMY MAFIA that’s exactly what Boo Ferris said! Lol

[@snidleyutoob5936]

...Talking about various teams' management in the crowd, but no mention that Pennock, Ott, & Collins are in the HOF, and Grimm was pretty good, too.

[@Ka_Gg]

Some of these guys are a lot faster than I expected.

[@lynnpineda7615]

last Series in all white MLB … Jackie Robinson breaks color line next spring

[@jtan0713]

So the shift isn't anything new!

[@cadaverdog1424]

Was Angel Hernandez there??

[@gomezesmorticia]

I don't know how they could play with those little gloves.

[@josemeda4592]

LOL

[@tomitstube]

they weren't as good with them.

[@joshuaalexandercruz31]

The game players innings.

[@baileykiser9958]

3:40 happened in the 2013 World Series with the same teams 🤯

[@cellobus2961]

!!! With completely different consequences.

[@Jiltedin2007]

Johnny Pesky SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED for the Boston Red Sox losing this World Series!

[@steverenom.299]

Pesky should be in the Hall of Fame as should Dominic DiMaggio. That bum Rizutto is in there.

[@cadaverdog1424]

I blame David Ortiz⚾️

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@cadaverdog1424 He wasn’t the twinkle of anyone’s eyes then. This was 30 years before he was born.

[@1150420]

Time really does let us forgive everybody.... Not to sound mean but every Boston player/Fan/Ect. sais that Pesky gets a bad rap for his handling of Slaughters mad dash but you can clearly see Pesky has the ball in his hands and he's looking at home Right as Slaughter is at 3rd, Every pro makes that play today (even Dan Uggla) and he got beat. Sorry but its a clear error that cost them a series.

[@Milordvega]

23:04 to 23:05 It was only a split second hesitation, but Pesky did hold on to the ball before relaying the ball home. The hit though which scored Slaughter was in fact a double not a single as many say.

[@cellobus2961]

After seeing this I'm like, is that what all this talk has been about all these years? He could have thrown right away, but way off the mark. You can't assume success at the plate. Plus the Sawks had another chance at bat. Also saw Uggla play as a minor leaguer here in Tennessee, it was worth the walk from my house to see him play.

[@greyk610]

0:57 Dude on the right had some ears, Jesus.

[@Noname-ni1dy]

Hmm., in game 6 Rudy York is wearing a RED SOX home jersey when he is hitting, by the time he comes around to score he is wearing a BOSTON away jersey

[@df5295]

Yeah some of those hitter and pitcher shots were taken prior to the games.

[@Diosprometheus]

The funny thing about Rudy York is he was in the WS the year before when the Tigers beat the Cubs. The Tigers traded him for weak-hitting shortstop Eddie Lake, who had a knack for base-on-balls, so Greenberg could play first. York was also in the 1940 series. In 1937 York broke two records previously held by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig when he hit 18 home runs and collected 35 RBIs in the month of August. "The booming bat of 24 year old Rudy York, Detroit's late entry into the home run race, spoke in tones heard 'round the baseball world this afternoon as one of Babe Ruth's proudest and supposedly invincible records went crashing into discard." - Sportswriter Shirley Povich in the Washington Post (08/31/1937)

[@jamesmatthew3681]

Teddy Ballgame's only WS appearance.

[@jerryboucher5622]

That ill be one more than made by the idiot Trout.

[@nflmlbclassics]

DiMaggio later said that Slaughter told him his hit @ 22:24 would've been a homer if it had just been over by a couple of feet where the wall got much shorter. A home run would have put Boston ahead with six outs to go for a championship; DD then would not have gotten hurt as he did going into second base - and if it proved to be the game winner, the HR would have gone down as one of baseball's greatest hits ...

[@DonQwantsyou]

yeah if ifs and butts were candy and nuts with the Red Sox

[@gomezesmorticia]

All of the men wore suits and hats.

[@tomitstube]

"play baaaawl." pretty good footage for 1946. the curse of the bambino still alive. one year before jackie broke the color barrier, baseball still "whites only". red sox owner tom yawkey shown, (0:53) he'd be the last mlb owner to integrate, and it would take lawsuits to make him do it. the great hall of famer eddie collins (next to him) once said he was dismayed that the red sox in 12 years "never had a single request for a tryout by a colored applicant". joe cronin, 1:04 (another hall of famer) was a flaming racist too, yawkey's manager... the red sox passed on willie mays.

[@syourke3]

Rudy York - he could sure hit but not very good with the glove. Someone once quipped that “Rudy York is half Cherokee and half first baseman”.

[@colleenross8752]

The final WS before integration

[@faffaflunkie]

They should have called _Musial_ *Stan* the _Wheel_ *Man.* _9:40_

[@44032]

I wondered why Stan was playing first. I decided that St. LOuis didn't have a good first basemen but had plenty of good outfielders.

[@patthecatman]

williams was hurt in a meaningless last game before the series. he had a miserable series, only one double as his best hit. that meant the series to the cards.

[@huskyjerk]

Ted stunk.

[@TheBatugan77]

@@huskyjerk You stink. Huskyjerkoff.

[@Diosprometheus]

@Nelson's Rudolph The better compensated Yaz and Clemente were not allowed to earn extra money in barnstorming or exhibition games. Williams and the other old-timers were. Williams helped put fans in the seats so that everyone earned a bigger share. Satch Paige after calculating how large a gate one of these games was earning paid off his fellow players $5000 dollars and ran off with the rest of the game which he had agreed to share with them.

[@unclebobunclebob]

The famous play with Slaughter scoring from first on a single is readily seen here. Pesky got blamed for holding the ball, but he barely did as you can see. The fact that Slaughter was just past third when Pesky got the relay, but still made it home is amazing. The announcer says that Walker "hits a double." He's wrong. It was plainly just a base hit. Walker only went to second when Pesky threw the relay home to try to get Slaughter. And no matter how many times I freeze the picture, I never see the third base coach signal for Slaughter to either stop or go home. He just kind of stands there hopping around as Slaughter runs past him. Amazing.

[@ilmatar6608]

Pesky clearly hesitated. A quicker throw and Slaughter would've been out.

[@unclebobunclebob]

@@ilmatar6608 Did you watch the film closely?

[@ilmatar6608]

@@unclebobunclebob I did. Did you?

[@unclebobunclebob]

@@ilmatar6608 The famous play with Slaughter scoring from first on a single is readily seen here. Pesky got blamed for holding the ball, but he barely did as you can see. The fact that Slaughter was just past third when Pesky got the relay, but still made it home is amazing. The announcer says that Walker "hits a double." He's wrong. It was plainly just a base hit. Walker only went to second when Pesky threw the relay home to try to get Slaughter. And no matter how many times I freeze the picture, I never see the third base coach signal for Slaughter to either stop or go home. He just kind of stands there hopping around as Slaughter runs past him. Amazing.

[@unclebobunclebob]

@@ilmatar6608 Yes. A number of times. I don't see how you can refute the statement.

[@stephenandreason7210]

1966 World Series

[@Mitch2GNAR]

25:29

[@bobmilin]

1946 the first year since World War Two ended and the last year of segregated baseball.

[@ralph7545]

Your comment also crossed my mind. Definitely a different era in baseball.

[@TheBatugan77]

Some of you... You know who you are... Should be ashamed of yourselves.

[@desmondjrjohnston6315]

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