....was classmates with your sister, then. 1st grade, Miss Mc Bride. Thanks to Delette, we got to listen to a few innings of the 1957 World Series! Still remember that!!

Thank you to your dad , for his never ending dedication to baseball in the City of Milwaukee. As a great player on the Braves , a great coach with the Brewers , and then a great broadcaster for the team after coaching . Not to forget ..a great all around person to know. God bless you Del .

Your dad and I have the same birthday.

Got another one 😀

Weren't many regular season TV games in 1957. I think there was a game of the week and certainly local tv for fans lucky enough to have a team in their city. I was 7 when Hank Aaron joined the Braves and he stood out right away in the sports pages of the newspaper. Became a lifelong fan before I actually got a chance to see him play in the series. What a great life lived, on, and off the field.

i’d love to sit down with you somewhere, and hear some old classic baseball stories

@@Realistic316 When I was A kid in the 50 's we watch the game of the week on Saturday with announcers Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese . Most of the time it was the Yankees an some other American league team , but being a Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra fan I was happy . I got see Mickey hit the longest home run in Yankkee stadium . I live here in Chattannogs , Tennessee , and we have the farm team Chattanooga Lookouts . I met and got to see Harmon Killebrew play before he went to the Minnesota Twins , and boy did he have a career . Oh the memories , thanks for listening , be safe my friend we're expecting snow and ice tonight .

@@kenyork1107 yea that’s awesome… and i still love watching the 1-on-1 home run derbys from the 50s and 60s…they are on youtube too….and take care as well.

One year in Boston one year in Atlanta in between all Milwaukee

Most braves players have played in these cities as well

Had Vic Power been able to hang on for another season,he could have matched that feat,playing for the A's in Phil,KC and Oak.

@@michaelleroy9281 To me the Milwaukee Braves never existed. Lou Perini could have put his team through a rebuild, instead of looking an excuse to leave Boston. Two to three years of rebuilding, and the Braves would have been contending and possibly outdrawing the Red Sox in attendance.

@@rentslave But he didn't .

Thanks for sharing. My National League team is the Braves and American League is the Yankees. I know that it is an odd combination, but my father is a Yankees fan because he liked the pinstriped uniform as a kid. And we are from South Carolina, hence the Braves fandom.

Yeah, but we got ya in 58

1955 for me , damn I'm even older

1947 here. You young whippersnappers

Burdette 💙

Hopefully in the same league as Billy Sunday and Roberto Clemente.

That's partly because the crowds were mostly businessmen who came to the game from work.

Worth 4 admissions

And yet, Lew Burdette was named series' MVP, and for good reason!

Yeah most of them need the “rosin”

Your great uncle. have we met? he was a great dad , too!

@@lauracrandall1362 My Mothers cousin. Family name was Porter. She called him Uncle Del. I found out when she gave me a '57 team signed baseball he gifted her for my 48th. I am a huge baseball fan and was shocked she didn't tell me before that..

@@lauracrandall1362 I'd see your Dad play at Ebbets Field.

Please research your rantings before you accuse someone or something as being "cheap". MLB did not schedule WS games until 1971 (Balt. @ Pitt.) because TV did not have the equipment (or the demand) for night baseball with quality pictures, and the network (NBC) did not include it in their contract with MLB. You can look it up.

@@markpotter8831 Fair enough Mark. I'll research my rantings (and will become a minority on social media) when you take the time to thoroughly read comments, nowhere did I write MLB, before you took unbridled umbrage and spouted off with great indignation. And just as a segue, recall I wrote being in the elementary school and was writing from that age perspective. Guess that got lost in your 20-20 rear view vision of history. You can scan back and read it again.

We thought they would never end.

Yes, the Twins didn't come into existence until 1961, when the original Senators left Washington.😊😊

I remember Pizarro on the White Sox from around 1964 thru 66

Not the last two. Felix Mantilla (2B) is still alive.

tom talley-Unfortunately those days are long behind us. No longer do pitchers go the distance; when they reach a certain pitch count, they are immediately yanked by the manager for a reliever. The only way a pitcher would go nine innings is if he's got a no hitter going. Scheduled doubleheaders are are a thing of the past as well because players don't want to play them anymore. Complete games have disappeared as well game winning rbis.

As nature intended before 1994 ruined it for baseball purists(sp?) like me with moronic changes that began creeping in a gradual manner that year, along with that highly unpopular player strike. 😒😒😒😒😒

Yeah. She took away so many HRs including Aaron's drive over Mantle. Should've had four.

Did anyone reach it. Ever.?

@@bencovington1121 During the 1963 Dodgers vs Yankees World Series, Frank Howard of the Dodgers hit a ball off the center field wall at the 463 ft sign. It hit the number 4 on the sign. Dodgers swept series, Koufax struck out 15 Yanks in game 1, including Mantle 4 times.

@@oldude979 Nothing better...than reliving the Brooklyn Dodgers...beating the Evil Empire. Thanks for the history lesson. Going to see if I can find that game on KZfaq. I love KZfaq. (I believe God allowed KZfaq to be invented...just so we today, can watch and relive, old classic baseball games...😎).

@@baberoot1998 These were the LA Dodgers

did you grow up in Milwaukee?

You missed Enos Slaughter and Red Schoendienst.

I have that too

I'm 77 & born in NY 3 TEAMS YANKS GIANTS & DODGERS UNTILL O'MALLEY & STONEHAM DECIDED TO MOVE TO GREENER ($$$$$) PASTURES.I REMEMBER THAT WS AND '56 WHEN LARSEN PITCHED HIS PERFECT GAME.NY IN THE 50'S WAS GREAT FOR A KID WHO LOVED THE GAME.I WENT TO ALL.THE BALL PARKS BLEACHERS WERE VERY CHEAP A COKE AND A DOG 1.5O THE SUBWAY COST A DIME AND STOPPED A BLOCK AWAY FROM EVERY PARK.OF COURSE AT THAT AGE ONLY DAY GAMES FOR US.GOOD BASEBALL MEMORIES I HAVE

He won 20 games 13X & his 63 shutouts are the most in the live ball era (since 1921).

I also had the 1957 Braves with Stratomatic baseball. I also had the 1954 Giants, 1954 Indians, the 1961 Yankees, 1927 Yankees, 1936 Yankees among others. Good times. We also played half around 80 games for each team of the 1973 season. The Mets won the NL East in reality but they stunk in Stratomatic games. 1973 Braves were also fun with three forty homer sluggers.

@@stuartmcalpine9468 I do not have the 1936 Yankees but do have the 1953 Dodgers and the 1934 Cardinals among my sets like yours for what at the time I got them were oldtimer teams. The game is just so realistic. Most of my teams are from the 1960s (memories of growing up with Baseball in St. Louis) but I also have some from the 1970s and 1980s that were contenders for some of those years. The 1973 Oakland A's are the team that seems to always lose for me. I once played 162 games with the 1961 Yankees and kept home run totals. Mantle hit something like 46 homers but in the last game Maris hit number 60 and in his last at bat almost hit number 61 but missed out on a dice roll as it was not an automatic number for a home run. Of course The Yankees were only playing very good teams in my season. The 1927 Yankees and 1961 Yankees play the best for me. My best Cardinals team is 1967. The 1969 Mets play well for me as pitching dominates. I have really been playing it again during coronavirus. Good talking to you.

@@stuartmcalpine9468 I forgot also having the 1946 Cardinals and the 1950 Yankees among my oldtimer teams. The 1950 Yankees, 1954 Giants, and the 1953 Dodgers really battle it out in Strat-o-matic.

@@stuartmcalpine9468 Hank Aaron Darrell Evans Davey Johnson

I play this team in Strat, as well.

The 50's Happy Days ( that show was in Milwaukee ) fictionaly

I agree and I'm 42. Everyone was an AMERICAN only and nothing else. During the civil rights movement of the 60s more rights were secured and that is where it should have stopped. After the 60s and entering into the millennium year of 2000 everything was great and stable but little by little the liberals continued to divide insisting that we not say merry Christmas, insisting that we first look at the race or ethnicity of the person and then call them an American, insisting that they allow more and more perversion in movies and on television screens, etc. I can go on and on but you see where it has all led us to in 2021. Nothing but hatred for America, division among American citizens, sexual perversion of children at an early age, homelessness in all the big liberal cities etc. Kids don't know whether they're a male or female. Full term abortions allowed in certain states like New York. I'm glad I'm 42 and experienced this country when it was still the America we knew and loved . It's something else now and it's only going to get worse.

@@richflores1558 Yeah, I'm glad you're 42 too. You stil have another 40yrs to learn how to think OBJECTIVELY. Blaming anything on one group of people is idiotic and narrow minded. In your mind all conservatives are great and all liberals are bad? That's crazy. Tomorrow's a great day to begin your education.

@@oldude979 and in typical democrat fashion you spew hate and supposed superiority, but wait all the racism is in the corner of the democrats history and still runs thru it today. “ if you don’t vote for me you ain’t Black”. Let go Brandon. Just one of many from sleepy. And his democrats ..

In the South, Black people couldn't vote. Don't say tension was easing up just because some Black people were playing in the majors. It took until the mid-60s for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills to pass. Things always look better and simpler in retrospect. If you were black, I don't think the 50s were so great.

Then the next year he was gone and never heard from again

That's the only time the Braves have beaten the Yankees, losing in 1958, 1996, and 1999.

The only professional sports championship the city of Milwaukee ever won

Incorrect. The 1971 Bucks won the NBA Chip led by Kareem and Oscar Robertson.

@@AlecDavid007 and that was one great team...

@@geou1606 To me I feel the Braves should have stayed in Boston. All Lou Perini should have done was put his team through a rebuild, spend the money necessary to improve the farm system and obtain quality players instead of looking for an excuse to leave town. A few short years later the Braves would have been contending again, and the fans would have been coming back out to Braves Field to see them play, instead of waving the white flag because they were losing out to the Red Sox in attendance. I'm a diehard Chicago White Sox fan, and they've always played second fiddle to the Cubs, but you don't see them moving, although they threatened to leave town if they didn't get a new ballpark.

It's not the " real" championship, but the Brewers won the American League in 1982

And East Covington...

a couple great plays in left.

@@TheBatugan77 hahaha 😆

Yes John, back then they looked like major leaguers. Athletic haircuts, stirrups over white socks, traveled wearing suits. Not like the pampered, primadona, juiced up slobs we have today.

Maybe no leather shoes, but they have replay challenges, which would probably have shown the ball hitting Jones.

They did win the pennant 2 times 1957 and 1958 and the World Series 1957 and those other years yes

The Braves came within 3 total wins of winning the pennant in 1956 & '59.

Dodgers just had great teams, simple as that.

R. Jay Stewart-What are you talking about? Cleveland has the longest World Series drought, having last won it all in 1948 over the same Boston Braves, a span of 72 years.

The Brewers were American League Champions for 1982 give them credit for that

@@kevinmiller6324 Cavaliers a few years ago.

@@kevinmiller6324 the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA title in the last 10 years. Or am I just stupid?

@@michaelleroy9281 No.

Shouldn't have

@@michaelleroy9281 It turned out to be the right decision

@@joshuasimmons8160 In the mid 70s there were rumors they were going to leave Atlanta because attendance went down, then Ted Turner bought the team

@@michaelleroy9281 Yeah I heard about that

Neither Mantle nor Snider was a great fielder. Mays was in a class by himself defensively. Mantle was honest about his defensive limitation, and said his speed let him outrun a lot of mistakes.

@@olivercrangle7160 Ritchie Ashburn wasn't really part of the discussion. But over Ashburn's 15 year career, he had 5.4 defensive wins above replacement (dWAR). In Mays' first 15 full seasons, he had 18.7 dWAR.

@@marksieving7925 I have to disagree about Snider's defensive abilities. I was a Brooklyn kid and saw the Duke on numerous occasions make leaping catches against the short Ebbets Field centerfield wall and strong throws to keep runners from advancing.

True statement. Mantle's speed saved Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Gil Hodges hit a rocket into Death Valley at Yankee Stadium (deep left-center field), but Mantle tracked it down at the last second and made a spectacular one-handed catch. I think that a video clip of that play is on KZfaq somewhere.@@marksieving7925

Aaron was very fortunate. He played 22 seasons without any serious injuries and he didn’t lose two years to the armed forces like Mays did. He also spent half his career in Atlanta, a great hitters park. Aaron was a great base runner and outfielder, too. His longevity was incredible.

@@stevenyourke7901 Aaron was also very fortunate he didn't play in a major media town like NYC or L.A...he was always under the radar...it wasn't until he came up on Ruth's HR record that he had to deal with the ugly side of America...Hank was pure class and a real roll model..

@@stevenyourke7901 Everybody had their 'ifs' except Hank. he did it!

Yes. Playing in Yankee Stadium would've robbed him of at least fifty HRs. Look at the drive over Mantle... about 450' w/room to spare.

@@bernieudo4399 461 to center field.

He sobered up for the 1958 Series

absolute terrible called 3rd strike.

The Braves didn't win 111, the '54 Indians did. First of the great tragedies, followed by 86, 87, 97, '07 & '16.

​​@William Curtin What's tragic about the Mets Twins Marlins Red Sox and Cubs in those years

Bobby Richardson, who replaced Billy, was also an excellent World Series performer.

@@44032 ur totally right ...I wrote Bobby a fan letter in 1962 when I was 8 years old and he sent me back an autographed picture...Bobby was a great ball player and a perfect roll model..I have always felt that Bobby deserved a plaque in Monument Park..not to take any thing away from Billy...the Yankees have 2 nunber 8s for Berra and Dickey...why not 2 number ones??...

It was at the Copacabana, the hottest spot north of Havana

They both met again in the 1958 World Series, this time the Yankees won 4 games to 3

@@michaelleroy9281 After the Braves blew a 3-1 lead in the Series.

They could have won game 7.that year. if it wasn't for that home run by Bill" Moose" Skowron that was a crushing blow

that was a crushing HR for sure, But Braves led that series 3-1 did they not?

@@edwardcain4433 Yes The Braves had 3-1 games lead, it shouldn't have gone to a game 7

@@michaelleroy9281 The Yankees I think we're too strong to get embarrassed like that in the series, especially with Casey Stengel managing. Really, Casey had never lost a series in a sweep or at least 4-1. That's how dominant the 1950s Yankees were. 1959 (when the Yankees started in last place) though was just a dent.

Monuments were there. There were only three at the time Ruth, Greig and Miller Huggins

At the time. Rivera and Munson hadn't played with the Yankees yet they wouldn't have monuments anyway

There was all kinds of advertising at Yankee Stadium

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