1963 New York Mets "Meet the Mets" WOR-TV Spring Training/'63 Mets B&W

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3 ай бұрын

Original WWOR-TV 9 Production and Spring Training Reports of the upcoming season for the New York Mets from their Spring Training facility Huggins-Stengel Field in St. Petersburg FL Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner and Lindsay Nelson lead a guided Tour throughout the complex Includes on field interviews with Mets manager Casey Stengel as he prepares the Mets for opening day and the upcoming season, interviews with Mets coaches as they go over batting and defensive drills and Mets pitching coach Solly Hemus and the young pitching staff and veterans like Roger Craig includes Interviews with Met rookies and upcoming Big leaguers If Ted Schreiber and P Larry Bearnarth, Al Jackson, Carl Willey and rookie Steve Dillon and Mets 1B Eddie Kranepool, sluggers Frank Thomas, Jim Hickman .Great Kinescope footage of some clips of the 1962 season Including Gil Hodges hitting solid HR in the Polo Grounds and a on field interview with Kiner and Hodges as Hodges joins the coaching staff for the 1963 Mets ball club.
Recorded and Digitalized off two Pre-Recorded VHS tapes (for best quality and most complete) and this classic NY Mets and WOR-TV archive has been recently restored/remastered.
1963 New York Mets
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@BarryJackson-ob5yy Ай бұрын

Awesome seeing my Dad throw batting practice and fielding bunts. Thank you.

@pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229 Ай бұрын

that’s why we are here Barry 👌⚾️

@robertsprouse9282 Ай бұрын

Al J., right?

@kevincurtis6550 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this great kinescope about the early years of the Mets. Bob Murphy was one of the best baseball announcers in the business.

@zxccxz164 3 ай бұрын

this is gold for my elderly community being ravaged by inflation and forgotten by society. hope there is more to come and more teams

@lesgordon8010 3 ай бұрын

This is great stuff. Thanks so much. Love the history.

@dougcrain5315 3 ай бұрын

This is priceless!!

@hh3161 3 ай бұрын

@PheniaFilmstheMLB I want to thank you for posting- I shared it with our family and got to see and hear interviews with both our Grandma & Papa.

@pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229 3 ай бұрын

that's what's its all about hh thanks you

@hamburg1306 3 ай бұрын

I like the optimism that Lindsay mentions that it was intended shea stadium would be ready by the summer of 1963. Wasn’t to be of course and barely ready for opening day in 1964.

@rjperfetto584 3 ай бұрын

Great seeing Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy as young men

@KevinMiller-xn5vu 3 ай бұрын

At least Casey's speaking English instead of 'Stengelese.' 😆😆😆😆😆😆. Gil Hodges would play his last game with the Mets on May 6th, and retired to take over as manager of the expansion Washington Senators.

@8avexp 3 ай бұрын

Charley Neal refused to give his number 4 to Duke Snider when he joined the Mets. So Duke wore number 11 until Neal was traded in mid-season.

@ronramos2779 3 ай бұрын

Awesome 👏🏾 baseball history love it

@mattdon2164 3 ай бұрын

This is amazing (no pun intended!). Great history of the early NYM. Too bad Roger Craig did not teach all those young pitchers his splitter like he taught Mike Scott in Houston. The Mets may have won earlier if he did!

@wiedep 3 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for posting this! Is the "MtM" 1962 broadcast available? BTW - Huggins-Stengel Field in St. Pete will be 100 years old in 2025, designated a National Landmark and still in use by St. Pete HS and other school teams. The field used for bunting/running/infield drills was an infield squeezed into the right field corner - right field foul pole is almost 400 ft. now. From '62 - '67 Mets had only 1 1/2 fields to use for spring training workouts, Payson Complex opened in '68 now called Baseball City still in use. When asked to show bunting Marv may have had the same "thought" he said when doing Light Beer ad's years later - "...I (still) don't know why they want me do this ?!?..." Marv was to first basemen what Ralph was to broadcasters - entertaining but 'ya never know... Johnny Murphy was named Mets GM in '68, he and Hodges engineered the trade to acquire Donn Clendenon. Murphy, a life-long NY'er died from a heart attack in January 1970. Jay Hook could describe how a curveball worked, just had problems throwing 'em. Herb Norman and Gus Mauch get their 15 minutes... The offices and training/locker rooms shown still have the original red-toned paneling in clubhouse buildings that opened in 1960. Buildings currently used by TASCO teen programs after MLB teams left. H-S Field used by NY Yanks, Mets and on limited basis later by Cardinals, O's and Devil Rays. Two protagonists interviewed - M.D. Grant and Dick Young would create the situation that led to Seaver trade, 'Meet the Mets' song first heard on this broadcast.

@mattdon2164 3 ай бұрын

Wow! Phenomenal info. Thanks for the intel. I always love researching the early Mets history.

@thewkovacs316 3 ай бұрын

Lyndsey nelson was one of the best pbp guys in both the mlb and nfl

@robertsprouse9282 Ай бұрын

Voice of the Cotton Bowl and no one sounded like him, twas one of a kind.

@brickyardhillstudios 3 ай бұрын

I don’t think this is a kinescope; it looks like the actual videotape. It’s looks and sounds too live. In any case, thanks for posting!!

@jaymorgenthal9479 3 ай бұрын

yes it is taoe

@myhometown7981 3 ай бұрын

You're absolutely correct! These are videotapes from 1962 and 1963. Very rare. On KZfaq, there's a color videotape from 1963 of Duke Snider getting his 2000th hit at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The Reds were one of the first teams to televise their home games in color. When the Mets played there, WOR-TV would pick up their feed and televise the games in color back in NY. In 1964, WOR-TV started broadcasting Mets games from Shea Stadium in color.

@rjperfetto584 3 ай бұрын

Great time era capsule and great instructional video. They should donthis with the current teams and players

@rjperfetto584 3 ай бұрын

Wowwww rhey played 129 out of 162 games in the 1963 season on WOR channel 9.

@brewcrew5854 3 ай бұрын

i wonder how many times the bunt sign was on when Ralph was at the plate in his esteemed career ? i put over/under at 1.5

@spider_hoss 3 ай бұрын

14:07 ED KRANEPOOL!!

@mikedemenchuk7717 3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to break the news but I don't think Shea Stadium will be ready until next season. (Did they really think it would be done?)

@rjperfetto584 3 ай бұрын

Barely......... History tells us that it was still was totally complete when they played there first game at Shea Stadium

@edzaslow 3 ай бұрын

Meet the Mets beat the Mets!

@rjperfetto584 3 ай бұрын

Players looked so much older and more mature and poised way back then

@myhometown7981 3 ай бұрын

A lot of them WERE much older than the average player today. This team had a lot of veterans at the very end of their careers. Most of the players also smoked and didn't eat very healthy diets. They also played more games during the day under the beating sun without sunscreen. All of this can make anyone look even older than they are.

@robertsprouse9282 Ай бұрын

@@myhometown7981, players spent more time in a much more competitive and deeper minors, with better talent particularly in DOUBLE AND TRIPLE-A(many of that caliber are in the majors of today), not to mention the early ‘60’s MAJOR LEAGUES where you had more American blacks, especially in the NL, on each roster, and before the NFL AND NBA began to see crossover high school prime black athletes, with those athletes still playing baseball, ones later developed by colleges, going into those two other sports; baseball had the best overall athletes, with few exceptions, especially the better overall black athletes. Also, in 1963, there were still very many “ORIGINAL 16” players, some still in their prime, and they were much more polished and battle tested than the guys today. All of that is why. If you did not play with consistency in the majors and minors, you did not stay in the majors or even get to them from out of the minors. They were pros in their approach BY NECESSITY.