I got to go to game 4 at Dodger Stadium, Koufax vs. Whitey Ford. We sat up in the 3rd deck behind home plate. I saw Mantle hit a homerun half way up the left field pavilion and Frank Howard become the first player to hit a homerun into the second deck at Dodger Stadium. My Dodgers swept the Yankees by only using 4 pitchers. Koufax had 2 complete game wins, Don Drysdale got a complete game win and Johnny Podres pitched won game 2 with 8-2/3 innings and Ed Roebuck pitched 1-1/3 inning. I still have to ticket stub and the program.
@suestephan325526 күн бұрын
How exciting and a keepsake. Pass that along and keep it for old times sake. As I pan the stadium and a sea of white shirts men & women dressed for Sunday in their clothes, that’s how it was then and now no comment. Dressing down as far as we have come also speaks to character.
@ir100319812 жыл бұрын
1963 & 2020, the LA Dodgers won the World Series as the home team, 1963, the only time the LA Dodgers won the World Series at Dodger Stadium.
@mpaulm Жыл бұрын
RIP Scully - 2022😢
@anibalchavez331911 ай бұрын
It’s a privilege to have an autograph by the “BULL” Al Ferrara. Living legend played with Sandy, Mickey.
@moboutmen9 ай бұрын
Brooklyn, in mourning. The rest of the country a little more than a month later.
@jcdova293 жыл бұрын
Kofax, Podres and Drysdale? No wonder it was a sweep. What a great 1,2,3!
@sean1672able1119 ай бұрын
The pitching was a lethal trio, as the Dodgers had the pitching.
@scottmorissey89158 ай бұрын
And don't forget about Perranoski! 16-3, 37 saves in 1963! What a season in relief.
@adamdorgant94547 ай бұрын
True!!!!
@ronmackinnon93746 ай бұрын
And yet, the trio of Koufax, Drysdale, and Osteen would itself get swept against the Orioles three years later. Even with great pitching, you gotta have at least *some* offense -- and the Dodgers would have virtually none in the '66 series.
@rumarspencer73025 ай бұрын
@@ronmackinnon9374Had a stretch in that series where they went 33 straight innings of not scoring a run, so the reason for the loss is the offense, not the pitching.
@richarddelgado27233 жыл бұрын
Sweet vindication all those years Brooklyn got bettered by those damn Yanks and the LA Dodgers swept them with Ford Maris and Mantel Awesome!!!
@FrakReynolds3 жыл бұрын
“We embarrassed Maris, handled Mantle. They used their bats like a prop.” -Don Drysdale singing
@michaelleroy9281 Жыл бұрын
Then came 1977 Mr October Reggie Jackson 14 years for revenge
@fasteddie9055 Жыл бұрын
This is payback for 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, & 1956. It was great to see the Dodgers in 4. Too bad that the Dodgers were in L.A. instead of Brooklyn.
@michaelleroy9281 Жыл бұрын
And then came 1977 when they met again Mr October Reggie Jackson the one man show the Yankees had to wait 14 years for revenge
@sean1672able1119 ай бұрын
@@michaelleroy9281then the Dodgers got revenge in 1981.
@rumarspencer73025 ай бұрын
What's satisfying of that 63 World Series for the Dodgers, not only that we swept the Yankees, but the Dodgers never once trailed in either game to the Yankees, great justice for the past World Series battles. As LA, the Dodgers are 12-10 vs the Yankees in the World Series games.
@kvernon14 ай бұрын
But it wasn't payback for 1953?
@Jiltedin20074 ай бұрын
@@michaelleroy9281 And in the following year Reggie Jackson won it again over the Dodgers, in the most disgusting way!
@jamesrivera49472 жыл бұрын
Finally, both Frank Howard's and Mantle's home runs. Thanks for uploading. Much ablidged 😉⚾
@mpaulm3 жыл бұрын
Reading about this now in the book ‘The Last Innocents’. The series meant A LOT to Americans, especially those in the west coast.
@keidrinwilliam30852 жыл бұрын
how come
@johnkoch4472 Жыл бұрын
is that not the greatest book ever,I confess ive read it 7 times.
@LesterMoore7 ай бұрын
During a torrid 1963 pennant race the Dodgers were hard pressed by an outstanding St. Louis Cardinals club and went into St. Louis for an important 3 game set vs. the Cards who had just won 19 of 20 games to threaten to close onto the Dodgers. Beginning on September 16th the Dodgers behind the pitching of Johnny Podres and Sandy Koufax took the first two games in steamy humid St. Louis. On September 18th. the Dodgers took on Cardinals Ace and HOF pitcher Bob Gibson. While trailing the Cards 5 to 1, rookie Dick Nen who'd just flew in from minor league Spokane that very day, hit an eighth inning pinch hit homerun to tie the game off relief pitcher Ron Taylor. 4 innings later the Dodgers won to all but seal the pennant. Those Cardinals were an outstanding team and would prove it the next year by winning the World Series against another outstanding Yankees team. But 1963 was all about a great Dodger team for the ages.
@joshwonkim0895 Жыл бұрын
This is the 1st time when the 2 Largest U.S. Cities LA & NY were competing for a major professional sports championship. The last time this has happened was in the NHL 2014 Stanley Cup Finals with LA winning the series 4-1.
@adamdorgant9454 Жыл бұрын
Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!
@deepdrag81319 ай бұрын
Except for one problem. In 1963, Los Angeles was the 3rd largest city in the USA. Chicago was 2nd behind New York. The first time the #1 and #2 cities squared off for a championship was in 1917 - when the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Giants in the World Series.
@TheBatugan778 ай бұрын
@@adamdorgant9454 Now that he's wrong
@TheBatugan778 ай бұрын
@@deepdrag8131 True. And the Yanks later played the Cubs. 1932 and 1938.
@TheBatugan778 ай бұрын
Wrong, josh. Nice try.
@scootdaws25 Жыл бұрын
I remember running home from school just in time to watch Koufax strike out Harry Bright.
@brandocalrissian32942 жыл бұрын
One hell of a dominant series for the dodgers. Maybe this year we will get another Dodgers/Yankees world series.
@michaelleroy9281 Жыл бұрын
The Yankees got their revenge in 1977 with Reggie 😅 the next time they met in the World Series
@ronmackinnon93747 ай бұрын
Surprised they didn't mention (after 3:00) that Musial had just completed his final 'farewell' season in '63. (He missed by one year the '64 Cardinals championship.)
@maxnicks4 жыл бұрын
Richardson is safe on 2nd but called out 35:54, But Tracewski dropped the ball. Dodgers defeating the Yanks in 3 games and there's only 2,000 views? Great series.
@mpaulm Жыл бұрын
They swept the series in 4 games.
@rumarspencer7302 Жыл бұрын
@@mpaulm The Yankees never once had a lead in the 4 games.
@RModillo Жыл бұрын
Apparently Mantle asked Roseboro during one of his at bats against Koufax “how the &”&$ do you hit this ^+£¥?” He really shackled them.
@victormarrotti25757 ай бұрын
If it were today, those 3 pitchers would be out of the game after 5 innings
@kentduryea7109 Жыл бұрын
Damn it... I was hoping in that game four the 9th inning they would include Sandy Koufax jumping for joy prematurely thinking he had thrown a third strike to Lopez. I remember distinctly Sandy doing that and saying to myself, "Get back there. You didn't win". I was only nine years old living in Oxnard California but rooting for the Yankees and my hero Mickey Mantle. It was quite a moment seeing Koufax having to walk back to the mound with a look of astonishment and his tail between his legs knowing it wasn't over yet. It was the next pitch to Lopez unfortunately that ended the game making champs of the Dodgers but also made me cry.
@64yanks10 ай бұрын
The reason Koufax got excited was Tracewski dropped the ball on a force play the umpire called Richardson out, and then changed the call to safe when he realized the ball was dropped
@TheBatugan778 ай бұрын
Nobody had their tail between their legs. The Yanks had Dodgers feet jammed up their shit-chutes. 😆🤓🤠
@jamesmoss3424 Жыл бұрын
The 1963 L.A. Dodgers did excellent on kicking the Yankees ass. 😀👍⚾️
@suestephan325526 күн бұрын
They were a terrific team but also a nice surprise,
@drbonesshow16 ай бұрын
The next 4-0 Series sweep against the Yanks would be even more dominant by the Reds in 1976, which made manager Billy Martin cry.
@peace-yv4qd Жыл бұрын
My very first Major League Baseball game in person was at the LA Coliseum when the Dodgers played the Cincinnati Reds. June 1960. Sandy Koufax started the game but only lasted two innings. He gave up a grand slam in the first inning and was pulled in the second inning for some reason. I remember this series well. Dodger pitching was phenomenal in those days.
@rumarspencer7302 Жыл бұрын
Sandy made up for it in this clincher though.
@samuelbarrett56482 жыл бұрын
As this and a few other videos on KZfaq successfully illustrate, Major League Baseball in the 1960's was the Golden Age of Baseball. And that's for many reasons. I specialize in the aesthetics of the 60s era, so I'll cover that here: Every team played in great ballparks, whether they were in older, classic ballparks (Phillies' Shibe Park, Reds' Crosley Field, Pirates' Forbes Field, Tigers' namesake Stadium, White Sox' Comiskey Park, Yankee's original namesake Stadium, etc) or in more modern parks (Dodgers' namesake Stadium, Giants' Candlestick Park, Astros' namesake Dome, Angels' Anaheim Stadium, A's Oakland Coliseum, Twins' Metropolitan Stadium, Orioles' Memorial Stadium, etc), they were all great, with the exception of the Cardinals and Senators, who I think were aesthetically better in Busch Stadium I (Sportsmans Park) and Griffith Park, respectively. The dugouts and clubhouses were designed and built to serve the very purpose of a simple area for the players to be in, not virtual apartments like today. The overall look of green seats and steel, simple grandstand construction, and on special occasions, red white and blue bunting, made for a timeless atmosphere that anyone can appreciate. The players also dressed very well. As a comment on a Uni Watch post says, the jersey and pants are trim but not tight. Button down jerseys with short sleeves and true vests reign supreme. The stirrup socks were at the most ideal proportion of stirrup to sanitary sock, allowing for plenty of white (Or yellow in the A's case) while still giving enough space for colorful and creative stripes. It was pre-double knit so every jersey was soft flannel but you still had an injection of powder blue roads. The cap is not quite the exaggerated high peak but isn’t formless either, with green underbrims for reduced glare (The grass is green too) and leather sweatbands with white reeding. No matter what style a team happened to wear, it was almost guaranteed to look like baseball. Teams with classic designs (Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cardinals, etc) and those who experimented with their looks (A's, Pilots, White Sox, Expos, Padres, etc) all looked very elegant, particularly because button-front jerseys and belted pants were still in vogue, giving off a classic, formal vibe, going with the notion of baseball being a gentleman's game. The umpires also looked their best, many times being outfitted in dark navy suits, caps, and black ties and dress shoes, with either white shirts, adding to the aforementioned formal and official vibe. The players not only dressed well, but the equipment they used, consisting of Hillerich and Bradsby made Louisville Slugger or Adirondack natural-colored ash wood bats; Rawlings, Wilson, or Spalding tan leather fielding gloves and mitts; the aforementioned black (Or white in the A's case) leather spikes; simple-construction batting helmets with one earflap, which just seems to scream baseball to me; and catcher's equipment with simple patterns on the chest protector, shin guards (Both of which preferably in team colors), and the steel bars of the mask, were also simple compared to today, but elegant. And that's just the aesthetics of that era-not to mention the caliber of players during that time. But I'll let others cover that. I hope my Heaven is 1960's MLB when my time comes.
@stevenelief678410 ай бұрын
Well said lad, I agree with your eloquent paragraphs. I'm 73, but still watch these films-and old hockey of Booby Hull and the Black Hawks-of the days that when player respect was tantamount. Mr Hockey, Gordie Howe in person was known and expected good manners.
@sl593210 ай бұрын
Great discussion. I could not agree more, especially the aesthetics. The uniforms were classy and the stirrups and caps perfectly proportioned. Busch Stadium I was beautiful. Drysdale, Koufax, Mays, Aaron,Mccovey, Brock, Marichal, Billy Williams, Ford, Mantle, Kaline, Earl Battey, Gibson, Vada Pinson, Clemente. Just to name a few.
@geraldponce833610 ай бұрын
Dodgers stadium is becoming one of the older stadiums in the majors.
@michaelleroy92814 ай бұрын
The Dodgers won their first 5 World Series games at Dodger Stadium
@basilsmith1044 жыл бұрын
Classic viewing.
@basilsmith1044 жыл бұрын
Two great teams.
@basilsmith1044 жыл бұрын
Dodgers versus yankees.awesome ball.
@larryloveless29672 жыл бұрын
The Cardinals came up a little short this year in the last season of Stan Musial. The Cards would win the pennant in 1964 and the Dodgers again in 1965, but the Cards would win the pennant again in 1967 and 1968. Growing up in St. Louis my favorite games were when the Cards played the Dodgers snd Giants. The Giants won the pennant in 1962. The Dodger pitching and the hitting of the Giants made tough competition. Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, and Bob Gibson were the aces. I remember being in grade school being able to watch some of this series from our classroom. Cards fan
@larryloveless29672 жыл бұрын
Forgot to mention the Dodgers also won the 1965 pennant as well. THe Giants often came in second place in the 1960s. Just not quire enough pitcing for them.
@fredmar6436 Жыл бұрын
@@larryloveless2967 Yeah, the Giants didn't have Koufax.
@leroy52073 жыл бұрын
My two favorite baseball teams
@basilsmith1044 жыл бұрын
Classic baseball.
@carlloud1187 Жыл бұрын
RIP Joe Pepitone ⚾
@fredjmccree82663 жыл бұрын
Let's Go Dodgers!
@basilsmith1044 жыл бұрын
Classic series.
@sean1672able1119 ай бұрын
Hard to believe this series was a month before JFK was assassinated. Good times, but then it turned to sadness.
@MichaelForte-jn5pn8 ай бұрын
Ur right, everything went to hell!
@sean1672able1118 ай бұрын
@@MichaelForte-jn5pn we've not ever been the same.
@rumarspencer7302 Жыл бұрын
Yankees are 2-3 in the World Series in the decade of the 60s.
@rumarspencer73025 ай бұрын
Dodgers are the opposite, in the decade of the 1960s, Dodgers are 2-1 in the World Series.
@michaelleroy92814 ай бұрын
@@rumarspencer7302 Those same Dodgers got swept in the World 🌍 Series 3 years later by the Orioles, so they know the other side of this thing
@greglehmann72343 ай бұрын
The GREATEST Dodgers team EVER!
@jcdova29 Жыл бұрын
Yankees stadium was hard to hit homers to center field. 460 ft??? Only the big boys hit out.
@b.a.k.26832 жыл бұрын
In the free agency environment of 2021, Koufax would have become a Yankee within a short time after this series was over . Just an opinion .
@ejswrestlingjourney98572 жыл бұрын
Nah. He was a loyal dodger. You do realize the Dodgers hated the Yankees right? The Mets are literally the Brooklyn Dodgers of today. They do great and end up losing in the end. Thats what the Dodgers did when they were in Brooklyn. Then they went to LA and Started winning alot more championships. They are pretty much the Yankees of the West coast and National League.
@rumarspencer7302 Жыл бұрын
@@ejswrestlingjourney9857 Dodgers as LA, are 12-10 vs the Yankees in the World Series, here they gave them their first ever sweep, and never once had the Yankees lead in either game, and currently the Dodgers have won the last World Series meeting in 81.
@ejswrestlingjourney9857 Жыл бұрын
@@rumarspencer7302 absolutely
@64yanks8 ай бұрын
@@rumarspencer7302 that’s a strange way of looking at having won two World Series each
@64yanks8 ай бұрын
@@ejswrestlingjourney9857 when it comes to money, there is no loyalty. Nobody hates anyone enough to turn down the money ask Johnny Damon.
@waldolydecker81188 ай бұрын
35:39 Bobby Richardson beats Maury Wills' throw to second base to end the game, but the ump calls him out. After the ball is dropped, the ump reverses his call to "safe," but he should have called Richardson safe in the first place because he beat the throw. You can see Richardson on first base get an excellent jump to 2nd, as he was immediately moving on contact. Great base running.
@camionerosfurgoneros59156 ай бұрын
Baseball was played by men NOT WIMPS
@jaymorgenthal94792 жыл бұрын
The beginning of the end of the 1947-1962 Dynasty. losses in the series to LA in 63 and StL in 64 were followed by the worst team in the AL in 1966 and no championships until 1977.
@camionerosfurgoneros59152 жыл бұрын
Yankees won 20 titles From 1920s TO 1960s No other team will match that Not even the same Yankees
@adamcarrey91154 ай бұрын
8:47 How in the hell big were the baseballs back then?
@user-ms3tz9if2j7 ай бұрын
I've always wondered why game one is not available in its entirety. Several World Series games are available which predate this classic encounter, showing Koufax at the peak of his powers. Did the Yankee organization have something to do with suppressing it, because they were swept in embarrassing fashion?
@jetviser2 жыл бұрын
Vin Scully
@thomasjefferson69 ай бұрын
Three years later, the Dodgers got a taste of their own medicine when they were swept by the Baltimore Orioles, skipped by former Yankee Hank Bauer. The Dodgers managed only 17 hits in the entire series, and failed to score a single run in the final 33 innings of the series, setting unrecords which stand to this day.
@MacDisel13 жыл бұрын
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I think it was the only time the Yankees were ever swept in the WS
@FrankLPizza3 жыл бұрын
It was the first time the Yankees were swept. The Yankees were swept by the Reds in 1976
@MacDisel13 жыл бұрын
@@FrankLPizza Right On 👍🏼
@aidanmiranda61402 жыл бұрын
I’m not exactly sure but Vin Scully I believe it is said it at the very end, and the Yankees got swept by the Reds in the 1976 World Series
@MichaelForte-jn5pn8 ай бұрын
The Yankees got swept in 1922 by the New York Giants.....
@MichaelForte-jn5pn8 ай бұрын
@FrankLPizza the Yankees got swept in 1922 by the New York Giants
@waldolydecker81188 ай бұрын
Joe D and Stan Musial representing the AL and NL on the ceremonial opening pitch, but Stan has no association with the Dodgers. With all due respect to the great Stan the Man, can think of a half dozen retired Dodger players - Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Carl Furillo, etc - who would have been better NL/Dodger reps to join Joe D in this ceremony. Seems an easy fix not to have done it.
@TheBatugan778 ай бұрын
Stan was retiring. Be quiet.
@waldolydecker81188 ай бұрын
@@TheBatugan77 Drop dead clown....I don't care if your mammy was retiring, a Dodger should have been there at a Dodger World Series. Musial retired in St Louis. The NL should have had their azz in St Louis paying tribute, if they wanted to honor him. Don't like it? Then make my day and make a bona fide offer to do something about it, azz wipe.
@StFidjnr11 ай бұрын
0:53 name that tune
@luismontes42734 жыл бұрын
Who's Chávez Ravine???🤔🤔🤔🤔
@dariowiter30784 жыл бұрын
That's the nickname of the area where Dodger Stadium is located at(it's also the nickname for Dodger Stadium).
@HueyRocks233 жыл бұрын
"this is khelly chlarkson"
@michaelleroy92812 жыл бұрын
It was called Chavez Ravine when the Angels played there ( 1962-1965)
@octaviotorres8834 Жыл бұрын
RR 90 09
@michaelleroy9281 Жыл бұрын
14 years later Reggie Jackson himself kicked the Dodgers ass again when they met again in the World Series