I see that Gm. 6 is now available! Great stuff!

The 66 series is only available in highlights

I suggest you get the DVD "Impossible to Forget: The Story of the 1967 Red Sox."

I started my love of baseball that same year. My Dad luckily turned me into a Dodger fan! I can remember going to Forbes Field to see my first game. The starting pitcher that day for the Dodgers was Sandy Koufax!! Got my first autograph from Sweet Lou Johnson. Baseball's best era the 60's!

If they were up by 7 and he bunts, then you can come light the bean

@@part6133. Yeah, no one is going to object to a bunt when you’re behind - just when you’re way ahead. And these guys from the days gone by weren’t at all shy about enforcing the “unwritten rules”. How do you think Sal “The Barber” Maglie got his nickname?

I’m a pirates fan and we actually had a really good year in 1965 but we just couldn’t overcome the giants and dodgers even tho we were close. The pirates were contenders for good parts of the 60s but no doubt the best year was the first year of that decade the Cinderella 1960 team.

I'm a Cardinal and Strat-O-Matic fan also.

Me, too. But he had these earlier, outstanding years. Great nickname, too

I didn't realize the Bert Blyleven pitched on the '79 Pirate championship. How many players, coaches left Minnesota in baseball and especially football to championship teams.

Yeah, I remember that ‘67 pennant race. Amazing!! My favorite game was the last one in the regular season. It was at Fenway Park and Yaz went four for four. Do you remember?

The ball is still out on pitch counts - it seems like pitchers use the pitch count as a reason to push velo ever higher, even though the original reason for a pitch count was to reduce injuries (the chance of an injury to a pitcher increases astronomically after about 100 pitches). As far as pitch velo, if they'd had a reliable way to time pitch speeds in delivery from the mound they absolutely would have.

Mine too; for FOOTBALL! The voice of the Packers. It seems strange that he was working for the Twins as well. Ray Scott used a paucity of words. He let the picture do most of the talking.

I remember Ray Scott doing NFL games for CBS in the mid 1960's to early 1970's.

What about Bumgarner or Ohtani?

Ken Brett.

Jim Kaat was one of the better hitting pitchers back then

Big D, from Van Nuys High School, could throw the hardball and hit the hardball too..

Drysdale was sent in to pinch hit in Game Two.

Yes a different world and not for the better.

Final MLB games for Ed Hurley, as he retired after the WS.

@@gregfrank4115 That is correct.

Yeah, and Koufax pitched the game of the Century on September 9.

Ray Scott was the voice of the Green Bay Packers during this time. It had to be strange for him promoting AFL football on Sunday and the big games on NBC.

Good point.. Frank Robinson was such a superstar, that he left the NL but not as the top player by far in the NL, (think Mays, Aaron, Marichal, Koufax, etc ) comes to the AL in 1966 AND becomes the number 1 player. Crazy. NL super powerful BECAUSE they promoted and pushed black players.

Doesn't matter, the Twins beat both Drysdale and Koufax in the first 2 games, no big deal who started

I've heard that quote from Drysdale a million times

Take what you can..if it wasn't for kinescope would be nothing preserved

Yes. Gowdy said it in the bottom of the 5th. Possibly earlier too.

They were all in color at least as early as 1960. NBC was owned by RCA and RCA was pushing their color TV sets, so they wanted all NBC's big shows to be in color. CBS & ABC didn't go to color broadcasting till later on because they had no color TV sets to sell. Which is why Bonanza was in color in 1959 and Gunsmoke wasn't in color till 1966.

Certainly the team with the best pitcher did.

Certainly the best pitcher in Koufax.

Tied a WS record with 7 putouts, a couple of tough ones there.

2/3 of the Earth's surface in 1965 was covered by water. The rest, by Tony Oliva.

Gowdy was still with the Red Sox in 65, though he did AFL football for ABC, then for NBC in the fall of 65. He started doing baseball regularly with the network in 66, although until 1976 the custom was one broadcaster from each of the pennant winning teams split the play by play.

@@gregfrank4115 In the Curt Gowdy era, here are his partners from 1966 to 1975: 1966-Gowdy & Vin Scully (Los Angeles) Gowdy & Chuck Thompson (Baltimore) 1967-Gowdy & Ken Coleman (Boston) Gowdy & Harry Caray (St. Louis) 1968-Gowdy & Caray (St. Louis) Gowdy & George Kell (Detroit) Tony Kubek (field reporter) 1969-Gowdy & Bill O'Donnell (Baltimore) Gowdy & Lindsey Nelson (New York) Kubek (field reporter) 1970-Gowdy & Jim McIntyre (Cincinnati) Gowdy & Thompson (Baltimore) Kubek (field reporter) 1971-Gowdy & Thompson (Baltimore) Gowdy & Bob Prince (Pittsburgh) Kubek (field reporter) 1972-Gowdy, Kubek & Al Michaels (Cincinnati) Gowdy, Kubek & Monte Moore (Oakland) 1973-Gowdy, Kubek & Moore (Oakland) Gowdy, Kubek & Nelson (New York) 1974-Gowdy, Kubek & Scully (Los Angeles) Gowdy, Kubek & Moore (Oakland) 1975-Gowdy (Game 1, 3, 5 & 7) Joe Garagiola (Game 2, 4 & 6) Kubek Dick Stockton (Boston) (Game 1 & 6) Ned Martin (Boston) (Game 2 & 7) Marty Brennaman (Cincinnati)

@@gregfrank4115 Was it around this same time that around 1965-'66 that NBC got sole and exclusive rights to all MLB "National TV" games as well for about 10 years until ABC joined in 1976? From what I read online prior to 1965, NBC only had exclusive rights to the WORLD Series. And during the regular season games was also regularly on CBS and ABC as well.