1:20 Ground crew guy spraying Lou Piniella with the water hose...lol...classic.

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.

THOSE were some of the best days of my life and I just didn't realize it at the time. My dad took us to Municipal Stadium many times that 1st season and though they lost more than they won, we always had a great time watching the Royals. "Mr K" made it all possible.

Just fantastic. Was born this year. This like a freaky time capsule for me. Never seen Royals footage from the very beginning.

Loved these classics

Old Minicipal Stadium with the Boston Braves Field Scoreboard

7:00 "It's RADICAL! RADICAL! Drink it!"

It takes 10mins to get from downtown to stadiums I don’t get the impediment.

1969 the year the Royals started and the Chiefs won the Super Bowl

Go Royals! 👑

Catfish Hunter almost signed with KC in 1975, but Kaufman pissed him off

The music bed used at the start and end of the film, is it an NFL Films track? Any info on the name of that music?

Hey man if you go for the Royals and Chiefs, that means that you love this city Kansas City

I think those bat crack sounds were added in post-production.

You know it as Kaufmann Stadium now

“Foy (Joe) led the team in RBIS and stolen bases”....yet just months after the ‘69 season ended, the Royals traded him to the World Champion Mets for AMOS OTIS and BOB JOHNSON....arguably, the most lopsided trade in Royals’ history..

Why did the royals copy the Dodgers uniforms and cursive on the jerseys?