I'll never forget this game! What a different world it was in America in 1970! A few weeks before the All-Star Game, my late cousin Julio and I were issued citations by a Los Angeles Police Department Officer for riding our bikes on the wrong side of Van Nuts Boulevard in Pacoima,CA. My cousin was 13 years old and I was 12 years old. We both appeared before a Judge in court, the day of the All-Star Game, and paid our citations. It was a scary and intimidating experience standing their looking at the Judge who told us he didn't want to see us in his court room ever again! We couldn't wait to get home to watch the 1970 All-Star Game.and we weren't disappointed! Pete Rose's play at home plate is one of most iconic plays in Major League Baseball history!

The All Star game was THE test to show the better league. Serious stuff - much more than today.

When they were really ALL Stars!

The MLB All Star Game in the 1970’s was HUGE for me as a kid and a fan. Johnny Bench!! Pete Rose!! Joe Morgan!! Reggie Jackson!! Hank Aaron!!

Pete Rose played the game right hustled all the time. Growing up he was the best player the Reds had.

It was great to see Frank Robinson get a great ovation at the pre game announcement of the batting order....in my opinion the Reds trading him was one of the worst trades in their history..

The 1970 All-Star Game in Cincinnati marked the return of the fans vote, thirteen seasons after the Reds had that infamous ballot box stuffing incident. Between 1958-69, the All-Star vote was done by players,coaches and managers.

True baseball history! I remember watching this game with my Father. We were American League fans and were excited about the possibility that American League would win this one. The drama & excitement were incredible. Rose crashing into Fosse is one of the most memorable plays in MLB history.

r ❤ 1970s all star baseball games ⚾️

I remember watching this on TV when I was 13 years old. Never forgot the dramatic ending of Pete Rose barrelling over Ray Fosse to score the winning run

Last year the angels wore the silver halo on there caps. Easily the best cap in history

An impressive array of ML stars...i born in 68', but these names are nostalgic, for sure...

MLB used to have the best all star game of all sports

when Roberto is a backup that national league had to have had a hell of a team

Morgan of the Astros....Cool!!!He scores and the guy waiting to bat next is Rose....a future teammate..

At 6:48, Big Frank Howard, had his Sport Illustrated Poster hanging in my room as a kid around 1970 or so..

Great game.

"Breaking both collar bones" is right. Exactly the kind of injury that's sustained when falling straight forward onto a hard object or surface 😣

Jim Hickman's game winning RBI single up the middle. He was one of the original NY Mets, and quite an average player in all respects. Decent enough, but nothing special. Then he's traded to the Cubs and has the kinds season that, if he had strung together 10 -12, he'd be first ballot Hall of Fame. Over 30 home runs, well over 300 batting average and we'll over 100 RBIs. Interesting how sometimes an average player can turn in an exceptional season sometimes!

@ 3:25 great reax by Tommy Helms when Johnny Bench turns around. BTW - Bench played 6 different positions in 1970. Kessinger was having problems with the carpet HP ump Barlick wearing the white chest protector that pitchers like Seaver wanted banned.

It's amazing how little the unis have changed in 50 years

Cool music

What a year for baseball. All the great all stars at that game. How many hofmrs? Bench, Rose, Morgan, Perez, Robinson, Robinson, Seaver, Gibson, Palmer, Arron, May's, Yastremski, Killebrew, I lost count

I'm so excited to watch this I'm about ready to pee on myself

Joseph Melcher, you are soooo correct.

I liked those Astro uniforms from the late sixties.

Pete Rose:WARRIOR

I remember that collision Wille Mays and Bobby Bonds had. The year might have been 67 or 68. It was on a Saturday afternoon. Mays fell on Bonds knee. Took the wind out of Willie

Narrated by Curt Gowdy.

The shot of the scoreboard they show at 19:58, supposedly with Rose at bat with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th, is actually out of sequence, being taken from the bottom of the 12th inning instead. At that moment in the 9th, the hit totals were 9 for the American League and 7 for the National, but the scoreboard shows them as 12 for the AL and 8 for the NL--how they would have appeared after Rose had singled off Wright with 2 outs in the bottom of the 12th.

At 20:54, Gowdy says of the tag play on Torre at first, 'Yastrzemski makes it two outs.' No, Torre was leading off--after Yastrzemski's tag-out of Torre at first, Clemente grounded out before Rose came to bat.

They wasn't making s*** they played for the Love of the game

I'm surprised haven't seen comments debating whether what Rose did was the right thing to do:Yes , in a typical situation, the only option he had was to run into him, but this isnt a typical situation and its questionable whether he should have jeopardized Fosse's health in an All Star game.

I remember watching this game. It would have been just a few weeks before my 11th birthday so I remember it well. Pete Rose's charge into home was the show stopper for sure! That was the way baseball is supposed to be played! This watered down, anemic, 'gotta be so careful so no one gets a boo boo' version of the game we have now is so lame. We will never see a dramatic play at home plate, a take out slide into second base to break up a double play ... we'll never see a manger lose his s*&t all over an umpire because of a bad call.....the game today is just a pale shadow of what we used to watch. It's getting to the point where they might as well just run a computer simulation to determine who wins every year and let the players stay home so they won't get hurt while they 'earn' their millions upon million of dollars. OK that's my rant! It was a great game with great players!

RIP Ray Fosse!

Nobody outruns the arm of Johnny Bench!

1970 Major League Baseball Expansion. The American League ~ The Seattle Pilots ~ file for bankruptcy after only one season. Milwaukee interests bought the club less than a week before the 1970 season began. Team became ~ The Milwaukee Brewers

Poor Jim Hickman... nobody remembers he was the one how got the hit to win the game for the NL LOL

Love all the music in this video. Only one I could find is that classic Keith Mansfield funky fanfare series song, “Funky Flight”. If anyone here knows or is able to identify the other songs please reply and I will love you dearly.

Did the plate umpire really yell back then on swinging strikes? They should only display such emotion on pitches in the strike zone where the batter doesn't swing.

The White Sox uni’s looked like the Royals.

So we're not going to talk about the MVP being on the losing team?!?

Damn Tom Seaver Vs Jim Palmer

4:12- the best centerfielder of all time takes a put out away from Bobby Bonds.

1970 was the last year Major League Baseball uniforms were, no pun intended, uniform! In 1971, some teams in both leagues adopted those awful looking beltless uniforms!

WHAT happened to the SOUND???

Ray Fosse was never the same player after that

Sudden Sam!

Rose should be in the Hall Of Fame, but that description of the play is BS, the ball hopped 3 times, not one and his knee is nowhere near Ray Fosse's shoulder.

3:32... that would have started a brawl today. 4:04... willie mays and bobby bonds, multiple 30-30 players in the same outfield, and if willie had known 40-40 was a thing, he would have no doubt accomplished that. bobby bonds and barry bonds did 30-30 10 times, 5 apiece. 6:18... check out the cincinnati ovation for frank robinson. 8:06... wow, there's a name i haven't heard in a long time. rico carty, what a tremendous hitter, fascinating character, some devastating injuries and illnesses marred his career, and he apparently had personal conflicts with all-stars ron reed, ron santo, and hank aaron of all people... rico is still with us in 2020, someone should write a book about him. 8:40. nixon; "i am not a crook." trump; "i am not an idiot." 9:32... sam mcdowell was a dominating pitcher, would strike out 12 all-stars in 8 innings, when he was healthy mcdowell was as good as they get, he unfortunately played for the lowly cleveland indians during his prime... and he unfortunately had substance abuse and some tough times later, the character "sam malone" in the sit-com "cheers" was based on mcdowell's life. mcdowell also still with us in 2020. 13:12... little did he know... ray was having a great game... 21:14... no mention of billy grabarkewitz's single to get rose to 2nd. who?

Fosse was too far up the line because the throw was too far up the line. Just a tragic set of circumstances for Ray Fosse. RAY FOSSE 1947-2021

Before big money.

Does anyone know who that player is at 00:57?

Glen Becker was an all-star 😮

Dick Allen HOF

What music is that at 9:33?

And Yastrzemski got the MVP of the game

I will defend Rose all my life he played to win and Fosse was blocking the plate and baseline.

Rose starts to slide head first, stumbles and then realizes he needs to blindside Fosse. Very good job plowing an unexpected catcher Pete. Sidelined his career. You should be very proud of that level of hustle.

Pete should have done what Ty Cobb did during his playing days: jump in the air and used his feet to hit Ray Fosse in the stomach(or Fosse's 'nads, for that matter!). ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 😁😁😁😁😁

I'm sure Kurt Gowdy was crying .

This mlb all star game and some player's dirty like Pete rose did !! He tackled a catcher in order to score by knocking the ball out of his hands ! Pete Rose knows why he never made it into the hall of fame and it wasn't illegal gambling !!!

Fosse had nothing to bitch about, blocking home plate, up the line , in an all star game, he played to win, so did Rose, "when the train is coming, get off the tracks"

that's bone