@David Collison - 👍 Baseball can be as good a companion as any, David.

Baseball was my love for years, even when heroin was in my life. Unfortunately I do not recognize today's game, it is not what I grew up with at all. Give me these golden years, they are certainly more respectable than what is called baseball today....

It was a terrible summer for a lot of us. Thurman Munson was killed in a plane crash two weeks later.

@@GratefulInRecovery you said it...the corrupters have done it intentionally... Implying the hundred plus years of the game was wrongly played and they had to change rules... Automatic runner on 2nd in ex innings? Starting a pitch clock next year. Its evil done on purpose as is everything we are fed

Neil Parga in 1984 I saw Nolan Ryan in person at the Houston Astrodome I.hope you will reply to this

He was far from the greatest ever!

@@nala3038 yup..he never did win a big playoff game

"Ryan the greatest ever" ---Uh.. no. Besides the 7 no hitters he also walked the most batters in MLB history. Let that sink in. Ryan is my favorite pitcher ever but he is definitely not the greatest pitcher ever and was certainly an anomaly..

He did save Game 3 of the 69 World Series for the Mets.

Right! Why can't they bring them back?

The best uniforms in MLB history.

Facing Ryan at five west coast time must’ve been a nightmare for the Yanks.

I WISH THEY HAD MORE! WITH THE ANGELS!

Amen. I miss this intro and the broadcast crew.

@@76WestSports That song made Monday Night Baseball feel like a special event that’s Must See TV!

Something about those strings and horns were dramatic, like an action movie

@@tvtitlechampion3238 Yes. It gave a Larger Than Life feel to the program.

@@med1965 becomes it was a big event...loved how ABC promoted baseball...NBC did a great job to of promoting baseball before the ogres of cable took over

There were far fewer games broadcast. This was Monday night baseball. The game of the week so to speak.

I don’t mean to sound like an old fart, I respect your comments totally. I was 18 back in 1979 and baseball was really fun back then. The comradery was really fun. I use to wait for the Yankee players to come out after the game, just like all the other baseball fans. What a time to be a baseball fan! The players were much more accessible to the fans. I loved the Yankees back then in 1979, they were coming off their two great years. On paper, they had everything going for them in 1979. So sad about Munson’s death. That destroyed that ball club. He was the Captain of the team and the fans loved their Captain. I was lucky as a kid to get Guidry’s autograph along with Luis Tiant. Man, you have no idea how great baseball was back then. I don’t even watch it today. I don’t know any of the players. They are talented guys and I’m not knocking them. I just kinda think the game is to commercialized these days and players are only in it for the big contracts. Today, it’s unheard of for a pitcher to go 9 innings. There are no pitching duels and the cost of tickets kill the average American. Baseball was a working class man’s game.

I thought I recognized the dreaded Cosell...frequently turned the sound off.

You should check out the KZfaq video of how he started that game out.

I saw him pitch for the Mets and I was in elementary school when my dad used to take me to the ballgames...a time old tradition that SHOULD last forever...dads taking their sons or daughters to the ballgames

@Steven Gray unfortunately you are correct....those days are long gone because money is the corrupting factor that fuels sports these days...as for the political correctness which is b.s. as you say and I agree...the ironic part of this is that the STUPID commissioners who run the NFL, NBA and the 2 other major sports (MLB and NHL) on a lesser extent are CATERING to the cancel culture...I laugh because cancel culture DOES NOT HAVE THE REVENUE to keep funding these institutions..cancel culture or woke nation consist mainly of Millennials...studies have shown that they mostly don't attend sporting events on a regular basis (season or partial ticket holders) or own a TV...so these dumb jackasses like Goodell who cater to these libturds and social issues are turning away the SOLID revenue of the baby boomers and Gen Xers who have supported their leagues...in the end, the golden goose will lay NO MORE EGGS and they will go bankrupt...good riddance, serves them right....at least I can say that I saw these sports leagues in their great days and saw many HOFers...that's something Millennials CAN'T say....if given a choice to be young again in the world that we live in now,..I'll pass, I give a gazillion thanks that my world was great when I was young and am blessed...all these HOFers who are dying are lucky because they don't have to see the eventual decline and demise of sports in America.

@@pst702 So true. PC has converted sports leagues into social welfare institutions. Huh? NFL, MLB, & the NBA cannot be expected to reform institutions or be organs of protest. A certain owner in the NBA doesn't want to play the Star Spangled Banner. Are we in the USSR or Marxist China? If Howard were here he'd go ballistic.

@@seabrook1976yeah, he He was Throwing at least 100mph in that allstar game

Also 15. Was happy Reggie broke it up. Yankees fan.

I remember watching this game, I turned 15 a month later

I turned 15 a few months earlier, who would have thought that Reggie would be an Angel in a few years.

@@leftykoufax7084 Reggie bargained his way to millions. His contract paid him a bonus of 50¢ per fan over 1,000,000. Hope he gave his agent a Rolex. 😇💵

Nolan Ryan left the Blue Jays cryin' Pitched a no-no at age fo-fo

@Steven Gray I can imagine how you felt...yes love the 70's Angels uniforms...

@Steven Gray Uniforms were better in this era; no pajama pants in the game...

@Steven Gray How did you feel when my Orioles traded DeCinces for Ford?

@Steven Gray i’m with you… I couldn’t stand when they became the “Anaheim” Angels. They’ll always be the “California” Angels to me.

@@carlosrincon1551 Anaheim Stadium looked a lot better with the Big A in left field.

IT WAS SAD TO SEE THE BIG A SCOREBOARD MOVED TO THE PARKING LOT AND NOLAN RYAN LEAVING.

@@watchout361 The Rams moving in ruined so much of original Anaheim Stadium.

I know right?!? Also it's funny how Tim Robbins Duke Nukem character mimicked El Tian`te's pitching motion, the half body turn, and Luis's glove motion when coming to set?🤣 Keith Jackson was the best in calling multiple sports, THE GENERAL

47:53 no chance indeed

That was kinda cool to see him tip his hat to nolan

Ya I thought about that when I looked at the date. Bench and Munson were my favorite players.

I knew it

The game was only televised on ABC.

Incorrect, the game was only on ABC

Whoa Nellie!!..He said it was ABC MONDAY NITE BASEBALL, a FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL, and said it a few times..so did HOWARD COSELL. Clean your ears out.

@@robertsprouse9282 .....it was a joke

@@davidlivingston2754, yes your comment was all that..

@@davidlivingston2754 i got it...it was funny 😄

ABC usually had one Friday night game a year to make up for the Monday night of the All Star break where there was no game.

@@paulsonj72 Thanks!

And in 2020 at the age of infinity he still broadcasts Brewers home games on the Radio

Bob Uecker is a gem...like Vin Scully was to the Dodgers and NBC...love Uecker, a throwback to a time when broadcasters were unique and appreciated...God Bless him

@@douglaslowe5 I've always wondered why Uecker chose to do Brewers Radio not TV?

You knew when ever Ryan pitched you had 75% chance of winning the game...

@@jamalmccoy4904 his stats that year were polar opposites....he was unhitable at home but struggled on the road

@@Erborne1979 Angels used to start their games early to take advantage of the stadium shadows because Tanana and Ryan both threw in the mid-90s scaring the hitters who can't see the ball from the sunlit mound coming towards the darker end of home plate

HIS LAST PITCH OF HIS CAREER IN SEATTLE WAS 98 MPH WITH A BUM ELBOW! WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY FASTBALL. ALOT OF NOLAN STUFF.

Lou Pinella always a prick.

​@@watchout361 Fastball registered at 108.5...!!!! I saw it... Anyone who doesn't think Ryan threw harder than anyone , look up. .Ryan vs White Sox no hit bid. You'll see what I mean.... He fucking blew away Jorge Orta with the fastest fucking Fastball I ever saw.

It was the 1970’s. What else would you expect?

It was the disco era you know

TO BAD NO RUN SUPPORT OVER HIS CAREER!

@@watchout361 too bad you can’t quit SHOUTING!

And ifs and buts were candy and nuts, everyday would be CHRISTMAS. MILLER misplayed the ball in the 8th, but ANDERSON had a much tougher play in the ninth, that would have called for extraordinary effort to make that play= should've been a hit.. Justice prevailed when REGGIE J. broke it up a batter later..

THE SINGING COWBOY!

You mean names were still largely American instead of all these foreigners playing now.

At the time The Mets had Seaver, Koosman a really good pitching staff and Ryan threw hard but had no idea where the ball was going. But yeah in hindsight a horrible trade, for Jim Fregosi who was at end of his playing career

Were you up in heaven when you watched this game?

So you watched this In your previous life?

Are you drunk?

@@nala3038 oblivious folk are always mistyping and dont even read what they actually posted.. He likely meant to put a 7 instead of a 9 on accident.