How about that !?

This is Mel Allen

perfect childhood

Powerstick presents...Power At The Plate.

@Tripleblade 82 tickets weren't 50 to 150 dollars each in the 80's. My father used to take us (4 kids) to Fulton county stadium to watch the braves, and we'd get the dollar seats, in the upper deck. Now, even those seats are over 20 each.

Michael White it was $2 for a general admission ticket in the outfield for Jays games in the end of the 70s. It went up to $4 sometime after that but I don't remember when. It was general admission so if you went to get a drink or use the washroom and nobody was watching your seat, it was usually gone by the time ya got back. Lol! Exhibition Stadium (Blue Jays home from 77-89) was brutal! The seats along the first baseline were aluminum benches with numbers on them to tell ya where your seat was. The $2 general admission outfield seats were MUCH better! Now we have SkyDome, aka: Rogers Centre with its retractable roof and AstroTurf and it's the 6th oldest stadium in MLB and there's talk about getting a new stadium. I hope it's a strictly baseball stadium cuz SkyDome is multipurpose and is one of two stadiums still using Turf instead of real grass. Tropicana Field is the only other one still using Turf. I miss the $2 general admission outfield seats. Lol!

@Tripleblade 82 ... Actually, more fans attend Major League Baseball games nowadays than in the '80's. But yes, we were better people overall before cell phones.

Nobody is wearing team jerseys either. More fans with shirts off than a team jersey on! LOL!!!

@@travisazzopardi5383 the rangers new ballpark is artificial turf as well.

@Tim Bowen I remember Sports Illustrated putting all the millionaire Baseball players on the cover wondering where it would end, well, those players made peanuts compared to 2022 where the top ten highest players of the 1980s don't equal the top paid player of 2022.

The uniforms were cool and much better than the boring all-white and all-gray uniforms we see too much of nowadays.

Definitely.. and they looked like baseball uniforms, not pajamas like today

Soccer sucks

Honestly? Astroturf and those crap stadiums. Glad those are gone.

@Hartford Lowe Today's stadiums are infinitely better. But if you prefer character-less, multipurpose discs with astroturf on top of concrete, good for you.

Haha same here. The channel even got turned from cartoons to This Week In Baseball when it came on on the weekends. That took precedent over everything.

@@slb159 how bout that

Same here, but I grew up minutes from Yankee Stadium. But we definitely read the papers and check the box scores. Baseball cards meant more to me then something to be shoved in a bulletproof case and kept in a climate controlled atmosphere. They were just another tool. A memento to remind you of where they came from, and where they are going, and everything they have done for your team. Or haven't done for your team depending on the crappiness of the player.

@@CrookedEyeSniper When did you leave the Bronx

@@BaseballPlayer0 I'm still in NYC, I'm just in Manhattan now, Little Italy. Haven't been in the Bronx for a few years or so. But it's a 30-40 minute subway ride from me. I'm a NYer, I've left a few times but always get home sick and come back.

When was the video made

SchnauzerFaceMinis I haven’t seen this since early 90s but I could finish Brickhouse’s lines, even today, because I wore out the tape too back in the day. Good times!

A better time for baseball.....

@@GratefulInRecovery It was better with more balls in play than in the 2020s.

Surprising thing is he narrated this a good 10 years after retiring from Cubs telecasts!

Hey hey!!

There's a special place for names like "Jack Brickhouse"

I remember in 1990, I was a kid at Anaheim Stadium and Wally Joyner was a million dollar man at that time. The next year, he left The Angels for Kansas City.

no one should get that kinda money just to play a game. Just ridiculous.

He meant 3 million a year. No one gets 300 mil a year now

70s pretty good too!!!

He was a scuffer.

King of the split-finger at the time.

yeah because the Astros CHEATED

The only reason Houston won the WSis because they cheated big time. Tainted tile

Idk but to me the Houston Astros from the 80s were by far much more classier than these recent Astro's teams

i watched the 1986 mets watch along stream of game 6 of 1986 series. during the stream bobby o hinted more than once that he was not a big fan of boggs lol

The 40/40 has since been done by other players.

😂🤣

Tony Gwynn was at like .408 before the strike in 94

Oh yah

It is mentioned @14:30.

Anytime! Thanks for watching! :)

can you please upload the nbc version of the 1984 and 1986 world series film

@One hand Clapping...The problem is youth coaches. Kids are taught to do one thing and one thing only. Pitchers are taught to throw as hard as they can...not how to pitch. Hitters are taught how to swing as hard as they can...not how to hit. Joc Peterson got to the major leagues and had never attempted a bunt...even in batting practice as a kid. John Lester couldn't throw the ball to any base...he only knew how to throw as hard as he could to a catcher 60' 6" away. The modern player doesn't know how to hit behind the runner, bunt, slide, hit the cutoff man, BE the cutoff man or any of the finer points of the game. In short, they don't know how to play.

And still going...

That was Ivan Calderon of the White Sox in 87

The music that's played at the very start of the video meanwhile, is "Make It Happen" by John Devereaux.

The music that's played during the segment on Steve Garvey's consecutive games played streak at the 17:19 mark is "The Ultimate Prize" by Richard Myhill.

The music that's played at the 14:14 mark in the segment on Most Valuable Player winners is "Power (B)" by Alan Hawkshaw.

The music that's played at the 20:33 mark in the segment on the longest game in professional baseball history is "Victory Lap" by Douglas Wood.

The music that's played at the 35:52 mark in the segment on Roger Clemens is "Action Scene" by John Bahler, Mary Matthews, Matt Muhoberac, and Sally Ann Griffith.

Nah he knew the consequences and didn’t care, he thought he was bigger than the game. He didn’t tank they’d ban the all time hit leader. His ego got him

Or Pepsi Oooooh that coke? Whoops.

No, not that many

Known as "The Bible of Baseball". Worse than Tony Gwynn...watching a fat, immobile Willie Mays when the Mets came to town in the early 70s.

What? They did, seven games and all!

They skipped the 1987 world series too

White privilege

Frank White sjw

Schmidt worked hard for everything he ever had. No priveledge

You are special, VERY SPECIAL....

Did they really do that? Often? I'd never heard this before - but if the streak was "gamed", I'm with you, it doesn't mean much.

That is completely false. Ripken played virtually every inning of every game. Go look it up. I'm serious...go look it up.

That didn't happen too often..didn't he play EVERY inning for about 10 years?