Yogi deserves a pat on the back for saving Billy Martin's life. 😂

Just in awe of the Yankees coaching staff, Elston Howard, Yogi Berra, Bobby Cox, and Dick Howser. An all-star coaching staff right there, Hall of Fame even!

I was lucky enough to be at Game 6 of the 1977 WS when Reggie hit the three dingers. What a performer! When the spotlights were on, no one was better.

Here's what led to this: Jim Rice hit a bloop single to right. Reggie slowly sauntered over the ball, Rice saw this and deftly stretched it to a double. This infuriated Martin, who pulled Reggie from the game, and you saw the rest. There's a lot more to the story though. Anyone can look up the turmoil the entire Yankee team had that year, and how heavily it weighed on them, probably Martin most of all.

I loved 70's base ball!

I always loved how Elston Howard stepped right in the middle of that right away.

Reggie said Fran Healy told him to leave because if something happened, it would look bad on him. So Reggie left.

I actually remember watching this on TV.

Billy Martin was nuts. He and George were must-see tv.

Ahhh....to be born in a time where Billy Martin was your teenage baseball years

I was sixteen, watching this game. It was something else, seeing Martin go after Jackson that way. Ellie Howard was a class act, though to this lifelong Red Sox fan. Makes no difference what uniform he wore. Class will tell.

Rizzutto brings back so many memories. Holy cow

That was a nice catch by Yogi. Billy made a quick move around the back but Yogi was waiting with the bear hug.

I absolutely love how they keep giving the play-by-play as they're trying to restrain Billy

1977 was the first year I followed baseball, as a kid. I remember this game clearly. I thought this was normal comportment for ballplayers and managers. Martin and Jackson were both larger than life.

I was 11 and in a bar with my father that day and saw it and will never forget it but the only thing my 11 year old broken heart care about that day was seeing Tom Seaver make his debut with the Reds

In that first clip; Scooter is like "that was so obvious even my blind a*s could see it" Hearing the Scooter and Bill White calling the game brings it all back...my Childhood watching ch.11. Thank you for posting this!!

I was in Fenway Park that day and I won't ever forget Reggie getting pulled during the inning.

I remember watching this like it was last summer. Back in the 70s our cable TV provider gave us WPIX channel 11 here in Connecticut. I got to watch all My Yankees games using this huge box that was connected by a wire running to another box on the TV. That was back when HBO didn't come on until 3 o'clock PM or something like that. Pretty cool to be able to watch them all through the summer.

Cool to see non-biased announcers understanding human error and not be overdramatic like they do today. That one-hop from an umps POV back in 1977 would be hard for anyone to call.

I watched this live while it was happening, and when Reggie took his glasses off...I thought, oh, oh, here we go !!

My buddy was at this game. Said he couldn’t take his eyes off the dugout. Then they went on to greatness. lol

Imagine what the Scooter really knew about Billy's escapades.. Holy Cow..

I don't blame Billy for being pissed at Reggie because Bernie Carbo sold a tapped ball as a "catch"... Great editing.

Funny thing is a year later Reggie almost got into it with new manager Bob Lemon after he struck out in Game 2 of the World Series. Reggie threw a fit and as he came back to the dugout he shoved Lemon out of the way! Lemon went after him and pushed him against a wall. In Reggie's own words in his autobiography: "Lemon had a reputation as a very calm man, unless provoked. Then, word had it that Lemon could pretty much bust up whatever was in the way". LOL, Lemon was not a guy to be messed with. Even Reggie knew that!

1:46 = Martin wrote, in his autobiography, that when Yogi grabbed him, right there, he meant business, and he (Billy) Knew he wasn't going anywhere because Yogi had 'hands of steel' and a grip of iron ...... he said when Yogi grabbed ya, you weren't getting away. ..... but yeah, the animosity between Jackson and Martin dates back to the 1972 ALCS, when Martin's Tigers lost to the A's .... in a series which included a bench clearing incident ....

The Yankees knew how to put on a show. Iconic...Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Elston Howard, Yogi Berra...and really used to love listening to Rizzuto and Bill White...that huckleberry!

Carbo knew he didn't catch that ball but he put his hand up anyway. Lol. Good bluff.

42 years later and I still love this. I loved Reggie, but I loved Billy more. By today’s standards Reggie played the game extremely hard. Compare him to a guy like Robinson Cano and he looks like Pete Rose, however in Billy’s Era everyone played hard like Rose. Haven’t seen a manager who could sniff Martin’s intelligence or passion in my lifetime. Miss Billy!

I remember watching this live and my dad, calling Reggie Jackson, a prima donna

It was a good thing Elston got in between them real quick because that could have gone really bad.

They won the World Series that year and in '78 too.

Been looking for this one for YEARS, thanks!

A time when baseball was worth watching.

At the time,Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" was #1. There's a line in it:"Players only love you when they're play-ing."

This brings back so many memories!! I wish I could go back...

I was at this game with my grandfather. They put a towel over the camera. I was right behind the Red Sox dugout looking in! I was 16 yo at the time. My grandfather and I knew this was going to make the news! Red Sox-Yankees was easily the best rivalry in baseball. I’m not sure its still that way.

On a side note, this game was on Saturday June 18th, and the Yankees came into Detroit after that series. On Monday night it was a packed house at Tiger Stadium as the Bird was pitching. YES, I know the famous game was 1976, but the Bird beat them AGAIN on Monday night baseball on June 20, 1977 (I was at both games) When Billy Martin went to the plate to meet with the umpires with his lineup card, the crowd at Tiger Stadium gave him a standing ovation, and Martin smiled and tipped his hat to the crowd. (For those who dont know, Billy managed the Tigers from 71-73, and was a fan favorite, but it had a lot to do with what happened Saturday with Reggie Im sure) Now we were sitting right next to the Yankees on deck circle, and every time Reggie Jackson was on deck the fans were really giving him the business. I recall my dad saying "I would love to see him come up in the crowd and have them say it to his face" as it was getting old after a while. The winning run scored when Jackson (in right field) lost a fly ball hit by Mickey Stanley in the lights late in the game (I believe the 8th inning), and the crowd was loving it!! The final was 2-1 Detroit, as Fidrych got the complete game win again. It was a great night for Tiger fans and Fidrych, not so much for Reggie.

Where oh where is this full game. Baseball managers are now rigidly controlled low level factory foremen. We don't want abusive drunks on the field, but this kind of passion is missed today.

I saw this on TV when it happened.

That short hop - poster child for why we have challenges these days and love them.

I remember this like it was yesterday. NBC Game of the week. At the time we had never really seen anything like this.

Billy Martin had a temper but nothing like the "pine tar" incident with George Brett, which was instigated by Billy.

The talent of coaching in that Yankees dugout

Now it would be "Gee Reg do ya think you could at least go through the motions and look like your hustling'. Different era.

That's when coaches were coaches and baseball players were baseball players.. mediocre play botherd both ends of that spectrum. God bless Billy and Mr October great times spent in front of a TV with out a remote.

I remember this so well. I laughed because a lot of people were saying that Billy Martin was so scrapy. Reggie Jackson would have folded him up like laundry.

This was also the game where my dad told me who Elston Howard was. My man was Thurman Munson and pops told me how good Ellie was back in the day,and now knowing how good he was,12 time all-star and 6 time World series champion as player and coach and he's not in the Hall of fame? That is ridiculous!

Ellie was so cool. He just stepped in, nice and slow. He was one of baseball’s true gentlemen.

howser/berra/cox/martin same dugout

Loved this crew announcing games Bill White ,Phil Rizzutto , Andy Messier great crew

It’s really sad that Elston never had a chance to manage. May he RIP.

This is a reason why Billy Martin couldn't keep a job for very long. He was one of those managers who seemed to legitimately take personal offense when his players made an error on the field, struck out, or gave up a home run. That autocratic, "it's my way or the highway" mentality is just tiring. A player who knows how to play his game like Reggie Jackson, shouldn't have to always look behind his back to see if or when his manager is going to confront and challenge him face to face. Martin obviously thought that Reggie was showing him up (and I think that game was on the NBC "Game of the Week", so all of America saw this) by not running hard enough.

Luckily for Billy, he was held back. Jackson would have wiped him out.

I was there and Reggie was in a antagonistic mood all night! We we sitting just inside the Pesky pole in right field and the crowd was giving it to RG all night and it obviously was getting to him and effecting his play! It was a wild night at Fenway to say the least.

Elston Howard, what a class act. Just inserting himself in between, not really grabbing or pushing anyone, he just wants to de-escalate

Reggie was my favorite all time baseball player

Maybe Joe Torre should have been doing some of this in the Mets dugout around the same time that season

Don Zimmer was the Red Sox manager in 77, 20 years later he would be Joe Torre's right hand man in the dugout on those great late 90s early 2000s teams wearing his combat helmet at times,

This is what made Yogi Berra a great catcher 😂

I never realized how big Elton Howard was. He towers over Reggie.

I was 5 months old when this happened but man I can hear the air conditioner in my grandmother’s living room and see this on their TV. I don’t think non baseball fans understand the talent and extremely unique individuals that made up this NY Yankee team in particular. To think there was a time guys were going to work in the morning, talking about the Yankee game and mentioning Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin. If I could go back in time, what I’d give to be in the Bronx in 1977 watching the Bombers play live, hearing Scooter’s voice. Even outside of the Yankees, I know NYC was in a bit of a bad way in those times and maybe it’s rose colored glasses thinking about my grandparents and my very young parents who got married BECAUSE I was born…but this just seems like an almost magical time. What a decade, what a great team!

A lot of egos with the Yankees from the late 70s. Steinbrenner, the most committed owner to winning in all of sports. Martin, a hothead who got his teams to play hard. Reggie, the cocky superstar who backed up his boast on the biggest stages... It worked extremely well.

AAAAH THE GOOD OL DAYS.

Billy did get extra-good years from his players. Especially when he took over a new team. The problem was he would start fighting with one or two of them - and really fighting (he fought his own 20 game winner in Minnesota, and punched out a couple of his pitchers while managing the Yankees at different times. Reggie did dog it on a couple of fly balls (and played an uncharacteristically lackadaisical outfield in 1977, at least till September when he picked up his defensive game a lot). But that did not justify Martin's almost childish behavior. We were all big Billy Martin fans (I was at his famous 'return' game in 1979 and many other great games of his), but he never learned how to stop this unproductive fighting. It's too bad, he could have had one of the top winning percentages (and longevity) among MLB managers.

NBC game of the week, watched it live 11 yrs old

So, I had flown down from Nova Scotia to catch the Yanks in this 3 game set at Fenway. They lost 9-4, 10-4 (this game) and 11-1. One of the more disappointing week-ends of my life. However, the World Series victory made up for it.

THE BRONX IS BURNING!!

Billy ready to throw down with Reggie on a summer day at Fenway in the 70's? Only one word.....AWESOME!!!

I remember that game. Never seen a coach so angry at laziness.

(0:34) Next time you complain about these delays for replay remember this clip.

Dodger fan. I will never forget the 77 World Series. How can I?

My late Papaw was MUCH MORE of a National League fan but I’ve often wondered if he was watching this game since it was on NBC.

Wow, look at that! 5’7”, (~60 year old),Yogi Berra breaking up a fight.

The straw that stirs the drink.

This show the great passion Billy Martin had for baseball and the Yankee club house. It doesn`t matter if you were Reggie Jackson, he would kick u out of the game if you`re just messing around. Besides, Jackson was some sort of diva and a troublemaker. He had several arguments and almost fist fight with some of his own club mates both with the A`s and with the Yankees.

Billy was THE hothead in professional sports. but he was also a 110% fighter and competitor.

45 years to the day! Unbelievable!!!

I miss Rizzuto. The original huckleberry. He and Seaver were the best broadcaster team in my history. Great Men indeed.

One of the greatest moments in all of sports. I laughed so hard.

Those were the days: Sox/Yankees at Fenway. I remember this game. We loved to razz Reggie, but he's a great.

I remember that game. Jackson Nonchalant went after a ball a base hit. And the runner got a double.

Die hard Red Sox fan here, no manager ever struck fear in the heart of this teenager like Billy Martin, that he's not in the Hall of Fame is an absolute travesty...

This was on national television

Yogi was a gem!

Billy told Reggie he was going to kick his ass! Reggie said "The alcohol you've consumed has destroyed your BRAIN! 😅😅😅

Jimmy Wynn (#24) "The Toy Cannon" does an excellent job of getting Reggie as far away as possible, and what else could be said about the class and coolness of Elston Howard. I was eleven when I watched this game on WPIX, and that was the day I received an in-depth lesson of his importance beyond reading an encyclopedia.

George: “you fire him. You fire him right now” Gabe: “what we need now George is a cease fire”

Billy Reggie George, disco, SNL, summer of sam. Yanks ws champs 77 78. The good old days in NYC. Glad I was there!

Kind of funny but I lived in Newport Beach when Reggie Jackson lived there. When he was with the Angels. He jogged by all the time. I just would say hey. But latter about the same year I lived in Corona Del Mar. Right down the street lived Billy Martin. Matter of fact when he had some kind of argument with his girlfriend and it ended up in the news. I heard much of the argument from our bedroom window. But I never really talked to Reggie nor Billy. Being sports celebrities I felt I’d give them their space. This video reminded me of all this. It was 82 or 83 I think.

and they still won the WS... tired of hearing of “toxic” players affecting a whole team... here you had THREE toxic personalities, but at the end of the day, they still got it done

Willy Randolph standing around like the secret service not wanting anyone to see it 😂

I dont get the video of Red Sox outfielder. The thing that led to eruotion in NY dugout was Martin's perception that Reggie was dogging it in RF...on more than one ball that Martin (and others) thought he should've made plays on. Martin was from a different era. I still remember the story of DiMaggio coming off the field at the end of a half-inning runnung alongside another Yankee who just had muffed a play. DiMaggio reportedly said to him without raising his voice that "we dont do that here." So, imagine Martin seeing Reggie not muffing a play but not even risking the play... multiple tumes. He was f'g furious. Billy Martin and the Earl of Baltimore...different America.

If Reggie had got his hands on Billy, there would have been nothing but a greasy spot in the dugout with a #1 jersey laying on top of it.

You can only wonder what Billy Martin would have done to players like Bryce Harper, Carlos Gomez, Gary Sanchez, and even Robinson Canó

0:37 Scooter makes comment 40 yrs ahead of its time............

Ahhhhhh yes! When the Yankees were the Yankees!

I think I recall that Billy really blew up when Reggie called him “an old man”.

I miss Yogi! I'll never forget those Stovetop commercials he use to do when I was a kid. RIP

I wish someone still had the tape of the original play in right that made Billy crazy