I missed the days when World Series Games were played at daytime. When I grew up in the 1970’s, I remembered seeing World Series Games being played at daytime only on Weekends. Monday through Friday World Series Games were played at night, most likely so the “9 to 5’ers” can get home in time to watch The World Series. But now, Every World Series Game is played at night. Long gone are the days of Daytime Baseball Games that either determine a Pennant or a World Series.

Day time World Series..I miss that

Mantle was in this series with a bad hip. As I recall Mantle had a bad cold and Mel Allen told him to go see Allen's doctor who gave him a penicillin shot and gave him the infected hip. Players got to see how bad that infection was for Mickey most could not look and some threw up after seeing how bad it was for him. Damn Mantle was some kind of player to play in so much pain through his career

One of the greatest teams of all time ! They put on a clinic in 61.

This is the first WS i remember following. My family were all old Brooklyn Dodger fans so we couldn't root for the Yankees. The Mets would be formed the next year and we rooted for them. Thanks for the video.

Clete Boyer highly underrated 3B. He had great years with his glove on some good Atlanta Braves teams after being traded from the Yankees.

Bad year for the Babe. Maris hit 61, and Whitey broke his World Series record of consecutive shut-out innings.

I was at this game with my Mother and three older brothers. Mickey Mantle put on a show in batting practice that was amazing. I remember Vada Pinson having to field a lot of base hits and make a lot of throws toward home plate. I hated Whitey Ford for beating my team that day. I was seven years old.

Love to watch these old time players. No showboating no bat flipping or taunting. Just good solid baseball.

My father went to WS games at Crosley in 1940 and in 61, and all the home WS games at Riverfront in 1972 , and 75. He and I went to all the playoff games against Pittsburgh in 90 and then one WS game that same season against Oakland

I love these old sports films, where they show random insert shots of people getting up to look at something.

I always get a kick out of these old films. And the Redlegs had those cool looking sleeveless uniforms.

Times were simpler it seemed..listen to the music, check out spectator sunglasses and attire, and finally the voice of Mel Allen

Men wore suits, dress shirts and ties and the women were dresses, heels and pearls.

I remember going to crosley field in the early 60's. it seemed like an explosion of color after watching them on black and white tv. also liked to hear the beer sellers say "Hudy here" for hudepohl beer.

I always loved Mel Allen’s voice....voice of the Yankees

The Reds put up a pretty good fight through 3 1/2 games. Their pitching was unreal that year, as you had Jay, Purkey, Hunt, Ken Johnson. Then you had the three Jim's: Maloney, O'Toole, and author Brosnan. Henry, who split the closer role with Brosnan, was unreal with a 2.19 ERA! Then you had Jones, who's nickname was "Roadblock". Cincinnati didn't include Nunn on the postseason for some reason. Oddly enough, in the Fall Classic, it was their catchers who kept it close. Edwards hit, I kid you not, .186 in the regular season, but revved it up in the World Series, batting .364 in three games. Darrell Johnson, who wasn't even an active player when the season started, went through three teams, the Reds being the last. He hit over .300 with Cincinnati, and got into two Fall Classic games, going 2-4. O'Toole really pitched well, as well. The Yankees two big guns were Hector Lopez and Bobby Richardson in this Fall Classic. Lopez only came up to the plate a dozen times, but hit a home run, a triple, and drove home seven men! Richardson didn't have an RBI, but collected nine hits, plus was robbed of one on a great catch by Chacon @ 27:36! The Reds actually fielded amazing in the fourth contest, but the Yankees overwhelmed 'em. For those wondering, that's the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge @ 14:11, which crosses the Ohio River. It was opened in 1866, by the same man who designed the Brooklyn Bridge (which opened seventeen years later). Both are still in service.

Clete Boyer was the Brooks Robinson/Graig Nettles of this Series.

Those are the kinds of infields that we used to play on back in the day.

For some reason,I cannot recall watching this Series.For 60 and 62,I can recall what I was doing for most of the games,but I draw a blank here.

Today, MLB will usually put together a World Series DVD, but for some reason it's not the same.

Remember being in Junior High down south in Texas at that time with the old transistor radio pealed to my ear during recess period in 1961. I was a big time Yankee fan, and an avid baseball card collector.

RIP Roger Maris

This was the first World Series I ever paid attention to. I was 9 years old…

I play Baseball strat-o-matic and have both these teams in my collection offered by the game for purchase. The 1961 and 1927 Yankee teams are the best I have in my collection so no surprise there. The 1930s (late 1920s) A's teams with Lefty Grove are an overlooked great team. I am sure familar with the 1961 Yankees and Reds teams through this very realistic stat game. This was a very good Reds team. Post, Coleman, and Freese gave them power but were weak on defense. A great team needs the balance of hitting, pitching, and defense. Most of the teams in my collection are all the contender teams from the 1960s (1960-1969) when I was a kid born in 1953 and growing up in St. Louis when most in to Baseball. Thanks for placing on KZfaq.

There were 3 future Red Sox managers in this series. Eddie Kasko, Darrell Johnson, Ralph Houk.

Notice how EVERY batter goes hard and nose down out of the box? Don't see that anymore

Boy, the Yankee infield throws to first base were right on the money.

Vada Pinson should be in the hall of fame.

This is great!

Thank you so much for these videos! Very much appreciated and very awesome to see!

"See a ball game often."

The Reds trade of Frank Robinson to Baltimore has to be one of the worst, stupidest trades in history

They win the World Series and just jog off the field ... never see that now ...

Last World Series ever for the Reds at Crosley Field (Next time, they would have it at Riverfront Stadium in 1970).

Yogi always looked like an old man, even in his younger years.

There was no way the Yankees were going to lose this World Series! They had a wrecking crew that year with Mantle and Maris and company!!!

Jocko Conlon is a Hall of Fame umpire

The Cardenas drive that hit the scoreboard in game 3 haunts me. Yes, if it was on either side it would have been a homer instead of an extra-base hit. .Surely this was a matter of how the Reds had set up their ground rules. In many parks a scoreboard hit above the fence line would be a home run. Had the pitching-rich Reds deliberately set up their ground rules to be pitcher-friendly? if so, it sure backfired on them.

I was at 1961 All-Star in SF. That is the one where Stu Miller got blown off the mound. The game was at the infamous Candlestick Park.

After reading his books numerous times, I get a chance to see Jim Brosnan ( aka "Broz"), pitch in the World Series, which he did not cover in his 1961 bestseller, "Pennant Race". I highly recommend this book, as well as his preceding book about the 1959 NL season, entitled "The Long Season"...

Games 1 and 4. Whitey threw two shutout games, and in the latter game (if Maris broke the Babe's singular season home run season in 61 homers), Ford broke the Babe's 29 inning shutout record with 32 2/3's. As said by Mel Allen by 22:55.

My goodness that yankees 3rd baseman was a freaking stud on the hot corner.

Great series.

Hiroshi Fukuda Both Blasingame of Reds and Boyer of Yankees played in Japan in 1972.

Gorgeous ladies dancing

cool old Reds sleeveless unis.

ahh...the real Yankee stadium

although Cincy lost, one of my favorite players, Wally Post had a good series, batting.333 which included a long homerun

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.

Awesome baseball.

Muy buen vídeo del recuerdo, disfruto mucho ver este partido de Serie Mundial de béisbol de Grandes Ligas.

Classic series.

When I was about six years old, my Dad bet me 25 cents that the Minnesota Twins were going to win a game. It turned out the game was a re-run on the TV, and Minnesota had actually won the game the previous day. So my Dad had tricked me and taken my money! My Mom got so mad at him, she talked about the incident for years. This was my life!

The third string catcher for Yanks, Johnny Blanchard hit 20 HRs.

Creo que debería haber un "Salón de la fama" para cada Liga, en las mayores. 6/4/2020

Without Frank Robinson, the Reds would’ve never seen the World Series! This was Two Years before Pete Rose’s Rookie Season.

❤️ love the mic

The Ken Burns crowd neglects the fact that NY's sheer dominance in the 50s to early 60s nearly bankrupted the sport resulting in countless franchise shifts. Fans get sick of being the Washington Generals as this era proved.

It's an Edsel! at 33:47

Cool vid

Back when baseball was worth watching.

What is the opening theme song? The one that begins with the NY skyline. I recall it from detroit Tigers mid 1960s broadcasts.

The 1961 Yankees were certainly one of the all-time great teams, no doubt. Not only did they have great power and starting pitching but they had Luis Arroyo closing games. Marshal Bridges wasn’t bad in that role in 1962 but those Yankees never replaced the loss of Arroyo. Everyone also knows how great the 1927 Yankees and the Yankees of 1936-1939 as well as the 1976-1978 and 1996-2001 Yankees were. But somehow the great Yankee teams of the 1950s get overlooked. Their main architects were the team of Casey Stengel and George Weiss. Stengel was a baseball genius, Weiss was a business genius, and together they made a brilliant team building those Yankees. Thus their first five years together Stengel and Weiss won the World Series and after they were forced out the Yankees won four more pennants in a row. The business genius of George Weiss was (with Stengel advising him on which players) to purchase minor league players for e.g. $25,000 and sell them for e.g. $50,000. They made millions of dollars for the Yankees that way and did it so cleverly that for years rival organizations never caught on.

Wow. Crosley Field was 366 feet down the right field line! If memory serves, Yankee Stadium was 296.

Pinson was safe at second (34:09). He beat the tag. Oh, by the way, why not enjoy an icy cold Coca-Cola! (8:28), (33:55)

"Life imitates art" best describes Mickey Mantle's hip boil he suffered. He got a flu shot but the needle was infected and he suffered the boil on his hip which broke open in Game 4. Kind of like the "Flu Shot Fiasco" "Patty Duke Show" episode where Cathy Lane developed an allergic reaction to Patty's flu shot! (In real life Patty Duke was allergic to the flu vaccine!)

1976 would be different.

The following year, Chacon would wind up with the Amazin' Mets.

When we were good.

This WS would have been much different,if the great knuckleball😢er,Bob Purkey would have stuck to the knuckler against Blanchard who admitted Purkey could have thrown the knuckler in the dugout and and he'd have swung at,but Purkey threw a slider,home run that tied it in the 8th. Maris' homer won it in the ninth.

8:28 Awesome sandwich.

The Reds have their own dancers 19:02 - how cool is that? :) Also, the Reds' shortstop Eddie Kasko will be familiar to Red Sox fans as the future manager of Boston in the early 1970's. He led the Reds in hits against the Yankees, with 7 (although all were singles).

The Reds got revenge 15 years later when they swept the Yankees four straight in 1976.

They won the Series with a defensive liability such as Yogi in left field

Anyone watching this in the Corona Virus epidemic?

Clete Boyer is best defensive 3rd baseman I've seen... better than Brooks and Nettles by an inch.

When the game was THE GAME no si-si allways crying

Love those ladies dancing.

RIP Frank Robinson.

It looked like a rout, 4 to 1, but was actually fairly close until game 5.

Man the crowds in the early to mid 60s was really "old" and you saw some kids but looks like most were left home with baby sitters/family.

You can’t beat the old timers I refer to them as the All timers

Mantle was playing injured, as he did so often. But the injury was largely the fault of Yankee announcer Mel Allen, the same guy who is narrating this video! Mickey caught a cold near the end of the season and Allen advised him to go see a certain doctor in New York City who would fix him up quick, he was assured. Well, it turns out that the doctor was a rotten quack who was infamous for giving his patients shots of amphetamines. The quack used a dirty needle on Mickey and sure enough he developed an abscess in his hip and missed the last two weeks of the season, ending his chances for breaking Ruth's home run record for a single season. He finished with 54.

I watched the 61 world series.

Check out the Edsel at 33:46!

The 1961 Yankees was probably the greatest team that ever played the game. The Yankee subs would have played first string on any other team.

Mantle was injured late in the season and only played in 2 games out of the 5 game series.

Poor ole Yogi is a fish out of water in LF

MISS DAYTIME WS GAMES KENNETH O

yo, they just skip over William "Dummy" Hoy throwing out the first pitch in Game 3!

If only Cardenas had hit that ball in Game 3 about 15 Ft. to the right... Home Run...

Thats right after kiner left...sure he was rooting !!

This is way more entertaining than a ws game by fox with joe buck and all their human interest garbage, the music sounds more appropriate for football tho!

I think I saw an Ford Edsel in the parking lot.

Vada Pinson was safe at second in Game 5.

17:56 - time traveler. Guy in the derby hat has apple Airpods on!

Chacon overran the ball is what happened; the ball hit the palm part of the glove, not dropped as Mel Allen says in the narration(17:45).

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short low rf wall n Yankee stadium led the likes of Ruth,Gehrig,Mantle & Maris to their homerun prowess.Yet Mantle was a switch hitter he still faced mostly rh pitchers as an overwhelming number of pitchers were and are right handed,as customary a switch hitter bats opposite of the opposing pitcher.Even with updated Yankee stadium in 1976 the Yankees sought out lefty hitters as recent as Curtis Granderson 40+ homer seasons and the recent retired Mark Texira