I remember a classic 70s banner in the outfield in Oakland: "Reds Are Downers."

Ernie Harwell always announced balls and strikes, innings, pitches, etc. Never any dead air, but never sounded rushed. One of the best ever.

idky but that "I was at this game" in the great 70s smoker voice had me rolling

That umps from the civil war 😂

"Legs were tight" stares a hole into jomboys head

'That ump was in the Civil War.' Thanks for doing this guys. You're making social distancing a little more enjoyable

I love old baseball. I've been binge watching all-star games since the corona scare began. Started with the 1982 A.S. game and I'm up to the 87 game. I watched the 94 game a few weeks ago and that's hands down the best so far.😃👍⚾

“Legs were tight.” “...K...”

“This is why old people hate information so much.” I know it’s not actually true, but it feels true.

The Cincinnati Reds were stack asf

What about the number font on the front of the A's jerseys being completely different than the number font on the back? Can we also mention that Blue Moon Odom the pinch runner was a pitcher!?!

I love this thank you...you have class. 1972 was my baseball wheel house. To defend my generation, we were able to focus and know the count and inning without having Fox tell us.....we also easily sat quietly in school and listen without complaining about being bored. Fun fact: The Oakland A's owner (Charles Finely) made a fortune in the Insurance business. He bought the Kansas City A's and wanted to write off expenses to reduce taxes on his insurance profits. Thus, he spent a fortune on scouting, and his scouts fund the bulk of their talent on this team doing the extensive scouting.

As an A’s fan born in 98 I haven’t had many great memories with my team. But thank you for bringing this to me. It’s good to see them boys win it all

"We're gonna have a pinch runner, Johnny "Blue Moon" Odom..." A starting pitcher for the A's used as a pinch runner late in a tight World Series game. What the hell...?

fantastic idea! thoroughly enjoyed

"Anyway, I've become kind of famous for my signature catch-phrase… WHAMMY! As in, Gene Tenace at the plate… aaaannnnnnd WHAMMY!" - Champ Kind

The "old people" watching these games were aware of everything. They grew up listening to games on radio. They knew how to STFU and take it in. There is a logic to it all, a web of interlocking patterns - there are always surprises, but the underlying structure has cohesion (like Bach or Beethoven) that allow the knowledgeable spectator to orient herself quickly (and that reorientation is pure joy). It is a conceit of every younger generation to think the preceding generation was "slow" (just as it is a conceit of every older generation to think the subsequent generation is flaky). Love your videos.

If you did the '72 World Series you HAD to show Johnny Bench getting struck out when he thought Oakland was going to give him an intentional walk.

I loved everything about this. You should absolutely do more until the season starts. Please and thank you.

1:48 Getting a little loosey goosey 😂

No one that was around then to watch this wishes it was more like baseball is today. 1972 isn't jealous of 2020. Bring in one of the players from that game on the phone or to the studio to get them to enlighten everyone on some things. Find Tony Perez and get him on the phone and ask him about the way he played first base. I'm afraid that some of your audience is taking this as looking at the past and comparing it to now and not in a good way. The games of 1972 stand on their own as great games. The ratings of the World Series games have been going down since 1978. There was something that attracted people to watch the games on TV back then, even if you think you could hardly tell who the teams were.

I love the ump wearing a gym mat.

You guys are too close together.. 6 feet gentlemen !!

What would be beyond cool is if you continued to post clips of past games, doing what you do best. Might I suggest the 1997 NLCS: Game 6 and Eric Gregg’s infamous strike zone.

Jomboy and Jake don't have any idea, the slightest clue, that people were capable of watching and listening to baseball on tv or the radio and keeping track of things in their head.

“Gene Tenace at the plate and Whammy!” Champ Kind

I love this!! Please more baseball history!

Yo, you guys are an absolute life saver during this fucking time. Never thought I'd fucking like, let alone need, to just watch some guys sitting around watching and talking about baseball, or just have it on in the background just for some fucking noise, but holy fuck. I'm sick of movies, tv shows, even all my usual youtube channels. Y'all. Are. Lifesavers. Also, Jimmy, your normal videos, your breakdowns, got me back into fucking baseball in the first place. Fucking epic sport. Y'all are epic. Keep fucking doing what you're doing. We need you.

Game 7 of the 1968 World Series is on KZfaq in it entirety. Bottom of the 6th and the 7th innings, and 9th innings are fun.

"The sideburns just eating the ears its intense!"ahahah

The A's of the early 70's never get mentioned. They were just as dangerous as the one in the late 80's. The sad thing is that the fans never showed up even today until the playoffs started.

the "intro music intro music intro music" should be the new official intro music for the show

I like how there are actually times during the game with no ads on the screen.

Vida Blue did not hold his wife at gunpoint. That was “Blue Moon” Odom.

The quarantine content we all need boys! Keep it coming. Big fan from Australia

Players were more natural not as huge and chemically enhanced as today... much more loose less injury prone,&having fun

Hes getting more comfortable with his voice on camera. It is starting to sound exactly like his audio-only clips and i am HERE for it

"The ump was in the civil war"....Blaaaahhhhhhhh hilarious!

If you’re going to be watching World Series games, the full game 7 of the 1952 World Series is on KZfaq.

JOMBOY with his hat backwards looks kinda like Silent Bob.🤔😂

Make it happen! I'd like to watch more old school games.

Love this. Thanks. I chuckled for a long while at "I was at this game..." I didn't even know I wanted this kind of content. tyvm.

14:42 the double back pockets is a BOLD move

This is a good idea jimmy. I enjoy watching these with u and jake since were lost in a void in sports for real life

I've got a VHS tape called "baseball in the 70s" and the A's had some pretty crazy gimmicks, including those old timey facial hair looks. Great era for them.

I'm loving these vids of the old games guys! Thanks for doing this, it's a great idea. The commentary pointing out the contrasts against today are fantastic!

Great show! Love this. One thing you'll also have to remember is that many folk would've watched this in black&white

This is the series that caused the rule change about the number manager visits to the mound without pulling the pitcher. Dick Williams would constantly go to the mound for strategy sessions.

1:47

"I'm sure it was just the A's because they were being silly guys" hahaha

@Jomboy Media you guys should watch Joe Rudis catch during game 2 of the 1972 world series

This was good content! Breakdowns of old stuff, anything with the style you guys have is always entertaining.

Thank you guys for this content, honestly made me feel a lot better about life right now. Keep it up!!

Need more of this

Don't forget that people used to collect baseball cards because they had the player stats on them. Also say what you want about old timers but my uncle for whatever reason is crazy good at recalling stats from the 70s.

I'd love to see you guys do like an 80s npb game. Like the 85 Japan Series

Definitely do more - two weeks of mandatory confinement and need to watch some baseball !

Yo the games were mad fast. Now I see the complaints lol.

This was great, love the idea of talking over old games.

Three straight successful pinch hits in a row!

"I was at this game" says the twenty-something. LOL

Y'all should do a game from 1973, 1974 and 1989 for each Oakland World series

Thanks for the information. Thank you for sharing old school baseball with us Jomboy.

This was awesome! Please do more of these. The older, the better.

Enjoyed it. Thanks.

You guys are pretty funny, but have some respect for your elders! We knew what was going on in the game at all times, and if YOU had been listening to Curt Gowdy you wouldn't have been wondering whether Morgan was on the move on that scoring play in the 8th. (He was.) Also, the TV picture, while horrid by today's standards, was something your brain adjusted to. We thought it was great at the time. Overall, great stuff.

It’s a classic, and every fan should be aware of it, but I’m requesting Game 6, 1975 World Series Great vid

Cincinnati is a baseball town. One of the few left in the country

i never knew i wanted this

Gene Tenace had perhaps the greatest WS of all time. He singlehandedly outscored the Reds, no other A had multiple RBI.

Was just thinking.."maybe you should do a throwback breakdown"....blessed us with a 30 min jem. Thanks yous very much.

lol this was so fun to watch

I was 10. I rooted for the A's because they wore green and gold. The same as our school. The rival in our school was the reds.

This was great I’d love to see more

Whew. Just noticed the date on this vid. How the world has changed

LOVE THIS. More of this content please.

Same thing with hockey back in the old days. (like 80s and older) There usually wasn't a time clock in the corner, so if you weren't paying close attention the only way you knew how much time was left in the period (or in a penalty) was if the announcer said something or when it went to a commercial. Maybe they would do a "frame in frame" of the arena clock for the last minute of the period.

I'm old enough to recognize the voice of Curt Gowdy doing the play-by-play. And I wouldn't swear to it, but I think the color guy is Bill King, who remained a fixture of Oakland teams' radio broadcasts through the 80s (yeah, I grew up in the Bay Area).

I need all of this content in my life right now

This is exactly what i wanted to see right now. Thanks Jomboy!

That was great 👍 more of this !

In these trying times love to watch some baseball.

Way more strategy in old school baseball...not just strike out/home run

these watching baseball vids are great!

Love old school baseball. Love your commentary in general. 2 rights make a right. More of this pls!

According to the book Moneyball, baseball teams in the 1970’s were OBSESSED with players who could run fast. They thought they could win if they just had the fastest runners.

Great video. Nice seeing older games :)

Watchin' Baseball is a lot of fun to watch.

People definitely knew who was up and kept track of the count if they were fans. I'm convinced the use of graphics now was inspired by their use in video games.

We need a JOMBOY Vitage Channel

More of these for sure!

Definitely more of these, please

BIG REDS MACHiNE!

Please do more of these! I love the commentary

This is fun, thanks for doing this

1972 player does something "Ooooh" Lmao they played so differently back then

Jomboy sounds like Raphael from the old tmnt cartoons

Thank you. I needed that. No sports is making me a crazy person.

keep doing these until maybe we'll get baseball in May

Watching baseball! Classic game!