I've Got a Time Machine and I'll take you back in time

[Hightop77]

The guy in the Bayer commercial played several bad guy roles in movies later on.

[3rdgensooner]

I guess youtube is helping those who are having MLB withdrawal. I keep getting recommendations for former WS. I watched Game #7 of the 1960 WS. What a game. Pirates win it with a walk off dinger. I have the 1970 game #7 WS on now. Reds vs Orioles.

Next up the 1977 Game #6 WS. Dodgers vs Yankees

Youtube search mlb vault.

One of our local channels broadcasted the 2001 World Series Game 7 toady. Great memories. I was there. Beating the Yankees in a Game 7 in the bottom of the ninth, it doesn't get any better than that. The longest sustained roar from a crowd I've ever experienced.

[Hightop77]

We all know of the great victories of the BRM, but I never knew about the 1972 WS (how it went down, just assumed the great A's steam rolled us).  What a great, well played series.  Dick Williams squeezed out every ounce of his club to win that series with some really creative managing moves.  I also never knew Reggie Jackson was injured and didn't play.  Without Jackson, Reds were clearly the better team IMO.  They won game 6, 8-1 to force a game 7.  Every game in the series was a 1 run game except game 6.  Gene Tenace.  Are you kidding me? Unbelievable.  Funny to see that the double steal was actually employed on a few occasions.  A's were successful on getting a score out of one of 'em.  

Now I can see Reds' fans angst in 1975.  I was just a little twerp, I didn't know about the heart breaking manner of the '72 WS.  Sooooo close.  I can only imagine the sick feeling after seeing Fisk's game 6 winning home run stay fair.  Winning that game 7 on the road after that was gut check city.

A's were a great team with great defense and pitching which is the formula for greatness.  Beat the Dodgers too in 1974 even though we all know LA would have won if Tommy John had not been lost during the season when he was 13-3 at the time.  1974 Cy Young winner relief pitcher Mike Marshall below

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I guess youtube is helping those who are having MLB withdrawal. I keep getting recommendations for former WS. I watched Game #7 of the 1960 WS. What a game. Pirates win it with a walk off dinger. I have the 1970 game #7 WS on now. Reds vs Orioles.

Next up the 1977 Game #6 WS. Dodgers vs Yankees

Youtube search mlb vault.

One of our local channels broadcasted the 2001 World Series Game 7 toady. Great memories. I was there. Beating the Yankees in a Game 7 in the bottom of the ninth, it doesn't get any better than that. The longest sustained roar from a crowd I've ever experienced.

Yup. Nothing like beating the Yankees in the bottom of the 9th in game #7. Can't get any better than that for those fans.

[ScarletHayes]

Hey Zig, I've always heard about the great Walkie Talkie controversy of the '76 WS, but I never get any details.  What was that all about?

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Hey Zig, I've always heard about the great Walkie Talkie controversy of the '76 WS, but I never get any details.  What was that all about?

Never heard of it.
I talk with my friend Al Oliver several times a week on the phone (he fits me in around Dave Parker and other guys ) and I asked him if the Reds 76 team was greatest ever.  He said EVER?  Yeah, I said, ever.  They had Bench hitting 7th!  He said last night he'd have to think about how they did (pirates) vs Reds in EARLY 70s.  Pirates won 2 world titles in 70s like Reds did don't forget.  I laughed.  I said don't forget the Reds added Foster and their bullpen was improved with Eastwick and McEnany, 

I asked how Parker was doing as he has form of parkinsons and Al said the medicine he takes is helping a lot.

[ScarletHayes]

But it did offer pageantry and controversy, though the symbols of controversy were not in sight at the end. The Yankees†three‐man walkie‐talkie staff was removed in the first inning by order of Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, and the freeagent pitchers were removed in the seventh and eighth innings by their managers.
However, after the game the commissioner changed his mind and said he would allow the Yanks to use two walkie‐talkie men.
The “audio‐communications system” was borrowed by the Yankees from football teams that have used walkie‐talkie signals for years to advise the coach on the sidelines from vantage points high in the grandstand. The Yankees introduced it Co their playoff for the pennant against the Kansas City Royals with this alignment: two scouts on the press level flashing the word to the dugout, where Coach Gene Michael relayed the suggestions to Manager Billy Martin. But the system provided no suggestion for keeping Morgan's home run from slipping over the right‐field fence, and before the first inning was over the walkie‐talkies were gone, too. The commissioner, a 6‐foot3‐inch Princeton lawyer, reached for his own system—a red telephone in his box behind the Cincinnati dugout—and ordered the Yankees to play ball without mechanical advantage.


“I'm not here for petty stuff like walkie‐talkies,” said Sparky Anderson. manager of the Reds, as the dispute escalated afte rthe game. ‘'I'm here to play the World Series.” And Johnny Bench, the Cincinnati catcher, observed with a grasp of modern history, “On my CB, I start with breaker 1‐9 [the Citizens Band channel, where truck drivers start, too].”

The battle of the airwaves broke out after the Yankees had received permission to station one walkie‐talkie man in an open seat upstairs in the stadium. Instead, they were caught with three radio spies operating from the enclosed press‐television level behind home plate. And they were ruled off the air.

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Flying sure has changed.

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