Wow, just beautiful. The year after Mathewson retired.
― timellison, Thursday, 30 October 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
Home Run Derby is on hulu! Looks like all 26 shows from 1960.
― timellison, Sunday, 2 November 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
Walter Johnson's birthday today. My class got a kick out of Ruth's antics in this clip. (At least I think they're antics...he'd been retired for nearly a decade at that point, so maybe not.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE9D0oAyCC4
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
keri feature on MLB's film & video archive, includes clips from 1902 that feature babe and walter johnson, the 1905 NY giants, ted williams at spring training, buncha other stuff http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-babe-prime-pedro-and-baby-bryce-taking-a-trip-through-major-league-baseballs-film-and-video-archive/
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
The Terry Forster and Buddy Biancalana episodes are legend, but I had forgotten about Harmon Killebrew Night.
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/david-letterman-top-ten-baseball-moments-retire-late-night-yankees-steinbrenner-biancalana-052015
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
http://sabrmedia.org/2015/07/14/this-is-what-walter-johnson-sounds-like-calling-a-senators-game-on-the-radio/
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
i was at this game; that's Koosman for the Mets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIq7sCc8i3U
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 August 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhZ7t_DNi9w
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 10:52 (seven years ago) link
we now have 8mm color footage of Ted Williams' last game (part of a PBS doc next Monday)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/sports/ted-williams-film-last-game.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Baseball legend Satchel Paige explains how he got the nickname "Satchel" (The Dick Cavett Show - March 1970) #MLB #History pic.twitter.com/BEnfwZjxMS— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) December 5, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
Red Sox/Pilots 20 inning game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSTprNed3yI
― timellison, Thursday, 27 June 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link