Watch and be amazed.
Goodbye, Dodger blue.
I play that video every year on the day the Detroit Tigers are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.
The Tigers are the MLB feeder team.
Always trading off fan favorites at the peak of their popularity.
Gibson was quite a man, fighting pain through that very long at-bat. He must have attended the Walter Brennan school of base-running before the game.
I gave up baseball in 1977 when the Red Sox lost so ignominiously. I had even bought an awesome Sony color TV to follow the Red Sox that season. Bah.
I still have that whole game on VHS ... sometimes after the Dodgers flail in the fall I’ll pull it out to remember ... and I’ve always loved Vin.