[EveningStar]

This is a pretty good article.

I watched this game live in 1956 at a friend's house. I didn't know that much about baseball so I didn't understand the significance of the game.

I'd forgotten about today's re-telecast and didn't join the show until the top of the 5th inning. The game was shown with the old commercials intact.

The quality of play in the game was superb. There were fine defensive plays by Mickey Mantle, Peewee Reese, Duke Snider, and others.

28 year old Vin Scully sounded then as he does now. He was, however, forced to comply with the "jinx" rule that was then prevalent. The rule was born out of a superstitious belief: If a pitcher was in the process of pitching a no-hitter, you couldn't say so. If you did, you might jinx him and cause him to lose the no-hitter. This also extended to the dugout. The pitcher's team mates were not supposed to discuss the possibility of a no hitter. And they weren't supposed to talk to the pitcher at all.

During the breaks, Don Larsen and his battery mate Yogi Berra, discussed the game with Bob Costas. Costas was OK because he wasn't discussing politics - at least not during the time I was watching.

Larsen, Berra, and Costas were on a set that included a live audience. The set was decorated with various team logos and other graphics - the most prominent of which was a large prominently displayed "42." No, this was a reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - just more white guilt BS.

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"He was, however, forced to comply with the "jinx" rule that was then prevalent. The rule was born out of a superstitious belief: If a pitcher was in the process of pitching a no-hitter, you couldn't say so. If you did, you might jinx him and cause him to lose the no-hitter. This also extended to the dugout. The pitcher's team mates were not supposed to discuss the possibility of a no hitter. And they weren't supposed to talk to the pitcher at all.

I still believe in it!
(How many perfect series games have been pitched since?) :)

[Adder]

I’d forgotten about today’s re-telecast and didn’t join the show until the top of the 5th inning. The game was shown with the old commercials intact.

Wasn’t that fantastic? I couldn’t believe my eyes as I watched that replay. I told the wife, not a huge baseball fan, that there were probably more hall of famers on the field than she is ever likely to see again.

What a joy to watch.

[beelzepug]

I didn’t know it was going to be on. Nuts. I remember the game - I was 10 at the time - but Dad had yet to buy our first TV. Hard to imagine it’s been that many years ago.

[egannacht]

Bob Costas presenting sound rational and enlightened conversation about socio-economic and political topics is like Perez Hilton presenting sound rational and enlightened conversation about the personal joys of hetero-sex.

[Mike Darancette]

I remember the velvet voice of Scully from when the Dodgers first came to LA.

[Isabel C.]

28 year old Vin Scully sounded then as he does now. He was, however, forced to comply with the "jinx" rule that was then prevalent. The rule was born out of a superstitious belief: If a pitcher was in the process of pitching a no-hitter, you couldn't say so. If you did, you might jinx him and cause him to lose the no-hitter. This also extended to the dugout. The pitcher's team mates were not supposed to discuss the possibility of a no hitter. And they weren't supposed to talk to the pitcher at all.

If all it took to jinx a pitcher who was in the process of pitching a no-hitter was to mention the fact that he was pitching a no-hitter, couldn't a player on the opposing team jinx the pitcher by talking about the fact that he was pitching a no-hitter?