Final 3 outs of Jim Bunning's perfect game. Father's Day, June 21, 1964
Posted on 06/16/2019 10:18:28 AM PDT by JonPreston
The beer was cold, America was great! and there were no trees or color TVs in Brooklyn!
Nice thanks for sharing.
I was surprised to hear the announcers saying he was on the verge of a perfect game. I thought back in those days, they were superstitious about mentioning a no hitter in progress? That’s what I’ve always heard anyway.
As a Philly fan, I watched this game with my father.
I have heard that too.
Maybe just the players aren’t supposed to say anything.
The beer is still cold (thank goodness).
When I was a kid, I used to go to a Dodger’s game every once in a while, with my father, back in the 50s. That picture looks very familiar.
I always had a hot dog and coke.
You're right, that is a no-no of the 1st order. I don't recall watching that game, I was in HS, but I was indeed a die hard Mets fan. Everyone loved Bunning that day!
Ebbits field? I remember it well as a kid. That was my first introduction to in the shell, salted peanuts!
‘member?
It was great to see the Mets fans happy to see the great performance of a Phillies pitcher.
I remember hearing once, former Yankee Elston Howard, said the only time he was booed in Yankees Stadium, was when he got a base hit to break up a no hit bid by a Red Sox pitcher. He got that hit with two out in the last of the ninth. With the Red Sox ahead 6-0, there was no way the Yanks could pull it out. But those Yankees fans were rooting for Bill Rohr to close out the no-hitter.
Rheingold beer was a popular brand in the NY metro area back then. They were well advertised too. Pedestrian tasting swizzle but cold and tasty enough and not government tyrannical taxed like today’s brews are overpriced. Eff you govt.
Someplace I have an audio recording of this that I made as it happened. (TV or radio, I don’t remember.)
ML/NJ
Nice!
That was a super Phillies team in 1964 and Jim Bunning was a big part of it... until the huge collapse in the last 10 days. Gene Mauch worked his pitchers to oblivion.
I grew up a couple of miles north of Valley Forge and was 17 when this game was played. I was a die-hard Phillies fan and was playing American Legion baseball that summer. I totally forgot about this game. Thanks for posting.
That is a fact, baseball players in those days were superstitious then and probably still are today. There is a lot of luck involved in sports, their skill level improves their odds.
I was going to mention that game. I know what the play by play announcer Ken Coleman said because it wound up on the “Impossible Dream” record put out by WHDH after the seasons. He said that Rohr was “on the threshold of his first major league victory, Something Runs, Something Hits, for Boston, no runs, no hits for New York”. He did NOT say he was on the threshold of a no hitter. He just stated the number of hits so far. And with two outs in the ninth, Elston Howard broke it up.
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