Although the description indicates one player from the American League and the other from the National League, in this episode both players (Mantle, NY Yankees and Jensen, Boston Red Sox were in the American League).
Chicks dig the long ball.
I’m from Boston, but I first started getting interested in baseball early in the 1967 season, when I was in second grade. No one had a clue things would go the way they did that year.
But I never heard of Jackie Jensen till about five years ago, when I met a young lady on the West Coast who said that Jackie Jensen was some kind of uncle.
I’d never seen this before—thanks!
I use to have a channel on my cable line called “The Works.” They aired vintage episodes of “Home Run Derby” on Friday nights. They dropped this channel from my cable a few years ago (don’t know if the channel still exists anywhere.)
TV Show was 1960 so the inflation adjustment would be $1 = $8.71, so $500 = $4,354, $1,000 = $8,709 and $2,000 = $17,418. As for the baseball park, Wrigley Field in Los Angeles was named and built (1925) a year before its Chicago cousin. The Los Angeles Angels were a farm team for the Chicago Cubs and they plus both ballparks were owned by William Wrigley Jr., the chewing gum magnate.
This was also the original home for the Big League LA Angels in 1961 under partial ownership of Gene Autry. The next year they moved to share the Dodger’s ballpark, Dodger Stadium. This ballpark was eventually owned by the City and demolished in 1969.
Just some fun facts!
..first baseball game I ever saw was at Wrigley Field in LA. I think it was the last year the LA Angels of the old PCL played—and Steve Bilko was like Babe Ruth in the 50s...
Thanks for posting. Enjoyed watching parts of the other 20+ episodes.