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Posted on 09/24/2010 10:41:00 AM PDT by DFG
How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television broadcast of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series — long believed to be lost forever — came to rest in the dry and cool wine cellar of Bing Crosby’s home near San Francisco is not a mystery to those who knew him.
Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio.
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I liked Charlton Heston’s Basement much better!
This is cool beyond words; one of the absolute great finds in the realm of baseball history.
” That’s what its all about !” Prince -—” Kiss it Goodbye!”
People get a real “ bang” out of that !
Me too!
great
I was a very young Pirate fan who lived for baseball. I ran home from school that day to catch the last 2 innings. It was the greatest day of my young life. What a series! What a game! What a finish!
You know they just dedicated a statue to Maz outside PNC Park.
I was an eight year old fourth grader for this World Series. In those days, World Series games were playen the afternoon. A friend of mine had a new transistor radio on which we listened to the early part of the game while waiting for the school bus to take us home. At home I watched the second half of the game on our 11” black and white TV. Maz’s walk off homerun was stunning. As a New Englander I was trained to hate the Yankees so the end result was perfect in my book. Even though the Bucs won the Series, The Yankees won the total run contest something like 50 to 20. It was a classic case of the underdog knocking off the bully. There was one good thing about the Yankees. When ever they made the World Series the rest of the baseball public got to hear Mel Allen, their hall of fame announcer. He was the very best.
I hope the game becomes publicly available. I would love to see it.
For those who don’t know, all but the first inning of Don Larsen’s World Series no-hitter resurfaced and was shown on the MLB Network.
The story of that film is fascinating. There’s a guy named Doak Ewing in Illinois that makes money by refurbishing old films, especially sports highlight films and he has ads in the back of movie buff magazines asking for abandoned old movies.
One day, he’s contacted by somebody out in Oregon. They were cleaning out the attic of their late father and found several cans of film with the word “Larson” (sp) written on the can. Would Doak be interested? Sure, he says.
So the films come to him and he can’t believe his eyes. This was the tv broadcast of Don Larsen’s perfect game. TV kinescope of a baseball game often took up several reels of film - a typical baseball game might involve 5-6 cans of film.
The late father had been in the Army back during the Korean War and one of the things that was done was televised baseball games were put on film and shipped to Army bases with instructions to destroy them after they are done showing them.
Apparently, a few folks disobeyed orders and it’s too bad more didn’t do so.
The very few televised baseball games that survived the 1950s and early 60s were either games that were kept by someone in the military or films sent to Canada or Alaska for viewing up north but they were supposed to be destroyed after use.
So what happened to the first inning? Nobody knows but the family in Oregon sold off the movie projector in a garage sale many years ago it’s possible it was sold with the first inning on the projector only to prove to the buyer that the projector worked.
Pirates majority owner John Galbreath like to play a custom pressed 45 rpm record that Bing Crosby sent him and his wife Dorothy to thank them for having hosted him for a stay at there Ohio horse farm and home.
Queen Elizabeth also once overnighted there but she never sent a recording as a thank you gift.
All I can say is, Bing, no matter how excited you get you should never, ever, waste a perfectly good bottle of scotch! LOL.
Baseball ping!
I hope the game becomes publicly available. I would love to see it.The Mazeroski game is going to be telecast in December according to baseball government.For those who don’t know, all but the first inning of Don Larsen’s World Series no-hitter resurfaced and was shown on the MLB Network.
A few years ago, too (his biographer made note of it), a film was found of another iconic and thought-lost (other than the ninth-inning radio call) game: Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game.
Pirates majority owner John Galbreath like to play a custom pressed 45 rpm record that Bing Crosby sent him and his wife Dorothy to thank them for having hosted him for a stay at there Ohio horse farm and home.I still like to play a certain single from Der Bingle too---his 1945 hit of "It's Been a Long, Long Time." Mostly because of the guitar player. Maybe you've heard of that guitar player---his name was Les Paul. ;) (Crosby cut the single with Paul's trio; Paul and Chet Atkins later made the song the kickoff cut to their magnificent album, Chester and Lester.)
The record he sent the Galbreaths was far from timeless - just him crooning out a thank you note. It was kind of a gas to hear it, however.
Mr. Crosby's only had a 1% stake in the Pirates. I heard that after his death, certain former partners planned to do a reverse stock split to null out the Crosby family's minority interest.
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