KTTV-TV11 (June 21,1970) "Dodger Dugout"/ Dodgers @ Cincinnati Intro by Vin Scully

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[OttawaFreeper]

"Dodger Dugout" Dodgers @ Cincinnati Intro by Vin Scully

[OttawaFreeper]

Note the Tasters Choice ad with a modern man of 1000 faces and voices (Allan Melvin), and also ads for Winston cigarettes and "The Pepsi Generation".

The piece de resistance is in about middle part of video, with very rare colour videotaped footage of Crosley Field in Cincinnati just before it was to be retired and replaced by Riverfront Stadium. You wonder if there is footage like this from about this time featuring Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and also Connie Mack Stadium (formerly Shibe Park) in Philadelpia, as these three ballparks were retired in about this season.

[hardspunned]

The Reds/Dodgers rivalry in the 70’s was as intense as any in baseball. They were in the same division and one or the other appeared in 7of 10 World Series that decade. Great teams, great managers.

[PGalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkYon5qjWI

Vin Scully’s great description of this incredible moment for Waterford Kettering HS grad. My son won the Gibson (monetary) scholarship award in his senior year to help on his way to college.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Andy Devine doing the voiceover on the Fuller paint commercial.

 

 

[chrisinoc]

The broadcaster in the dugout was the legendary LA sports and news announcer Bill Walsh, who started in live TV from the 1940s and into the 1990s.

Number 10 is Jeff Torborg who went on to manage the Yankees, among other teams. And of course number 11 is Manny Mota, still a Dodger employee.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Reds/Dodgers rivalry in the 70’s was as intense as any in baseball.

It sure was! I was growing up in Connecticut, and there were both Dodgers and Reds fans there among the Yankees/Red Sox/Mets fanbase.

"Sports Illustrated" launched a massive advertising campaign, and when the announcer bleated "Watch Tom Terrific lead the Reds past the Dodgers" (or words to that effect) right after the Mets gave ace Tom Seaver to the Reds in exchange for Steve Henderson and four guys named "nobody", I swore I would NEVER purchase a copy of "Sports Illustrated". I have kept the promise due for 43 years, thanks to a copy writer who felt like irritating half of the ad campaigns watchers. For the record, despite Seaver's addition, the Dodgers coasted to a division title, winning by 10 1/2 games.

[OttawaFreeper]

I can imagine very few people owning home video recorders back in about 1970 or thereabouts. I read someone’s old blog a number of years back and he knew people back then who did and it was that kind of a funny little club to tape all sorts of things off of TV (even with the rabbit ears) and share things among others who also had them.

And many of us know that TV stations and networks chucked all sorts of footage of sporting events and newscasts and other things from that era, so this is why Obsolete Video does that important service by rescuing and restoring peoples’ private collections from that time.

[hardspunned]

It was a different team without Perez. Seaver only played a couple years with Rose and Morgan. The only one screwed worse than the Reds in ‘81 was Seaver in the Cy Young voting.

[OttawaFreeper]

“The only one screwed worse than the Reds in ‘81 was Seaver in the Cy Young voting.”

Did the Reds get screwed by MLB over how they weighted the standings that season because of the strike? I was an eleven year old Montreal Expos fan so I was thrilled that they beat the Phillies in the playoff and then went up against L.A. (my heart got broken on “Blue Monday”, lol).

[Dr. Sivana]

I am a Dodger fan but I admit that the Reds deserved a post-season spot more than any other team in the NL.

[hardspunned]

The Reds finished second in each half season (due to the mid season strike). They were therefore eliminated from the playoffs. The problem was that overall, when you look at both halves, they had the best record in baseball. They even got a “Best Record in Baseball” pennant to fly at Riverfront. Best record in baseball and all they got was that damn lousy pennant!

[Hebrews 11:6]

SOOOO close! Bill Welsh.

[awelliott]

It was a different team without Perez.

Trading Perez was the mistake that ended the Big Red Machine. They wanted to move a young Dan Driessen into the lineup and felt like Perez was expendible. Driessen posted similar numbers, but they failed to take into account the intangibles that Perez provided. The ironic thing is that Driessen only lasted a year longer than Perez and was less productive.