1979 was just a great time to be a kid.

@garycooper8687

4 жыл бұрын

The best of times. Still favorite year for music.

@jamalmccoy4904

3 жыл бұрын

I was 9.years old when I saw the pirates come back from a 3-1 deficit and win this world series loved that year...

@Zorn76

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamalmccoy4904 I was 10 that October. Lots of chaos in the 70's but still the best decade ever:)

@peteywheatstraws4909

3 жыл бұрын

I know it. I was also a fan of the Seahawks during this time period, it was great watching Zorn/Largent, it was like an AFL team got reincarnated, those guys were wild, man.

I attended this game. I was 12. Rooker’s, Blyleven’s, and Madlock’s clutch performances stayed with me over the years. Little did I know it’d be the last World Series game played in Pgh. in now more than 40 yrs.

I've noticed watching all three games in Pittsburgh in this series, the organist plays 'Rocky Top', frequently. The only Tennessee connection I can think of is Phil Garner, but they play it no matter if he's up or not.

@MrRubybare

8 ай бұрын

As a Pirates fan, they played Rocky Top and What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor quite often in those days.

The bucs offense during this 7 game series was awesome from madlock to parker what a series

i got some of the dirt from that game from my uncle love you uncle dave give us a some hope this year lol

For those of you who are not aware of this ABC Broadcast team for the 1979 Series. Al Micheals (Play-Play)Don Drysdale (Color Analyst/PBP middle Innings)Howard Cosell (Pre Game Host/In Game Color Commentator)Bob Uecker (Sideline Reporter.) FYI. Keith Jackson (the same legendary College Football Announcer)who was also the Number #1 MLB Announcer/Commentator for ABC at this time in 1979 was calling college football that weekend. Thus Mr. Micheals was filling in for Mr. Jackson for the games in Pittsburgh.

The last World Series game played in Pittsburgh :(

@kelliejohnson3050

5 жыл бұрын

WOW- 40 years! very sad for Pittsburgh they are due to go back..

@crowtservo

5 жыл бұрын

So close to hosting more World Series games in 1991 and 1992...

@jamalmccoy4904

3 жыл бұрын

@@crowtservo yeah Greg Maddux and Tom glavine were to blame for that...

my wonderful uncle don "stan the man unusual" stanhouse..with his FROOOOO

The start of Weaver's Orioles blowing another World Series to the Pirates.

@crowtservo

Жыл бұрын

“You’re going to be in the Hall of Fame for what? Fucking up World Series?” - Umpire Bill Haller arguing with Earl Weaver.

Back when black players had love for the game not to many in mlb in 2020...

For me, 1979 was the greatest year in Orioles baseball history. Even better than 1983, the last time we won the Series (and haven't been back since). All of those dramatic late-inning comebacks had Memorial Stadium rocking the entire summer. This was the year the Orioles finally took the city from the Colts and Baltimore became a baseball town. Orioles Magic.

@camoss3724

6 жыл бұрын

To the contrary, the Orioles were one of baseball's model franchises back then. From 1966 to 1983, they won seven AL East titles, six AL pennants, and three World Series championships. From 1968 to 1985, the Orioles had no losing seasons, won 90 or more games 12 times, and in five of those seasons, they reached 100 wins. They won 97 games in 1977 despite losing a 20-game winner (Wayne Garland), the AL's best second baseman (Bobby Grich) and the game's premier power hitter (Reggie Jackson) to free agency the previous winter. The Orioles of that time had a terrific farm system, acute talent judgment, and a great manager in Earl Weaver. Hardly the definition of suck.

@joehofmann9651

5 жыл бұрын

@@camoss3724 Ignore that guy, he's obviously not too sharp

@Jiltedin2007

4 жыл бұрын

C Amoss The Baltimore Orioles played like World Beaters In 1979! While my Boston Red Sox were trying to catch them playing .600 Ball, the Orioles were actually playing .700 Ball while running away with the A.L. East Division. They had These Pirates down 3-1 at the Series, but never seemed to close them out.

@Bob31415

2 жыл бұрын

There's absolutely no way a year you blow a 3-1 World Series lead is your best year. I don't give a flip what they did in the regular season. '79 was the Orioles worst nightmare.

@zephead4835

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bob31415 there were a lot of reasons for that meltdown in '79, but for me the biggest one was Eddie Murray's insistence on swinging at the first pitch every time he got up. After getting off to a good start in game one it was nothing but strikeouts fly balls and hitting into double plays. It seemed like he was always at the plate in key situations. He killed a lot of rallies. A couple of base hits by Murray and that series goes the other way but he was always swinging for the fences. Singleton was a dud in that series as well, not to put it all on Murray. Something else I found interesting was that nearly every foul ball hit by Pittsburgh fell into the stands while nearly every foul ball the Orioles hit was caught. Jim Palmer should have won at least one of the two games he pitched. He got snake bit in game 2 when Manny Sanguillen hit that pinch hit single to the opposite field then in game 6 Benny Ayala misplayed a ball.

Not a Pittsburgh Fan, but I was glad that the Pirates won this game because earlier that day The Pittsburgh Steelers got destroyed by the Bengals at Cincinnati, 34-10. Had the Pirates lost this game(Down 3-1 in the Series at the time), quite possibly The City of Pittsburgh could have been underwater drowning in their Tears.

Cosell kills me calling Phil Garner a little pepper pot every time he comes to the plate.

@zephead4835

2 жыл бұрын

Cosell was a riot. I liked how he kept calling Doug De Cinces Doogie.

Up 3-1 and a ton of momentum, ironically enough this was the beginning of the end for the Orioles in the '79 World Series.

wonderful stuff man, thanks

@stephenalexander2553

6 жыл бұрын

you're welcome

Just saw the Google Alert it looks like you did the whole game thank you so much I was sitting about 10 rows behind the commissioner got a foul ball and then he signed it for me was always curious if I could spot the moment. Thanks again you're awesome

@stephenalexander2553

6 жыл бұрын

WOW! I was 12 years old in 1979. I wish that I could have been at Three River's. I had to watch it on TV. You're welcome.

@slickrick3975

6 жыл бұрын

I was 17. Spilled my Iron City trying to catch it, Didn't know i was going until less that an hr. before 1st pitch. Whole story pretty crazy. I remember being so excited because the ball was hit by dave parker & he was highest paid player in MLB at the time. Now i'm not sure if I got the details right. The friend who called with the last minute invite was dating Jim Rooker's daughter stephanie and danced to "we are family" on top of the dugout. He took a new 280zx from his dad's dealership in Mcmurray PA and hit speeds of 145 to get us there in < 20min. Ah, to be young and dumb. lol

@stephenalexander2553

6 жыл бұрын

WOW! That's GREAT! HEHEHE

@BAYAREA-kd1ig

4 жыл бұрын

Did you find clip of getting the foul ball?

@jamalmccoy4904

3 жыл бұрын

@@slickrick3975 great memories for u Rick...

Willie Stargell was the Mean Joe Greene of the Pirates

@sixtiesschlitz1638

5 жыл бұрын

Great Pittsburgh point.

It was a damn shame the American League got rid of the red blazers after this season. Looks especially sharp with an inside chest protector like Jim McKean sported here.

Was there ever a WS with weather this crappy? Probably, but not in my memory.

@zephead843

3 жыл бұрын

The first game in Baltimore was postponed due to rain that had changed to snow flurries the following morning. The game was played that evening, where temperatures were in the 40's. That's October 10, 1979 in Baltimore, when daytime temps would typically be in the mid to upper seventies. The winter of 79-80 was one of the coldest on record. You can see everyone in Pittsburgh wearing winter clothing for game five. Oddly enough, temps would be back in the seventies in Baltimore for game six.

@camoss3724

2 жыл бұрын

@@zephead843 What made matters worse was that the Colts and Jets had trampled the Memorial Stadium surface the previous Sunday, making the conditions a tad challenging, to say the least. The Orioles' grounds crew had to use hand pumps to drain the water from the field and used a ton of sand in the outfield to make it more playable. Yet despite the frigid temperatures, the Game 1 crowd of 53,735 was the third-highest in Memorial Stadium history. Frank Robinson, who played on the last Oriole Series team in 1971, joked that, "They always said it would be a cold day in hell before the Orioles reached another World Series."

As of 2018, this is last Pirate home world Series game. Pitt. has not back to series since '79.

@kelliejohnson3050

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't realize it's been 40 LONG years, the 1979 World series in my opinion was the greatest EVER, with of course the exception of 1986.... Many of those Pirates from that awesome team are now gone, AND Kent Tekulve should have been the MVP not Stargell, he saved 3 of those 4 games...

@Jiltedin2007

5 жыл бұрын

Luis Valdes But they came oh so close in ‘91 and ‘92.

I remember when they use to wear the batting helmet over their regular caps when they came to bat....

At just past 17:00 on this vid as Orioles Eddie Murray gets his first at bat the organ player does the Mr Ed tv theme song. Hilarious.

@pronkb000

5 жыл бұрын

There were some pretty inspired musical choices. "Flight of the Bumblebee" for Al Bumbry and an Indian snake-charmer tune for Dave Parker (the Cobra).

@zephead843

3 жыл бұрын

@@pronkb000 Kudos to the organist. I think I heard "Fly Like An Eagle" as well.

The only color combo we didn't see from the Pirate uniforms in this series was black/black.

@romelovesdan

4 жыл бұрын

Well, that is true of the "BASIC" combinations. And that is too bad. I loved those. Rumor from the players speak to television broadcast crews complaining about them. Parker did wear them in the 1977 All Star Game presumably before those "concerns" were voiced.

Good Lord, how obsessed was ABC with getting shots of players' wives? FOX has that tendency too, but I feel like they're subtle and restrained by comparison.

@zephead843

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but you have to admit women looked much more feminine back then. As they should. Not the case today.

@crowtservo

5 жыл бұрын

zep head Too much plastic surgery these days.

@matta3968

4 жыл бұрын

Cosell was a total perv too, hilarious. But seriously, those wives were pretty hot.

@zephead843

3 жыл бұрын

@@crowtservo Tats and piercings aren't helping either. Nor are sweat pants.

70s baseball was so awesome. Everyone was on greenies and had fat chews in. Thanks for these games where'd you get them ?

@towhee89

Ай бұрын

Seems they're from the mlb dvd set.

1983 world series MVP Rick Dempsey...

I'am from the future, don't watch the football game. Cowboys win 30-6.

@Jiltedin2007

3 жыл бұрын

YEAH, DON’T REMIND ME! After the Cowboys destroyed the Rams in that game, the sports headline in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner read: COWBOYS ADD INSULT TO INJURY Referring to the Rams Injured Roster. When they met again in December(Also at Dallas), the Cowboys saw a far different Los Angeles Rams Team as they hung on until Vince Ferragamo’s pass to Billy Waddy for the winning score with 2:16 left in the game as the Rams won.

Does Cossell give the football scores between each punch when he does boxing as well ?

The pirates were we are family

I've enjoyed listening to Cosell bust Drysdale's chops during the series, he loved to rib ol' Don.

Weaver acted like he was sleeping through this world series to me😐☹️😠📴👎

1:15:34 And it begins.

I wish Jim Rooker hadn't shaved the werewolf beard he had the beginning of the playoffs

Umpires (Game 5) (4:28) HP Jim McKean (AL) 1B Paul Runge (NL) 2B Jerry Neudecker (AL) (CC) 3B Bob Engel (NL) LF Russ Goetz (AL) RF Terry Tata (NL)

1:25:51 - "Ball two"??? Is Drysdale drunk?

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In sinc not together

Everybody they are putting in there getting beat up on 🤣😉🙄😕😲😳👎📴

The whole team wasn't in since all parts have to click to win world series O's just didn't have it in 79 look at weaver in dugout looks like he was amused or laughing? Huh 🥺😩 thrown series I guess

@hawkeye6626

2 жыл бұрын

I rooted for the Orioles in this World Series, nothing thrown here! The Pirates just took it!

@Bob31415

2 жыл бұрын

@@hawkeye6626 Orioles fan here. The Orioles did what they did best in the 70's....choked.

we want Keith Jackson. Really, Michaels is so tiring and he is still around 40 yrs later. Yawn