Thanks for posting this. Russ Hodges was my grandfather. He loved working with Ernie, who was the consummate gentleman.

Rest in peace Ernie, thank you for the,wonderful memories I and a lot of us have of sitting on the porch listening to you do the play by play. You were the voice of summer for many of us. Love you always, Madeleine

I saw this classic game on tv 1951 . I was 10 years old. This game was a day game as all the play off and world series games that season. When baseball was the national pastime !

@dougg2012

3 жыл бұрын

Stop typing like that

@WilliamFlickinger-ex2sd

Жыл бұрын

Polo grounds must been a wonder for place for baseball.

@WilliamFlickinger-ex2sd

Жыл бұрын

@@dougg2012 dough your nuts

70 Years ago today, Oct 3, 1951! Things were much simpler then and better IMO. Thanks for sharing this awesome moment in time and the voice of the GREAT Ernie Harwell.

My late, great friend and brother, Alvin Dark, was on second.

I love this. I mean, Russ Hodges' call is awesome to listen to but it's interesting to hear other broadcasters talk about the event. I especially liked Ernie Harwell saying only he and his wife remember that he was calling the game on TV that day.

@kyokogodai-ir6hy

6 жыл бұрын

Ernie was a treasure. As humble a man you could ever find. Were that there were more like him.

@kevinmiller1985

5 жыл бұрын

@@kyokogodai-ir6hy Have you forg otten Vin Scully already?

@kevinmiller1985

5 жыл бұрын

The Giants DID cheat by hav ing a high powered telescop e set up in the Giants clubh- ouse to steal opposing catc hers signs. That's how the G iants were able to go on a si xteen game winning streak t o eventually overcome a 13. 5 game deficit in the standin gs to tie Brooklyn @ season' s end & forcing a best-of-thr ee playoffs. Even if Thomso n knew what kind of pitch w as coming, he'd STILL have t o hit it. But that STILL doesn 't explain HOW the Giants lo- st the World Series to the Ya nkees? Charlie Dressen sho t himself in the foot by not p itching around Thomson to get to Willie Mays. First bas e was open; Dressen could have walked Thomson inten tionally to pitch to Mays as he a scared rookie & that Th omson had homered of Ralp h Branca in Game 1. Chance s are Mays would have mad e the last out, the Giants do- n't score more than the one run, Brooklyn wins 4-2, & me ets the Yankees in the Worl- d Series.

Thank you for this PRICELESS moment ! a chance to hear Ernie's voice again!

@QMPhilosophe

8 жыл бұрын

+freddy aitch Barber, Harwell, Mel Allen were awesome broadcasters. When I was a kid, I remember the NBC games on Saturday with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. They were great. Today, if Joe Buck is doing a game, I have to turn the sound off.. he is godawful.

@kevinmiller1985

5 жыл бұрын

@@QMPhilosophe Even though I' m a diehard Chicago White Sox fan, back in the 80s, I w ould often tune into WJR in Detroit & listen to Ernie & P aul Carey call Tigers games.

@kevinmiller6380

2 жыл бұрын

Whose home run was more memorable, Bobby Thomson (this one), or Bill Mazeroski's (Game 7, 1960 World Series)?

Wow, that's crazy that they only had the audio just because a guy by chance happened to be recording.

@davidhiguera6854

3 жыл бұрын

That person is the real hero. I’m a diehard Dodger fan but this is one the most iconic moments in baseball history.

@kevinmiller6380

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidhiguera6854 Yeah, a Brooklyn Dodgers fan who hated the Giants.

Any baseball fan who can listen to Ernie Harwell call a game and not be impressed is truly not a baseball fan.

you are the man ernie. you were and still are one helluva guy. you always made people feel welcome. you are the man.

R.I.P Ernie! We'll all miss you!

Bobby Thomson... up there swingin'... He's had two out of three, a single and a double, and Billy Cox is playing him right on the third-base line... One out, last of the ninth... Branca pitches... Bobby Thomson takes a strike called on the inside corner... Bobby hitting at .292... He's had a single and a double and he drove in the Giants' first run with a long fly to center... Brooklyn leads it 4-2...Hartung down the line at third not taking any chances... Lockman with not too big of a lead at second, but he'll be runnin' like the wind if Thomson hits one... Branca throws... [audible sound of bat meeting ball] There's a long drive... it's gonna be, I believe...THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands! The Giants win the pennant and they're goin' crazy, they're goin' crazy! HEEEY-OH!!!'' [ten-second pause for crowd noise] I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I do not believe it! Bobby Thomson... hit a line drive... into the lower deck... of the left-field stands... and this blame place is goin' crazy! The Giants! Horace Stoneham has got a winner! The Giants won it... by a score of 5 to 4... and they're pickin' Bobby Thomson up... and carryin' him off the field!

R.I.P. Bobby "Staten Island Scot" Thomson.

It's sad that the old guard who broadcasted MLB games on radio and T.V. many years ago are no longer with us. Ernie Harwell and Red Barber were two of those. Their play-by-play of Brooklyn Dodgers (Barber), New York Giants and Detroit Tigers (Harwell) games were the highlight for every baseball fan's enjoyment. When baseball was the national pastime before labor problems, expansion, free agency, and losing out to football in popularity shifted the game to a lower echelon status. Yes, the good times don't last forever, I'm afraid.

Ernie rocked! And I'm from New York!

RIP Ernie. Even though I'm a diehard Chicago White Sox fan I would often listen to you and Paul Carey broadcast Tigers games on WJR from the corner of Michigan and Trumbull back in the 80s.

I spoke to Branca's nephew once, and he said his uncle DID NOT like talking about it.

@davewanamaker3690

Жыл бұрын

Back in the 1980s, I think, Branca and Thomson appeared together on some shopping network selling autographed balls. Wished I had bought one.

@deepcosmiclove

4 ай бұрын

Who can blame him.

thank you ernie. for everything.

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

Hi great home run thank you what a game

What ppl don’t mention is what a great piece of hitting that at bat was by Bobby Thompson

RIP Ernie

The day Dave Winfield was born.

rip Bobby Thomson the greatest-

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

Rip Ernie harwell

the other rivalries are ok but back in the day Giants/Dodgers was the epitome of rivalries in my opinion. Until 2004 Yanks/ Sox in my opinion wasn't really a rivalry but a grudge match on the Sox part cuz the Yanks ALWAYS won. In contrast with Giants/Dodgers you never knew who was gonna win. Then for many years after the two of them relocated the rivalry intensified cuz SF and LA have their own rivalry as cities quite apart from Giants/Dodgers. Its just In THIS decade that Yanks/Sox is bigger

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

RIP Mr Harwell.

Was the rivalry between these two team more fierce than today's Yankees Red Sox rivalry?

I believe I read that the Dodgers had a large lead over the Giants at some point during the season.

@WilliamFlickinger-ex2sd

Жыл бұрын

Don't know anything about baseball had 13 game lead over the Giants Leo got fired by Rickey over marry a divorce woman and stoneman hired him on. The Giants now we had a president who cheated on three of his wife's paid a call girl 9million dollars to keep her quiet my have times changed

@KevinBender55 Red was just upset that HE wasn't the one who'd said those famous words.

hi what a home run

stealing sign from 2nd base has been done since the game was invented. Stealing signs with a high powered telescope and relayed with a electronic buzzer from the clubhouse is a different matter. The catcher can't do anything to stop the stealing signs if he doesn't know that there is the possibility that someone is stealing them.

@RRaquello

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't new in 1951 either. As a matter of fact such stories go back to the beginnings of the Polo Grounds (1911 for this version of the Polo Grounds) and John McGraw. Knowing McGraw's methods it would be fantastic to believe he didn't do it, and I've read stories about it in the archives of the Sporting News going back to the 1920's.

Did VIN Scully call this game for the dodgers?

@KevinBender55

2 жыл бұрын

Probably was Red Barber. Vons’s second season as Dodger broadcaster with Red and Connie Desmond

Interesting, that doesn't sound like Joe Buck to me.

" Let me alone..."

Giants/Dodgers...in truth and in fact the best rivalry in baseball history...Yankees/Red Sox is modern day marketing...not really a great rivalry becauae the Yankees almost always win...with Giants/Dodgers you never knew was going to win...and it has the most memorable moments...this homerun, 1962 playoff, Marichal hitting Roseboro upside the head with the bat, 1982 when they knocked each other out of the race on the last 2 days of the season, 1993 LA knocks SF (with 103 wins) out on last day

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

The most famous of all time? More famous than "some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over, it is now" from the 1966 world cup final when Geoff Hirst scored in the last minute to win the game and the world cup 4:2 for England against West Germany. Either way they're both calls that will live forever...

@TheBatugan77

Жыл бұрын

Zzzzz... 😴

@rayjr62 sounds like Red

Of course he can, change the signs every inning...duh! You don't have to be a genius to change pitch signs to make it harder to steal.

@kevinmiller6380

2 жыл бұрын

John Boutet-Not when there's a high-powered telescope pointing at you (the catcher) from the centerfield clubhouse at the Polo Grounds. Duh!

You will never ever hear or see this much drama in today's baseball, if you want to call it baseball. Multiple divisions and wildcards is just not baseball. It is most definitely not winning the pennant like you see here. They don't play for the pennant.There is no such thing as a World Series anymore. It is structured too much like the NFL. Baseball was not meant to be a bunch of playoffs. You hardly ever see the two best teams play in it and there is a good chance they may have played each other during the regular season. I am also tired of 3 to 3 1/2 hour games and the way they use pitchers.This game was played in 2:28.I never watch it anymore.It used to be my favorite sport.

@jhonconor5393

7 жыл бұрын

absolutely

@dacosta0656

7 жыл бұрын

Garland English disagree

@GGE47

7 жыл бұрын

You don't know real baseball. You probably don't remember when games were easily played in about 2 1/2 hours. The regular season proved who was the best team in their league, not some half ass playoff.This best of three playoff was part of the regular season since it was for the National League pennant.The American League had a one game playoff to break a tie. They were two completely separate leagues. Half ass teams winning a half ass, three round playoff are not the best teams. They make a mockery of the wild card teams by two wild cards playing just ONE GAME to see who the wild card team is. How uninspiring. How stupid. The fact that they halve wild card teams for baseball at all is somebody's sick joke.The 2nd,3rd,and 4th best teams' seasons should be over for those teams. Multiple divisions and inter league games make it one league with two conferences like the NFL.They sacrifice so much quality to get quantity. It's all about the money, just like all sports. It is even more boring than soccer. I bet you follow that too. Big league is like Little League without those horrible aluminum bats. At least they still use wooden bats.The Cubs and Indians is probably the exception. At least the two best teams played from what I can determine by their won lost records. Their games still lasted way too long. It's like watching grass grow or watching paint dry. I only caught it in the 7th inning in game 7 while doing something else. This Giant-Dodger game was about winning the pennant which just doesn't happen anymore. Sports junkies addicted to every sport in the world. You can have it. I can remember when they played real double headers already on the schedule, two games for the price of one.

@WootTootZoot

7 жыл бұрын

Garland English bullshit ideas there Gerry, but you keep on posting your little ideas, some unhappy moron will probably agree with you. Won't that make you happy? Go watch arm wrestling on ESPN if you're that unhappy

@rek550

6 жыл бұрын

Garland English Wrong. NOTHING is more boring than soccer.

Ernie is totally wrong. Mr Goldberg was a Giants fan.......die hard....had to work, had mother tape it..

EH, I wouldn't knock Yankees-Sox... they go back to DiMaggio and Williams, then Mickey and Yaz, so that's in line with the Brooklyn Bums vs. The New York BASEBALL Giants... I think both are great. And, as a Mets fan, a rivalry that's REALLY been overlooked but now's getting the attention it deserves- Mets and Phillies. Cubs-Cards another great one... Mets/Braves... THAT'S a GREAT historical rivalry, the Mets knocked them out in '69, the Braves had the '90s, the 9/11 Home Run...!

@RRaquello

Жыл бұрын

The problem with the Yankees-Sox as a rivalry is the, with the exception of about 5 years in the late 40's, from 1921 until the mid 70's, there really was no rivalry because the two teams were never good at the same time and the Yankees won every single time anything big was at stake. You can't have a rivalry when one team wins all the time. Then when the Red Sox finally won a pennant race, in 1967, the Yankees were buried in the second division and were never a factor. For most of those years the Yankees biggest rival was the Cleveland Indians.

Bobby Thomson and his teammates cheated that season. The Giants had some guy behind the bleachers relaying the opposing catchers' signals to their batters, and that's how they came back to beat the Dodgers. Thomson's batting average went from .250 to .350 after he started getting the signs.

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

👋

Just another bitter dodger fan....get over it it was 62 years ago and enshrined as Baseball's great moment and season comeback.

The Mariners lose the game lose the game lose the game

Stealing signs is allowed in baseball, it's been done since the game was invented. So how is this cheating?

@guentermcbuenter2651

4 жыл бұрын

2020 here. We'd like to have a word with the 2017 Astros, please. Also, 2020 sucks.

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

@@guentermcbuenter2651 bruh

@guentermcbuenter2651

3 жыл бұрын

@@st2986 Greetings fellow time traveler!

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

@@guentermcbuenter2651 😂 wassup?

what does fucking have to do with it?

The Giants only came back because they cheated. Baseball's so-called "greatest moment" was based on a fraud, therefore it is no longer considered the "greatest moment".

@st2986

3 жыл бұрын

U came back 2 years later

@davewanamaker3690

Жыл бұрын

I read that, t oo. It's just like Houston Astros. I hate cheating in baseball.

That guy who was 176 years old was at the polo grounds in 1951 w hi en Thomson hit that homerun