That catch by Rudy was one of the best ever. I remember it being on the LP cover of The Swinging A's 1972 recap. As kids we always emulated that catch

it's like i'm 10 years old again....remember watching this live

MLB needs to get on the ball an remaster more games like this. This looks amazing in 720p. Would love to see these and more games in 4K

@rockintetster

4 жыл бұрын

There is practically no television footage saved of MLB prior to the 1969 World Series. All you get are those corny old World Series news reel type films. Video tape was too expensive, so they erased all of it to be reused.

@TheVCRTimeMachine

4 жыл бұрын

​@@rockintetster I realize that, but there are plenty of games from the 1970s on that are available and could be remastered. Most games on their DVD collections that were released in the last decade look awful. Even games as late as 2006 were never remastered. Some times you can't even see the ball on base hits to the outfield, because the digital artifacting is so bad. Go watch the end of the 1992 NLCS Game 7...You can't even see the ball bouncing in the outfield on Cabrera's game winning hit.

@NkrumahTure

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. They're punishing us by not doing that.

@michaelabrams7345

4 жыл бұрын

Actually the entire 1968 series exists in B/W as well as at least 3 games from the 65 series. Back in the 1950's pre video tape all WS game Broadcasts were recorded on film for the armed forces. Quite a few of them survive including games 6 & 7 of the 1952 Series.

@rockintetster

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Abrams Thanks for the information. I’ve seen game seven of the 1952 World Series. Also game seven of the 1960 World Series.

All time clutch world series catch by Joe Rudi!! Lets go Oakland!!!!!

Joe Rudi climbing up the wall ..."Highway Robbery" at it's best !!! The Oakland A's dynasty was the Best !!!!

This has been unaccounted for in the MLB vaults for decades. FINALLY, it's great to see it liberated. And boy, what a reminder of how poor off we've been that Al Michaels hasn't called a World Series since 1995.

@michaelabrams7345

4 жыл бұрын

Instead we are forced to hear Joe Buck.

@dariowiter3078

4 жыл бұрын

Al does call a mean football game, don't forget that! 🏈🎙️📻📺😁

@rmartin7558

4 жыл бұрын

This was Michaels' first World Series. He'd only begun calling MLB games a year earlier.

@rmartin7558

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Soccer sucks.

@richardsmith6496

4 жыл бұрын

Ok we get your point, but nobody gives a crap about soccer here.

Incredible how fast Catfish worked. Seems like he throws a pitch every ten seconds. Young Al Michaels on the call. Very cool

@williamdunphy352

3 жыл бұрын

His 1st World Series.

@randy4395

2 жыл бұрын

To Hell with Al Michaels,he is extremely overrated.Announcers like him are why there is a mute button.

It's amazing how well restored this game video really is! ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 📺📺📺📺📺 😀😀😀😀😀

MORE Swingin A's please! This was a pleasant surprise to be able to see a 1972 World Series game we thought 'lost'!!! What else can you surprise us with?

I can’t believe that such high quality videos like this and can’t be seen by the public. This is amazing!

@rmartin7558

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED Yep, toddlersss love sssoccer becaussse it'sss sssooo sssafe.

@dwaynecoy1871

4 жыл бұрын

Wait, aren't we the public? And are we not watching it right now? Anything up on KZread is available for anyone to "see"

@dwaynecoy1871

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C - uh, no. Soccer is bullshit sport that is for communist countries. Any sport that doesn't allow you to use your hands is a communist sport and not suitable for right thinking Americans, who are very good with their hands.

@wilburwood8261

3 жыл бұрын

@@dwaynecoy1871 Americans play soccer too, they even go to the World Cup. Most countries that play soccer are not communist countries. No communist country has won a soccer world championship.

@NicanTlacaWarrior1

3 жыл бұрын

@M too bad for you this isn't a soccer video and hardly anyone here in the United States gives a shit about the sport

The A's were not only the best team fundamentally but they were also the best looking team, Even back then they had different varieties of uniforms.

@kevinmadden1645

2 ай бұрын

I think you are kidding yourself if you think the A's had a better team than the Reds . I am not a Cincinnati fan -Yankees since 1954.

@michaelcrockette8694

Ай бұрын

I think 3 consecutive WS wins kinda speaks for itself. (not an A’s fan but did enjoy their style).

Al Michaels is only 27 years old here. Unbelievable.

@travismaxwell9115

4 ай бұрын

Because he was W_____

@graciemaemarie11jones16

Ай бұрын

yeah,ok,he still a whiner.....

crowd is quiet because they are shocked at how GREAT The Catfish is.

Great teams, great game and great announcers. Love Curt Gowdy and post game interview by Tony Kubek was fantastic. Loved it.

Outstanding picture quality. It's like it's 1972 and I'm 9 years old, sitting cross-legged on the living room floor eating a silver foil wrapped Hershey bar and watching the World Series on our Magnavox color TV. :-D

@romelovesdan

Жыл бұрын

Or our "Jiffy POP" popcorn!

The Catfish Hunter interview is priceless.

Great World Series, two wonderful teams, really brings back very fond memories of life

Great video. Loved the A’s back in the day.

Ahh, day World Series games.

YES! I felt certain that this game existed on video. In Ken Burns Baseball documentary from the early 90's there were a few brief broadcast clips from this series that gave me hope, but 'experts' would say "no they were wiped." Yet here it is.

Oh heck yes. Never thought I'd ever see any of the games played in Cincinnati.

Look at the quality of the video! Excellent! Why isn't the '73 series like this?

Great quality! I was in grade school in SiouxCity Iowa in '72. My 3rd grade teacher wheeled a tv into the room and we watched the games live!

This is incredible go a’s

The video quality here is amazing! It looks like this game was played last week. Thanks for posting this!

A's won the Series without Reggie Jackson. Shows how deep and balanced the team was. Dick Williams was a great manager also

Looked like a beautiful day to play baseball on that day even though it was chilly.

Ty for the game it was wonderful try game 7 and game 1

This is some great color for 1972!

At the microphone: 27-year-old Al Michaels.

@rockintetster

4 жыл бұрын

Wow has his voice changed over the years! I think he intentionally annunciates differently today. A different style of announcing is in vogue.

@tgrsmuggs

3 жыл бұрын

He sort of sounds like Vin Scully at this point.

Love how professional they are. The game ends and they run out there shaking hands. Post game interview fantastic.

Omg such amazing quality

Love Catfish Hunter.

Johnny Bench played this series knowing that he had a spot on his lung that would have to be removed to determine whether or not it was cancerous. Fortunately it was benign.

Ohhhh what a catch !!

fantastic defense by rudi and hegan

The Tigers where mention a couple of times from ALCS. They would not make the playoffs again till 1984 winning it all vs the Padres, who where Managed by Dick Williams. The Tigers manager in 1984, Sparky Anderson.

Not to getgreedy but I would love to see game 5 '72 ALCS or any NLCS ALCS from the early 70's.

@BAYAREA-kd1ig

4 жыл бұрын

Someone has the highlights of the 72' ALCS if you type it.

@arthurbaker8703

4 жыл бұрын

@@BAYAREA-kd1ig Thank you!!

@rayjr62

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. But good luck finding any video tapes from either the ALCS or NLCS from 1971. It's as if they do not even exist.

Some might disagree, but as a 55-year MLB fan, I vote for Rudi's catch shown at 1:13:00, considering the blinding sun and the velocity of the hit ball, as the greatest in World Series history.

@stevecvino

3 ай бұрын

💯 my father was an A's fan from way back when they were in Philly.

I was able to download it. You have been redeemed. :)

I remember s a cynical little 11 year old watching this game saying, "Ahh, that wasn't such a great catch by Rudi. They're just making a big deal about it because they're trying to hypo the series and get more people to watch." See, after the game and in the papers, they were all saying it was one of the greatest catches in World Series history, and I wasn't buying it. But watching it all these years later, it really WAS one of the greatest catches in WS history, considering the circumstances of the game and the way he had to fight the sun. I guess I'm smarter now than the little wise guy I was back then. Even though I wasn't an A's fan, I was rooting for them because I always rooted for the American League teams, and Catfish Hunter was (and still is) one of my all time favorite players.

@orbyfan

Жыл бұрын

I was 11 and listening to the radio broadcast, and had to take their word for it that it was a great catch. He made some other great catches in the World Series of '73 and '74 and in at least one All-Star Game.

For 1972 only from mid season the A's had numbers on the right side in front

Great quality of a classic World Series. More please! The blurry sides are stupid - we can deal with black sides.

announcers don't even mention Catfish's PERFECT GAME he threw 4 years earlier.

That. Was. A. Great. A’s team

Fantastic that this is the entire game 2 of the 1972 world series ! I would love to see game 7 from 1972 and 1973 and game 5 in 1974 vs the Dodgers and also see footage of the A's celebrations in their clubhouse..does that footage exist ?

@stevonyl

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed it does, but sadly you will have to search ebay for an out of print dvd titled "Vintage World Series Films" Oakland Athletics. It was distributed by MLB in 2006 and is amazing in every way as it covers all four of their championships in detail. They also issued this for other notable franchises

@michaelabrams7345

4 жыл бұрын

Game 7 from 73 exists. But missing the last 2 outs in the top of the 9th.

Arguably the Big Red Machine were the best team in the 1970's but it's hard to go against the Swingin' A's for their 3 peat.

Notice how different the swings are.

AWESOME

Thank you Oakland!

The A's or Reds won every World Series from 1972 to 1976.

@beltoldomaldonado5474

3 жыл бұрын

Jackson and Jim Hunter wins 1977, 1978 Worlds Series

loving the voice to text conversion same as my phone- nearly useless LOL

Before doing primetime NFL football, Al Michaels was the lead baseball announcer for ABC and before that did SF Giants, Reds and Triple A baseball in Hawaii. He was the Reds announcer from 1971-73, before Marty Brennaman. Doesn’t he sound a bit like Vin Scully?

@americangiant1003

4 жыл бұрын

rjpsuh06 Don’t forget Micheals also called the NBA Finals in 2004 and ‘05. Plus was the Studio Host for the Stanley Cup Finals from 2000-‘03 and of course the play by play for Olympics Hockey Tournament in 1980, ‘84 and ‘88. Talk about a diverse amount of world class sporting events he has covered in almost 50 years of his illustrious career. 😳

@kencummings953

3 жыл бұрын

@@americangiant1003 also covered the Hagler Hearns fight in 1985.

@paulmorin6569

3 ай бұрын

Yeah to a degree (like Scully) that was my thought

greatest team of the 70's,3 straight championships.....a no brainer lol

Curt and toney was the best curt helped toney alot in his deliverys

KZread, time machine strikes again 😂

Wow. Al Michaels on the call!!

Two great teams...razor close. Reds got jobbed on Concepcion being called out at second.

The second World Series appearance for the Big Red Machine. Like the first one in 1970, they lost.

I went to see the reds play the giants when al michaels was the broadcaster for the giants i had blue seats right by the resd dugout and al michaels was on the field and i said to him hay all do you like it in sanfranciso he looked at ne and said with a grin i like it except for the standings and chuckled a real down to earth guy taking his time to talk to me like that real pro

Great qwality of video for 1972. Must be the master tape?

Gene I’m freaking MVP Tenence

The Catch!

Can you please post the rest of the Series on this channel?

What a catch by Joe Rudi 😳

Could you please post game 7?

Interesting that there's no chalk line denoting the outer edge of the infield. Michaels says they removed it that season. Anyone know the reason?

1:13:00......Rudi's catch

Fingers, Hunter, Jackson, Perez, Bench, Morgan (Rose), Anderson, Williams......all HOFers or should be.

Al Michaels sounds a lot like Vin Scully early in his career.

Yes really enjoyed watching the big red machine get battered again by the swinging A’s

Bobby Tolan cost the Reds the 1972 World Series with a horrific game 7

Kubek was the man he really liked it when they had a play in the infield he would tell it like he was in the game cause toney was a good infieder himself it was a shame of his injury

@kevinmadden1645

2 ай бұрын

An English teacher would have a field day with you.

Jackie Robinson's final public appearance before he passed away

@dariowiter3078

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.....WE KNOW!!!!! Idiot! 😠

@michaelleroy9281

Жыл бұрын

He passed away 2 days after game 7

Big red machine just broke down.

They don’t include the opening ceremony with Jackie Robinson.

@romelovesdan

3 жыл бұрын

Now uploaded on the A's you tube page. Missing the team introductions, but still great! Check it out!

Al Michaels (PBP) Curt Gowdy-Tony Kubek (C) 1st half Gowdy (PBP) Kubek-Michaels (C) 2nd half

55:22 perhaps the last video image the world saw of Jackie Robinson. He would die 10 DAYS later!!!

"Due to time constraints"? What constraints are those? Anyway, you really should let us know ahead of time that you cut out 2 1/2 innings in the middle of the game. Other than that, the video quality is excellent.

It's incredible the breaks the Oakland A's got in that series.

Al Michaels was better than Gowdy as a play by play guy back then. You forget how good he was at baseball.

Look at the Flintstone club that Bert Campaneris is swinging.

What would have been called if Rudi had been ruled to trap the ball against the outfield wall?

@lorenanders702

3 жыл бұрын

It would be a live ball, batter takes all he can get.

Right field blue seats used only for NFL and college football games. LOL 😂

35:26 enter Earl Morrall. What a cosmic coincidence.

can y'all please upload 2006 ALDS game 3 vs minnesota next.

Umpires (Game 2) HP Jim Honochick (AL) 1B Mel Steiner (NL) 2B Frank Umont (AL) 3B Bob Engel (NL) LF Bill Haller (AL) RF Chris Pelekoudas (NL) (Crew Chief)

whats this BS with the sides of the frame being blurry

NBC Radio: Monte Moore (PBP) 1st half Jim Simpson (PBP) 2nd half

The A's, led by Gene Tenace, destroyed the heavily-favored Big Red Machine. A's pitching was outstanding.

@RRaquello

3 жыл бұрын

The only person I heard picking the A's in this series was my father. I remember us kids before the series talking about how the Reds were going to win easy and he interrupted us and said, "The A's are gonna win. Pitching. Pitching. Pitching. Always go with the team with the better pitching." He was right.

@piustwelfth

3 жыл бұрын

@@RRaquello I attended this World Series in Oakland when I was a kid. My Dad got tix because my great aunt was a huge A's fan but had never attended a game. She was born in Oakland in 1886! She was in her late 80s but attended the game where the A's scored in the bottom of 9th to win the game. She had a smile from ear to ear!

@RRaquello

3 жыл бұрын

@@piustwelfth That's cool. Oakland in 1886 must have still been the wild west. And she would have experienced the big earthquake in 1906-as an adult.

@piustwelfth

3 жыл бұрын

@@RRaquello Thanks for your reply. Her father came to Oakland in 1868 when the population was approx. 3,000! It's amazing you mentioned the 1906 earthquake because she used to me stories of the huge fire and smoke and all the people who came across the bay fleeing from SF. The population of Oakland tripled in the 10 years after the '06 quake. She also told me stories about taking the horse & buggy to Sacramento! She was an amazing person, made the best cookies and pies, and was a diehard A's fan. She never left the side of the radio while the game was on. She lived to see all three of their World Series victories. She died on the eve of Thanksgiving 1976.

@marknapiorkowski

2 жыл бұрын

4 games to 3 is destroyed? What do you call 1990?

Screw the resolution.... The 72 73 and 74 Oakland A's were the best baseball team of all time.... And the best announcer of all time is hands-down Curt Gowdy.

@kevinmadden1645

2 ай бұрын

You are out of your mind.

37:50 only if....

Time constraints? BS!

I wonder why of all the places he could possibly live, why did Bert “Campy” Campaneris want to live in Missouri?

@bombasticanimal1853

Жыл бұрын

The A's were still based in Kansas City Missouri when he started with them. The franchise was located there from 1955 through 1967, after relocating from Philadelphia and before moving to Oakland.

@kevinmadden1645

2 ай бұрын

I sat next to Campaneris in a restaurant in Raytown, Missouri in January, 1980.

Imagine that. A hitter complaining about the position of an infielder in 1972. Just like 2021. Make him pay for his shifting and he will stop doing it.

The A's were not the first major professional championship team in the Bay Area. The Oakland Oaks won the ABA title three years earlier. Would appreciate a correction here.

Reds had a pretty poor bench other than McRae

I loathe videos with the added blurry video on the extreme right and left sides of the screen, which is done to fill up the screen. All it does is ruin watching the video for me.

@danroux4010

3 жыл бұрын

Cover with you favorite color of paper an a small piece of tape

@jebstewart5709

3 жыл бұрын

@@danroux4010 yeah, whatever. Why not just have it with black borders? It would be watchable then

@danroux4010

3 жыл бұрын

@@jebstewart5709 When you don't have what you want, you try and adapt a solution instead of complaining. I'm just happy some dude posted it.

@jebstewart5709

3 жыл бұрын

@@danroux4010 I'm not complaining about the guy who posted it, but the company that created it.

A's-Pirates would have been a better matchup. The Buccos were defending WS champs and had the best record in MLB in the regular season.

@stevep8445

4 ай бұрын

Really? The '72 series went 7 games, with 6 of the games being 1-run games. Sounds like a good matchup to me..... Another uninformed you tube comment...

@RayManzarekRocks

4 ай бұрын

@@stevep8445 Don't let an agenda get in the way of the facts, brah. The '72 Reds were the first team in major league history to advance to the World Series without the best record in its respective league, By virtually every stat and metric, the Pirates were slightly better than the Reds in the regular season. The Reds didn't earn the home field advantage in the playoffs. A cockamamie playoff system gifted it to them much like the Giants one year earlier and the Mets one year later. #DoYourHomework

and guess what.....they beat the big red losers (5 losees in 6 home games in 2 series) without the services of the arrogant A.H. lol