Willie retired after the 73 series....what a thrill for this 13 year old to see the greatest living hofamer in a Mets uniform.....awesome!!

Those were the days. We had a tv in our classroom so that the teacher and us could watch the A's. Good times.

Willie had to feel so good about the standing ovation. Tony Kubek so respected back then.

The standing ovation they gave Willie Mays during the intros gives me goosebumps.

Monte Moore really brings this whole series to life 🐐🐐

And just like THAT, I'm 8 years old again. Thanks.

@dragonwarrior5152

4 жыл бұрын

IKR? I was 11 when this WS was played -- God, I wanna go back to those days all of a sudden. :.)

@boondocksaint2619

4 жыл бұрын

...and I was nine..is it me or did the colors pop on NBC even without HD??

@michaelward9880

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 15 again. Last hurrah for my baseball idol, batting 3rd and playing center field, number 24, WILLIE MAYS!!!!

@michaelward9880

3 жыл бұрын

@Redwood Giant I guess they thought he earned it. It was sad to see him in decline though. Too bad we don't have guys like him around anymore.

@michaelward9880

3 жыл бұрын

@Redwood Giant that the Mets felt Mays had earned to do what he wanted when he wanted. He was a living legend and was still drawing fans to the park. The last time I saw him play "live" was 1971 in San Diego. He hit a homer into the upper left field seats and a double off the railing in center. Everyone there thought it should have been ruled a homer. You should have heard the booing! I still have vivid memories of that.

This is why I love the A's. The very first World Series I ever watched and the same year I became an A's fan. 73" my favorite A's was Campy, Rudi, and Tenance. But the A's had an All Star Team.

@kevinoconnor1912

2 жыл бұрын

I was 9 years old in 1973, this was also the first WS I ever watched. Unlike you though this was season I became lifelong, diehard Mets Fan! I cried like a baby after game 7🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂

@ericmcnally1822

2 жыл бұрын

7uuuiiiiiiiii

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

Mine were Bando , Vida Blue , Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers 🌟🤩🌟🤩🌟🤩🌟🤩👍

@bufnyfan1

Жыл бұрын

Sad to believe these A's will just be a footnote in ancient history (just like the Milwaukee Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers). The A's will be moving to Las Vegas by 2027 when their new $1.6 billion stadium is finished. I read that the A's ownership wants to get out of Oakland long before this and are willing to play in Las Vegas Triple A stadium until then

@brad5015

11 ай бұрын

I was 7 years old in 1973. Our tee-ball team won the championship that year, our colors were green and white! We loved the A's!

There was something about MLB Playoff games in the afternoon in the 70's & 80's. From that incredible A's run to Bucky Dents HR vs. the Sox, playoff baseball was so much better played in the afternoon on the east coast. I miss those days.

@terrencedeagle4429

Ай бұрын

I miss them too. So many great memories.

Monte Moore really was a good PBP announcer and I'm not sure he has been given the credit he deserves.

I was only 2 years old when this world series was played in 73... But I love the 70s games and that's all I've been watching on the tube...

@T.C.Clarien

5 ай бұрын

You should watch NPB🇯🇵 That's exciting too ....Nippon Series ....

I sure miss the old Coliseum bleacher sections, and the fact that you could see out of the stadium above them with the trees and the Oakland hills beyond. If I owned the team, I would knock down Mt. Davis and put back the bleacher sections just as they were!

Nice seeing Rusty Staub and enjoyed the long ovation for Willie Mays. Oakland was a great team from 72-74. I also enjoy watching these classic games

More Swingin' A's ...............PLEASE!!!!

@romelovesdan

4 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED Baseball takes a certain particular skill set....those countries' athletes have not mastered yet. At the highest level Far more difficult than playing Soccer at its highest level of expertise.

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

@M who cares about that crap ... this is a classic baseball channel , not for no sissy soccer games .... so beat it !

Old videos like this are how I enjoy the baseball postseason now, especially after the cluttered mess that MLB has made of the pennant races and postseason in the past few years. Also, the broadcast has a simple, relaxed style that is gone forever, replaced by an overbearing barrage of camera angles, screen graphics, and statistics.

I always liked the PA announcer at the Oakland Coliseum

I was still a tad pole back then but I find it amazing to see the coliseum back then compared to now, all those memories, crazy.... Going next week double header

I have seen a lot of baseball but I have never seen a play at first like the one involving Campy and Milner in the 8th. I love to see a reliever pitch more than one inning; Rollie pitched 3.1 innings and would have pitched four innings had he not walked a man in the 9th. Dick Williams is a very magnanimous and classy man.

@bobwitt5224

4 ай бұрын

Tug McGraw pitched 6 innings in Game 2

Damn!, that Jim Nabors can sing!

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

Jim Nabor would Visit Spanish Harlem regularly at 112th street in Manhattan , his voice was unmistakable 😆 👌🏻

@johnwalker4329

Жыл бұрын

Gomer pile

@muttonchopsgayever

Жыл бұрын

I was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and i heard this voice. It sounded familiar but i knew it wasn't friends or family. I turn around and there was Jim Nabors. Shazam!

Really enjoy seeing these classic games, including these from before I was born! I was lucky to be in attendance at the Swingin' A's reunion in Oakland last year so it's great to have a chance to see them in action

How awesome to hear the voice of God.... Roy Steele!!!

thank you again great game keep it coming.

the ERA of Baseball . Pete Rose ,Clemente .Bench . Joe Rudi. etc..............

They say what you like and love during your life time as a kid is what eventually you grow up loving. Because in reality it sticks with you and you carry it forever. The A's became the team i love and grew up rooting for...collecting all the A's baseball cards and they were all in action. The glory days" A's much respect, the history is real.

@togaplop

3 жыл бұрын

You are so right, but in this case it is a blessing and a curse. This team and those three years were magical, but the next 13 years were a roller coaster, with the early 80' as the bottom of the pit. But 4 titles in 50 years, it is hard sometimes.

@Mason-wt3ku

3 жыл бұрын

X

Felix Milan brings new meaning to choke up

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

It's a mystery to me how he or anybody for that matter could hit that way ... I played ball for most of my life and I can't, I can't even figure how anybody could 😮

@chrisspearline767

Жыл бұрын

@@rafaelramirez1507 I know right. You don't see guys doing that anymore in the MLB neither

A check swing in those days would be called a swing today

This series was a great memory whe Oakland ruled the Bay Area

Where are the other games 5-6-7 world series no replay on the rudi bunt?

Wow - I had no idea Willy Mays was playing against the A's in the 73 World Series.

@darwinblinks

Жыл бұрын

His final games.

@generalbullmoose

Жыл бұрын

But in the end, he was slipping & sliding out in CF so much that the Mets were forced to put Staub in with his bum shoulder.

@bobwitt5224

4 ай бұрын

His last at bat King in game 2 where he singled between short and third I believe for an rbi. That was his last at that in the series. If memory serves if you look at the box score I believe he batted forth cleanup hitter as a 41 or 42-year-old player at

Back when the World Series was played when it should be...in the daytime...

Wow Willie Mays swung right through strike 3 in that 1st AB but the umps gave him the call. I've never seen such a full swing get called a ball. lol. 21:49

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

R . E . S . P .E . C . T

@Greg-jw2gb

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't just Mays. Back then batters could go much farther with check swings without having strikes called than they can today. Today almost every check swing is called a strike. Also, the practice of asking the first or third base umpire to call check swings has greatly increased strike calls, but that didn't begin until the '80s.

R.I.P. Willie ❤

NBC Radio: Jim Simpson (PBP) & Ralph Kiner (C) 1st half Kiner (PBP) 2nd half

I knew Manny Trillo was with another team before the Cubs but didn’t remember it being the A’s.

1972 1973 1974 ... The Big Green Machine 🔥⚾ 💯

Felix Millan really choking up on the bat

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable 🤔 .... how could he hit that way? 😳

@muttonchopsgayever

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was upside down at first

21:49 they called that a check swing! Even after checking with the first base ump. I would say it was all due to Mays legendary status but I've seen some other absolutely ridiculous check swing calls from back then, I remember one by Boog Powell in the 69 WS.

I couldn't tell rudi in or out batters box when bat touched ball I don't think it waz?

Post game 7 of this series

loved the A:"S .....even when they were in KC ...................... wayne causey .....jerry lumpe ....... norm siebern.........diego segui.....gino cimoli.....MANNY JIMINEZ ......... !!!

2:08:15 Feels like we're watching the Zapruder film.

@muttonchopsgayever

Жыл бұрын

Haha, i needed that comment today!

Sal Bando scouting Buddy, the long ball hitter. lol

Harry Coyle 😎

Love day World Series games on grass

Funny how the NL batters would take off their helmets after they reached first base and pop on the cap they had in their back pocket.

A great time to call the Bay Area home

Hard to believe the A’s are leaving town in a few month.

I know their pitching was good but the Mets lineup was horrible.your in trouble if Grote is hitting 6th.

Oakland has now lost all 4 of their major sports teams. The Raiders left in 2020 for Las Vegas, the Warriors moved across the bay to San Francisco (Chase Arena), the NHL Oakland Seals folded back in the early 70s and now the A's are leaving. And I just read that in the event of another earthquake in the bay area, the Oakland/Alameda area would be the most severely damaged due to a number of fault lines that cross the area. Oakland simply can't catch a break

No way Willie Mays is 5' 10".... no way. He looks barely a hair over 5' 8". Baseball players, especially before the 1990s, were not generally large people. I met Reggie Jackson and Walter Payton back in 1989. No way either guy was over 5' 9". No way. Mays looks small when he's at the plate.

@mmcneil777

Жыл бұрын

They were short! I stood next to Steve Garvey and he was around 5’7 or 5’8. I was surprised how short he was. I think the 70’s infield of the LA Dodgers was all super short other then their Shortstop.

And the Mets had only 82 wins during the season.

@hmhm856

2 жыл бұрын

they won 83 games on 161 games played. So they could have won 84 games. But the 1973 Mets was still the same core of the 1969 Mets (sadly, minus Nolan Ryan), but with John Matlack and George Stoner.

Random thoughts from going on 50 years later. I'm surprised how relatively few people in the crowd have the team colors on. These days the crowds look like political party rallies where there's no variation from the main colors. The Oakland announcer sounds much older than he looks. But I will give him his props, when he said that the Coliseum was just a big hole in the ground he was quite right! You can't tell the backstop wall from The Outfield wall other than who's standing in front of it. And even though they had gobs of room for it, I still think it's lame to have the bullpen in foul territory. And what was up with leaving trash strewn about left-center field for like two innings? Gee, they sure choked up on the bat in those days. The camera work was very bad at some points, although if you check out the 74 series they really improved in just one year, and in fact we're well on their way to how it's done now. I wore the exact same color and style shin pads in Little League in 76 that the Mets catcher was wearing. You got to love the uniforms, Finley was years ahead on that, although the Pirates had some pretty cool variations by the end of the 70s. Of course the bottom line is is the game is the same no matter when it is played

@mystermysterio5348

4 жыл бұрын

Yes" The Pirates, A's and Astros were teams with vibrant uniforms at that time and they were alive vibrant and in living color.

@vicepresidentmikepence889

4 жыл бұрын

Also at 2:22:30..2 outs..Oakland is about to win game 1 of the world series and the fans are seated..Today the fans would be standing with excited anticipation..Fans back then just didn't have the same passion as fans, today

@mrvantagepro

4 жыл бұрын

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Today, the fans would be standing in the first inning with 2 strikes on every hitter.

@mrvantagepro

4 жыл бұрын

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 You are right about the way fans back then reacted to the way they react today, granted, it was a different world back then. But please don't assume that fans back then were not as passionate as they are today just because they did not stand up until their team won the game. I was a fan back then, as was my whole family. And we were all very, very passionate about our teams. No one can ever tell me that we were not intensely passionate fans just because we did not stand up until our teams actually got the final out to win the game. We just waited for our team to get that final out. Then we stood up and celebrated. Look at the end of the 1969 World Series and tell me that the fans were not passionate about their team. Look at the celebration that took place on the field after the 1976 American League Championship Series. By contrast, today, everything seems rehearsed. Its like the fans (not all), celebrate just for the sake of celebrating. IMHO, the greater majority of todays fans and players seem to manufacture their celebrating rather than just letting it happen naturally. And when a player hits a "walk off" home run today its as if the players are telling each other, "OK! Lets all get in a circle and as soon as he touches home plate lets all jump up and down with our arms around each other. In today's game that kind of celebrating happens in every victory. It's like the players priority is not so much winning, but celebrating. IMHO

@jefflewis4

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't sell jerseys or jackets back then, very few fans would have worn team colors back then. it just wasn't a thing until the 80's.

Umpires (Game 1) (16:18) HP Marty Springstead (AL) (Crew Chief) (1st) 1B Augie Donatelli (NL) (5th) 2B Jerry Neudecker (AL) (1st) 3B Paul Pryor (NL) (2nd) LF Russ Goetz (AL) (1st) RF Harry Wendelstedt (NL) (1st)

Curt Gowdy (PBP) Monte Moore-Tony Kubek (C) 1st half Moore (PBP) Gowdy-Kubek (C) 2nd half

@santiagoandujar2518

8 ай бұрын

I believe Met announcer Lindsey Nelson worked radio broadcasts in Oakland, but did the tv side with Curt and Tony on NBC while in New York ( Monte Moore switched to the radio booth while in New York).

First World Series the al umpires wore the maroon blazers

@mikeforte7585

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the AL umpires said those jackets made them look like Captain Kangaroo...

somehow i don't remember the 73 Series . i remember 72 and 74 clearly though

Go A’s

@michaelward9880

3 жыл бұрын

Let's go Mets!

Certainly the A's had some good hitting, Jackson and Bando in particular. However, the team was built on outstanding pitching with Blue, Hunter, Holtzman, Fingers, etc.....

@captainh3831

Жыл бұрын

I don't know that there will ever be another team quite like the A's of that time. They had so many weapons and ways to beat you. If Finley hadn't dismantled the tram they probably would have won another 2 or 3 World Series...posdibly into the 80's. Possibly

@bobsmith3217

9 ай бұрын

They just knew how to win. They didn't overwhelm you, but they did all the little things right and took advantage of mistakes.

Wait a minute…how did Manny Trillo end up on that roster before game one?…remember…the Mike Andrews incident focused on Andrews signing a phony health report so that Trillo could join the team..

@santiagoandujar2518

8 ай бұрын

I think Bill North was injured for the Series ( still was allowed to dress in uniform). A's skipper Dick Williams ( before game 1) requested the umpires, MLB, and lastly Mets skipper Yogi Berra (during lineup card exchanges at home) if Trillo could be allowed to sit in the A's dugout. Yogi joked that it was ok , as long as he remained there if there was a fight ( this after the infamous NLCS brawl between the Mets Bud Harrelson and the Reds Pete Rose).

Compare how the coliseum looked in those days "especially the out field bleacher" to what it has become with the addition of "mount davis". Yuck! It used to be one of the best stadiums to watch a baseball game in, with a perfect view of the beautiful oakland hills.

Good to see that the A's got rid of the number on the front of the jersey. Looked like crap before.

43:00 Felix Millian and his batting 52:41 Felix Millian error

The only reason the Mets lost the series is because Felix Meons' error which allowed two unearned runs in a 2 to 1 loss in game one.

@mikeforte7585

2 жыл бұрын

I have been saying that for years....the Met blew game 3 by stranding 14 base runners a series record at the time...plus Tom Seaver didn't win a game...

@robertromeo3765

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeforte7585 Seaver actually pitched pretty good. He gave only two earned runs in each game. Ask mentioned, Second baseman Meons' error allowed two runs in game one's 2 to 1 loss. In game six, the Mets had first and third with one out in the eight, and the tying run on third. Manager Yogi Berra elected to leave in Staub against a left hand pitcher, when he had Willie Mays as a potential pitch hitter. Rusty struck out and the Mets didn't score.

@lindac7966

7 ай бұрын

Well, everyone makes mistakes. After all, you spelled his name Meon instead of Millan! 😊

Well. Golly! Shazaam. ...

The Mets Kept the A s Homerless until Game 7

@michaelleroy9281

29 күн бұрын

Campaneris and Jackson, Reggie at least got one

Buddy Harrelson 4:00

Gomer pile sings anthem and really confused me..... Game 7 Lou rawls AND he sat next to me! I'm like 7 years old

I'm Curt Goudy, but I'm not really rooting for the Mets! LOL!

Willie Mays literally strikes out 2 times in the first inning, then hits a single.

@michaelward9880

3 жыл бұрын

Mays didn't strike out in the 1st inning. He had one at- bat and singled.

@sdwriter2626

3 жыл бұрын

Close pitches but ...

@sicfrynut

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelward9880 close no call on the check swing. great trivia question with Mays getting the first hit of the series @ 42 years old.

@michaelward9880

3 жыл бұрын

@@sicfrynut what are you talking about? The original comment said " Mays literally STRIKES OUT 2 times in the first inning, then hits a single." Mays had one at bat in the 1st and singled. What is so confusing about that? Where did that guy get that he struck out twice in the 1st? C' mon, man.

@sicfrynut

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelward9880 @ 21:49 mays checked his swing and 1st base ump waived it off. i believe the OP is misusing the term literally and should have said almost. @ 21:35 the pitch at the knees was close as well. so mays almost struck out two different times in that at bat. I wasn't confused at all. obviously you can't or didnt bother to read the rest of my comment where i noted that mays singled in the at bat. don't get your panties in a bunch over nothing slick.

Mets should have won the Series

This video is a perfect example of why I do not consider 1970's baseball as modern baseball. Those "checked swings" I see. Watch Willie Mays first at bat. You will see a complete swing with 2 strikes that is called checked swing.

Gene Tenace was a family personal friend to us Great team I use to go to stadium and shag balls during bating practice before games Sat with the wives of the players and spent Many times in the clubhouse with all the great players of the time. Very blessed I was..the things I saw and experienced are burnt in my memory