The Greatest Major League Baseball Game Never Played
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Jack Buck and Lindsey Nelson call a simulated game in 1982 between some of baseball's greatest players. This is a record album synced to video.
The Greatest Baseball Game Never Played was a 1982 simulated broadcast of a hypothetical baseball game between all-time Major League Baseball greats. The broadcast was aired on 200 radio stations in the United States and Canada and also released as a record album.
It was announced by Jack Buck and Lindsey Nelson and set in Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Following the format of the All-Star Game, it featured National League players against players from the American League.
The Greatest Game Never Played documents the perception of who the greatest players were seventeen years before the selection of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. All of the players in both starting lineups made the All-Century team except for American League shortstop Phil Rizzuto, as the 1980s saw the emergence of several all-time great shortstops: Cal Ripken Jr., Ozzie Smith, and Robin Yount.
This is a fan edit, set to video, with added appearances by Marty Brennaman, Jack Brickhouse, Harry Caray, Joe Nuxhall, Vin Scully, Jon Miller, Ken Griffey Jr., Rod Serling and Chip Caray.
Some of the original audio was removed to keep from spoiling the outcome. There is an explanation about this game and interviews with a couple of the people involved in creating it that was originally toward the beginning but was moved to the end because I didn't think many people would stick around through 4 minutes of mostly text.
AL Starters (Casey Stengel, Mgr.)
Phil Rizzuto (SS)
Ty Cobb (CF)
Ted Williams (LF)
Babe Ruth (RF)
Lou Gehrig (1B)
Rod Carew (2B)
Brooks Robinson (3B)
Yogi Berra (C)
Whitey Ford (P)
NL Starters (John McGraw, Mgr.)
Pete Rose (1B)
Mike Schmidt (3B)
Stan Musial (RF)
Hank Aaron (LF)
Willie Mays (CF)
Rogers Hornsby (2B)
Honus Wagner (SS)
Roy Campanella (C)
Sandy Koufax (P)
AL Reserves:
Joe DiMaggio
Tris Speaker
Mickey Mantle
Reggie Jackson
Carl Yastrzemski
Jimmy Foxx
Dick Sisler
Eddie Collins
Charlie Gehringer
George Brett
Joe Cronin
Luis Aparicio
Mickey Cochrane
Bill Dickey
Lefty Grove
Bob Feller
Walter Johnson
Cy Young
Jim Palmer
Rollie Fingers
Gaylord Perry
NL Reserves:
Mel Ott
Roberto Clemente
Lou Brock
Frank Robinson
Bill Terry
Johnny Mize
Frank Frisch
Jackie Robinson
Pie Traynor
Eddie Matthews
Ernie Banks
Pee Wee Reese
Gabby Hartnett
Johnny Bench
Grover Alexander
Warren Spahn
Bob Gibson
Carl Hubbel
Christy Mathewson
Tom Seaver
Steve Carlton
0:00 - Intro (Marty Brennaman)
0:14 - Intro - Ernie Harwell (From History of Baseball, 1994)
3:16 - Intro - Twilight Zone of Dreams
4:16 - Record Album Begins
4:43 - Lineups, Reserves and Managers
6:56 - Shibe Park
7:37 - Play Ball!
11:44 - 2nd Inning
14:54 - 3rd Inning
19:28 - 4th - Top 6th Inning
19:43 - 6th Inning (Bottom)
22:24 - 7th Inning
28:08 - 8th Inning
36:15 - 9th Inning and Beyond
39:45 - Wrap Up, Box Scores Etc.
43:54 - Good Nights and Jack Buck Tribute
45:50 - Joe Nuxhall 'rounding third and heading for home...'
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#TyCobb
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I remember being 8 years old listening to this with my mom and falling asleep. She recorded the entire game on cassette! It was such a cool event at the time.
I was just thinking about this! Good to see it still on here.
I recently found all three cassettes that my mother stayed up and recorded when this was originally broadcast. I have the entire game I'm going to be transferring it this year and uploading.
Good God, I love Ernie Harwell!
I have the entire game on cassette and I own an unopened copy of the record album as well. When this aired live I was 12 and I was all in. It was awesome for it's time. Nowadays it's no big deal for a computer simulation game to take place.
@marks.8969
6 күн бұрын
Any chance you could upload the entire broadcast? I taped it off the radio too back in the day but those cassettes are long gone.
@DicedOnionWarrior
6 күн бұрын
@marks.8969 I taped it off the radio back then and also lost the tapes. I searched for years to find it. Finally found a guy in Indiana back in 2001 or so that had it recorded on reel to reel and he ran me a dub to cassette for $100.00. I will try to upload, but not sure I possess the tech to convert from tape to digital.
@marks.8969
4 күн бұрын
@@DicedOnionWarrior I took some old cassettes of mine to a place in town and they converted them to digital for me. I don’t remember it being too pricey.
@DicedOnionWarrior
4 күн бұрын
@marks.8969 ill check that out and see if I can get it done
This is wonderful but I have 1 complaint: Reggie Jackson over mickey mantle?
@RoundingThird
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it. They sure seemed to like running lefties up against lefties for some reason. I think the AL ran like 7 in a row against Koufax which wouldn’t be my first choice. The fans voted for that and I guess they were right. But I’m with you. Reggie got lucky. I’d much rather go with Mantle from the right side against Spahn.
@RoundingThird
Жыл бұрын
And the big deal about Speaker’s defense was that he played so close to 2nd that he got like 450 unassisted double plays by beating the guy back, on foot. Then he nearly has a ball go over his head and can’t make a good throw to 3rd in this game. Maybe Mickey gets the assist there?