Old baseball games on youtube

watching a nice 1979 doubleheader at wrigley, celebrating jack brickhouses's 5000th broadcast. i believe this is the first game i've heard him call. he's wonderful. i love the pace of this broadcast and the way they capture the game. they almost always show a full instant replay, after every single play, no matter how mundane, and it's from the same angle as the original live shot, and at the same speed. it's so nice to just get a chance to see it again. there are a lot more long, lingering shots of...nothing. players just standing there, adjusting their balls, or a 30 second shot of the dugout as some pinch-hitter takes fucking forever to find his bat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rz3V01lD-M

i didn't realize garry templeton was kind of a side-arm thrower? (maybe he wasn't, and just happened to be going in a phase in 1979)

keith hernandez just made a very nice defensive play at first. :)

if it's just me on this thread, every single fucking youtube is going to involve the cardinals

Miguel Dilone - kind of a proto billy hamilton, except he's not a good fielder?

Posnanski has a post today on this game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svy3bpCapHc

Yes, I had plans on Monday. We all have plans, right? Then Brandon McCarthy sent me this YouTube link. That is the TBS broadcast of an entire baseball game, 1994, Montreal Expos at the Atlanta Braves. It was exactly 30 years ago Monday.

Atlanta’s pitcher that night: An in-his-prime Greg Maddux.

Montreal’s pitcher that night: An up-and-coming Pedro Martinez.

Absolutely, yeah, my plans went right out the window.

one of the rabbit holes i got into a couple weeks ago was old radio broadcasts up through the end of the '70s. idk, there's something about the flow and pacing of baseball radio broadcasts. the amount of chatter and filler and stuff inherent in that.

I’ve been semi-watching this “Great Games” MLB channel on PlutoTV, lots of great stuff but way too many recent games. This morning it was game 7 of the 79 World Series, tho, super duper classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiNn3Gi7sL8

idk, there's something about the flow and pacing of baseball radio broadcasts. the amount of chatter and filler and stuff inherent in that.

man that braves/expos game. i used to love watching terry pendleton at third.