Recorded coverage beginning in the last of the ninth inning, with the New York Giants Whitey Lockman at bat; the score 4 to 2 Brooklyn. Announcer Russ Hodges calls the play by play, as Bobby Thomson hits a homerun ("The Shot heard Round the World"), winning the best two out of three playoff series (the FIRST nationally televised baseball series ever broadcast, coast to coast). 

Wrap up of the game is heard by Bob Prince (baseball announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates 1948-1975), who attended the game and sat along side best friend Russ Hodges in the booth. 

Post game clubhouse (New York Giants) interviews begin with Steve Ellis, Ernie Harwell and Russ Hodges behind the mike. Those interviewed, in a emotional celeritous Giant clubhouse, are Herman Franks, Alvin Dark, Larry Jansen, Eddie Stanky, Charlie Dressen, Ford Frick, Horace Stoneham, Bill Rigney, Hank Sims, Walter O'Malley, Bobby Thomson, Charley Finney, Jim Hearn, Eddie Bracket, Art Flynn, Leo Durocher, Chris Durocher (son), Willie Mays, Whitey Lockman, Sal Maglie, Monte Irvin Paul Richards, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Sheldon Jones and Willard Marshall.   

NOTE:
 In addition to NBC's TV crew, six radio networks set up shop in the press box attached to the underside of the upper deck.

•	Russ Hodges did the Giants' broadcast solo because NBC hired his partner, Ernie Harwell, to handle their telecast. Hodges's friend Bob Prince, the Pirates' announcer, sat next to him as a guest, and filled in for Hodges and Harwell in the celebratory New York Giant’s locker room after the game ended with a wrap up summary prior to the beginning of the many interviews that would follow and captured on audio.

•	Red Barber and Connie Desmond would, as usual, call the game for the Dodgers (WMGM).

•	The Liberty Broadcasting Network, which recreated most of its baseball and football broadcasts from its studio in Dallas, sent "The Old Scotsman" Gordon McLendon to call the game live. His broadcast is the only one that survives as complete, on audio tape.

•	Al Helfer reported the action on the Mutual Broadcasting System, largest in the nation.

•	Harry Caray of the Cardinals broadcast the game for a group of Midwest stations.

•	Buck Canel and Felo Ramirez did the Spanish broadcast for Latin America.

Russ Hodges:  “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field The Giants win the pennant! And they’re going crazy! They are going crazy! Oh-oh!”

 “Everybody remembers it now,” said Bobby Thomson. “But you have to understand the feeling between those teams. I didn’t think of the pennant — only that we beat the Dodgers.” 

Hodges: “I don’t believe it! I do not believe it! Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the leftfield stands, and the whole place is going crazy! The Giants Horace Stoneham is now a winner. The Giants won it by a score of 5 to 4, and they’re picking Bobby Thomson up and carrying him off the field!”

NOTE:
Before videotape recording and playback available beginning November 30, 1956 the only way to reproduce a television broadcasts, as it aired live, was via a film camera using film (usually on black & white 16mm Kodak reversal film stock)to record a TV screen monitor recording a copy of a broadcast.The process was called kinescoping. “Kinescopes were fuzzy and extremely bulky, and costly to accomplish, so the networks of the 1950s saved almost nothing. 

Few professionals and lay persons even had an audio tape reel-to-reel tape recorder to record even the sound of a broadcast (sold commercially only a few years before) which were hard to carry around, expensive to purchase as well as the cost incurred to purchase audio tape 1/4" reels, so not only the average person didn’t have one, it was rare for anyone to audio record a TV program at that time (almost non-existent). 

However, In Brooklyn, a restaurant waiter Laurence Goldberg did own one. Goldberg was a New York Giant fan from the time he was 8 years old. Having to leave for work in Manhattan, he instructed his mother, Sylvia, who knew little about baseball, to hit the “record” button in the bottom of the ninth which she did, with one out and Whitey Lockman at bat, the score now 4 to 2 Brooklyn.
Lockman doubles. The Giants now have men on second and third base. Bobby Thomson comes to the plate, and the rest is history!

The next day, Larry Goldberg wrote a letter to Russ Hodges about his tape recording, which was not recorded my WMCA radio, or it turns out to be by anyone else (similar to the scenario of Phil Gries' solo home audio tape recording of Don Pardo announcing, over NBC TV, the first bulletins of the JFK assassination, eight years later). Russ Hodges sent Goldberg $10 to use his borrowed copy to record a 1951 Christmas gift for friends. During the fall of 1952 sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes released a record of “the most exciting moment in baseball history, including that famous Bobby Thomson homerun.”

NOTE:
The National Recording Registry chose announcer Russ Hodges’ call of the 1951 National League tiebreaker between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers for inclusion in their archive of iconic American sounds.
Courtesy National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Why so memorable: 
Russ Hodges’ “The Shot Heard ’Round the World?” 

At the time, Dodgers-Giants forged sport’s greatest rivalry, yearly playing 22 games against each other on radio and TV, broadcasting through The City. America in the world’s post-war colossus, perhaps baseball never meaning more. What made the moment of this historic homerun memorable for all time was the Giants announcer’s call.

On August 13, Brooklyn led the National League by 13 and 1/2 games. By September 20 the Giants trailed by 6 with 7 left. Then with both teams in a tie at the end of their 154 game season a best of three playoff National League contest was played.

Russ Hodges stated, “all baseball fans focused on our rivalry.” Even the Voice of the American League Yankees was transfixed. “Think of it,” said Voice Mel Allen. “Three New York teams out of the big leagues’ of 16 remain alive. One’s already in the Series, the other two tied.” For years a red-blooded American could recite the script by rote. It is easy to see why so much excitement was brewing during that October of 1951.

The NL playoff became the then most widely aired event in radio and TV history. Seven networks, five of them radio, did at least one game: the Mutual and Liberty Broadcasting system with announcer Gordon McClendon, Dodgers’ radio WMGM and Brooklyn Dodgers’ Re-created Network(s); Giants’ WMCA Radio; and CBS TV—the latter airing the first coast-to-coast network sports telecast for game one of the playoffs (October 1st), with Red Barber doing the play by play. 

With the playoff series moving the following day to the Giants’ home park, the Polo Grounds, NBC TV moved in to pick up the rights, negotiating directly with WPIX, New York, which had carried the Giant’s home schedule all year. 

CBS TV held on to westbound relay until 3 pm and NBC broadcast the game from 3:00pm to conclusion. It was necessary for the two networks to swap time each day to permit their carrying the full game which started at 1:30pm.  

On October 3, 1951 Ernie Harwell did play by play on NBC TV which to this day has never been archived in any manner. 
 
Only four years earlier Americans had owned only 17,000 TV sets v. 58 million radios. By 1951 video had become an irresistible object. Radio was the immovable object, some feeling TV cursory. Such a schism towered as Russ and Ernie “tossed a coin [about a possible Game Three],” Harwell laughed. When Ernie got TV, he joked, “I felt sympathy for ‘Ole’ Russ. All these radio networks and I was gonna’ be on TV, and I thought that I had the plum assignment.” 

New York won the opener, 3-1. Next day changed place (Polo Grounds) and outcome (Dodgers win 10-0). His plum then spoiled.
The night before the final, Hodges stayed awake gargling. Worse, to test his voice, he kept talking into a microphone at home, hurting his throat. Next day, at 3:48 P.M., Ralph Branca threw a two-on one-out ninth-inning 0 & 1 pitch with Brooklyn up, 4-2. 

“There’s a long drive!” WMCA’s Russ began. “It’s going to 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 leftfield stands! The Giants win the pennant! And they’re going crazy! They are going crazy! Oh-oh! The Giants . . . have won it by a score of 5 to 4, and they’re picking Bobby Thomson up and carrying him off the field. 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 leftfield stands, and the whole place is going crazy!”

NOTE: This broadcast moment is one of the greatest broadcasts ever aired on radio or television. And That's the Way it Was, October 3rd, 1951. 

This remastered 34-minute retrospective was remastered by Phil Gries. It is the most complete audio extant and available representing this radio broadcast with best possible sound created. 
                                                                                    

ATA #13222B is a six minute excerpt edited from the ATA #13222A TV Audio Air Check, outlined below.  It contains ONLY the ninth inning, as announced by Bob Delaney, which includes  a  rare retrospective  TV broadcast audio description of Willie Mays' last at bat, in the Polo Grounds, as a New York Giant.


ATA#13222A
The final New York Giant Baseball Game played in New York at the Polo Grounds by the New York Giant baseball team. 

The Giants moved into the Polo Grounds in 1891. After today's final game they will be leaving many memories, mourners and an empty baseball park behind. 

Radio came to the Giants in 1939. Television's first full season came in 1948. Steve Ellis called the shots that first TV season over the NBC network. In 1949 WPIX, with Russ Hodges and Al Helfer, at the mikes took over the telecasting, providing memorable play by play moments including those by Willie Mays and the most audacious New York Giant recording of them all, by Hodges, of the National League Winning home run by Bobby Thomson in 1951. 

In what is considered the only known WPIX TV video or audio opening of a regularly scheduled New York Giant game we hear the theme music and opening by broadcaster, in the booth, Jim Woods, who reminds the viewers that the ballgame is coming to them by Knickerbocker Beer and Pall Mall cigarettes. We hear George Levy New York Giant public address announcer naming today's line-up in the background.

Announcer, Jim Woods, states that manager Bill Rigney wants to pack the Giant line-up with as many 1954 New York Giant players as possible, including catcher Wes Westrum who hasn't started a game in quite some time.
 
NEW YORK GIANTS STARTING LINE-UP

1B - Danny O'Connell 
RF - Don Mueller
CF - Willie Mays
LF - Dusty Rhodes

3B - Bobby Thomson (traded by the Giants in 1954 and returning 
     for one more half season in 1957)

1B - Whitey Lockman
SS - Daryl Spencer
C -  Wes Westrum
P - Johnny Antonelli



After announcing the first lead off hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates we segue to the bottom of the ninth inning, Giants losing 9 to 1. Bob Delaney does play by play. Don Meuller flies out. Willie Mays gets a resounding standing ovation (banging on the roof of the Giant dugout can be heard. Willie makes out ending his 1957 season with a .333 batting average. The final New York Giant out at the Polo Grounds is made by Dusty Rhodes. 

NOTE: In 2014 a version of this tape was presented in person by Phil Gries to the daughter of Dusty Rhodes and to a friend of Willie Mays, to be given to him. 

We hear announcer Russ Hodges, from the center field New York Giant clubhouse reminiscing about past Giant teams who played at the Polo Grounds (1942, 1944, 1946, 1951, 1954).
Giant fans surround him and chant "Stay team stay." 

Hodges interviews manager Bill Rigney from his New York Giant Clubhouse Office. He states that today is a sad day.
He discuses plans for managing the 1958 San Francisco Giants. 

Russ Hodges interviews former NY Giant players, including Hans Lobert who began his baseball career in 1903 playing for the Giants from 1915-1917, Red Murray who played with the Giants from 1909-1914, Sid Gordon who retired as a Giant during the middle of last season, Buddy Kerr great  short stop for the New York Giants over a period of six years during the 1940's, and Eddie Brannick who joined the New York Giant organization in 1905 as an office boy working his way up to Club Secretary / Office manager, remaining with the club for a total of 65 years. 

Russ Hodges becomes poetic reading a verse he has written about the departure of the New York Giants form New York. 

Russ Hodges and Bob Delaney sign off. 
THE END OF AN ERA
                                                                                                                                               

  The final New York Giant Baseball Game played in New York at the Polo Grounds by the New York Giant baseball team. 

The Giants moved into the Polo Grounds in 1891. After today's final game they will be leaving many memories, mourners and an empty baseball park behind. 

Radio came to the Giants in 1939. Television's first full season came in 1948. Steve Ellis called the shots that first TV season over the NBC network. In 1949 WPIX, with Russ Hodges and Al Helfer, at the mikes took over the telecasting, providing memorable play by play moments including those by Willie Mays and the most audacious New York Giant recording of them all, by Hodges, of the National League Winning home run by Bobby Thomson in 1951. 

In what is considered the only known WPIX TV video or audio opening of a regularly scheduled New York Giant game we hear the theme music and opening by broadcaster, in the booth, Jim Woods, who reminds the viewers that the ballgame is coming to them by Knickerbocker Beer and Pall Mall cigarettes. We hear George Levy New York Giant public address announcer naming today's line-up in the background.

Announcer, Jim Woods, states that manager Bill Rigney wants to pack the Giant line-up with as many 1954 New York Giant players as possible, including catcher Wes Westrum who hasn't started a game in quite some time.
 
NEW YORK GIANTS STARTING LINE-UP

1B - Danny O'Connell 
RF - Don Mueller
CF - Willie Mays
LF - Dusty Rhodes

3B - Bobby Thomson (traded by the Giants in 1954 and returning 
     for one more half season in 1957)

1B - Whitey Lockman
SS - Daryl Spencer
C -  Wes Westrum
P - Johnny Antonelli



After announcing the first lead off hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates we segue to the bottom of the ninth inning, Giants losing 9 to 1. Bob Delaney does play by play. Don Meuller flies out. Willie Mays gets a resounding standing ovation (banging on the roof of the Giant dugout can be heard. Willie makes out ending his 1957 season with a .333 batting average. The final New York Giant out at the Polo Grounds is made by Dusty Rhodes. 

NOTE: In 2014 a version of this tape was presented in person by Phil Gries to the daughter of Dusty Rhodes and to a friend of Willie Mays, to be given to him. 

We hear announcer Russ Hodges, from the center field New York Giant clubhouse reminiscing about past Giant teams who played at the Polo Grounds (1942, 1944, 1946, 1951, 1954).
Giant fans surround him and chant "Stay team stay." 

Hodges interviews manager Bill Rigney from his New York Giant Clubhouse Office. He states that today is a sad day.
He discuses plans for managing the 1958 San Francisco Giants. 

Russ Hodges interviews former NY Giant players, including Hans Lobert who began his baseball career in 1903 playing for the Giants from 1915-1917, Red Murray who played with the Giants from 1909-1914, Sid Gordon who retired as a Giant during the middle of last season, Buddy Kerr great  short stop for the New York Giants over a period of six years during the 1940's, and Eddie Brannick who joined the New York Giant organization in 1905 as an office boy working his way up to Club Secretary / Office manager, remaining with the club for a total of 65 years. 

Russ Hodges becomes poetic reading a verse he has written about the departure of the New York Giants form New York. 

Russ Hodges and Bob Delaney sign off. 
THE END OF AN ERA

Duplicate of #11075. 
                                                                                                        

  The final New York Giant Baseball Game played in New York at the Polo Grounds by the New York Giant baseball team. 

The Giants moved into the Polo Grounds in 1891. After today's final game they will be leaving many memories, mourners and an empty baseball park behind. 

Radio came to the Giants in 1939. Television's first full season came in 1948. Steve Ellis called the shots that first TV season over the NBC network. In 1949 WPIX, with Russ Hodges and Al Helfer, at the mikes took over the telecasting, providing memorable play by play moments including those by Willie Mays and the most audacious New York Giant recording of them all, by Hodges, of the National League Winning home run by Bobby Thomson in 1951. 

In what is considered the only known WPIX TV video or audio opening of a regularly scheduled New York Giant game we hear the theme music and opening by broadcaster, in the booth, Jim Woods, who reminds the viewers that the ballgame is coming to them by Knickerbocker Beer and Pall Mall cigarettes. We hear George Levy New York Giant public address announcer naming today's line-up in the background.

Announcer, Jim Woods, states that manager Bill Rigney wants to pack the Giant line-up with as many 1954 New York Giant players as possible, including catcher Wes Westrum who hasn't started a game in quite some time.
 
NEW YORK GIANTS STARTING LINE-UP

1B - Danny O'Connell 
RF - Don Mueller
CF - Willie Mays
LF - Dusty Rhodes

3B - Bobby Thomson (traded by the Giants in 1954 and returning 
     for one more half season in 1957)

1B - Whitey Lockman
SS - Daryl Spencer
C -  Wes Westrum
P - Johnny Antonelli



After announcing the first lead off hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates we segue to the bottom of the ninth inning, Giants losing 9 to 1. Bob Delaney does play by play. Don Meuller flies out. Willie Mays gets a resounding standing ovation (banging on the roof of the Giant dugout can be heard. Willie makes out ending his 1957 season with a .333 batting average. The final New York Giant out at the Polo Grounds is made by Dusty Rhodes. 

NOTE: In 2014 a version of this tape was presented in person by Phil Gries to the daughter of Dusty Rhodes and to a friend of Willie Mays, to be given to him. 

We hear announcer Russ Hodges, from the center field New York Giant clubhouse reminiscing about past Giant teams who played at the Polo Grounds (1942, 1944, 1946, 1951, 1954).
Giant fans surround him and chant "Stay team stay." 

Hodges interviews manager Bill Rigney from his New York Giant Clubhouse Office. He states that today is a sad day.
He discuses plans for managing the 1958 San Francisco Giants. 

Russ Hodges interviews former NY Giant players, including Hans Lobert who began his baseball career in 1903 playing for the Giants from 1915-1917, Red Murray who played with the Giants from 1909-1914, Sid Gordon who retired as a Giant during the middle of last season, Buddy Kerr great  short stop for the New York Giants over a period of six years during the 1940's, and Eddie Brannick who joined the New York Giant organization in 1905 as an office boy working his way up to Club Secretary / Office manager, remaining with the club for a total of 65 years. 

Russ Hodges becomes poetic reading a verse he has written about the departure of the New York Giants form New York. 

Russ Hodges and Bob Delaney sign off. 
THE END OF AN ERA

Duplicate of #13222A. 
                                                                                                        

Live radio coverage of the 1959 National Football League Championship Game between the Eastern division champions the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, the champions of the Western division. The Colts defeated the Giants 31-16 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore for their second straight NFL title and their second straight title win over the Giants. Van Patrick calls the play-by-play.            

Live radio coverage of the 1960 NFL championship game between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles broadcast from Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The Eagles captured the NFL crown with a 17-13 win over the Packers. Eagles middle linebacker Chuck Bednarik tackled Packer fullback Jim Taylor on the Eagles ten-yard line on the final play of the game, saving the victory for Philadelphia. Jack Whittaker and Blaine Walsh call the play-by-play.

Please note: 5 1/2 minutes and the Eagles winning 4th quarter touchdown is missing.                          

From Tiger Stadium in Detroit, the NEW YORK YANKEES vs the DETROIT TIGERS in a seven hour game lasting 22 innings. Television Broadcast on WPIX Channel 11 in New York, beginning at 2:30pm.
Announcers are Mel Allen and Phil Rizzuto.

On June 24, 1962, the Bombers and Detroit Tigers took part in the longest game in franchise history (exactly seven hours) at Tiger Stadium in front of a crowd of 35,368.

Yankees’ right fielder Jack Reed’s two-run home run off Phil Regan in the 22nd inning ended up deciding the contest, but not after a ton of at-bats, pitches and whatever else could be shoved into seven hours of a baseball game.

Both teams combined for 191 plate appearances, 39 hits and absolutely no runs scored from the seventh inning until Reed’s home run. New York’s reliever Jim Bouton came in clutch in relief, as he allowed just three hits seven scoreless innings to earn the win.

After the New York Yankees scored six runs in the first inning and one run in the second inning they would continue playing for an additional twenty innings scoring two runs in the top of the 22nd inning, beating the Detroit Tigers 9 to 7. 

This rare television audio air check is picked up in the 15th inning and continues to conclusion. To date it is the longest, length of time, New York Yankee regular scheduled game in franchise history (7:00 hours) and in Major league history during a single game played the same day. 

Detroit's Rocky Colavito goes 7 for 10. To this day he is only the sixth player to achieve severn of more hits in a Major League baseball game. 

INTERESTING ARTICLE DESCRIBING THIS MOST UNUSUAL HISTORIC GAME. 

June 24, 1962: "Yankees outlast Tigers in 22-inning game."
This article was written by John Milner

When the fans at Tiger Stadium settled into their seats for a game between the Yankees and Tigers on June 24, 1962, little did they know that history was about to take place at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. The two teams, having played a doubleheader the day before, were looking to finish up the series and move on to their next opponents. The matinee contest turned into a grueling seven-hour marathon.

Both clubs were off to fairly slow early-season starts after having accumulated over 100 wins each in 1961. The Tigers’ starting pitcher was Frank Lary, coming off a 23-win campaign. Unexpectedly, in the top of the first, the Yankees plated six runs off Lary to jump ahead. The Tigers countered with three in the bottom of the inning, knocking out Yankees starter Bob Turley in the process. Lary ended up being taken out for a pinch-hitter in the second inning after the Yankees added their seventh run, so by the third inning both teams’ bullpens were starting what would be a long day.

In the bottom of the third inning, the Bengals scored three runs to tighten the gap. The appearance of a high-scoring game after three innings would be deceptive as the two teams’ bullpens settled in and went to work. For the rest of the regulation nine innings, the only mark made by either team was a run scored by Bill Bruton on a single by Rocky Colavito that knotted the score at 7-7 after six innings. Both teams had opportunities but could not capitalize on them prior to extra innings. The Yankees loaded the bases in the fourth and seventh innings, but could muster only groundballs to the pitcher both times. The Tigers were able to get a runner to third base in the fourth inning, but couldn’t get him across the plate.

Once the game went to extra innings, both teams had chances to put an end to the affair. In the 10th, Detroit had runners on first and third but couldn’t cash in. The 11th frame brought the Tigers maybe their best opportunity to end the game. Colavito’s third hit, a triple, led off. The Yankees intentionally walked the next two batters to load the bases with nobody out. Chico Fernandez’s line drive found its way into the left fielder’s glove for the first out. Dick Brown then attempted a bunt, but the ploy turned into a double play to end the inning with the score still 7-7.

Colavito commented, “The thing that annoyed me was that I led off the 10th inning with a triple off the 415-foot sign in left-center, but we couldn’t score. I was so frustrated because we should’ve won the damned game right then.”1

In the 15th inning the New Yorkers got a single by Tom Tresh, who then stole second base and advanced to third on a wild pitch, but was ultimately stranded. In the home half, Detroit put two runners on, but was unable to push a run across.

As the bullpens began to dominate for both teams, opportunities to score were few and far between. Standouts for the Tigers were Hank Aguirre, who pitched five-plus innings of scoreless relief, and Terry Fox, who threw eight innings without allowing a run. The Yankees countered with Tex Clevenger throwing six-plus innings with no runs and 23-year-old Jim Bouton, who finished off the game by throwing seven shutout frames.

The Tigers got a runner to third base in the 20th inning, but to no avail.

Finally, Detroit was basically reaching for anybody that could hold a baseball. To start the 22nd inning, the Tigers brought in Phil Regan, their sixth relief pitcher of the game. He had pitched the day before until he was knocked out after three innings and eight runs.

It didn’t take Regan long to put the Tigers’ chances of winning in jeopardy. A one-out walk to Roger Maris was followed by a two-run homer by Jack Reed to put the Yankees up 9-7. In the last gasp for the Tigers, they could not muster much of a threat. Colavito, who got his seventh hit, a single, was the only baserunner in the 22nd inning off Bouton, who collected the win.

When left fielder Johnny Blanchard caught the final out off the bat of Norm Cash, the game time read 6 hours and 59 minutes, but Joe Falls, the official scorer, listed it as seven hours. “I figured, who will ever remember 6:59 as the longest game in baseball history, so I shouted out the time, ‘seven hours.’ ” The game ended up being the longest by time in major-league history. Before this game the longest had been a 5-hour 20-minute game between the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940.

The Tiger Stadium concession stands sold 32,000 hot dogs and 41,000 bottles of beer before closing early under Michigan labor laws. Yogi Berra caught all 316 pitches the Yankees’ pitchers threw, while Colavito ended up with seven hits in 10 at-bats. In true Yogi fashion, his responses to questions regarding the game posed by a SABR biographer in 2010 were short and to the point. When asked how he felt after catching 22 innings, Berra’s response was “tired.”3 Asked about Reed’s home run, he said, “Good timing. Glad he hit it.”

The crowd was listed at 35,368 when the game began, and almost half of the faithful were still there to the end. New York was held scoreless for 19 innings in a row from the third inning to the 22nd, but still collected the win.

It turned into a very long weekend for both teams considering that they had played a day-night doubleheader the day before, and then played the last game of the five-game series on Monday afternoon.

The teams used 43 players total in Sunday’s game. “I pitched in that game,” said Jim Coates. “Hell, all of us pitched in that game. It was a long, long, long ballgame.” Rollie Sheldon commented, “There were far more players in the clubhouse than there were in the dugout. We’d consumed all the beer and they had to send out for more.” Yankees reliever Luis Arroyo was one of the few not to enter the game but he must have felt as though he had been involved. Arroyo warmed up in the bullpen on 11 different occasions and, by his own estimate, threw nearly 300 pitches.

The hero for the Yankees, Jack Reed, is an interesting story in itself. The 29-year-old journeyman was a third-string outfielder behind Mickey Mantle and Joe Pepitone and didn’t get into the game until the 13th inning. “I knew if I ever hit a home run this would be it. It felt good. It was a fastball down and low.” The game-winning home run was the only one he hit in the major leagues. Reed said of his home run, “I really thought it would be a double. I didn’t look up, but I knew I hit it good. I didn’t have the kind of power where I could stand there and watch it. I was one of those guys that had ‘warning track power.’ By the time I got to second base, the umpire was telling me it was a home run.” 
 

Sandy Koufax throws his first no-hitter on June 30, 1962 against the New York Mets who are playing in their first major league season.

Mets announcer Bob Murphy calls the play beginning from the 8th inning to conclusion. 

Undefeated Evansville college 29-0 meets Southern Illinois in the 1965 NCAA Division 11 college basketball tournament.  

Introductions heard. Tape is incomplete, ending with 10:19 remaining and Southern Illinois leading 61-55.                      

The latest news and sports.             

The UCLA Bruins meet the Houston Cougars in the 1968 NCAA basketball tournament. The Bruins behind Kareem Abdul Jabbar's 38 points crush the Cougars 101-69. Lucius Allen had 35 points and Mike Warren 33. 

Bill Fleming and Frank Sims call the action from Memorial Sports Arena, in Los Angeles, California, before a crowd of 15,442. 

Includes commercials.                                                 

The New York Mets defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 to win their first ever National League Eastern Division title.
Gary Gentry defeats Steve Carleton for the division clincher. 

Sep 26, 1972 — New York Mets beat St. Louis Cardinals (3-1). 
Attendance: 7885, Time of Game: 2:13.

FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT. 


Jerry Koosman retires the first fifteen Cardinal hitters and brings a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and his second time this season striking out double figures. Joe Torre gets the first St. Louis hit, breaking up the no-hit bid. Koosman goes on to win his 10th game of the season as the New York Mets defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 at Busch Stadium. Jim Bibby is the losing pitcher for St. LOUIS. The Cardinals one run came via a four bagger from Ted Simmons.

Announcers are Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner, and Lindsey Nelson. 

Mentioned during the game, Hank Aaron just hit his 671st Home Run of his career tonight, and Johnny Bench just hit his 39th HR now leading the major leagues. 

Aired on WKAJ Radio.

NOTE: 
 Among those well recognized voices we hear are from Pee Wee Reese, Milton Berle, Shirley Jones, New York Knicks, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, Jack Lemmon, George Burns and E.J. Marshal for their representative sponsors. 

Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, and Bill White do the play by play.

Detroit Tigers 6, New York Yankees 5
Game Played on Wednesday, September 27, 1972 (Night game) at Tiger Stadium
Yankees      3  0  2    0  0  0    0  0  0  -   5 10  0
Tigers       0  0  1    0  0  0    0  3  2  -   6 12  1
 
Sparky Lyle, who leads the major leagues in saves with 35, suffered one of his rare failures in relief when the Tigers came from behind to defeat the Yankees 6-5. The Yankees scored three runs on a homer by Johnny Callison in the first inning and added two on a single by Bobby Murcer in the third.

Trailing, 5-1, the Tigers began their rally in the eighth with a run on singles by Willie Horton, Al Kaline and Duke Sims to kayo Steve Kline. Frank Howard, pinch-hitting, greeted Lyle's arrival with a run-scoring single and, after a walk, Mickey Stanley hit a sacrifice fly to make it 5-4. In the ninth, Ed Brinkman and Horton singled and Tony Taylor was safe on a bunt that the Yankees let roll. Kaline came through with a sacrifice fly to tie the score and Sims followed with a single to drive in the winning run.

Thursday, September 28, 1972
Start Time: 8:04 p.m. Local
Attendance: 21,185
Venue: Tiger Stadium
Game Duration: 3:31


Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, and Bill White are the announcers as the New York Yankees win 3 runs to 2 over the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings.

Three notable homeruns by Yankee's Thurman Munson, Yankee pitcher Lindy McDaniel, and Roy White provide a win and opportunity for New York not to be eliminated from playoff contention. 

NOTE:
In the top of the eighth inning there is a brief missing gap of audio which does not include John Ellis' complete at bat, or includes the following batter, Rusty Torres at bat. The sound track picks up after 1 & 2 count to Ellis with Celarino Sanchez at bat with a count of 0 & 2. 

The New York Mets play the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. Roberto Clemente gets his 3,000th and final major league base hit, a fourth inning double off of Mets pitcher Jon Matlock. Final Score: Pirates 5, Mets 0. 

Seven & half innings are only broadcast, but no scoring innings are missed, and only one hit by Willie Sargell in the bottom of the 8th inning is not aired / recorded.  The game is broadcast on WKAJ 102.3 FM radio from Saratoga Springs New York.

All commercials recorded including spots with George Burns, Lee Trevino, and Bing Crosby chairman of the Arthritis Foundation, which were filmed by DP Phil Gries (creator & owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc.)
 
NOTE: Original broadcast transmitted with a slight hum (commercials and station identifications have no hum). After the top of the eight inning an announcer interrupts the broadcast and states that "we are experiencing technical difficulties." Music is played at which point this audio air check concludes.

NOTE: 
This audio air check is the only broadcast record, known to date, of this historic game. 

IN RETROSPECT:
On September 30, 1972, Roberto Clemente stepped to the plate in the fourth inning of a game against the Mets. Little was at stake for the Pirates, as they'd already clinched the NL East title. But history was at hand for the 38-year-old right fielder, who sat at 2,999 hits.

He had struck out in the first inning, but he wouldn't be denied in his second at-bat -- he doubled, becoming the 11th MLB player, and first Latino, to reach the 3,000-hit milestone. 1960 World Series hero Bill Mazeroski (also playing in his final season) pinch hit for Clemente the next time his spot came up in the order. Although he briefly played in the field three days later, as well as throughout that year's NLCS against the Reds, Clemente would never make another regular season plate appearance.

He died in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico on New Year's Eve 1972, attempting to bring emergency supplies to Nicaragua, which had recently been ravaged by a major earthquake. His influence as a pioneering Latino, a humanitarian and an outstanding baseball player was recognized in his time as much as it is today -- he the second player in history (after Lou Gehrig) to have the five-year Hall of Fame induction waiting period waived.                                     

The New York Mets defeat the Montreal Expos 4-3 in 12 innings in the second game of a doubleheader from Jarry Park in Montreal. Danny Frisella defeats the Expos' Tom Walker. Ken Boswell collects four hits and drives in three runs, leading the Mets offense. Announcers are Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner and Lindsey Nelson.

NOTE: Game is picked up in the top of the second inning. Tape runs out with Montreal Expos Bob Bailey at bat in the bottom of the 12th inning. 
 This rare audio air check was originally audio recorded by Pat Rispole and is not in the John Miley Collection. It was acquired by Phil Gries indirectly in 1997. 

Tuesday, October 3, 1972
Attendance: 10,767
Venue: Parc Jarry
Game Duration: 3:29
Night Game, on grass
Second game of doubleheader.

 	
WP: Danny Frisella (5-8) • LP: Tom Walker (2-2) • SV: Tug McGraw (26)
New York Mets 

The New York Mets defeat the Montreal Expos 3-1 at Jarry Park in Montreal as the 1972 regular season comes to a close. The Mets score all three of their runs in the sixth inning led by Jim Beauchamp's two run home run, his 5th of the season. Jon Matlock picks up his 15th win of the season. Balor Moore is the losing pitcher for the Expos. Announcers are Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner, and Lindsey Nelson.

This is the final game of the Mets 1972 Season in which they have one the second most games in a season's franchise history.
Complete opening, Mets sign on Music, and closing with wrap up the game and 1972 season.
 
Commercials include Bing Crosby chairman for the Arthritis National Campaign...commercials filmed in California in 1972 by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc.  

Special on Jackie Robinson who died October 24th.       

NBC NEWS of New York Mets win the National League championship in game five, 7 to 2 beating the Cincinnati Reds. Recap of the game is heard highlighting stars of the game, Tom Seaver, Ed Kranepool and Willie Mays. 
Jim Simpson calls the final out from the NBC-TV broadcast. Tom Seaver is interviewed in the Mets locker room. 

  The Buffalo Sabres, led by Rick Martin and Jerry Korab, face the  Soviet Wings, and Russian goal tender, Aleksandr Sidelnikov, at Memorial Auditorium, in Buffalo New York, in the first National Hockey League game of an eight game exhibition series. The competition series has eight NHL teams taking on two  Soviet world  Championship class teams (Central Army and Soviet Wings). Marv Albert calls the action as the Sabres beat the Wings 12 to 6.  
Included are sponsor commercials (Hertz, Miller Beer, Sony).                                                   

A review of the NFC playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings played on December 28th, 1975, won by the Cowboys, 17-14.  

Player of the week, Drew Pearson.                                      

A preview of the 1976 NFC playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams. Brent Musberger, Phyllis George, and Irv Cross are the commentators.           

Highlights of the 1972 divisional playoffs. Pittsburgh vs. Miami for the AFC championship and Dallas vs. Washington for the NFC crown.

Ben Gazzara is the series host. Past Super Bowls, conference championship, and divisional playoff games are highlighted. 

            

Series host Paul Burke looks back at the 1973 NFC championship game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys won by the Vikings 27-10.            

On the air at 11:15 PM, an early Home Box Office cable network sports presentation. The Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Phoenix Suns  139-111. The Bucks all-time highest score. HBO signs off for this broadcast day.

Announcers are Dick Stockton, Brent Musberger, and Bob Cousy. 
Bob Cousy interviews K.C. Jones            

Bart Starr begins his third season as head coach of the Green Bay Packers as they meet the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a pre-season game.            

The Chicago Bears play the Houston Oilers in a pre-season football game at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.                         

The Miami Dolphins meet the Dallas Cowboys in an NFL Pre-Season game.            

The Chicago Bears play the Cleveland Browns in an NFL pre-season football game at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.            

On September 21, 1970, ABC launched Monday Night Football as a regular series during the football season. Elaborately packaged with flashy graphics and entertaining commentary, Monday Night Football brought sports programming to a mainstream prime-time audience that included more than just sports fans.


The Oakland Raiders defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 37-28 in a Monday Night football game in Kansas City, Missouri. Howard Cosell, Don Meredith, and Frank Gifford call the action. 


The Kansas City Chiefs lose to the Oakland Raiders, 37 to 28, on October 3, 1977.

Final
OAK
Raiders
3-0-0

37
KC
Chiefs
0-3-0


Summary
Team Stats
Player Stats
1st quarter

OAK

KC

Raiders
Fred Biletnikoff 21-yard pass from Ken Stabler (Errol Mann kick)

7

0

2nd quarter

OAK

KC

Raiders
Errol Mann 42-yard field goal

10

0

Chiefs
Walter White 48-yard pass from Mike Livingston (Jan Stenerud kick)

10

7

Chiefs
Walter White 1-yard pass from Mike Livingston (Jan Stenerud kick)

10

14

Chiefs
Henry Marshall 41-yard pass from Mike Livingston (Jan Stenerud kick)

10

21

Raiders
Errol Mann 34-yard field goal

13

21

3rd quarter

OAK

KC

Raiders
Pete Banaszak 1-yard run (Errol Mann kick)

20

21

Raiders
Clarence Davis 37-yard run (Errol Mann kick)

27

21

Raiders
Clarence Davis 2-yard run (Errol Mann kick)

34

21

4th quarter

OAK

KC

Chiefs
Lawrence Williams 13-yard run (Jan Stenerud kick)

34

28

Raiders
Errol Mann 22-yard field goal

37

28
                                                

Live radio coverage of the Dallas Cowboys vs. St. Louis Cardinals football game. The Cowboys defeated the Cardinals 30-24 in St.Louis for their 4th straight victory of the 1977 season. Tony Roberts and Pat Sherman call the play-by-play.        

The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New York Giants 28-10 in New York. Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire report.           

A preview of the day's games in the NFL. Brent Musberger, Phyllis George, Irv Cross, and Pete Rose report.                      

A preview of the Thanksgiving Day football games with Brent Musberger, Phyllis George, Irv Cross, and Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder.          

The Chicago Bears defeated the Detroit Lions 31-14 in the annual Thanksgiving Day football game in Detroit. Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire report.  

 Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions 31 to 14
Thursday, November 24, 1977, Week 11
The Chicago Bears played the Detroit Lions in Pontiac on Thursday, November 24, 1977, Week 11 of the 1977 season. The Bears won by a score of 31-14. The Bears swept the Lions for the 1977 season.

Chicago Bears offense
Total yards	Pass yards	Rush yards	Turnovers	First downs
425	253	172	5	18
Coaches
Head Coach: Jack Pardee Offensive Coordinator: Sid Gillman Offensive Line Coach: Ray Callahan Tight Ends Coach: John Hilton Offensive Backfield Coach: Fred O'Connor Special Assistant to the Head Coach: Bob Bowser General Manager: Jim Finks

Detroit Lions offense
Total yards	Pass yards	Rush yards	Turnovers	First downs
218	150	68	3	15
Coaches
Head Coach: Tommy Hudspeth Offensive Coordinator: Ed Hughes Defensive Coordinator: Fritz Shurmur Quarterbacks Coach: Ed Hughes Wide Receivers Coach: Bill Belichick, Ed Hughes Offensive Line Coach: John Payne Tight Ends Coach: Bill Belichick Offensive Backfield Coach: Wally English Defensive Line Coach: Fritz Shurmur Linebackers Coach: Rollie Dotsch Defensive Backfield Coach: Burnie Miller Special Teams Coach: Floyd Reese Special Teams Assistant Coach: Bill Belichick Strength and Conditioning Coach: Floyd Reese General Manager: Russ Thomas Head Trainer: Kent Falb
                                   

The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the New York Jets 23-20 at Shea Stadium in New York City. Jim Simpson and Merlin Olson report.           

The Ysnkees play the Orioles at Memorial Stadium. Yankees win 4-3. Reggie Jackson hits his 31st homer.