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#5905C: BROOKLYN DODGERS VS NEW YORK GIANTS BASEBALL GAME (1950)

1950-04-22, MGM, min.

       Brooklyn Dodgers - 7 New York Giants 6  
From Ebbets Field the fourth game of the 1950 season, and the first regularly scheduled Brooklyn Dodger game to be Nationally broadcast.
Highlights include first Black Pitcher in Major League history, Dan Bankhead, starting the game for the Brooklyn Dodgers who hits a double in his first time at bat. Gil Hodges hits a home-run. 

Calling the play by play on this radio broadcast are Red Barber and Connie Desmond.

#10681: BASEBALL SPECIAL: POST-GAME INTERVIEWS FOLLOWING DODGER-GIANT GAME 3 1951 PLAYOFF GAME.

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1951-10-03, WNBC, min.

Today's Headlines: Final playoff game between the Giants and Dodgers for the National League pennant. Giants win 5-4 on Bobby Thomson's dramatic three-run home run into the left field stands off of Dodger reliever Ralph Branca. Hysterical Giants announcer Russ Hodges, broadcasting the game on WMCA radio in New York City, screams "The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant" over and over again. 
Dressing room interviews with Bobby Thomson, Eddie Stankey, Ralph Branca, Leo Durocher, and Roy Campanella.

#10990: NBC RADIO NEWS

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1951-10-03, WNBC, 4 min.

NBC RADIO NEWS originally WEAF in New York City beginning in 1926 was renamed WNBC in 1946, renamed WRCA in 1954, and again remaned WNBC in 1960.

A daily five minute News Report with Merrill Mueller and at times with David Anderson substituting.

Contained in this news report, the latest events related to our involvement in Korea. Also of note the following report only two hours prior to what is considered a most iconic baseball game highlight to occur in baseball history.

David Anderson substituting for Merrill Mueller reports:

"A different more pleasant kind of warfare opens in New York in just a few hours when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants settle the National League Championship. The winner will meet the New York Yankees in the World Series opener, tomorrow. With so much at stake, both clubs will start their ace pitchers. Sal Maglie will be on the mound for the Giants and Don Newcombe will go for the Dodgers. Both of them have an enviable record in their inner-city rivalry. Maglie has beaten the Dodgers five out of six times this season, while Newcombe has beaten the Giants five out of seven. The weatherman promises fair, warm weather for the season clincher with temperatures in the low 80's. Once again NBC TV will carry the play-off game direct from New York.
A disappointing 38,000 fans were on hand for the game yesterday but a sell-out crowd of 50,000 is expected today. Fans began lining up for tickets by midnight last night and by dawn some 100 ardent supporters were already on hand."

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The New York Giants defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4 in game 3 of their National League playoff series to decide the National League pennant. Bobby Thomson hit a three-run home run into the left field stands off Dodger reliever Ralph Branca to win the game for the Giants 5-4 at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

#5905B: BROOKLYN DODGERS VS NEW YORK GIANTS BASEBALL PLAYOFF GAME 3 (1951)

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1951-10-03, WCFL, 132 min.

The Liberty Network, WCFL, Chicago aircheck. 
The National League Championship game number three,  that included the famous game-ending home run by Bobby Thompson ("The Shot Heard Round the World"). 

This radio broadcast is actually a re-creation, using data about the game sent in by wire. The announcer is Gordon McLendon, who owned the Liberty Network.

#645: POLO GROUNDS: REQUIEM FOR AN ARENA, THE

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1964-04-15, WABC, 52 min.

Horace McMahon narrates this special review of the history of the Polo Grounds. Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, Willie Mays, boxing champs Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson, Ken Strong, Arthur Daly, Frankie Frisch, Leo Durocher, Jack Dempsey and Carl Hubbel review the fabulous past of the Polo Grounds, a great arena where everything but Polo was played. Produced by Howard Cosell.  

   The Polo Grounds : requiem for an arena / a Howard Cosell production in association with WABC-TV ; producer, Howard Cosell ; director, Lou Volpicelli ; writers, Howard Huckner, Jack O'Grady.
 
Summary:  A look at the history of New York City's famed Polo Grounds, which is facing the wrecking ball very shortly. Featured are comments by sports greats Frankie Frisch, Jack Dempsey, "Sleepy" Jim Crowley, Carl Hubbell, Ken Strong, Leo Durocher, Willie Mays, Bobby Thompson, Ralph Branca, and Floyd Patterson. Also, New York Times sports columnist Arthur Daley (who comments on what happened on December 7, 1941), William Shea (the man who Shea Stadium is named after), and Polo Grounds security guard Adolphus Freeman.

#816: CBS NEWS SPECIAL: THE DEATH OF JACKIE ROBINSON

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1972-10-24, WCBS, 30 min.

Jim Jensen anchors and Heywood Hale Broun reports this special tribute. Reflections from Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson's son David Robinson, Red Barber, Carl Erskine, Ralph Branca, Joe Black, Roger Kahn and Branch Rickey.

#18738: THIS WAS A MAN: JACKIE ROBINSON

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1972-10-27, ABC, 21 min.

  A Special Report about Jackie Robinson by Howard Cosell on the day of Robinson's funeral (October 27, 1972).

Admiration of Brooklyn Dodger baseball player (1947-1956), on and off the field, by the people who knew him and admired him. This ABC TV Special is joined in progress. There are reminiscences by Ralph Branca, and  Bobby Bragan, teammates of Robinson in 1947...challenges for Jackie during his rookie year when he first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 
Other reflections are espoused by Buzzie Bavasi, Bill Veeck, Hank Aaron, Martin Stone, who was Jackie Robinson's attorney, Marian Logan, who worked with Jackie Robinson, basketball great Bill Russell, and eldest son of Jackie Robinson, David Robinson. 
 
At the funeral of Robinson, Jesse Jackson talks to Howard Cosell about the eulogy he just delivered.

Another segment included is an interview Howard Cosell had with Jackie Robinson as both were leaving the funeral of Gil Hodges (April 1972). Jackie looks back at his past and reflects on his life and career, including the tragic recent loss of his son Jackie Robinson Jr. 

NOTE: This SPECIAL Jackie Robinson tribute report produced by Howard Cosell is not only lost to history as a television broadcast, in any form, it is little known/remembered to even archivists that it ever was broadcast.

#832: THE WAY IT WAS: 1951 PLAYOFFS, THE

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1974-09-00, WNET, 11 min.

Host Curt Gowdy reminisces with Ernie Harwell, Leo Durocher, Ralph Branca, Don Newcombe, Willie Mays, Duke Snider and Bobby Thomson, who hit the home run heard around the world as the N.Y. Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1951 Playoffs. Also heard is Russ Hodges' live play-by-play of that memorable moment, tape-recorded by a fan from the radio broadcast.

#9844: THE WAY IT WAS

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1974-10-03, SYN, 30 min.

October 3rd, 1974-May 14th, 1977

A half-hour syndicated PBS series sports nostalgia show hosted by Curt Gowdy. Guest athletes view film clips of famous sporting events and reminisce.

A look back at the 1951 National League playoff and pennant race between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Host: Curt Gowdy.

One in this series of sports nostalgia programs that chronicles notable sports events and profiles outstanding athletes. This program concentrates on the 1951 National League pennant race between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, which was decided in a best of three play-off series. With Ralph Branca pitching for the Dodgers, Bobby Thomson hit the winning home run of the series in the Giants's final inning at bat, and the hit came to be known as "the shot heard round the world." Guests include centerfielder Willie Mays, third baseman Thomson, and manager Leo Durocher, all of the Giants; centerfielder Duke Snider, and pitchers Branca and Don Newcombe, all of the Dodgers; and baseball announcer Ernie Harwell. Topics discussed include the Giant's eleven-game losing streak; Duroucher's attempts to resuscitate the team, including a major league promotion for promising young centerfielder Mays; and the fact that, despite sixteen victories in a row, the Giants were still trailing the Dodgers by six games in mid-September before securing a tie. Guests from both teams and host Curt Gowdy discuss the three-game playoff during footage of key moments. Footage of Thomson's fateful home run on October 3 is accompanied by broadcaster Russ Hodges's famous call, "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"

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#5905C: BROOKLYN DODGERS VS NEW YORK GIANTS BASEBALL GAME (1950)

1950-04-22, MGM, min.

#10681: BASEBALL SPECIAL: POST-GAME INTERVIEWS FOLLOWING DODGER-GIANT GAME 3 1951 PLAYOFF GAME.

1951-10-03, WNBC, min.

#10990: NBC RADIO NEWS

1951-10-03, WNBC, 4 min.

#5905B: BROOKLYN DODGERS VS NEW YORK GIANTS BASEBALL PLAYOFF GAME 3 (1951)

1951-10-03, WCFL, 132 min.

#645: POLO GROUNDS: REQUIEM FOR AN ARENA, THE

1964-04-15, WABC, 52 min.

#816: CBS NEWS SPECIAL: THE DEATH OF JACKIE ROBINSON

1972-10-24, WCBS, 30 min.

#18738: THIS WAS A MAN: JACKIE ROBINSON

1972-10-27, ABC, 21 min.

#832: THE WAY IT WAS: 1951 PLAYOFFS, THE

1974-09-00, WNET, 11 min.

#9844: THE WAY IT WAS

1974-10-03, SYN, 30 min.