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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.

#5898B: NEW YORK GIANTS VS BROOKLYN DODGERS: GAME 3 PLAYOFFS (1951)

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1951-10-03, WMCA, 34 min.

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.

#10687: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

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1951-11-01, WNBC, min.

TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959.

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948.

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.”

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.”

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show.

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003.

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world.

Today's Headlines: Marion Davies married, 550,000 hail Princess Elizabeth in Washington, DC, Reds yield on truce line in Korea. Vatican ambassador appointment cited as disaster by Protestants, A-bomb can be used on field of battle, might be used in Korea if truce talks fail, according to Congressman Albert Gore, Sr. Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella voted National League Most Valuable Player. Joe Louis asks public to bear with him concerning future plans. Negro football players jaw broken deliberately during game.

#10705: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

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1955-12-28, WNBC, min.

TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959.

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948.

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.”

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.”

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show.

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003.

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world.

Today's Guests: Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, Andy Griffith, theater critic Brooks Atkinson, Brooklyn Dodger fan Hilda Chester, and actress Julie Harris.

#13222C: BROOKLYN DODGERS VS PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (FINAL GAME 1957 SEASON)

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1957-09-29, WOKO, 123 min.

The final Brooklyn Dodger baseball game before the Brooklyn Dodgers were scheduled to leave for Los Angeles, California, for the 1958 season, departing Brooklyn after playing 45 years at Ebbets Field. This final Brooklyn Dodger baseball game is played on the road in Philadelphia Pennsylvania against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Broadcast on radio WOKO 1460. Vin Scully and Jerry Dogget call the play-by-play. Ironically, this memorable baseball game was not televised to home fans in Brooklyn as was the New York Giants final game at the Polo Grounds.

This game is notable also for the fact that it contains the last at bat of Brooklyn Dodger catcher great Roy Campanella who would suffer paralysis as a result of an automobile accident on January 28, 1958, ending his illustrious baseball career.

Starting Lineups

Brooklyn Dodgers

1 Jim Gilliam 2B
2 Gino Cimoli CF
3 Carl Furillo RF
4 Gil Hodges 1B
5 Bob Kennedy LF
6 Randy Jackson 3B
7 Don Zimmer SS
8 Joe Pignatano C
9 Roger Craig P
10 Sandy Koufax P
11 Roy Campanella PH

Philadelphia Phillies

1 Richie Ashburn RF
2 Don Landrum CF
3 Ed Bouchee 1B
4 Harry Anderson LF
5 Willie Jones 3B
6 Solly Hemus 2B
7 Chico Fernandez SS
8 Joe Lonnett C
9 Seth Morehead P

NOTE:
This is a COMPLETE GAME, unlike radio broadcast versions that exists on the internet and /or housed in other museums or private collector's archives, which contain in their recordings SIX MINUTES of missing counts related to FOUR player at bats.

This historic recording (originally a peerless radio broadcast recorded off the air by Pat Rispole) was released to the public by John Miley on May 26, 2015.

At the time the recording transfer process from the original 1/4" reel to reel master tape to CD disc includes occasional audio hiss, clicks, gaps, volume level changes, pitch issues, and only the left channel playing.

Phil Gries' ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUDIO, INC. master copy of this broadcast is COMPLETE containing every pitch, transferred on both Right and Left tracks.

The sound rendition of this audio air check contains no pitch issues, clicks, low & high volume aberrations, gaps and contains only very minor hiss. Two commercials have been deleted.

A SUPERIOR AND MOST COMPLETE VERSION OF THIS BROADCAST, EXTANT.

As an extra bonus and to remind the listener that this was to be the final game the Brooklyn Dodgers would ever play at Ebbets Field this transfer broadcast begins with two brief News broadcast stories indicating the departure of Brooklyn to Los Angeles for the upcoming 1958 season.

A- Mike Wallace on the TV Dumont Channel - May 28, 1957.
The possibility that Brooklyn Dodgers will be moving at the end of this season.

B- Ron Cochran Evening News on WCBS TV- October 8, 1957.
It is final. The Dodgers have played in Brooklyn for the last time.

#11776: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: LUNCHEON FOR ROY CAMPANELLA

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1959-10-26, , min.

Roy Campanella

Private audio recording at a luncheon given for former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella who was promoting his new book, "It's Good To Be Alive."

#22: CAMPY'S CORNER

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1960-05-14, WPIX, 23 min.

Broadcast History:
January 12 - May 21, 1960
Syndicated

Debut Tuesday, January 12, 1960 NYC Channel 11 WPIX 10:30pm-11:00pm.

A series of 18 Half hour broadcasts. Former baseball star
Roy Campanella, whose January 1958 auto accident crippled him for life, hosted a spirited 18 episode half-hour interview show distribute by Heritage films. Occasional non-sport guests appeared on the show.

January 12 - Kyle Rote and Andy Robustelli guest.

January 19 - Yogi Berra and Frank Fontaine guest.

January 26 - no data available.

February 2 - Mickey Rooney guest.

February 9 - pre-empted for the Westminster Kennel Dog Show.

February 17 - Abe Burrows and Willie Mays guest.

February 23 - Rocky Graziano and Don Dunphy guest.

March 1 - Pre-empted.

March 5 - (now on Saturdays 9:00pm to 9:30pm Phil Rizzuto co-
hosts).

March 12 - Guests are Jack Benny and George Burns and Dr. Harold Seymour author of the book "Baseball "The Early Years."

March 19- Unknown guests.

March 26 - Phil Rizzuto co hosts. Guests are Florence Chadwick
and Buster Crabbe.

April 2 - Don Dunphy co-hosts. Guests are Mickey Walker, Billy
Graham and Barne Ross.

April 9- Chris Schenkel co-hosts. Guests unknown.

April 16 - Unknown guests.

April 23 - Guests are Tom Meany, Monty Irvin, Chris Short,
Coker, and Ted Savage.

April 30 - Guests are Gary Moore, Henry Morgan, Faye Emerson.

May 7 - Guests are Julius LaRosa, Art Devlin and Penny Pictou.

May 14 - Guests are Jack E. Leonard, Roger Maris and Al
Kaline. Chris Schenkel co hosts.

May 21 - Guests unknown.
Last broadcast in the series.

NOTE:

MOST ALL OF THIS SERIES HAS BEEN LOST AS VIDEO, AND OR AS AUDIO
ONLY.

Roy Campanella and co-host Chris Schenkel chat with comedian Jack E. Leonard and newly acquired New York Yankee Roger Maris and Detroit Tiger great Al Kaline. This "lost" television broadcast contains the earliest known interview with Maris as a N.Y. Yankee.

This rare extant surviving broadcast was audio taped at the time of the original broadcast by Phil Gries. His Direct Line recording is a rare example of this "lost" informal talk show with icon Brooklyn Dodger Roy Campanella directing the conversation in his inimitable way.

The subject of shadows cast by a setting sun in the late innings at Yankee Stadium are discussed by Roger Maris and Al Kaline.

Mentioned is the incredible feat of Al Kaline winning the batting crown at age 20 one day younger than Ty Cobb. Kaline remembers his feelings putting on a Detroit Tigers major league uniform for the first time. Roger Maris remembers his first at bat for the Cleveland Indians in 1957.

Jack E. Leonard discusses his beginnings in show business, performing as a Charleston dancer. Discussed also is his early days as an athlete when he competed as a swimmer against Johnny Weissmuller.

All chime in on the current "lively ball" in todays game as compared to the early years. Both Al Kaline and Roger Maris feel that a "lively ball" is good for the sport.

Roy Campanella tells anecdotes about Casey Stengel. Jack E. Leonard tells how he first met Roy in Montreal and since has been a favorite ballplayer of his.

Most feared pitchers in the majors are mentioned by each guest. Names include Early Wynn, and Ryne Duren.

Roger mentions he is 25 years old, and remembers once in 1955 running through a fence in center field chasing a fly ball hit by Johnny Powers. Maris blacked out for a moment.

All give advice to youngsters to first receive a college education and then seek opportunities in sports. Something that each guest did not accomplish.

At the end of the program there is a segment called "Campy's Scrapbook."

Roy Campanella tells of the time when he played in the Mexican League and an outfielder by the name of Jeff Heath jumped on a moving train (tracks were actually in the outfield) to catch a fly ball making a third out.

During the sign off it is stated that fans tune in to Campy's Corner on the radio.

NOTE:
This author knows of none of these broadcasts surviving
(Video, Kinescope, Audio, Transcript).

#302: HY GARDNER SHOW, THE

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1962-11-04, WOR, 48 min.

"Return From the Shadows" profiles guests William Gargan, Roy Campanella, Virginia Graham and Dr. Smiley Blantin, who discuss their own personal setbacks and successes in overcoming adversity.

#497: DUKE SNIDER METS TRIBUTE NIGHT AT THE POLO GROUNDS & KINER'S KORNER

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1963-09-12, WOR, 44 min.

April 19, 1962 - 1995

A tribute to former Brooklyn Dodgers and current New York Mets, Duke Snider at the Polo Grounds with Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, Abe Stark, Dick Young, Miss Rheingold of 1963, Gil Hodges, and M. Donald Grant.

Prior to the on the field tribute ceremonies honoring Duke Snider Ralph Kiner (Kiner's Korner) has Snider reminisce with anecdotes each of his memorable years as a Brooklyn Dodger from 1947 to 1956. Former Dodger roommate, Gil Hodges later joins in and comments about those early Brooklyn Dodger years.

Lindsey Nelson at the mike introduces former Brooklyn Dodger teammates of the Duke including, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, Carl Furillo and Cal Abrams.

Former New York Giant Eddie Brannick throws out the first ball.
A remembrance salute to the New York Giants who played in the Polo Grounds as the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets join in.

Duke Snider speaks to all his fans at the microphone. Following is a fitting tribute to the N.Y. Giants who used to play at the Polo Grounds. Miss Martha Wright sings "Auld Lang Syne" and the "National Anthem" and asks the fans to join in... "for the Duke!"

Bob Murphy calls the play by play of Duke Sniders first at bat facing San Francisco pitching wonder Juan Marichal who walks Snider.

NOTE:
Last game played at the Polo Grounds by the Giants (New York / San Francisco).

KINER'S KORNER Premiered with the first televised New York Mets home game (April 19, 1962) broadcast on WOR TV Channel 9 in New York. This 15 minute program aired prior to and after each NEW YORK METS home baseball game.

The show usually consisted of an interview with the star of the game from the winning team, along with game highlights and scores of other games from that day. Sometimes two or more players were featured.

The show's theme music was Flag of Victory Polka, written by Alvino Rey under the name Ira Ironstrings. The show's name came from the close-in left field seats in Forbes Field where Kiner deposited many home runs during his Hall of Fame career as a Pirate home-run hitter.

Most extant KINER KORNER archived broadcasts are circa 1980's and 1990's and only a few dozen of those broadcasts are known to exist. Sadly, many hundreds of other shows were never recorded or if recorded on video tape erased over (wiped) using the 2" Quad to record a next broadcast, saving money or not viewing the saving of these programs of any value once aired. (1962-1980).

#708: OPEN END WITH DAVID SUSSKIND:"THE STATE OF BASEBALL TODAY"

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1964-10-04, WPIX, 100 min.

The state of baseball today is discussed by former Brooklyn Dodger greats Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, Bob Feller, former pitching star of the Cleveland Indians, Frankie Frisch, former Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and Keith Morris of Sports Illustrated.

This "lost" television program was audio recorded off the air by Phil Gries at the time of its original broadcast. 
One of the GEMS archived in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc.

#19012: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

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1968-09-18, WNBC, 52 min.

September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Brooklyn Tribute" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.     

Duplicate of 3582.

#19662: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

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1968-09-18, WNBC, 52 min.

September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Brooklyn Tribute" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.     

Duplicate of 3582.      

Duplicate of 19012

#3582: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

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1968-09-18, WNBC, 52 min.

September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Brooklyn Tribute" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.

#16141: ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AWARDS, 2ND ANNUAL, THE

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1969-02-19, NBC, min.

In Hollywood, Perry Como hosts the second annual awards. Perry's aide is swimmer Debbie Meyer, winner of four Olympic Gold Medals. Winners in eight categories are chosen by their fellow athletes; sportswriters choose the Pro Athlete of the Year. Nominees and celebrity presenters...Baseball, AL: Ken Harrelson, Red Sox; Frank Howard, Senators; Denny McLain, Tigers.
NL: Bob Gibson,Cardinals; Wille McCovey, Giants; Pete Rose, Reds.
Presenters: Danny Kaye, Roy Campanella, Joe Cronin. Basketball: Elgin Baylor,Lakers; Bill Russell, Celtics; Wes Unseld, Bullets. Presenters: Bill Cosby, Red Auerbach. 
Football: AFL: Lance Alworth, John Hadl, Chargers; Joe Namath, Jets; Paul Robinson, Bengals. NFL: Deacon Jones, Rams; Leroy Kelly, Browns; Earl Morrall, Colts. Presenters: Charlton Heston, Vince Lombardi, Sammy Baugh. Golf: Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino. Presenters: Jack Benny, Sam Snead. Hockey: Jean Beliveau, Canadiens; Gordie Howe, Red Wings; Bobby Hull, Black Hawks. Presenters: Art Linkletter, NHL President Clarence Campbell. Horse Racing: Braulio Baeza, Angel Cordero, Lafitt Pincay. Presenters: Kim Novak, Willie Shomaker.
Pro Athlete of the Year nominees: Denny McLain, Earl Morrall, Joe Namath. 
Sportscaster Vin Scully narrates films of the stars in action.   

Dupe of 7517

#7517: ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AWARDS, 2ND ANNUAL, THE

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1969-02-19, NBC, 60 min.

In Hollywood, Perry Como hosts the second annual awards. Perry's aide is swimmer Debbie Meyer, winner of four Olympic Gold Medals. Winners in eight categories are chosen by their fellow athletes; sportswriters choose the Pro Athlete of the Year. Nominees and celebrity presenters...Baseball, AL: Ken Harrelson, Red Sox; Frank Howard, Senators; Denny McLain, Tigers.
NL: Bob Gibson,Cardinals; Wille McCovey, Giants; Pete Rose, Reds.
Presenters: Danny Kaye, Roy Campanella, Joe Cronin. Basketball: Elgin Baylor,Lakers; Bill Russell, Celtics; Wes Unseld, Bullets. Presenters: Bill Cosby, Red Auerbach. 
Football: AFL: Lance Alworth, John Hadl, Chargers; Joe Namath, Jets; Paul Robinson, Bengals. NFL: Deacon Jones, Rams; Leroy Kelly, Browns; Earl Morrall, Colts. Presenters: Charlton Heston, Vince Lombardi, Sammy Baugh. Golf: Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino. Presenters: Jack Benny, Sam Snead. Hockey: Jean Beliveau, Canadiens; Gordie Howe, Red Wings; Bobby Hull, Black Hawks. Presenters: Art Linkletter, NHL President Clarence Campbell. Horse Racing: Braulio Baeza, Angel Cordero, Lafitt Pincay. Presenters: Kim Novak, Willie Shomaker.
Pro Athlete of the Year nominees: Denny McLain, Earl Morrall, Joe Namath. 
Sportscaster Vin Scully narrates films of the stars in action.

#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.

#858: DUKE OF FLATBUSH AND OTHER BUMS, THE

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1980-08-02, WABC, 22 min.

Host Joel Siegal gives tribute to Duke Snider and the Brooklyn Dodgers on the eve before Snider is to be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame. Reflections are heard from Robert Klein, Phil Foster, and from ex-Brooklyn Dodger teammates, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe and from Duke Snider himself.

18 records found for Roy Campanella

#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.

#5898B: NEW YORK GIANTS VS BROOKLYN DODGERS: GAME 3 PLAYOFFS (1951)

1951-10-03, WMCA, 34 min.

#10687: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1951-11-01, WNBC, min.

#10705: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1955-12-28, WNBC, min.

#13222C: BROOKLYN DODGERS VS PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (FINAL GAME 1957 SEASON)

1957-09-29, WOKO, 123 min.

#11776: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: LUNCHEON FOR ROY CAMPANELLA

1959-10-26, , min.

#22: CAMPY'S CORNER

1960-05-14, WPIX, 23 min.

#302: HY GARDNER SHOW, THE

1962-11-04, WOR, 48 min.

#497: DUKE SNIDER METS TRIBUTE NIGHT AT THE POLO GROUNDS & KINER'S KORNER

1963-09-12, WOR, 44 min.

#708: OPEN END WITH DAVID SUSSKIND:"THE STATE OF BASEBALL TODAY"

1964-10-04, WPIX, 100 min.

#19012: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

1968-09-18, WNBC, 52 min.

#19662: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

1968-09-18, WNBC, 52 min.

#3582: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

1968-09-18, WNBC, 52 min.

#16141: ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AWARDS, 2ND ANNUAL, THE

1969-02-19, NBC, min.

#7517: ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AWARDS, 2ND ANNUAL, THE

1969-02-19, NBC, 60 min.

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

1972-10-24, WCBS, 30 min.

#858: DUKE OF FLATBUSH AND OTHER BUMS, THE

1980-08-02, WABC, 22 min.