Videos of highlights 1949 and 1945 World Series !! Topic

Just found these late last night on Youtube.

1949:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCjtz_6rTus&t=256s

1945:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDm_nA-q-qs&t=590s

Here are also two videos I just found, but have not watched yet:

The 1951 pennant race and World Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZ6eFRnAEM

And the 1935 World Series (!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QWeJfFvzV0


The 1949 Video looks like it was made yesterday, though around game 3 or 4 runs into some technical glitches, then comes back. The narrator is Humphrey Bogart !

I have never really seen Jackie Robinson or Joe Dimaggio, Roy Campanella or Pee Wee Reese or Phil Rizzuto in game action (Yogi yes because the 7th games of the 1952 and 1960 Series have been online for years).

The 1945 video is also cool - Roy Cullenbine, Hank Greenberg, Phil Cavaretta, Stan Hack, Hal Newhouser, Virgil Trucks, a bunch of the players we draft in the 1940s progressive league drafts, they're all here.
5/11/2020 9:10 AM
Here are two others that I just found but have not watched yet:

The 1935 World Series (!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QWeJfFvzV0

And the 1951 pennant race and World Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZ6eFRnAEM

5/11/2020 9:12 AM
Thank You!!!
5/11/2020 11:39 AM
the 1935 series is real speed and motion and sharp picture......the pitchers are throwing heat...for real..no doubt about it.
gehringer can fly....mickey cocharane is really fast for a catcher....no 40 speed.
looked like detroit was going to win series until hank greenberg got injured. They still won in 6.
mickey cochrane cold really block the plate.
in one pan to the stands the announcer says the the crowd is excited as it shows 2 old ladies looking down.
near the end it shows al capone in stands without comment.
5/12/2020 11:26 AM (edited)
one thing I notice in all of these videos: left-fielders sucked. I can't figure out if they just used to put the worst fielder in Left, or if outfielders for some reason typically played deeper to cut off extra-base hits and that is why we see so many outfielders, in center and right too, having to field rolling ground balls.

But the LFs seem especially in season after season to have ground balls go past them, or to bobble them. Weird.

To be sure Gehringer is shown to be fast dino27, and also REALLY impressive is Monte Irvin ! Wow ! Watch the 1951 World Series. I can see why so many people thought he would be the one to break the color barrier. He got to the majors just after his prime, at age 30. He led the league in RBI in 1951 at age 32, and had a great season at age 34 as well. So who knows how many great seasons were lost to MLB in his case?

5/12/2020 9:12 AM
The racial barrier. So sick. It was horrible to watch on the 35 series the only one I watched so far the pictures of people like joe Louis watching. Sometimes watching history like that can be quite disturbing.
thonk of whole careers of Satchel Paige add cool papa bell and even the whole career of Jackie Robinson which we lost. Very very sad and upsetting to me.
5/12/2020 11:24 AM
I totally agree Dino.. To me, baseball records before 1950 or so, are meaningless as half the population couldn't contribute
5/12/2020 12:23 PM
I’m glad to to see your comment. Those who don’t appreciate history with a passion are less inclined to understand history in the making. That has always been my view.
5/12/2020 4:57 PM
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