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Post by hchoops on Jan 8, 2020 14:15:24 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 8, 2020 16:51:24 GMT -5
Very enjoyable. There's a great video of John Havlicek, decades later, telling how the "Havilcek stole the ball" play came about.
Of course we could argue all day about other call that might be included--one great one, not just for racing fans, is the call of Secretariat's extraordinary performance in the Belmont Stakes: "Secretariat is moving like a tremendous machine"
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Post by hchoops on Jan 8, 2020 17:51:37 GMT -5
Vin Scully’s call of the first Brooklyn Dodger World Series win over the Yan... in 1955
Vin Scully’s call of Hank Aaron’s 715th in 1974
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jan 8, 2020 22:00:13 GMT -5
Russ Hodges. 10/3/51
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Post by timholycross on Jan 9, 2020 20:55:47 GMT -5
"There's a looper to short. Petrocelli's back. He's got it. And the Red Sox Win!"
...and the best part
"And it's pandemonium on the field!".
Ned Martin. 10/1/1967
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Post by Tom on Jan 10, 2020 17:05:21 GMT -5
I'm familiar with most, but I had to listen to #4 because I don't remember "I don't believe what I just saw" and didn't guess what Lasorda was doing. Once I saw the video, obviously an iconic sports moment, but not a call that stands out to me like some of the others. Great part of the call..."and the Tigers have won the game 5-4" We'll just ignore that whole free agent signing  |
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 10, 2020 21:20:17 GMT -5
"There's a looper to short. Petrocelli's back. He's got it. And the Red Sox Win!" ...and the best part "And it's pandemonium on the field!". Ned Martin. 10/1/1967 Mercy! R.I.P. Ned Martin and Ken Coleman. |
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Post by timholycross on Jan 10, 2020 21:51:26 GMT -5
"There's a looper to short. Petrocelli's back. He's got it. And the Red Sox Win!" ...and the best part "And it's pandemonium on the field!". Ned Martin. 10/1/1967 Mercy! R.I.P. Ned Martin and Ken Coleman. Ironically, Coleman, who capably did the Sox for years, didn't get to make the call on either tv or radio...he went down to the clubhouse for interviews. Mel Parnell made the call on tv. Looking back, those rush-the-field mob scenes (Sox 67, Mets 69, Yanks 76 are the ones I remember) fortunately did not produce a tragedy of some kind. They were scary. |
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 10, 2020 22:09:42 GMT -5
Also ironically, the soundtrack of my youth: "Hi Neighbor, have a 'Gansett" announced in commercials to the sound effect of a lager beer being poured into a glass, ended abruptly at the end of the 1966 season. Narragansett Beer stopped sponsoring the Red Sox on radio and TV after the 1966 season only to miss out on the tremendous popularity of the Sox from 1967-present.
it's taken them half a century to recover but now the brand is a premium regional craft beer of sorts - at least it's expensive like premium beer.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Jan 11, 2020 4:37:52 GMT -5
Mercy! R.I.P. Ned Martin and Ken Coleman. Ironically, Coleman, who capably did the Sox for years, didn't get to make the call on either tv or radio...he went down to the clubhouse for interviews. Mel Parnell made the call on tv. Looking back, those rush-the-field mob scenes (Sox 67, Mets 69, Yanks 76 are the ones I remember) fortunately did not produce a tragedy of some kind. They were scary. Ken Coleman's call of Yaz's catch on a ball hit by Tom Tresh in 1967 (on the Impossible Dream record) is one of my favorite calls of a play. It kept a no hitter in play for Billy Rohr in the 9th (that was broken up one out later by Elston Howard).
And here it what it looked like (is this Mel Parnell's call? I know its not Ned Martin)
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 11, 2020 10:47:30 GMT -5
Ironically, Coleman, who capably did the Sox for years, didn't get to make the call on either tv or radio...he went down to the clubhouse for interviews. Mel Parnell made the call on tv. Looking back, those rush-the-field mob scenes (Sox 67, Mets 69, Yanks 76 are the ones I remember) fortunately did not produce a tragedy of some kind. They were scary. Ken Coleman's call of Yaz's catch on a ball hit by Tom Tresh in 1967 (on the Impossible Dream record) is one of my favorite calls of a play. It kept a no hitter in play for Billy Rohr in the 9th (that was broken up one out later by Elston Howard).
And here it what it looked like (is this Mel Parnell's call? I know its not Ned Martin)
Without clicking on the attachment, I remember the call as an extremely enthusiastic "Yastrzemski dives and makes a tremendous catch" |
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