I remember it very well. Johnny Callison homered off Dick Radtz in the 9th for a win for the NL.
Does anyone recognize the players and managers in this photo? I believe I can name most of them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=john...2F%3B480%3B311
I remember it very well. Johnny Callison homered off Dick Radtz in the 9th for a win for the NL.
Does anyone recognize the players and managers in this photo? I believe I can name most of them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=john...2F%3B480%3B311
Last edited by Spitball; 07-16-2013 at 12:16 AM.
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Marichal, Koufax, Clemente, Cardenas, Aaron? No idea who that tall Red is?
It was a month before my first birthday at the time. Great thread.
I believe the tall Red is Johnny Edwards
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I also see Walter Alston and it looks like Casey Stengel on the far right.
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Remember it well. the Phillies were the bomb with Johnny Callison, et al. My fellow 15 year olds gathered in front of our new color TV to watch. It was played in the afternoon (what a novel idea), and we sat with our soft drinks and ice cream to see what would happen. Callison was the star, but the season came down to the Reds blowing it all in the last days of the season. I was devastated. Still remember the WLW commercials talking about the "first place Cincinnati Reds." And then it all was over. Quick. Heck, I'm still mad about the Frank Robinson trade, almost 50 years later, but that's baseball. Old 30 my rear end.
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Johnny Edwards had one at bat; Joe Torre was the NL starter at catcher. Edwards and Smokey Burgess were the NL reserve catchers.
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One way in which the 1964 all star game was so different than how tonight's game will be is that the starters played most of the game. On the NL team, Billy Williams, Willie Mays and Ken Boyer played the entire game, and Roberto Clemente, Dick Groat, Orlando Cepeda and Ron Hunt all had at least three at bats (Cepeda had four, being replaced in the ninth by Curt Flood as a pinch runner). On the AL team, Jim Fregosi, Brooks Robinson, Bobby Richardson and Elston Howard played the entire game, while Tony Oliva, Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison all had four plate appearances before leaving the game for defensive replacements and/or pinch runners.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
The Times just ad a piece on this game a few days ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/sp...?smid=pl-share
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You mean they actually cared about winning the game? Imagine that. Pride must have mattered to the non-millionaire players and the managers in those days. And I assume there was not some stupid thing about the winning side gets home field advantage for the WS in 1964? Must have been pretty cool.
Thanks for posting. This game didn't even sell out in 1964. At least by the way the players talked they did take it much more seriously. Lots of great players didn't even get in the game. Aaron only pinch hit in the 9th inning. 1964 was the year the Phillies blew a 6 1/2 game lead with 12 games left. One of the all time chokes in baseball history.
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Callison wins the game with a homer......in a Mets helmet.
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