Missing baseball? How about some nostalgia with Home Run Derby

[Jersey mike]

Some pretty big money on the line here for the era. 2 of the best home run hitters with great swings. I won’t say who’s playing but one is a New York Yankee.

Enjoy. I did.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HaxrzW3aSrc

[Oss]

Thanks for the blast from the past  IT was slow but worth watching

I am old enough to remember being taken to a game where Maris and Mantle hit home runs and
the Yanks beat the Tigers with Al Kaline also hitting at least one out.  We always had Upper deck seats when we went to a game, good for a sunburn by end of day.

Whitey Ford (Hope that could be a non-racist name today?) pitched for the win

It might have been bobblehead day as I think dad bought me a Maris bobblehead


Al Kaline was an amazing player  Too bad he wasnt a Yankee  

[John Schmidt]

Love watching those old videos and the sound of the crack of the bat....a wooden bat. I live near a park that has a ball diamond and kids go there with their dads to practice hitting. Trouble is....they use a metal bat and it just doesn't sound the same, more like a dinner bell. They hit a ball and you hear a resounding "chinnng" instead of that "crack" from years past. Just doesn't seem/sound quite right. 

[cookiedough]

aluminum bats travel the ball further than wooden bats.  

would love to see the power hitters of today use a wooden bat and see how they do?

I grew up mostly in aluminum bat era but still in little league was in that transition of which one to use wood or metal having both.  Broke a few wood bats as well, can be done even in little league.  I was one of just a few who could at that young age hit near 270 foot home runs over our old 'wood' fence in our small town.  I put a few in the woods way, way behind that fence once moved back a little further and taller in high school when no more wooden bats being used am guessing in that 350 foot range, hard to tell exactly since the woods was well behind the metal taller fence in high school.    We had one big dude that he either struck out or just hit home runs and one of them had to be near 400 feet since it was way way way back into the woods.  

[Jersey mike]

Thanks for the blast from the past  IT was slow but worth watching

I am old enough to remember being taken to a game where Maris and Mantle hit home runs and
the Yanks beat the Tigers with Al Kaline also hitting at least one out.  We always had Upper deck seats when we went to a game, good for a sunburn by end of day.

Whitey Ford (Hope that could be a non-racist name today?) pitched for the win

It might have been bobblehead day as I think dad bought me a Maris bobblehead


Al Kaline was an amazing player  Too bad he wasnt a Yankee  

It was slow paced, but probably to fit a 30 minute TV slot. After I settled in around the 2nd inning it wasn’t too bad. Definitely not the fast paced show they put on today that’s for sure. I kept waiting for the house with the striped awnings behind the left field wall to get hit.

I’m missing watching the games this year,  not just for the games themselves but because my youngest daughter (20) has become quite the baseball fanatic and we’d sit together for a few innings and talk (not just baseball) and watch the Bronx Bombers play. We’d talk about who’s playing well, who’s not, watch different highlights, talk about school, her job, the family, where she’s heading in life and especially WHEN CAN WE GO BACK TO YANKEE STADIUM. She loved checking the schedule and trying to plan a family outing.

[Alpha Dog]

Thanks for the blast from the past  IT was slow but worth watching

I am old enough to remember being taken to a game where Maris and Mantle hit home runs and
the Yanks beat the Tigers with Al Kaline also hitting at least one out.  We always had Upper deck seats when we went to a game, good for a sunburn by end of day.

Whitey Ford (Hope that could be a non-racist name today?) pitched for the win

It might have been bobblehead day as I think dad bought me a Maris bobblehead


Al Kaline was an amazing player  Too bad he wasnt a Yankee  

Thank God Al Kaline was not a Yankee, but bless you Oss for mentioning him as an amazing player.  He was my boyhood hero being a Detroit Tiger.  We played sandlot baseball every summer day it did not rain and it was common for us to pick a major leaguer who you wanted to be and I always chose Al Kaline.  Heck I even had a Wilson A2000  Al Kaline model I continued to use into college.   He may have been the best right fielder in major league history, and won 10 gold gloves and had an arm second to none. He was an 18 time All Star.  He went right from high school in Baltimore as an 18 year old to the Tigers and never played a minor league game.  2 years later at age 20 he became the youngest player to ever win the American League batting title with a 340 average.  He is 25th on all time list with 3007 career hits which includes 399 home runs. Numerous injuries probably prevented him from 500 home runs.  His whole professional life he was with the Tigers after his playing career, first as a commentator on TV games, then later as a special front office job right up until sadly his death this April 6 at age 85 I think.  Unfortunately because of the Chinese flu his funeral had to be kept private with a small amount of family instead of the thousands of mourners that would have paid personal tribute to a true gentleman and greatest Tiger of them all.