i don't know if anybody has seen these documentaries, on hbo about baseball.
there have been 3 installments so far of these shows going back to 1920's-1930's using 8mm footage that various people took.
i have gotten into discussions with older people about when the "golden age" of basebal was.
some said it was the 40's,right after ww2, & some said it was the 50's when nyc had 3 teams fighting for the championship......
i don't know which is right, but for me the golden age of baseball was the 60's, which was the 3rd installment of "when it was a game".
nobody can convince me that today's players, as a whole, are better than the players from the 60's when there was........
willie mays.....the best all around player that i have ever seen.
roberto clemente......who did everything so well & had a "gun" for a right arm.
mickey mantle was my boyhood hero, but imagine having an oufield of.....aaron, mays, & clemente in the starting oufield......with frank robinson, al kaline ( most underated great player ever), & mantle backing the starters up.
can today's pitchers compare to these starters...
sandy koufax..... the best pitcher that i have ever seen over a 5-6 year period.
bob gibson, juan marichial, don drysdale, & whitey ford completing the starting 5......with jim maloney,luis tiant, fergy jenkins, & jim palmer backing up the starters.
bob costas talked about a scoreless pitching duel between marichial & a 42 year old warren spahn....with each pitcher going 16 innings...with mays hitting a winning homer in the bottom of the 16th.........
does anybody think that a pitcher of today being able to do that ?
other than the yankees, i don't follow baseball much any more.......& now think football is the greatest game......but there is nothing like talking about the history of baseball.
there have been 3 installments so far of these shows going back to 1920's-1930's using 8mm footage that various people took.
i have gotten into discussions with older people about when the "golden age" of basebal was.
some said it was the 40's,right after ww2, & some said it was the 50's when nyc had 3 teams fighting for the championship......
i don't know which is right, but for me the golden age of baseball was the 60's, which was the 3rd installment of "when it was a game".
nobody can convince me that today's players, as a whole, are better than the players from the 60's when there was........
willie mays.....the best all around player that i have ever seen.
roberto clemente......who did everything so well & had a "gun" for a right arm.
mickey mantle was my boyhood hero, but imagine having an oufield of.....aaron, mays, & clemente in the starting oufield......with frank robinson, al kaline ( most underated great player ever), & mantle backing the starters up.
can today's pitchers compare to these starters...
sandy koufax..... the best pitcher that i have ever seen over a 5-6 year period.
bob gibson, juan marichial, don drysdale, & whitey ford completing the starting 5......with jim maloney,luis tiant, fergy jenkins, & jim palmer backing up the starters.
bob costas talked about a scoreless pitching duel between marichial & a 42 year old warren spahn....with each pitcher going 16 innings...with mays hitting a winning homer in the bottom of the 16th.........
does anybody think that a pitcher of today being able to do that ?
other than the yankees, i don't follow baseball much any more.......& now think football is the greatest game......but there is nothing like talking about the history of baseball.
