@@jritechnology Oh yea, the Big Red Machine was dominant. the Reds and Pirates met in the NLCS in 1970, 1972, 1975 & 1979. But as the Pirates won the world series in 1971 & 1979, the Reds won twice as well in 1975 & 1976. The Pirates won their division in 1971 and 1974 but didn't face the Reds during the NLCS. While the Reds lost the world series in 1970 & 1972. There were great teams back then including the A's which won 3 championships in a row during that period, while the Pirate, Yankees and Reds won 2.
It might be forgotten elsewhere, but here in the Kansas/Missouri area, it's still talked about by us fans that are old enough to have lived though those great games!
It's October 2024 and the Yankees and Royals are tied 1 each in the ALCS with the Royals going home for game 3. I'm a New Yorker and formerly lived in KC. This is the real deal. Great video.
1977 ALCS may have been one of the best postseason series that was hardly talked about. You could even argue that the WS championship was decided on that series.
That Chambliss homerr...that crushed the Royals the year before. Gearge Brett was not screwing around this year....the fight with him and Nettles in game 5, classic! Billy Martin being Billy Martin....I was a year old, but I saw footage when I was a young kid on ESPN replay and WOW what a series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers were also an outstanding team representing the National League in the 1977-'78 World Series. Could the Royals have beaten those Dodgers teams like the Yankees did? We'll never know but your point is valid
What was amazing was Sparky Lyle in games 4 and 5 pitching several innings to close both games on the road in a park that was a house of horrors for the Yankees.
While the 77 AL Championship series was insane the 78 Playoffs was better 1 game playoff Yanks / Bosox WS Tanks fall behind 2/0 win 4 straight starting with Nettles saving the Yanks in game 3
Terrific vid! Could use a little work in the vocal delivery (could be smoother), but COMPLETELY spot on in terms of how great--how HEATED--this rivalry was at the time. A time that happened to coincide with my most intense baseball appreciation and while still living in my childhood Bronx home 4 blocks from the Stadium! WOW, but those were fun years! Thanks for this! 👍
Funny story. Just after the '78 NY-KC series my brother and I were touring the country, riding through Kansas City on a motorcycle. Suddenly somebody started beeping and waving and laughing at us: There was George Brett driving an open-air jeep, thrilled to see our NY plates! I don't know if George remembers this, but it is still quite a memory for us!
This was an exciting great rivalry. In the 1970s another great playoff rivalry was The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds. They met in 1970, the thrilling '72 series, ' 75 and '79.
@@Solomongrundy68 Phillies were so talented in mid late 70s . The Cincinnati Reds Big Red Machine wiped them out in 1976 just like the Reds did to the New York Yankees that same year. And the Yankees were the next two years become a great team themselves. That's how good the Cincinnati Reds were, a two year dynasty of baseball greatness. RIP Pete Rose
I remember this one also. Loved Yankees at that time. Gossage in particular. That homer Brett Hit off him in playoffs was unbelievable. Brett was awesome.
Great job, brought back a lot of memories. Those collisions at second base, man. As a Yankees fan I hated Brett…mainly cuz I was scared to death of him. That game 4 in the 1978 series was vintage Catfish Hunter. Brett dinged him for three homers but the score was just 3-3 after the third one. Catfish gave up a lot of gopher balls in his career but he didn’t give up many with men on base when it counted. RIP Catfish.
I can't count how many absolute BOMBS (way way up into the upper deck) I've seen George Brett hit at old Yankee Stadium on highlights. That guy would've hit 50-plus a year if he was a Yankee. George loved playing there.
Wow! Just watching the replay of the different games during that time got my heart pumping and saliva spitting up! That was a glorious time in baseball! Great job on making me go back to my junior high school and high school days! This was truly a hot rivalry that has been forgotten about.
Great video brotha, you definitely earned a sub! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. It was a well researched, high-quality video. HOWEVER, I am going to have to disagree with you on 1 thing! A pretty major component of your video actually. That was referring to what was essentially just a few years of bad blood and fireworks a “rivalry”, or a “forgotten rivalry”. Calling this a rivalry is borderline disrespectful to the knock-down-drag-out, battle to the DEATH type rivalries we’ve been blessed to see as fans across America’s “Big-Four” professional sports leagues. To me, TRUE rivalries have to at least meet the majority of a particular set of criteria. 1. A compelling origin story. Something that kicks the rivalry off. This can be a MILLION different things. It doesn’t even have to be tangible or consequential. Something that grabs ahold of the players, which in turn grabs ahold of the fans. 2. Familiarity, which is why the GREATEST sports rivalries are almost always between teams from within the same division. 3. Evenly matched season, and postseason success from both teams in the rivalry, during said rivalry years. It doesn’t have to be 50-50, but also can’t be completely lopsided in 1 team’s favor. 4. Dominance by both teams at some point during the rivalry years, or shared dominance. Taking turns being the better team. A rivalry can’t be if 1 of the teams never wins anything substantive during the rivalry. 5. Winning championships for both teams after beating each other in the postseason. 6. Fuel to the fire. After the event that started the rivalry, things/reasons that reignite or keep the flame lit for a long period of time. 5 years is barely long enough to establish a rivalry, let alone start and finish one. This isn’t a rivalry because it’s missing a lot of those elements, the most important of which is how lopsided the results were. The Yankees literally 3-peated against the Royals in the ALCS, and went on to win 2 of those 3 World Series. The 1 time the Royals beat the Yankees, they LOST the World Series in 6 games. So it’s hard for me to recognize it as a rivalry.
Speaking of, there was the WS rivalry between the Yankees and the Cards in the 1940s that was rooted in the late 1920s before it got overshadowed by the one with the Dodgers in the following decade. We nearly had the Cards again in 1996 only for them to die after Game 4 in the NLCS.
@@Iamhungey I think losing in 1926 pushed the Yankees doing so well in 1927 sweeping the Pirates and in 1928 sweeping the Cardinals. Although the Cardinals have a 3-2 lead in World Series Titles against the Yankees, the Yankees are 15-13 in W-L all-time vs the Cardinals in the World Series.
Something that also made it intense was the arrival of Willie Wilson. He was the number one high school football recruit in America. Being from North Jersey obviously he was on the Yankees radar. But he really fit in with the Royals style of play. He also became tight with White and Otis. His collision with Munson at home plate was something people don’t remember. His inside the park home run against the Yankees during the Saturday afternoon game of the week is a UA-cam sensation. Great rivalry⚾️
Excellent job. I can tell you all put a lot of work and research into this. I never really dug into the Yankees/Royals rivalry. I'm very impressed and hope you continue to increase your sub count and keep creating great content.
Great video,this was really cool,bringing me back to my younger days.........I was a Red Sox fan and my second favorite team was always,and always will be whoever plays the yankees,thanks for a great show!!
Nice to have this video and show some respect for this rivalry. Brett was a superstar at that time and these were both strong teams during thst period with multiple heated moments.
I was at that game and sitting in the upper deck on the right field side we started going down in the top of the 9th while the Yanks were up 6-3 when we were going down the the stadium got silent because Brett tied it up soon as we got to the lower deck Chamblis won the game with the Homer and we went on the field it was a memory I will never forget unfortunately they were no match for the Big Red Machine!
Great video ! I was a baseball freak back then & watched all this stuff happen. One thing though, at 9:19 I did double take. You got Thurman's & Reggie's stats reversed.
Munson's HR in G3 of the 1978 ALCS was epic not only for the fact that he was hurt with a bad shoulder, but he hit it to the deepest part of Yankee Stadium. That man was clutch and belongs in the HOF!!
the listed 1977 numbers for nettles, munsons and jackson are a little off. the .286 32HR 110 RBI next to munson were jackson's numbers that year. munosn's numbers were .308 18 HR 100 RBI. nettles were the only numbers that were correct for that season.
I was born in 67 and grew up in New York. So many childhood memories captured in this video, Who can blame George Brett for going ballistic over the pine tar ruling ? I remember watching it on the sports report and shaking my head.
Once a giant fan of baseball. I remember this rivalry....it was great!! Great teams with great talent. I can make a list why not a fan now, but I'd get banned.
Boston and Cleveland faced off three times in the later 90’s in the LDS, and if any series deserves a video in full, it’s the 1999 ALDS. Also, technically the late 60’s and early 70’s was the Yankees longest drought since their first title in the 20’s. Before 1921 they went longer.
Dick Howser managed the Yankees in 1980 - he wouldn't put up with Steinbrenner. Eventually Howser became the Royals manager and won the World Series in 1985, defeating Whitey Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals
. . . and if I am remembering correctly, Billy Martin actually was part of the ABC broadcast team calling the 1980 ALCS (ABC often used active players and managers in their postseason telecasts)
An era when there was really competition in baseball. Look at the Yankees lineup with Chris Chambliss Cliff Johnson, everyday players. Now one through nine in the Yankees lineup is the most expensive higher guns available at each position. It just takes any real fun out of the game
Those Yankees teams got so good in part due to the advent of free agency. Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Goose Gossage…they were as much hired guns as anyone in the Yankee lineup today.
Great documentary but I just wanted to point out in 1980 Billy Martin was manager of the Oakland A’s. Dick Howser was manager of the Yankees. So he had nothing to do with George Brett not getting a fastball in that series
That was a great video of The Royals vs Yankees postseason history, they were some intense battles, Yankees eliminated them 3 straight yrs, until the Royals swept them in 1980. Yankees would return to the World Series the following season, where they lost to the Dodgers, despite being up 2-0, like you said Royals finally won it in 85, getting by the Cardinals, and would again 30 yrs later, Yankees since 81, won 5 titles and lost 2, haven't been back to the World Series since 09.
Just a correction: The series against Martin in 1980 it was against Oakland, not The Yankees. After batting 2 for 4 in game 1 against Kingman, he went 1 for 8 in the next 2 games against Keough and Mike Norris.
It was a great rivalry. Very aggressive play if not violent. The best game out of all their playoffs games was Game 5 in 1977, when the Yankees, who did nothing all game, got off the matte in the 9th inning to comeback and win the game and series. If the Yankees didn't win that game, Reggie never hits those three WS home runs, and the Yankees might not have won anything that decade. Would love to see a revival of the rivalry.
Everytime these Two Good teams met in the playoffs i watched every Game every inning of those 4 playoffs games 1976 1977 1978 & 1980 all 4 playoff games were very Good very intense right down to the final out the Yankees did beat the Royals 1976 1977 1978 except 1980 which went to the Royals it took 3 tries to beat the Yankees but the Royals finally did it after that no more heated rivalry intense playoffs games they Lost to the Phillies in 1980 world series but finally won a world championship in 1985 against the St.louis Cardinals but the rivalry was gone forever too Bad i really enjoyed those intense playoffs games against the Royals 😃👍❤ that fight with graig nettles & George Bret at 3rd base in kanas city was a Good fight. 👍😃
cardinals and astros 96-06. seven times these teams finished first and second in the old nl central, and had two playoff meetings in '04 (seven games) and '05 (six games) cardinals and astros were fighting till the last day of the season for the division in '01 and '06.
Larry Gura is the only MLB player to give me a baseball (before a Royals and Angels game in the 80s; I lived in Anaheim). I loved the Dodgers best, but as a kid, my fave, most exciting players were George Brett and Willie Wilson.
I wasn't born at the time but my dad would tell me how fierce the rivalry was. My dad was a huge Yankees fan or i should say Reggie Jackson played for he followed. I was 5 when the Royals outlasted the Cardinals in the controversial world series bad call at 1st base. A guy a grew up and played baseball with and against claimed Brett Saberhagen was his cousin
*How about A's vs the Twins?* I mean they were in the World Series every year from 1987-1991. You had Stars on both teams: Mark McGwire, Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Jose Canseco, Kent Hrbek, Jack Morris, Gary Gaetti and RIP Kirby Puckett!!
I have that 1978 Rich Gossage card. If you notice the picture is air brushed with the Yankee uniform. He should be wearing a Pittsburgh Pirate uniform on that card.
George Brett almost hit FIVE homers in one game against the Yankees in the playoffs.He was up 5 times. He hit 3 homers and two deep flies that were caught AT THE WALL!
You forget to mention that the Royals won the pine tar game because in the chaos, they stole the bat so that no one in the commissioner's office could confirm it had too much tar on it, forcing them to side with them
YES! Crazy that the Royals stole the bat and ran into the clubhouse with it, while the umpires and league officials chased after them to retrieve it. Essentially the commissioner determined that the rule on pine tar was to limit discoloration of baseballs and had nothing to do with unfair competitive advantage. Now whether or not we believe the commissioner is up to us.
@@StealingHomeShowI believe the Yankees lost the protest because they were too late getting the bat removed before the game. Who knows if Brett knew it had tar on the bat too much in violation of the rules. I agree with the Royals winning 4-3 because the violation notice occurred after the at bat and was never checked by the teams or umps. Although we don’t know if the tar on it violated the rules. We also don’t know if it was deliberately used to cheat. Maybe there was a coverup, but the best thing to do was uphold the ruling against the Yankees. I’m biased. I hate the Yankees. The rules in sports is all equipment is checked before the game in any sport. If they cheat in the game and proven, toss the player. Since it wasn’t proven Brett deliberately cheated until after the at bat, his home run counts. If they caught it before the home run, they can toss him and replace him. Could have Brett hit the home run without the tar? Yes. Reminds me of Deflategate with Brady. Different sport, same issue. You hit a home run, the only way it shouldn’t count is if you miss a base running. It was a dumb protest. It was a regular season game. Just move on.
One iota that gets unnoticed but was significant was that of Dick Howser. Howser, a KC A's player in his time was the Yankees manager in 1980. He wins 103 games and Steinbrenner fires him. The next season was strike shortened. The Royals fire Jim Frey and hire Dick Howser. In 1984 he takes them to a division crown and in 1985 they win the World Series. Mid 1986 Howser is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. He dies in the summer of 1987.
It was very significant, and as an almost 50-year Yankees fan, an embarrassment how Steinbrenner treated that man. And then he dies young. I’ll always remember it.
Don't know if it has already been mentioned but the video said the Royals had only one winning season before 1976. In fact, they had three winning seasons prior to '76. This is too important to miss since they had won 85 games in just their third season (1971) of existance. No expansion club had ever come close to such immediate improvment unil the 1990's and those were done with heavy free agency.
"Controversial call at first base . . " What about Frank White stealing second in the fourth inning, but being called out? Which was followed by a Sheridan single. Or later in the Ninth: What about the dropped foul ball?? What about the pass ball??? And where were the Cardinals in game 7???? Great and informative video, but please don't neglect the other facts of game 6.
Maybe controversial only in St. Louis. Like George Brett said, “They still drop the pop up that inning. They still have a passed ball…You didn’t show up for Game 7, you lost 11-0. Suck on it.”
The problem with acknowledging that Frank White actually should’ve been called safe and of course would’ve scored on the next single by Sheridan is that it doesn’t support the narrative that Cardinals need which is denkinger blew the series they need that narrative that’s why they don’t ever wanna acknowledge Frank White like Yankee fans in the pine tar game Cardinal fans and 85 World Series are big bunch of crybabies😂😂
I want to say in the 76 ALCS the bottom of the ninth inning was delayed because McRae was getting hit with d size batteries from a fan. I mean you know who knows if the inning started on time maybe Chambliss wouldn't have hit that home run off of Littell.
I wish I would’ve highlighted that. There was a really long delay before the Chambliss at bat. Also in another year after, Reggie ran in from RF to switch his hat for a helmet before the final out was made because Yankee fans were ALREADY starting to hang over the wall. Crazy times!
Billy Martin didnt have the Yankees not pitch to Brett in 1980, he wasnt the manager at all that year. Brett's future manager (who he would get his only ring with) Dick Howser
Reply which forgotten rivalry you want to see next!
The Marlins Fanbase and their many Owners
Dodgers and Giants. Ebbets Field, the polo grounds....across the span of a continent to continue....
Reds vs. Pirates in the 1970's, they met several times in the playoffs.
@@flame-sky7148 Big Red Machine was absolutely dominant.
@@jritechnology Oh yea, the Big Red Machine was dominant. the Reds and Pirates met in the NLCS in 1970, 1972, 1975 & 1979. But as the Pirates won the world series in 1971 & 1979, the Reds won twice as well in 1975 & 1976. The Pirates won their division in 1971 and 1974 but didn't face the Reds during the NLCS. While the Reds lost the world series in 1970 & 1972. There were great teams back then including the A's which won 3 championships in a row during that period, while the Pirate, Yankees and Reds won 2.
Now we get to see Royals vs Yankees in October for the first time since 1980 ❤
Who says it's forgotten!?
Watched this when it dropped. Watching it again now that the rivalry is back.
We’re EXCITED!!! Bobby Witt and Salvy Perez vs Judge and Soto!!
I'm sure George Brett is thrilled right now.
It might be forgotten elsewhere, but here in the Kansas/Missouri area, it's still talked about by us fans that are old enough to have lived though those great games!
It's October 2024 and the Yankees and Royals are tied 1 each in the ALCS with the Royals going home for game 3. I'm a New Yorker and formerly lived in KC. This is the real deal. Great video.
Congrats.
- KCR fan since i was a kid in 80s
Never forgotten. This was great baseball and any fan remembers the great playoff games.
1977 ALCS may have been one of the best postseason series that was hardly talked about. You could even argue that the WS championship was decided on that series.
That Chambliss homerr...that crushed the Royals the year before. Gearge Brett was not screwing around this year....the fight with him and Nettles in game 5, classic! Billy Martin being Billy Martin....I was a year old, but I saw footage when I was a young kid on ESPN replay and WOW what a series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers were also an outstanding team representing the National League in the 1977-'78 World Series. Could the Royals have beaten those Dodgers teams like the Yankees did? We'll never know but your point is valid
@@searchforthestrangler5034 For 1977 they probably could have.
What was amazing was Sparky Lyle in games 4 and 5 pitching several innings to close both games on the road in a park that was a house of horrors for the Yankees.
While the 77 AL Championship series was insane the 78 Playoffs was better
1 game playoff Yanks / Bosox
WS Tanks fall behind 2/0 win 4 straight starting with Nettles saving the Yanks in game 3
Goose nearly breaking his neck looking for the bomb that George hit in 1980 ALCS. Cool video. Forever Royal.
Terrific vid! Could use a little work in the vocal delivery (could be smoother), but COMPLETELY spot on in terms of how great--how HEATED--this rivalry was at the time. A time that happened to coincide with my most intense baseball appreciation and while still living in my childhood Bronx home 4 blocks from the Stadium! WOW, but those were fun years! Thanks for this! 👍
Funny story. Just after the '78 NY-KC series my brother and I were touring the country, riding through Kansas City on a motorcycle. Suddenly somebody started beeping and waving and laughing at us: There was George Brett driving an open-air jeep, thrilled to see our NY plates! I don't know if George remembers this, but it is still quite a memory for us!
This was an exciting great rivalry. In the 1970s another great playoff rivalry was The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds. They met in 1970, the thrilling '72 series, ' 75 and '79.
Yes, Pitts vs Reds and Phillies vs Dodgers
@@Solomongrundy68 Phillies were so talented in mid late 70s . The Cincinnati Reds Big Red Machine wiped them out in 1976 just like the Reds did to the New York Yankees that same year. And the Yankees were the next two years become a great team themselves. That's how good the Cincinnati Reds were, a two year dynasty of baseball greatness. RIP Pete Rose
@@searchforthestrangler5034 Absolutely. Great memories 😁👌
For sure. Great memories.
@@Solomongrundy68Teams that missed out with potential greatness were the '77 Royals and '78 Red Sox and '74, '77, and '78 Dodgers.
I remember this one also. Loved Yankees at that time. Gossage in particular. That homer Brett Hit off him in playoffs was unbelievable. Brett was awesome.
Great job, brought back a lot of memories. Those collisions at second base, man.
As a Yankees fan I hated Brett…mainly cuz I was scared to death of him.
That game 4 in the 1978 series was vintage Catfish Hunter. Brett dinged him for three homers but the score was just 3-3 after the third one. Catfish gave up a lot of gopher balls in his career but he didn’t give up many with men on base when it counted. RIP Catfish.
I can't count how many absolute BOMBS (way way up into the upper deck) I've seen George Brett hit at old Yankee Stadium on highlights.
That guy would've hit 50-plus a year if he was a Yankee. George loved playing there.
I’m too young to have watched him play, but I can’t believe how good of a hitter he was. Great hitter AND he was clutch.
i can remember Lou Panellia yelling at Larry Gura "throw the ball like a man"😂
Wow!
Just watching the replay of the different games during that time got my heart pumping and saliva spitting up!
That was a glorious time in baseball!
Great job on making me go back to my junior high school and high school days!
This was truly a hot rivalry that has been forgotten about.
Yankees/Royals was a good time!
I always went to see both teams whenever they played at Comiskey Park here in Chicago.
Great video brotha, you definitely earned a sub! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. It was a well researched, high-quality video. HOWEVER, I am going to have to disagree with you on 1 thing! A pretty major component of your video actually.
That was referring to what was essentially just a few years of bad blood and fireworks a “rivalry”, or a “forgotten rivalry”. Calling this a rivalry is borderline disrespectful to the knock-down-drag-out, battle to the DEATH type rivalries we’ve been blessed to see as fans across America’s “Big-Four” professional sports leagues.
To me, TRUE rivalries have to at least meet the majority of a particular set of criteria.
1. A compelling origin story. Something that kicks the rivalry off. This can be a MILLION different things. It doesn’t even have to be tangible or consequential. Something that grabs ahold of the players, which in turn grabs ahold of the fans.
2. Familiarity, which is why the GREATEST sports rivalries are almost always between teams from within the same division.
3. Evenly matched season, and postseason success from both teams in the rivalry, during said rivalry years. It doesn’t have to be 50-50, but also can’t be completely lopsided in 1 team’s favor.
4. Dominance by both teams at some point during the rivalry years, or shared dominance. Taking turns being the better team. A rivalry can’t be if 1 of the teams never wins anything substantive during the rivalry.
5. Winning championships for both teams after beating each other in the postseason.
6. Fuel to the fire. After the event that started the rivalry, things/reasons that reignite or keep the flame lit for a long period of time. 5 years is barely long enough to establish a rivalry, let alone start and finish one.
This isn’t a rivalry because it’s missing a lot of those elements, the most important of which is how lopsided the results were. The Yankees literally 3-peated against the Royals in the ALCS, and went on to win 2 of those 3 World Series. The 1 time the Royals beat the Yankees, they LOST the World Series in 6 games. So it’s hard for me to recognize it as a rivalry.
Excellent job.
Very well done. I enjoyed this short documentary. It brought back a lot of memories.
Fantastic mini doc!..This channel is gonna pop off for sure!
GREAT video. I remember these times so well.
How about the rivalry in the 1980s between the other NY team against the other Missouri team next 😁😁
Speaking of, there was the WS rivalry between the Yankees and the Cards in the 1940s that was rooted in the late 1920s before it got overshadowed by the one with the Dodgers in the following decade. We nearly had the Cards again in 1996 only for them to die after Game 4 in the NLCS.
@@Iamhungeyyeah, it used to be the Yankees-Giants as the subway series until the Giants stopped being relevant for a long time
Mets-Cardinals was a great rivalry in the 1980's, in my opinion the best of the decade.
@@Iamhungey I think losing in 1926 pushed the Yankees doing so well in 1927 sweeping the Pirates and in 1928 sweeping the Cardinals. Although the Cardinals have a 3-2 lead in World Series Titles against the Yankees, the Yankees are 15-13 in W-L all-time vs the Cardinals in the World Series.
@@BBQFanNo1 Plus had the Cards not blown the 3-1 lead in the 1996 NLCS, we would have paid them back for 1964.
Great video. Thank you.
Something that also made it intense was the arrival of Willie Wilson. He was the number one high school football recruit in America. Being from North Jersey obviously he was on the Yankees radar. But he really fit in with the Royals style of play. He also became tight with White and Otis. His collision with Munson at home plate was something people don’t remember. His inside the park home run against the Yankees during the Saturday afternoon game of the week is a UA-cam sensation. Great rivalry⚾️
Now do another forgotten ‘WS’ rivalry: Yankees-Dodgers
I feel like I needed more on the hemorrhoids and the plane crash 😂 but great video. I feel like I was there
Excellent job. I can tell you all put a lot of work and research into this. I never really dug into the Yankees/Royals rivalry. I'm very impressed and hope you continue to increase your sub count and keep creating great content.
This was an amazing doc.. Well done and thank you!
Great video,this was really cool,bringing me back to my younger days.........I was a Red Sox fan and my second favorite team was always,and always will be whoever plays the yankees,thanks for a great show!!
Nice to have this video and show some respect for this rivalry. Brett was a superstar at that time and these were both strong teams during thst period with multiple heated moments.
Awesome video! Thanks for bringing up some fun memories for me. Sure do miss that era of Major League Baseball.
Excellent documentary!!
One of the greatest stories I never expected to have.. a great surprise
I was at that game and sitting in the upper deck on the right field side we started going down in the top of the 9th while the Yanks were up 6-3 when we were going down the the stadium got silent because Brett tied it up soon as we got to the lower deck Chamblis won the game with the Homer and we went on the field it was a memory I will never forget unfortunately they were no match for the Big Red Machine!
That takeout slide was awesome
PLEASE KEEP MAKING VIDEOS LIKE THIS , PLEASE!
Damn George Brett was good. 😎
I don't know who I would be today if it weren't for growing up idolizing George and Walter Payton.
Great video ! I was a baseball freak back then & watched all this stuff happen. One thing though, at 9:19 I did double take. You got Thurman's & Reggie's stats reversed.
Great job. Loved this video.
Munson's HR in G3 of the 1978 ALCS was epic not only for the fact that he was hurt with a bad shoulder, but he hit it to the deepest part of Yankee Stadium. That man was clutch and belongs in the HOF!!
No he doesn't
Love it! Great video!
Terrific job on this video
the listed 1977 numbers for nettles, munsons and jackson are a little off. the .286 32HR 110 RBI next to munson were jackson's numbers that year. munosn's numbers were .308 18 HR 100 RBI. nettles were the only numbers that were correct for that season.
George Brett was my fav player - always great!
Now they reunite in the ALDS.
How Brett didn't get suspended for attacking the umpires after the pine tar decision was insane
I was born in 67 and grew up in New York. So many childhood memories captured in this video, Who can blame George Brett for going ballistic over the pine tar ruling ? I remember watching it on the sports report and shaking my head.
Once a giant fan of baseball. I remember this rivalry....it was great!! Great teams with great talent. I can make a list why not a fan now, but I'd get banned.
"...and the Ford Pinto exploded on the scene...."
Lol! I see what you did there....
I’m glad somebody noticed 🤣
Great video
Boston and Cleveland faced off three times in the later 90’s in the LDS, and if any series deserves a video in full, it’s the 1999 ALDS.
Also, technically the late 60’s and early 70’s was the Yankees longest drought since their first title in the 20’s. Before 1921 they went longer.
'95, '98, '99 - talk about star power... Nomar, Varitek, Vizquel, Lofton, Thome... Manny Ramirez ON THE INDIANS
The Royals became my favorite team from these years.
My dad told me about how ruthless George Brett was, I wish we could go back to 70s and 80s baseball
The Kansas City A’s were a farm club for the yankees in the 50s/60s so that history was there as well
Same with the Pittsburgh Penguins being a farm for the Montreal Canadiens in the 70s
Now it’s coming back in the playoffs
23:24 Billy Martin was not with the team in 1980
Dick Howser managed the Yankees in 1980 - he wouldn't put up with Steinbrenner. Eventually Howser became the Royals manager and won the World Series in 1985, defeating Whitey Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals
. . . and if I am remembering correctly, Billy Martin actually was part of the ABC broadcast team calling the 1980 ALCS (ABC often used active players and managers in their postseason telecasts)
If you weren’t around, you missed some classic MLB……no fucking bat flips, or a bitch head band!
An era when there was really competition in baseball. Look at the Yankees lineup with Chris Chambliss Cliff Johnson, everyday players. Now one through nine in the Yankees lineup is the most expensive higher guns available at each position. It just takes any real fun out of the game
Those Yankees teams got so good in part due to the advent of free agency. Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Goose Gossage…they were as much hired guns as anyone in the Yankee lineup today.
Yanks Royals battles in the 70s were must watch TV.
9:15 Brett's stats next to Reggie's picture.
Great documentary but I just wanted to point out in 1980 Billy Martin was manager of the Oakland A’s. Dick Howser was manager of the Yankees. So he had nothing to do with George Brett not getting a fastball in that series
Well done 👏
Very very well done. Wow
That was a great video of The Royals vs Yankees postseason history, they were some intense battles, Yankees eliminated them 3 straight yrs, until the Royals swept them in 1980. Yankees would return to the World Series the following season, where they lost to the Dodgers, despite being up 2-0, like you said Royals finally won it in 85, getting by the Cardinals, and would again 30 yrs later, Yankees since 81, won 5 titles and lost 2, haven't been back to the World Series since 09.
And now we get a Yankees / Royals ALDS. Lets go Royals!!!
Just a correction: The series against Martin in 1980 it was against Oakland, not The Yankees. After batting 2 for 4 in game 1 against Kingman, he went 1 for 8 in the next 2 games against Keough and Mike Norris.
About 19 minutes in you called Freddy Patek Frankie Patek. He would take out his step stool, climb up 2 steps, look you in the eye, and call you Bush.
It was a slip of the tongue!! Sorry frank- err, Freddie!! 😅
All jokes aside Freddie Patek was a GAMER
It was a great rivalry. Very aggressive play if not violent. The best game out of all their playoffs games was Game 5 in 1977, when the Yankees, who did nothing all game, got off the matte in the 9th inning to comeback and win the game and series. If the Yankees didn't win that game, Reggie never hits those three WS home runs, and the Yankees might not have won anything that decade. Would love to see a revival of the rivalry.
IT'S BACK, BABY!! LET'S GO ROYALS!!!!!111!!! (As a side note, screw Nettles, lmao.)
It's exciting to see this playoff match up return. The first in over 40 years and I'm sure George Brett is thrilled right now.
7:10 nobody's gonna say anything about that guy falling 20+ feet from the stands? Oh, those 70s.
Here after game 1 of the ALDS that just so happens to be Yanks vs Royals. GO YANKEES!
Fun Fact: The manager that led the Royals to the 1985 World Series title was the same manager who was the manager of the Yankees in 1980.
Nice job. It must be said though that Billy Martin was not fired in 1978. He did in fact beat them to the punch and resigned on July 24th.
Like the background music!
I see what you did there with the Ford Pinto comment.
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How about the Orioles and Yankees rivalry in the early 90s?
I tell you another great rivalry was! The Astros and Cardinals when they were in the same division! Holy Cow it was intense!
Everytime these Two Good teams met in the playoffs i watched every Game every inning of those 4 playoffs games 1976 1977 1978 & 1980 all 4 playoff games were very Good very intense right down to the final out the Yankees did beat the Royals 1976 1977 1978 except 1980 which went to the Royals it took 3 tries to beat the Yankees but the Royals finally did it after that no more heated rivalry intense playoffs games they Lost to the Phillies in 1980 world series but finally won a world championship in 1985 against the St.louis Cardinals but the rivalry was gone forever too Bad i really enjoyed those intense playoffs games against the Royals 😃👍❤ that fight with graig nettles & George Bret at 3rd base in kanas city was a Good fight. 👍😃
Not only the 1977 ALCS. But, also the 1976 & 1978 ALCS. respectly
cardinals and astros 96-06. seven times these teams finished first and second in the old nl central, and had two playoff meetings in '04 (seven games) and '05 (six games) cardinals and astros were fighting till the last day of the season for the division in '01 and '06.
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1978 ALCS ended 3-1 not 3-2. the graphic at 28:17 is incorrect.
Oh………How I remember this rivalry
Larry Gura is the only MLB player to give me a baseball (before a Royals and Angels game in the 80s; I lived in Anaheim). I loved the Dodgers best, but as a kid, my fave, most exciting players were George Brett and Willie Wilson.
I wasn't born at the time but my dad would tell me how fierce the rivalry was. My dad was a huge Yankees fan or i should say Reggie Jackson played for he followed. I was 5 when the Royals outlasted the Cardinals in the controversial world series bad call at 1st base. A guy a grew up and played baseball with and against claimed Brett Saberhagen was his cousin
Good one, the other one was the Reds vs. Pirates in the 1970's, and it could have been better had not Clemente passed.
1975 was their third winning season. They finished over .500 in '71 and '73.
*How about A's vs the Twins?* I mean they were in the World Series every year from 1987-1991. You had Stars on both teams: Mark McGwire, Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Jose Canseco, Kent Hrbek, Jack Morris, Gary Gaetti and RIP Kirby Puckett!!
19:24 Goose Gossage’s card was so hard to get that year…I only got one and never had a duplicate
I have that 1978 Rich Gossage card. If you notice the picture is air brushed with the Yankee uniform. He should be wearing a Pittsburgh Pirate uniform on that card.
George Brett almost hit FIVE homers in one game against the Yankees in the playoffs.He was up 5 times. He hit 3 homers and two deep flies that were caught AT THE WALL!
18:55 it's Freddy Patek 👍
You forget to mention that the Royals won the pine tar game because in the chaos, they stole the bat so that no one in the commissioner's office could confirm it had too much tar on it, forcing them to side with them
YES! Crazy that the Royals stole the bat and ran into the clubhouse with it, while the umpires and league officials chased after them to retrieve it. Essentially the commissioner determined that the rule on pine tar was to limit discoloration of baseballs and had nothing to do with unfair competitive advantage. Now whether or not we believe the commissioner is up to us.
Damn.
@@StealingHomeShowI believe the Yankees lost the protest because they were too late getting the bat removed before the game. Who knows if Brett knew it had tar on the bat too much in violation of the rules. I agree with the Royals winning 4-3 because the violation notice occurred after the at bat and was never checked by the teams or umps. Although we don’t know if the tar on it violated the rules. We also don’t know if it was deliberately used to cheat. Maybe there was a coverup, but the best thing to do was uphold the ruling against the Yankees.
I’m biased. I hate the Yankees. The rules in sports is all equipment is checked before the game in any sport. If they cheat in the game and proven, toss the player. Since it wasn’t proven Brett deliberately cheated until after the at bat, his home run counts. If they caught it before the home run, they can toss him and replace him. Could have Brett hit the home run without the tar? Yes.
Reminds me of Deflategate with Brady. Different sport, same issue. You hit a home run, the only way it shouldn’t count is if you miss a base running.
It was a dumb protest. It was a regular season game. Just move on.
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Boo Hoo! Poor poor BABY! Too bad the whiny Yankees lost that game! 😂😂 Yankee tears are delicious!
Gossage also gave up the pine-tar homerun. You could do a video about Brett and Gossage.
One iota that gets unnoticed but was significant was that of Dick Howser. Howser, a KC A's player in his time was the Yankees manager in 1980. He wins 103 games and Steinbrenner fires him. The next season was strike shortened. The Royals fire Jim Frey and hire Dick Howser. In 1984 he takes them to a division crown and in 1985 they win the World Series. Mid 1986 Howser is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. He dies in the summer of 1987.
It was very significant, and as an almost 50-year Yankees fan, an embarrassment how Steinbrenner treated that man. And then he dies young. I’ll always remember it.
Don't know if it has already been mentioned but the video said the Royals had only one winning season before 1976. In fact, they had three winning seasons prior to '76. This is too important to miss since they had won 85 games in just their third season (1971) of existance. No expansion club had ever come close to such immediate improvment unil the 1990's and those were done with heavy free agency.
"Controversial call at first base . . " What about Frank White stealing second in the fourth inning, but being called out? Which was followed by a Sheridan single. Or later in the Ninth: What about the dropped foul ball?? What about the pass ball??? And where were the Cardinals in game 7???? Great and informative video, but please don't neglect the other facts of game 6.
Maybe controversial only in St. Louis.
Like George Brett said, “They still drop the pop up that inning. They still have a passed ball…You didn’t show up for Game 7, you lost 11-0. Suck on it.”
The problem with acknowledging that Frank White actually should’ve been called safe and of course would’ve scored on the next single by Sheridan is that it doesn’t support the narrative that Cardinals need which is denkinger blew the series they need that narrative that’s why they don’t ever wanna acknowledge Frank White like Yankee fans in the pine tar game Cardinal fans and 85 World Series are big bunch of crybabies😂😂
@@DoubleStar92 The Denkinger bumble put the leadoff man on. I say the Royal's go down 1-2-3 in the ninth.
I want to say in the 76 ALCS the bottom of the ninth inning was delayed because McRae was getting hit with d size batteries from a fan. I mean you know who knows if the inning started on time maybe Chambliss wouldn't have hit that home run off of Littell.
I wish I would’ve highlighted that. There was a really long delay before the Chambliss at bat. Also in another year after, Reggie ran in from RF to switch his hat for a helmet before the final out was made because Yankee fans were ALREADY starting to hang over the wall. Crazy times!
Billy Martin didnt have the Yankees not pitch to Brett in 1980, he wasnt the manager at all that year. Brett's future manager (who he would get his only ring with) Dick Howser
time for Part Deux. GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4:15 Nettles looked like Christopher Walken 😆