1975 World Series, Game 6 (NBC Radio, WNWS-FM, New York)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- -Here for the first time is the radio broadcast of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series in pristine FM quality sound. This aired on WNWS-FM in New York (formerly WNBC-FM) when the station (and NBC) had adopted the 24 hour "News And Information Service" format (an idea ahead of its time that unfortunately didn't last). Curt Gowdy and Marty Brennaman do the call and then Red Sox announcer Ned Martin joins later in the game (when Brennaman, the Reds announcer had to go downstairs in case the Reds won the game and the World Series). The game ends on Carlton Fisk's memorable homer that forced a seventh game.
-After the game, is something I've previously uploaded, two CBS Radio top of the hour reports recapping the game and a Win Elliot review of the game the next morning on CBS Radio (note that CBS couldn't use clips from the NBC Radio broadcast).
Thank you for this post. What a gift for us.
Interestingly, Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola were a broadcast team during 1975 on the Game of the Week and the pairing did not work. Prompting Gowdy's exit from NBC Baseball broadcasts after game 7. Their broadcasting chores during the series were separated. Garagiola was a rising star at NBC. He did everything (Game shows,Tonight Show guest Host,Morning show) and he was a spokesman for Chrysler Corporation who were one of the sponsors of the MLB game of the week. Story was covered in Curt Smith's fine book on MLB Broadcasting history "Voices of the Game". Both announcers were favorites of mine. Thank you very much for this game.
Well said, Mr. Brewster
A similar incident happened to Mel Allen. That time the sponsor was Ballentine. The Joe Garagiola role was played by...Joe Garagiola.
I preferred Gowdy. Joe was annoying at times
@@markhoezee6292Joe replaced Garry Moore on To Tell The Truth.
I love the weather headline on the upper right of the Boston Globe. “Sevenly.”
thank you for posting this awesome piece of recent baseball history
This is the broadcast I heard as a boy growing up in Jersey. Up to now, the only recordings of this game on radio don't come close to the sound from WNWS/FM. Great find.
Nice !!!! I remember watching it like it was yesterday. Love radio broadcasts thanks for posting!!!
OH wow! I am going to attempt to listen while trying to get the TV footage to remain in synch. Thank you for all you do, preserving the history of sports, and providing an opportunity to travel back to where only our distant memories reside.
Thank you for this
Wow. This is historic.
One of the greatest games I ever watched... almost missed the school bus next morning
Thank you!
4:24:04 Carlton Fisk hits the home run
I was just shy of 9 years old at the time. I was pissed as a Reds fan, but the Reds bounced back in Game 7 and have gone 9-0 in WS games since this game.
At least the reds won the series.... this happened to the braves in 91 and they ended up losing in 7 games ....loved the big red machine....
The 2 moments you all are waiting for..
Moment 1. Bernie Carbo 03:07:11
Moment 2. 04:24:05 you know what it is..
However, you can start moment 2 at 04:23:23 it’s better..
In my opinion this was the greatest World Series game period.
The next year 1976, Major League Baseball drew twice as many fans to ballparks across America...This one game started the sales of local team uniforms..we are watching the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astro’s in the 2021 W.S. Notice all the fans in each ballparks, notice what their wearing..
This game is responsible..
Marty Brennaman (PBP) & Curt Gowdy (C) 1st half
Curt Gowdy (PBP)
Bottom 5th-8th
Gowdy (PBP) & Ned Martin (PBP) 9 & 11
Martin (PBP) & Gowdy (C) 10 & 12
Umpires (Game 6)
HP Satch Davidson (NL)
1B Art Frantz (AL) (Crew Chief)
2B Nick Colosi (NL)
3B Larry Barnett (AL)
LF Dick Stello (NL)
RF George Maloney (AL)
I wish that the Original NBC radio broadcast from Game 4 of the 1976 World Series comes up on here, as I believe it was the last World Series to be aired on NBC Radio, before CBS Radio took over the radio broadcast rights for the World Series the following year.
Actually 1975 was the last year NBC did the World Series on radio with CBS beginning in 1976, so the Game 7 upload elsewhere is the last NBC Radio World Series game.
in memory of pete rose
So cool. How did you get this? sounds awesome. Im going to listen to it at work tonight. thanks for posting
You're welcome and enjoy it! I just lucked out finding the original reel to reel home recording of it on e-bay a few years ago and thankfully it was still in great condition when it was transferred.
@@epaddon you sir are a scholar and gentleman for sharing this great find with us. And for paying for it. 😊
Typical greatness from epaddon. :-)
Good one as usual, without revealing your sources, can you give us any idea of the origin story of uncovering these tapes?
Most of them were a case of lucking into e-bay estate auctions at the right time and grabbing them. There were two major estates a friend of mine and I had inside tracks on, one from an Albany/Schenectady taper (the source of the 75 Rangers-Islanders stuff) while this estate was a NYC taper (source of 77 WS-6 radio and 78 playoff game and Boston Massacre TV audio). I only lost one auction pertaining to this latter estate which had the full last game of the old Stadium in 73 and Sterling's talk show afterwards and unfortunately I never found the person who won it.
@@epaddon Well, I thank you sincerely on behalf of myself and all other enthusiasts of this old stuff for your intrepid efforts- AND, just as importantly, sharing your finds with the greater public. I’ve run across some collectors of these old recordings who seek to profit and/or just keep them under wraps in their private collections. I mean, it’s like the old adage about the tree falling in the forest and if there’s no one there is there really a sound? Thank you again for letting us hear these “sounds!”
@@chrisdennehy9425 You're welcome! There's a lot more I'll be trying to put up over time. Only a select few have to stay "off-limits" for public posting due to commitments made with other people but there's still a large amount of material from these estates that thankfully don't fall in that category.
Why was this on FM radio? Wasn't The World Series a ratings getter worthy of AM radio which was still predominant in 1975?
I'll bet this was on AM almost everywhere else.
In 75, NBC was a lame duck network carrying the World Series. They had rolled out their 24 hour "News And Information Service" format with big fanfare in June 1975 and part of that commitment meant abandoning sports once their existing contracts expired. I think in New York, WNBC just didn't want to pre-empt any of their regular local music programs so that meant NBC's FM NY station (ironically the one carrying the News format) got it. Starting in 1976, CBS Radio carried the World Series through 1997 (as well as the playoffs which NBC Radio never did).
@@epaddon I think it was seen as a vote of uncertainness about NIS that their flagship station (WNBC-AM) didn't carry it.
Do you think that was the case? I remember it well, and it was a darn good product.
@@MrJoeybabe25 Seems that way. NBC didn't put it on any of their primary O & O stations (WNBC, WMAQ, WGY) and the format needed them if it was going to get some traction.
@@epaddon, WFMJ Radio in Youngstown, Ohio where I live carried all of the World Series that NBC Radio did back in the day.
I remember going to ABA Nets- NBA Warriors exhibition game at Nassau Coliseum on the night of this game. On the ride home from Uniondale to New Rochelle, we didn't have an FM car radio. We listened to this game on WTIC 1080, the only AM station we could find that carried this game.
epaddon, if I recall NBC Radio also carried Super Bowls I, III, V, VII, IX, XI, XX and XXI. Do you have any of the NBC Radio Super Bowl broadcasts?
Super Bowl III already posted on the channel. ua-cam.com/video/WrTI4tiF1yU/v-deo.html
Did this air on WNBC-AM 660 or was there a schedule conflict
It did not air on 660. WNBC didn't want to give up its local programming for the World Series because NBC had already decided this was their last World Series on radio because of their commitment to the "News And Information Service" format and they were doing this as a lame duck. All seven games in New York aired on WNWS-FM (the former WNBC-FM) that one year.
If I remember correctly the NBC AM Station had Imus and early stages of Howard Stern and Soupy Sales.. I could be wrong, the the massive egos of those DJ s wouldn't want to be preempted either. Just a guess.
Imus was there in the AM, but Stern and Sales didn't come until the 80s. At the time, WNBC-AM's evening lineup was Oogie Pringle, Al Brady and Dick Summer. (Cousin Brucie followed Imus at 10 AM). I think it was strictly a case of not wanting to pre-empt music in general since this was the period when WNBC was trying to challenge WABC for that audience.
@@epaddon Thanks for tweaking of my statement. I wasn't living there but was visiting and all I do remember was Imus as a rock star. Then hearing all 3 of those guys hating each other. Radio ego to the max.
@@markcohen5782 WFMJ Radio 1390 (Radio 14 WFMJ) in Youngstown, Ohio carried the entire 1975 World Series. WFMJ Radio at the time was the Youngstown, Ohio NBC Radio affiliate and the Youngstown, Ohio affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates Radio Network - flagship station by KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh.
The celebrated win that means nothing
The homerun that meant nothing.
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Most overrated HR ever.
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@@randydubin7118 nah not even close
That's unfair. The homerun was pretty significant at the time. The Buckner play in 1986 is only significant because the Red Sox lost Game 7.
thank you for this