Cardinals are my favorite national league team. When they traded Carlton to the Phillies, I felt they were making a mistake. What an understatement!!!!!
Carlton was the best pitcher I have ever seen. Watched many games as a kid and I would copycat all his pitches playing wiffleball even that crazy slider
I did read somewhere that Mr. Carlton stated that he stuffed cotton in his ears to drown out the noise during the 1980 World Series. And our ace was totally exceptional !!!
I remember watching the 1980 world series with my dad. Steve Carlton was amazing to watch, he just mowed em down. I could of swore that he also threw a screwball, I could be getting that mixed up with Tug though, that same series Tug McGraw from the 69 Mets & the now famous country singer's dad was also brilliant doing the first real closer job in a world series that I saw. Maybe I'm wrong but that is when the term closer began for real, they had a great team I remember Pete Rose at 1st, Manny Trillo 2nd,Larry Bowa at short,Mike Schmidt at 3rd, Bob Boone behind the dish,outfield was The Bull Greg Luzinski,Gary Maddox,and Bake McBride, with Lonnie Smith,Del Unser , McCarver, and Moreland. Defeating the Royals in 6. I remember Carlton doing this thing with his mouth that I hated,he would open it like a fish gasping to breath out of water. It was a nervous tick or something, I still remember that lol. I understand totally what he means about not seeing the hitter, I did not play pro ball but I still pitch baseball and I never look at the hitter, I just focus on the glove. Steve looks here like he could still pitch. I don't know what year this was made prolly awhile ago Reggie looks rather young. But he seems to have stayed in pretty good shape. I wonder if he ever still pitches in amateur ball?
@@timholman8130 I can buy that, thanks I didn't know that it makes sense the guy was a left handed master Did he have a screwball? Lefty screwball to a righty hitter is dirty hehe
I did read somewhere that Mr. Carlton stated that he stuffed cotton in his ears to drown out the noise during the 1980 World Series. And our ace was totally exceptional !!!
Thank you for all the comments on this video. Took me awhile to get back to all of my posted videos.
Cardinals are my favorite national league team. When they traded Carlton to the Phillies, I felt they were making a mistake. What an understatement!!!!!
"The heart of the plate belongs to the hitter and that's the way it should be" What a great point of view on pitching. Thank you Steve.
Carlton was the best pitcher I have ever seen. Watched many games as a kid and I would copycat all his pitches playing wiffleball even that crazy slider
One of my childhood heros...amazed there are so few views
❤nolan ryan, Steve cation had a ghost pitch
The late movement on Carlton's pitches is unbelievable, even later in his career
The best lefty of all time
I did read somewhere that Mr. Carlton stated that he stuffed cotton in his ears to drown out the noise during the 1980 World Series. And our ace was totally exceptional !!!
So that's what he sounds like.
Carlton learned his pickoff move from the Mets' Jerry Koosman.
2:38 R.I.P Bo Diaz.
with the unnamed secret service agent look.
I remember watching the 1980 world series with my dad. Steve Carlton was amazing to watch, he just mowed em down. I could of swore that he also threw a screwball, I could be getting that mixed up with Tug though, that same series Tug McGraw from the 69 Mets & the now famous country singer's dad was also brilliant doing the first real closer job in a world series that I saw. Maybe I'm wrong but that is when the term closer began for real, they had a great team I remember Pete Rose at 1st, Manny Trillo 2nd,Larry Bowa at short,Mike Schmidt at 3rd, Bob Boone behind the dish,outfield was The Bull Greg Luzinski,Gary Maddox,and Bake McBride, with Lonnie Smith,Del Unser , McCarver, and Moreland. Defeating the Royals in 6. I remember Carlton doing this thing with his mouth that I hated,he would open it like a fish gasping to breath out of water. It was a nervous tick or something, I still remember that lol. I understand totally what he means about not seeing the hitter, I did not play pro ball but I still pitch baseball and I never look at the hitter, I just focus on the glove. Steve looks here like he could still pitch. I don't know what year this was made prolly awhile ago Reggie looks rather young. But he seems to have stayed in pretty good shape. I wonder if he ever still pitches in amateur ball?
Greg Jay i had a unhitabble slider, great fastball
Greg Jay steve Carlton had an unhittable slider great fastball
He did that thing with his mouth cuz he kept cotton in his ears to block out noise every start. Lol. True story
@@timholman8130 I can buy that, thanks I didn't know that it makes sense the guy was a left handed master Did he have a screwball? Lefty screwball to a righty hitter is dirty hehe
@@timholman8130 Wow I wrote that 4 years ago and forgot about it.
1:44 that ball was a half foot outside lol
they do not make them like that anymore. pitch count my butt
In this generation people are forgetting about our pitchers.
Lefty
I did read somewhere that Mr. Carlton stated that he stuffed cotton in his ears to drown out the noise during the 1980 World Series. And our ace was totally exceptional !!!