nefty73 They were still a year away from dominance. No one was beating the Reds that year. They were way too strong. And remember, the Yankees didn't get Reggie until the next year.
Tony Russo Yes, Scooter and White are great. I'm a Yankee fan stuck out here in the Midwest, so I never got to hear them, but these videos are music to my ears.
+Tony Russo And indeed I did, The Scooter, Bill White & Frank Messer, WPIX, 11 Alive. 1977 was a fond year for me too as it was the only time I got to watch the Yankees win the World Series with my Dad, who passed away in July 1978. When Bucky Dent hit the HR in that October '78 playoff game vs. the Red Sox, I knew without the shadow of any doubt that my Dad was in Heaven.
Love Reggie but without Munson, they do not win. He got at least one or more hits in 111 out of 149 games in 77. 77, 78 post season, Munson out hit Reggie by one., and batted well over .300. His playoff numbers are awesome. Career .373 hitter in W.S...22 RBI IN 30 GMS. He had at least one or more hits in 28 of 30 gamesOver a 150 game season, that comes out to 111 RBI's., and 230 hits., and don't forget that's POST SEASON. Mr clutch.
I was a 12-year old boy -- rabid KC Royal fan all my life. This hurt. I cried. But, over time, I studied Chambliss's career -- what an underrated clutch player he was. Respect.
I totally understand your thoughts here. We all have our favourite teams we cheer for. But at the end of the day we respect other franchises and their players because we “love” baseball!
@johnjordan3314 I think Cowens was out by a hair. Nettles made a great play fielding Wohlford's grounder and throwing to second, all in one smooth motion.
When we got him from Cleveland, I didn't know much about him other than he was ROY. He was such a rock for us all those years. He's one of those players that flies under the radar, but if you watch him every day, you know just how good he was.
I lived in Hillside NJ where Rizzuto lived and he was a very nice, humble man. Early in his Yankee career he (believe it or not) lived in an Apt in Irvington NJ and a friend of mine who was about 10 at the time live in the same building with Rizzuto and he said Rizzuto once picked him up off the ground after falling off his bike. Really good guy Rizzuto.
I'm in this video. I was a security guard for the Yankees during the 70s, working at the home dugout. You can see me just before the end of the video getting Chambliss off the field. Several minutes later in the clubhouse Graig Nettles told Chris that he had to go back out to touch home plate; Howard Cosell was saying on ABC that it wasn't an official home run because Chris hadn't touched the plate. Chambliss grabbed me and a couple of my co-workers. We formed a human chain and plowed our way through the mob still on the field. Chambliss stamped his foot on the plate and we ran back as fast as we could. I've been looking for the video of that part for years. I know it exists because I saw it in the 80s but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
One of the greatest moments in Yankee history...but what makes it even more special.....the broadcast on the Yankees longtime station WPIX TV and who better to make the classic call than the legend himself, the "Scooter" Phil Rizzuto!!!!
Dwain Stanley im the guy that tried to steal Chambliss helmet . but was pushed from behind so it looked like I tried to scratch his eyes out ...I am now 60 years old .. and I was part of history . I wish I could apologize to him ... all my friends were beaten up by the blacks 4 hours later in harlem .. I found out were not so tough after all . we were just too slow and were out athletic by the superior race that night ( the African americans ) we got nailed .. we were just too slow
tony195869 So that's you behind Chris at about 00.24 or 00.25 seconds of this clip? What were you doing in Harlem? Were you taking the train home? Even back then, white people knew not to spend too much if any time in Harlem at night. If you were at a bar, you'd have been better off going downtown into the 80th-90th street area. The superior race? There is no superior race.
It was a game back then. No advertising messes all over the walls. Big ballparks. Death valley was 436 feet. Pitchers pitched without pitch counts. Less commercials. Only one team can make the playoffs in your division, the best team . Now you have 5 teams instead of 2 teams making playoffs. Breaking up double plays. Catchers blocking the plate. No BS replays. Real announcers like Phil, Bill, and Frank. ETC., ETC., ETC. Today it's a greedy circus.
I was there 46 years ago tonight, greatest moment of my sports viewing life from a $7 upper deck box seat! Didn’t try to go on the field, but stayed over an hour to savor the madness and watch locker room interviews.
I was at the game with my family and my friend victor Garay. I was 13 years old at the time.what a time to be alive, I get emotional everytime I watch it. My father has since passed.thank you 👨 dad.ilove you so much
I was 12-years old, sitting at home in Kansas City in front of the TV when this happened. It's the only time I've ever shed tears over a baseball game.
I was 8 living in Kc watching this game, after Brett tied it with a 3 run home run it was really heartbreaking. I too cried, the only tears I shed over a baseball game.
I was 9 when Chambliss hit that homerun; I also cried after that game. It's the only time I can remember crying over a baseball game. Nine years later, the Royals finally won it all, beating the Cardinals in 7.
Mid 70s through the 80s listened to Phil Rizzuto on the radio for just about every Yankees game. Or on TV sometimes. I was a kid and it was ALWAYS on the radio, at the house. In the garage. In the car. The backyard. Upstate NY, old school parents who felt it was duty to have a Yankees broadcast on somehow if the Yanks were playing.
R I P Phil Rizzuto...when I was a young boy YOU were the voice of the Yankees...I used'ta listen to Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights' in the winter to get my fix of Yankee's baseball
@@melcardonell759 Scooter was angry witt Meat Loaf because he had no idea what the subject of the song was, he just recorded the script they gave him. I believe he called the song pornography. As a Yankee fan, I loved hearing Scooter's voice, but I came to realize "Man, that has got to be the slowest suicide squeeze in history" lol.
Actually, he didn't...according to Chambliss, by the time he got around the bases, home plate was missing -- it was grabbed by a fan! He stepped on the ground in the place the plate *used* to be, and the umpire acknowledged it. What else was he supposed to do under these circumstances?
THANK YOU for giving us this. For years the only version of this game that is seen in replays or retrospectives is the ABC broadcast and for this moment, Rizzuto and WPIX blew them away completely with (1) a better camera angle as ABC was using the high angle one above home plate and also missed that great isolated shot of Chambliss celebrating and (2) Rizzuto's call which is better than motormouth Howard stepping on Keith Jackson. A priceless treasure!
In the fall of 1972, my first semester of college, I met a guy who told us the Yankees wouldn't win the AL Pennant until 1976. He said the vision came to him while watching the 1967 Cardinals/Red Sox World Series. He saw the NY Daily News, with the date October 14, 1976, and front page headline "Yanks Win Pennant - First Time Since '64". He told us "Its a future event that's already happened. Time just has to catch up to it".When he received his vision, there were no East-West divisions yet, so we asked him what if NYY wins the AL East, but loses the AL Pennant. Does his prediction still come true? He said "Pennant" means pennant/AL champion, not division. So, they had to win it all (the AL Championship.) He was worried in 1974 when NYY was a game behind the Orioles with a week to go, but the Orioles held on to win the division.When KC's George Brett's 3-run HR tied the game in the 8th inning, I was worried about my friend's prediction. The next inning, Chris Chambliss made it come true!(My friend was now graduated, at home, sweating this game out. Today, he says I'm one of the few who still remember his prediction BEFORE the event came true.) It was a fantastic prediction!
Did you ever notice that back in the 1970s, whenever someone hit an iconic home run (Hank Aaron's record breaker, Carlton Fisk's World Series walk-off, and this one, among others), the first people to congratulate the home run hitter were often a couple of random long-haired hippie dudes from the stands? Good times.
Sometimes you'd get a streaker. And people would be toking in the bleachers, you'd get a contact high. And you'd take a subway to get there and it'd be covered in graffiti and you'd walk by garbage piled up on the curb and porn theaters. I miss those days.
This has to be the "Signature" moment in Yankees history. I know all about the storied history of The New York Yankees. I'm a Oriole fan my whole life. I was 8 when this happened. Was supposed to going to bed, I put a towel under the door. I had gotten yelled at just a few minutes prior when Brett hit the 3 run shot all the way up in the upper deck in right. A "Titanic" blast. I yelled YEAAAAH! Then..oooops! Warning 1. Take your little ass to bed....NOW! Then at 11:43pm on the first pitch if the bottom of the 9th.....POW! Over...just like that! I still don't know what I yelled, but I yelled some more after because I was in serious trouble. I didn't mind though. Even though I hated and I mean hated t h e Yankees, I knew...just knew at that moment why one would feel some kinda way about a team. It was because they were from New York and New York meant winning and winning with style, substance....winning with the unexpected and when it absolutely had to get done. New York winning meant breaking your favorite teams back, just when you thought you had 'em. It meant winning when you're supposed to and when.....you're supposed to because even though everyone else thinks your gonna lose, New Yorkers expect to win...EVERY TIME! I figured it out, right then, in that moment. I still hate the Yankees, as much as any team in sports because of that. All those things described. Its New York and it had been 13 (imagine that) long embarrassing years of bad Yankees baseball and in 1976 we almost made a HUGE mistake in calling the 1976 New York Yankees a "underdog"! 20 years later the 1996 Yankees would be that underdog, but....its still New York and its Yankee baseball, and the Yankees are never a underdog. Even though the Yankees got swept by The Big Red Machine, with one mighty swing, the Yankees put baseball on notice....WE'RE BACK! Everytime I see that highlight, I remember. That was the first time in my life I had a moment of clarity, and it was absolutely special.
THANKS!!! I'll never forget me screaming "THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT!!! THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT!!!" over and over, until I lost my voice when I was a kid. It was my 1st time seeing Yanks in World Series. Damn what a shame that greed of players & owners killed this once great game.
Chris Chambliss is my all-time favorite ballplayer. He really is. A solid 280-290 hitter, great clutch hitter, solid rbi numbers, great reach, maybe not the fastest, solid hits and home run numbers. He never sought the spotlight, he quietly did the job. There's a life lesson in that. And I loved ALL the Yankees players from the mid to late 70s, Ed Figueroa, Roy White, Mackey Rivers, Jim Spencer, Oscar Gamble, Munson, Pinella, Nettles, Jackson, Luis Tiant, Healy, Dent... but it was Chambliss I loved the most.
I was 11 years old when I watched this game live on TV, and Phil Rizzuto's "That ball is outta hear. The Yankees win the pennant!", and seeing that ball up in the air has stuck with me ever since. This was truly a game for the books. It was both emotional and exciting for me to see and hear this game-ending excitement again, almost 40 years later. I also find it quite coincidental that the final score was 7-6, and the year was '76.
Wow, I have never seen this version, only the one stated here a couple times of Howard sucking all air from the booth. Holy Cow, even this Red Sox fan can appreciate this excitement
Most teams have never had a moment like this; a walk off home run to win the pennant on the first pitch of the inning. We Yankee fans are lucky to have had two, the second versus Boson in 2003. But in my mind this is the most dramatic and greatest moment in the Yanks' last 50 years.
I showed this to one of my employees who is in his 20s. He was amazed that the fans were on the field. It wasn't till he said that that I realized that doesn't happen anymore.
Watched this live as a 13 year old in Bayport Long island. Loved the announcing trio of Bill Messer,Bill White and the Scooter Phil Rizzuto. Great Memories.
Still the best moment for me as a Yankee fan in the 70's. Unfortunately I was not in the NY area and had to hear Keith Jackson's idiotic call. Nice to hear the Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer, the best combo ever.
It'd be nice again if the local TV broadcasters could do the playoffs. I think at the time the LCS could have local TV broadcasts and that's why Scooter was able to make this great call! Also, this broadcast had the center field view of the hit, rather than from the broadcast booth. Most important home run in Yankees history!
+lemmiwinks09 The reason why local TV used to do the LCS was because incredibly from 1969 through 1975 NBC which had sole control of the TV contract in those days, would 'stagger' the start times and as a consequence the rest of the country would sometimes see only one LCS game while the other was going on elsewhere so the local telecast was a way of guaranteeing the local markets would always see the game start to finish. 1976 was the first year when the LCS games no longer had overlapping start times. But the local telecasts themselves were banned after the 1983 season when some local channels had become cable superstations and thus threatened network ratings nationwide. As a tradeoff though, the local announcers were allowed to do their own radio broadcasts of the World Series, which hadn't been allowed before.
In 1982, the Braves qualified for the NLCS. We waited the WHOLE summer to see if MLB would let WTBS Atlanta(also a superstation) simulcast the series and of course there wasn’t to be any of that. 1983 was the last year that the teams’ local tv broadcasters could have their own postseason telecasts.
Wow, just before I went to sleep last night, I wondered if anyone had posted the WPIX version on youtube. And this was posted just two weeks ago? Love it!
LOL...that dude that jumped down as the ball dissapeared into the stands looked like a Spiderman jump. Lol, Holy Mackerel, that had to be 12 feet! Looks hilarious too. Great stuff.
I watched this game in the Day Room in the Air Force dormitory I was living in and it was so exciting to watch! To hear Phil Rizzuto on the call on this video, outstanding!
Sox fan here. I was 8 years old when I watched this. I believe this moment represented a change in an era. First, the Yanks (Steinbrenner) deserve credit for capitalizing on the free agency era. They led the way by sprinkling in FA's to build great teams. Looking back, the battles of the mid and late 70's were unreal.
To Yanksatshea, I want to say thank you for this. Finally. I've never seen this clip in its entirety. I had always seen up until, "as dramatic a finish as you'd ever want to see".
I just about hit the ceiling when Chambliss hit this out. I waited 12 long years for the Yankees to return. We just couldn’t stop talking about this the next morning at work.
I watched this game in my bedroom (in my parents home in Brooklyn, where I spent 100% of my young life) I was so happy, this was the first time I observed success as a Yankees fan.
The summer of my hs frosh year. It was the bicentennial summer, one of the best of my life, and thi sis how it ended. I'd been a Royals fans since 71-72, and can still see Freddy Patek siting in the dugout devastated. My first crushing sports moment since the Canadiens beat the Canadiens beat my Blackhawks in 73.
I was 16 a Yankee fan since age about 5 when they began thier downfall-my father had Mantle-Ford-Yogi..My grandfather had DiMaggio even Ruth and Gehrig-I was a praying for .500 years doing newspaper clippings of games through the years-collecting baseball cards praying for at least one good year...then 1976...wathing this game with my father-mother i jumped out of the couch raised my fist and broke the ceiling tiles-tears were on my face...my father smiled knowing the release of years of frustration-he didn't care the ceiling was smashed...My mother was crying more for my happiness...I didn't care the Reds crushed us in the W.S. I had my year !! Thank you for the video...
I can really appreciate a reaction and emotion like yours. When the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 94, I was beyond happy, but my euphoria didn't manifest itself outwardly in a manner such as yours. I just watched the screen as they celebrated and felt relief that the waiting was finally over. It hit me later on when I got to march in the parade downtown. That experience was a rush of shear adrenaline.
Daniel Zanier I remember 1994 too (Messier for President!!) This (1976), 1986 for the Mets and 1994 are the sweetest memories of NY sports I have ever had. I remember those moments like they are burned into brain... What a long we have fallen in sports...
I remember watching this and Loving when Yankee Fans and Yankee Players knew it was a game winning Home Run. I was 13 and still remember it like it was a recent game.
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Rizzuto's call made the win 10 times better..If you grew up listening to him and White, you will understand..
Tony Russo I couldn't agree more. Nobody called games like Scooter did. He's missed big time.
nefty73 They were still a year away from dominance. No one was beating the Reds that year. They were way too strong. And remember, the Yankees didn't get Reggie until the next year.
Tony Russo Yes, Scooter and White are great. I'm a Yankee fan stuck out here in the Midwest, so I never got to hear them, but these videos are music to my ears.
+Tony Russo And indeed I did, The Scooter, Bill White & Frank Messer, WPIX, 11 Alive. 1977 was a fond year for me too as it was the only time I got to watch the Yankees win the World Series with my Dad, who passed away in July 1978. When Bucky Dent hit the HR in that October '78 playoff game vs. the Red Sox, I knew without the shadow of any doubt that my Dad was in Heaven.
Love Reggie but without Munson, they do not win. He got at least one or more hits in 111 out of 149 games in 77. 77, 78 post season, Munson out hit Reggie by one., and batted well over .300. His playoff numbers are awesome. Career .373 hitter in W.S...22 RBI IN 30 GMS. He had at least one or more hits in 28 of 30 gamesOver a 150 game season, that comes out to 111 RBI's., and 230 hits., and don't forget that's POST SEASON. Mr clutch.
I was a 12-year old boy -- rabid KC Royal fan all my life. This hurt. I cried. But, over time, I studied Chambliss's career -- what an underrated clutch player he was. Respect.
Your Royals got us back in 1980.
Btw - Cowens was safe at 2nd at the top of the 9th. If that was called correctly. Brett would have come to bat.
I totally understand your thoughts here. We all have our favourite teams we cheer for. But at the end of the day we respect other franchises and their players because we “love” baseball!
@johnjordan3314 I think Cowens was out by a hair. Nettles made a great play fielding Wohlford's grounder and throwing to second, all in one smooth motion.
When we got him from Cleveland, I didn't know much about him other than he was ROY. He was such a rock for us all those years. He's one of those players that flies under the radar, but if you watch him every day, you know just how good he was.
I miss Phil Rizzuto. A great human being and made this game even more exciting.
I miss him too
I lived in Hillside NJ where Rizzuto lived and he was a very nice, humble man. Early in his Yankee career he (believe it or not) lived in an Apt in Irvington NJ and a friend of mine who was about 10 at the time live in the same building with Rizzuto and he said Rizzuto once picked him up off the ground after falling off his bike. Really good guy Rizzuto.
That was only 21 years after he retired I was so used to him being so old but I'm 63 I remember him being young along with yogi
This video brings back great memories. Hard to believe it’s been 47 years and I was 24 years old. Where has the time gone?
I'm in this video. I was a security guard for the Yankees during the 70s, working at the home dugout. You can see me just before the end of the video getting Chambliss off the field. Several minutes later in the clubhouse Graig Nettles told Chris that he had to go back out to touch home plate; Howard Cosell was saying on ABC that it wasn't an official home run because Chris hadn't touched the plate. Chambliss grabbed me and a couple of my co-workers. We formed a human chain and plowed our way through the mob still on the field. Chambliss stamped his foot on the plate and we ran back as fast as we could. I've been looking for the video of that part for years. I know it exists because I saw it in the 80s but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
+BobPagani Lucky you. Were you scared?
+BobPagani Is that you at 4.06, 4.07 of this clip?
you're a bullshit liar, the plate was gone by the time chambliss went back out
It was. But he walked back out and touched the area where home plate had been. Several teammates told him he should go back out.
naturalselector85 Chambliss did come back out with security
I was watching on WPIX-11 New York in 1976.. Amazing!!
One of the greatest moments in Yankee history...but what makes it even more special.....the broadcast on the Yankees longtime station WPIX TV and who better to make the classic call than the legend himself, the "Scooter" Phil Rizzuto!!!!
"The safest place to be is up here in the booth." Love Rizzuto...
This scene shows how much the world has changed in almost 40 years
Dwain Stanley im the guy that tried to steal Chambliss helmet . but was pushed from behind so it looked like I tried to scratch his eyes out ...I am now 60 years old .. and I was part of history . I wish I could apologize to him ... all my friends were beaten up by the blacks 4 hours later in harlem .. I found out were not so tough after all . we were just too slow and were out athletic by the superior race that night ( the African americans ) we got nailed .. we were just too slow
tony195869 So that's you behind Chris at about 00.24 or 00.25 seconds of this clip? What were you doing in Harlem? Were you taking the train home? Even back then, white people knew not to spend too much if any time in Harlem at night. If you were at a bar, you'd have been better off going downtown into the 80th-90th street area. The superior race? There is no superior race.
Dwain Stanley Absolutely
tony195869 Yeah, and I'm the guy who hit the homerun.
It was a game back then. No advertising messes all over the walls. Big ballparks. Death valley was 436 feet. Pitchers pitched without pitch counts. Less commercials. Only one team can make the playoffs in your division, the best team . Now you have 5 teams instead of 2 teams making playoffs. Breaking up double plays. Catchers blocking the plate. No BS replays. Real announcers like Phil, Bill, and Frank. ETC., ETC., ETC. Today it's a greedy circus.
One of the best calls ever. Phil Rizzuto was one of a kind.
How about when he called Roger Maris's home run. Phil was great.
I watch old Yankee games on UA-cam just to hear Phil, Bill, and Frank. Especially The Scooter.
My first baseball memory and I was hooked from then on out
Same here, my friend. 8 years old - remember it well
Me, too!
That was the homerun that brought the Yankees back from a 12 year draught. I remember this very well on WPIX.
My first Yankee World Series...this still brings tears to my eyes 43 years later!!!
I was there 46 years ago tonight, greatest moment of my sports viewing life from a $7 upper deck box seat! Didn’t try to go on the field, but stayed over an hour to savor the madness and watch locker room interviews.
I was at the game with my family and my friend victor Garay. I was 13 years old at the time.what a time to be alive, I get emotional everytime I watch it. My father has since passed.thank you 👨 dad.ilove you so much
I was 12-years old, sitting at home in Kansas City in front of the TV when this happened. It's the only time I've ever shed tears over a baseball game.
I was 8 living in Kc watching this game, after Brett tied it with a 3 run home run it was really heartbreaking. I too cried, the only tears I shed over a baseball game.
TheJonjayhawk I can certainly understand why you shed tears. To lose like this is shocking and impossible to prepare for.
I was 9 when Chambliss hit that homerun; I also cried after that game. It's the only time I can remember crying over a baseball game. Nine years later, the Royals finally won it all, beating the Cardinals in 7.
I was 11 sitting at home in KC, also my only tears for a baseball game. It prepared me well for 1977 and 1978 though.
Ugh. What a killer moment. I hated Chambliss for years because of this!
Red Sox fan but I really loved listening to Phil Rizzuto call a game RIP!
Mid 70s through the 80s listened to Phil Rizzuto on the radio for just about every Yankees game. Or on TV sometimes. I was a kid and it was ALWAYS on the radio, at the house. In the garage. In the car. The backyard.
Upstate NY, old school parents who felt it was duty to have a Yankees broadcast on somehow if the Yanks were playing.
that was an iconic moment seen so many photos of chambliss hitting that homerun takes me back in time love it!!!
I grew up listening to rizzuto, Bill White ect. Great Times
I was up watching that, I was 13 and my life was in front of me, I'm retired now and watching the paint dry, thanks for the memory
R I P Phil Rizzuto...when I was a young boy YOU were the voice of the Yankees...I used'ta listen to Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights' in the winter to get my fix of Yankee's baseball
I always fantasized that in the paradise by the das hboard light song Rizzutosplay
Sorry in that song I always fantasized that Scooter was describing Mick the Quick Rivers as the base runner
@@melcardonell759 Scooter was angry witt Meat Loaf because he had no idea what the subject of the song was, he just recorded the script they gave him. I believe he called the song pornography. As a Yankee fan, I loved hearing Scooter's voice, but I came to realize "Man, that has got to be the slowest suicide squeeze in history" lol.
Holy cow, even as a lifetime Mets fan I still loved The Scooter. He brought honest excitement to his broadcasts.
I remember staying up to see “Pudge” Fisk’s home run off the foul pole at 12:34 am. This home run was even more historic
yes they overhyped that for decades......but Boston had no other joys in postseason in those days....
Rizzuto was the best..loved how he always called his broadcast partners by their last names...always found that interestingly funny
I was 13 years old watching this live on our 13 inch black and white TV.
I watched this on WPIX as a New Jersey Yankees 15 yr old fan. I am surprised he even made it to home plate but he did eventually!
Actually, he didn't...according to Chambliss, by the time he got around the bases, home plate was missing -- it was grabbed by a fan! He stepped on the ground in the place the plate *used* to be, and the umpire acknowledged it. What else was he supposed to do under these circumstances?
The umpire did tell Chambless in light of the pandemonium that erupted, he didn’t have to touch home plate but was glad he obliged.
Still my favorite all time homer!
Best earliest baseball memory... love Scooters call! Cosell's was his usual shouting over people.
THANK YOU for giving us this. For years the only version of this game that is seen in replays or retrospectives is the ABC broadcast and for this moment, Rizzuto and WPIX blew them away completely with (1) a better camera angle as ABC was using the high angle one above home plate and also missed that great isolated shot of Chambliss celebrating and (2) Rizzuto's call which is better than motormouth Howard stepping on Keith Jackson. A priceless treasure!
Thank you very much for posting this!! I'm 31 years old and I wish I can have seen it or been there to see it live. Keep up the good work.
one of the greatest moments of my 12 yr old life at the time....nothing else mattered but baseball.
I remember this like it was yesterday...Chambliss was one of best hitters in the clutch, sweet memories.
In the fall of 1972, my first semester of college, I met a guy who told us the Yankees wouldn't win the AL Pennant until 1976. He said the vision came to him while watching the 1967 Cardinals/Red Sox World Series. He saw the NY Daily News, with the date October 14, 1976, and front page headline "Yanks Win Pennant - First Time Since '64". He told us "Its a future event that's already happened. Time just has to catch up to it".When he received his vision, there were no East-West divisions yet, so we asked him what if NYY wins the AL East, but loses the AL Pennant. Does his prediction still come true? He said "Pennant" means pennant/AL champion, not division. So, they had to win it all (the AL Championship.) He was worried in 1974 when NYY was a game behind the Orioles with a week to go, but the Orioles held on to win the division.When KC's George Brett's 3-run HR tied the game in the 8th inning, I was worried about my friend's prediction. The next inning, Chris Chambliss made it come true!(My friend was now graduated, at home, sweating this game out. Today, he says I'm one of the few who still remember his prediction BEFORE the event came true.) It was a fantastic prediction!
Is this true? I want to believe you.
The same guy told me I would win the Lotto last Saturday.
@@cityofpalms Did ya win?
I'll never, ever forget it. I was 10 years old. RIP Scooter.
Did you ever notice that back in the 1970s, whenever someone hit an iconic home run (Hank Aaron's record breaker, Carlton Fisk's World Series walk-off, and this one, among others), the first people to congratulate the home run hitter were often a couple of random long-haired hippie dudes from the stands? Good times.
Sometimes you'd get a streaker. And people would be toking in the bleachers, you'd get a contact high. And you'd take a subway to get there and it'd be covered in graffiti and you'd walk by garbage piled up on the curb and porn theaters.
I miss those days.
This has to be the "Signature" moment in Yankees history. I know all about the storied history of The New York Yankees. I'm a Oriole fan my whole life. I was 8 when this happened. Was supposed to going to bed, I put a towel under the door. I had gotten yelled at just a few minutes prior when Brett hit the 3 run shot all the way up in the upper deck in right. A "Titanic" blast. I yelled YEAAAAH! Then..oooops! Warning 1. Take your little ass to bed....NOW! Then at 11:43pm on the first pitch if the bottom of the 9th.....POW! Over...just like that! I still don't know what I yelled, but I yelled some more after because I was in serious trouble. I didn't mind though. Even though I hated and I mean hated t h e Yankees, I knew...just knew at that moment why one would feel some kinda way about a team. It was because they were from New York and New York meant winning and winning with style, substance....winning with the unexpected and when it absolutely had to get done. New York winning meant breaking your favorite teams back, just when you thought you had 'em. It meant winning when you're supposed to and when.....you're supposed to because even though everyone else thinks your gonna lose, New Yorkers expect to win...EVERY TIME!
I figured it out, right then, in that moment. I still hate the Yankees, as much as any team in sports because of that. All those things described. Its New York and it had been 13 (imagine that) long embarrassing years of bad Yankees baseball and in 1976 we almost made a HUGE mistake in calling the 1976 New York Yankees a "underdog"! 20 years later the 1996 Yankees would be that underdog, but....its still New York and its Yankee baseball, and the Yankees are never a underdog.
Even though the Yankees got swept by The Big Red Machine, with one mighty swing, the Yankees put baseball on notice....WE'RE BACK!
Everytime I see that highlight, I remember. That was the first time in my life I had a moment of clarity, and it was absolutely special.
I remember watching this as a kid. One of the most dramatic moments I've ever seen in Yankee folklore.
THANKS!!! I'll never forget me screaming "THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT!!! THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT!!!" over and over, until I lost my voice when I was a kid. It was my 1st time seeing Yanks in World Series. Damn what a shame that greed of players & owners killed this once great game.
I'll never forget it. Also miss The Scooter
I will never forget this.. spirit of 76... Go Yankees
Can you imagine fans rushing the field like this at a professional game now. I bet these fans didn't pay $1200 for a ticket. Real fans.
The Scooter was the greatest.
DEFINITELY !!
Chris Chambliss is my all-time favorite ballplayer. He really is. A solid 280-290 hitter, great clutch hitter, solid rbi numbers, great reach, maybe not the fastest, solid hits and home run numbers. He never sought the spotlight, he quietly did the job. There's a life lesson in that. And I loved ALL the Yankees players from the mid to late 70s, Ed Figueroa, Roy White, Mackey Rivers, Jim Spencer, Oscar Gamble, Munson, Pinella, Nettles, Jackson, Luis Tiant, Healy, Dent... but it was Chambliss I loved the most.
Willie Randolph, Sparky Lyle, Catfish Hunter, Rich Gossage. Those Yankees were a bigger bunch of mixed nuts than even the 70s Raiders.
@@Music--ng8cd"The Bronx Is Burning" is on UA-cam.
For George Steinbrenner 'The Boss'
I was 11 years old when I watched this game live on TV, and Phil Rizzuto's "That ball is outta hear. The Yankees win the pennant!", and seeing that ball up in the air has stuck with me ever since. This was truly a game for the books. It was both emotional and exciting for me to see and hear this game-ending excitement again, almost 40 years later. I also find it quite coincidental that the final score was 7-6, and the year was '76.
Wow, I have never seen this version, only the one stated here a couple times of Howard sucking all air from the booth. Holy Cow, even this Red Sox fan can appreciate this excitement
Most teams have never had a moment like this; a walk off home run to win the pennant on the first pitch of the inning. We Yankee fans are lucky to have had two, the second versus Boson in 2003. But in my mind this is the most dramatic and greatest moment in the Yanks' last 50 years.
Yeah, Cosell pretty much ruined the 70s and part of the 80s sporting events. Except for the "Battle of the Network Stars" and interviewing Ali.
Notice the fans jumping down to get the ball at 0:14. Is that Larry Lawton?
I was there with two great friends. Upper left field. I'll never forget that moment.
i hadn't heard Phil get that excited on a home run call; maybe when Maris hit 61 last day of the season in 61
I showed this to one of my employees who is in his 20s. He was amazed that the fans were on the field. It wasn't till he said that that I realized that doesn't happen anymore.
My favorite part was when Chris Chambliss gave that fan the forearm shiver. Planted him!
Watched this live as a 13 year old in Bayport Long island. Loved the announcing trio of Bill Messer,Bill White and the Scooter Phil Rizzuto. Great Memories.
AMAZING MOMENT!!!! - saw it live on TV.
Channel 11 did the Yankee broadcast much better than the YES station today
Amen to that!! Rizzuto and White; best baseball announcing team ever....hands down!!
Still the best moment for me as a Yankee fan in the 70's. Unfortunately I was not in the NY area and had to hear Keith Jackson's idiotic call. Nice to hear the Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer, the best combo ever.
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Phill Rizzuto is one of the greatest May he Rip
Ho-lee Cow! I remember watching on WPIX!
It'd be nice again if the local TV broadcasters could do the playoffs. I think at the time the LCS could have local TV broadcasts and that's why Scooter was able to make this great call! Also, this broadcast had the center field view of the hit, rather than from the broadcast booth. Most important home run in Yankees history!
+lemmiwinks09 The reason why local TV used to do the LCS was because incredibly from 1969 through 1975 NBC which had sole control of the TV contract in those days, would 'stagger' the start times and as a consequence the rest of the country would sometimes see only one LCS game while the other was going on elsewhere so the local telecast was a way of guaranteeing the local markets would always see the game start to finish. 1976 was the first year when the LCS games no longer had overlapping start times. But the local telecasts themselves were banned after the 1983 season when some local channels had become cable superstations and thus threatened network ratings nationwide. As a tradeoff though, the local announcers were allowed to do their own radio broadcasts of the World Series, which hadn't been allowed before.
In 1982, the Braves qualified for the NLCS. We waited the WHOLE summer to see if MLB would let WTBS Atlanta(also a superstation) simulcast the series and of course there wasn’t to be any of that. 1983 was the last year that the teams’ local tv broadcasters could have their own postseason telecasts.
Rest in peace, pitcher Mark Littell who passed away on Monday, September 5.
May he Rest In Peace.
Rest in peace . The irony is that Littlell had a good regular season in 1976 .
12 long years. The next year will even be much better too.
WpixTV had the center field camera angle of the Chambliss walk-off home run unlike ABC telecast which had the camera angle behind home plate.
Wow, just before I went to sleep last night, I wondered if anyone had posted the WPIX version on youtube. And this was posted just two weeks ago? Love it!
Good Call. The only other video you could catch this HR on was a Greatest HR's of all time video.
0:15 oh shit, those guys are jumping down pretty far, that's a good way to break an ankle or a leg haha
SirGhostly people in New York are no strangers to jumping off of high things 9/11
Those kids were Larry Lawton and his brother
MrEguy87 what the fuck is wrong with you
@@MrEguy87 Well...that escalated quickly
Looked like a World trade jumper. Crazy
I miss Scooter, his call on this was far and away than the network version
Because he had a passion for baseball and the Yankees. Can't be matched today.
Wow, what a game finish, fans went crazy and were able to go on the field and congratulate Chris Chamberlain. How times have change.
Congratulate?????😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. You mean ATTACK!!!
LOL...that dude that jumped down as the ball dissapeared into the stands looked like a Spiderman jump. Lol, Holy Mackerel, that had to be 12 feet! Looks hilarious too. Great stuff.
dude probably broke his arm,..buncha people just falling out there,..
My favorite version of the Yankees will always be the Late 70s Billy Martin teams
The team was better in 1978 with Bob Lemon.
I was 14 years old was that the game with my two older sisters and we were on the field most amazing experience ever !!!!
Golden age of the Yanks
Could not even imagine what living in that city would of been like when they had that blackout
I watched this game in the Day Room in the Air Force dormitory I was living in and it was so exciting to watch! To hear Phil Rizzuto on the call on this video, outstanding!
I was at game 3 of that series. The Yankees won 5-3 - I remember them being down early in the game and coming back.
Sox fan here. I was 8 years old when I watched this. I believe this moment represented a change in an era. First, the Yanks (Steinbrenner) deserve credit for capitalizing on the free agency era. They led the way by sprinkling in FA's to build great teams. Looking back, the battles of the mid and late 70's were unreal.
Did he even touch home plate? Yankees fans made it almost impossible for him to round the bases.
We finally got you guys back in '80, took us long enough!!!!
Chris was a great RBI man in the 70s and a great coach with the Yankees in the 90s
Was in the upper deck right behind home plate that night. It was fantastic.
It's great to hear Phil's call again
To Yanksatshea, I want to say thank you for this. Finally. I've never seen this clip in its entirety. I had always seen up until, "as dramatic a finish as you'd ever want to see".
Just a great announcing job. And what a monster shot by Chambliss!!
I just about hit the ceiling when Chambliss hit this out. I waited 12 long years for the Yankees to return. We just couldn’t stop talking about this the next morning at work.
I watched this game in my bedroom (in my parents home in Brooklyn, where I spent 100% of my young life) I was so happy, this was the first time I observed success as a Yankees fan.
Such a great memory as a kid !!! Such excitement
I saw this live with my mom (Love you always)and younger bro ,10 years old.
As a life long mets fan, I appreciate Phil rizzuto's call
Thanks Paul for another great memory! What a game and a time in history!
Watching this game with my mom!I was 15 years old.
hi great home run wow what a team
The summer of my hs frosh year. It was the bicentennial summer, one of the best of my life, and thi sis how it ended. I'd been a Royals fans since 71-72, and can still see Freddy Patek siting in the dugout devastated. My first crushing sports moment since the Canadiens beat the Canadiens beat my Blackhawks in 73.
Actually, the picture of Patek sitting on the bench was after the Royals lost the ALCS in 1977.
They brought him back out to make sure he touched home? Wild 😅
Billy martin loved Chambliss for his consistency
I was 16 a Yankee fan since age about 5 when they began thier downfall-my father had Mantle-Ford-Yogi..My grandfather had DiMaggio even Ruth and Gehrig-I was a praying for .500 years doing newspaper clippings of games through the years-collecting baseball cards praying for at least one good year...then 1976...wathing this game with my father-mother i jumped out of the couch raised my fist and broke the ceiling tiles-tears were on my face...my father smiled knowing the release of years of frustration-he didn't care the ceiling was smashed...My mother was crying more for my happiness...I didn't care the Reds crushed us in the W.S. I had my year !! Thank you for the video...
I can really appreciate a reaction and emotion like yours. When the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 94, I was beyond happy, but my euphoria didn't manifest itself outwardly in a manner such as yours. I just watched the screen as they celebrated and felt relief that the waiting was finally over. It hit me later on when I got to march in the parade downtown. That experience was a rush of shear adrenaline.
Daniel Zanier I remember 1994 too (Messier for President!!)
This (1976), 1986 for the Mets and 1994 are the sweetest memories of NY sports I have ever had.
I remember those moments like they are burned into brain...
What a long we have fallen in sports...
''As dramatic a finish as you'd ever wanna see''
I remember watching this and Loving when Yankee Fans and Yankee Players knew it was a game winning Home Run. I was 13 and still remember it like it was a recent game.
I remember this game like it was 43 years ago yesterday...
yep, was in the field level cross aisle looking for my brother when it started.
never seen a stampede in a ballpark like that.
I was a sleepy little kid watching this game late at night with my ma on TV...
I treasure the memories
Chambliss said he thought he was going to die here ,..for certain ,..