Bullpen (1971) - MLB Documentary on Relief Pitchers

Apparently this is pretty rare, because I cannot find anything about it on the Internet. Panasonic, the up-and-coming electronics company of the day, sponsors this look at the art of bullpen work and some of the pre-eminent firemen of the late '60s and early '70s (Tug McGraw, Ron Perranoski, Hoyt Wilhelm, Ted Abernathy, et al). Also some great footage of some classic ballparks, including a beautiful shot looking down the leftfield line at Crosley Field's outfield terrace. Enjoy.

[@giants8691]

Amazing find. That clip of Horton popping out on the Folly Floater , I first saw that on the old show Sports Challenge. There's talk of bringing back the carts for relievers to help speed up the game. Hope they bring back the baseball carts with the team hat.

[@JustMeELC]

giants8691 They don't speed up the game & in fact can slow it down, but man they are fun & I hope they bring some back! Detroit has one to this day that's like a little hotrod lol

[@zxccxz164]

wow that was cool....even better because of the camera angle and rizuto call!

[@Fruth37]

Why is a pitching coach wearing a batting glove in the dugout? There is probably pine tar on the telephone receiver.

[@wiedep]

That is Reds coach George Scherger, he was Sparky Anderson's bench and baseline coach but never a pitching or bullpen coach.
He threw righthanded, so the beat-up golf glove was on his left (glove) hand. This clip was shot at Candlestick.
My father (with Grey & Davis promotion at the time -1971- which had Panasonic domestic retail as an account) worked with baseball writer
Bruce Fabricant on this production and was involved with the Panasonic sponsorship of the film.
Even with the new footage shot for the production, which was mixed with WWW and MLB productions clips there wasn't a great deal
of 'generic' shots like answering the dugout phone available then. So they used what was available.
I remember one showing of this film at the Glenn Island Casino in New Rochelle that Tug was on hand for, he was being Tug pulling the
plug on the projector more than once during the afternoon showing

[@davanmani556]

Hugh Casey died tragically.

[@waynezimnoch2653]

Didn't he shoot himself Hemingway style