That was such a pleasure to watch. Russert was so excited that you couldn't have wiped that grin off his face if you tried. Not very often you get to meet your idols and actually sit down and talk for an hour. What a treat!
Man, Tim is having the best time of his life. My only complaints are that the show was too short and I wish other Yankees legends were there. Bobby Richardson and Tony Kubik would have been nice. Here is a story, strange but absolutely true. In our local Goodwill store, I found a VHS tape called Pinstripe Power. All about the 1961 Yankees. Great video, highly recommended. Anyway, there are lots of interviews with Yankees players from that era. So, I started looking these guys up, starting with Johnny Blanchard. I wanted to get a mailing address and hopefully get an autograph. Well, I saw that Johnny had passed away. Needless to say, I was disappointed and discouraged. I didn't look up any other players. Now, about a week or so later, I went back in the Goodwill store and immediately I see four baseballs in cases on the counter and I focused right in one one. It was signed "Johnny Blanchard World Champs 1961 1962". The price... $5.00. Holy cow. The other baseballs were signed by Tom Tresch, Tommy John, and one more that I can't remember. Anyway, I got Johnny Blanchard. So, I begin looking up these guys again. I found that Bobby Richardson is living in South Carolina, I get a phone number and call it. Bobby answered the phone. He gave me his address, I mailed him two baseballs, he autographed them, "Bobby Richardson #1 Yankees 55-66 1960 WS MVP." Great guy to talk to, a fine Christian man. Anyway, that's my story. Like I said, the absolute truth. Ya gotta love the 1961 Yankees. Rest in Peace Johnny, Ralph, Yogi, Elston, Roger, Mickey...You were the best. Mike Pardue ⚾️
Wow! Absolutely awesome interview! Brought tears and laughs to my soul. Russert was such a great interviewer. RIP all these great legends and all New Yorkers. ❤️👍🇺🇸
I was a left-handed pitcher and my dad loved Whitey Ford above all his Yankee Heroes. Thank you for this priceless piece. Baseball was truely America's pastime in those days.
Man oh man! Thanks for posting this...I wish it was 3 hours long, at least...here is two of the all time greats (& I wish Mick was sitting there too) then we'd have the 3 GREAT ones. I loved/love these guys and now with this UA-cam I can watch them play and see & hear them in interviews...these guys epitomized what baseball should be like...make it fun, it is like going back to when you were kids, just loving what you do with your friends. I absolutely love this video and the great memories of watching Whitey and Yogi and The Mick out in that ball field. Oh, they were the best days!
1961 team were my heros! I was 10 years old. Every time my dad would take me to Yankee Stadium, Micky would hit a home run up into the upper bleachers. I emulated his switch hitting, practiced for hours!! What a memory!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
yep. I played and watched bb my whole life. I lived in SF, a 1 3/4 miles from the Park, in 2002-2006. My first two years I was watching from the club section game after game and was in paradise. Then the Bonds bullshit became undeniable and I just couldn't overcome how all the records I grew up with hearing my late father tell me about as he pitched to me when I was 7...were replaced by the really good players who became cheaters and liars for 30 pieces of silver. I'm 56 now and I haven't watched an inning since 2004 - in person or otherwise. Still makes me sad. BB is America...or was.
10, 8 & 16.....ask anyone, they'll know who those legendary pinstripe numbers belong to. I'm 68, but I was 10 in 62 when I went to the Stadium for the 1st time.Yogi hit 2 homeruns that day. Been a Yankee fan ever since . Great video & interview by Mr. Russert.
Best baseball conversation i've seen. Love it when Whitey said regarding Jackson, "Reggie, Ted Williams hit .215 off me lifetime; what makes you think you'd have been able to hit me" priceless
You can watch another Tim Russert sports interview show on UA-cam at: ua-cam.com/video/8BdR5DpZDXU/v-deo.html. It includes four Hall of Fame catchers; namely, Yogi Berra, Carlton Fisk, Johnny Bench and Gary Carter.
Sad that there almost all gone now except for Whitey. Mickey, Yogi, Billy Martin, Elston Howard, Phil Rizzuto, Roger Maris. I believe Tony Kubek is still with us. Most of the rest of the Yankee greats from the 50's & 60's have all passed away.
I was born in 1953 in toronto.........I couldn't wait for the yankee games on tv..........61 yankees...........joe pepitone.1st.......bobby richardson..2nd.....tony kubeck........ss............clete boyer..3rd.........Whity ford piching..........yoggi berra.........catching!!........mantle in center field..........maris...........in right...........tom tresh in left!!
FOR SURE ON TIM .................... SALT OF THE EARTH ................. ONE OF THE FEW IN THE MEDIA NOT WAS NEVER TOO FULL OF HIMSELF .................. HE IS TRUELY MISSED .....................THANKS LEE FOIR THIS INTERVIEW
all the comments below are just so right , miss russert a lot , he was so humble , can listen to him always ….… listening to yogi ……… I grew up with a guy , nick bucci , sounds and looks like yogi . but , please , nobody tell him …….. hee hee
Notice how Whitey says that he use to tell Mickey that he was better than Dimaggio, Mickey was. Mickey was greater than all of them, too bad he didn't take care of himself and, got hurt so much. I like when Yogi said he thought Clete Boyer was best third baseman. Clete couldn't hit like Nettles but, he was the greatest fielding third baseman I ever seen. I like when Brooks Robinson said Clete was the best fielding third baseman he'd ever seen. I always thought so.
Yogi in the 1958 World Series told hank Aaron when he came up to bat ,hay hank you better turn your bat around the label facing the wrong way ,hank said hay yogi I didn’t come up here to read.
RIP. All True Gentlemen. Yogi, We truly miss you 😢 Our dog, 'Yogi', is somewhere up there with you catching fly balls, Godspeed. We Aways "Pair Up In 3's." 6:55
3:44 The story about the 4 pitches is hysterical, but it is totally wrong - which sorta makes it funnier. I'm doing research for a baseball book and almost every detail Whitey says is just WRONG. There was one game where he faced the CWS where could have thought this happened, and it wasn't even in NY. He hit one player that year and it wasn't Minnie Minoso - who didn't play for the Sox in '59. It was Jim Landis - the only player he hit in 1959 - and that was April 30th. It was in the first inning, and he hit Landis 2 batters after Aparicio singled to third, so it is pretty likely this is the game. Nellie Fox grounded into a fielder's choice in between. Ted K. was not even on the team until August 25th. But Ray Boone did hit a single to load the bases. Next guy struck out. And then a ground out ended the inning. No runs scored. There was a game 15 days later where Ford pitched in NY against the Sox and Aparicio and Fox ended up on second and third. One run did score, but not on a double. It was a ground out. I get that he is recounting a game from 43 years earlier, but just none of it is true. I don't doubt Yogi's line was spoken, but the context here is unsound.
This was very enjoyable. For the record, Ted Williams was 17 for 45 (.378) versus Whitey Ford. Therefore, Whitey is full of baloney with his claims in this video.
That's not the only thing he gets wrong. The whole story about the 4 pitches is hogwash. He is referring to a game in 1959 (April 30). The only player he hit all year was Jim Landis. It was in the first inning of that game. Aparicio did bunt a single to third. But Nellie Fox grounded out. Boone hit a single to load the bases. Then there was a K and a groundout and NO ONE SCORED.
Whitey had lifetime batting average of .174 and 2.74 era----it was more than just the big bats----when America was Great is when the Yankees were Great
I miss Tim Russert. He was a class act.
RiP, +Tim R.
RIP Whitey, Yogi, Scooter and Tim!
That was such a pleasure to watch. Russert was so excited that you couldn't have wiped that grin off his face if you tried. Not very often you get to meet your idols and actually sit down and talk for an hour. What a treat!
I was thinking the same thing - these people now who claim to be a journalist do not even comprehend what made this Man a fair reporter
Man, Tim is having the best time of his life. My only complaints are that the show was too short and I wish other Yankees legends were there. Bobby Richardson and Tony Kubik would have been nice. Here is a story, strange but absolutely true. In our local Goodwill store, I found a VHS tape called Pinstripe Power. All about the 1961 Yankees. Great video, highly recommended. Anyway, there are lots of interviews with Yankees players from that era. So, I started looking these guys up, starting with Johnny Blanchard. I wanted to get a mailing address and hopefully get an autograph. Well, I saw that Johnny had passed away. Needless to say, I was disappointed and discouraged. I didn't look up any other players. Now, about a week or so later, I went back in the Goodwill store and immediately I see four baseballs in cases on the counter and I focused right in one one. It was signed "Johnny Blanchard World Champs 1961 1962". The price... $5.00. Holy cow. The other baseballs were signed by Tom Tresch, Tommy John, and one more that I can't remember. Anyway, I got Johnny Blanchard. So, I begin looking up these guys again. I found that Bobby Richardson is living in South Carolina, I get a phone number and call it. Bobby answered the phone. He gave me his address, I mailed him two baseballs, he autographed them, "Bobby Richardson #1 Yankees 55-66 1960 WS MVP." Great guy to talk to, a fine Christian man. Anyway, that's my story. Like I said, the absolute truth. Ya gotta love the 1961 Yankees. Rest in Peace Johnny, Ralph, Yogi, Elston, Roger, Mickey...You were the best.
Mike Pardue ⚾️
Yogi was and is a national treasure and icon. I'm a Yankee fan for life. I miss Tim
I could watch and listen to these guys talk for hours and hours. I miss Yogi.
Carl Jansen yogi is the best! I still can't figure out how that little guy hit so many homers.
Amen. I could listen to their stories all day
My thoughts exactly!!!
Whitey Ford is now the oldest-living PLAYER in the Baseball Hall of Fame (not including Tom Lasorda).
This was highly gratifying.
Wow! Absolutely awesome interview! Brought tears and laughs to my soul. Russert was such a great interviewer. RIP all these great legends and all New Yorkers. ❤️👍🇺🇸
What a treasure. This video made me happy.
Thank you so much for uploading it.
This so great to capture these men after Baseball ...So great so Sad they are all gone !!!
Tim Russert was awesome....
sure do miss Tim Russert. The last great journalist for sure.
You can't be a great journalist and not question Dick Cheney's account of 9/11.
I was a left-handed pitcher and my dad loved Whitey Ford above all his Yankee Heroes. Thank you for this priceless piece. Baseball was truely America's pastime in those days.
These are typical old school guys. I love this show.
Now I know why they call them the good ole days
These guys are so great to listen too--Its History
What a show... Those guys could tell stories for hours!
They were the reason that the Yankees were on top of the world.
Man oh man! Thanks for posting this...I wish it was 3 hours long, at least...here is two of the all time greats (& I wish Mick was sitting there too) then we'd have the 3 GREAT ones.
I loved/love these guys and now with this UA-cam I can watch them play and see & hear them in interviews...these guys epitomized what baseball should be like...make it fun, it is like going back to when you were kids, just loving what you do with your friends. I absolutely love this video and the great memories of watching Whitey and Yogi and The Mick out in that ball field. Oh, they were the best days!
This is gold
How crazy is it that all three of these gentlemen are gone to the ages now...
1961 team were my heros! I was 10 years old. Every time my dad would take me to Yankee Stadium, Micky would hit a home run up into the upper bleachers. I emulated his switch hitting, practiced for hours!! What a memory!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks to russert, berra, Ford and rizzuto and whoever brought this!
this was great to watch glade I found it made my day 😊
Mantle calling pitches from center field is a great story I never heard before.
Sadly all dead now, but a great group including Tim.
What a great conversation Tim Russert is like a kid in a candy store
yep. I played and watched bb my whole life. I lived in SF, a 1 3/4 miles from the Park, in 2002-2006. My first two years I was watching from the club section game after game and was in paradise. Then the Bonds bullshit became undeniable and I just couldn't overcome how all the records I grew up with hearing my late father tell me about as he pitched to me when I was 7...were replaced by the really good players who became cheaters and liars for 30 pieces of silver. I'm 56 now and I haven't watched an inning since 2004 - in person or otherwise. Still makes me sad. BB is America...or was.
@@teller1290 what was worse was watching bonds so proud of himself. hank aaron is still home run leader. 755 is still the highest
This was great !!! Good stories .
That interview could have gone on for hours and no one would have minded!
10, 8 & 16.....ask anyone, they'll know who those legendary pinstripe numbers belong to. I'm 68, but I was 10 in 62 when I went to the Stadium for the 1st time.Yogi hit 2 homeruns that day. Been a Yankee fan ever since . Great video & interview by Mr. Russert.
Babe Ruth died only 14 years before that .
Best baseball conversation i've seen. Love it when Whitey said regarding Jackson, "Reggie, Ted Williams hit .215 off me lifetime; what makes you think you'd have been able to hit me" priceless
Now with the Internet it's easy to look up how Ted did vs Whitey. He hit .378 17-for-45 with 1 HR, 13 BB, and 4 K. It's still a funny story, though.
yogi'sms can make me laugh even if I'm having a horrible day. yogi and the scooter are the greatest
You can watch another Tim Russert sports interview show on UA-cam at: ua-cam.com/video/8BdR5DpZDXU/v-deo.html.
It includes four Hall of Fame catchers; namely, Yogi Berra, Carlton Fisk, Johnny Bench and Gary Carter.
This is gold.
The best battery in baseball history.
I love how they remember individual plays in such detail, 45-50 years after they happened.
Yogi, rip, would never forget that play at the plate involving robinson
One of my fave interviews ever ❤
Sad these days are over
Sad that there almost all gone now except for Whitey. Mickey, Yogi, Billy Martin, Elston Howard, Phil Rizzuto, Roger Maris. I believe Tony Kubek is still with us. Most of the rest of the Yankee greats from the 50's & 60's have all passed away.
Tim Russet was a credit to NBC unlike jerks like Brian Williams who work there today and making the whole network a disgrace.
R.I.P Legends
Fantastic!
"Reggie, Ted Williams hit .215 off me lifetime, what the hell chance would you have of getting a hit".....Whitey is so funny
I was born in 1953 in toronto.........I couldn't wait for the yankee games on tv..........61 yankees...........joe pepitone.1st.......bobby richardson..2nd.....tony kubeck........ss............clete boyer..3rd.........Whity ford piching..........yoggi berra.........catching!!........mantle in center field..........maris...........in right...........tom tresh in left!!
Such a good program
FOR SURE ON TIM .................... SALT OF THE EARTH ................. ONE OF THE FEW IN THE MEDIA NOT WAS NEVER TOO FULL OF HIMSELF .................. HE IS TRUELY MISSED .....................THANKS LEE FOIR THIS INTERVIEW
Yankee hater, but a baseball lover .. Bless these four gentlemen.
Phil still looks like a Goodfella
all the comments below are just so right , miss russert a lot , he was so humble , can listen to him always ….… listening to yogi ……… I grew up with a guy , nick bucci , sounds and looks like yogi .
but , please , nobody tell him …….. hee hee
I enjoyd that very much
Notice how Whitey says that he use to tell Mickey that he was better than Dimaggio, Mickey was. Mickey was greater than all of them, too bad he didn't take care of himself and, got hurt so much. I like when Yogi said he thought Clete Boyer was best third baseman. Clete couldn't hit like Nettles but, he was the greatest fielding third baseman I ever seen. I like when Brooks Robinson said Clete was the best fielding third baseman he'd ever seen. I always thought so.
But Joe was hurt a lot too, no?
I'd take Mantle over Dimaggio any day.
Cletis was my favorite Yankee. I got to see him later when he was with Atlanta.
You were right Yogi, he was out!
Yogi in the 1958 World Series told hank Aaron when he came up to bat ,hay hank you better turn your bat around the label facing the wrong way ,hank said hay yogi I didn’t come up here to read.
If this had gone longer Ted Williams would've only hit .210 against Whitey.
You know what quite frankly Jackie was out yogi was right there and I’m a yankee fan but not a biased one
Everybody seated at that table is dead now
I was thinking the same thing and very sad. Love them all.
RIP. All True Gentlemen. Yogi, We truly miss you 😢 Our dog, 'Yogi', is somewhere up there with you catching fly balls, Godspeed.
We Aways
"Pair Up In 3's."
6:55
imagine Yogi, having dinner with Joe D, Marilyn Monroe, and Moose Skowron.....wow
Whitey the only one left :(
He was. Bless him.
Question asked to Yogi : What time is it ?
Yogi answers : NOW. ..... MLFAO 😆😆😆😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:44 The story about the 4 pitches is hysterical, but it is totally wrong - which sorta makes it funnier. I'm doing research for a baseball book and almost every detail Whitey says is just WRONG. There was one game where he faced the CWS where could have thought this happened, and it wasn't even in NY. He hit one player that year and it wasn't Minnie Minoso - who didn't play for the Sox in '59. It was Jim Landis - the only player he hit in 1959 - and that was April 30th. It was in the first inning, and he hit Landis 2 batters after Aparicio singled to third, so it is pretty likely this is the game. Nellie Fox grounded into a fielder's choice in between. Ted K. was not even on the team until August 25th. But Ray Boone did hit a single to load the bases. Next guy struck out. And then a ground out ended the inning. No runs scored. There was a game 15 days later where Ford pitched in NY against the Sox and Aparicio and Fox ended up on second and third. One run did score, but not on a double. It was a ground out.
I get that he is recounting a game from 43 years earlier, but just none of it is true. I don't doubt Yogi's line was spoken, but the context here is unsound.
We know today that the main reason hitters started hitting 70+ home runs was not because the ball was juiced, but because they were.
Though I do think it’s a tougher game today with the conditioning of athletes today resulting in bigger faster stronger not so much the ball.
When GIANTS roamed the earth.
all gone. what a shame. RIP
As of 9/14/20 Whitey is still with us ! Hope to see him at old timers day 2021 !!
These guys are gentleman sportsmen. So modest...... a guy today.....as handsome as whitey ......with his ledger...would be insufferable
How could the ump possible see if the glove was on the ground or not?
This was very enjoyable. For the record, Ted Williams was 17 for 45 (.378) versus Whitey Ford. Therefore, Whitey is full of baloney with his claims in this video.
That's not the only thing he gets wrong. The whole story about the 4 pitches is hogwash. He is referring to a game in 1959 (April 30). The only player he hit all year was Jim Landis. It was in the first inning of that game. Aparicio did bunt a single to third. But Nellie Fox grounded out. Boone hit a single to load the bases. Then there was a K and a groundout and NO ONE SCORED.
Tim must be rolling in his grave to see how one sided the press is now.
Three HOF players together you don't see that often.
Of all the hitters with 300 or more homers,Joe Dimaggio and Yogi were the toughest to stike out.And Jackie Robinson was safe!
Whitey had lifetime batting average of .174 and 2.74 era----it was more than just the big bats----when America was Great is when the Yankees were Great
Still safe
Outfielder? No. Winfield was better than Reggie. Other? Maris.
I’d pick Gordon over Lazzeri at second, but I might be biased.
Wow, Tim died 6 short years after this interview.
Bob got it
Safe
22:34
Too bad no Bill White with Rizzo.
Joe DiMaggio might have been a better feilder,fielder, MICKEY MANTLE in my eyes was the greatest Yankee.
And now baseball is unrecognizable and unwatchable.
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I didn't know Russert had a career before he went all Monica all the time. I thought he was cruel and mean.