My first baseball game when I was only 6 years old at the Vet. It was September 12, 1976. Final score: Phillies 8, Cubs 0. For years, the score was the only thing I could remember. Some 30 years later, with the help of the internet, I figured out the date of the game. Just to verify, I texted my Dad, “Do you remember what you and I did on September 12, 1976?”. He responded, “ Phillies 8, Cubs 0”.I will never forget it.
Me too. Saw my first game at the Vet in 1976. Cardinals and Ted Simmons beat us with 2 rocket line drive home runs. I’ll never forget how green that Astro Turf Field looked when I first laid eyes on it. Literally took my breath away
That's a GREAT story ! I figured one out thru internet, I won tickets to a doubleheader against the Expos in summer of 77 when i was on a midget all star team. My dad and me and my coach and his son drove down to the vet and were witness to the longest rain delay and i think the longest Phillies game in club history, we got back to Lancaster,pa at like 4 am !!! Good ol days
Hearing John Facenda do baseball narration is unbelievable. Mostly noted for his football narration, he sounds like he's done baseball all his life. A natural gifted talent. Wish he was around today to doing football. Legendary.
And with an added sense of humor. Have you seen the Lost Treasures episode that mentions him narrating the NFL Films softball team highlight film? Would love to see it.
Tony Taylor. Now there was a great ball player who, in my opinion, didn't get the full recognition he deserved. The Phils and the fans loved him, anyway.
I still remember the famous ball girl,Mary Sue Styles. Still got my 1976 Bicentennial patches and my 1976 Phillies Fever 45 record. Soon Down town Ollie Brown would give way to Shake-N-Bake McBride.I’ll never forget The Secretary of Defense,Gary Maddox dropping,not 1 but 2 balls in the 77 or 78 playoffs against the Astro,s I believe. It broke my heart as a young teenager. Favorite player,The Bull,Greg Luzinski. Harry Kalas the Greatest of all time. Shoutout to Bowa,He was electrifying. And there’s so much more.
Great video. Interesting fact: Babe Ruth -12 homerun titles; runner-up - Mike Scmidt with 8. And he missed 2-3 more titles by a few home runs for those years. Think about that. In all baseball history, Schmidt was number 2 to The Babe. He averaged 37/38 hrs a year for his entire career.
Thank you so much for this video. I agree with everyone else about how it brought back so many great memories. 1976 was the first of many times my dad and I shared at the vet. 1976 also showed all of us the nucleus of a championship team! It also reminded me of how lucky all of us are growing up with John, Harry and Ritchie. May they all rest in peace. Thank you again!
I was there on Tony Taylor Night! I wish I could find more footage of it. He walked down a long red carpet from the centerfield fence. Willie Montanez gave him a Cadillac.
I also was there for 1975's "Tony Taylor Night." (I dont recall the red carpet though.) It was a Saturday night, I had my foot operated on that morning and came to the game on crutches, but I wasn't going to miss it! Sec. 234 Row 6 Seat 6. The Phillies did give Tony a car that Willie Montanez drove in from Right Field, around the Warning Track, down the Left Field/3rd Base Line to Home Plate where the ceremony was taking place. I believe By Saam (a Phillies announcer who retired after the '75 season) was emcee. Everyone was surprised when Willie got out of the car. (Phillies traded Willie earlier that season to S. F. Giants (who the Phillies were playing that night) for Gary Maddox. The car however was a Mercury Cougar, not a Cadillac.
1976 was a banner year for the team. A Bicentennial year!!! The Bicentennial All-Star Game at Veterans Stadium with pomp, baseball, and fireworks. The Liberty Bell under the stadium roof and near the scoreboard set it all. Not to mention the stadium fountains. After the regular season, the Phillies got a chance to be in the postseason. They did---against the Big Red Machine of the Cincinnati Reds in the NLCS. Sadly, Cincinnati swept the Phillies in 3 games, but if the Phillies were to win the pennant, it would lead to even more fireworks for the Phillies and their fans!
The fireworks at the end of the video likely came from the postgame fireworks show of July 4, 1976, at Veterans Stadium? I think it is a good guess. (On that date, baseball and pyrotechnics seem to adore each other highly.)
Really amazing that TWO great voices from NFL films strongly represented the Phillies with John Facenda narrating and Harry Kalas play-by-play. Miss them both. 7:06-nothing worth missing here with the foul verbal assault from Cubs "fans" towards Greg "The Bull" Luzinski.
Philadelphia knocked on the door 75-79 losing out to Cincinnati Reds in 75& 76 and Los Angeles Dodgers 77& 78 and the We are family Pittsburgh Pirates in 79 then winning it all in 1980 and the runner-ups to the 83 World Champion 🏆 ⚾ Baltimore Orioles which had SIU Carbondale Illinois Saluki Jimmy Dwyer on its World Champion Team in '83. In 84 Chicago Cubs benefited from Dallas Green and company Bowa, Maddux , coming to Chicago after the Phillies World Title in 80 Phillies also has Decatur Illinois Native and Catholic High school Grad Del Unser. Jay Johnstone had an Iconic Career success in Philadelphia and with Chicago Cubs not to mention the '81 Los Angeles Dodgers world title with former Cub Rick Monday . Dick Allen's return in 75 to Philadelphia Dick was an icon he deserves HOF enshrinement. He has Jay Johnstone left us to soon in 2020 I appreciate Jay's kind words to me about my late Rodeo Princess who passed away March 1, 2016 leaving behind me and our 🐐 🐐 kids on our Eagle 🦅 Feathers Farm in NW Arkansas loved getting his kind note after Cubs won the 2016 World Title . Baseball ⚾ would see Greg Luzinski becoming a fan favorite on the South Side of Chicago baseball ⚾ is an iconic sport lots of Great Memories .
Yeah I wish these we’re the full versions,but none the less I’m really happy to see these! These season highlight films have to be somewhere,I like the other 1974 Phillies highlight film,which I believe is the full film on UA-cam
I think the 1976 team is very underrated,people say the 77 team is the best in Phillies history,but I think the 76 team is just as good! A shame they had to face the Reds in the NLCS that year!
The 1976 team was better, simply because they had Dave Cash and an admittedly slowing but still serviceable Dick Allen. The '77 team's stats were tainted because it was a freak year with expansion, so offensive stats were inflated. That being said, the '76 team wouldn't have beaten the Reds in 20 tries, and the '77 team was screwed by a blown call by a gutless ump named Bruce Froeming in the playoffs. So even though the '76 team was better, the '77 team was the one that deserved to be in the World Series.
@@DM-iw2qt Absolutely. I've never understood why Cash skipped town right when they were ready to win. And you're right, as great defensively as those teams were, you always had the specter of Luzinski in left, ready to blow a game with a misplay. I can't imagine he would have had much range at first, but he could do less damage there than he could in left field. Don't forget that Richie Hebner was on that '77 team. What do you do with him if you put Luzinski at first?
I hear ya. I used to have every year from 76-94 on video cassette but I watched the tapes so much they basically disintegrated inside. These were such classics and Facenda is the best.
Yes, it's too bad the 1976 film isn't complete, as it's missing the beginning. But I am glad to at least be able to see the last 20 minutes. I have seen the 1975 film complete, in pristine quality.
I remember watching these when they came out and recording them on a cassette player. I can't find them anywhere. Any idea who possibly could have them?
it wasn't his playing, it was his sense of humor and individuality. like with the dodgers, fat tommy lasorda had no sense of humor and got rid of Johnstone because of practical jokes Jay pulled. (no respect for lasorda here, none at all)
Dick Allen belongs in the Hall of Fame having experienced both, Wrigley Field and the White Sox stadium, whatever corporate name it has now, i can easily say, chicago fans are overrated and lame, along with milwaukee fans, some of the lamest trash talkers in MLB. i know this was nearly 50 years ago, but calling the Bull "lucy" was the best they could come up with? and in my experience, it really was. Richie Ashburn used to ask Garry Maddox, "how does it feel to be the second best centerfielder in Phillies history?" lol as Ralph Kiner (i believe) once said, "2/3 of the earth is covered by water, Garry Maddox covers the other 1/3," but there was never a centerfielder that covered that position like Whitey, look up the most outfield putouts in a season and Ashburn had over 500 4 times. that's only been done 8 times and he did it 4 of those times.
@@Rockhound6165 No, not that, I didn't know that Steve and Ed Sabol watched Phillies games during the summer; in that case, I guess they wanted to catch a break from all of that filming during the NFL season then, lol.
My first baseball game when I was only 6 years old at the Vet. It was September 12, 1976. Final score: Phillies 8, Cubs 0. For years, the score was the only thing I could remember. Some 30 years later, with the help of the internet, I figured out the date of the game. Just to verify, I texted my Dad, “Do you remember what you and I did on September 12, 1976?”. He responded, “ Phillies 8, Cubs 0”.I will never forget it.
Me too. Saw my first game at the Vet in 1976. Cardinals and Ted Simmons beat us with 2 rocket line drive home runs. I’ll never forget how green that Astro Turf Field looked when I first laid eyes on it. Literally took my breath away
That's a GREAT story ! I figured one out thru internet, I won tickets to a doubleheader against the Expos in summer of 77 when i was on a midget all star team. My dad and me and my coach and his son drove down to the vet and were witness to the longest rain delay and i think the longest Phillies game in club history, we got back to Lancaster,pa at like 4 am !!! Good ol days
Hearing John Facenda do baseball narration is unbelievable. Mostly noted for his football narration, he sounds like he's done baseball all his life. A natural gifted talent. Wish he was around today to doing football. Legendary.
you are right, facenda is a natural narrator of sports.
And with an added sense of humor. Have you seen the Lost Treasures episode that mentions him narrating the NFL Films softball team highlight film? Would love to see it.
I remember watching these during rain delays. Loved 'em
Tony Taylor wasn't just a great baseball player but the fans loved him....thanks when you know your special
Tony Taylor. Now there was a great ball player who, in my opinion, didn't get the full recognition he deserved. The Phils and the fans loved him, anyway.
I still remember the famous ball girl,Mary Sue Styles. Still got my 1976 Bicentennial patches and my 1976 Phillies Fever 45 record. Soon Down town Ollie Brown would give way to Shake-N-Bake McBride.I’ll never forget The Secretary of Defense,Gary Maddox dropping,not 1 but 2 balls in the 77 or 78 playoffs against the Astro,s I believe. It broke my heart as a young teenager. Favorite player,The Bull,Greg Luzinski. Harry Kalas the Greatest of all time. Shoutout to Bowa,He was electrifying. And there’s so much more.
7:10 Razzing the Bull.. 😆🤣😂.. Life Long Phillies Phan... and that's one of the best Raz on an OF in the History of Fans!
⚾️Go Phillies⚾️
The Phillies' division-clinching win at Montreal was the final Expos home game played at Jarry Park.
Great video. Interesting fact: Babe Ruth -12 homerun titles; runner-up - Mike Scmidt with 8. And he missed 2-3 more titles by a few home runs for those years. Think about that. In all baseball history, Schmidt was number 2 to The Babe. He averaged 37/38 hrs a year for his entire career.
Thank you so much for this video. I agree with everyone else about how it brought back so many great memories. 1976 was the first of many times my dad and I shared at the vet. 1976 also showed all of us the nucleus of a championship team! It also reminded me of how lucky all of us are growing up with John, Harry and Ritchie. May they all rest in peace. Thank you again!
"Future looks great for the Phillies." -Pete Rose ... Very true Pete.
RIP Pete.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING. such great memories of these old highlight films of the 70's. loved this era!!
Had this video on my watch later for a while. So glad i finally got to it. Thanks for posting this gem!!!
Having John Facenda doing a narration for the Phillies is awesome!!
John Facenda hosted "This Is Baseball" in 1974-75. By 1976, Mel Allen
was host, and the show would be renamed, "This Week In Baseball".
One of my two all time Phavorite Phillies-Tony Taylor and Jay Johnstone
ClassicRocker61 same here!!
ClassicRocker61- that is two of your all time favorite Phillies, not one
I was there on Tony Taylor Night! I wish I could find more footage of it. He walked down a long red carpet from the centerfield fence. Willie Montanez gave him a Cadillac.
I also was there for 1975's "Tony Taylor Night." (I dont recall the red carpet though.) It was a Saturday night, I had my foot operated on that morning and came to the game on crutches, but I wasn't going to miss it! Sec. 234 Row 6 Seat 6. The Phillies did give Tony a car that Willie Montanez drove in from Right Field, around the Warning Track, down the Left Field/3rd Base Line to Home Plate where the ceremony was taking place. I believe By Saam (a Phillies announcer who retired after the '75 season) was emcee. Everyone was surprised when Willie got out of the car. (Phillies traded Willie earlier that season to S. F. Giants (who the Phillies were playing that night) for Gary Maddox. The car however was a Mercury Cougar, not a Cadillac.
1976 was a banner year for the team. A Bicentennial year!!! The Bicentennial All-Star Game at Veterans Stadium with pomp, baseball, and fireworks. The Liberty Bell under the stadium roof and near the scoreboard set it all. Not to mention the stadium fountains.
After the regular season, the Phillies got a chance to be in the postseason. They did---against the Big Red Machine of the Cincinnati Reds in the NLCS. Sadly, Cincinnati swept the Phillies in 3 games, but if the Phillies were to win the pennant, it would lead to even more fireworks for the Phillies and their fans!
The fireworks at the end of the video likely came from the postgame fireworks show of July 4, 1976, at Veterans Stadium? I think it is a good guess. (On that date, baseball and pyrotechnics seem to adore each other highly.)
Great memories of some classic Phillies teams.
Really amazing that TWO great voices from NFL films strongly represented the Phillies with John Facenda narrating and Harry Kalas play-by-play. Miss them both. 7:06-nothing worth missing here with the foul verbal assault from Cubs "fans" towards Greg "The Bull" Luzinski.
Philadelphia knocked on the door 75-79 losing out to Cincinnati Reds in 75& 76 and Los Angeles Dodgers 77& 78 and the We are family Pittsburgh Pirates in 79 then winning it all in 1980 and the runner-ups to the 83 World Champion 🏆 ⚾ Baltimore Orioles which had SIU Carbondale Illinois Saluki Jimmy Dwyer on its World Champion Team in '83. In 84 Chicago Cubs benefited from Dallas Green and company Bowa, Maddux , coming to Chicago after the Phillies World Title in 80 Phillies also has Decatur Illinois Native and Catholic High school Grad Del Unser. Jay Johnstone had an Iconic Career success in Philadelphia and with Chicago Cubs not to mention the '81 Los Angeles Dodgers world title with former Cub Rick Monday . Dick Allen's return in 75 to Philadelphia Dick was an icon he deserves HOF enshrinement. He has Jay Johnstone left us to soon in 2020 I appreciate Jay's kind words to me about my late Rodeo Princess who passed away March 1, 2016 leaving behind me and our 🐐 🐐 kids on our Eagle 🦅 Feathers Farm in NW Arkansas loved getting his kind note after Cubs won the 2016 World Title . Baseball ⚾ would see Greg Luzinski becoming a fan favorite on the South Side of Chicago baseball ⚾ is an iconic sport lots of Great Memories .
My goodness, you’re the new Howard Cosell
WOW this video was tremendous 👌🏻 ... thank you so much for sharing 😊
RIP Dick Allen.
I always liked those old Phillies uniforms. God Bless
Yeah I wish these we’re the full versions,but none the less I’m really happy to see these! These season highlight films have to be somewhere,I like the other 1974 Phillies highlight film,which I believe is the full film on UA-cam
I think the 1976 team is very underrated,people say the 77 team is the best in Phillies history,but I think the 76 team is just as good! A shame they had to face the Reds in the NLCS that year!
The 1976 team was better, simply because they had Dave Cash and an admittedly slowing but still serviceable Dick Allen. The '77 team's stats were tainted because it was a freak year with expansion, so offensive stats were inflated. That being said, the '76 team wouldn't have beaten the Reds in 20 tries, and the '77 team was screwed by a blown call by a gutless ump named Bruce Froeming in the playoffs. So even though the '76 team was better, the '77 team was the one that deserved to be in the World Series.
Had the 77 phillies had. Cash hitting behind mcbride they would have been great , moving Greg the Bull too first ,
@@jms1963 I like or dream the. 77 team would have had. Cash at second. Hitting behind. Mc bride moving the. Bull to first his natural position ,
@@DM-iw2qt Absolutely. I've never understood why Cash skipped town right when they were ready to win. And you're right, as great defensively as those teams were, you always had the specter of Luzinski in left, ready to blow a game with a misplay. I can't imagine he would have had much range at first, but he could do less damage there than he could in left field. Don't forget that Richie Hebner was on that '77 team. What do you do with him if you put Luzinski at first?
I remember Jay Johnstone crying in the outfield when the Phillies lost in 76 against the Reds.
I remember the home made "sign" over the Right Field tunnel. It was a white bed sheet with red painted lettering..."Play Jay EVERYDAY!"
Dick Allen was JACKED!
Back when athletes were actually intelligent, not merely athletic.
Interesting choice of music at 22:20 - "What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor"
"Hard to believe Harry"
This all lasted til October of 1983
Do you have the full versions of these, including '77 and '78? I've been looking for these for 20 years!! How did you get them?
I hear ya. I used to have every year from 76-94 on video cassette but I watched the tapes so much they basically disintegrated inside. These were such classics and Facenda is the best.
Yes, it's too bad the 1976 film isn't complete, as it's missing the beginning. But I am glad to at least be able to see the last 20 minutes. I have seen the 1975 film complete, in pristine quality.
I remember watching these when they came out and recording them on a cassette player. I can't find them anywhere. Any idea who possibly could have them?
Here's the 1977 Phillies film: ua-cam.com/video/nqOLpCpb4LE/v-deo.html
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Those Cub fans in the bleachers heckling Greg Luzinski were obviously drunk.
How did Johnstone wore out his welcome on other teams? I always heard he was a good team player.
it wasn't his playing, it was his sense of humor and individuality. like with the dodgers, fat tommy lasorda had no sense of humor and got rid of Johnstone because of practical jokes Jay pulled. (no respect for lasorda here, none at all)
Swangler, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Cubbies did a public service by getting the drunks off the streets for a few hours, most NL left fielders knew that.
Amazing, even back then Cubs fans were a bunch of drunken idiots.
@@jms1963 Lee Elia wan not a fan of them.
76-78 NL bridesmaids
Dick Allen belongs in the Hall of Fame
having experienced both, Wrigley Field and the White Sox stadium, whatever corporate name it has now, i can easily say, chicago fans are overrated and lame, along with milwaukee fans, some of the lamest trash talkers in MLB. i know this was nearly 50 years ago, but calling the Bull "lucy" was the best they could come up with? and in my experience, it really was.
Richie Ashburn used to ask Garry Maddox, "how does it feel to be the second best centerfielder in Phillies history?" lol
as Ralph Kiner (i believe) once said, "2/3 of the earth is covered by water, Garry Maddox covers the other 1/3,"
but there was never a centerfielder that covered that position like Whitey, look up the most outfield putouts in a season and Ashburn had over 500 4 times. that's only been done 8 times and he did it 4 of those times.
Is Dick Allen smoking during his 75 press confrence?.The 70's..When u could smoke in church..
AND on an airplane!
Or in a hospital.
On deck circle
Surprising you could smoke during a PC then, when you can't do it now. 😐
@@davanmani556 Ha!!
What's the song at 0:32
Odd that NFL Films Productions produced the Phillies highlights.
Odd? NFL Films and the Vet were like 20 apart and the Sabol's were Phillies fans.
@@Rockhound6165 I had no idea.
@@brandonmorris92 yeah, NFL Films is in Mount Laurel, NJ which is not that far from the Ben Franklin bridge.
@@Rockhound6165 No, not that, I didn't know that Steve and Ed Sabol watched Phillies games during the summer; in that case, I guess they wanted to catch a break from all of that filming during the NFL season then, lol.
@@Rockhound6165 At the time these "films" were made, NFL Films was still on North 7th St. in Phila.
Gary Maddux the secretary of defense
Garry Maddox
No Latin players
Cincinnati was way better then