1966 New York Mets Baseball Season Review "The Mets Are Coming", with Borden's Dairy Advert! F845
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A promo film for the New York Mets season of 1966. This chronicles all the activities that the team engaged in this year, which was by all accounts a good year for the team (so the film claims...I really don't know myself). It ends rather abruptly, as there was sprocket damage in the last minute of film. It is possible this was lost film.
I can find very little about this film, but I assume it was a regional TV syndicate 30 minute slot filler (with ads). The production companies (Vision Associates and Wink Films) appear in various records of the 1960s as making this sort of thing for such stations, but I can find nothing of this particular production.
It has a couple of sweet sponsor adds at each end of the film.
Strange how often a sort of marching music was in vogue for American promos of the 1950s and 60s...perhaps the soundscape of a culture that felt it was going somewhere?
I can't pretend to know anything about baseball...but after watching it I sense there is more to this sport than I had realised.
Credits:
Narrated: Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson
Script: Dick Young
Production Supervisor: Arthur Richman
Edited: Barry Winik
Photography: Dick Winik
Produced: Vision Associates (also Wink Productions)
No director or script are mentioned.
One of the most important trades, getting Jerry Grote.
Too bad it got chopped up. We didn't get to see Rn's homer at the beginning, just the before and after. But thanks I love this sort of vintage baseball film. it turns You-Tube into a time machine.
This is both a beautiful and at the same time depressing period piece for the New York Mets. Beautiful because you see future heroes Tom Seaver, Ron Swoboda, Jerry Koosman, Tug McGraw and even Rusty Staub with Houston. Depressing because you see Bing Devine and Joe McDonald whom I associate with the bad years. Steve Chilicott? They passed on Reggie Jackson for that stiff. Whitey Herzog coaching 3rd base for the Mets? They elevated stiffs like Roy McMillan and Joe Frazier to Manager passing on Whitey Herzog. And M. Donald Grant. He of the Midnight Massacre, along with his minion Joe McDonald. Both of them set the Mets back because of their stinginess and inability to keep up with the changing nature of MLB (increasing salaries, free agency). Oh, what could have been in Flushing with the Mets if they made better decisions. Big sigh.
And don't forget George M, Weiss, who along with other boneheads, decided to bring back some of the old Brooklyn Dodgers... already past their prime and very near retirement (already) in place of some young, potentially future stars in the draft.
@@georgeanthony7282 Yep! Before WCBS FM was New York’s oldies station the early Mets gave us those oldies but goodies. Oh, well.
Trivia time - In Houston's pre-Astro (Colt 45s) days, who was their backup catcher in 1964? It was future Met Jerry Grote! Tom Seaver almost became an Atlanta Brave except for a ballot drawn out of a hat. Mets got Seaver and the rest is history.
The Mets scored against Koufax? Amazin .. Whitey Herzog.... Larry Elliot was traded for Ed Charles...
Great kiniscope of WOR-TV9 game broadcast at the top. @ 1:09 Eddie Bressoud hits into inning ending double play 6th inn. 8/18 vs. Pirates, Mets win 9-5,
Yogi doesn't believe Doug Harvey's out call. @ 2:02 Huggins-Stengel field St. Pete, in 2025 this field will be 100 years old - practice home for Yankees, Mets,
Orioles and Rays - designated a national landmark. @ 5:14 clip of Cleon Jones sliding home used in WOR-TV9 Mets broadcast intro well into the mid 70's.
@ 7:07 Jack Lang, Long Island Press/Newsday baseball writer. In the just over one year Bing Devine ran the Mets, many important player moves occurred.
Joe McDonald would later be GM in the 70's, he was hamstrung by M. Donald Grant. Clip @ 15:18 of Harrelson bunting used in WOR-TV9 Mets broadcast
intro for many years. Bob Sheffing was GM 1970-1974, again was held back by M. D. Grant. Tug wearing #8 ?!? Jack Fisher was known as 'Fat Jack'.
@ 18:09 triple play vs. Cubs occured 9/28, 6th inn. - Joe Amalfitano lines out to third-baseman Eddie Bressoud, throws to second-baseman Chuck Hiller,
who doubles up John Boccabella and throws to first-baseman Jim Hickman, who catches Ron Campbell off first.
You obviously know so much about this, I simply cannot comment in any meaningful sense. But thank you for this information...I know there will be many that understand and appreciate such knowledge.
CBS once had a programming executive named B. Donald Grant who was nicknamed "Bud." I presume, in that sense, given M. Donald Grant's track record in his time with the Mets, his name should be condensed to "Mud"?
More like a triple play
In good Old NYC and good Old America during the Mad Men era when I was a boy in my old hometown.
@3:06 is that Muhammad Ali behind Joan Payson?
AS A YANKEE FAN I HATED THE METS MY OTHER BROTHER WAS A METS FAN SINCE 1962. WHEN THEY LOST 120 GAMES KENNETH O
Maybe the only footage you’ll ever see of Steve Chilcotte. Wow!
Reggie Jackson was almost a Met
@@johnpastore7685 Should've been !
An early sighting of Mr. & Mrs. Met...
14:45-answer to that question about the Jacksonville pitcher wearing number 21-a resounding YES!
Grant was convinced Don Shaw would make it big. He referred to Shaw as, "my Donnie Shaw." When the Mets threw him into the expansion pool before the 1969 season, Grant couldn't understand why. The Expos selected him and ironically, Shaw was the winning pitcher for the Expos on Opening Day in '69.
This was not yet 1969. Another lousy Met team finishes in 9th place
No . . . but it was an improvement over the 1962-65 (and, later, 1967) last-place finishes. It was also an improvement over the 1966 Yankees who DID finish last.