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Random Video of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Aaron vs. Oh
Here’s a video of parts of an exhibition home run derby between Hank Aaron and Sadaharu Oh in November, 1974. Aaron won, 10-9.
Random Video of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Snowball Fight!
From Big League Stew comes this video of Dayton and Gardner-Webb having a snowball fight during a weather delay:
Videos of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Even More Old IL Baseball from the 30s
Late Friday (but posted early Saturday), I found some old videos of International League baseball, circa 1932. Well, more of them are being uploaded, so here they are:
Rochester Red Wings (Billy Southworth, Specs Toporcer) vs. Buffalo Bisons (Bubbles Hargrave, Heinie Mueller)… with play-at-the-plate action near the end:
Red Wings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (Rip Sewell):
And also some video from the 1931 “Little World Series” between the Red Wings and St. Paul Saints (the Red Wings won the series 5 games to 3, and this is from game 8). Keep an eye open for what appears to be a cameo by Cardinals GM Branch Rickey at 2:57 with two other dignitaries I can’t quite recognize (anybody who can help me out with this would be much appreciated) :
Videos of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Old-Time IL Baseball
Somebody on YouTube has been putting up videos from the 1930s of the Rochester Red Wings. These are home videos, somewhat haphazardly edited but of good quality,
Here, for example, is a video (somewhat haphazardly edited) of games between the Rochester Red Wings and Newark Bears in May, 1932. A rare, close-up view of Minor League Baseball in a era long ago. Among the players in this game include Newark’s George Selkirk, Red Rolfe and Dixie Walker and Rochester’s Specs Toporcer (the first known position player to wear glasses on the field). Hall of Famer Billy Southworth was a player-manager for the Wings at this point of 1932 as well, although I don’t see him at all in this video (although I might have missed him during the various cuts).
Shortly after I wrote that previous paragraph, a video of Opening Day from 1932 was put up, between Rochester and the Jersey City Skeeters. You can see Southworth in this one, as well as Jersey City’s Clyde Barnhart, who had been a regular of Pirates teams in the 1920s, and Jo-Jo Moore, who would later be a 6-time All-Star with the Giants. As a Rochesterian, it was also neat to see a advertisement for the “Zweigle Bros.”, considering that they continue to provide the Red Wings their hot dogs to this day.
Video of the Undetermined Amount of Time: Celebrating Earl Weaver as he lived
Earl Weaver passed away this morning somewhere in the Caribbean, with his wife by his side, he was 82.
But what better way to celebrate Weaver, the Earl of Baltimore, than to showcase him as he lived: Fighting with his greatest enemy, the umpires. Note that this video has adult language and probably shouldn’t be watched with little children around.
Video of the Random Amount of Time: Weird Taiwanese Animation of Hiroyuki Nakajima’s signing with the Athletics
NMA is an Asian company that makes CGI animations that are… unusual takes on the news. In this case, they’ve made a little CGI animation of Hiroyuki Nakajima, Japanese shortstop, and his signing with the Oakland Athletics.
Clearly, somebody was taking some type of hallucinogens when they made this.
Random video of the undetermined amount of time: Ichiro is awesome, sells wine doing so
Is this real or fake? Does it matter? Click the link below if it doesn’t show up correctly for you.
Another random video of the unknown amount of time: New Zealand does the Haka
New Zealand is a multi-cultural country that pays tribute to it’s significant Maori roots in various ways. One of those ways is by doing the Haka, a Maori dance, before sporting events. So, for the World Baseball Classic, that means that, before the game against Taipei, the “Diamondblacks” (a reference to the color of their uniform and the name of their nation’s rugby team, the “All Blacks”) did a Haka.
Check it out here.
Random Video of the Undetermined Time: Before Ichiro, there was Maddux
As I work on my recollections and photos from Game 1 of the American League Division Series between the Orioles and Yankees, perhaps now is a good time to talk about perhaps the signature play of Game 2: Ichiro’s dancing avoidance of Matt Wieters to score the first run of the game.
Ichiro has had many signature moments, but that play may be one of his best, it was something that nobody had ever seen before.
Except, well, this is baseball, so something like that had happened before. But who could have pulled off such a acrobatic feat of contortionist baserunning? Rickey Henderson? Pete Rose? A young Ken Griffey?
Would you believe Greg Maddux? (You have to click on the image below to get to the video)
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