Posted on 09/24/2010 10:28:26 AM PDT by malkee
How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television broadcast of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series — long believed to be lost forever — came to rest in the dry and cool wine cellar of Bing Crosby’s home near San Francisco is not a mystery to those who knew him.
Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio.
“He said, ‘I can’t stay in the country,’ ” his widow, Kathryn Crosby, said. “ ‘I’ll jinx everybody.’ ”
He knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set, found in December in Crosby’s home, is the only known complete copy of the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9. It is considered one of the greatest games ever played.
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Didn’t Bing beat Gary Crosby (his son) with a 9 iron?
I remember walking home from school listening to the game on a transistor radio.
I was only 3 mos. old. (But living in an apt. in Oakland near Forbes Field!)
I remember listening to the 1960 World Series in class using a crystal radio grounded to a pipe.
I remember seeing it on tv because it was still on after school. I can still see Mazeroski leaping around 3rd.
I went out and whooped it up in the driveway.
Wow....the memories are still so clear.
Ralph Terry was the Yankee pitcher...I played a round of golf with him last year.........awesome man
I heard that.
I recently saw a list on Yahoo, I think, of the 15 greatest games every played. This game was not on it...but the Bill Buckner game was. Probably written by a 20-something!
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Did Gary play with a 7-Iron? What was the final score?
LOL! Probably was!
I mean these were the YANKEES. Nearly unbeatable.[Not that year...something like 97-54 or somethin...] The mighty Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford...
Elston Howard, Tony Kubek,Yogi, Casey Stengle...I mean my lord!
Any other time I would have been pulling for them. But not against my Pirates. That the Pirates pulled it off and with such drama pretty much made me a lifelong fan of the game.
“Didn’t Bing beat Gary Crosby (his son) with a 9 iron?”
I don’t know about that, but it was one wonderful family (sarc). His son, Lindsay, committed suicide with a rifle blast to his head on December 11, 1989.
Yeah pretty sad. Some people think being the kid of someone famous or a movie star would be a lot of fun. In most cases it probably isn’t. Bing’s kids had no party.
What I had read over the years in the past, it was awful for his sons.
Bing was an awful, mean father.
I got home from school ( I was 8 ) around the 7th or 8th inning . My mom hated the Yankees with a passion , but she was watching the game . When Mazeroski hit the winning homer she screamed so loud and hard her false teeth fell out of her mouth !!!
Okay, so I tried searching the Internet for the list and I found a story that said the 1986 Mets won the best game ever (not the Bill Buckner game!) but the 16-inning sixth game of the playoffs against the Houston Astros. I was living in Houston then and actually saw that game, albeit on TV. I would love to hear what other people’s favorite (best) bb games ever are.
I was floating around somewhere in my mommy.
Foe me the greatest games would have to include game 6 & 7 of the 1975 World Series. Also, on 08/01/72 I was at the Padres-Braves doubleheader when Nate Colbert hit 5 home runs and had 13 RBI and I believe thats still a doubleheader record. The 1971 All Star game was a great game. For someone my age its almost a field of dreams type game with some many hall of famers hitting home runs. The 1978 playoff game between the yankees-red sox would have to be on the list.
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