Video of 1973 World Series introductions

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://www.ontheblack.com/2010/11/29/mets-and-as-1973-world-series-introductions/

Not sure how to embed YouTube, but a tweet this morning drove me to this wonderful link of the 1973 World Series introductions. I'd forgotten that Wayne Garrett was our leadoff hitter.

[Frayed Knot]

I'd forgotten that Wayne Garrett was our leadoff hitter.

Of course. He was the middle man in the 3 consecutive Game-3, leadoff HR streak - book-ended by Agee & Dykstra.
Timo wrecked the streak in 2000

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mays batting third and getting an extended standing O from the Bay Area crowd.

Nice response for Buddy also, which I can only assume is in reponse to his (very recent, at this point) fight with Rose.

[G-Fafif]

I hope MLB doesn't pull it down too soon (as they have with other '73 WS footage). It's a gem.

Kind of sad hearing the crowd turn completely silent when the introductions morphed from Willie to Cleon. But it was Oakland. Decent ovations for Tom as well as Buddy and Tug -- Northern/Central California boys all. Ray Sadecki got a little love as well for his years with the Giants, perhaps.

Jim McAndrew: active for two postseasons, never got into a game.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

And a Stork sighting, too!

[RealityChuck]

Wow. Staub didn't start? Why on Earth did Berra use Hahn in his place, even granting right vs. lefty? Staub also just put the team into the series, with 3 HRs and 5 RBIs in the divisional series.

[Frayed Knot]

Staub was also injured during the LCS - maybe sitting out was partly an extra day to heal.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Staub didn't heal until next season. He played the rest of the series with excruciating shoulder pain that prevented him from raising his right arm much higher than his shoulder. He couldn't throw at all and was a defensive liability. He had to throw the baseball sidearm, frisbee style, the way you'd throw a rock to skim water. Limited as such, Staub couldn't throw the ball more than 100, 150 feet. Don Hahn would race towards Staub whenever the ball was hit to right. I know of at least one play when Staub tossed the batted ball to an arriving Hahn after fielding it so that Hahn could relay the ball back to the infield. But Staub was the Mets most potent hitter, and too valuable to keep out of the lineup. Even with his compromised shoulder, Staub hit a ton in the WS, even homering once.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Staub flinging the ball to Hahn is my earliest specific baseball memory. Or maybe I kinda sorta remember the injury itself.

I guess it's beside the point, but I wonder why Berra didn't try to swap Staub with Milner.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, I didn't mean heal completely, only that him sitting out game 1 was possibly due to the shoulder rather than a simple manager's decision.
I don't think his arm ever completely recovered from that injury.

In his original restaurant Rusty had a sequence of still photos from that catch against the wall.
That and the 20+ consecutive baseball cards of him were the highlights of the decor.

[batmagadanleadoff]

In '73, the Mets could've used the alternating DH in the AL park WS rule that's since come to pass.

[A Boy Named Seo]

So used to the black hats on grey tops that the blues ones looked strange at first. But that feeling went away immediately. Those uni's looked so purty.

[HahnSolo]

Loved this. Thanks for linking to it.

The Mets really didn't have the handshake thing down did they? Also, I noticed they lined up from 1st base down to the plate, unlike the way they do it now. No managerial handshake this way.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, great clip. Whenever I saw these intros I used to ask myself whether I'd be the guy who kinda plays it cool and maybe shakes the hand of the guy next to me, or one of them rah-rah types who does the whole line slap.

I think I'd be a line slapper.

[Guest Edgy DC]

G-Fafif wrote: Jim McAndrew: active for two postseasons, never got into a game.

Anybody else share this distinction? I would guess no.