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Impossible to Forget: The Story of the '67 Boston Red Sox

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I was very anxious to get this DVD set..even though I'm from Southern California I was a big fan of the Red Sox as a young fan and of YAZ and Lonborg etc...and looking forward to this 40th Anniversary set. The extra features are fun but the main program is a scant 48 minutes and while it has good footage and a nice storytelling to it..ALL of the interviewees are Boston area columnists or politicians NO PLAYERS?!!! I was so dissapointed to not have YAZ or Jim or Rico or any of them on the program. The extra features are vignettes (that curiously have the odd player interview?) an old documentary of around 48 minutes that is horribly faded and hard to watch and the second disc is a complete game from the final weekend series with the Twins. They mention that it is the OLDEST complete game in baseball available in color...so its a valuable piece of history. Unfortunately it isn't the clincher with Lonborg...but the game the day before...still a valuable curiosity, and the main thing making me not rate this much lower as its cool.

Sadly I'm not sure I'll visit this set very often ..if more than once on most features...

I remember that weekend like it happened a few days ago. One game up in the standings, two games to play, the Twins had to win only once to go to the World Series. Just one, lousy game...

I've seen parts of the DVD, and will buy a copy for myself. It was great to see Killebrew, Oliva, Yaz, Petrocelli and others of that era again, although I would have preferred to see Sunday's clinching game.

No matter; the late Ray Scott was the Twins'announcer in 1967, and he said he got a gut-wrenching feeling during Saturday's game the Twins would not beat Boston. He said it was one of the most depressing feelings he'd ever experienced as a broadcaster. To us faithful in Minnesota, those losses were as crushing as any a Minnesota team ever suffered. And that includes the four Super Bowls.

The 1967 Red Sox separate the "bandwagon" fans from the real fans. This is where the real Red Sox Nation starts. All the highlights, all the player profiles, all the clips you could possibly want from the Impossible Dream season. This would have been enough but, an entire pivotol gave is included as a bonus disc. In color, no intrusive graphics cluttering up the screen, just as it was broadcast on the second to last game of the season. A "Dream" DVD.

This is one terrific DVD.

If you are a baby boomer from the New England area, or you are just BoSox-curious, you will love this 2-DVD set.

Disc 01 features a tremendous 40th anniversary recap of the 1967 season, which appeared last year on the New England Sports Network (NESN).

Bonus material on Disc 01 features the original "Impossible Dream" show that appeared (in B&W) on Boston's WHDH-TV, after the 1967 season had finished. Also included are three segments from the 1967 World Series highlight film, specifically the three wins posted by the Sox.

Arguably, Disc 02 is even more interesting than Disc 01.

It's a near-complete copy, of the local broadcast, of the next to last game of the 1967 regular season. The Red Sox hosted the Minnesota Twins in Fenway, needing a win to stay in the race. The makers of the DVD claim the copy of this game represents the oldest complete-game broadcast available, of any baseball game, that had been telecast in color. Jose Santiago started for the Red Sox, while Jim Kaat pitched for the Twins. Early in the contest, Kaat exited the game with an injury, giving way to Jim Perry, brother of Hall-of-Famer Gaylord Perry. The Sox came from behind, hung on, and won, behind homers by Carl Yastrzemski and George Scott. Boston went on to take the final game of the season the next day, clinching the flag, behind a complete game effort by Jim Lonborg.

Be advised Disc 2 is also available as part of a six-DVD set called "The Essential Games of Fenway Park."

Just plain great stuff ... get it.

Great DVD with most of the material coming from NESN specials aired in 2007. My only disappointment was I thought that the 2nd DVD had the final game of the year vs. the Twins but it actually contains the Saturday (next to last) game.

Anyone who lived through the thrill of the 1967 season will love this DVD set, anyone too young will still enjoy it as it the season is the birth of the Red Sox Nation. The DVD of the next to final game is outstanding, the color is as good as todays. It is also nice to see the difference between broadcasts of 1967 and today. Great stuff, all Red Sox fans would love it.

This is a must-have for any Red Sox fan old enough to remember the 1967 Red Sox. The recording of the penultimate game of the '67 regular season on the second disc alone makes this 2-DVD set worth buying. Minnesota fans might also enjoy this look back at the great Twins teams of the 60s, even if this particular game was a loss.

The NESN documentary, which is ostensibly the main feature of this video production, is a little over the top in its description of the 1967 season as the birth of "Red Sox Nation". Sports fans who are familiar with Bob Ryan's tendency to characterize everything as the greatest or most incredible something-or-other in the history of organized sports will recognize his influence in the writing. For me, as a Red Sox fan who rooted for Dick Stuart to win the RBI title in 1963 and was thrilled to see Felix Mantilla start at second base in the 1965 All-Star team, all this hype about 1967 got to be a little irritating.

Not that 1967 wasn't the greatest and most exciting baseball season in the history of organized sports, however. Taken as a whole, the various features on this set manage to remind us of most, but not all, of the memories of the 1967 Red Sox.

1967 forever changed baseball in Boston. It is hard to believe but there were fewer than 1000 people in attendance at some games in the early part of that decade even though unreserved grandstand seats could be had for $.75. That situation changed for the next 40 years as the 67 team went from last to first, clinching the pennant on the last day of the season in a 4 team race and building a new generation of fans who remain with the team today.

This DVD relives that year in 48 minutes. Some of the highlights (such as the fight in Yankee Stadium) are very clean. Others may not be of the same high quality but are still fun to watch. The corny Impossible Dream verse read by Ken Coleman and Don Gillis is bearable if you remember that it was written at the time and reflects the era. If you can take the Carl Yastrzemski song, you can probably deal with anything.

This is pre-steroid and free agent baseball. Players would paint houses or work other jobs in the off season to keep going. There is an innocence to the game that shows through the scenes in the DVD.

There is a bonus inclusion of the Impossible Dream television special from 1967. This gives you a look into production values and attitudes of the time in addition to the game. This is the first time I have seen the video since I first saw it at 14 years old and I still got a thrill out of it.

There is a separate DVD with the penultimate game against the Twins. This game is as exciting as the final game and is highlighted by a Yaz home run.

This is a must for all old school baseball people...I am a Twins fan but the game on the second disc was worth double the price..The broadcasting was just baseball no radar guns/ no contract talks/no stupid gimmicks/just balls and strikes and a Killebrew Homerun..Though the twins lost the game with Yaz also hitting a homerun and an interesting view of a Young Ted Kennedy and Vice-President Humphrey before the game....I love it...

Great purchase for Red Sox fans. The bonus disc with the game against the Twins was a lot of fun.