Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram USA Video
• VHS Release Date: May 26, 1998
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304962916
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,625 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

It's the only time it's ever happened in the World Series. It may be the only time it's ever happened in any game. In one of the most memorable mishaps in baseball history, Brooklyn pitcher Billy Loes lost a ground ball in the sun, and it proved to be the pivotal play in a tense 3-2 victory by the New York Yankees in Game Six of the 1952 World Series--a win that squared the hard-fought Series at three games apiece and prevented the Dodgers from clinching their first ever World Championship. This was a pitcher's duel marked as much by a clash of styles as a clash of fastballs. On the Brooklyn side was Loes, the 22-year-old rookie with his cap pulled down to hide his baby face--a rookie so loose that after he reached first on a hit, he stole second to boot! And over on the Bronx side was Vic Raschi, the grim, tight-lipped veteran known as the "Springfield Rifle," whose clutch performance on the mound enabled the Yanks to live to see another day, and, ultimately, another Series title. Loes' fateful encounter with the Ebbets Field elements is just part of the drama of this intensely played contest. There's the ongoing battle for New York's centerfield bragging rights--won on this autumn afternoon by the Duke of Flatbush, Edwin Snider, belting two homers to Mickey Mantle's one; on his way to a record-setting, 0-21 Series slump; and the fierce competitiveness of Preacher Roe, railing against home plate umpire Art Passarella in the pressure-packed ninth. Still, it's Raschi's hot smash off Loes' left knee--the one that scored Gene Woodling with the go-ahead run--that is etched forever in baseball lore. "A double-jointed doozy," was what broadcaster Red Barber called this game. As usual, Red was right.--Billy Altman.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Oldest Living Ballgame, July 15, 2001

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Jason A. Miller (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mlb: 1952 World Series Game 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is as far back as it goes, folks... as Steve Garvey says in the host segments of this condensed classic, Game 6 of the 1952 World Series is the oldest complete baseball telecast that still survives. And it's an epic, a war -- once again, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson and Casey Stengel and George Shuba (?) -- are alive and swinging at the corner of Bedford Avenue in old black-and-white Brooklyn.

Seeing Ebbets Field again is the primary thrill of watching this game, for those of us who were born 15 years after the park was torn down, but grew up on the stories. Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Duke Snider all homer -- watch the ball sail over the crooked, ad-filled right-field wall -- and Billy Loes lost the ground ball in the sun.

The presentation is static and primitive (and that's just Steve Garvey's between-innings narration). Perhaps you prefer your baseball with heavy doses of Tim McCarver analysis, and watching a game from half-a-century ago will make you fidget. Perhaps you've read about this game on so many pages that seeing the actual footage will come as a disappointment. Perhaps, though, this videotape is history come alive, and will make the perfect companion piece to all those well-read books on your shelf.

4.0 out of 5 stars Brooklyn Almost Does It Again, November 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mlb: 1952 World Series Game 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a remarkebly fine quality video, considering that the film goes back to a baseball game played 47 years ago. The format is excellent. The complete flavor of the game is kept by showing entire half or complete innings. The video is 94 minutes long and gives an excellent sense of the play. The viewer needs to keep in mind that the action is pre-video tape and a video copy of a film of the game. The video retains the sense of tension in the game and the nostalgic romance of the voices of Mel Allen and Red Barber. Enjoy, if you can get a copy. I understand it is out of print.