Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram USA Video
• VHS Release Date: May 26, 1998
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304963815
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #473,135 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

Talk about your classic duels--American League MVP and Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain vs. National League MVP and Cy Young Award winner Bob Gibson; the Detroit Tigers vs. the St. Louis Cardinals in one of the most thrilling Seven Game battles in World Series History. This video has almost too many highlights. Gibson's record-setting 17 strikeouts in Game 1, the Tigers' rally to erase a 3-1 deficit, and Series hero Mickey Lolich's three dramatic wins including the crucial one in Game 7.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch it again and again, July 21, 2001

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This review is from: Mlb: 1968 World Series - Detroit Vs St Louis [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Curt Gowdy narrates this one hour of highlights from a thrilling Series. Each game is given a good seven minutes or so, giving one a real feel for what it was like. The film is all in color (a nice contrast to "Classic Sports" replays of this series which have been b/w) and basically goes through each game inning by inning. Game 5 was especially thrilling: Lou Brock's dominance finally is ended when he's out at the plate in the most controversial play of the Series. Umpire Doug Harvey's explanation of his call is so thorough that it's funny. Let's hope "Classic Sports" gets this game 5 on someday. Until then, get this tape while it's still available, it's well worth it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a series!!!!!, February 1, 2001

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John Danforth (Forney TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mlb: 1968 World Series - Detroit Vs St Louis [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you can imagine what a thrill it was to grow up in Detroit in the 50's and 60's, and you miss a time when starting pitchers finished games, closers were just that, watch this video! In 1968, a rt handed shortstop who hit .230 against southpaws, and .061 against righthanders was called a MINOR LEAGUER. Forget the fact that Denny McClain won 31 games, this series featured a centerfielder (MIckey Stanley) playing shortstop! Mickey Lolich won 3 games for Detroit the last on 2 days rest. Pretty good for a guy who was right handed and taught himself to pitch with his left hand after a childhood injury. Mickey also hit his first career homerun in this series. Considering the fact that most of these guys had off-season jobs to pay the bills, now this was baseball. Two great teams, two great cities, playing a game out of love. GET IT!!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mickey Lolich leads the Tigers comeback to victory in 1968, July 5, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mlb: 1968 World Series - Detroit Vs St Louis [VHS] (VHS Tape)

We were living in Japan when the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals played in the 1968 World Series. My mother and brother are Cardinal fans, so naturally I rooted for the Tigers. The games were carried on Armed Forces Radio live, which meant you had to get up in the middle of the night in Japan to hear the game. I listened to the first game, which the Cardinals won as Bob Gisbon fanned 17 Tigers in a five-hit shutout. I slept through Game 2, when Willie Horton, Norm Cash and Mickey Lolich homered to tie the series. I listened to the next two games as St. Louis beat up on the Tigers, shelling 30-game winner Denny McLain as Gibson's World Series win streak reached 7. So I noticed a pattern: I listen and the team I am rooting for loses. Consequently, I stopped listening to the game and the Tigers became one of the few teams to ever come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the series as Lolich won games 5 and 7 to earn Series MYP Honors, with McLain finally picking up a win! in Game 6 when the Tigers exploded for 10 runs in the 3rd inning. The really funny thing is I never got a thank you let alone a World Series ring from the Tigers. The nice thing is to finally see not only the games I listened to in the middle of the night way back when, but the four the Tigers won to grab the World Championship as well. This series featured future Hall of Famers Lou Brock and Al Kaline, as well as current baseball announcer Tim McCarver, whose 3-run blast gave St. Louis the lead in Game 3.