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Mlb: 1968 World Series - Detroit Vs St Louis [VHS]

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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.

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!!!!!

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.

Revel in the mound mastery of the mighty Bob Gibson. Thrill to the clutch hitting of Al Kaline. Marvel at the one-man offensive show staged by Lou Brock. And relate to the unlikely heroics of the pot-bellied Mickey Lolich. All rendered beautifully against the backdrops of old Tiger Stadium and (then) new Busch Stadium. Hall of Famers Roger Maris, Ed Mathews, and Orlando Cepeda also make appearances.

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Was the '68 Series fixed??? McLain's and Flood's mysterious lapses make one wonder.

I"d like this video very much and I want to have it.