1982 World Series

[metfanal]

that is fantastic....wow!! Colecovision...and the 2nd year Fleer cards!!!! thanks for the great post!!!!

[AudiomanJS]

This video won as soon as you heard "Brought to you by Coleco Vision"

[wdm1219]

Wow, Colecovision.....that's old time! Dick Enberg, 28 years ago, and he still has a golden voice even now in 2010. Enjoy having him while he's still around gang, the legendary broadcasters are indeed a dying breed, and I thank my lucky stars that we still have the likes of Enberg, Scully & Vern Lindquist still around, not to mention Al Michaels, a truly golden voice.

[dsm92eclipsegsx13]

All those cards are in perfect condition!!!

[YouSuckPeriod]

1:51 Why do I hear the theme of NWA Championship Wrestling?

[alongo34]

bring the brewers back to the AL AMERICAN LEAGUE!!!!!

[alongo34]

bring the brewers back to the american league i hate the national league!

[ErikS1975FreeState]

This was a David vs Goliath battle with the Cardinals being David & the Brewers being Goliath

[JoePolitico]

i want to see game 3

[JoePolitico]

i want to see game 3

[Blufftown]

I think it was most exciting when ABC had it because of Al Michaels and Keith Jackson. Tell me Chris Berman, Jon Miller or Dan Shulman of ESPN couldn't deliver. That 1987 World Series got me hooked on baseball.

[Teejs52]

Haha brought to you by Colecovision: the arcade quality home video game system! That's awesome ... cool to see the Brew Crew in the WS too!

[USAGiant]

@indyfan22k Dick Enberg left NBC when CBS-TV got the contract of the AFC division games of the NFL around 1999-2000. At CBS he was no longer the lead NFL play-play man as Greg Gumbel and Jim Natnz took that post. Enberg also covered the NCAA Basketballl playofs and was still the lead announcer for CBS coverage of the US Tennis Open until 2009.

Now as his great career is ending, Enberg is now the lead Local TV voice of the San Diego Padres.(as of 2010 season)

[keiichiudagawa]

@indyfan22k

i agree. i want to see mlb at all network station (nbc, abc, cbs and fox). i want to please learn Japanese baseball television broadcasting.

[noodle4313]

go brewers

[gibby100]

wow that's a long opening

[ny23ny23ny]

Who is Tony "Ko"-beck?

[iamhungey12345]

@ny23ny23ny

Kubek you mean. He was a shortstop for the Yankees from the late 50s to the 60s.

[VolumedMusicMan]

Colleco Vision OMG!

[stlblues86]

Man, I miss the old Busch Stadium. So many great memories of attending Cards and Big Red games there.

[BrightWave]

This is where Jim Crockett Promotions go the theme to the World Championship Wrestling program of the 1980s.

[bigandtallreturn]

From my understanding, once NBC lost the NFL, that didn't leave much for Enberg to do. Dan Hicks had taken over as the voice of golf on NBC, and USA's Ted Robinson was coming in to be their play-by-play man in tennis. (Which he's good at, in all fairness.) All Enberg had left was Notre Dame football and the occasional college basketball game. So once Enberg's contract with NBC ran out at the end of 1999, he accepted CBS' offer and went there.

[F16rocks]

GO CARDINALS!!!

[KNS1996DFS]

I hear you, but it will have to wait until 2014.

[nec4life]

Miller vs Bud.  Choose your side.

[chumbersdee]

1:50, Colecovision. Oh shit, this is so dated. I had a colcovision. Memories.

[juan833cheer]

Colecovision, you left out the "e".

[USAGiant]

I think the biggest issue w/ Fox showing MLB games besides the annpuncer(ie Joe Buck is much better at Baseball play-Play than the NFL imo but that another topic) is the fact they go way overboard w/ graphics, replays and the use of the Fox logo or 'bug' on every damn play.

To me i can live w/ the bad announcers(i just put in on mute)but the overboard use of the graphics and when a team wins a championship you see the station "bug' or logo all over the camera shot as the player celebrate.

[Norima79]

I couldn't agree more, especially with that DAMN ROBOT during NFL games and those CGI jumbotrons that now, sadly, other networks have since copied.

[homer63109]

NBC had to hate a WS between the two of smallest TV markets in North America. Good world series though. Most of the Cards were coked up especially Hernandez and Lonnie Smith.

[USAGiant]

Actually other than the all time classic '86 series (Red sox vs Mets) and excellent 6 game series in '80(Phils vs KC) this was the 3rd highest series of the 80's. Ratings increased for the '82 series as the 1982 NFL strike has just begun as the LCS round was ending in Mid October that year.

Game #7 of this series for several years (until 1986)was the most watched MLB game in US Television history.

[homer63109]

Good points, I was probably thinking in the terms of the current media environment with cable and satellite. The 2006 world series was panned as a ratings generator because the Cards and the Tigers played each other and the cards barely qualified for the post season. Back in '82 when it came to news for instance you watched Dan Rather on CBS or John Chancellor/David Brinkley on NBC and you liked it .

[USAGiant]

Sorry Homer to sound like a smart a@@ lol but slight correction again.

Brinkley had started his Sunday Morning w/ ABC 'this week' in Sept 1981 while by Jan. 1983, Tom Brokaw began a 22-year span as NBC Nightly News( Abchor likely never to be broken again)replacing Mr. Chancellor.

FYI. John Chancellor was the narrator on the Ken Burns Documentry "Baseball'" first shown in Oct. 1994.

The Cards-Tigers series in '06 was also 'boring' unlike in '68 which also a reason for ratings disater.

[USAGiant]

Another side note. This is the only world series that legendary broadcaster Dick Enberg ever broadcaster.

Enberg is best known as the long time lead NFL announcer for many years on NBC. The year before Dodgers Announcer would be NBC lead MLB voice for nearly a decade.

Was Enberg the host/play-play man **only because of the NFL strike? Or was he already scheduled to do the '82 Series before the NFL work stoppage.

Memory serves me right Enberg was the Angels announcer early in his carrer?

[QixAck]

He was an announcer with the Angels before and (on cable) after this.

According to Enberg's autobiography he was being groomed to become the lead announcer for NBC next season. However, one of the sponsors wanted Vin Scully, and NBC decided to go with him instead of Dick Enberg.

[TMC1982Part2]

You must be thinking about when Joe Garagiola replaced Curt Gowdy as NBC's main baseball announcer in 1976. Joe was a spokesman for Chrysler, who was the primary sponsor for NBC's MLB telecasts at the time. I think the case for Vin Scully was that NBC found out that he had just left CBS and immediately offered him a ton of money to come work for them.

[TMC1982Part2]

Dick Enberg only did play-by-play for the middle innings. Joe Garagiola handled the first three and last three innings for the '82 World Series. This was also, the first World Series that Bob Costas covered for NBC. He later did the trophy presentation.

[ilovebrewers2]

The brewers should have won game six but the umps were awful who knows what would have been different if they would have won.

[DONNIE1anddaisy2]

They lost 13-1. Umpires did not single handedly lose that game for the Brewers, they lost it themselves. They made 4 errors as well.

[Truthbeknown1000]

blah blah, brewers suck, period.

[SFFOOL76]

boooooooooooo, on your ignorance. Are you a Cardinals fan about 1985 then you might have an arguement , however losing 13-1 is bad pitching.

[MariPamJam]

The theme song is the best.

[NJTank]

I miss when NBC had the game of the Week

[mrpariot]

Don't know the exact name of the music, but it was used for years as the theme for WTBS' World Championship Wrestling in the 80s.

[reznor97]

u 2 shut the fuck up!

[spookybee]

I can't believe i found this. I still remember where I was when we heard on the radio that we'd won. I was 8. Thank you for this. Pleeez post moar!

[Fanik8]

Didn't they have an afternoon game in one of the games in this World Series and if so was that the last one held in the afternoon sun?

[simplygu]

I don't think it was the last afternoon game in a World Series, but yes Game 4 of this series was a day game. Brewers were down 5-1 and scored 6 in one inning late to win 7-5. The also won game 5 by the score of 6-4. However, they lost games 6 & 7 back in St. Louis to lose the series 4-3.

[KNS1996DFS]

Until 1985, the weekend games were usually played in the afternoon. The last day game was Game 6 in 1987. But of course, that was played at the Metrodome.

[SFFOOL76]

I believe they had a few days games over the weekend in milwaukee. The last day game was Game 6 of the 1987 World Series.

[DONNIE1anddaisy2]

They should have day World Series games during the weekends again.

[USAGiant]

@Fanik8

With the world series concluding games now ending in the first couple of days of November I agree. MLB should do it especially if cold weather teams like the Twins,Tigers or Rockies having outside chance for getting snow.

If day afternoon WS games returns, it will more than likely be on a weekday late afternoon. MLB and it's TV partners whether Fox or w/e station in future covers will not want to go 'head-head' with college footballs on Saturdays and the NFL on Sunday.

[marquettefootball]

@USAGiant Only way weekend afternoon WS game ever happens is if MLB pays NFL to not put a game in a 3:00 p.m. time slot. It could work as a compromise by each league to create a non-compete in particular time slots (eg. Sunday night football)

[USAGiant]

@marquettefootball You mean 4pm Eastern time slot right? I agree that a great idea. Besides the NFL for at least 15 year or more never has a Sunday Night game for the first weekend of the world series.

IMO game #2 now played on Thursday nights and game #5 on Sunday Night in recent years should both have a 6pm Eastern Time start.

While a few 4pm NFL games could be switched to a Friday Night prime time as the WS first off day is that Friday. Good thinking Marquette.

[marquettefootball]

@USAGiant Oh, and thanks! :)

[USAGiant]

@marquettefootball While an afternoon start at around 3pm East Coast or 12 Noon West Coast times is best, the earliest MLB and their TV partners I fell will ever start for WS games is 6pm.

[marquettefootball]

@USAGiant That makes sense in the idea that the Super Bowl is usually a 6pm-ish ET start. My guess is, though, that for a Sunday, you'd have the 1pm ET football, 4:30pm ET World Series, and 8:15 Sunday Night football, so there's no overlap. NFL would NEVER allow a prime importance game to start 10:15 on a Sunday night. Just trying to make everyone happy.

[tealduck32]

One of the best World Series ever.

[simplygu]

The 1982 Brewers hit 216 home runs. Remember, that is pre steroid era and in a spacious County Stadium. What a lineup. Molitor, Yount, Cooper, Simmons, Ogilivie, Thomas, Money, Moore, Gantner. The first 3 all hit over .300 with 200+ hits each. Yount the #2 hitter drove in 114. Coop, Oglv, & Thomas also drove in 100+ and Simmons had 97 rbi. Molitor scored 136. The #9 hitter Gantner hit .295. Coop, Olgv, Thomas had 30+ HR & Yount had 29, Simmons 23, Molitor 19. 3 players from team are in the HOF.

[Fanik8]

you really know your brew crew

[simplygu]

I always thought if the Brewers had Rollie Fingers healthy for this series... they would have won it. Of the 3 Cardinals teams to make it to the World Series in the 1980's... I thought the '82 team was the weakest. However, they won the Series while the '85 & '87 teams both lost in 7 games. Of course, Pendleton & Clark were hurt in '87, and Coleman was hurt in '85. So, it could have been 3 titles for the Cardinals that decade. The 1982 World Series was exciting despite blow outs in games 1 & 6.

[80sStickBall]

Plus the blown call in game 6 of the '85 series. Wonder if Denkinger would still sign a pic of Worrell's foot on the bag as Jorge Orta hung in mid-air?

[simplygu]

I hear ya, but I don't think the Cards should use that blown call as an excuse. That call did not let in a run. It was the lead off hitter of the inning & they still could have gotten 3 outs to win it. As I recall, Clark missed a pop up and Porter had a crucial passed ball in that same inning. Can't blame the ump on those. Also, the Cards still had game 7 to prove they were the better team. However, they lost 11-0. The Cards also hit only .185 for the series. Can't blame the ump for that either.

[80sStickBall]

Very true. Clark near the first base dugout took an out off the scoreboard. I guess I'd say it 'lent' to the demise of that inning. But, of course, the media coverage made it seem otherwise. Cards have no one but themselves to blame for Game 7.

[simplygu]

Finally, a Cardinals fan that thinks with his mind instead of just his heart. Thank you for being objective and being one of the few Cardinals fans to realize that the blown call by Denkinger in Game 6 is not an excuse for the Cardinals lackluster performance in the 1985 World Series.

[80sStickBall]

Though I'm not a Cards fan, I commend you for your internet professionlism (which is usually an oxymoron) in thinking that I was.

[tonythetigerII]

A REALLY UNDERRATED ONE.

[safaribass]

coleco vision OL MY GAWD.LOL

[zorak1997]

Oh my - ColecoVision! My parents got us one that upcoming Christmas.

Does anyone have (or remember) NBC's opening to each game of the 1984 World Series?

They filmed this sketch of ball-players and people in saloons in period-piece clothing discussing the upcoming 1903 World Series. Very cool. I still remember how some of the Pirates fans shooting pool in the sketch were cocky about their chances, and then this one guy says something like, "But Boston had a guy named Cy Young. He's good".

[mdumas43073]

This is the first WS I can recall watching on TV as a kid. I would've been 9 then.

Still two more years to go before my team (the Tigers) got to the big stage.

[ThePretzelHead]

THat intro needed to be another minute longer. I was just settlin in and it was over. Back to the 8 minute intro I says.

[retroman1990]

Anybody notice the "Tony Brown's Journal" theme that starts at 1:45? What's funny is that he still uses the same theme today.

[robbchr]

Anco???

[nirvanrocker]

makes me realise how much i miss bush stadium

[nirvanrocker]

sorry busch stadium

[kascnef82]

I was born almost three months after the world series that year!

[nirvanrocker]

what a great year for cardinal fans

[mandingogreenbaum]

Yes we all love the Yankees of the National league. The only thing to the Cardinals credit is that their fans are not nearly as irritating as Cubs fans. Brewers all the way '09

[Intercardinal]

St.Louis Cardinals, a National League winning tradition !!!

[mitchl847]

This is the closest that the Brewers have been to the World Series since 1982, so they play this on tv every yearand pretend that they are actually in it, except they don't play game 7....we all know what happened in that one.

[apm78229]

Wow...look at all that foul territory...could you even see the baseline from the front row? :)

[USAGiant]

This is last time the Brewers made the world series in 1982. In 2008 could they make it back? They are now in 1st round of NL playoffs.

[mitchl847]

NOPE!!!!!

[USAGiant]

Good point my friend. The Brew crew are gone from the 2008 post season.

[sfs2040]

They'll be the World Series champs next year.

CC, or not, the rotation is still good, even with Suppan.

[Sayhuh122]

God these old intros are the shit! Why can't we bring these back instead of this bullshit that fox, tbs, and others are feeding us. And for the love of Christ, will someone jam a pen through Joe Buck's temple? I fucking hate that guy!

[RDarth]

Totally agree. Buck acts like he is God's gift to baseball, and I'm sick of the oversappy intros of today.

[kscott24]

What is the name of the song that plays when Dick Enberg starts speaking after the NBC theme? Great theme; reminds me of the days of WTBS' World Championship Wrestling.

[melbrooks94]

Go Brewers!!

There taking it all this year

[wasntnotwasnt]

Those were the days...they don't build stadiums like that anymore.

[brewcity8]

Ugh. Memories of the Brewers losing the World Series. Sadly it was their best season.

[vikingspurs7]

Brewers suck, Twins all day!

[USAGiant]

This world series in 1982 is so underrated among best in MLB history.

My personal favorite is Willie McGee catches.

[juan833cheer]

The Suds Series because both Milwaukee and St. Louis make a lot of beer to keep a loyal baseball fan happy!

[Renagade70]

I love the bit when the baseball cards slowly flyby the screen. At least it wes a queit way to tell you who on each team. They won't make intros like this ever again.

[oaklandfan2k8]

You mean the one with the Fleers?

[Renagade70]

Yes, Are they the 81 version?

[oaklandfan2k8]

No It's 1982.

[Renagade70]

Thank you for the correction.

[Green18600]

Baseball was something special in 1982. At that time, the NBC Television Network had much better coverage because of the down to earth information made available to the viewers. Highly Unique!! The 1982 World Series opening maintained spectacular graphics on the television set. A Fat 5!!

[Renagade70]

Hey Green18600, Remember NBC used to broadcast baseball games on Saturday afternoons? Sometimes you will get a doubleheader.

[Green18600]

I do remember the games shown on NBC Television ... particularly when they do show some doubleheaders on Saturdays back in 1981 and 1982. Thank You!! These games were special on television.

[e521soediv]

love those graphics

[ThePretzelHead]

They don't make 1:30 openings like that anymore.

Brews lost Fingers and the series was gone...

[gjs78]

And I wish NBC would do MLB Games again

McCarver and Buck Suck! So Does Fox

[RodPower78]

I`m with you on that. I miss seeing the Game Of The Week on NBC with Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola. I can`t say enough how horrible Tim McCarver is and Joe Buck is such a freaking joke. Obviously he isn`t worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as his late great dad Jack.

[SFFOOL76]

Jack Buck had more talented in his pinky finger ,than Joe will ever have! Ever since he went off on Randy Moss for "mooning" the Green Bay Crowd, I just realized he tried to be bigger than the show!

r.i.p. Jack Buck!

*gotta love the drum machine music, when Dick Enberg started talking.

[Blufftown]

Costas and Kubek; now that was the team.

[gjs78]

Yeah

[VolumedMusicMan]

The Brew Crew of 82 was one of the best offenses to ever play the game. They were fearsome from top to bottom. Get Molitor or Gantner on and then you have to deal with all of those sluggers! They would carve up their opponents hitting HR's with runners on! I miss that club!

[drshagstein]

Considering its age, this is a very impressive presentation. Graphically I think it could still pass muster today.

As a lifelong Yankees fan, I distinctly remember rooting for the Brew Crew for the first & only time in my life during this Series. I did so primarily out of allegiance to the AL, but also because Robin Yount was my favorite non-Yankee player in the league. In fact, I was probably the only kid in Brooklyn who owned a Robin Yount jersey. Those were the days.

[KNS1996DFS]

I remember going to a game at Yankee Stadium in May 1992; Robin Yount hit the game winner in the 8th. The remarkable thing was that that was the hottest day of the year, and the only one over 90. If I remember correctly, worldwide temperatures were down because of the eruption of Pinatubo the previous year.

[racermac1988]

God I love my beloved Milwaukee Brewers!!! Watching them beat Chicago on Opening Day and then an 8-2 hammering yesterday was beautiful. The White Sox getting beat by Cleveland was nice too!!!

[Haurko01]

The music that played during the Vs. Graphic sounded just like the classic NWA World Championship Wrestling music.

[RodPower78]

I think it`s likely the same music.

[DGarcia879]

it really is the theme from WCW on WTBS

[darthchaosofrspw]

It is the same.

[chessarama]

Baseball before the widespread Corporate sponsorship.

[mattdemp]

wait a minute, did Enberg Just Said Tony Kobek?

[TMC1982Part2]

It's ironic that he had an easier time pronouncing "Joe *Garagiola*" than w/ Tony Kubek's name.

[swami1]

Do you have the NBC Game of the Week intro from the early-mid 1970s? I think they had 2 different themes, one of which was an unforgettable theme song.

[Dudemon3]

dick enberg is now with CBS sports doing football games.

[RodPower78]

Don`t forget about college basketball and the US Open(tennis).

[mcclanahand]

Now the cardinals stadium looks alot different.

[SFFOOL76]

It is busch stadium from 1966 to 2005.

2006 they have a new stadium.

[coronadomartinez]

tony KObeck, what a great announcer he is!lol. miffed that one dick, love ya anyway.

[MatthewFive14thru16]

That, to this day, is still my favorite World Series. I remember a TWO-run sac fly - a deep fly ball, runner on 3rd, Ozzie Smith at second and they both scored because Ozzie Smith was that fast. I've never seen that again!

[RodPower78]

I remember seeing that play a while back on ESPN Classic. Only the Cardinals of the 80`s could`ve pulled that off. They are a prime example that you don`t always need to hit a lot of home runs to win games.

[SFFOOL76]

You will never see a team like that 1.) no more artificial turf 2.) Also the stadium designs of stadiums of the past 16 years.

Don't get me wrong it would be great to see a team today in the same fashion.

[RodPower78]

I agree with you on your points. However we do see a bit of the old Cardinals style of play from the 80`s at times today. BTW i don`t about everyone else, but i`m glad that there is no more of that terrible Astroturf.

[SFFOOL76]

Astroturf, the work of the devil.

[oc61579]

Yeah,just ask anyone that played in Veteran's Stadium.

[gjs78]

I miss Astroturf. Ball bounce around like crazy!

Just Kidding! Brewers should wear the powder blue shirts again.

Again Just Kidding!

But I wish the Umpires would go back to wearing dress shirts and Sport Coats. They look like softball umpires now

[RodPower78]

I also like to see the umps go back to wearing the old school gear. I miss seeing them wearing the blue gear.

As for the Brewers wearing the powder blue jerseys again, i`m against it since they had one of the ugliest powder blue jerseys back in the day. However they`ve worn their old school striped home uniform recently.

[gjs78]

The should wear the outside chest protectors too

[Oleg250]

O WOW look at Dick Enberg at the very end! He is so young here!!!

[OWfan]

I'd love it if you had anymore baseball intros from the '80s (either NBC or ABC).

[jianoran07]

I Like the Intro, so please KNS1996DFS make a 2007 intro of what if NBC Sports would broadcast the 2007 MLB World Series with a collage of Topps 2007 Baseball Cards of the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Red Sox, please?

[KNS1996DFS]

That's a great idea, if only I were able.

[jianoran07]

DO IT!

[KNS1996DFS]

I'd love to... how?

[jianoran07]

The intro will be the same except these changes.

:01-:40 [SAME]

:41-:48 the logo of the 2007 world series appear

:51-:54 Coors Field in Denver, CO caption

:55-:57 Boston Red Sox vs. Colorado Rockies caption

:58-1:12 [SAME]

1:12-1:36 a montage of Topps 2007 Baseball Cards of the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies

1:36-1:40 [SAME]

1:41-1:44 2007 World Series logo appear after the NBC Sports Logo

[KNS1996DFS]

Oy, that's not what I mean. I don't own a scanner, web cam, or digital camera, so I don't know how I'd pull off the trading card line-up. And I don't know how to edit a flash video.

[OWfan]

Coleco Vision!

[videonut33]

"Your Vision Is Our Vision-- ColecoVision!!!"

[dnm728]

1982...Cardinals beat Brewers in seven games that year. (Back when Milwaukee was an AL club. Baseball has changed a LOT since '82.)

[KNS1996DFS]

No kidding. Did you see the size of most of the players on those cards?

[a1cjlock]

Gotta love the Scanimation!

[doublek321]

This is awesome

[stonecoldsgratestfan]

dude I found it in my grandpa's vid library.