Duke Snider and Sal Maglie--What's My Line?

[44032]

Sal was known as "the Barber" because he threw his pitches inside- close to the head of batters like Snider, who seems to be sititng in his lap here. But by 1956, they were teammates.

[TheBatugan77]

Hey Mets Fans. Don't get Mad! Just get Madoff!

heh heh heh heh...

[TheBatugan77]

That's what the ballclub in Queens should be called.  The New York Queens.

[delightfulstar]

So sad that we've now lost both of these great baseball players. RIP Duke and Sal.

[intjurban]

Loved this game show. RIP Duke!

[soulierinvestments]

Now available on YouTube -- the Rockette that appeared on the same program.

[13loomisst]

Splendid. Thanks very much.

[NickPileggi34]

Sal is my great uncle

[44032]

Sal's team beat the Dodgers out that year and won the World Series but Duke's team had won the last two pennants and would win the next two and the World Series the enxt eyar.

[007InMiami]

Yeah, Queens has a ballclub... in about 10 years.

[peck4111]

the duke of flatbush

[soulierinvestments]

John Daly was the master of interpretive semantics. No one could touch him. Note here that he weaves his way through this complicated situation, giving neither too much nor too little information to the panel.

In this period (autumn 1954) Steve Allen left WML for Tonight. Apparently Goodson-Todman tried out Fred Allen, then Jack Carter (here), and then Robert Q. Lewis. Allen and Lewis alternated from Sept 1954 to early Jan 1955.

Ah Bennett Cerf. Nobody's dope. Bennett rules!

[soulierinvestments]

We find much commentary about WML's urbanity and good manners on YouTube and the 'Net. Thank you! for posting this example of those good manners. During the height of baseball season, two star competitors appear together for some game show fun -- and they act with gentlemanly civility on LIVE TV. Today, cable TV producers would set up this situation and pray for a fist fight. In reference to good fun, sophistication, manners, and sportsmanship, much TV has gone in the wrong direction.

[gymnastix]

@soulierinvestments You are absolutely, positively 100% correct! Good taste, polite manners and mutual respect have been sacrificed for the spectacle.

[gymnastix]

@soulierinvestments Even though I enjoy so much about our present times--living longer with more sophisticated medicine, better audio and video technology, and this wonderful Internet here, by which we exchange media, ideas, etc., I think I would still take the era of Ozzie & Harriet, "Leave It To Beaver," and the class of people appearing on and watching the original "What's My Line?," just for sheer civility, intelligence, and the more relaxed approach to life.