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This thread is devoted to famous calls, who said them, who they involved, and what the situation was. I'll start it out with this one:
"High fly ball into right field, she i-i-i-is... gone!!
"In a year that has been so improbable... the impossible has happened!
I wouldn't do this call justice because I don't know who made the call or who was on base. If someone could give those details that would be great.
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Who the hell is Stan Papi
"Blooper to short...Petrocelli under it..he's got it! RED SOX WIN! AND THERE'S PANDEMONIUM ON THE FIELD! LISTEN!!!"--Ned Martin 10/1/67
Man, do I *HATE* the Yankees!!!!!!
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Greatest. Call. Ever.Branca throws.
THERE'S A LONG DRIVE!
THAT'S GONNA BE IT, I BELIEVE!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!!
BOBBY THOMSON HITS INTO THE LOWER DECK OF THE LEFT-FIELD STANDS!
THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT,
AND THEY'RE GOING CRAZY!
THEY'RE GOING CRAZY!
HEY, HO!!
[crowd hysteria]
I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I do not believe it!
Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the left-field stands,
and the great place is going crazy.
The Giants — Horace Stoneham has got a winner.
The Giants won it by a score of five to four,
and they're pickin' Bobby Thomson up and carryin' him off the field.." - Russ Hodges
Who the hell is Stan Papi
I tend to agreeOriginally Posted by Williamsburg2599
Mariners
Holy Cow!
By: the Scooter
Baseball's Perfect Knight
The call in the initial post was Vin Scully calling Kirk Gibson's "limp off" HR to win game 1 of the 1988 World Series. He was doing the game for NBC. This call is used on some commercial, with a slow pitch softball idiot hitting a home run in slow motion and hobbling around the bases.
Jack Buck was doing the radio for the game back in 1988, and in my opinion, had a better call.
Gibson swings... and here's a fly ball to deep right field....
(Raises Voice) This is gonna be a Home Run!!!
(Raises voice even more) Unbelievable!!! A Home Run for Gibson, and the Dodgers have won the game... I don't believe what I just saw!! I don't BEE-LEEVE what I just saw......
While we're on the topic of Jack Buck, Cards fans older than 25 will remember this one.
Smith corks one into right... down the line... it may go!!!!
(Crowd Roaring gets extremely loud and Buck does as well)
GO Crazy Folks, Go Crazy!! It's a Home Run.... (first firework explosion is heard) and the Cardinals have won the game, by the score... of Three to twooooo on a Home Run, BY THE WIZARD!!! (Second Firework explodes)
GO CRAZY!! (Third Firework Explodes, as does Old Busch Stadium!!)"
God Bless Jack Buck.
As great as these two moments were, Russ Hodges call of the Shot Heard Round the World will never be surpassed, IMO. Never again will we have a game with so much attached to it.... between such rivals, etc.
It was the first ever walk off HR to win a playoff or WS game, and still gives me goose bumps to hear the call. I am currently reading probably the greatest baseball book I have ever read, The Echoing Green, by Joshua Prager. The book is the "Untold Story of Ralph Branca, Bobby Thomson, and the Shot Heard Round the World." Essentially a rich and colorful history of all the men involved in this incredible moment... but more importantly (for me at least) it confirms without a doubt that the Giants were stealing the catchers signs from the Center Field Clubhouse at the Polo Grounds in the second half of the season, and a buzzer which sounded in the bullpen and in the dugout signified the pitch to be thrown. Sal Yvars, a bullpen catcher, would either toss a ball a foot or so into the air to signify fastball, and would NOT throw the ball into the air to signify a breaking ball (or vice versa -- I have not got that far yet). So it is VERY probable that Thomson KNEW a fastball was coming on that, still the most well known HR of all time.
How bout this for irony... the electrician who installed the buzzer system, a fellow named Chadwick, was a lifelong DODGER FAN, who worked the lights at the PG for the Giants. He was too proud to ever rat out his employer... and so he is at home, watching his Giants, with his help, steal signs, make up a 13 1/2 game deficit in a month and a half, and then, lying on his deathbed, his body riddled with Cancer, Thomson breaks the hearts of all of Brooklyn with the Shot Heard Round the World.
Herman Franks, a coach was the one who stole the signs with a Military Grade Telescope, through a window in Leo Durocher's office in the Center Field Clubhouse. After the game, when Franks was asked where he was during the most exciting baseball moments of all time, he aswered "I was in the clubhouse doing something for Durocher."
Last edited by StanTheMan; 10-16-2006 at 03:38 PM.
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"Touch em all Joe"-Tom Cheek(rest his soul), After Joe Carters world series winning home run.
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Cubs vs Milwaukee late september of 1998. You have to listen to it to do it justice.
Pat Hughes: brant brown DROPS THE BALL!!
Ron Santo: OHHHHH NOO!!!! (sounds like his dog is dying)
#34
haha i remember that i saw the video of that a couple of weeks ago on sortscentre haha
Baseball's Perfect Knight
Don't forget the... "you'll never hit a bigger one in all your life" or something to that effect.
"Herman Franks to Sal Yvars to Bobby Thomson. Ralph Branca to Bobby Thomson to Helen Rita... cue Russ Hodges."
Thunderstruck!
Here's the link to the Ron Santo sound bite.
http://www.northtonorth.com/pages/so.../santoohno.mp3
Blue Jay lovin' BI mod.
Here is the call. I won't write it out, because I want you to listen to it. It never fails to give me the shivers.
Tom Cheek calling Joe Carter's 9th inning homerun to win the 1993 WS.
PS: I think that there's another thread like this somewhere. I'll look for it.
"Does this message discuss our national pastime in an interesting manner?"
-BBF Policy, Section VII
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"hat ball goes to the backstop. Here comes Mitchell to score the tying run and Ray Knight will be at second base."
"So the winning run is at second base, with two outs, three and two to Mookie Wilson. A little roller up along first... behind the [first-base] bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight... and the Mets win it!"
Double Pain.
"Benzinger backing, and the 1990 World Series belongs to the Cincinnati Reds."(Not sure about this one)
"Dunn up there with the bases-loaded with the outfield deep and toward to the right. The 1-0, swung on, long drive, right field, and this one belongs to the Reds. Can you believe it, can you believe it. Adam Dunn with a screaming line drive into the Cleveland bullpen in right field and the Reds have done what appeared to be the impossible."
This was my 1500th post.
Last edited by redlegsfan21; 10-19-2006 at 05:47 AM.
Unlike most other team sports, in which teams usually have an equivalent number of players on the field at any given time, in baseball the hitting team is at a numerical disadvantage, with a maximum of 5 players and 2 base coaches on the field at any time, compared to the fielding team's 9 players. For this reason, leaving the dugout to join a fight is generally considered acceptable in that it results in numerical equivalence on the field, and a fairer fight.
#34
haha it gets funnier every time i hear it
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I know it has already been answered. But I am surprised you did not know Scully's call considering your sig.
That homerun acually spurned two of the great calls in history. Jack Buck's "I don't believe what I just saw" is the other one.
Welcome back ARod. Hope you are a Yankee forever.
Phil Rizzuto-a Yankee forever.
Holy Cow
Blue Jay lovin' BI mod.
Funnier? I assume you mean something like "classic"...
"Does this message discuss our national pastime in an interesting manner?"
-BBF Policy, Section VII
Hall of Fame is a shame
Full version per ESPN Page 3 article.
PAT HUGHES: "Two down, the Brewers have the bases loaded, and a 2-2 count on the hitter. Here's the pitch. Swung on. Fly ball to left field. Brant Brown going back. Brant Brown ... drops the ball!"
RON SANTO: "Oh, nooooooooo!"
HUGHES: "He dropped the ball!"
SANTO: "Nooooooooo!"
HUGHES: "Three runs will score, and the Brewers have beaten the Cubs."
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation. I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do, play it right and with respect. If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera. - Ryne Sandberg
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