Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Sal Maglie, acquired from the Cleveland Indians, pitches a 5-0 shutout no-hitter vs. the Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Maglie retires Phillie first baseman Marv Blaylock on a ground out to end the game and join baseball immortality. Play begins in the top of the ninth inning with Al Helfer at the television microphones and the Dodgers leading 5-0. Helfer announces that Happy Felton's "Talk To The Stars" program will follow the game. When the game ends, Helfer proclaims " Ladies and Gentlemen, a no-hitter for Sal Maglie." Maglie becomes the oldest pitcher to toss a no-hitter since Cy Young in 1908.
Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Sal Maglie, acquired from the Cleveland Indians, pitches a 5-0 shutout no-hitter vs. the Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Maglie retires Phillie first baseman Marv Blaylock on a ground out to end the game and join baseball immortality. Play begins in the top of the ninth inning with Al Helfer at the television microphones and the Dodgers leading 5-0. Helfer announces that Happy Felton's "Talk To The Stars" program will follow the game. When the game ends, Helfer proclaims " Ladies and Gentlemen, a no-hitter for Sal Maglie." Maglie becomes the oldest pitcher to toss a no-hitter since Cy Young in 1908.
Baseball personalities on this television special ushering in the start of the 1957 baseball season include Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants, Don Larsen, Bob Friend, Billy Pierce, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, Mel Allen, Ernie Banks, George Kell, Harvey Kuenn, Ted Kluszewski, Ed Matthews,
Don Newcombe, Pee Wee Reese, Robin Roberts, Herb Score, Harry (Suitcase) Simpson, Eddie Yost, and Happy Felton and his Knothole Gang. Mel Allen recreates Don Larsen's perfect game. Show Business guests include: comedians Ed "Archie" Gardner, Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, Frank Fontaine, singers Tony Bennett, Pat Marshall, and Bill Hayes, Singer-comedienne Janis Paige, actors Robert Alda and Robert Strauss. Also participating are baseball commissioner Ford Frick, sportscaster Mel Allen, and baseball Hall Of Fame members Joe DiMaggio, Pie Traynor, Lefty Grove, and Gabby Hartnett. Gene Kelly is the host.
Highlights:
Gene talks to Don Larsen about his no windup pitching approach.
Also, Gene in conversation with Billy Pierce, Johnny Antonelli, and Bob Friend. Kelly introduces Ed Gardner...comedy routine about Baseball's greatest pitchers.
In a brief segment, Mel Allen states his dream outfield. Gene Kelly talks with Stan Musial, who states that his favorite ball player was Mel Ott, Ted Williams, chairman of the Jimmy Fund states that his favorite baseball player was Joe DiMaggio, and DiMaggio's favorite ball player was Frank Lefty Odeul. Gene Kelly mentions that his favorite Baseball Player of all time was Babe Ruth.
Other Highlights:
"This Is The Year" Ensemble
1956 Most Valuable Players: Mickey Mantle, Don Newcombe
Sketch: "Rookie Of The Year" Robert Alda
Song: Janis Paige
World Series Film: Gene Kelly
Interview: Don Larsen, Gene Kelly
" Know-How" Kelly, Paige, Tony Bennett, Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, Robert Alda
Knothole Gang- Happy Felton
Dugout Sketch- Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney
Song- Tony Bennett
Pitchers Interview- Gene Kelly
"Two-top Gruskin" Ed Gardner, Robert Alda
Baseball Medley- Ensemble
Song- Pat Marshall
Dream Outfield- DiMaggio, Williams, Musial
Waite Hoyt's Tribute To Babe Ruth- Gene Kelly
Old-Timer's Film- Mel Allen
Rock-'n'Roll Number- Bill Hayes
Comedy Interview- Robert.Alda
Commissioner's Message: Ford Frick
Hall Of Fame Sequence- Gene Kelly
Finale- Ensemble
Baseball personalities on this television special ushering in the start of the 1957 baseball season include Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants, Don Larsen, Bob Friend, Billy Pierce, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, Mel Allen, and Ed Gardner. Mel Allen recreates Don Larsen's perfect game. Gene Kelly is the host.
Highlights:
Gene talks to Don Larsen about his no windup pitching approach.
Also, Gene in conversation with Billy Pierce, Johnny Antonelli, and Bib Friend. Kelly introduces Ed Gardner...comedy routine about Baseball's greatest pitchers.
In a brief segment, Mel Allen states his dream outfield. Gene Kelly talks with Stan Musial, who states that his favorite ball player was Mel Ott, Ted Williams, chairman of the Jimmy Fund states that his favorite baseball player was Joe DiMaggio, and DiMaggio's favorite ball player was Frank Lefty Odeul. Gene Kelly mentions that his favorite Baseball Player of all time was Babe Ruth.
NOTE: An almost complete air check of this program is archived in the ATA collection.
Joe E. Brown presents a comic history of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers which followed the showing of the baseball movie, "It Happens Every Spring."
The Harlem Globetrotters perform in this annual special. There is the opening warm up to the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown," introductions including number 36, Meadowlark Lemon, and beginning play-by-play descriptions against the American Giants by Sportscaster Sam Balter.
All sporting press predicts a Liston victory with the exception of one sportswriter who predicts Clay will win. Comments by Jimmy Breslin, Cus D'Amato, Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay.
An ABC sports radio special.
A report on the forthcoming second heavyweight title fight between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali in Lewiston, Maine. Host Howard Cosell predicts Liston will win by knockout.
The 1968 Summer Olhmpics were held from October 12th-October 27th, in Mexico City, Mexico. They were the first Olympic games staged in Latin America and the first Olympic games to be held in a Spanish-speaking nation. Much controversy surrounded the games after Athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith both raised their fists on the podium in a black power salute after receiving their bronze and gold medals respectively.
Continuing live coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympic games from Mexico City, Mexico. Includes coverage of October 18th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, and 26th, 1968. Chris Schenkel reports,
Continuing live coverage and closing ceremonies of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico. Chris Schenkel reports.
Includes coverage of October 26th and 27th, 1968.
The AFL's New York Jets meet the NFL's Baltimore Colts in the third annual Super Bowl.
THIS TELEVISION 'DIRECT LINE' AUDIO AIR CHECK, RECORDED OFF THE AIR AT THE TIME OF THE ORIGIANL BROADCAST IS A COMPLETE VERSION, RUNNING 3 HOURS & 24 MINUTES.
NOTE: This Super Bowl 111 NBC TV broadcast football game, as far as thoroughly researched and as known, does not exist in any COMPLETE broadcast form in the Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, or The Library of Congress.
In the Miley Collection what ONLY exists of this game, complete, is the RADIO broadcast of Super Bowl III between the New York Jets and Baltimore Colts called by Pat Summerall, George Ratterman, and Charlie Jones.
For this TV version, Curt Gowdy, Kyle Rote, Jim Simpson and Al De Rogatis report live from the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. There is a pre-game program show with players being interviewed and projections being made. There is a pre-game show on the field. The Apollo 8 astronauts pledge allegiance to the flag and the beginning of Super Bowl III is underway.
The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC. Curt Gowdy handled the play-by-play duties and was joined by color commentators Al DeRogatis and Kyle Rote in the broadcast booth. Also helping with NBC's coverage were Jim Simpson (reporting from the sidelines) and Pat Summerall, on loan from CBS (helping conduct player interviews for the pregame show, along with Rote). In an interview later done with NFL Films, Gowdy called it the most memorable game he ever called because of its historical significance
Baltimore is shut down by the Jets in the first half 7 to 0. Halftime ceremonies praise the "spirit" of America with colorful floats and words of tribute. Bob Hope is interviewed by Jim Simpson on the playing field, as the second half begins. Joe Namath is named Most Valuable Player as the Jets upset the Colts 16 to 7.
To date, Television's broadcast of Super Bowl I and II are "lost" video presentations that the public can presently view or listen to in its entirety.
NOTE: Super Bowl 3 is currently uploaded and viewable on You Tube. It runs for 130 minutes. The ATA version recorded off the air, at the time of the original broadcast runs for 203 minutes (33 more minutes of broadcast time). It includes the opening NBC Peacock.
NOTE:
Most of the first Super Bowl in 1967 was lost to history - until a dusty copy of the broadcast was found in a Pennsylvania attic IN 2005. Now it's in legal limbo.
Jack Whitaker was a play-by-play announcer for the very first Super Bowl, back before the "Super" name even stuck. Yet he never had a copy of his own broadcast. He passed away at the age of 95 in August, 2019.
Once he stated, "All I have is what's in my memory,"
Neither CBS, where Whitaker worked during the 1967 game, or the other network that televised it that year, NBC, have recordings of the match up between the Packers and the Chiefs.
There are snippets of tape available, mostly from the sidelines, but most of the game has been lost to history until a man found a copy in an attic in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and came forward with it in 2005.
For the past 18 years the man's incredible discovery is in a sort of legal limbo, and the tape is yet to be seen by the public.
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The Paley Center for Media, a cultural organization, restored the recording -- originally on two-inch quadruplex tapes -- but "we keep it locked up in a vault," said Ron Simon, Paley's curator.
Simon has seen the whole game -- complete with an interview of Packers coach Vince Lombardi at the end. He called it "a remarkable document."
"It's really a history of what the game is," he said.
But he needs the permission of the man who found the recording, and "maybe the NFL's permission too," to screen it for anyone else. Steven Harwood is an attorney for the man, who wishes to remain anonymous.
Harwood said he'd like to strike a deal with the NFL, which has a copyright on the game. But he suggested that the two sides don't see eye to eye about the tape's worth.
"We feel being compensated for preserving it for all these years is certainly a reasonable thing to do," he said in a 2015 interview.
Harwood cited what Sports Illustrated wrote in 2005 when it listed the tape as one of the sports world's 25 "lost treasures" -- an estimated value of "more than $1 million."
"To put that in perspective, the going price for a 30 second commercial in the 2023 Super Bowl cost 7 million dollars.
Super Bowl II has recently partially been found related to the live television broadcast, January 14, 1968.
In recent years, it has been alleged that a copy was found in the vault of NFL Films and that said copy was being restored for re-release, although this claim has not been confirmed and has apparently been directly denied by an NFL Films employee.
Despite this, a reconstructed copy showed up on YouTube in March 2013, using still photographs, video snippets and the entire, unedited audio track of the radio broadcast, although it has since been removed due to a copyright claim by the NFL. It is currently unclear as to how said audio was obtained by the uploader, "LambeauPackerBacker", in the first place.
Kansas City Chiefs (23) vs. Minnesota Vikings (7). Joined in progress with 2 minutes left to play in the fourth quarter, with Pat Summerall, Jack Whitaker, Frank Gifford, and Jack Buck. Includes commercials. Included on interviews, winning coach Hank Stram, Chiefs Owner Lamar Hunt, and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who presents the Super Bowl Trophy to Lamar Hunt and Hank Stram. Interviews with Jerry Mays, Len Dawson, Minnesota Coach Bud Grant, Dave Hill, and others.
January 27th, 1974-March 3rd, 1974, January 5th, 1975-March 23rd, 1975, January 11th,1976-April 4th, 1976, January 2nd, 1977-March,1977- January 8th,1978-March 26th,1978, January 14th, 1979-April 1st,1979- January 20th, 1980-March 30th, 1980, January 25th, 1981-March 29th, 1981- January 24th, 1982-March 28th, 1982- February 6th, 1983-February 20th, 1983.
Sunday afternoon sports show featuring professional athletes competing against each other in various athletic competition
In this competition, members of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team meet members of the Oakland A's baseball team in various athletic endeavors. Keith Jackson and OJ Simpson report.
January 3rd, 1960-
The Sports Spectacular, originally entitled the CBS Sports Spectacular is a sports anthology television program and has been known under various different names. The program continues to air on an irregular basis on weekend afternoons, especially during the late spring and summer months.
On this episode, members of the American and National League baseball teams meet in softball competition.
The Host: Vin Scully
January 27th, 1974-March 3rd, 1974, January 5th, 1975-March 23rd, 1975, January 11th,1976-April 4th, 1976, January 2nd, 1977-March,1977- January 8th,1978-March 26th,1978, January 14th, 1979-April 1st,1979- January 20th, 1980-March 30th, 1980, January 25th, 1981-March 29th, 1981- January 24th, 1982-March28th, 1982- February 6th, 1983-February 20th, 1983.
Sunday afternoon sports show featuring professional athletes competing against each other in various athletic endeavors.
In this competition, players from the American League Boston Red Sox meet players from the National League Cincinnati Reds.
Keith Jackson calls the contests.
Members of the winning Oakland Raiders are interviewed in their locker rooms by Bryant Gumbal following their 27-10 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1981 Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle presents the Super Bowl trophy to coach Al Davis.
Losing Philadelphia coach Dick Vermeil is interviewed in the Eagles locker room.
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