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The New York Giants face the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the 1937 World Series on October 6th.
This is the NBC Radio broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Tom Manning, Red Barber, and Warren Brown.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the United States. This is George Hicks, the national broadcasting company.
This is the World Series of 1937. We're speaking from our box directly behind home plate on the lip of the third tier at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
But you fans don't need to have me tell you what this is all about.
It's the New York Yankees World Champions of 1936, again tennis winners this year in the American League,
versus the New York Giants, National League Champions of 1937 and for the World Championship in baseball.
And this is the fifth World Series since the beginning in 1905 between the two New York teams.
Well, we've been in our chairs since 11 a.m. this morning, now 1.15.
The bleachers bending in an irregular curve from middle left field around to middle right were packed solid on our arrival this morning.
And the third tier of moderate-type reserve seats were also packed at that time, except the extreme tips at left and right field, and now they're filling up.
The expensive boxes and first-layer tier are now filled practically except for the last moment arrivals.
There must easily be 50,000 or a little more here now before game starts and they're still pouring in.
NBC has its baseball experts manning the microphones.
Tom Manning, NBC sports announcer from Cleveland, one of the best.
Well, he'll describe the first half of the game.
Beside him is Brett Barber, star sports announcer from station WLW in Cincinnati. Both, by the way, are redheaded.
So remember when the action gets hot, these two redheaded flashes will be throwing the words at you.
And with them is Warren Brown, the friendly and wise ball expert, sports editor of the Chicago Herald Examiner.
He'll give you the expert opinion, the inside facts that only he knows.
So much for what's to come. Right now, the Yanks are just potting in off the diamonds.
The Cat-Takers are out with their rakes and the chalk line, the manicuring, which goes on just before the game starts.
It's just about 10 minutes now that photographers are flashing bulbs at the first row box seat where all the celebrities are seated.
It's so muggy today, incidentally, that they're using flash bulbs.
The Giants are now coming into their dugout. The weather is humid, whether this is October 6 or not.
Perspiration is running off our faces, and the bleachers are in short sleeves, making that white background.
It rained last night here in New York, but now the sky is a pale blue with those low steamy clouds breaking and floating right over our heads
and the pennants up on top of the horseshoe. It's moist, it's thick, and it's hot out here, but I'm sure it won't rain.
Mayor LaClarga is here, Vicki Cochran, the old Mike of Detroit, looking fit again, and the babe, Geno.
He was wiping his face a moment ago in a blue shirt suit, sits in a box right down below us beside the Yankee dugout.
With him is Mrs. Rood and his daughter, Jacob Rupert.
Geno, handsome, smiling with Mayor LaClarga. Mr. Rupert stood and took hands with the babe while the photographers took their pictures.
Cheers and excitement, the comments, running like fire through the stands, have been egging us on since noon when the audience follows
Dimacho, Gary, Vicki, Selkirk, Moore, and Ott, all the sluggers as they drop their long drives into either left or right field stands.
The Giants today are the visitors. They're in gray with bright azure blue caps, blue church sleeves and socks.
The Yanks have fights with dark blue caps and socks.
The crowd got a terrific howl a few moments ago when Gomez put a long punch into the right field stand.
At batting practice about 1230 when the Giants came in, Hubbell got a fine hand when he came to bat.
The best he could do was to ground to the infield. The crowd also cheered young Jack McCarthy, first baseman of the Giants,
when he put several long drives into right field stands.
And they said, well, look at who we got here, as much as they, well, this boy is right up there with Gary and Dimacho.
A quarter of a mile away on the top of the apartment roof, which are jagged in modernistic style,
are the apartment roof galleryites who pay no ticket and who get a very much of a bird's eye view of the entire scene.
Hub is now down behind home plate on the Giants side, warming up, taking his time, wipes his head with his shirt sleeve,
puts his old left arm across, and there's the ball. Gomez is doing the same thing on the Yankee side.
Photographers are squatted around them, and the caretakers are now laying out their chalk marks around home plate and the batter's boxes.
Attention, please.
The band is playing in center field.
People, standing in the aisles, please make your seats.
We pause for a moment for the last speaker announcement, which sets for the people in the aisles to please take their seats.
It's just minutes now before the beginning of history in baseball for 1937.
The green stands are packed, red, white, and blue bunting on all sides, excitement growing, and now that's the general scene.
Let's get down to what this really means.
Beside me is Warren Brown that I spoke to you about. Warren, come on and give us the facts about 1937.
All right, George, this is really the most exciting series, or I anticipate that it will be the most exciting series,
of the sort of a traditional rivalry that has grown up between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.
As you have been told, or perhaps know already, this is the fifth meeting between these two clubs.
They met for the first time in 1921, and baseball history of sorts has been made since then.
In 1921, for example, there was no Yankee Stadium.
Both of the New York clubs played in the Polar Bounds, which is across the Harlem River.
In the 1921 series, the New York Giants were tops in baseball.
John McGraw was leading them, and they were a fiery baseball club.
In my judgment, the club that Bill Terry is sending out on the field this afternoon is the best New York club since the heyday of McGraw.
In that 1921 series, the games were played on the basis of five out of nine,
rather than the four out of seven, which had existed in earlier years and which has been brought back into play now.
In that 1921 series, the Giants won five and the Yankees won three.
The following year, 1922, the Giants won again, and they won four games.
The Yankees didn't win any.
That was the return to the four out of seven, as far as the Giants and Yankees were concerned.
The Yankees started to get going in 1923, which was the third successive year that Yankees and Giants played in the World Series.
And what strikes me now is I've looked at these two pennant races in the National and American League, and maybe we're back to those old days again.
The Giants and Yankees won last year, and they won again this year,
having proven conclusively in their respective leagues that they were firing away the best ball clubs in those leagues.
So it is quite possible that we may have another stretch of three years, or possibly more, of these all-New York series, the Subway Series, as they call them.
In 1923, when the Yankees won the World Championship from the Giants, they won four, and the Giants won two.
After that, the Yankees fell apart a little bit, and it took them a little while to rebuild until they came back stronger than ever.
The Giants won another pennant in 1924, but they didn't have the Yankees as their opponents in the World Series that year.
Thus it was, we came into 1936 before the two clubs met again.
And of course, we will all remember that the Yankees won a really sensational series here last year, four games out of six.
Summing up then, we find that down through these four series that have been played to date, the Giants have won 13 games, and the Yankees have won 11,
which seems to me to bring the two teams very close.
In a sense then, this series, which begins today being the fifth, is a rubber series, unless of course we figure that they're going to keep right on going again next year.
These meetings between the Giants and the Yankees have been productive of some sensational baseball, some very colorful things,
some of the strangest things that have ever happened in World Series play have happened when the Giants were meeting the Yankees.
It was in one of these series that we have the famous episode in which a plate umpire declared that it was dark,
when very few people in the park thought it was dark, with the result that the Commissioner Landis,
to whom the decision of the umpire came as much of a stunning surprise as to anybody else, decided to give the money that was spent for those tickets to charity.
That was one of the more famous incidents of this giant Yankee series.
There were a lot of strange plays and a lot of sensational plays, but that's almost enough for the past.
Let us get to the present, looking at the lineups today, which the loud speaking system is about to give you. Perhaps I should pause and let you hear that.
The Giants, number 8, catching for the Yankees, Gomez, number 8, kicking.
The umpires for the game are Ormsby, De'Nancy, Lane, Barr, at first base, Seasill, at second base, Stewart, at second base. Thank you.
You've heard now the pitchers and the catchers and the umpires, Gomez versus Hubbell, which we've been expecting this meeting between the two representative left-handers of their respective leagues.
As I look through the batting orders and the lineups of the two teams, I find one thing that must be of interest to far-off California.
I notice that the New York Yankees in their starting lineup have no less than five out of their nine ball players coming from California.
Ladies and gentlemen, the National Anthem.
The National Anthem.
Back again in our duties, and I was speaking before the anthem about the Native Sons of California.
On the Yankee side are Gomez, the pitcher, Frank Crocetti, the shortstop, Tony Lazzari, the second baseman, perhaps the greatest of them all, Joe DiMaggio, the center fielder, and Merrill Hoke, the left fielder.
Against them on the giant side is only Dick Bartel, representing California.
And this is not a plug for my Native State or anything like that, but it is just an interesting side-light.
As we look at the game now, which is almost to begin, it seems to me that the Giants come into this series as a scout defensive club, a good-spirited club with fine pitching and a modicum of power.
The Yankees, of course, are the powerhouse with also good pitching. If anything, that pitching is on a par with the Giants.
In a sense, it seems to me that we are going to look at, starting this afternoon, a world series in which we will have the famous test that we've long awaited between the irresistible force and the immovable object.
And now it seems to me that it's almost time for us to hear from my friend, Tom Manning, of Cleveland. All right, Tom.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. That round of applause has been for the New York Yankees.
The winners of the pennant in the American League have opposed this afternoon this world series.
It will be the New York Giants in the National League running over the lineup again for your reference.
Not on the field at the moment, the Yankees. Frank Gozelli in short will lead off.
Fred Wolf in third base will bat second.
And that sensational Joe DiMaggio in center field will bat third.
At first base will be the Iron Horns, Lou Gehrig.
The catcher will be Bill Dickey in left field for the Yankees.
Merle Holt in right field, George Selkirk.
Tony Lozari, Tony Lozari, the veteran second baseman, will be at the Keystone Sack for the American League.
At the Keystone Sack for the American League.
And the pitcher, as Warren Brown told you, will be Luthor Gomez.
For the Giants, Bill Terry, going to out-just the boys today.
There are a couple of changes. Joe Moore in left field.
Nick Barthel in short.
Melville Lott in third base.
Hank Leiber in right field.
Ripple.
Hank Leiber will be in center field and Ripple will be in right field.
Leiber in center, Ripple in right.
McCarthy in first base.
Mancuso catch.
Whitehead.
Second base, Hubbell pitch.
Umpire red ornisface.
Behind the bat, American League Umpire.
Adjusts to the class. Bill Dickey's watched down.
And the first hitter is Joe Moore.
Joe Moore in the left hand banner.
The left field of the Giants.
Leslie Gomez now is taking the dirt around the rubber.
And the pomp and ceremony is off.
The boys are down on earnest now, fighting for this championship.
The signal, the wind up, and the series is on.
Strike ball.
A back ball came right down the old alley.
Joe Moore took a look at it, stepped away from the plate.
And the first pitch of the 1937 World Series is a called strike on Joey Moore.
Strike between the two.
It's a pounding ball down first.
Gary Hazzard, he runs to the back to put out on assistant.
Joe Moore is out.
Gary on assistant.
One man down in the first inning of this first game of the World Series.
And little Dick Bartel.
Right hand hitter.
Short staff of the Giants is next.
He's a little fellow, but he can hit that ball with a far corner.
I think he's 29 years old.
This year he's batted 306.
Leslie Gomez, the pitch.
The foul back against the three.
Matt Orsby, the American League up higher, tosses out a new ball to Bill Dickey.
You know, Bill Dickey is one of the tallest catchers ever to count into the Major Leagues.
Matt, what a catcher.
First inning, one man out, nobody on.
Leslie Gomez.
Ball, it's too high.
That was a fast ball, very high.
And the count on Dick Bartel, ball one and strike one.
First inning, one man out, nobody on.
Here's the pitch.
Inside, ball two.
Leslie Gomez trying to keep that ball inside for Dick Bartel.
He has the outfield, moves over just a little bit for right field.
Left center and right fielder playing over them.
As the base hitter, Justin Feinberg, out of the inforter, turns off the ball.
O'Harrison, the go-to second drives it back to first base.
And it's a base hit for Dick Bartel.
That was a ripping smash just inside the third base cushion.
Ball going down the left field corner.
It turned off, retrieved by Holt.
Holt returning the ball to Frank Rosetti and driving Dick Bartel back to first base.
Terrible not.
A giant third baseman.
Seems rather strange to say the giant third baseman.
For many years he was a right fielder.
Here's the pitch.
Strike call.
A beautiful hook ball that caught the inside corner of the plate with Terrible not stepping back.
First inning, one man out.
Dick Bartel on first.
Terrible not.
Left hand batter is in the box.
Ball two.
A slow sweeping curve ball that missed the outside corner.
And the count on Mel is one and one.
George Hicks told you, it's kind of a dark day.
Much to the advantage of Gomez.
It's a high foul ball going in the box.
This over and back of third base.
And it's strike two.
And ball one.
Very, very few vacant seats.
Upstairs, the last two tiers.
And in the last tier and a half and in the main floor, just the last tier.
The same thing as probably in the white field floor.
The pitch.
A high fly ball infield.
Luke Gehrig.
Luke Gehrig under it.
He has it.
Two outs.
Dick Bartel on first.
And Hank Lieber coming up.
Hank Lieber will be in center field this afternoon.
Jimmy Ripple in right field and Joe Moore in left field.
He's gone for a while.
The Chiosy might play center field for the Giants.
But that has been changed.
And Lieber will be in center.
Here it is.
Ball one.
Last ball was over but just a little bit too high.
Hank Lieber.
That's a white handed.
The first inning, two outs.
Dick Bartel on first.
It's a foul back.
The hit and run was on that time.
Dick Bartel was off with lefty Gomez motion.
Ran all the way down to second base.
And now he trots back.
The umpires warm as we behind the bat.
Farr is at first.
Steve Fast was at second.
And Bill Stewart on par with the Giants.
And Bill Stewart umpiring at third.
Of course the umpires would shift around each day.
Rotate.
All right.
Hank Lieber's strike one.
Ball one.
Strike two.
Makes a mighty swing.
He wasn't pulling on that one.
Swung hard and missed it.
And the count is strike two.
And ball one.
The Giants being the visiting club today batting first.
Two men out.
Bartel on first.
Here it is.
Inside.
Lefty Gomez thought he had a corner on that one.
But it was inside.
And the count is strike two.
And ball two.
Oh, DiMaggio and Selkirk are playing bloody deep.
Two and two coming.
Strike three.
Swing hard and missed it.
No run.
One hit.
And no errors.
Playable game one.
Commit.
Here it is, Tom, and the noticeable thing in that first half inning was the respect that
the Giants evidently have for the throwing arms of these Yankee outfielders.
That ball that Bartel hit over third base was normally one on which he would try for
second base.
But he made his round of first and half-heartedly and then turned back to first.
You evidently have heard that the arms of Hogan and DiMaggio and that Yankee outfield
can throw that ball around.
The other noticeable thing, which I think we might as well refer now, is that the rains
of last night have slowed down this field to a considerable extent.
I notice that as the boys run around out there, they're digging up large sort of divots in
the turf.
And I'm afraid that there will not be any too much speed shown until the place dries
out a little.
And as the sun is now coming out strong, it probably will be dry and, as they say, have
to track fast before the afternoon is over.
Gomez, in striking out Leiber to end the inning, departed from his orthodox passion of firing
that ball through there.
The last strike was slowed up and a true Leiber completely off his stride.
And it was an interesting pitch.
All right, Tom, here's the first hitter.
It might keep us in mind.
Brennan and Gumbert throwing out the right field bullpen to warm up.
It'll be Carl Hubbell, you know, left hand with the box.
Over Giants, Carlos one, 22, and lost big.
33 years old, long, lanky left-hander.
The first hitter will be Frank Rosetti.
Play, the wind up.
Ball one.
A hook ball was low inside.
Rosetti wiggling around up there, stepped away, took it, and the count is one and nothing.
Ben Robe, the Yankee third baseman, will be next.
Hubbell bending over now.
He's taking just a little bit of time.
He always starts off rather slow and then long about the fourth inning.
Hubs it up a little.
Ball one.
Inside.
And the count is looped and nothing.
On that Giants infield, it's well on a third base.
Dick Bartell in short.
Burgess Whitehead in second.
And Johnny McCarthy at first.
Hubbell is in the box.
And Mancuso throwing the catch.
Rosetti up.
The count's ball two.
Strike, ball, a burning fastball right down the old alley.
About felt high.
Frankie Rosetti jumping away from the plate.
It ought to be called it.
And the count is ball two and strike one.
A lot of pepper on that Giants infield for the moment.
Outside, and it's ball three.
Ball three and strike one.
The count's ball two and strike one.
Hubbell tried to come in there with a sweeping curveball over the outside, making Rosetti
reach for it.
But he refused.
Ball was outside and it's ball three and strike one.
No score as yet.
Frank Rosetti, first man up for the Yankees in the last half of the first inning.
Can he get that out for you?
That's Joe Moore on left.
Hank Lieber in center.
Jimmy Ripple in right.
Ball three and strike one.
Rosetti, right hander up.
Outside, ball four and Rosetti walks.
Coming up now we have Red Roe.
Peppery, third baseman.
Paxson, left hander.
Yankee uniforms are white.
The home uniform white.
The blue stripe.
Martin Luther Martin.
They're wearing navy blue jerseys, blue caps, blue stock.
The NY of course on the top of their cap.
Carl Hubbell trying to pick it with the left hander.
Makes a stretch, a peek at first.
Here it is.
It's in there.
A called strike.
Nice sharp breaking curveball that Red Roe started to dart away from.
It's broken over the heart of the plate for a called strike.
Joe DiMaggio will be next.
He has a big lead.
Has a play at first.
Elbow.
Just to let them know that you're in there.
Hubbell crossing that call over with not any great amount of effort.
Strike one, the count.
It's outside.
Sharp breaking curveball is plenty low and outside.
Gus Mancuso jumping over fourth.
Not even with the count on roll.
There's the stretch.
Peek over to first.
There's a play at first.
Not even close because he's getting back fast.
Hubbell wasn't burning that ball over to Johnny McCarthy.
Just letting them know that he's in there.
Call one and strike one coming.
It's outside and low.
Hubbell's simply headed it around that.
Mancuso turned around and talked to Ornstein.
Burgess White at the second base was walked in from his spot.
Yelling something at Hubbell.
Hubbell picks up the rocket bag now.
Now he's picking the dirt around on the top of the rubber there.
Come on, it's playing pretty deep third base.
Hitler on his on, fly ball, and back at third base.
And it's two and two.
That's at least a glimpse of what Joe McCarthy, the manager of the Yankees,
might be doing in this series.
Instead of getting that sacrifice and playing for the one run,
that count ball two and strike one with the hitler on.
They're all coaching it first.
Arnie Fletcher is third.
The cow is ball two.
Smeiks is.
Rosetti on first.
There's not a base on balls and nobody else.
Hubbell pitching.
Two and two over to first base.
Tossed over there with sort of nonchalantly.
Third time he's tossed over there with no particular speed on that cross from the block.
Here it is.
Smeiks outside, foul ball.
Fans jump to their feet down.
That was a very hard smack that Rolfe turned all the way around on.
Pulled it a little bit too much.
It landed about two yards outside the first base cushion.
One of the boys with a barrel nut of watching in this short blue ribbon classic will be Johnny McCarthy.
He will replace manager Bill Terry in first base.
And Rolfe is in there with a cow ball two and strike two.
And Rosetti on first, nobody else.
Here it comes.
Strike three.
Smeiks three.
That cow two and two.
Rolfe seems to lead the forward part of the battered box.
Raps expecting a fast ball.
Hubbell came in there with a shot breaking football.
Right over the inside corner.
Just caught it inside corner and Rolfe.
Strong, lifted by, separated.
Now we have a little different picture.
One man out.
Frankie Coselli on first.
And great Joe DiMaggio.
Joe, you know, 22 years old.
He hit 3.46 this year.
Let both leagues with home runs.
Marcio makes a fighting cut from way back on that one.
A hold of that ball and it will certainly knock it out of the
card he won.
Last half of the first inning of this first game of the
World Series.
One man out.
Frankie Coselli on first with taking an exceptionally long
lead.
There's a puck over to first loco.
Little faster that time.
Frankie Coselli is a pretty wiry little boy when he gets on
the bases.
Strike one on DiMaggio.
Strike two.
Oh, boy did the Hubbell have a lot of stuff on that baby.
He's outside.
He didn't look for a moment.
So he had a chance of cutting in.
But it twisted over the heart of the plate.
Apparently pulling Joey on that one.
Joe was up there with a toe hold.
Now it's strike two.
Outside a pitch out of puck to first loco.
Coselli was heads up that time.
He came in the left bag sliding and sliding hard.
A little inside face ball by Mancuso calling to that pitch
out.
That's a signal to the pitcher that the runner on the face
might be caught.
No, that's catcher's signals for the pitcher to throw the ball
wide at the plate, getting the batter out of the way so he
can make the play at first.
That's the term of a pitch out of it.
That's the one round.
Something wrong with that ball out there.
Frankie Coselli asked me to take a look at it.
He discussed with Mr. Hubbell.
Instead of throwing it in, he rolled it in on the ground.
He also took a look at it and crossed it out.
Now we've got to do it.
Last half of the first inning, one man out.
Frank Coselli is on first.
Joe DiMaggio is up, right to a ball one.
Marroping to Gary Fex at the pitch.
The foul is ball to Fex.
Fex throw it out to the left field.
The ball on 33 by Joey Moore.
Joey Fex to right-handed second.
Holy Coselli at second base.
A face hit.
More goal to DiMaggio.
That was a ground ball.
The foul will not go far.
That's just business.
It rolled on out to left field where it was retrieved by Joey Moore.
Frank Coselli was fast and had no chance at all of going to third base.
Joey Moore after he rounded the bag,
whips the ball to whitehead at second.
But Coselli gets back.
Now we have Luke Gehrig coming up.
Gehrig in old fashion, left-handed.
Luke has been heading 353 this season.
And he's 33 years old.
Hasn't missed a ball game since the Lord knows when.
Double pitching.
There it is.
Made-away curve ball.
Missed the outside corner.
And it's ball one.
Frank Coselli is on second.
Joe DiMaggio on first.
Just a couple of Italian boys that know something about this game called baseball.
Ball one.
Gary Kidding.
Here it is.
A long drive, high and far out, but not going too far away.
Hank Lieber is under it.
And he has it.
Returns the ball to Burgess Whitehead.
Coselli holding second.
DiMaggio holding first.
Gary got ahold of that ball.
But John Barnes of this Yankee Stadium, you know,
are pretty long.
And the boys took that ball out there.
Not quite out to the center track.
Let me give you the figures on this field.
The left field is 301 feet to the left field corner.
Then the right left field is 402 feet.
Directly in center field is 461.
Right center is 407.
And on the line in left field is 296 feet.
Of course, it branches out within 30 or 40 feet of that.
It's 344 feet back.
Right now we have two men out.
And Bill Zicke at bat.
McCatter, left hand batter.
Outside, ball one.
Carl Hubbell leaning almost back to second base
before he cut loose to that ball.
Apparently he's trying to keep that ball over the lower
outside corner for Bill Zicke.
Nick Bartell moves over toward the second base cushion.
Strike, ball.
Ball one, strike one.
Frank Gozetti on second.
Joe DiMaggio on first, two men up.
Walt struck out.
Gary Flagelieber in center field.
Carl Hubbell, left hander, is in the box for the Giants.
Ball one, strike one.
Makes a look at second base.
Here it is.
Strike two, tip down.
Perhaps here, that's Matthews making the catch of the ball.
And a counter strike two, and ball one.
There's a lot of excitement here at Jackie Stadium.
The folks have been waiting, you know,
just 12 months for this classic.
Down on Bill Zicke, now a strike two and ball one.
Outside of the counters, two and two.
Merle Holt, who is playing out left field
against the south ball shoots of Carl Hubbell, is next.
At the left fielder is Jackie Powell.
Ball two and strike two.
Hubbell takes the stretch.
There it is.
Tip foul.
Dickie swung over that ball, landed right there, home plate.
So far, what's not a new ball, the Giants
smacking around that infield with the raffinity of Mike Malat.
Dick Bartel, the whitehead to McCarthy,
and then back to the pitcher, Hubbell.
Giant outfield at Joe Warren left, Hank Lieber in center,
and Jimmy Ripple in right.
DiMaggio on first, Rosetti on second, two outs,
Dickie batting, ball two, strike two.
Coming.
Ball three.
A burning fastball.
No Bill Dickie away from the plate.
Haven't had so much on him that it brought a great
throng from the crowd.
50-10, it's one, and somewhat over 60.
Here are the figures on the attendance,
just to see if they're made as better than the watch.
Four-counter, three and two, the runners will be off
of the pitch.
There they go, and here it is.
The fly ball going out of the deep center field,
Hank Lieber running back under it, and he has it.
That's all for the Yankees on the first inning.
No runs, one hit, one base downfall, and no errors.
Now radio fans, please pause briefly for station identification.
Back at the NBC booth in the Yankee Stadium,
and the thought that strikes me after watching the Yankees'
first attempt at Carl Hubbell's pitching in this game is that
Hubbell's been a little bit wild to the extent that he's been
three and two on most of these hitters.
He's been working that ball towards the corners there,
pitching very carefully for the simple reason that it is not
a good judgment to get that ball any too good for these
Yankee hitters.
While he was hit for one base hit,
the one that Joe DiMaggio's flashed past Melada third base,
that was a sort of a soggy hit, and it wasn't hit with the
authority that we are accustomed to watch when the Yankees
really get a hold of the ball.
So far in the ball game, it has been mostly one of defense with
the Yankees furnishing the principal set,
of which, as you know now, nothing came.
All right, Tom, it looks like the hitter's up here,
so let's have them.
Well, it'll be Jimmy Ripple.
A giant right fielder.
They completed the first inning without any score.
One hit apiece.
Carl Hubbell has issued one base on balls.
So far, lefty Gomez has issued no bases on balls.
Jimmy Ripple leading off.
Jimmy, left hand hitter, the right fielder of the Giants.
Here we go.
All one.
That was a fast ball that Gomez had in there,
but it was just a little bit too low.
Johnny McCarty will be next.
All ball up the back of third base.
All one strike one.
Here's Jimmy, he broke his bat.
Hitting that ball, that's what he did,
and he's walking slowly over toward the Giants dugout to get
a new one.
One thing that the ball player does hate to do is to play
their bat.
Tell me, Warren, how did that ever start?
He broke his bat and sort of broke the ball.
Well, that's just one of those superstitions that come along
in baseball, like somebody who started a hit by wearing their
pants long, you know, they used to pull them all up in the
old days.
One fellow started in like Cal Simmons or somebody like that
with his pants down loose, and now pretty nearly everybody
does.
Ready to go again.
All one on strike one, Ripple hitting.
That's a long crash going out to left field.
Merle Hove waiting for it.
He has it.
Jimmy Ripple with the count ball one on strike one.
Fly to Merle Hove in medium left field.
Johnny McCarthy.
First year as a regular with the Giants.
They like him here in New York.
He's getting a nice hand.
He steps into the batter's box.
He smacks and goes left-handed.
Lefty Gomez outside, all one.
Awful smuggy and awful dark here at the moment.
Little wind blowing in from the northwest.
And he makes the catch.
He looked at the umpire, the umpire Steve Bader wave,
and it was a non-assisted put out.
Looked his own Tony just barely got his club underneath that
ball, a terrific line smashed right at Tony's feet.
He held the ball up and Steve Bader waved out.
That's Tony Mazzelli made the catch.
Two out, nobody on.
First half of the second inning.
That's Mancuso off.
Strike call.
That's 31 years old.
This season he batted 279.
And Yankee outfield.
Hogan left, DiMaggio center, Selkirk right.
The pitch is a ball.
Ball one inside, ball one and strike one.
Wind up.
That's a long smash into right center field.
Selkirk going over fast and he has it.
Very nice running catch by right fielder Georgie Selkirk.
Mancuso hitting that ball on a line into right center field.
Selkirk was off to the back of the bat and made the catch.
The noticeable thing there was the fact that all three of these
Yankee hitters were giant hitters and two of them left hand
hitters took very solid wallops at the ball.
That's the hardest hit of the game to date in the force of
effectiveness was that line drive that McCarty hit out at
Lazare out there.
It's interesting to me to find those fellas walking in there
against Gomez since in the first inning outside of Barthel's
drive over third base they looked a little bit weak.
Right.
Evidently Gomez is not treating them with the same respect that
Hubbell is treating the Yankee hitters.
He's simply firing that ball in and thrusting at those nine men
in back of them or eight men I should say in back of them and
certainly so far they've done a swell job.
Two of those catches out there in the outfield were better than
ordinary catches particularly Selkirk's on the last one.
That's your first Yankee hitter.
That'll be Merle Hogan.
Last half of the second inning no score yet.
Merle Hogan is 29 years old.
He comes from Sacramento, California.
This season batting 301.
Merle has always been a fine baseball player but unfortunately
he's been out of the regular lineup on many occasions because
he's always had much superior outfield.
It's Carl Hubbell, you know, a south-forked man,
Q so catching.
Last half of the second inning no score and Hogan the hitter.
Strike call.
Merle Hogan stuck his bat out through third base from
Melodin but of course had no intention of batting that ball
just by way of drawing Melodin from third base.
Oh, low and outside on the count on Hogan.
Ball one and strike one.
Merle Hogan the batter, Georgie Selkirk.
George has been on the injured and sick list quite a bit during
the last half of the season but he's back in and out strong as
ever.
Ball one, strike one.
Bounding ball down, third goes foul.
Artie Butcher tried to stop it, got past him but Val Harkin
trees the ball and then the Giants flip it around the
infield.
Dick Bartel to Whitehead to McCarthy and finally back to
Hubbell.
Carl Hogan hit that ball, started to run with three
quarters of the way down to first base, walking back rather
slow.
Strike two and ball one.
Carl Hubbell winding up.
Too high.
Over the plate, a little bit high on the count as ball two
and strike two.
NBC Mike is right over home plate with pretty high but
right in line with the pitcher and catcher.
Pretty fair seat in other words.
Ball two, strike two.
Bounding ball down short, Burgess comes up with it to
throw, he's out.
Out by plenty.
Put out six to three for those who keep the score.
That's Warren Brown just gives me a note that that was the
first assist to the ball game.
Like you are Warren.
Strike out two fly balls, two flies to center field by
carrying a ticket and a strike out by Ross.
Now we have George Iselkirk, the right fielder left hand
batter coming up.
George hit three twenty eight this year.
George is twenty nine years old.
Gets the first ball a high hopper, counts second phase
white head to McCarthy and Iselkirk is out.
Last half of the second inning with no scores yet.
Two men have been retired and push him up Tony Nazarian
listens to the call he gets.
Tony Nazarian, always been a gentleman.
One great ball player.
They like him a lot here in New York and they should.
Tony bats him right hand.
The other one outside.
Tony is thirty three years old.
This year Tony has hit the head as well as usual.
Batting around two fifty.
Ball one is the count, two out, nobody off.
Strike call.
Hubbell had a nice fast ball over the inside corner with
Lazeri pulling away.
He gets a handful of dirt there, drying his hands off.
And the count will be ball one and strike one.
Last half of the second inning, no scores yet, two out,
nobody off.
The hot-spag back to Hubbell, he knocked it down,
picks it up, crosses for McCarthy and Lazeri is out.
The ball was hit right back on the nose and the
apologies for that stop of Kyle Hubbell.
No runs, no hits, no lowers, no scores.
The conclusion of the two inning, score.
Well I'm sorry Tom that we brought up that matter of the
no assists in that inning since there was nothing else
from there on.
But it was an oddity that we got into as far as the last
half of the second inning without having one of the
infielders handle the ball on the ground after
throwing the first base.
It seems to me now that the game has definitely settled
into a warfare between the pitchers, which of course
lives up to all the specifications of the experts
going into the series.
They recognize that Gomez was the superior pitcher in
his league and there is no doubt in anybody's mind about
Kyle Hubbell's place in the National League.
And so far there hasn't been very much of anything
between the two of them.
It's been strictly a pitcher's battle so far and now we
have to sit around here for a while and just wait and see
what the break is going to be.
It's sort of a ball game.
One never knows when it might pop out.
All right Tom.
Going into the first half of third inning.
The National League every the giant coming to bat.
And their second baseman, Purchase Whitehead.
Purchase 26 years old this year.
He hit 286.
Let's see Gomez winds up all on.
Burning fast ball over the plate for two low.
One hit of Pete so far.
There's a pounding ball through the box.
A 12 shot by Cogetti to foul.
He's out.
How beautiful play by Frankie Cogetti.
That was a pounding ball just out of the reach of
Rusty Gomez.
Frankie Cogetti was off with a crack in the back.
Took that ball.
Played over the second base.
Pushing right on the air.
Hooked it over to Luke Gehrig for the foot out.
He appauses for Kyle Hubbell.
That was a wonderful.
Kyle Hubbell you know.
Picked his left hand and it's back to Whitehead.
One out.
Nobody on.
A foul up there.
Well there wasn't much of a scramble for that ball.
It hopped right into the waiting hands of a gentleman
who I do not believe is going to talk the fact.
Here we go.
Ball inside.
Sharp breaking hook ball.
Just a little bit close.
And the count is ball one and strike one on Kyle Hubbell.
Inside of it.
Ball two.
Rusty Gomez that's funny on that one.
Getting quite dark here at Yankee Stadium in New York.
That is advantageous for Rusty Gomez.
Fireball finished.
That's a long tag going out there.
Whitefield shelter going back and near the wall and makes a catch.
That ball was hit exactly 340 feet from home plate.
Dunkford taking that ball just about four feet in front of the barrier
out in deep Whitefield.
Mr. Hubbell tagged that ball very, very well.
It's a face hit and an awful lot of ball park.
But not here in space at Yankee Stadium.
Two out.
First half of the third inning, no score yet.
What's going on at the top of the batting order coming up?
It's Joe Moore.
Last time up he was out Gary Gunner.
A strike called.
Rusty Gomez pitching and Phil Zicke to catch it.
Coming.
Ball two.
Another shot breaking through the ball is outside.
Correction, ball one, strike one.
One and one.
Ball two.
Back ball over the plate but just a little bit low.
And it's ball two and strike one.
Let me grab that one.
It's good enough.
Here's the windup.
Ball two and strike one.
Ball back.
And the count is two and two.
Joe Moore coming up for the second time.
Leadoff man of the Giants.
The first time up he was out Gary Gunner.
After the up cost that ball to Zicke.
Yankees flipped it around the infield.
Rusty Gomez taking his glove off.
Nice putting it back on in the box.
And here we go.
Ball two, strike two.
Oh a heart smash by Rusty Gomez.
A similar play had ended the Yankee time at bat.
A heart smash through the box to Rusty Gomez.
Grabbed this glove and passed it over the first for the put out.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Mr. Brown.
All right Mr. Manning.
The surprising thing I think is these last two innings as far as the Yankees are concerned is their presentation and a new life.
All of us that have been writing and talking about the Yankees have been mentioning their power at the plate.
These last two innings have shown them to be a very snappy defensive ball club.
Every one of those plays in the last inning and every one of the plays in the second inning was a very deftly handled ball by whether it was outfielders or infielders.
That play that Frank Crocetti made down in second base there was I think the most spectacular one so far.
The outfielders certainly performed up to a standard that we didn't expect since we regarded them strictly as hitters.
All right, Scott.
And while the applause is sweeping through your loudspeaker now is for L. Doopey Gomez who's pitching this afternoon for the Yankees.
The lefty doesn't get very many pace hits during the regular season.
When he gets one, the ball is the most colorful pick.
That happens to happen this afternoon when Kyle watches every move and transfer it to you.
Last half of the third inning we have no scores yet.
The Yankees coming to bat.
And the pitcher, Lefty Gomez, who's got some unfrozen left hand.
Hubbell, pounding ball down to Whitehead.
An easy chance to play to McCarthy and Gomez is up.
It was a rather feeble swing that Lefty took at that ball.
Nice easy hopper that pushed his Whitehead, took the knee high and tossed it over to Johnny McCarthy for the up.
Again the top of the Yankee batting order coming up.
Frankie Cosetti, one of the three Italian boys that play on the Yankee team.
Ben Cusso and Chiosa, the Italian boys on the Giants team.
Last time up Cosetti threw a face on ball.
The pitch ball won, it's low outside.
This is the first game of the World Series.
The boys will play four out of seven.
Two here at Yankee Stadium and then we move over to the Polo card.
Here we go.
Strike four.
Now they have a fast ball in there right over the heart of the plate.
It's up high.
A cold strike and the count is four one and strike one.
Last half of the third inning.
Yankees starting, one out, nobody on.
There it is.
Ball two.
That was over the plate.
A little bit too low and the count is ball two and the strike one.
Red, roll, third baseman.
Frankie Cosetti, right hand batter is up.
Ball two and strike one.
It is inside, ball three.
Frankie Cosetti is a tough little boy to fix to.
Always wiggling up there, giving the pitcher no target to skew that.
One out, nobody on.
Hubbell winds up at ball three and strike one.
It's in there, a cold strike.
Ball has that one in there, felt high and right over the heart of the plate.
Frankie Cosetti elected to work out the string and the count is ball three and strike two.
Three and two and this is the big one.
Winding up.
There's a long drive going to left field.
It's all by one foot.
Clear down in the corner.
Everybody jump to their feet.
We waited for a moment to make sure that that ball was outside and not more than a foot down in the left field corner
and that perhaps is the hardest hit ball of the afternoon.
That count three and two, Bob Hubbell came in there with a fast ball,
much to the liking of Frankie Cosetti, right at toe holes.
That's just a placement, just that kind of a pitch and he nailed it.
Low line drive, it went thick and he scooped down on that left field corner
and was followed by not more than a foot.
Nice bit of upfiring here by Phil Stewart.
He said he was on that play.
Ready to go, three and two the count.
How high, the grandfusel ripped off his mask, got it back but it's in the stands.
Frankie Cosetti has a count of ball three and strike two.
That one's deep.
Now fire behind the plate this afternoon.
Each time he crosses that ball off the boys sort of dirty it up a little bit with a little bit of infield dirt.
Ready to go again, Hubbell has the ball, ball three and strike two.
Followed it down third, followed by not too much.
So close to being a third ball, the fella trapped it, puts it over to first base.
Frankie has his eye on that hot corner.
Frankie's a little fella, not very heavy but he certainly can pull those balls down for third base.
Playing the last half, the third inning.
Yankees have left with one out, nobody out.
Frankie Cosetti up with a full count.
There's the windup.
High ball going out to left field.
Joey Moore didn't move very much if he hasn't.
Frankie Cosetti is a long left field hitter.
Joey Moore, the giant left fielder, was playing out there pretty near the track.
Joey Moore's got four or five yards to make that catch, now he has two out.
Nobody on, left ball put back.
Out of the two trips of the plate, Cosetti threw a face on balls and fly to Gilmore and left field.
Left ball up, last time up he struck out.
Two out, nobody on, Hubbell winds up.
It's a ball, sweeping third ball, not too fast.
That's the outside corner and the count on Rolfe is ball one.
Not quite as dark here, now as it was while he transferred back.
No sunshine or anything like that but lightening up a little bit.
Left fielder, the scurvy foul into the stands and the count is ball one and strike one.
Back in the batter's box, again Carl Hubbell has a new ball.
That's the cleanest looking ball that we've seen out there this afternoon.
Ball one and strike one, two out and nobody on.
Fly ball going out to left field, Joey coming over to the line under it.
He takes it and that's all for the Yankees and the Ferdinand.
No runs, no hits, no overs, one.
There's no reason to suspect, John, that these pitchers aren't still in complete control of the ball game.
Hubbell has been almost perfect, I might say, since the first inning.
Outside of Frank Cosetti who hit a ball rather sharply into left field.
And Ralph who just did a dinky fly out to kill more.
None of the others have been able to get the ball past the infield.
Hubbell seems to have recovered whatever the lack of control it was that he started out at in the game.
He's getting that ball just about where he wants it.
And with these two clubs having a pretty good understanding of such weaknesses,
if weaknesses exist in the other side's offensive array, I think Carl will go along pretty well.
He seems to be perfectly self-contained whereas Gomez, on the other hand, is just as effective
and seems to be perfectly content with the way things are going on.
I don't know if that I blame him.
All right, Tom.
All right, we're going into the first half of the fourth inning.
We ought to get a bit of excitement now on both sides.
We have Martel up, Leaver coming up for the Giants,
and in the fourth inning all the Yankees will have coming up will be DiMaggio, Garry, and Dickie.
Group coaching at first and Snyder at third for the Giants.
Here we go, Martel up.
Gets the first ball pitch with a mighty drive going deep.
Hope going back on the cylinder track and he has it.
Run out.
Dick Martel, as I told you in the first inning, is a long left field hitter.
He got a hold of that first ball pitch.
It was a high ball, a runner high, stepped into it, drove it deep out into left field with hope.
It was playing deep, running back on the cylinder track, and making the catch.
Now we have Melvin Knott coming up.
That was 28 years old.
He got it 294 this year.
Last time up he tried the first baseman, Lou Garry.
The first pitch, ball one.
Stopped breaking, curved ball, it was Mo outside to the left-hand hitter.
Ball two.
Last ball right under Melvin's chin, stepped away from the plate.
Now the card is to the nothing.
First half of the fourth inning.
There's a bounding ball through the box.
Licelli goes over, makes the play, it's close.
He's out.
Oh, what a play that was by Tony Licelli.
That was a bounding ball over the head.
Oh, Kutny Gomez, Paul Inazeri, running away from first base.
Grabbed that ball to his right, then leaped over it, shot the ball over to Lou Garry,
just ahead of Mella.
Only far above one step.
Two outs, nobody on.
Beautiful play by Tony, the best play of the game so far.
Hank Weaver is up.
Right-hand hitter, striking, swings, and listens.
Two very beautiful infield plays there, one by Licelli and this one by Tony Licelli.
Strike one, Weaver hitting.
Strike two, makes a mighty cut at that tough breaking third ball, swung over it, and it's strike two.
High infield fly ball and back of second base, Licelli, the jell's forth, already has it.
That's all for the Giants for the fourth inning.
No lungs, no hits, still earned one.
All right, Tom, the thing that I've been waiting for since this world series game began just appeared out there now.
We've heard still throughout the summer that maybe Tony Licelli, the veteran of many a campaign up here with the Yankees, was slowing down a little bit.
Well, he certainly gives no evidence in that play that he made out there in this last inning.
He ranged over back of second base and came up with a ball.
The fact that he got in front of the ball was not so much a part of the play, but his ability to throw while definitely out of position.
He was getting rid of that ball almost while he was running straight away from where he had to source.
And the two activities combined gives Tony at the present time the lead for the spectacular feeling in this series.
All right, Tom, here's Joe DiMaggio now.
All right, the big guns of the Yankees.
One of the big reasons why the Yankees is a fallout in front in the American League, DiMaggio, Jerry, and Dick.
Giant outfield playing way back. Jerry Ripple is standing clear on the other side of the track, standing out there about 360 feet from home plate, waiting for DiMaggio to hit.
Here we go, Hubble pitching. Ball one. Start breaking curve balls.
A foot outside. Let's see that Joe Moore is playing right on the track. It's approximately 380 feet from home plate.
They played Joe DiMaggio's deep and they should.
The pounding ball between first and second. Right hand coming over. The throw, he's out.
Joe hit that ball right on the tip of his bat and it was a sizzling little crowder down between first and second. Took for a moment.
He had a chance to beat it out. The plate hit his bat, came over, scooped the ball up, got it through, Johnny McCarthy at first, and DiMaggio is out.
Move Gary again. Last time up, move Gary, got a hold of the ball, but he hoisted it much too high. Getting center field ahead, gave him a chance to get under it, wore the foot off.
Giant pitcher, Kyle Hubble. Striping the preparation from his foul. Now he's ready to go. Gary's the hitter. Left hand batter.
Up. Strike, ball. Boy, so the Hubble's gonna be at a lot on that one.
Passed the ball, he crossed all afternoon. Right over the heart of the plate.
There it is. Outside. All one, right one. Oh yeah, Marcus Oder begins to peek. It's a couple quick times when this lady, Gary, steps up to that plate. What a picture.
He crossed shoulders with his strong arms. One and one. Oh, clear over the stand. Over the back of first base. Quite a hoist to get it over the stand. Yankee state, he was rejected.
Strike two, ball one. Yanks starting in the fourth inning and it's quite a ball game. A picture's not so far each side having one base hit. Amadio getting a hit for the Yanks and Martell for the Giants.
Strike two and ball one. Inside, driving Gary away from the plate and the count is ball two and strike two. Gotcha Bill Vicki, hanging around home plate. He'll be next.
Martell is playing over almost the back of second base. Whitehead has shifted over between first and second. Macazi playing two yards from the line. Here we go.
Gary's throwing a ball ball just in front of him and it's a strike out. Carl Hubbell came in there fast and started breaking third balls. It looked like it was coming over the side of the plate.
Gary started to swing and apparently tried to hold the swing but he was going in there so hard unable to hold it and swung around missing that ball by several feet.
Kind of bad on that one. First white down, two going and nobody on.
Always a picture with that Gary at that plate. And that was a real picture of Warren and Teddy apart at the moment. I feel like he has two on, nobody on.
He's in there for a cold strike. You'll notice that from Gary, Vicki came to bat. Hubbell struck the first ball and there was a straight ball with all the speed that he had to his command.
Keeping the ball just a little above the knee. Good picture.
Ball there down first, Macazi has it. Macazi running the back to the put out. No one, no hitter, no score to conclude the four inning.
At the time that Gary was at the bat I happened to be looking down into the giant dugout and Bill Kerry is down there sort of out in front of his players and to distinguish him from the rest of them he has a towel around his neck.
I've been trying to figure out for several innings why that was but I gather he was waving his outfielders around particularly his center fielder, Hank Leiper.
He was steering him around with the aid of his arm and the towel and I can see now that the distance of these giant outfielders play away from the plate and naturally away from their own dugout with Gary at the plate it's no wonder that Bill needs a towel around his neck.
From that distance one giant looks the same as another. This is the first time that I've noticed Gary taking that active part in the direction of his outfielders during the progress of play but it was quite interesting to me.
Alright Tom here comes the next one.
Now we're going into the first half of the fifth inning.
As we're beginning to loop unison this time happens to be for the time.
What's your opinion of that?
Certainly broke off in here. I think Tom was the finest breaking serve that was thrown by either one of these pitchers this afternoon. At least that was the way it looked to me. It didn't start out as a bad hit but it broke so sharply that it made Gary look bad didn't you think so?
Well here we go. Give me Ripple.
Right fielder first man up. Ball one.
Curve ball was outside.
Last time up Ripple fly to left field.
Sokert has moved back over the center track. Joe DiMaggio has moved over right center field.
Strike.
Ball. Ball one strike one.
Let's see Gomez pitching.
Drive down to left it's foul.
Goer goes up from the cloud there. Some of the fans were on a different angle than we are.
Takes a little longer to see whether that ball is curving foul or not.
Alright it's strike two and ball one.
First half of the fifth inning no score is yet.
Each of the teams the Giants and Yanks have made one hit.
Ball two a fast ball that knocked Jimmy Ripple down.
That's the first ball of the product that's knocked down this afternoon getting out of the way of the ball.
Ball two and strike two.
Lefty Gomez pitching. Bill Dickey catching.
Two and two. The foul back.
And the copy remains two and two.
Ripple got a piece of a good curve ball from Gomez that time.
Well fixed ball. It was breaking over the outside corner.
Bump fire crossed out a new ball.
Gave it to Dickey. Dickey shot it down the wall.
The ball got some dirt.
Rupped it up and now Olemsby has asked for the ball again.
Crosses out another ball. He's telling Bill Dickey now stop throwing that ball in the dirt.
That's a little play by the boys. Nothing serious.
Yanks threw that ball around the infield.
Now Gomez has it and we're ready to go again.
Jimmy Ripple. The hitter.
There's a face-off in the way.
Field of line five.
Rans out there.
Selthorpe has it.
The Cholest is the second. Ripple stopping it first.
Second giant hit of the afternoon.
That's out two and two.
Lefty Gomez came in there with a straight ball inside.
Ripple pulled away and pulled the ball with it to right field for a face-off.
Kelly McCarthy coming up. First baseman.
Dickey's a pretty cool boy.
Thompson throws left-handed.
Last time up. Play to Dickey.
First pitch.
Money-wise it's played a beautiful stop by Bill Dickey.
Ball one.
It was a third ball that started to break over the outside corner.
By the time it was finished it was on the outside of the right-handed battered box.
Here it comes. Ball two. Again it's outside.
You'll notice from the yelling that there are a lot of giant fans here at Yankee Stadium this afternoon.
There's the counter down.
It keeps on going.
Field. And Ripple has found the second.
There's the throw. The throw is cut off by Kosehni.
Ripple goes to third.
And McCarthy stops it first.
That was a hot pass between Lozari and Kelly.
Lozari coming over fast.
It was scored as a face hit. A face hit for McCarthy.
A hard ground ball that Lozari came over.
He was able to touch that ball but unable to hold it.
Ball rolled on out to right field.
This is the first scoring front of the afternoon.
The Giants have runners on first and third.
Nobody out. Hank Gusman, Kyuso coming up.
The pitcher again. McCarthy is on first.
Ripple is on third base.
Gomez pitching. Hank Kyuso up.
That was a pitch out.
Ripple was too far off third base.
Perhaps the Yankees were expecting a squeeze play or something that time.
Anyway, I think he wanted to find out.
And inside face ball he called for a pitch out.
Here it is.
The ball upstairs. Strike.
Ball one. And strike one.
Gusman, Kyuso. The Giants catch it.
The white hand batter.
Last time up he played to right field.
First half of the fifth inning.
No score as yet.
And the Giants have runners on first and third.
Ripple on third. McCarthy on first.
Ball one. Strike one.
Here it is. Strike two.
How beautifully pitched ball.
Right under the hand with the bat.
Over the inside corner with Hank Kyuso taking a terrific cut.
It's strike two and ball one.
Johnny McCarthy staying pretty close to first base.
Luke Gehry holding him on there.
Here it is.
The long drive to right field going foul.
It is. It's foul in the stands and the comp remains two and one.
Hank Kyuso reaching outside for that pitch.
Yankees across that ball around the infield.
Not very rapidly but he swallows them stealing the ball.
And Yankee infield is playing back.
So they give up that run on third base apparently.
Here's the pitch.
Another foul.
That was upstairs.
Upstairs is the back of first base.
Gusman, Kyuso the batter. It's strike two and ball one.
Let's take a look at that picture for you.
Second base combination.
Cosetti and Lozare are playing pretty deep.
Head ball is playing deep enough.
Gehry gets right in the bag holding McCarthy there.
Gomez tosses over to Gehry.
Going to have Harden.
That's Johnny McCarthy. Nobody's in there.
It's strike two and ball one.
Kyuso up. Gomez stretches.
Here it is.
The foul ball down to Cosetti.
Cosetti to Lozare out at second.
Harden throws the double play.
And Ripple crosses the plate.
And they got that.
Ripple on third base.
McCarthy on first.
Man Kyuso hits the ground ball to Cosetti.
Cosetti picked it up.
Cross to Lozare.
Getting McCarthy.
Lozare to Gehry.
Getting Man Kyuso.
Double play and the score.
The Giants won.
The Yankees nothing.
Now we have Burgess Whitehead coming up.
The Giants second base.
The Whitehead batter.
Last time up he was out short to first.
The pitch right down the alley.
A cold strike.
Lefty Gomez you know.
The fans throughout the circuit haven't appreciated
the fireball he possesses.
But he's got a lot of them.
Outside and it's a ball.
Ball one and strike one.
Many of the ball players have said that Gomez has a ball.
He throws just quickly and this bastard Bob fellow with Lefty Bob goes.
Ball one and strike one.
There's a long smash to Whitefield.
It's fouled by two yards down the Whitefield corner.
Again the fans jump to their feet.
And that line's smashed by Burgess Whitehead.
I believe we've had more shots down the bow lines in this particular game.
And they gave it to them in the long time.
Is that right?
Yeah you don't think so.
Ready to go again.
Gomez has the glove off for a moment.
And the counters strike two and ball one.
First half of the fifth inning.
The Giants batting two outs.
Nobody on.
The wind up.
There's a face block over Gehry's head down to the Whitefield corner.
The ball counts off the wall.
He's going to second there's the foul.
He goes into second standing up.
And the first extra face hit of the World Series in 1937.
And the third giant hit of this inning.
First half of the fifth.
Now we have Carl Hubbell.
The Giants hits are coming up.
That was a mighty wall up by Burgess Whitehead.
A line drive that was about 15 feet over the head of first baseman Luke Gehry.
And the ball going down into the Whitefield corner.
He's got the barrier down there.
Two hundred and twenty-six feet from home plate.
And a foul to George E. Selkirk.
But it was ample time for Whitehead.
Three second base standing up.
Fourth hit of the ball game.
The third hit of the first half of the fifth inning for the National League Giants.
Here's the pitch to Hubbell.
He hits the first ball.
Down the foul.
Ryan McInnis foul.
Listen Paul, I don't want the radio on.
I should think that.
You tell me about that drive.
That one just glistened.
It looked like it.
And then when it died it's gone.
That's been going on all afternoon.
Right down those foul lines on both sides of the field.
Well, it was so good that Carl Hubbell was all the way down the first on his way to second anyway.
One thing I don't like about radio announcements is to kitch out, you know.
Make you believe that there's no chance of a base hit when there isn't.
Here's the pitch.
Don't forget.
That's a pounding ball to Gehrig.
Gehrig comes up with it.
Dips on the bag for the put out.
That's all for the Giants in the fifth inning.
One run, three hits and no error.
We completed four and a half innings of this first game of the Blue Ribbon Classic.
This is Tom Manning speaking.
I've enjoyed it thoroughly working with you, Warren, and broadcasting to you, the radio audience.
And the remaining part of the ball game will be broadcast by Red Barber of Cincinnati, Ohio.
But before that comes in, Warren Brown.
All right, Tom.
Well, we certainly had a little excitement in that inning.
And looking back at it, it was a good thing that Joe McCarty, the rest of the Yankees,
decided to play his infield back for the double play and sort of spot the Giants that one run.
They thought after a white hit, two base hits came along.
They weren't too out at the time and it looked as though the Giants were on their way to a big inning.
The interesting thing about the inning was that those two hits which started it were both made by left-hand hitters.
And both of them were able to pull the ball in the right field.
And doing that off the left-hand pitcher Gomez, that would indicate that maybe they are gradually catching up with lefty.
He was hit rather hard in that inning.
And of course he was very fortunate in one way that there was only one run short.
And one run, as we all know, against the Yankees is not supposed to be much run.
However, they don't see Hubble every day.
All right, Red, glad to see you down here.
Well, thanks a lot, Warren.
And it is me to say I'm glad to be here.
One and nothing save for the Giants, but the Yankees up in the last of the fifth inning, call Hubble.
Doesn't have to have anyone tell him that he has a lead of one run.
He's used to having to work that way with the Giants.
He's pitching now to Hope, who hits the first pitch high and short out in the left center.
Wachtell backs back, drives everyone away, waste hundred, and takes it.
No hold.
The right-hand hitter went after Hubble's first pitch,
locked it up to Dick Wachtell who went back into short left center field.
And it is one up, one away, last of the fifth inning.
Hubble has now retired the last 12 Yankees in a row.
So far he's pitching a one-hitter.
It is one and nothing save for the Giants.
Gohm has retired 11 Giants in a row before Ruppel,
first up in the fifth inning single to start off New York one-run inning.
The only score so far in the 1937 World Series.
Up there now is George Selkirk, strong left-hand batter, takes outside, all one.
A curve thrown by left-handed pitcher to a left-hand hitter that broke off just around the knee.
Selkirk, pitching up to the thousands, looks as short as a little.
He's turned toward right field.
The Giants are playing him as a full hitter, out of defense deep and pulled around toward right.
Hubble out of his sixth delivered.
This one's a curve low outside under the knee, so ball through.
Do nothing to trickle-toe Selkirk, the young man who has perhaps the hottest spot ever to fill in baseball
when it was his job to take over right field when Dave Rue hung up his spikes as far as the Yankees were concerned.
Selkirk, coming at six, lays it down once, twice, Hubble sets in with it.
He swung on and missed the slight one.
Selkirk didn't like that one.
After he swung and didn't get it, he beat it heavy up to the bat down off the plate as if to say,
there was my Carson Kitchin, I didn't play him again with it.
One out, nobody on.
Last of the fifth, Giants leading one to nothing.
Hubble down, ball, ball, three.
Just lifting the outside.
Hubble has given us a sight of that famous scoop ball just one time, that is, it really counts this afternoon.
The one time he exploded it was when he struck out Gerrick in the fourth inning.
Hubble taking his time, looking into the dirt now after getting the sign,
straight it up, swing it straight, he's down with a great left bound, the fifth is one,
three and two, that is a change of pace curve ball, lifting its way down in there.
Now every ball that looks a little backwards thrown by Hubble is his screw ball
because he throws that resort with a lot of his curve breaking down with sail.
When you're under to see that screw ball, you know it.
The pitch is, it's a high fly ball into short light field,
back to second base from the whitehead, under comes Ruppel, and Ruppel for the catch.
That's one about two miles, one up and one down.
Whitehead was all the way back out in a pretty fair piece of right field.
He had to make up his mind, first if he had taken, then second if he wouldn't.
Ruppel, waiting right there, came in for the kill.
Doorway for the Yankees, last of the fifth inning, Giants out front one to nothing.
The winner is Poonamus Harry.
Ed McCloskey, drive through him in the fifth inning, most important base hit of the afternoon.
Throwing that set Ruppel around the third.
Harry in a crouch, doesn't get sick sharply, red hand matter, swings and falls it into the dirt.
Justin and Kuzo retrieve, strike one.
We have both pitches left-handers today, and both of them flirting with Lady Luck as both are wearing eleven.
However, the names cannot smile both ways at the same time.
Ruppel has never lost an opening World Series game, and Gomez has never lost a World Series game.
Somebody is going to get hurt before this day is over.
Ruppel pitching to the very, falls right through, he picks up the inside corner just under the letter.
Right over the short rib.
Nothing in two, two out, nobody on.
Last of the fifth inning, Giants are hit one to nothing.
Not field sharp at one left.
Poonamus Harry is an out-not-full hitter.
The pitch is into the dirt in front of the plate, four to one.
The first time the Pupils has thrown anything that looked wildly.
However, that's not a wild pitch.
A wild pitch is only so scored when there's a runner on base to advance and take advantage of it.
Just four to one.
One and two.
The Pupils have been down to the last thirteen Yankees in a row.
They have not just one hit, one base on ball coming in the first inning.
First third of the first inning.
Up into his sling and fetch, the limbers outside occur the dimethicum down and in to a right-hand hitter thrown by a left-hander.
Two and two.
Now in shortstop, Ruppelbach's thick cocktail, visiting with the juniper, putting his cap down.
Melon, a reformed right fielder who's done a great job at third base, threw a little dirt, threw that at the rain around him.
He's put over pretty close to the foul line.
Whitehead is over almost back to second base.
There's a two-two pitch.
One on the missed hit, right three.
That's the third strikeout for Carl Hubbell.
As for the first time pitching with a one-round lead, he makes it look just that much better.
Bob has now retired the last 14 men in the row.
We pause for station identification.
Back at the Yankee Stadium and in the NBC post at the top of the stand looking over the World Series.
The long point about Hubbell now, since Red has told you how he's been throwing everybody down since the first inning,
is that in these latter states it seems to me he's making a Yankee hit that bad ball.
That last pitch on which Tony Lacerri struck out wasn't a very good pitch, but he lashed at it rather wildly.
That would indicate to me that Hubbell has the boys on a gift.
Nothing but a break is going to beat him so far, but we'll see.
All right then.
Back to wide. It's the top of the job, batting order, after the sixth inning.
Joe Moore coming up for his third time, and he so far hasn't gotten the ball out the infield.
Hitting left-handed, he takes outside, just missing by a hair for ball one.
Joe first up in this ball game, rounded out to Gary on the sifted, then gets back to Gomez in the third inning.
The pitch, strike one, call.
One and one.
Joe Moore standing deep in batter's box and goes over to catch a Bill Dickey.
He's down his crouch, not straightened up since he's not at the target.
Swung on and followed into the upper deck of the stands and back on third base.
Going for a high outside pitch.
Joe didn't pull it enough, and it's one and two.
First man up in the sixth inning.
Gomez pitching behind now as the Giants lead him one to nothing.
The outfield is toward right.
Moore swings, hits a right back to the middle, safely through into the center field.
One single, flank pass to Mount Dover, second out into the center field for hit number five
for the Giants and hit number six of this first game of the 1937 World Series.
Joe Moore, singles right through the middle.
And with nobody out for New York, top of the sixth, the Giants already ahead one to nothing.
Moore leads down on first.
Gary has the ball in the inside corner, and Nick Bartell, who got the first inning of the series, has one to do his up.
Takes inside, both against him, ball one.
Bartell on the back ball, just under the waist on the inside.
Bartell stands, turned toward right field, and when he steps in on the pitch, he goes for a short.
Gomez delivers.
Bartell swinging, hits a high fly ball into right field.
Zirkirk waiting in the middle of the track for it, and has it.
Halfway down to second, Joe Moore trying to have the catch and retreat back to third base.
One out, top of the sixth.
Coming up is Melvin Atkins, who was a New York Giants driker at the age of 17, as he's been ever since.
Atkins stands just as close to Captain Dickie as he can get.
After he's gone right, Mel swings and misses, and he took his cut.
One that came down under the shoulders on the inside.
And then hitter up against a left-handed pitcher.
Gomez drives up to left here, rubbing it across his shirt.
Takes the sign hurdly, sets in position, goes out of the shoulder.
Fast ball wide, and it's one and one.
One away, Joe Moore, very fleet, nose is way around the face, is leading down on first.
Hocking Luke Gehrig, the endurance player of all baseball, both the corner against him.
Luke, a coaching backer first, resists on his strike two hold.
A neat sharp foot down just above the knee.
You see these fast balls thrown by Gomez, and then you look at him.
Splendor Willoway, bending himself into a punch with BK-23.
You wonder where he gets to strike.
Not swinging, it's a high foul.
Up and back into the upper deck.
Yankee Stadium has the ground floor, the first level, then a mezzanine, and then a still higher upper deck.
So it's three floors of spectators.
Not quite a sellout.
A few hundred seats are left.
A field quarter right on Knot, who leans back one under the chin.
Now the level's off at two and two.
One away, here in the top of the sixth.
Gomez looks not too good to scoreboard to check himself.
Not waiting.
Two-two pitches, swung on, lifted, high and foul.
Coming back underneath it, over by the giant dugout, and makes the catch.
One step out in front of the giant bench.
Resting in there, Fox, right in front of New York's dugout.
Now, that's two away in the top of the sixth.
Joe Moore, who opened up with a single through the middle, is still at first base.
Hank Leiber, who's been given chance after chance by Bill Gerry,
who's received another strong vote of confidence from Boss Bill by starting him
in this first of the 1937 Fall Classic Games, now coming up for his third time.
Leiber was struck out by Gomez to end the first inning.
Then he pops up to second base in the fourth to his area.
Now he's up for his third trip, 0 for 2.
The off-field deep were out to a left.
Swinging fouls it straight back onto the screen.
Spike one.
Hank, Dick, Blonde.
Look at him, nobody has to tell you that he was one time a fullback.
He built that way.
Right hand hitter, who cocktails that wall,
grab and swings from his heels on up and out.
Two away, and Joe Moore under going anything, leading down off first.
270 feet away.
Leiber steps back out of the box.
Berg and Gomez taking too much time.
Lifted, very, very nervous.
The first attempt to the shuttle.
He knows they're both left-handed.
Delivers outside.
One and one.
The ball's leaking down.
The bus is quite even close.
Leiber steps back out of the box.
Picks up a little dirt in his right hand.
Now sets.
He stands right up against the plate.
Feet wide spread.
That punt way back.
Now over his right shoulder.
He swings and it's a long foul.
He's a cry on him to a left.
Holds back on Rick and makes it.
That's all for the top of the sixth inning.
And for the Yankees, coming in for the last of the sixth.
The Giants lead 1-0.
As Carl, Carl Hubbell starts pacing out toward the mound.
End of the mic, Warren Brown.
All right, Red.
I was going to pay particular attention to that last half inning
because it was the one in which Gomez had to pitch
after he was rough-house a little bit just before that.
And when Joe Moore, another left-hand hitter,
went off with that single to the infield and out in the center field,
I began to wonder whether Gomez was losing his stuff or not.
However, Lefty is still out there battling them because he recovered.
And while the Giants have one run off him,
they certainly haven't distinguished themselves any more
than the Yankees themselves have against the pitching of Carl Hubbell.
Gomez is still the effective pitcher and a great pitcher,
and there's been nothing happened in this game that this proved that.
As he goes through his work out there, as Red told you,
he seems to be a little more busy than Hubbell is.
Hubbell is certainly a very calm sort of a person,
and playing behind that one-run lead, he has the advantage.
All right, Red.
The applause greets the appearance of Lefty Gomez
as he steps up to hit against Hubbell first up in the last of the sixth inning.
Hubbell out there pitching to protect his one-to-nothing advantage.
Gomez hitting left-handed.
Thrown out.
Whitehead to McCarthy.
He's got the time up.
He ducks, hits the dirt as one comes right in at the point of his shoulder.
All one.
Well, that certainly wouldn't be the accolade that one pitcher gives another,
but at any rate it was a warm salutation.
As the boys say, Gomez was low-pitched.
He had to pull his ears in in a hurry in order to keep them both.
Up now, drying off his hands, rubbing the dirt off of them.
Van Cusso doesn't look at all sympathetic.
Sweating down in his crouch now, Danza.
Gomez, dry it off his hands.
He couldn't get to the white dry rubbing along his uniform.
One of the Giants threw them the Giant Patters Roshan Bag.
They used it and then tossed it back.
Ball one, of course.
Out the little court left.
Up the cheeks.
High inside.
Ball two.
Thank you, So.
Turns over that ball.
Comes by a long three.
Well, examines it.
Takes it out of play.
And another one's put in.
Turns right back to Hubbard.
Two-nothing to Gomez.
First up, last to sixth inning.
The Giants lead the Yankees one to nothing.
Got that run.
Hubbard to fifth.
Hubbard to third.
The last 14 Yankees in a row.
Hubbard delivers two-nothing.
Inside and high for the ball three.
Hubbard is behind on his control now for the first time since he walked for Zaddy.
First up against him in the ball game.
Earl Combs coaching back of third.
Coaching back of first.
Fletcher back of third.
Both of them setting out a hoop no more.
Gomez trying to play from behind.
Ahead three-nothing.
Hub comes in and gets it.
The automatic strike.
Three-and-one.
Just above the knees.
Mellott playing up close, about third.
Up charge three-one.
And registers.
Right two-goal.
Up behind three-nothing.
Has thrown his last two pitches right through there.
Pick up his cap for a moment.
Wipes the first-race milk for his ball out.
It's a hot, muggy, steaming sort of an afternoon.
The way he was sitting in the upper deck of a double ball out.
Up ready for the three-two pitch.
Aims it.
It's swung on and crawled tipped back.
First time that Gomez has offered it one.
Up this time, first and the last of the sixth.
A few balls put in the way of third baseman Ott.
Coming it up.
Walks calmly over toward the mound.
There are two rather cool customers.
Ott at third.
Up along the mound.
Another cool one is Mancuso under that back.
Right side of the infield, talking it up between them.
A healthy and white head.
A easy swinging stretch.
He doesn't wind up.
Delivers.
Low end sign for ball four.
Ovele has given up two walks.
Gomez hasn't walked in a while.
And both times Ovele has walked a Yankee.
He has dabbed the old baseball axiom that the first counter-up to the inning is fatal.
And that's Ovele passing Gomez.
His opposing set your first up from the last to sixth.
Puts the potential to hang on on first with nobody else.
Now let's see how the Yankees go about trying to get back this one run.
One run through the season hasn't meant anything at all to the Yankees.
But one run against Hubbell in a short series such as the World Series can mean a lot.
After all, when a ball game is over, one run is a whole lot if you haven't got it.
Gomez leading down on first not very far.
Frank Crisetti, the leadoffer is up there.
He's been on once for the walk.
First inning.
I feel he's pulled around toward left.
His right hand hitter.
There's a throw down to first.
Out of time.
This goes right outside for ball one.
Gomez ran down on first a little bit.
And when Mancuso took that outside pitch and threw to first,
it was cut off by McCarthy who had run in anticipating a bunt on the part of Crisetti.
So even if Gomez had been a long way off first, which he was, there was nobody at first base to tag him.
Hots pulled up, stepped back to grass at third.
Right hand pulled up on the baseline at second.
There's an attempted bunt which is fouled back onto the screen.
One and one.
Frank Crisetti with a high, piercing voice.
He'll be heard from short regardless of the size of the crowd.
Up there, hitting right-handed.
Counts one and one.
Mancuso.
Pause for time, walks out through the mound,
talking to Hubble.
And now both men of the Giant Battery have their caps off
and both are rubbing the beads of perspiration off of their faces.
Mancuso with a great big handkerchief.
Now he's tucked it back in his pocket.
Comes dumping, startlingly, back of the plate.
Swarming little dustman, Mancuso.
It's been a lot more to the Giant pitching
than most people realize the last few years.
Defense pulled up on the infield.
Outfield, usual depth and around toward left.
Crisetti up, counts one and one.
Nobody out.
Gomez off first.
Up pitches.
There's another attempted bunt and it's fouled back.
Strike two.
Hubs come right in with these last two pitches.
Crisetti has not been able to lay them down.
One and two.
Nobody out.
One deck to hit after Crisetti is wrong.
Hubs naturally going to be trying to throw a double play ball right now.
There's been one double play in the ball game.
That was hit in two by Mancuso as he got credit for batting in the one run so far of the struggle in the fifth inning.
Run it on first and third.
Scores one to nothing to the Giants.
Ball game here in Yankee Stadium.
A lot of a cloudy, smoky afternoon.
Crisetti waiting now behind one and two.
Up pitches.
Crisetti swings.
A space hit.
Joe Martex on the first bounce.
Gomez holds that second.
A sharp single for Crisetti into left field.
A long single.
I imagine the Giants wish now that Crisetti hadn't fouled off those two pitches when he was trying to bunt.
Pubble after getting 14 straight Yankees.
Walked Gomez.
The second pass he's given up.
Walked Gomez.
First step from the last of this sixth inning.
And Crisetti after vainly trying twice to sacrifice.
Swung on a one-two pitch and hit a clean line drive single to left.
That's the second hit off Pubble.
And now the tying run is at second and nobody is out and the batter is red wrong.
The Giants' defense is pulled in after the second that's going to be a bunt.
Rof takes high outside.
Mancuso throws the second and Gomez is safe as the ball gets away from Bartel.
Mancuso has Gomez picked off second base but his throw gets away from shortstop Bartel.
And Gomez slides back in and is safe.
He was absolutely caught off off second base.
A pitch out coming down to Rof outside for ball one.
Mancuso throwing to the third base corner of second and Gomez cleanly caught off.
And it is an error on the play for Bartel, the first error of the series.
Bartel letting Mancuso throw a getaway when Gomez was caught cleanly off second.
Error for Bartel.
And Gomez remains at second base.
Rof, with left hand get up, standing close to him back of the plate,
Huff pitches, Rof takes high outside.
Mancuso threatens to throw it on to second but this time Gomez is glued to the bag.
He learned his lesson the easy way just now.
And we're having excitement here in the last of the sixth as the Yankees are threatening to rise into their much-reported power and strike.
Rof up to match you on deck.
Huff pitches inside for ball three and Rof at the head.
Gomez is behind with his control.
This New York crowd at the moment seems to be a Yankee crowd.
They're off the way, they are applauding these balls that Hobble is missing the plate with to Red Rock, the Yankee third baseman.
Nobody outlaps the sixth.
Presente is at first, Gomez is at second.
Rof up there, three-nothing.
Huff comes in and Rof takes strike one call.
Rof up there, wiggling and dancing.
There's a man-footed dancer on the San Luis Sahara high nose trying to disconcerting Hob and making him miss his target.
Hobble in the pitching position, going out of the shoulder.
There's a bunt foul by Hobb third.
Three-one pitch, attempted bunt.
It was fouled off.
Nine-three and two.
Hobb walks right back of that mound.
So this is just batting practice.
I think that's one of his greatest assets.
The man is never unnerved.
I think the way Hobble pitches, especially in times of stress in baseball, is a good lesson for most of us in the everyday world.
He just very quietly keeps his chin out and keeps going as best he knows how.
Three-and-two, running feet off first and second.
Swung on, fouled, right over into the Yankee dugout.
Still three-and-two.
Pace is rather slow.
The Giants become thinkers in a clutch.
They figure out everything they're going to do, and they're certain that everybody on the ball club knows exactly what the defensive move will be.
Up trying off that left-hander here.
Goes with the rosin bag, steps up onto the rubber, rugs his shoulders.
Now looks down, takes the sign from Mancuso, who's staying in his crouch.
Rob crouching, left-hander over the plate.
Huff pitches.
There's a high foul coming up and back.
Mancuso coming back, back, cannot get it.
It lands just back on the screen.
Still three-and-two.
Still the old blood pressure.
Keeps pounding away up there at a baseball high for excitement.
The Giants drew first blood this afternoon.
The only blood so far that's been let.
They got a run in the fifth inning.
They're leading by that margin, one to nothing.
However, here in the last of the sixth, a walk, a single, and then an error.
Allows Yankees to be at first and second and nobody else.
The three-two counters to Red Rock.
Up looks around. Gomez leads off second.
He's letting him down off first.
Huff pitches, three-two.
There's stuff in on him.
It's a hit.
Gomez pulls up back third base and the bases are loaded.
A single to left center field.
And the bases have pulled nobody out in the last of the sixth.
And now the Tannemaiders, DiMaggio, Kerik, and Dickey, is the program.
Down in the giant bullpen.
One of the relief pitches is being warmed up, but he is completely hidden from view.
So they can't tell you who it is.
You cannot see in either team's bullpen here at the stadium
the potential relief pitches as they groom themselves to get ready.
A single into left center field by Rock.
And Banshees is ready.
Second base and Gomez to third.
They both had to hold to see whether Joe Moore could come in and make the catch which he could.
Now the bases loaded, nobody out.
Last of the sixth inning.
And Joe DiMaggio, Joe DiJo is up there.
Right-hand hitter, deep wide spread.
He's spreading right through the middle of batter's box.
Gomez leading off third.
Corsetti off second.
Rock down off first.
His defense is deep around foot left.
Huff delivers.
It's swung on.
It's a base hit.
In comes Gomez.
Corsetti around third.
He's heading for the plate.
Two runs are in and run us our own places and second.
Business has picked up during this first game of the World Series
in the last of the sixth inning.
With the bases full and nobody out.
And the Yankees behind one to nothing.
DiMaggio, who got the first hit for the Yankees,
hit a whistling single to left center field.
And scored Gomez from third and Corsetti from second.
Sending Rock around to third.
And when the throw in from center field came to third base,
DiMaggio running like a deer, made it on the throw in to second.
So the Yankees go ahead two to one.
Nobody out and run us on second and third.
And Bill Terry has walked out to the heart of the dam.
To hold a personal time grab with Hubbell.
And Qusso and shortstop Bartell.
Bill Terry making his first public appearance in the series.
Comes out from under the shelter of the dugout.
To the pitcher's mound to talk it over.
And it's the moment.
Signals are being relayed to the both end.
Hubbell is to stay in.
That's the decision.
Gehrig is up.
And he's to be given a deliberate face on ball.
There's ball one.
Let's just try to see.
Luke Gehrig, first base is open.
Nobody out.
The Yankees lead two to one.
And DiMaggio and Rock are on second and third respectively.
Gehrig will soon be at first.
And there is ball three.
A deliberate walk being given to Luke Gehrig.
Not because they like him, but because they don't want a pitch to him right now.
There's ball four.
And Gehrig is purposely put on first.
And the bases are loaded.
Put nobody out in the last of the sixth.
Bill Dickey is up there.
Bad Bill, as the Yankees call him right now.
He'll be Sweet William if he delivers.
The infield is pulled up on the base path.
The left-hand hitter is Dickey.
Hubbell pitching.
Low outside for ball one.
The Yankees have caught in past the Giants.
And they're threatening to do still more.
Here in the last of the sixth of this first game.
The Giants enter defense right up on the base path.
Bases jam.
Blunders at all three points.
Dickey waiting.
Takes low for ball two.
One just run to the knees.
Ball two.
Two to one.
The Yankees in this city series.
Hubbell.
One of the toughest spots of his life.
It's a sweltering hot afternoon.
Cloudy.
Hubbell has extra heat applied to him right now at the moment.
Aside from the weather.
Dickey waiting.
He's ahead.
Two-nothing pitch.
Swung on as the ground ball.
The hit box down with the half.
The cover.
The bases remain full and the run scores.
A hit and a miss.
An infield single by Bill Dickey gets in.
Throw out.
Drum third race.
And the Yankees go ahead.
Three to one.
The bases still are loaded.
And yet no one is out in the last of the six.
That was a ground ball.
Hit towards second.
Whitehead.
Dove on his chest.
Knocked it down.
Did not allow it to roll out of the infield.
But did not make a play on it.
And now it's Dickey off first.
Gehrig off second.
And the match is off third.
The matter is Cole getting right handed.
Nobody else.
High inside.
Ball one.
Cole getting right handed.
Hubbell.
Great left-hander.
And a great kill in front of him.
Three to one now.
And the Yankees are pressing their advantage.
Riding hard.
Polk in a crouch.
Swings and misses.
One and one.
Hubbrook with curve end just above his knees on the inside.
Hubbell.
Shoulder sagging.
Passed right into the back.
Marches his chest.
Takes a deep breath.
Polk rather nervous.
Into a crouch.
Takes inside.
Ball two.
The curve broke off.
And it's two and one.
The Yankee siege guns are on the bases.
DiMaggio at third.
Gehrig at second.
And Dickey at first.
Nobody else.
Three runs in.
This is the seventh hitter.
From the last to the sixth.
Up comes down.
There is a ground ball.
Hits the third.
The play is to the plate.
One out.
A force of home.
That's the first out.
From the last to the sixth inning.
Cole was scored as a fearless choice.
And there was no play at first base made for him.
Grounded just to the left.
Up third based on Malak.
Who made the pick up.
Then calmly through to Gus Mantutel standing on home plate.
To force DiMaggio coming home.
That's one out.
The base is still full.
The matter is Selkirk.
The eighth Yankee.
Up here in the last to the sixth.
Being left handed, turn toward right field.
Very, very strong and brawny and quite active.
Infield on the left side up on the bases.
Almost up to the base pairs on the right.
Swinging strike one.
The curve ball broke off the fingers and down on the inside.
Selkirk went after it and didn't get it.
Groups of hands together.
Outfield deep.
Pulled around toward right.
Just up on the other knot.
Right up on the baseline.
Whiteheads back a step to open the baseline.
Inside under the chin for a shave and ball one.
One and one to Selkirk.
Here in this Danimite laden last half of the sixth inning.
From the Yankees.
After having 14 of them go down in order.
One of the bubbles walked to go mass first up in the sixth with base hits.
The pitch is a curve which is hit safely through the hole between first and second into right field.
In comes Gary.
Around third comes Dickie.
Heading for the plate and scores.
Two more runs come in.
As Selkirk single.
Turns in two runs to put the Yankees ahead five to one.
And sends home a round to third base.
Single to right by Selkirk.
It's sharply through the hole between first and second.
And the Yankees are going away.
They're now in front five to one.
And Van Cusso walks sadly out to the mound.
The Hubble is finished.
Back in the dark resources of the giant bullpen.
Will come another of Terry's mound crew.
To assume a burden which apparently was left in the last game of the 1936 series.
It seems as though we are right back beginning today where we left off last fall.
The conference out there on the mound.
Hubble still standing around.
Whitehead has come in for second.
Vartel, Van Cusso.
Harry Gumbott.
The tall young right-hander.
Is coming in to relieve Paul Hubble.
Eight of the Yankees faced Hubble in the last of this sixth inning.
Seven of them got safely on and five of them have scored.
Harry Gumbott.
Very tall, making that long walk.
The bullpen for the giant is hidden in the stands behind right center field.
He has to make all that distance as he comes into the ball game.
With the rich he gets pretty well acclimated before he ever gets to the mound.
Gumbott.
Number 14.
Now pitching.
Gumbott first announced over the last speaker and now Kaufman.
And it is Dick as he steps to the mound.
It's Dick Kaufman, the former American Negro.
Before the relief pitcher came into sight, Gumbott was announced as replacing Hubble.
But after the pitcher came into sight, it was announced as Kaufman.
Dick Kaufman, right-hander, who has been prominent as the giant's number one relief man the last couple of years.
And now Kaufman throwing down to Mancuso.
You've had so much fireworks lately while Kaufman's living up.
Why and how have you seen it?
Well, it seems a long time to go back that far, Ed.
But I'm still thinking about that play at second base when the ball got away from Dick Bartel after it seemed as though Mancuso had chopped him off.
And it was amazing the way the Yankees leaped into action after that break,
which was very definitely the break for which they've been waiting throughout this entire ball game.
It's also interesting to me to note that when Gomez had his bad inning, which was the fifth,
he managed to escape from there with one run.
When it came time for the Yankees to tear after Hubble, one thing or another,
combined with their own powerful hitting, particularly those singles, which were hit with a great deal of authority,
certainly ruined his afternoon for them very rapidly.
There was one possible play in this inning, a play that Whitehead tried to make on the ball Bill Dickey hit down.
It was a slow hit ball and Whitehead made a noble try for the ball, diving after it,
but he was unable to get the ball and get it in time to make a play for anyone.
It seems interesting to me, red, at the present time that we've gone through an inning here with the Yankees making five runs,
and so far there is no semblance of their patent at home run.
It's been almost in one of these big innings of the Yankees.
It seems as though somebody walks up there and hits one out of the park.
Isn't that your impression of the Yankee big inning?
Right you are, Warren. And there's also some big stuff brewing down there, which doesn't very often happen.
Now that mistake about announcing Gumbert as the relief pitcher is causing a fuel roar,
and I guess you know the technicalities involved.
Mr. Porsche, go ahead and explain it, Warren.
Well, after he becomes announced officially as a pitcher, he is definitely the pitcher until at least he throws one ball.
And when Kaufman appeared on the mound, Art Fletcher, the Yankee coach, immediately went over
and started complaining to the umpires about it, and the result was there was quite a conference.
And now we have Gumbert back there.
Gumbert, Gumbert's hand, now pitching for the Giants.
So that's the way that thing works out.
I think that's the first time in World Series history that I've seen anything like that.
Frequently in baseball games we've seen a pinch hitter announced and go up to the plate.
For example, a left-handed hitter going up to hit, and a pitching substitution is made,
whereupon another announcement is made of a right-hand hitter, and the right-hand hitter takes his place at the bat
without the left-hand hitter having been up there at all.
But as far back as I can remember, this is the first time we've had a Fletcher in the game
without doing any more than warming up in the bullpen and walking all that long distance.
And it certainly is a long distance from that giant bullpen in right field.
So that now that law and order has been restored again, we really do have Harry Gumbert out there pitching,
and I congratulate Silvette on detecting that, even though Kaufman got in ahead of him.
Well, thanks a great deal, Warren. And I guess baseball is like life itself.
You can never tell just exactly what's going to happen.
First, Gumbert is announced, and then a correction.
And apparently that's all there is to it, as most of the folks up here think.
The conference coming into pitch. And then suddenly a technicality is involved.
And it involved, was involved, around whether the public address announcer was officially informed
that Gumbert would pitch. And evidently he was, because that being the case, Gumbert has to pitch.
Had the announcer himself just on his own authority said Gumbert would pitch, that wouldn't have had any bearing.
And now up there now is Lazare. But the throw goes over to first base as Gumbert officially goes to work.
Harry Gumbert, the former Baltimore Oriole, throws again to first base.
Here's the situation here in the last of the sixth with one man out.
Selkirk is at first, and Hogg is at third. The Yankees are riding out in front 5-2-1.
Up there at the plate on the crouch is the very stick. Gumbert delivers inside for ball one.
And that technically, Gumbert, is in the ball game. He's delivered one pitch to Polly Lazare.
After the round, what left? The Yankees lead off first and third.
McCurve floating down in there for call strike one. Lazare looking at it and takes it.
Johnny hit back to Hubble in the second inning and was properly tossed out at first.
And then Hubb struck him out in the fifth.
That was when Hubb wound up his great sequence of 14 straight Yankee victories.
That was the last of that string.
The Yankees put on a string of their own here in the last of the sixth.
There's a slow ball hit through the center base from the right center field.
The end from third comes home around the third goes Selkirk.
A change of base was met with a half swing by Tony Lazare who was trying to hit behind the runner.
And he singled through the middle right underneath Burgess Whitehead who was running up on it.
And in comes another run and the Yankees are now plus five leading 6-2-1.
And Gomez, who was burst up in the last of the sixth, is now coming up for a second trip in the last of this inning.
The tenth Yankee to bat and just one man is out.
The swing goes right back through the middle by Lazare.
Which nets in still another Yankee run.
And Gumbutt, who had to come out and pitch to one man, now has taken out and Kaufman comes in.
Kaufman, number 14, now pitching for the Giants.
And now at long last, as the fellow once said,
Kaufman is in the ball game.
Dick Kaufman comes into the ball game and as he comes in,
the Yankees are ahead 6-1.
Gumbutt pitched to one man, Lazare, who singled and knocked in the Yankees sixth run.
Up now is Gomez, who was first up in the last of the sixth and then drew a walk.
A fateful pass. Gomez hitting left-handed, Dick Kaufman, ball rugged right-handed.
Off first is Lazare, off third, Selkirk.
Gomez says Kaufman is taking a little too much time, so he stepped back out of the box.
On to, of course, Paul's time. The outfield, a little toward left.
Swinging, strike one.
Kaufman came down with a slant, just above the knees on the inside.
Gomez chokes that bat just about an inch, pumps it back and forth.
John Enfield, right up on the base pass.
Low end side for ball one, right across the shins. One and one.
Fletcher, jumping up and down, back of third. He's very, very elated.
Looks as though he's filled with the elixir of life.
The pitch is low.
And it's ball two. Two and one.
Six to one, favor of the Yankees.
Six runs in the last of the sixth.
Apparently, that isn't all.
Gomez on the crouch, takes low, and it's ball three. Three and one.
Kaufman, punishing a big jeweler backer.
That's the point of his jaw out there.
Very belligerently now walks around back of the mound, kicks a little dirt,
pulls the peak of his cap down snugly over his eyes,
splits into the black loam topsoil, the Yankee Stadium.
Looks toward first, toward third. Now to the left, three, one.
Low for ball four.
Twice Gomez has walked here in the last of the sixth inning,
and this reloads the bases.
Still just one out.
Gomez, twice up here in the last of the sixth,
is both times given an anti-off-base to first base.
This pushes Vasari down to second, and Selkirk down to third.
Selkirk already at third.
Macy's ball, one out.
The matter is, Frank Vasetti, who singles sharply,
once in this sixth already, up for a second time,
takes it way outside, ball one.
A little shortstopper on the Yankees,
choking that walk up, standing right off the plate, easily balanced.
Macy's just as full as a tenement house in a busy district.
Top and right hands are down, and it's swung on and ball tipped back.
One and one.
Gomez at first, Vasari at second, Selkirk at third.
Mancusel goes out to talk to Kaufman.
Enfield, lazily passing the ball around between themselves.
This has been a severe jolt to the Giants, this last of the sixth inning.
And the Yankees are still the Yankees,
running absolutely according to form on the dope sheet.
No variations at all.
Kaufman comes down, Casetti swings.
It's a fly ball into short left field.
Up comes Joe Moore on the dead run.
Andritt makes the catch, and the runners are forced to hold where they are.
The throw in is cut off, two-thirds of the way toward the plate by third baseman, Malon.
That's out number two here in the last of the sixth inning.
Red Ralph, hitting left-handed, steps up.
Two men gone, here in the last of the sixth.
Paces four-oh.
Kaufman drying off the fingers with his right hand.
Ralph goes there, black cap, down snug around his ears, punches that stick back and forth.
I feel a little toward right, pitches outside, a change of pace.
Ball one.
Ralph, ball set.
Easily balanced.
He has one for three this afternoon.
Takes low inside, ball two.
Here's Kaufman's fast ball.
His sights were not quite high enough.
This vast throng, many, many thousands, here in Yankee Stadium.
Wiley hilarious.
And even a foul ball through the first five and a half innings, has sort of settled back.
Either completely filled to a point of satiation with happiness, or else completely crushed.
Low inside for ball three.
And with the bases loaded, Kaufman is behind two red robs.
He hasn't hit his target once.
Three and oh.
He misses once more, walks in a run.
There's a strike.
Just throwing the knees on the inside.
Three-one.
Ralph stepping back out of the box, steps in again.
And here's O'Donnell on his crouch, calls for it.
Run of the lead down very far.
Now they start streaking off.
Gomez isn't cutting up down at first.
He's conserving his energies.
The pitch outside for ball four on a walk to Ralph with the bases full.
And in comes another Yankee run.
Ralph is cleared with batting in.
That run.
Seven to one in favor of the Yankees.
Six runs to the good.
Selkirk scored on that play.
Sarri moving down to third and Gomez to second.
Up now is Joe DiMaggio, swings.
It's a high-five ball deep out into center field.
Lieber goes back and pulls it down.
Well, that's all for the first six innings.
And it looks like it might be all for the afternoon.
However, a ball game is never over until the last man is out.
But first, before anything else is said for Warren Brown,
we pause for station identification.
Back at the Yankee Stadium.
And this ball game coming to you through the National Broadcasting Company
and its associated stations, I certainly provided a big inning finally.
After we remained around here for upwards of five and a half innings
watching quite a pitching duel between lefty Gomez and Kyle Hubbell,
the Yankees certainly caught up with Hubbell in that last inning
when they secured six runs and seven hits.
Not all of them, of course, fall for Hubbell, for he was gone.
And during the balance of the inning, we had two giant pitchers in there.
Harry Gumbott, who seemed to come in because of a mistaken identity
on his way from the bullpen, and Dick Kaufman, who finished up for the game.
There were a few bases on balls crowded into that inning
and certainly one break which went against Hubbell at the time he was in there.
However, full credit must go to the Yankees for the ability
with which they leaped to the attack once they had an opening.
And it was the first opening in the game that Hubbell had given him.
All right, Reds.
Lefty Gomez is ready now to start the seven, pitching to Jimmy Ripple.
He does strike one call, short breaking curve just above the knees.
Ripple has one for two this afternoon.
He started off what looked to be the Giants' beginning of the fifth for the Singles.
Takes a little outside, that's one and one.
Gomez has never lost a World Series ball game.
And it looks as though he'll still be able to camp on that record for another few hours.
Seven to one, favor of the Yankees.
Ripple swinging, foul tips it back.
Strike two, one and two.
First giant up from the seventh.
Yankees ahead seven to one.
After Ripple, McCarthy, then Mancuso.
Infield straight away.
Upper step on the left side.
Full depth on the right.
Outfield a couple of steps toward right on Jimmy.
Full header.
Swings, there's a five-oh going out into left.
Pull coming up fast.
Takes it on the run.
It's all for Ripple.
One up, one going to seventh.
That is McCarthy.
He has one for two.
His single through Lazare.
In the fifth inning, to send Ripple around to third base.
Jimmy later coming in on Mancuso's double play ball.
The only run the Giants have.
McCarthy, a rookie.
Takes strike one call.
This has been his rookie year in the big leagues.
And at the end of his first year in the majors, here he is in the World Series.
He has one for two at the moment, up for his third time.
Swings and misses at a curve.
Strike two.
Missed that one off the end of his bat.
They're playing McCarthy, just as they did Ripple as far as the offfield is concerned, toward right.
Left side of the infield the same.
And Lazare is a step or so more down toward first.
High inside.
On the chest, the ball runs.
One and two.
McCarthy.
Very slender.
Big building, he sets his mitt.
The ball is bounced easily back to the mound.
Gomez traps it.
It goes over to first.
That's all for young John.
Getting back to the box.
Two up, two gone.
Top of the seven.
Hitter is Gus Mancuso.
Stands back out of that box.
Takes the meat end of his stick.
Tracks the dirt off from his spikes.
Not stepping in.
Slopes over against the catcher.
Fences straight away.
Strike one call.
A little hook was snapped in just above the knees.
On the inside.
Right hand hitter.
Gomez.
Long gated slender left hander.
Delivers.
Fast ball inside.
One and one.
Gomez draws up his knees almost under his chin.
Clears those arms around his back of him.
Ties himself up into such a knot you wonder how in the world he ever gets out of.
Delivers.
Inside.
All two.
Two and one.
Lefty pitching just as he has all the afternoon.
Taking the sign.
And going right to work.
Takes time out for a blow right now.
Looks into the dirt.
As though he were reading a letter from home.
Straightens up.
Blows again.
And this time it's Mancuso who backs away.
Says well, have the blows on me this time.
One step in.
Double swinging stretch.
Gomez delivers.
Mancuso hits it high out into short center field.
DiMaggio comes running under it and takes it.
And it's nothing across for the Giants in the top of the seventh.
More observations from Warren.
That was enough to get almost any ball club down for the time being.
Naturally with Gomez being as effective as he has been throughout his American League season.
And throughout this ball game with the exception of the fifth inning.
It was hardly likely that the Giants were going to cut loose and have any big inning off of him.
Any more than it was that the Yankees were going to have one off of Carl Hubbell.
But that to me is one of the reasons why there are probably more than 60,000 people here looking at this baseball game.
And nobody ever knows what is going to happen in a ball game.
At the very minute that Hubbell walked Gomez, who was a pitcher, no one suspected that he was due for the trouble that happened.
And so Red, looks like they're ready to start again, maybe on Kaufman this time.
Dick Kaufman, ready to pitch to Lou Gehrig.
And that's all Carl, strike one, buzzing it down just above the knees on the outside.
Gehrig has all but two official trips.
The only time he got all was in the sixth with a deliberate walk.
Later came around to be scored.
Very deep, round toward right.
Columbia Lou, tremendous favorite here, sets.
Expect one inside up against him, tight for ball one.
One and one.
Dick Kaufman, third, the Giants pitches.
In the ball game and in the sixth inning.
Now working, starting the last of the seven.
Gehrig swinging, it's a sky-high foul up on top of the stands and back of third base.
Gets up at the edge of the upper fashard and drops all the way back.
Like a bong.
Now that's one bong, but people weren't dodging.
They were fighting to get close to it.
Kaufman comes down with a change of pace, just missing outside.
Count levels at two and two.
Gehrig certainly had to lay the engineering eye on that one.
Dick delivers, missing inside, it's three-two.
Gehrig turns a little bit.
Forward right field.
Diggs in solidly, standing on those piano legs of his.
Takes outside for ball four.
And Gehrig is walked first up in the last of the seven.
That's walk number three, given up by Kaufman.
Walk number six, given to the Yankees.
Nobody out, last of the seven.
Gehrig now leading down off first.
Bill Dickey, who has one hit out of three tries.
Stands waiting.
Getting left-handed.
Very, very tall and slender for a catcher.
Outfield toward right.
Dickey pulls.
Infield pull-up around second.
Bill takes a curve outside, ball one.
Kaufman missing.
Seven-two-one.
Favor of the Yankees.
Nobody out, last of the seven.
The man on first.
Low for ball two.
Kaufman's having trouble with his control.
There's no new experience for Kaufman to be pitching against the Yankees.
Most of his major league career has been in the American League.
Washington, the Browns.
Being released by the St. Louis Browns.
Came over to the National League with the Giants.
Pitches inside.
There's a throw down to first, not in time by Mancuso.
And it's three-nothing.
Three-nothing to Bill Dickey.
Gehrig on first with a pass.
Dickey set.
Kaufman misses inside with his three-nothing pitch for ball four.
And Dickey trots off to first base.
And Gehrig moves down to second.
Of the six Yankees that Kaufman has pitched to, he's walked four up.
Dickey gambles back onto the mound.
Bill Terry standing out in front of the giant dugout.
Looks down into the dirt for the moment.
Imagine Bill doesn't feel like joining a choir and singing one of his now famous solos.
Later up is Merrill Hogue who drops a butt down toward third and it rolls foul.
Strike one. Nobody out. Last to the seventh.
Seven to one in favor of the Yankees.
Gehrig on second, Dickey on first.
Result of passes by second relief pitcher Dick Kaufman.
Much attention.
Focused on the relief pitchers in the last of the sixth inning.
And there was a slip up from the general's ship somewhere.
Gumbart was announced and he was sitting in on the dugout.
Hadn't thrown a ball, hadn't even been in the bullpen.
He had to hurriedly go out and pitch to one Yankee even though Kaufman was announced following him.
Kaufman couldn't come in until Gumbart pitched to one man.
Now Hogue, the right-hand hitter, takes high outside.
A throw down to second.
Isn't in time and brought down.
On the third base side of second base, Dickey.
On the third base side of second base, leaning for the ball, has Husky Lou Gehrig come right into him.
Much as an end tries to take out an opposing tackle.
Gehrig's fighting to get back to the bag and little Bartell in his way.
Well, you can guess the result.
Gehrig got back to the bag.
One and one.
Hogue down in his crouch. He has 0 for 3.
Doesn't joke the bat. Trash the butt and this one is pups bowled back of third.
So far the Yankees this afternoon have been unable to lay down butts when ordered.
And then have been hitting with two strikes on the base hits.
It seems to be a pretty good baseball strategy.
It's working today anyhow.
Working at a thousand.
Now can Hogue continue the Yankee policy?
One and two.
Body away. The runners lead off first and second.
Hoffman, well, is going to go back to second.
Well, he doesn't.
Gehrig taking a long lead.
There's a bird ball hit for third.
Ox scoops it up, throws the second one away.
The relay on the first. It's a double play.
Hogue starts moving down to third base.
And Hogue was unable to continue that Yankee policy so far on the sixth inning.
Trying to butt falling off two pitches and hitting safely.
He fouls out his two butt pitches, then hit it to a double play.
Up to Whitehead, to McCarty.
Gehrig on the double play, moving down to third.
Two outs. Left to seven.
Up now is Selkirk.
Sharp and toward right.
Swing, fouled.
Bent around.
Black one.
George has one for three.
The singles came in the sixth.
But one of the Yankees hits the game.
There was a sharpened, wrapped through the hole between first and second out in the right field.
Outside, all one. One and one.
Two out.
Gehrig on third, 90 feet away.
The Yankees lead seven to one.
Outfield pulled around toward right.
Selkirk takes a change of pace. Low.
Two and one.
Longsby, working balls and strikes.
R behind first.
Basil behind second.
Stewart behind third.
Kauffman comes in.
It's an outside pitch which is rolled out to short.
Wachtell picks it up.
Goes over to first.
In time.
McCarty leaning in.
Makes the stretch and the pick up.
That's all for the Yankees.
And at the end of seven innings, it is seven to one.
Warren.
Well, Red, that was interesting to watch how Kauffman
righted himself after that bad start out there.
Since he got into this ball game, as you pointed out, he certainly was very wild.
And after he walked the first two men in the innings,
that seemed to me to be the opportunity for the Yankees to start a lot more trouble there.
But the play that Ott made to turn that drive-by Hoag into a double play
helped Kauffman out considerably.
And I suppose that the Yankees are content with what they have now,
and I don't know as I blame them.
Seven runs at this part of the ball game, going into the first half of the eighth inning,
seem to be a lot of runs, considering the way that Gomez has been going since he started this ball game.
And the Yankees are the first giant hitter coming up, Red, so back to you.
The Burgess Whitehead will start it off as you go into the beginning of the eighth,
at the end of seven full innings for the Yankees, seven runs, seven hits, and no errors.
While for the Giants, one run, five hits, and one error.
Burgess Whitehead.
So far the only extra base hit.
Takes strike one, ball, right down in there.
First pitch of the eighth inning, he doubles.
He's one for two.
Swinging to fly ball out into center field, imagine you're waiting lazily under it and have it.
It's all four Burgess, one up, one away in the eighth.
And Wally Berger is coming out to bat for Kauffman.
Big Wally Berger, former big fan of the Boston Club of the National League.
Well, there's not going to be any slip-up on who's going to pinch hit.
It's going to be by Osby and the public address announced to me.
And they tell each other exactly what's coming up.
Number three, side, four, con.
The first pitch to Berger is high outside, ball one.
Wally is the big strapping six-footer, hitting right-handed.
Gomez delivers.
Berger swings.
It's a high fly ball, long out in the center.
Imagine you're waiting, waiting, takes it.
It's off to Berger, two up, two away, top of the eighth.
Jojo Moore, the thin man of the Giants, or the gauze ghost, he's sometimes called.
Last step's up to hit for his fourth time.
It means the Giants are starting their fourth batting around.
Joe's single through the middle in the sixth.
He has one for three, hitting left-handed, then deep in the box.
Takes strike one, ball, sharp curve down above the knee.
Moore is feared as one of the most dangerous first-ball hitters in baseball,
and he has his own one-on-one first pitch this afternoon.
Takes low inside, ball one, one-on-one.
Joe pumping that stick.
It's low outside, Moore's ahead, Gomez behind.
Gomez comes in there, low for ball three, three and one.
Pitch, ball, right, two, three-two, outfield toward right.
Moore swinging, it's a high foul, back of third, rock goes over, but he cannot get it.
Back into the box.
Still three-two, two out, nobody on.
Child have the eighth inning, which is the first of the eight.
The series is being opened, Yankee Stadium, the American League ball park this year.
The Yankees are home club.
Seven to one.
The argument of power supremacy.
Seven to one, play for the Yankees.
Moore swings on another three-two pitch.
He's got a fly ball into short left field and it drops safely in there for a base hit.
Moore turns to the left first and then holds on, dropping a fly ball single in short left field,
about 15 feet inside the foul line.
It's the second straight hit for Moore.
It's the first giant to have more than one blow.
It's hit number six off Gomez, and it's the first hit off Gomez since right hit double with two out in the fifth.
Two out, Moore leading off first, and the batter is Dick Bartell.
There's one for three.
Swings on the first pitch, it's a long line, drive deep in, two left, and it's caught.
Right back up against the stands by a left fielder, home.
It's all for the top of the eighth.
The Yankees are still a plus six run, one.
To me, the effective pitcher that he has been right down in the line,
that base hit that Joe Moore dropped over there in the left field,
wasn't such a severe one that it would have startled anybody.
And in all events, it came when there were two out,
which is a good time normally for base hits to come, especially when there are no one on base.
Since his little mishap in the fifth inning,
Gomez has gone right straight through this ball game and he's pitched,
I wouldn't say remarkable baseball, but he's pitched the kind of baseball that people have been expecting
because of the fact that Wally Berger was used as a pitch hitter in the game.
We will have a chance this afternoon to look at four of the giant pitchers.
And, Red, because we can never be sure who the giant pitchers are
after that practice that was established through the sixth inning,
I suppose you'd take a look at him out there and decide whether or not he's Smith.
He looks like Smith to me. Do you think he is Smith?
Well, if he's not Smith, Warren, he's certainly wearing our uniform.
It looks just like him.
Al Smith, turned out of a little left-handed third ball arter.
And the fourth giant pitcher, going against the Yankees,
here in the first game of the 1937 World Series.
Smith has just taken his place there on the mound.
This is going down to just Mancuso.
In the season of 36, Smith was just about the tops for the giant relievers.
At one time, Bill Terry said that he was just about the best elite pitcher that he ever saw,
especially coming in there with a curve ball.
However, this year, Al has not been tremendously effective.
And the relief burden among the giants has had to be shifted around from man to man.
However, it's a well-known fact that when the giant wants a real relief pitching,
Popple has usually been the fellow to go out there and make one run stand up.
The first Yankee up in the last of the eighth inning is Tony Lazari.
Lots of people are now beginning to leave.
They're going to the last of the eighth inning.
Lazari hitting right-handed, swings on an inside pitch, missing four, strike one.
A steady stream of people trying to beat the mob,
which will be pouring out of Yankee Stadium, six more outs.
Now leaving already.
Lazari takes low inside, one and one.
Al Smith coming on for the last of the eighth.
And it's the New York Yankees, several runs for the New York Giants, one, seven to one.
Smith comes down, high, two, two and one.
Al's very stocky, throws sort of side off, doesn't wind up.
Outfield is toward left on Lazari.
Tony takes up against him for ball three.
Three-one.
Smith taking the return from Mancuso, back slowly back to the mound.
Al comes down.
It's in there, swung on and hit deep and far back into left.
And it's a home run for Lazari.
A fat pitch, as the boys say, that three-one came down in there and did Lazari go after it and get fat on it.
The first home run of the 1937 World Series.
It's high, far into the lower spectators, deep behind left field.
And well up among them, no question about that.
And now it's eight to one.
Gomez is up.
Swings and misses, strike one.
About the one thing left to make Gomez's couple joy overflow is to get a base hit.
He, like any other pitcher, dearly loves him.
Gets back from one up against him, one and one.
Lazari, really pickled one for keeps just a moment ago.
Smith comes down with a curve in there, ball strike two.
That one drove Gomez, left hand hit a backer step and then broke away from him and down over Cleveland.
One ball, two strikes, nobody out.
Gomez falls away from the pitch, pulls it deep into right field and ripples.
This judge against Ben goes back to make a spectacular catch.
Gomez set to hit that pitch.
Fell into it and got his whole weight behind it and drove it deep out into right.
Ripple came in, misjudged it at first.
Then saw the ball was going to carry a ball over his head, started running back.
One foot slipped underneath him, but still he managed to get strength from somewhere and lead time to the end to make a spectacular one handed catch and save himself.
Frank Crissetti hits the first pitch of line drive right through Bellano.
And that's two away in the last of the eighth inning.
Warren's going to tell you more about Ripple's catch.
I can see him sort of licking his chops in preparation for that.
Line drive, hit backer's headed to Mel after the second out.
Now it's two away, last of the eighth inning, nobody on and Red Rock up.
He has one, four, three official tries.
Hitting left handed he tries to bunt and foul tips it.
Frank one.
Left hand batter, left hand pitcher, Al Smith.
The fourth giant hurler in this ball game since the sixth inning.
Eight to one, favor of the Yankees.
That feels straight away.
Roth doesn't go after it, but it's good.
Hall strike two.
Smith burnt that one through his fastball.
Ripple put a deep out and right.
Roth down on his crouch, leads back from one inside.
One, one and two.
Roth up there hitting, DiMaggio leaning down on his right knee on deck.
Rob cocks that stick back in his left ear, swings.
It's a high fly ball out of the left field, Joe Moore.
Goes back one step, now comes in one and has it.
That's all for the last of the eighth.
Warren?
Red, I noticed that you suggested that I was going to talk something about that catch that Ripple made in this inning.
First, I want to say that this inning stirred memories in me rather than excited me about what happened here.
When Tony Lozare got his home run this afternoon, the first one of the 1937 World Series,
I was thinking about one that he made last year, which came with three men on bases.
That was truly a sensational one since that doesn't happen very often in World Series fifths.
When Ripple started after that ball out there, believe it or not, Red,
I was thinking of a catch he made in Chicago not long ago with three men on bases at a time when some of us thought that the pen and play between the Giants and the Cubs.
And if he hadn't made that catch for those three men on bases, well, maybe there would have been a little different in here.
I think that's the way everybody accepted it so that when Ripple went up in the air and caught Gomez long drive,
much as I hated to see Gomez lose in his life's ambition to make a base hit, I couldn't help think of that catch in Chicago.
So now back to you, Red.
Melott takes the first pitch of the ninth inning.
Paul strike one. Gomez looking just as strong and fresh as when he started.
Comes right back in. Hot swings and misses.
Last one burnt down around the knees. Strike two.
Gomez gives his foul to the little yank. Straightens that.
Knees and elbows to Kim Boy comes out of it.
Strike three swinging and on three pitches.
Master Melvin is struck out to start the ninth inning.
That's the second strikeout for Gomez.
He got his first strikeout at the expense of Hank Leaver.
With a third out in the first inning.
And here is Hank up again.
Hank has 0 for 3.
The Yankees had 8 to 1. One out, nobody on top of the ninth.
John's batting. Leaver takes. Go outside. Ball one.
Gomez still shining brightly underneath that record of his of having never been beaten in World Series competition.
Inside and it's ball two.
Two-nothing.
Now the field is very deep on Hank.
He gets a hold of it. He'll give it a ride.
Pitch right in.
That one is taken. Two and one.
A steady stream of people going out of every possible exit here at Yankee Stadium.
They figured some time ago the outcome of the game was decided.
Leaver swings. That's a fly ball out of the center.
DiMaggio coming in, makes the catch on his chest.
Two away. Top of the ninth.
Up steps Jimmy Repple.
Who found Major League Baseball was much more lucrative and pleasant than being an ambidextrous paper hanger.
Outfield toward right.
Repple hitting left-handed, takes inside against him. Ball one.
Jimmy looking very calm and cool.
To say that he is a left-handed hitter is only half the truth.
The pitch. All strike one.
When Repple came to the Giants, he hit from either side of the plate.
Terry insisted that he hit as a left-handed swinger.
Low outside. One and two.
Counts lightly. Jimmy's favor.
Two out. Top of the ninth.
Nobody on.
The Yankees seven runs for the good. Leading eight to one.
Two balls and one strike.
Gomez delivers. Low outside and it's three and one.
Repple looking very coolly.
There's one for three this afternoon. Single first up in the fifth inning.
Ball four.
Walsh going down to first base.
And that's the first base on balls given up by Lefty Gomez this afternoon.
Seven of the Yankees received gratuitous.
Repple on first. Two out.
Batter is young Jack McCarthy.
John, if you don't know him very closely.
Swings and misses. Strike one.
That one right down in there.
McCarthy slender. Young first baseman.
He's finishing his first year in the majors by participation in the World Series.
Swings. Foul tips. That one back for strike two.
Gomez has promptly gone ahead of him with his first two pitches.
Nothing in two to McCarthy.
Vicki down in his crouch.
First baseman Gehrig back in his fielding post.
Repple's allowed to lead his ball up first. He wants to.
High outside. Ball one.
One and two to McCarthy.
Gomez at the moment seems to be just slightly tired.
He gives you the impression that he is trying to put a little bit more on the ball than he has any other time.
The pitch is high. Two and two.
Two to. Two out.
Half of the nine.
McCarthy waiting.
Vicki calls for the pitch.
McCarthy swinging. Foul tips it right back onto the screen.
Count still hangs at two and two.
Field forward toward right.
Things are quiet right now.
About the only hubbub from the spectators are those who are moving trying to get out of the park.
Pitch misses outside by a half of all three.
And it's three and two to Jack McCarthy.
And now the run and hit is on for Ripple at first base.
He'll be breaking on Gomez's arm. He does.
Pitch is in. Rolls slowly down toward first.
Gehrig comes in to field and picks it up and tags McCarthy out on his.
Jack comes running into first base.
Gehrig with a big grin on his face.
Stops that baseball in his hip pocket.
Grabs Gomez by the hand.
The two of them shake hands and are the first players off the field as they dash into the Yankee dugout and disappear from sight.
And the Yankees win.
Would you say convincingly?
Well I don't know of a better word.
And to speak a convincing truth.
It's been a great deal of pleasure for this old redhead to be up here talking to you the last four innings.
And now this is Red Barber handing you over to the very capable hands of Warren Brown who is going to put you just right on how everything happened this afternoon and plenty of it did.
Warren.
Well thank you Red.
And summing up this ball game the first of the 1937 World Series.
It was after all strictly a matter of pitchers.
It started out that way between lefty Gomez the best pitcher I suppose.
In the American League and Carl Hubble who was certainly the superior left hander in the National League.
Right up until the sixth inning it was a ball game between these two.
And if anything Hubble seemed to be the more effective of the two.
In the fifth inning the New York Giants had crowded Gomez sufficiently to score one run which looked like a lot of runs.
And in that inning manager Joe McCarty of the Yankees who has steered them to a couple of pennants in a row and won World's Championship had to make up his mind whether he wanted to pull his infield back and play for a double play and stake the Yankees to the Giants I should say to one run and take his chance on what would follow.
That's what he did.
Pull his infield back and Gus Mancuso hit into a double play.
And out of that the Yankees were able to escape with only having the one run scored against them which came in on the double play.
And that was the one big inning or the start of one big inning that the Giants were able to have off Gomez all afternoon.
On the other side of the field Hubble after walking one man and allowing a hit in the first inning was unhittable right on through to the sixth inning.
And then he did a thing which baseball folk always think since there is a lot of superstition in baseball they always think that if you walk the first man and especially if you walk the pitcher there is going to be trouble.
I don't think that any of the more than 60,000 people in this Yankee Stadium this afternoon suspected that when lefty Gomez got his base on balls to open the sixth inning that there was going to be quite as much trouble as there was until the last man was retired.
Before the last man was retired in that inning the Yankees had driven Hubble out of the box and because of a mistake in announcement Harry Gumbart was in there in time to pitch to one man who got a base hit off him and Dick Kaufman finally got the inning over.
Before he did there were seven runs scored and six hits and that was the ball game.
Later on in the game in the eighth inning with the fourth giant pitcher in action Al Smith, Tony Lazzari batted out the only home run and incidentally the only Yankee extra base hit of the ball game.
That made the score eight for the Yankees at which they rested on their laurels in this first game.
And looking over my score book here I find that the Yankees have eight runs and eight hits which seems to me to be a very effective way of doing business. Going into the game tomorrow which will also be played at the Yankee Stadium the second game of the series I don't imagine either manager will change from his plans.
Before the game today Bill Terry told me that he intended to come in with Cliff Melton and I imagine he will come in with him. Melton being the young left hander who has won his 20 games in his first full year up here in the major leagues.
Joe McCarty of the Yankees said that he intended to pitch red roughing tomorrow and Joe was inclined to go a little further.
When he talked to me Joe was an old friend of mine and he spoke his mind out to me down there and the Yankee dug out before the game. He said that he didn't think that he would go away from a platform that he established rather effectively last year.
He said that it would be Gomez today roughing tomorrow and after that Monty Pearson and Bump Hadley and unless the Giants pull themselves together and tear after Melton I imagine that's the way the Yankees will go through with the same four pitchers that they used in the World Series last year.
The game today was certainly an interesting one. There was a lot of spectacular feeling on both sides and while there wasn't the tremendous burst of hitting that we've been led to expect from these two clubs and particularly from the Yankees who have capitalized on their power to win an American League pennant off by themselves, nevertheless they did mass together and put across one big inning.
Alright George Hicks, I'll say goodbye now and it's yours.
Well all I can say is that the game is over and that historical first marker is down. The tips are down and the Yanks are up. And the crowd is now pouring out. By the time the game was well underway by the second inning practically every seat in the Yankee Stadium was filled.
There must have been close to the 60,000 mark and over. The new additions you know seat 71,000 at Yankee Stadium now. And so we've had the first game right now as we look down from our tier, the third tier right at the edge over home plate.
The diamond itself and the green outfield is simply dotted and spotted all over and the exits crowded with these thousands of spectators who are taking home their memories of the first game of the 1937 World Series.
As I looked at it, very much of a spectator this afternoon, the walk of Gomez in the sixth and that slashing single to center by DiMaggio with the bases loaded for the first runs, well I think that broke Hubbell's heart and the giant spirit for the game today.
And by the way the only homer today was Lazari, the first man up in the eighth. He pulled a terrifically long and high homer into the left field grandstand. It must have gone at least 400 feet and nobody on but that was the homer of the day.
And so I guess that's about all we can say. This has been brought to you by the NBC and its associated stations from coast to coast. We'll be back on the air tomorrow of course with the second game from the same position at Yankee Stadium.
As you know the first two games are played at the stadium and then the third, fourth and if there is a fifth at Polo Grounds and the sixth and seventh at the Yankee Stadium if necessary. We'll be back on the air tomorrow at our regular time, 1.15 Eastern Standard Time.
12.15 Central, 11.15 Mountain, 10.15 Pacific Standard Time. Your announcers will be Tom Manning of Cleveland, Red Barber of Cincinnati and Warren Brown, sports editor of the Chicago Herald Examiner. And so, well that's all.
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