Never-before-seen color footage of 1965 baseball

[Blue_Tires]

I had always wondered if any video had been saved from Jim Maloney's 10-inning no-hitter for the Reds over the Cubs on August 19, 1965 at Wrigley Field. (The image attached to this post on the front page is the 1965 scorecard cover.)

It's not the entire game; it picks up in the top of the eighth inning, with Lloyd Pettit calling the action. Pettit often called the eighth, giving Jack Brickhouse a break. Brickhouse returns for the ninth and 10th innings. It's complete with commercials, including one in which Pettit and Brickhouse play bartenders. (Seriously. You've got to see it. It's the very first commercial, after the top of the eighth.)

It was very, very rare to have anything videotaped in color in 1965; this is likely the earliest surviving color videotape of a baseball game, and is likely among the oldest surviving color videotapes of any television.

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2013/11/15/5107464/video-jim-maloney-1965-no-hitter-cubs

http://deadspin.com/never-before-seen-color-footage-of-1965-baseball-1465241550

[Art_from_Ark]

1. In 1965, my grandparents got one of them new-fangled color TVs

It cost a small fortune. TV Guide had a special symbol to denote programs that were in color, since many, if not most programs, were still in black-and-white.

[Archae]

4. My parents did too.

My Dad's original career was TV and radio repair, and after he bought a tavern in 1967, we were the first on our block (heck, first in just about the whole town,) to have a color TV.

We became quite popular!

I sure remember those days, too.
The TV took a half-hour to "warm up," if you sat less than 5 feet from it you'd get radiation burns, and the tuner went "clunk clunk."

[malthaussen]

2. Love it!

I bet Maloney threw 200 pitches that day... but he started again on the 24th.
And this was the first game of a double-header. Fans got their money's worth, the second game was a corker, too. Cubs won 5-4 with all 5 runs in the 8th and 9th innings.

-- Mal

[Blue_Tires]

5. +1

I'm lucky enough to have experienced at least a few seasons of baseball before the god-awful "100 pitch count" became the be-all-end-all.....

[malthaussen]

6. And only ONE commercial for each inning break.:)

Ah, those were the days.

But in fairness to the tyranny of the pitch count, I'm sure a lot of pitchers ruined their arms throwing 150-pitch complete games on a regular basis. But it sure made for some exciting games.

-- Mal

[Kingofalldems]

3. That Cub announcer trying to jinx Maloney big time

by saying no hitter again and again.