1954
Plus:
“The Cardinal Tradition”
and
“The Game Nobody Saw”
Here’s a 1950’s St. Louis Cardinal tripleheader that Redbird diehards will find fascinating! Three vintage Cardinal films, “Let’s Train With The Cardinals”, “The Cardinal Tradition” and “The Game Nobody Saw” are now all available on one DVD from Rare Sportsfilms, Inc!
The 1954
Actors at old Busch Stadium portray “The Cardinal Tradition” during an actual New York Giants game in 1956. Tommy Richards, a rookie pitcher on the bench, is trying to convince his pitching coach to let him relieve for the Cardinals in his first big league ballgame. Meanwhile, the grizzled old coach relates the great Cardinal tradition by discussing the first five St. Louis World Championship teams. Flashbacks to vintage game-action film clips of the 1946, 1944, 1942, 1934 and even 1926 World Series’ are shown: Slaughter’s winning dash in ’46, Musial’s home run vs. the Browns in ’44, and Johnny Beazley’s second complete-game win vs. the Yanks in ’42 are covered. Rare clips from 1934 show pinch runner Dizzy Dean getting knocked cold by a thrown ball at second base and being carried off the field in game four. In the seventh game at Navin Field, Joe Medwick triples and his hard slide into third baseman Marvin Owen ignites a rhubarb! Then with the Cardinals leading 9-0 after 6+ innings, the angered Tiger fans are shown peppering Medwick with trash and fruit when he takes his left field position in the bottom of the inning. Commissioner Judge Landis then orders an upset Medwick from the field to help restore order. Parts of game three of the 1926 World Series (Jesse Haines’ shutout) are covered and Babe Ruth’s home run to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead in game seven at Yankee Stadium is shown. Shown also is part of the Redbird 3-run fourth inning, and with Cardinal fans crowded around a vintage radio, Grover Cleveland Alexander is shown relieving Haines in the Yankee 7th with the bases loaded and RBI man Tony Lazzeri at the plate! Rare film shows Alex striking out Lazzeri in one of the great moments in World Series history! At this moment, young Tommy Richards gets called upon to appear in his first Major League game! Cardinal broadcaster Jack Buck describes the situation to
Narrated by Cardinal broadcaster Joe Garagiola, “the Game Nobody Saw” is a film about the 1959 St. Louis Cardinals in Spring Training at Al Lang Field in
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