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cents. >> world series. >> always in the cont forever. these are the stories of baseball's golden age. >> on this week's episode, it had a carnival atmosphere perfectly suited to its inhabitants. we cover colorful home movies for therooklyn home of gers then a look at american's heartland first they pulverized thecity erack thebai w, mind the duke. during the 1950 seba

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mickey mantle was the first television star for l. tv every october. he was a good looking guy, had blond hair, toothy grin, the anvarms hithome ru a onilesnto t ldcome homsay d, animated joyous young man. and you couldn't take ohi >> d a o insts an aine wan. it is said thahecap, large, so that it would fall off ad w deddse. e kwhats. as to defend duke snyder as the pre

eminent center fielder. >> my real name is duke snyder. because he was a hall-of-famer written all over him. he hit a home run, he had his head cockedov andad erf de but he hll and t >> soebatt. a nevdinge of l soriter fielder. >> mantle had extra dimensions, that no player ever had. being able to switch hit with some phenomenal power, and such unbelievable running s was scar he was the who ever scared me? rall

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prove himself again and again. that's what drove him and that's why he became a hall-of-famer. >> each match-up for the others. five straight seasons of 40 home runs or more. for mantle. freeiple. n t, e'swo mvps 4 alppees a 660 me rk lo re productive career. but while the numbers are on the side of mays, the story, falls rely on the pr shoulders of number seven. >> mickey mantle is a story ial of h i bad luck, because he's starsed somt is weas. f as been healthy. >> what if his knees are okay, what if his shoulder didn't

hurt. what if heakere hims >t co t five. howve bee how long w sted? makes him significant. >> though decadehave pa sew sente fi ackewn balls the unwinnable debate of the golden age persists. who would you rather have, willie, mickey orheduk youed mehe re bo and say this is what they did, you have to choose mays. but in the fantasy world, it would have been tle. ke, st you. but willie was the greatest player i've ever seen. >> i interviewedtle a a r b he wescusever. e said, i got to admit it, mays was the hesould d

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golden age" where history comes alive in its original clof. up journey back to emmett's field. >> once a time in brooklyn there existed aorrond b clu e e med a place callebbe >> tohe th

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nell ey woteaters too. >> i remember being on the mound, i can hear people on the stands. days in brooklyn, they let you know it big time. if you hadd , no support you stronger than the brooklyn dodger fans. >> i think real family is dodger fans. >> you have less of an elite element, more of a rowdy, noisy, neighborhood crowd. you had all of these great characters, it was kind of a fun carnival atmosphere. >> you had the happy felton's gang. they always brin

o they can watch the game. >> only thing more colorful than the brooklyn fan was the advertising that colored the outfield walls. >> the signs were remarkable. there was a sign that said lanolize your shoes withsqu uep there was a song. lize s with esquire blue polish and you will look hand some all day. >> corrects and shafer beer. >> wrinkle proof ties. i'm yearsver ent courink

smallest. >>tsu >>y tiovehe live figh to the outfield and hit that sign. that sign was never hit. >> but the sign, with the rest of ebbet's field was soon gone. in 1960, two years after the dodgers did the unthinkab moving ldasolis >> thighnd sou >> why move? why tear down ebbets field. i was raised to think ebbets field was like the pyramids. it was wo always be there.

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welcome back to "basebal golden age" your ticket assembled through major league baseball from the 1930s through the '60s. up ne weok a lbarning. of ball. naturaleagues were brought barn storming was a post season in small towns an opportunity to see big leagueers that never

would have other wiesz. but the primary function was to earn a few extra do byhe ll p who w t highd itho years. >> after the world series was over. they can pick up money, sometimes more money barn ng than s, a team including charlie s in october. ve was pitching with mittens on, was so cold. you think of that and you ugh. but then you think, what a 30-game winner doing out in a dakota snowstorm in october pitching. can you imagine a winner, risk pitching in that stor youldnke aamf reserves and send them out on the road, you expect to make

money barn storming. you had to have stars. it was the stars indeed who turned out. >> most notably babe ruth and lou gehrig, who aed cro evesmalof owns > i er bruth i memtheds suowa agin toth >> hpithen i was ni9 years old in des moines, io en tere plae boston game. i bought a ball out of a babble. and teams some o star da >> i was lhegue

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formed his own team playing the cuveryn,ms fr negle te baseball. >> he paid me a great amount of money. page's representation and fame came to the exhibitions that he put on. >> like many traditions of the olden gauge, barn storming eventually faded away as baseball's geographical reach grew and game's brightest stars were eliminated but the images of these storming greats, up clo l, forever they came to thrill. >> the vision of things thicks in your mind and a photograph of babe and lou in those uniforms is much more

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weeke combin fil withhe worasebos. dodgers, giants and yankees ruled the world. the era was done. on october 9th, 1957, the yankee/milwaukee series was tied at three games each. the official wrote a 52-word statement ending the f the brooklyn baseball club have today met and unanimously agreed that the necessary steps be

taken to draft the los angeles territory. llow s' , new is wit ionaue for firse years. united press telephoned bob hope in palm springs. the dodgers are ever going to be very big here. i can't wait to see duke snyder mbare midriff unifo ste?

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