What were the highlights of the 1955 Major League Baseball All-Star Game?
Newsreel footage of highlights of the 1955 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
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Universal Newsreels/Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org)Learn about the highlights of game 3 in the 1959 World Series by watching this newsreel footage. The Los Angeles Dodgers bested the Chicago White Sox 3−1 in the contest, the first World Series game to be played on the U.S. West Coast.
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COMMENTATOR: County Stadium is jam-packed for baseball's mid-summer dream classic--the Twenty-Second All-Star Game. Cleveland's Al Lopez and New York's Leo Durocher match managerial wits before commissioner Ford Frick and 45,000 other baseball fans.
Robin Roberts started for the National Leaguers. Wild pitched Harvey Kuenn in from third in the first inning. So it was one-nothing favor of the junior loop. Then with two on, the senior circuit was in more hot water when Mickey Mantle teed off on Roberts. The cameraman had a hard time finding the fence but Mickey didn't. His hit cleared the fence in deep center field for a home run. The American League was the underdog, but you'd never have known it, as Nellie Fox and Ted Williams escorted Mickey Mantle around the base path to make it a four to nothing ball game. Another run in the sixth made it five-nothing. In the eighth the National Leaguers finally tied it up, and knotted it was 'til the bottom of the twelfth, when Stan Musial of the Cardinals, playing in his twelfth All-Star game, stepped in. And there's your ball game. A circuit clout by Stan the Man giving the National League its fifth All-Star victory in the last six years. One of baseball's great stars wins the All-Star game with a sudden death flourish. It's all over but the shouting.
Robin Roberts started for the National Leaguers. Wild pitched Harvey Kuenn in from third in the first inning. So it was one-nothing favor of the junior loop. Then with two on, the senior circuit was in more hot water when Mickey Mantle teed off on Roberts. The cameraman had a hard time finding the fence but Mickey didn't. His hit cleared the fence in deep center field for a home run. The American League was the underdog, but you'd never have known it, as Nellie Fox and Ted Williams escorted Mickey Mantle around the base path to make it a four to nothing ball game. Another run in the sixth made it five-nothing. In the eighth the National Leaguers finally tied it up, and knotted it was 'til the bottom of the twelfth, when Stan Musial of the Cardinals, playing in his twelfth All-Star game, stepped in. And there's your ball game. A circuit clout by Stan the Man giving the National League its fifth All-Star victory in the last six years. One of baseball's great stars wins the All-Star game with a sudden death flourish. It's all over but the shouting.