1969 04-08 White Sox at Athletics

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We all used to say when the basketball team went
out for the first time in college, this is it.
This is what they worked hard for all spring, and
Johnny Odum found to have a little up in his throat.
Right now is where's number thirteen on the AS uniform
leading off Luis Apprecio, one of the America Leagues all
time greats. Here's the first pitch of sixty nine. It
is one on a one huffer back to Odam. Johnny's

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got an epos the caterer whill away and running away.
So Johnny Odum has got a big one out of way.
Here's a lieutenant batting. Rookie was the name of Carlos
may I say. Rookie actually was up for a little
while last year, but he had a sensational spring training
for the White Sox. B batting only won seventy nine

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for them last year in a partial season, he had
hit three thirty at Lynchburg, a left tennant batter. Here's
Odam's pitch, outside ball, one at run Gi, the plate
on fire. One ball. In those strikes that count the
A's and the White Sox, it will be one hundred
and sixty two just like this brought your way by

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your friendly rich field dealers of the West. Here's a
pitch the low ball two two balls and those tracks
on Carlos May, Bill Melton the White Sox third basement,
well bat third and speaking of White Sox, they have
changed their traveling uniform considerably this year. Here's Otum's pitch

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way outside ball three. The White Sox this year are
wearing gray trim and blue. They do have white socks
for a change, and they're wearing blue sanitary hoes and
white names and numerals on the back. There's a three

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old pitch for us track. It's three and one nine.
White Sox last year traveled in a powdered blue uniform
for years. It's worried me the White Sox didn't wear
white socks. I feel comfortable again. Here's a three to
one pitch swing. Got a mess strike too, and John

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Odum sinker seems to be going down pretty well right now.
Both got three balls, two strikes on Lieutenant batting Condos
May the White Sox. He cocks the bat. Here's a
pitch swinging strike three old. I'm got it, why I
hold them? Threw one in here that dropped about half

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a foot. Now they're two down of the pridginning and
the batter at Bill Mountain, the White Sox third basement.
This guy had two sixty six and thirty four games
with Chicago at the end of the season last year
had two home runs. Is a right handed batter. The
White Sox think he's going to be a great one
hold on wons kicks that white shoe in the air.

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Here's the pitch inside and low ball.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
One more.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
What a good looking uniform out in the field, beautiful
beautiful night here in the condos him here's the one
o pitch breaking ball is outside. It's two balls. Those
strikes the greatest feeling in the world. The start of
another Major League Baseball season. Al has been around a

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lot of them. Has there ever been an opener hold
when you didn't feel a little bit more excited than
any other game. I just made that comment money when
you were on your way up through the field. I said,
you can go through a million of them. And Doc
Gunner was something about this when the night you kind
of got to you two old pitch swing on a
mess strike one. Well, I think it's the greatest game
in the world, and to see it getting started here

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again and playing for real rather than those exhibition games.
Makes you feel good all over it. Two balls and
one strike on Bill Melton, two top of the first,
Otum's pitch straight, two falls. Oh, hold them is throwing
that ball here tonight?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oo?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Did you see that? Gym off at fifth? Two balls
and two strikes that count with two down. Melting at
the plate, wackles the bat back and forth a little
odum wines, kicks and throws. There's a ground ball hitting
the right field. It gets through there for a base
hit for Melton. Jackson kicks the ball up and right
throws it back into the infield. The White Sox have

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their first hit of the game and it puts Bill
Melton on first base. He hit the one right off
the fist between first and second on the ground. Now
here's Gail Hopkins, a spring sensation with a White Sox.
He hit three twenty four last year in the minor
leagues playing for Evansville. He had opened the season at

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Hawaii the big guy at twenty home runs one season.
He's a graduate of Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. Leftenant batter.
The curve to him is a little high of ball one.
Gail Hopkins, first baseman. He actually signed as a catcher
who was an all star catcher in the part of
Stiga League. He played at Lodike, California, and hit three

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fo in nineteen sixty seven. Here's the pitch strike call
on the outside corner. At Lodie. He had twelve home runs,
sixty six runs battered in, and a three fifty eight
batting average. He as, of course, we'll have a farm
club in Lodie this year. We'll get under way a
little later. On one and one, and runner at first base,

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Odem said, here's a pitch load. It's two balls in
one strike, two and one there two down. I'm in
on how faf of the first inning? John Odam SAIDs

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delivers there's a foul ball back into the crowd in
the first foul seven air of nineteen sixty nine. Two ball,
two strikes. Ao Hopkins at the plate stand with this

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feat fairly close together and straight away Odum's pitch bouncing
ball out towards second base. Cambinars has got it, steps
on second for the fourts out of the runner coming down,
and the sight has retired. But Johnnie out of get
this first hinting of nineteen sixty nine, Out of the
way harmlessly, no runs, one hit, one man left on
the score of the White Sox. Nothing. The a is
coming to bed. How would you let you get up

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one of these nights and take in an opened as
ball game. Get the family together and come on out
to the ballpark. Enjoy the excitement and the shudder of
the crowds, and hot dogs and the peanuts and the
puff corn. Does that sound like a good idea? It does? Well,
wait a minute before you go. You'll want to know
who's playing and when and where, and all the answers

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are found in the official nineteen sixty nine opened a
schedule card available for at all Richfield service stations. All
you have to do is stop by and pick one up.
You have an accurate listening of the opponents and when
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all right, we'll see the ball game. While I was

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reading that Richfield commercial with so much enthusiasm, the enthusiasm
of the crowd here was for the first reaction to
the great million dollar animation board. Add a mule hitting
a baseball for a long smack, and the crowd loved it. Now,
Gary Peters, the left hand who's been a long time

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outstanding record against the open A's, is out of the man.
The pitch the campy kapinars the a shortstop. The first
pitch camp be swings and missus track one so camp.
He had a sensational spring batting record. He hit three
twenty six the spring. Here's the only one pitch camp.

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He hits a botcher. The shortstop app ratio digs it
out those over. The first camp is out by a
couple of strides. There's one down. Now here's Reggie Jackson,
the A's right fielder. Jackson hit twenty nine home runs
last year.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yoxter knocked in over seventy runs Bill Belton plays him
shallow at third base, Peters kicks and fire Jackson goes
around on a slider and missus strike one. In spring training,
Reggie Jackson hit two twenty one, but at five hole runs.

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Here's the one pitch here the drive fowl that's going
into the crowd over behind third base. We had to
see first base coach Bobby Hoffman back in action. Bobby
was filled by a drive off the ban of sal
Bando in Arizona. He's got a couple of beautiful black
guys there too, as he's boy, he's a very fortunate man. Really,

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Bobby got a badly broken nose, strolling eyes, but he
realizes how lucky he was. Ball hit him where he did.
Anywhere else in the head, he might have just ended
at all. The ball's two strikes went out Jackson the batter,
here's the lion and Don rights the pitch strike three
called Jackson is out looking, so they're two down. Why

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don't we just got a report The first places loaded
hole run of nineteen sixty nine hit over in the
National League. Pedix Meon hit one in the with the
faces ones to tie up that ball game. Now here's
Mike Kurzburger A's left fielder coming up Mike get two
seventy two last year for one of his finest years

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ever right handed batting out fielder. Here's a bitch hits
the upper high the right field line going for the ball.
That's Buddy Bradford. Hear the fowel line and makes the
gram And that's off of the A's here in the
first inning. So it's free up and free down for
Gary feeders. And the score after one ending you'll play
is the A's and the White Sox. Nothing nothing. Is
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deep declass Richfield Imperial Boro Money. Duane Joseph sent, a
big catcher for the Chicago White Sox, will lead it
off against John odum here in the second inning. Buddy
Bradford and Ken Barry will follow in that order at
the scoreless game, and a lively crowd here in Oakland
to night. We hope that you're planning to join us

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for lots of exciting American League baseball. As the league
is divided into two divisions this year, East and West,
the A's will be playing nothing but Western Division teams
for quite some time, about a month of the season,
so the early games are important ones to the young A's. Josephson,
right handed batting catcher Dwayne had two forty seven for

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Chicago last year with six home runs. He played one
hundred and twenty eight games. Aldum Wine's here's the pitch,
mounting ball hit towork third Bando charges it comes up
with it throws the first got him. Solers went away
in the second inning, and Oldham had the White Sox
hitting that ball on the ground. Here's Buddy Bradford, young

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follow The White Sox have been looking forward to coming
up into the big league for a long while. He
got his first bull shot at it last year, playing
hundred three games, hitting two seventeen to five homers. They
expect a lot of this guy in the future. Real
good speed, a good throwing arm, and he indicated pretty
good power by hitting seventeen home runs in the minor

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leagues one year. Old Them's pitch to him a slighter
outside ball.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
One.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
No major surprises developed for the A's as far as
the starting lineup for nineteen sixty nine was concerned. Dave
Duncan had to go out and prove to it that
he could become the number one catcher, and he did.
Here's one old bitch to Bradford, swinging in the bouncer ball,

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one ball and one strike on Bradford, one out, second inning,
no score in our game. The A's in the White Sox,
and they'll be playing here again tomorrow afternoon at one thirty.
Hold them bitches again to the plate strike call. He
hit that inside corner with a hard sinker one ball

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and two strikes. Savone delivers again curve high two and two.
The Bradford computerized scoreboard here at the open Coliseum, what

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we call a game in progress board, is on the
right field, signed high up on the light standards. Gives
up to the minute batting average of all the players.
There's a swing an them s strike three. Otum retires
Bradford for his second strike out of the game. Now
with two down. Here is Ken Barry, outstanding defensive center
fielder for the Chicago White Sox. Ken has been up

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with a White Sox since nineteen sixty five on a
pool basis and has played at least one hundred and
forty seven games and every year. Last season hit two
fifty two with seven home runs. Right handed batter Autumn's
pitch strike gets in there, no balls in one strike

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too down on top of the second, no score, only
one pitch file ball back into the crowd. Speaking of
the crowd, they'll be entertained royally in nineteen sixty nine.
For every ball game there'll be a strolling Dixie Land
band on end. They gave a little bit of an

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indication of what they're going to be doing. Down on
the field in the pregame ceremony. We don't know what
we're gonna name him. He'll be up to the band
to do that. Here's he'll two pitch fly ball in
the shallow right field. Reggie Jackson's got it. Sign it down,
it comes, and Reggie's got it. That's all for the
White Sox. In the seconding, no runs, hits, rrors, nobody

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left on and the score the White Sox nothing in
the age nothing. Why don't you live a little extra?

Speaker 4 (16:09):
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Speaker 1 (16:47):
And Atlantic on the last half of the second hunting Salvando,
we'll lead it off now for the up day. What
a hot hand this guy had in spring training. Sal
hit three fifty four with three home runs. Mando, right handed,

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batting third sock of the Ads, had an outstanding year
last season, two fifty one batting average. Here's a pitch
to him. Here's a fireball hit foul down the right
field line. Is going to be out of play. One
strike that got on sal You'll be followed here in
the second by Cater and Greens. White Sox lefty Gary

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Peters delivers the Bando slow curve, hits the corner call strike.
Peters had an off year last year due to a
little bit of an arm injury, but he was a
twenty game winner in nineteen sixty four. Here's the pitch,
fastball inside two and one. Gary really knows how out

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of pitch. Not over poweringly fast, nor does he have
an outstandingly big curve ball, but he can throw it
around where he wants to the pitch. Bando hits a liner.
The shortstop duck out pitifully by ap ratio. He throws
him out at first and there's a great play. Louis
Zaparratio nine times the Golden Glevel Warner Award winner as

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the outstanding shortstop in the American League, just showed the fans.
Here why Bando hit a smash to his left. Louis
chuck it on the shore of what the players called
a dirty hop and got it anyway. Tires Danny Cator.
Danny hit three sixty one the spring. But what's more
important is what he did last year, the second best

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hitter in the American League with a two ninety vatting average.
Peters missus low ball one. Danny Cator the first baseman
of the A's at the top defensive average in the
league last year, a month basement, and the second best
hitting average among all the players. Look out, he had
to skip a little rope to get out of the

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way of that inside. Gary Peters pitch two balls and ostricks.
There's no score. We're happy to have you with us.
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to all your fans and plan to join us. Here's
a two to one pitch. Caters swings and missing the
slow curve. It's two and two dolls one away. Last

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half of the second inning. Gary's next stitch on the way,
swinging strike three, cut Cater down with a fastball right
in on his fist. So there are two down. Let's
pause for station identification. This is the Oakland A's Baseball network. Yes,
remember this is the place KNBR Radio sixty eight, and

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that of course is in San Francisco at the Coliseum
in Oakland. This is Manty Moore aligned with Al Helper.
Here Dick green at the plate, batting for the A's
with two downs, curveballs, beauties, track call right on the fist.
Greenie was almost unstoppable in spring training. He hit four

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thirty one thick back his regular second basement. Four years
he was the A's starting second basement. Last year was
out of action quite a bit. Bitch jo him swung
on a head up into the air in a shallow
right field. Carlos May is there and he's got it.
Throw it three up and three down after two innings
to play. The score is the A's nothing the White

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Speaker 3 (21:38):
First.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
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All right, now for the Chicago White Sox, Sandy Alamar,
the second baseman, will lead off here in the third inning,
giht On them and Gary Peters against each other. Although

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is a hot one head, he has struck out two.
The A's have not had a runner as yet against
Gary Peters. He has always been tough against the age
Sandy Alamar Fassy fielding, fast, running little second basement at
the plate. The pitch to him is low from autumn
ball one. John Odam kicks that white shoe in the

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air again and throws a strike in the outside corner.
One ball and one strike. Autum's pitch outside two and one.
The White Sox finished last year in eighth place in

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the American League. Al Lopez, the manager of the White Sox,
took over after the start of the season last year.
Two to one pitch, there's a roller down the first
base line, but it kicks off foul. Two balls, two strikes,

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And looking at lopez fabulous record as a manager in
Cleveland and Chicago, only one time prior to last year,
and he can't take the credit for last year at
a team of his ever finished lower than second, and
that covers a lot of years managing the White Sox.
The nineteen sixty crew sixty five, they've been a second

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three years in a row. To two pitch stlamar lion
drive the campin airas they takes it on what hop
and guns him out. A good play by Cape calamar
in a rocket right at Campinias in front of him.
One of the toughest plays the short stop has to make,
though that one did bounce uit away down in front

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of the little guy. Now here's Gary Peters, the White
Sox pitcher, and this guy might be the best hitting
pitcher in baseball. The big million dollars scoreboard has a
tremendous design on it. Right now, that said, what a
beautiful play, and I agree. One away in the third

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here is Gary Peters leftanded batter, Hold them bitches to him.
Curve drops in there tall right. We'll have the scorers
of all the other major league games the big openers
for you. Very shortly. You're out putting them all together,
right now, hold them to pitch the beaters of fastball

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that tails off outside one ball in one strike to
got Here's hold them won one pitch all two. See

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A couple of the expansion teams won their openers today.
Montreal and Kansas City boards one openers. We have that
Kansas City team in there for the weekend Friday night,
Saturday afternoon and a double dip on Sunday. Here's a
pick swinging a boucher left side of the nfield can't
be charges it picks it up. Those are birds and
there are two downs already. Playing field is just beautiful.

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Ally last year, I don't think it ever attained this beauty. No,
I don't think so either. Money. We'll let tone that
red clay down a little bit too, and that looks
a little bit better. And I want you to know
that upfield and well, the grafts here and the entire
ballpark is just beautiful. And because so they comes right
up at you, doesn't it. The groundskeepers Calisseum did a
fantastic job. When we left to go to Arizona for

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spring training. I took a look at the stadium the
last day and it was under about a foot of water.
There's a cost track to the laid off man Luis Apprecio.
Little Louis starting the White Sox banning over order over again,
grounded the pitcher on the first pitch of nineteen sixty nine.
There are two and a third ending. There's no score.

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Oldamu's pitch. Louis leans out of the way of a
pitch inside it's one and one. Apprecio had a finger
operation after spring training started, and there was some doubt
as to whether or not he would be ready to play.
But the little guy is. Here's a one one pitch
inside ball. Two. The thing's in their winning gown, white uniforms,

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Fork Knox gold Caps and snow white Albano Kangaroo shoes.
Want a sight to one pitch on the way strack,
It's called two and two. That ball ran right across
the plate. Two balls, two strikes. That gout on Luis

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Appery's yield. He led the American League and stolen bases
nine years in a row camp. He is the one
that took it away from him. Here's our ground ball,
hit out towards shorttop camp. He digs it out, gotta
hurry throws the first he got him in a good
play the Campaniers was cuzzy, taking out three ground balls,
then listening, and in the middle of the third the

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score reads the Chicago White Sox nothing, the Oakland A's nothing.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
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Speaker 1 (29:06):
Rick Monday, the as center fielder, will lead it off
in the third inning. By a very pleasant night weatherwise.
Here was about seventy degrees in the May area to day.
Very fine night. All right. Gary Peters has retired six
in a row. Will pitch not a rick Monday. The

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pitch Monday ran up on the curve and took it
outside ball one rick at two seventy four last year
for the Open Days, raising his banning average from two
fifty one some twenty three points. He raised it last season.
Here's one old pitch curve over calls track one in one.

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One thing you can be pretty well assured of if
you've beat Gary Peters, you're gonna do it with a bat.
He doesn't walk many. One on one pitch, flap ball
hit up into the air off third foul territory. Bill
Melton right in front of the A's duckout mixed the catch,
and there's one away in the third and I hear

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the A's thatcher. Dave Duncan, San Diego boy who had
his best year in professional baseball at Modesto, where he
flouted forty six home runs one season. Right handed batter
with tremendous power. There's no score in our game. The
A's in a white suck pitch to duck and curve

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swung on a misstruck.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
One boy, what.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I hand the Yankee Clipper gut tonight, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Bowers,
greeted royally by the Bay Area of Vans and by
Miss California on my head, O one pens outside the Dave.
It's one and one down. Sharon K. Turrill, a very
charming little girl, and I'm sure we'll do right well

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and representing the state of California and the West America contest.
Later on one one pitch to docin curveball swung on
Miss strack two. Now let me see those scores. I'll
pass those along year the other games that have been
completed in the Big League. As soon as Knocking gets

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on her out one two pitch, it's a little high
with the fastball to two and two. Montreal beat the
New York Mets eleven to ten. Here's a pitch Curtball
ducking Yanks at foul way back into the crowd. Another

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National League opener today of the Chicago Cups beat the
Philadelphia Billy seven to six. Forty four hundred and forty
one in New York for the Mets opener and seven
hundred ninety six in Chicago for the Cups opener. Here's
a two two pitch to Doc and lookout strike three.
Call on that inside corner. Gary Peters is looking sharp, boy,

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he's moving that ball around like you ever saw. He
has struck out three, hasn't walked anybody. No one's gotten
on base. Here's John Odum. The Atlanta Prays beat the
San Francisco Giants ten to two. That's it in the

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National League. Here's a pitch Odum swing and a mess
strike one. There's one game stilling the way in the
National League. The Pirates and the Cardinals are tied up
two two in the seventh inning. The balls one strike,
the pitch oldem strength two tall the basketball in there.

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The Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins four to three.
Motorbowski the winner over Jogris and the now one went
extra innings. Pitch hold them takes a curve in the dirt.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Ball one.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Boston beat Baltimore five to four. Today here's a pitch
hold him curve strike free call. Then Gary Peters got
another one looking man, He's got a big looking breaking
ball tonight. After three full innings of play here at
the costume and open, this one is scoreless. So White
socks nothing, he aye nothing, tell you time lose here
in the fourth. Thank you very much, money, thank you

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for those very kind words. It's real pleasant to be
with you again. And you know it. We're getting ready
here in the top half of the fourth. Any Carlos
May is the better up there now he's the left
hand hit. He left fielder of the White Sox hold him,
drive the soft curve and moves it downstairs for ball one.
Carlos May to be followed by third baseman Bill Melton,
and then we'll have first baseman Gail Hopkins. Johnny otom

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has given up just one base hit. We've only had
one base runner in the ball game tonight. It stails
up outside about waist time. That'll be ball two. Carlos May.
He stands about three quarters deep the plate. I was
up tight against the sort of guards that right up
on the plate. Bats from a slate cross and moves

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that back nervously back and forth. Oldhams fast ball swung
on rip down to Danny Cator. It bounds off Danny
shn Green picked it up, but there's no play at
first base. Oh, we have a base runner here for
Chicago in the top half of that's fourth inning. It'll
be a base hit. That ball was smashed right at
the fleet off Danny Cator, and he didn't have much
of a chance to pick it up. So that will

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be hit number two off Oat him and runner number
two four. The Chicago White talks here tonight, coming up
to us. Bill Milton. He got the base hit four
the White Sox in the first inning with two outs,
single right field and was forced to second base as
Gail Hopkins hit to shut stop to Campanias and he
stepped on second base to force the man. Odeum checks

(35:11):
first base Carlos May. The runner comes down to the
plate with the basketball the right hand hitter, and it
swung on. But Melton lifts for strike one and he
definitely chased the low pitch. Melton batting one thousand for
the American League season. He's had one for one. I

(35:32):
guess that's about as high as you can get. Carlos
May leads off first base, the pitch of the flake
with the runner holding is thinking in there for the
strike on the tech wing the balls and two strikes.
Why I want you to know this animated coreboard up
here or something just a few minutes ago, great big
k NBR sign went up there. Let the world know

(35:54):
about our flagship station. Odeum delivers the plate fastball, low
one outside one ball too strike count. We've had but
two hits in the ball game. Both of them belong
to Chicago. Right sucks. The A's have not had a
base runner so far in the ball game, and the
White Sox have had two. Their second one is on

(36:15):
at first base right now, Carlos May that tirecos May
it swung on and follow away. They had a pretty
good jump that time. And Melton tried to swing to
punch that ball in the right field to hit behind
the runner, and he filed the way to the right
of the plate. So Carlos May will have to come
back and do it all over again. One ball and
two strike count. When you come to the Coliseum this year,

(36:40):
you'll want to direct your attention to the message board
up over the left field bleachers. The programming on that
board will really be something to see. The pitch of
the plate now swung on by Melton a sop tap
down across the carpets the short stop. The only play
for kap and Arras will be the first base. He'll
get his man. But see runner Carlos May has been
moved over the second in scoring position. Go one out

(37:05):
here in the top half of the fourth. I think
Carlos May is the runner at second base on that
six three grand out, and the batter coming up to
the plate now is left handed batting first baseman Gail Hopkins.
It wasn't figured greally the Gail Hopkins might make the varsity.
Buddy came up very well for the Chicago White Sock.
Alopez was telling me this morning, and it looks like

(37:28):
he had the chance of being a fixture at first base.
Curveball his shoulder high outside Hopkins. Hopkins stands three quarters
deep in the plate and away from it. Hopkins has
only been around professional bos since nineteen sixty five. He

(37:50):
broke in with Sarasota. That's curveball dropped in their niers
for the strike. Johnny of them had that one turned over. GAYL.
Hopkins out of Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. Guy first

(38:10):
baseman now, but was a catcher by trade when he
was signed. Curve ball hangs a little high, but shoulder
hind and stays outside. So all the kind of two
balls in one strike now on Gail Hopkins, who last
year with the Chicago White Sox played twenty nine ball
games at two sixteen for them. He had no home runs,

(38:31):
but he can clog the ball. Autumn checked stratus made
runner back at second base Williams that pitch into the
plate and that swung on a beating down into the ground, fowl.
That's two ball, two strike count now on Gail Hopkins.
He's betting third here in the fourth inning, However, his
spot and a batting order is clean up abouting fourth,

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Hopkins may have followed that ball off his own toe.
He's sort of hobbling around ay like he has a
hot foot. Nick green in to talk to Johnny Odom
then turns and runs back to his position at second base.
Greening will play that position deeper than most second base
when he goes back on the room of the outfield grass,
particularly with a left hand hitter up there, which is
the case right now. The right side of the enfield

(39:13):
is deep. The bandos playing the shallow with the ball
in the infield. He's playing just behind the base. Bad
As at the third told him checks the runner Carlos
made delivers the plate to Pictures Rung on a pop fowl.
That's one will spin back to the crowd and want
to play all locked up here in this ball game.

(39:34):
At zero zero, Chicago White Sox have a run around
at second base in the person of Carlos May. He
singled up the shins of Danny Cator at first base,
and it was a hot shot. Moved over to second
on the Bill Melton ground out from camp and Arristicator
bastball just the little load to a left hand batterm
So it's a full count now three balls and two strikes.

(39:57):
Dueen Joseph sitting the White Sox catch, he's on deck
to go next. Johnny Odum, leaning forward on his knee
to get the signe from Dave Duncan and Gail Hopkins,
decides that he'd better back away and the plate and
get a little dirt. Now he's back up in dick.
Then Carlos May, who can move pretty well as the

(40:17):
runner at second base. He's the White Sox with feelers
Autumn over the top of fastball, swung on it right
back to mon Autumn, kind of close over the south handle,
but he throws into the dirt man hands play. It
was the choice of Johnny Odom to play for the
runner at dirt bason Wise, we show and on the

(40:42):
fielder's choice playing which back fight a little. The White
Sox now have runners at first and third. Don't be
no error charged on the play. According to our official score,
oh Hopkins becomes a base runner at first on the
fielder's choice, and Carlos may and will be the runner
at third. Here the tiblis due. It was a pretty

(41:03):
hard play for Johnny Odum. Actually, he was offstride and
off balance when he tried to make his plays and
Carlos May was prorelin in the third base and south
band who had covered the bag all right, but Johnny
Odam off stride and off balance, tried to throw that
ball two third and throw it into the dirt and
south Bando couldn't come up with it hit him in
the chest. Now the White Sox have an opportunity with

(41:23):
Queyne Josephson, the right hand hitter, and catch her up
there to play. He's over one tonight. Let off the
second inning grounding out. The sal Bando Odum fires away
and pitch a swing on a slow tricker down the
third base. Bando charges his player go to first. The
rentals score and out is made and Hopkins blows down
to second base. So give joseph In the first running back.
It in the ball game and the White Sox are

(41:43):
right in front. One to nothing. That was a slow
bounding ball down the third base side and the only
player that salth Bando could make was throwing over the
first base to get the batsman. That he did and
did it well. Now Hopkins is on a second base
on that ground out for the second out, and the

(42:03):
White Sucks leave it won to nothing and the better
coming up to the plate is Buddy Bradford, the right fielder.
He stands away from the plate, steps into the pitches.
Hold him now one run behind, checks his runner. A
second comes over the top of the past, ball swung
on the miss, first strike.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
O.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Bradford was ready after that one. Hold him again, a
check of the runner. Hopkins at second base, pitching the
plate fastball and getting waived at and miss. Bradford now

(42:42):
has the count off, no balls and two strikes. The
plate swung on it right back to the mom. This
time Odum takes plenty of time, flows over to Danny

(43:04):
Cator at first base, and that retards aside. Oh here
in the fourth and English truggle, white SATs break the ice.
In this nineteen sixty nine lidlifter, they pick up one
run on one day's hift or noevers and there was
a man left off. So the score at the end
of three and one happening to play. It's Chicago one
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Atlantic Richfield Coveny. All right, we moved down to the
last halve bob Ay number four and for the open as,
let's step up to pick up the top of the
batting order. In Campy Kampania's Gampius fluff. One time tonight
he hit a ground ball down to Louis Apparatio and
the White Sox shortstop throw h out by about a

(44:29):
half try Jampaniras will be polled by Reggie Jackson and
by Mike Kurzberger out of them out. A pretty tough
left hander been in that ball in tonight, Gary Peters.
Despite the fact that He won only four last year
and lost thirteen. He has been a nemesis. The fast
ball from Peters's load Caampani's at fall one. Gary Peters

(44:52):
last year had one decision with the Open Days and
it was right in this ballpark. He beat the Open
Days and his year's record with them was want to
know the bitch of the plate. The Campanius is high
two balls, no strike. Dampaneris the American League leader in
Sultan Basins for four years. The road runner into the
plate right now overhead past ball to him is fucked

(45:16):
in there for the straight two ball, one straight count
on Campanaris. Gary Peters working very carefully with camping deliverers,
and Campanaria swings on and loops it out and left
field coming up forward as Carlus may almost overran the ball,
so I finally grabbed it on the line shark for

(45:37):
out number one. All the white Socks can't say that
they are would overrun the flat balls because they've been
in training in Arizona where the air is lighting the
ball they go up. They did their training in Florida.
Garlas may almost overrun that ball. Now here's right ejection

(46:01):
shottern blackball to him and swung on miss right off
of it. It'll be strike one, no ball and one
strike count one out, nobody on. In the back capitol
the plate, the campanis is high, two balls, no strikes,
damp and ares the American League leader in stoven basins
for four years. The road runner at the plate right now,

(46:23):
overhand fastball to him is pumped in there for the
strike two ball, one strike count on. Campanaris Gary Peters,
working very carefully with Campy, delivers the Capanaro, swings it,
loops it out of left field. Coming up for a
Scarlets may almost overran the ball. I finally grabbed it

(46:44):
on the line shot for out number one. All the
White Socks can't say that they are would overrun the
flat balls because they've been in training in Arizona where
the air is lighting a take off. They did their
training in Florida. Carlas may almost overran that ball. Now

(47:07):
here's redijectionon cider fastball to him and swung on miss
right off with it. So it'll be strike one, no
ball on one strike count, one out. Nobody on. In
the back half of the fourth inning and the Chicago
White Sox are meeting it one to nothing, Peter over
the top of the big curve ball. Jackson on the
check swing takes it in there for the strike. Nothing

(47:29):
and to the count on Regie Jackson. It's first that
bat in the nineteen sixty nine season. He went down swinging,
whipping hired, had a curveball. There's the spider in the outside.
Regi Jackson now is account of a ball and two
strikes and calls for the Brozen bag the on deck circle.

(47:53):
Kirshberger and Vando both leaving there, fired over to him.
Now Jackson moves back to the fleet I field projection.
Needless to say, his fan around the right. They're playing deep.
They're giving him a lot of left field line. That
just swung on puck back filed into the crowd out
of play. Oh, Jackson is still alive and kicking. You

(48:17):
can just see Jackson taking a look at that wall
that's been moved in now ten feet three thirty down
the left and right field lines here three seventy five
to the power aways and four hundred is straight away
center field. Time called for Jackson as he backs awaiting
the plate. We're in the last half of the fourth
and he went out nobody on. As a matter of fact,

(48:40):
he has have not had a base runner against Gary
Peters tonight. His curve ball is a little high at
Jackson this time. That will give a ready to count
of two balls and two strikes. Here's Peters is ready

(49:02):
and two two is the plate to pitch a shung on.
But Jackson hit up a fire out in that center
field going over for it is a center fiery can
I can Jackson's on. He's wait a second, He's gonna
time for three. He's turning on the heat. The throw
comes in, he's flying, He's out. That's third base. The
fine relay play to the hurt base in Phil Melton,

(49:23):
the Reggie Jackson trying to get down to third base
where he could be a score down a five ball.
It's cut down on a headline slade at third bait,
but give him a double hit two center fel it
over the head off ten Barry and having Burnoch Ken
Barry to the rebay man on in the third base
of Bill Meltain. Hal Louis Apprecio made another all star

(49:44):
play right then, and relay throw from the appfield was
a short hopper off to his ride. He back handed
the ball and made a perfect pig what he certainly did.
Mike Kerzberger up there now dribbles the first pitch of
pile up a third bay side. Well, it's good to
see Jackson turning on his team. After all, he knew
that if he were third base, that the ball game
could be tied up for the fly ball if Hirsberger

(50:07):
could come through with one. So he took the gamble,
and this time he lost. Fast ball. The Heirsburger s
fucked in there for the strike. No ball too, strike
cout on Herszberger. Mike came up in the first inning
and retired to side with the fly ball the right field.
To Buddy Bradford, there's a way stitch on the outside
for a ball. One That app ratio has been around

(50:32):
this American league in professional baseball long enough to know
just where to be for those cutoff plays. Sutainly is
good to see a guy and knows his position. I
got thought of us, but just hung on hit off
the appretio clip. He's over up with a turn through
the first base, just by a flake. I have Herzburger
tell that app ratio all over that infield and the

(50:55):
short part of the outfield tonight, no runs was one
base hit, Jackson cut down, heard t the wentleman left
on and we're no wear it's a score. At the
end of four full innings of play a White Sox one,
they opened.

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Speaker 1 (52:11):
I guess you would won a tighter ball game for
an opener that we've got here tonight, one to nothing,
the Chicago White sous. Let's pause for station identification. This
is the Open Days Baseball Network.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Yes, and always remember that this is the good life
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Speaker 1 (52:24):
The Big Wood in San Francisco, all right. In the
top half of the fifth inning, Ken Burry up for
his second whack at it tonight. He faced Johnny Otum
and became out number three in the second ending with
a fly ball to Ready Jackson and right takes a curve,
dropped in there nicely and turned over right under the
leather's for a strike. One call Lando up very shallow

(52:47):
at third base. Despite the fact that Barry's the right
hand hitter. Hold um with fastball, missus the outside corner
one ball and one strike count hold him right back
to the plate now it is pitch is on the
inside corner of the plate right off of Pittsburgh called strike,

(53:10):
one ball and two strikes. Watons crely hope that all
this year long. But you're planning to make many trips
down to the beautiful Colisseum to see the opening A's
in action. Please remember you can get Hey's tickets right
here at the Colisseum on the plaza level. Uh pitch
called strike three. Get Berry's out of there on the

(53:32):
call strike three. Let's see for altum that will be
the third one. I'll forget over seventy branches of the
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Soovie with us all season long and enjoy this great
American game. Hitting left hand in Sandy Alomar, second baseman.

(53:58):
He was a short first round his first time up,
Kamp and Airs whipped his over. The person got him
and he takes this pitchrying outside football one one run,
two hits for the White Socks, no runs, but one
hit for the Uplan days they've had the one base
runner and that was rather briefly Jackson doubling the power
alley and left center field and then being thrown out
on the fine relay from app Ratio. They bit just

(54:21):
swung a Clayton trickle foul by Alamar off the first
place side, but it took a good one to get Jackson.
He was really moving. An app Ratio made that throw
to Bill melt In the third baseman as Reggie Jackson
took a diving slide at first base at third base,

(54:44):
one ball in one strike. That's account here on Sandy Alamar.
Gary Peters to follow pulled him, delivers the past ball
and tripped the short stop. Camp and are off for
the West.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
They got it.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
I'll tell you that guy campin air to make a
believer out of you off. He's left that time to
haul up flats put smashed down and was taking it
for the bar alley and left hunter. Very nice play
up with kampan Ras. We have two outs here in
the top half and the number five that brings on
Gary Peters, a good hitting pitcher. He's went up once tonight,

(55:20):
hick one off the end of the bat and rolled
at the short stop in kampaner stroim up left ended
button Oden works in with the curb ball and swung
on lifted out the right field. They're the well hit Paul.
There goes Reggie Jackson over near the wall. Can he
get it? He cannot? It is up over the wall
or a home run for Gary Peters just off the

(55:41):
black poles. Gary Peters, who hit home runs last year,
has just hit a home run to put his ball
club out in front by the score up two to nothing,
and he poked it over the corner in right field,
showing us out to the nothing White Ducks. That will
be the third hit off Johnny odem memory serves me,

(56:10):
righting me money. Didn't Gary Peters have a bas's loaded
home run last year? Pitch to the plate now to
wap Ratio is in there for the strike. Male could
very well be he didn't against us, but I can
recall several home runs that he's hit against us. I
mentioned earlier. He's the best hitting pitcher in baseball. Probably
the fastball vapory show is under the knees count one

(56:33):
ball in one strike, ap ratio is starting the third
batting around for the White Sox, hasn't hit a ball
out of the enfield. He stepped back to the mound
and has been thrown off from short stuff. All them work,
seems the curve ball stays downstairs. Two ball, one strike count. Well,

(56:57):
that home run that Gary Peters got was a line
hugger all the way that just went on. There's a
high pop up right back of them. Mom Coming on
board is Donny Cater, the first placeman, and sweezes for
out number three. Oh Harry. In day fifth inning, they
should go. The White talks to pick up another run
to make it two on one base hit a home

(57:18):
run by their pitcher, Gary Peters go, no errors and
nobody left off, so the score atain the four and
a halfening's a play. It's the White sucks too, and
the Opland A's have nothing for Well, here we are,
Dave Niles, another baseball season with the Oakland A's and
good old knbr Hey.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
You know, Frank, I'm still as confused as I was
last year. I didn't realize it was so brutal, I mean,
so punishing, didn't you hear money more? Say Rick Mundy
died on second base. I mean, it's incredible with such
a healthy young man. Look, Dave, Dave, Dave, you mean
you actually thought he passed away during the game.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
That's funny. So did I cut that out? Dave?

Speaker 4 (57:58):
You keep that up all Unplug your tea, he said
on Monday night. First thing you're doing, I'm going to
tell everybody that you get up at four thirty in
the morning. At a minute, I do get up at
four point thirty in the morning. That's funny, so is
every morning man.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Frank Till Skiers join the K and B R Sports Club,
there'll be lots of Skia price, especially for you. Not

(58:31):
of the last half of any number five. It'll be
sal Bando. They've cleaned up man in the batting worner
of the open days. He'll be followed by Danny Cator
and then by Dick Green, right top left hander out
of the mound. Gary Peters has two runs to go on.
The White Ducks are leading in the ball game too,
and I think they have two runs on three hits,
including Richard Gary Peter's home run he blasted over the

(58:52):
right field wall in the top half of the fifth inn.
Down here's south Bandal. We'll grind it out the shortstop
the first time up, taking the pitcher on the check swing,
and that flow for ball one. Next day's game tomorrow
table whites up, game time one point thirty. We'll be

(59:14):
on the air with you. One ten fits the plates.
Little again to Bando. That's ball two. Johnny McNamara, the
Sacramento Square coaching at third base, trying to get something started.
He's trying to light a fire into the talk up.
It just swung on the bandor miss Peter's shutting the
fastball right under the letters on the inside. Slights two

(59:34):
balls in one strike. You come down on sal Bando
leading it up here in the last half of fifth inning,
Go out there, Frondage. Peter's fastball is ram foul down
the right field side. That'll fade over in mcrodquat to play.
Gail Hopkins, the first baseman giving a long run, had
no chance to get it. One thing about the playing

(59:55):
service here at the coliseum. There's plenty of room to
run on the file line side the first and third base.
A lot of balls are caught here that would not
be caught perhaps in other parks. The two two pitch
to band curveball and Bando flaps at the fowl up
third base wayn stays right on two balls and two strikes. Boy,

(01:00:21):
you know you hear the women talking about fashion shows.
Gow to see these baseball uniforms this year. A slow
tapper down to what pap Ratio and meltain blind. The
ball goes out in the left Bai who goes between
them and sal Bando's the base runner. It'll be a
base hit or tal Bando, you're talking about squeezing through

(01:00:41):
an a hole Bando did. At that time, both Vaparratio
and Milton went for a slowly tap ground ball hit
toward secking our toward shortstop. Melton ran into app Ratio
and they were both yelling at each other. But that
may have opened the gate. Here in the last half
of Fifthhenny will of those tweeners a work stop at
third place in both on a suicide mission. They're trying

(01:01:03):
to get that ball, knowing they have to go full
speed to get it, and nobody calls the other one off.
That's play until it's made really not as lone as
enough whole knock. That's really squeeze it through the smallest opening.
You can get it through. Lucky, nobody got hurt on
that point. You were very right about that. All those
two guys really cladded down that Nvidia. Now Gary Peters

(01:01:24):
will the runner und behind him, has to pitch to
Danny Cator, who slams the first pitch foul off first
base side. Gail Hopkins after to he'll never get that.
When that's end of the crowd, no ball one strike
out on Danny Cator. Let's see, Danny came up in
the ball game in the second inning and was called
out on strike. So the number two hitter percentage wise

(01:01:46):
in the American League last year is without a base
hit so far in nineteen sixty nine. But you can
expect Danny to get his share of base hits. Gary
Peters works to him. Cater takes that bitches high up
on the peak of a cap one ball one strike
down one and enthusiastic crowd here and I borings to go, go,

(01:02:11):
go go the first late Nott in time, Bando's back
ahead of it. Hopkins returned to the mound. The Gary
Peters Peter's off the stretch come set delivers to pick
the flung on Hater lakes down the field. It didn't
have for the base hit. Bando down the second to

(01:02:33):
hold on. Oh, Theys have the time one hung now
if they can work him around and to right up
to the green right now, that is the third hit,
giving up flat Peters and it gives you he's a
pretty good start here and the back half. Then that's
the out. Bando and Cater both pretty good base runners

(01:02:56):
on at first then second. Nat Cler's got his first
big decision to make in nineteen sixty nine, Do you
bought right here? Trailing by two with your hottest hitter
at the plate, had a light tended batter coming up
next her? Do you let him try to hit well?
The animate the board here says, go go go, and
let's see if they'll go go go all out with Green.

(01:03:18):
They're expecting the sacrifice that is the White Sox are
both at the corners of first and third. The players
melt the third and Hopkins first base and will come
crawling up of expecting Green the bunk. Let's see whether
they have judge it correctly or not. They have. There
is the bunt down the first rate side and it
goes foul. The perfect replaced body except to kick pole

(01:03:40):
by a couple of feet. It would have gotten the
job done all right. Both players runners around the move
and they were able to would have been able to
get to their bases now hadly no Dick Green has
been a long ball hitter for the A's and has
been our hottest hitter average wise. He's one of the
best bunners of the A's boss that has ever had.
I was just going to say, Hank has with you

(01:04:02):
the choice he makes. Either choice he makes, he can't
be too far wrong because Green can do it all.
Let's see what happens. They're expecting the bun again. Each
squares off, takes the bet down his wool inside. Josephson
when he dropped the ball shook the mask, expecting the
runners might take off, but they did not. White Sox

(01:04:24):
have their ace singer ball reliever stopping the bullpen right now,
Bob Locker, and he's in a hurry to get ready.
Up on the animated scoreboard, the writer and the word charged.

(01:04:45):
Josephson broke a head band on his catcher's mask. Alse
we're gonna have another one coming out of the bullpen.
You know, the tools and the catchers straight or really
something money they put a lot of store in those
and just one little funny thing can be wrong. Does
that have to be broken? And these guys can tell

(01:05:06):
her right away feel uncomfortable with it? But that was
the Hues had a complete breakdown of equipment. Now Josephson
has his new mask. Locker continues to throw down in
the bullpen for the white sock. Here with nobody out,
he's runners at person that can pick a phone on
the green airs run takes on a.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
Field and back with Don.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Well the home run. The great levelers turn to pick
care tonight and with one shot by Dick Green, I'll
here and what's the a's out in front? Now? Three
to two? Right over the left field wall. Green continues

(01:06:13):
to be a hot hitter. Here's Rick Monday up there
now he takes the bitch low and outside the ball one.
I want you to know it could really be changed.
In the twinkling of an eye, and Green twinkled his eye.
Peters delivers the pitch is right under the chin of
Rick Monday. That will be all two. So very quickly

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mister Green has three runs back it in in and
very quickly the a's are out in front like that,
three to two three runs on fourheads. Rick Monday, the
batsman got a one ball and those strikes. That's the

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plate for Rickunday getting there for the strike. One ball
in one strike. That home run might well have fired
up the opening days considerably. Peter's right back to the
plate on the one one count. Monday beats it down
into the ground. Paul, Well, it didn't take long, mister Moore,

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for mister Bindley to get rid of some of those fireworks.
And I did it. No, one of the greatest understatements
of all times is on a million dollar scoreboard right
now and said, what a beautiful play. It is beautiful,
all right to see that ball here in this California
Knights say one out of the park. Gary Peter's ready
over the top delivery to Rick Monday in there ball

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strike three, oh Rick goes down. It's first out here
and the fifth innings down the way strike got for Peters.
That'll be his four. Let me check that back again.
Want to give you any bad information, Let's make that five.

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Garry Peter's now pitching to Dave Duncan, who slaps the
first pitch powl after a high curveball nootball one strike.
Con Rid's still buzzing about the Greenie's home run right
over the left field wall. Peter's ready delivers the plate.

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Duncan takes a slope curve that stays outside. One ball,
one strike, come one out here in the bottom of
any number five, the resimen score. Duncan looked at the pitch.
That's well, that's fall to I'd give most of anything

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to know what's running through young Green's mind right now.
Two one delivery swung on and after way. Paul Duncan's
cown now is to balls and two strikes. Oh wow,
he didn't seem to take the real big cut. The
Greenies has tremendous power and hit that one right on
the nose. It was out all the way. You know,
he's got those good risks money and theon slept. It

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got around pretty fast. Tuto bitch herve. Balls swung on him.
At strike three, Duncan goes down by the strike out
root to give Gary Peters strikeout number six. Tonight, John
Odaman is coming up to the plate, and I imagine
John feels a lot better about it. He was two
runs behind at the end of the top half of

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the innings. Body seammates went out and not only caught
their way back in the ball game, but took the
lead away from the White Sox. In case you hooked
up the plate with us, will tell you how it happened.
In the second pitch, Johnny Odium outside ball one. It
all started when Pando singled between that for issue and
melting into left field on sort of a squeeze up play.

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Hitter then moved him down to the second on the
single to left. There's a if it swung on hit
down the birch, melting charges up and the close the
first place in time and the inning is over. Then
Green unloaded his home run. Oh that's how the scoring
we've done here in listening, which gives these a total
of three runs on three base hits. Nobody left on

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and the win now airs. So let's gore at the
end of five. Food that needs to play now it's
the opened A three and the scrubble White Chucks too.
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and their bands are great. Baseball season in nineteen sixty nine,
holding and out of the top half of a number six.
As the message board the entertainment board above left field
says welcome Al Lopez and the Chicago Payo Hos. Well

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the Payo hols, you're behind right now. We moved to
the top half of sixth inning. This course ends three
to two in favor of open Johnny Oldham. Here in
the sixth inning will pitch to Carlos May the left fielder,
Bill Melton, the third baseman, and Gayl Hopkins, the first baseman.
Carlos May has struck and has single to hit a
rifle shot single off the shins of Danny Keeter at

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first place in the fourth inning, and he was working
around to be the first running the ball game. May
standing forward at the play town called him over the
top of the big curveball drops it in there nicely
for the strike comes right back to the plate now

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with a curve. It's low count. Has one ball in
one strike. See over in the National League where Houston
San Diego have gotten underway and Houston is leading the
new expansion San Diego team won to nothing at the
end of one inning. We've got Wilson Selma pitching that
ball game. Gurball is a little bit low the name

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two balls in one strike. Montreal the other expansion team
in the National League today defeated the New York Mets
eleven to ten. Ball swung on by May and hung
out in the very shallow left center bie of Campania's
black coming up as Herstburger Heirshburger calling for it had
a Hirschburger making a cat. Oh May is out of there,

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flying out. Who was the opposing left fielder Mike Herzberger
that brings on Bill Milton sold off a Chicago It
was the Cubs of Leo de rocher beating the Philadelphia
Phillies seven to six. Pittsburgh and Saint Louis playing tonight,
they're going in the last half of twelve inning, tied
at two and two, San Francisco Giants dropped their second

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ball game of the year, ten to two to Atlanta.
Fastball swung on by Bill Milton, high fly ball on
the left field. Hirschberger's got another whack at it comes
up hundred takes the high fly ball for the second
half two away top half of the sixth inning that
puts it up to Gail Hopkins now with two domin
the bases empty. Nikro is the winning pitcher for Atlanta

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and their ball game night, and Perry lasted for San
Francisco locat he hit a home run for the Giant, however,
and Edix Mihan if the first base is loaded, home
run of the current campaign for his ball. But the
Atlanta Braves check in on the American League in the
minute at two, the left handed better Odum's fast pitch

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is low and outside ball one. Hopkins in this ball
game has been up a total twice. He's forced a
man and his face runner on the field is short
and the fourth inning so he's over to Odum delivers
joined the curve ball dumped in their off office one
ball one strikeouts. Boston got underway pretty well today, beating
Baltimore five to four. Landis winning it in relief, beating Adamson.

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Fastball swung on, there's a hopper hit down to second bag.
Green charges not to throw over the cator and the
top half off the sixth innings is all over. Oh
for the Chicago White Socks. Nothing across Sydney sixth and
eames and the score at the end of five and
a half now it is Oakland three and Chicago two.

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Well down below us. Somewhere we hear the Dixieland band
that's going to be prevalent at all the Open A's
baseball games in nineteen sixty nine here at the Colosseum.
We don't have a name for them yet. And if
any of you would like to come up with a
name for our Dixieland band that's going to be performing
here all year long, we'd like to hear from you.
Just write a carter letter and tell us what you
think it should be and send it to the Oakland

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A's here at the Coliseum. The winner will be announced
after the current home stand is over. In other words,
all mail that comes in up through the last day
of the current homestand will be eligible for the contest.
And the person who picks the name of the band
that is the winner, Charlie Binley, will give you a
pair of tickets Fox Seat tickets free for the rest

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of the nineteen sixty nine American League season here at
the Colosseum. So if you've got a name for the
band that's going to be performing here all year, let
us hear about it. Send us some cards or letters
and we'd be likely to hear from I'll here at
the Colosseum tonight They've just flashed up a big side

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a few minutes ago that for all future games at
the Colosseum, kids will be admitted for every ball game
for only seventy five cents to the picture section here
at the Colosseum. So from now on all kids can
get in for seventy five cents for any game. That's
some of the best news we've had in a long
time money, and we're glad to know that mister Finley

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and Neil from these want to see the kids in
the ballpark. Come on, kids and take advantage of it.
Here is Campania's signing up at the plate, Gary Peters.
Wheel's a pitch, enjoy him, and it's over there for
the strike. Yeah, we're expecting to have a big nineteen
sixty nine. We want you to enjoy every bit of it.
Slash fall. Campanius takes us with low and it's count.
Now's the ball in the strike. Champaniers has been up twice.

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He has not to become a base runner fornight, so
there hasn't been any road running going from campan Airas,
but he'll be getting on almost at that time, that
pitch was weighing off of hips and almost hit him.
So camp is kN knock on the boards. Two balls
and one strike. See where Kansas City beat Minnesota today?

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Next inning ball game fastball the capras is outside I said,
took twelve innings before Draboski for his new ball club,
the expansion Kansas City Royal defeated Minnesota, who's figured to
be the ball club that will be charging after the
A's and Weston Division this year, beat them four to
three plus fall camp He takes this one, that's pop

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for the strike the contissaran one. Camp Be bluffing a
bunt that time at Bill Milton coming up in third base,
as though somebody had tied a lasso aroun He's neck
and suddenly gave it a big crick poll ratio pitch.
Campy swings HiT's a barn a short style apprecio. Bundle
can't pick it up. Capeanires is a face runner, and
that I've got to do with falls an arrow a

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field dog. Caffy has become a base runner for the
first time on Appery show. There at short stop. Sometimes
that's what we will break the ball game wide open
for you. However, the ad is they're eating left from
three to two, and I'd like to get some shorts round.

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Here's rejijection. Now who is doubled and truck out? You've
been ordered to bunch and fowls the first pitch off
into the dirt Dampanarios couldn't take advantage of moving down,
although Josephson did not feel the ball. Take one the
cob on regijection. Melcom shove it up at bird base.

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I've consulting the corner on Kampanias. Now let's see what
happens with Jackson. The squares off. But as he does,
Gary Peters flips the first base to keep Kampanira's close.
Now look at find the big animation board right now,
how do you spell that word? I mean, how do
you pronounce that? Beat? Gret big beat meef up on
the boards. Does a throw the first to keep beep

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beep close. Reggie Jackson is just showing he certainly learned something,
and he's one year up there ding behind camp. Hees
back down away from the plate to allow kaffan Aras
to get his breath again. Peters took five shots. Any
man over there with throws our Regie Jackson back up

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at the plate cap and airs a lead down comes
a pitchy Holes. The bump is attempted, but filed off
to the left of the plate by retrojection. Regie Jackson
betting at five hundred right this minute, we're reading it
right off the big scoreboard up behind right field. It
will keep you advised. Or the betting average is currently
and of not only the Open Days, but also of

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the ball club missing the pitch of the plate dejection
swing on them? Is the Reggie was after that? Would it?
Didn't get it? That's strike three? Time before we have
Herstburg Riplet's pause for station identification the Open Days Baseball Network.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
It is the police, the NBR radio sixty eighth, the
big win in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
All right, now, let's see what happens with Herschburger. A
pitchout campanairas is going nowhere. Joseson was ready to fire
the second base, but Caffy to stand there watching him,
so the pitch was wasted. The counter's ball one on.
Mike Hursberger down come to pitt Turgo's camp and Arris
went on follow away after third base side. We'll play

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a little running hit that time. Mike Hirschberger with a
kind of a ball on a strike. Camp and Arras
back to first base. Bobby Locker back up, throwing down
on the White Sox pull bend down the right field side,
leaders behind in the ball game three to two. Yeah,

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he's leading the White suck come sent throws over the
first base instead. Camp and Aires show to Duckhoff's back in.
Bob Hoffman is the first base coaches on there. Camp
and Ares drives away, draws another drow. So it's very
evident Gary Peters is worried about campan Aires singing it
for a second base. And I think you'll find that
in the American League a lot this year. They'll be

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expecting this young ploman around and he will. He's on
his home down there. He can do it anytime he
wants to. He holds this time as the picture's way
inside Hersburger and almost got him on the hill. Dodd's
two balls and one strike on Herszberger, who now backs
away from the plate and looks around at Johnny McNamara
at third base to see what kind of sign Maybe
one out going on here in the sixth sending to

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pitch a swim on by Herzburger, and it's a high
foul ball off the third base side. There goes melting
over there. The Sands reaches off, gets his glove out.
If it cannot hold it as he runs into the sand,
there'll be no play on it. There'll be no error.
The only thing the result. The only result will be
that Hersberger retains his life at the plate with a

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count two balls and two strikes. Hirschberger looking for his
first nineteen sixty nine basin that's flat to ride, and
has rolled the short stuff both times, retiring the side.
Kampaniers waits there he goes, the pitch is made and

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taking from the calls back the curl and Josepton is
in the center field, but Campaniras will go nowhere. He'll
hold right on a second bait. Don't give Campius Steel's
second bait, and that really shook up Joseph. The Hurstburger
is swinging to protector runners struck out. That'll be strikeout

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number eight for Gary Peterson and gives the kaffan Aris
a stolen base. His hearts in the air. Eight strikeouts
now or Gary Peters and he'll be going now a
band if Bando can produce a base hitters he did
in the last time up it'll mean that Kamp and
Airs will got an opportunity to come in with the
court A's run of the night, of course, standing three

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to two in favor of the A's over the White Sux.
Right now, Kapan Airs, pretty good size waited A second
town comes a pitch flung on and hit down to
truck stop. A free show digs it out close over
the first base, and that's all for the A's. Here
in the sixth cent it's a sixty three ground out
to retire aside and no runs. There were no base hits,

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there was one error, there was a stolen base, and
one man was left off. So the score end of
six hole in need of plays open three and Chicago two. Yeah.
At the start of this baseball season, you're twenty one
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A's games. Well montis we move into the top half
of any number seven here Johnny Odum still has one
run to go on. The A's are leading the White
Sox three to two, and of course they want to
try to keep it that way. And for the White Sox,

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their first better up here will be Queen Josephson he'll
be vomited by Bradford and Barberry, So mister morm go
get them. We've got a good one cooking hair. Dwayne
Josephson knocked in the game's only run for the White Sox,
or the first run for the White Socks before Peters Homer.
He did it with an infield ground up. John o'don
Wine's here's his pitch loo and away ball one. He's

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leaded three to two. Fans have had lots to cheer about,
and certainly lots to say when they go out tomorrow
to work. We had a great night at the Coliseums.
Here's one o pitch swing and I'm messing a change
of curve. It's now one on one. They've seen Cavaniras
steel a base. We've seen some of the finest defensive
shortstop play you've ever seen in one game. A freak

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shows made pretty great plays. Cavaniras has made one. Here's
the one one pitch swinging strack two on a note,
I'm slider one ball two strike on. Dwayne Joseph's in
the right handed bating catcher of the Chicago White Sox

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will be here for an afternoon game tomorrow. There's the
basketball inside. Oh, I'm knocking back away from the play.
There's a coat or something hanging over the left center
field wall and the plane on our head. Run. He says,
let's get it off. So Rick Monday, who catches everything
in the ballpark out that way, has gone over to

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catch a blanket. Threw it back over. Boy. I heard
a real great public address announcement one night out down
in Kansas City. They had some fans sitting in what
we call the pennant fortune right field had put their
coats on, yeah, and put them over the front edge
of the railing there. I'll tell you in just a minute.

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Here's Hodo's pitch. Here's a drive in a center field
Monday going back and he's got it. Well, this enterprising
b announcer was signaled by the empire to have those
fans to get those there's the garments off the fens
out there, So the p anouncer said, very loud and

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clearly for everybody could hear it. The pens with the
fans in the right field bleacher section, please remove your clothes. Oh,
here's Buddy Bradford write any advitor fole ball back this way.
I keep telling you Mandy. Anything can happen to the
ballpark the balls that wouldn't strike the cap. The A's

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are leading the White Sox three to two in the
sixty nine Open Blue Moon Odum delivered to the play
Bradford spliced its file off end of the crowd Strack two.

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Everything off right on schedule tonight tremendous pregame show. The
AE of sixty nine yearbook is on display in the
standard tonight US pitch Strict three Carle. He got him
looking at a fastball right across the middle. Johnny Odoman
has now struck out four White Sox batters. There are
two downs and the seventh inning, and the batter is

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Ken Barry. When I entered his can tonight, he ran
out on the field starting sentafielder for the White Sox.
He yelled to me off to the side. Why didn't
you tell him? I'm from Topeka. Kindy and I had
some common grounds at the Peaka. There's a play ball
hit up into the air, left side of the enfield.
Kapanis is calling for as it comes down, He's got it.

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Half the tide is retired. No runs hit your errors,
nobody left on. We go to the whole half of
the seventh distance, stand up in stretch time, walk around
and chair everybody are he's are leaving the White Sox
three to two. The very best way to enjoy all
of the suction of the American League Baseball of the
summer is to have your very own season ticket for

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a seat at the beautiful open coalise where there from
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league in eighty one game scheduled on seventy and three
dights from April v eight through September twenty eight. Season
ticket plans have been devised by the A's management this year,
ranging from a seat to each and every game, day
or night and price to two hundred and fifty five

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to fifty all the way through Plan number six called
Sunday's with the A's which Candy got the fort littl's
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on by the office in person and take the seat
and the plan of your choice. But whatever you do,
join us at the ballpark this year. It's going to
be a fine nineteen sixty nine, one hundredth anniversary of baseball.
It's the last half of the seventh inning. Danny Cator
comes off for the A's. Now Dandy Danny has had
one hit tonight, every followed by Dick Green and n

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Rick Monday. The A's have had four hits. Luckily they
wired three of them right together in the fifth inning,
the climax being the jack by blow by Dick Green.
Garry Feeders, a tough left hander for the White Sox.
On him whyans and pitches to Cater little high and
Annie ball one. Here's the one and oh pitch to Cater.

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He files off a curveball, one ball on one strike.
Malia Jackson came here all the way from Chicago to
see this game tonight and to sing the national anthem.
It's what a tremendous job she did. And she's playing
a baseball fan. She didn't come here just to do
the national anthem. Bitch. She loves baseball. One one pitch.

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Cater takes it a little low ball two. One of
the great thrills you can have is see someone from
out of the past when you love the game of baseball,
as we do. To see Connie mac the second easier
tonight too. Tater takes a look at us strike it's
two and two. Connie mac second and Connie Mack third,

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both here at the ballpark tonight, and the A's dedicated
their sixty nine season to the memory of Connie Mack.
The first, Tater slams one in the left center field
face head for Caterken Barry comes in to pick the ball,
and Peter is on the dark. The A's winging on
the seventh inning, and I here's the A's fucking baseman.

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Dick Green in a three run home run his first
time up. Add on the big message board charge and
Grant Anima said, here's the Green takes a curve insigned
ball one. He had shortened up that time as if
he might be going to bout the ball one ball

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in those strikes a scorer. The opened A's three of
the Chicago White Sox two been a very very well
played game. Peter Center's a pick the Green. He punts
at the ball and foul tips it one on one.

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Here is on the A's ringing on the seventh Inny.
And now here is the as fucking baseman Dick Green,
who hit a three run home run his first time
up out on the big messic board. Charles get great animation.

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Here's a Green takes a curve insigned ball one. He
had shortened up that time as if he might be
going to bout the ball. One ball in those strikes
a score the Oakland A's three of the Chicago White
Sox two. Been a very very well played game. Peter

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Setter's a fix the Green. He punts at the ball
and bows hips it one on one. Nick Green at
the plate. Danny Cater is on. There's nobody down with

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the last of the seventh. Here's a bench. Green squares
bunts of fall out to the mound.

Speaker 6 (01:33:41):
It's off the hand of Harry Feeders.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
He falls down. Can't let him play anywhere. Gary Peters
ing day herculean ty leppert the get a buck by
Dick Green. Greenie tried to punt a pantom o. Peters
made a dive after the ball and got his fair

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hand on him, but could not hold on it. Barrel
laid down at his seeing woud. He was scrambling for
the ball. Green was scrambling for first, Cater for second,
and they both made it. Now twon nobody died. The
batter is Rick Monday, Gary Peters the pitcher. There's a

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guy who hit Monday in the head one diving in
a ball game in Chicago. Here's a pitch Monday down
a thirday line.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
It Coby a jury.

Speaker 6 (01:34:35):
Peters post the first place chilly and hit Monday in
the back. Here comes Peter in the school.

Speaker 1 (01:34:46):
Rick Monday bot up by down the third base line
for base head.

Speaker 6 (01:34:52):
Pater scored on the error.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
The A's lead four to two with runners at first
and third. What a beautiful fun play Rick Monday. Gary
Peters picked the ball up. He didn't have a chance
to get Monday really because Rick can really fly, but
he took the shot at him through the ball a
first basion hop right over Gail Hopkins hit Monday in
the back, or it would have gone all the way
into the book hand of the white sock aws it

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out of the white suck. Duck got on the mound
and Gary Peters it out of the ball game. This
Monday with a fund single payd scored on the error
and Green goes to third. On the air, still nobody down.

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So we got our first pitching change in the nineteen
sixty nine season, and the scoreboard danced hocket to him,
Socket to him, Well, would you say that. I'll tell
you what a great night this is turning out to be.
I'll win or lose the fans here, and I think
what they're going to have a lot of this year,
tremendous excitement at the Coli State, a lots of action money.

(01:36:05):
I think that's what baseball is going to be all
about in this nineteen sixty nine season. And we can
serve you hope that team Hoolks listening in tonight they
could not make it here to the ballpark. We'll get
their tickets and season tickets and join us for all
eighty games that will be left after the playing of
this one tonight. Those tickets. As you know, money can
be gotten very easily here at any UCB bank or

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seventy album in the state of California, and also any
of the eighteen Smith stores in Northern California, plus right
here to Coliseum. So we're listen for our friends on many,
many occasions it's your money to join in and have
the fun that we expect to have in the nineteen
sixty nine seasons. And you could order tickets by mail
in case you're listening on one of our fine A's

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radio network stations today across the Great West. Just to
order tickets, three dollars and fifty cents for lower deck
box seats, three dollars for all other reserve seats in
the house. It's a dollar and a half for the
bleachers except for kids twelve and under. Kids twelve and
under can get into any A's game or just seventy
five cents. Now. There are also special group nights for

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kids and group days. For instance, the first kids day
here at Paul Park will be April twelve. That this
coming Saturday, when the A's played one thirty game against
the Kansas City Royals, and the Oakland A's are pleased
to offer to youth groups in the Bay Area the
opportunity to attend any one of these thirteen selected home dates.
For information on how you can get the youngsters into
ball games for just fifty cents, called the Okland A's

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Group sales director Ron Helleck. That's sixty three five forty
three hundred kids sixteen and under can get in for
fifty cents a person in groups. Now, without groups, you
can come in for seventy five cents to any as
ball game in the bleacher section. All right, here's Dave

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dunking up now the bat against Bob Locker tomorrow. N
ain't Jim mash against Tommy Johns by tomorrow afternoon. The
White Sox quiller infield in Bob Locker a right hander,

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a good sinker ball pitcher, Nick Green's at third, Rick
Monday at first, and Dave Duncan is the batter Locker
to the belt. Here's a pitch Doc swings and files
about strike one with that infield drawn in. It would
indicate the White Sox had rather cut off a play
at the plate man to go around the horn for
the double play right here. That is, until nobody's down

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five ball of the outfield could score a run. Ducking
his bet up twice to I struck out twice. Locker
pitches to dunk. Lookout, it's curve ball has got away
from him almost ten days. Yoaklanas born in Chicago, White

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sunks two and the sixty nine opener. Locker pitches knock
and swings at the fly ball in a center field.
That ship score Dick Green. Monday's also tagging green tags
at thirty's coming to the point. He scores and it's

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five to two. Sacrifice fly ball by Dave Duncan. Dwan
John old him up with one away boy. Dave went

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up there at that time with the idea of mine
to just get went on the ball with the nfield
drawn in. He wanted to get that runner home and
he did it. White Sox full up, look for the
butt now lock of the strat throws back over the
first to whole. Rick Monday there melting shallow at third,

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there's the pitch hold them buns at the ball and
missus pross track at two and one. Lawyer got a
fregod crowd out in our general admission section here tonight.
I think that's one of the finest places to watch
the game. Climbing the ballpark anyway. It's really a good
place out. There's not a bad seat in that ballpark.

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One strike to got on blue Boo lockers pitch ball
Bunny right out toward come out locker, pitch it up.

Speaker 6 (01:40:55):
Between the second base.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
He got Monday on a fine play. Oh I'm punned.
Wou look to be a pretty good fun It went
straight toward the mound, but Locker had to come down
off there to hurry to get it, and he had
one of their fastest runners going. Rick must have gotten
a pretty slow jump off first, because Locker got him

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at seconds with two down and leaves doing him on
at first phase. Good play by the White Sox pitcher.
Here's can't be kavanaras. This little guy has already put
his first town base up on the board from nineteen
sixty nine, and there'll be lots more where that one
came from. Locker pitches to him. Strig gets in there

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going one. Remember, our first doubleheader of sixty nine will
be here Suddenday afternoons. Here's a bitch curving there, calls track.
It's going two. The Kansas City Royals will be in

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town for Friday night at seven thirty. Saturday afternoon had
one thirty and a doubleheader Sunday afternoon. It's one of
seven Sunday double headers the A's will play this year.
A two fixed the Kaffaniras swinging strike three. Locker retired
the side so these in the seventh in Ams got

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two runs, three hits, there was one error and the
A's left him in on after seven pointings of play.
The scores the open A's five in the Chicago White
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Well Pontiac say at the very first special day here
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It's that day Saturday May. Then game trime one point
thirty and with the New York Act. Remember how much
money we had last year on back days. Absolutely how
it's going to be a big one here again this
year and we had a little bit of time. We
can't get it all in, but we've got something else
to talk about too, right, Here's Sandy Alomar against John

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odom swing and a mess strike one Alamar left handed
bider Tonight on his grounded a shortened line out short
odle Wine. Here's the pitch swing in a Foulbacks track too.

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You know I got a big kick tonight out of
talking with Connie mac the second in Connie Mack Jr.
He was talking about what maybe his father would have
thought of the colorful uniforms of the age, and he said, well,
I want to tell you something about Connie mac. He said,
my father was the only owner who did not ever
complain about Bill Beck's great publicity's done. Here's a pitch

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outside for a ball. Back in his days, he said,
Connie Mack was all in favor of colors and publicity
and promotion and everything that could put another band in
the ballpark. And I thought it was a tremendous thing
to hear. Well, I'll tell you one thing about Connie Mike.
He lived eight to slept baseball, and anything he thought

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would help the game, he was all for it. And
I can well understand Johnnie saying that one ball, two
stracks in Alamar. Here's the line up, it's coming swing,
ain't strike three. The moon cut him down. One of
them struck out five batters that I have. The White
Blocks have had three hits. Now here is a pinch hitter,

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Pete Ward. Tell me how in the bat for the
White Sox Ward batting for five locker. I see they
had tan Osinski throwing out of the bullpen. Ward a
left handed banner with good power. He's played third base,
first base in the outfield for the White Sox. Here's
a pitch Fromode. I'm curveballing on him, Bree, Let's go

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here the upland A's five in the Chicago White Sox. Two.
Here's one old pitch outside and high Pete Ward, ben

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chinning or the White Sox. Two balls at Austrich swing
and I'm as strac one. Ward last year hit two

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sixteen for Chicago, but he had fifteen home runs. Here's
the pitch, swinging straight too, boy autumn sinker to nine
has been susah on two balls too strikes. This is
the top of the eighth inning. He's leading five to two.
All right, comes the right eyle of otem the pitch

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swinging a bapting ball out to the middle. Nick Green
part of his right.

Speaker 6 (01:47:36):
And Sir Phiel, he pulls the ball firsty games.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
Dick Green, who knows the hitters in this league like
a book, was playing feet ward about five feet deep
on the hatfield grass, weighing the hold of right Ward,
hit the ball through the middle of Green went to
his right end field of the ball maybe ten feet
deep on the center field grass. You know I've said
before money, If you don't agree with me, this Green
plays a deeper second base than anybody around the league today,

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and just about as deep as anybody I've ever seen playing.
Here's Luis Apparatio with two dominy eighth inning. The bitch
fouled away for us. Strike the attendance here tonight, twenty
three thousand six and ten one strike the count of Appartio.

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Who's all for three to night? So that's promote them?
Batter down a third base line. It kicks off bowl
right in front of Tony Cucinello. Ya's resplendently be deck
here tonight and a brand new Port Knox gold cap
with a Kelly Green a on it, wedding count white
uniforms and snow white albino kangaroo shoes. How does that

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grab you? That's the fashion plate? Hey, I want you
to know something. They can be called the fashion plate
to baseball. I love this one. Yeah, how about this one?
Here's on them are two bets upside Bowl one. They
still have their fort knots gold uniforms that they'll be wearing.

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And on the road they're Pacific Ocean Misty Green. Here's
the one and two bets, sign on fastball, hit on
the ground. The third MANO dicked it out. There's the row.
He nailed him, and that's off with the White.

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
Side in the day, up.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
And down they go one, two, three, and the score
remains the good Guys and the White Shoes five and
the White Sox two.

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
Dave Nile, Right, Yes, sir, Dave, I've got an idea
I don't want. Don't we pretend you're calling a game.
We have a play by play man. Yep, So you're
out of the coliseum, the game.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
Is about ready to start, and you're on the air.

Speaker 4 (01:49:56):
Days okay, hight are sports fans here we are at
the old ballpark ready for another disaster. Wait a minute,
disaster day, What do you mean disaster?

Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
You didn't let me finish, Frank.

Speaker 4 (01:50:05):
I was going to say, we're ready for another disaster
for the opposing team. See, we're going to destroy him. Well,
I think it'd be better if you.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
Just stick with the facts, Dave. Okay, Frank, we'll see
it again, hight Airs sports fans.

Speaker 4 (01:50:15):
It's another rotten day out at the old ballpip Wait
a minute, day, It's never a rotten day.

Speaker 1 (01:50:20):
At the ballpark. Day it's that no.

Speaker 4 (01:50:22):
Okay once again, hight Airs sports fans. It's another beautiful
day at the ballpark. You fans that are being blown.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
Out of the seats over there in Section G. Just
relaxed that or Nato will blow over at an hour
or so. Wait wait, wait, Dave, Dave, you go ahead
and practice. I just remembered I've got an appointment. I'm
getting that.

Speaker 4 (01:50:38):
Okay, Frank hight Airs sports fans, It's see another day at.

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
The old Ballpark. Nanosenskia right hander, one time poverty. The
Open Days is on a man as a reliever for
the Chicago White Sucks. Charley's taking it for him up
tosses Let's Park for station identification. This is the Open
Days Baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:51:01):
The good life is here on Radio sixty eighth the
Big One KNBR in San Francisco at the Fun Stadium
for Major League Baseball in open at the Coliseum, Money
Moore with Al Helper and we're happy to have with
us tonight are Big NBC producer Al Ashbury back for

(01:51:24):
another year of fun and Puddock and telling us when.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
The breakfas station, he shatters the money. Here's the pitch
to Reggie Jackson hid outside ball one. Daniel Sinsky's got
a real good portball, one of the best in the
major leagues. The guy's got a good arm. He's been
around a lot. He's with the angle with the A's
when they were in Kansas City. Well over to the

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National League. Here's a pix to Jackson inside ball too.
Jackson ripped the double up the alley and left center,
feeling the fourtheenning and trying for a triple. He was
thrown out on a perfect relay from Ken Barry to
Luis Aparicio. The Bill Nelson want to play that n
Aprecio made on the one hot relay throw two old

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pitch to Jackson high ball three. I really got a
kick out of watching Jackson get that double out for
more reasons than one. There were two strikes on him
when he got it. One ball and two strikes, and
he went to the opposite field. He just back away,
and that place said I'm not gonna strake out, and
he didn't. Oh you're gonna find he's a much different
butter this year. Three old pitch stack call. Heys have

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Lou Kraft throwing out of the vout Ben along with
Jim Rowland rolling the left hander. Krow's the right hander,
and I see Joe Nassik up throwing the ball around
with indicates he'll probably go in for defense. Here's a
three to one pitch to Jackson swinging a bouncing ball
right side of the endfield. Alamar picked it up, throws
the first they got it. Jackson digging hard down that

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line is hot number one of the eighth innings. Now
Mike Kirsberger comes out the bat for the A's Michael
Port three tonight, Mike, get that ball hard. In spring training,
made a couple of sensational throws all the A's. I

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got them guns out of that hot field, Hirsberger Jackson
in Monday. Here's Olsensky's pitch to Mike breaking ball in
the nerd outside ball one. In case you're looking ahead
at the top of the night to see whom Odum
must retire if he's going to win this one. At
May Melton at Hopkins, second third and fourth hitters for
the White Sox, Olsensk deliver. Hirsburger checks his swing, the

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ball hits the bat and goes foul, telling that Havia
Jackson jumped up out of her seat down a little
while ago, and all that excitement was going on, and
the A's were scoring tremendous enthusiasm. Here's a one on
one pitch. Mike poules it away down the right side

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of the ballpark, over into the crowd. It goes, and
somebody among the twenty three, six hundred and ten has
a souvenir. Remember that after all of our games nineteen
sixty nine, we'll have our heading home show talking to
one of the players, someone involved in the game who

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had a lot to do with the game. Heirstburger flits
a bat. HiT's a smash up the cleaver of the picture.
Alamar retrieves it first. The first cutties man and much
of that batt'll be picked up for a few days.
Here Heirstburger got jammed and hit went back off the glove.
Alvo Sinsky, who gets an assist on at Alamar also
get an assist over the first. Now they're two downs

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and the eighth and the banner of South Bendo, who
has had one hit tonight in three at bets. Here's
a pitch wing and a mess on a sharp breaking
slider the balls and one strike. O Sinsky cracks and

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delivers look out that the best ball of tailing on
the right handed better. Let's go on the Age five
and the White Sox two. Here's the one on one
pitch breaking ball is low. Two balls and one strike.

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Been an amazing thing in this ball game. Not one
basic on ball has been issued. Pitch strake call on
the outside corner of Sinsky made a beautiful bitch. Two balls.
Who strikes the gown. Here's the line of the pitch
to Bando. There's a line out of the short stocks

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left in the center. Fielavate there and there he picks
it up with. Here's Caeter's coming up. That's the second
hit of the knife, but the As clean up Man's
outers already had two. He comes up for his third.
I jumped at a base head. He struck out of
the second inning. It's five to two the As lead

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with down the runner at first base. Here's a pitch
file away by Cater's track.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
One's gonna be a fire.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
Should just play after the ball game here tonight. That'll
be a little bit beyond what normally would happen after
day's game. Here's a pitch Cater takes outside Bendo had
Osinski a little bit worried that time. One ball and

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one strike, coun Al Sinski gets set. There goes Bando.
Here's a pitch cater bows it off, taking a shot
the right field on the play. One ball, two strikes

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a guy with stud down and a runner at first.
Date one and two on Danny tator Sid reacting to

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the big animation. War Ossky pitching inside and high. Two
balls too strikes the empiring crew here tonight. I don't
know if we ever got it. Ed Rungky's behind the plate.
Kyle Trummer the Empire first base, Jim old them at
second and lookie for the name of Barnett. Is the

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Empire at third base here tonight, first year in the
American League. Jim Barnett two and two. Kyle throw back
over the first base holding Bando there Stadium. Morgan is
here at Coliseum in Oakland, Lloyd Fox. Lloyd's the venteran

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in the baseball Wars and entertaining in that area things
holding the game up. There looks like maybe the fence
is falling down, and I left fie might not be
falling down, might have been certainly coming apart. I get it.
Just the gate out there that came open and didn't
close two and took god on the A's first basement.

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Danny Cator, who wears number two, and early in the season,
we're going to be trying to give you all the
numbers of the A's players over the air. A lot
of fans like to know numbers. That's the cat a
face hitting a center field man knows ose for second
and hold on, it's Ken Barry comes after the ball,
and that Fando and Cater have been bashing them all
that night, and they have five hitting between them. But

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here's Dick Green who has two, including a three run homer.
Now they're two on and two on and the swinging
A's of Oakland leading five to two. Remember Friday night,
the Kansas City Royals come to town, as will be

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ready to give him a royal greedy and beating. They
hope it all starts at seven point thirty. There will
be a Saturday afternoon game in one thirty and a
big devilheader here on Sunday afternoon. So double your pleasure
and double your fun at the Coliseum on Sunday to two.
Count Osinsky's pitch. Green hops it up behind the plate.

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Blaane Josephson getting under the ball makes the grab and
that retired size. Well, the a's don't score here in
the ape. That's home in Blue Moon all the time.
As we go to the top of the night, the
score the a's five and the socks dud. Just a
few months ago you were talking about something that reminded
me money that the new Opened Age yearbook has just

(02:00:47):
come off the prices, and it is a beauty one
of the finance masson in a long long time because
the very fine pictures in that yearbook of all of
the players monetizes on the mon action. But the very
fine somemba else got to reach in every one of
the men their records. Also, you'll find the open Dazs
family in there, and just how they are on and

(02:01:08):
off the field. It's something that you'll want. You want
to check the records of the players. You'll also want
to check your wresters of the Open Daze, and you
can do it with this fine yearbook. Now, you folks
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of one dollar for the book and twenty five cents
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(02:01:30):
when you're listening to the broadcast or you're chatting with
your friends about who's up and what he's done and
so forth, you'll have all this information right at your fingertips.
So remember a dollar twenty five cents get you the
opland Age Yearbook by mail. Johnny Odum goes into the
top of the ninetheenning. Now it is Carlos Many, the

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left fielder, to lead it off. You'll be followed by
Bill Melson and Gail Hopkins. The second, third and fourth
minute of the batting order. That goes to throw out
a second base to Dick Green around the horn and
goes and back over to number thirteen. John Odum. Tomorrow afternoon,
John bo Jim mashe will pitch against the White Sox,
turning at one thirty. We'll be in the air with

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our brontcast at ten minutes past one o'clock with on
deck Carlos May, a big, wide shoulder, left handed batter
and for that plate, Hey, here' the nixeylanders down underneath us.
The pits low from all one crowd gives him a

(02:02:33):
fine round of appluzz got a big tuba player there
and he's got more hair then most boats. On to that.
Here's one old pits in there for a call strike.
Guy's all got white straw hats on see us, see
a tuber, see a saxophone, a trumpet, a trombone, and

(02:02:53):
a ban Joe. Here's a one on one bets fly
ball up in the air and a shallow left field Joe,
it's the county left now for the a's runs. Campaniers
out of the way and Joe makes the catch. Joe
massive klang left field for open one of the nineteen.
And the matter now is Bill Melton, the third baseman

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meltin all right, ended better. Here's all them was pitch.
It's the little low ball one. Remember to stay tuned now.
After the Brontcat of the game itself, we'll have our
head and Home show coming up very shortly with an
interview with one of the players and scores of all
other Major League action today. Here's one old pitch inside
and high hall two. It's two balls, and thus strikes

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the score here in the ninth and in five to two,
Oakland leading. Lou Cross and Jim Rowland continue to throw
in the ball ben and hold them throws to and
hold down the middle of call, strake to and one.
Now here's the pitch, strike two tall on the inside corner.

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I got two balls two stritch on Melting one out
in the ninth inning. Hold them delivers to the plate,
side arm basketball sphere, then that fouled off the foot
of the ladder.

Speaker 2 (02:04:38):
Hold him.

Speaker 1 (02:04:39):
Has not done that side arm right too often. Tonight
Melted had a pretty good cut at that ball, but
he hit over the top of it and filed it
right down off his foot. Chicago White socks new traveling
uniform this year. Their numbers are in white on the
back of the uniform. I can't say that I like

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that too much. They're hard to see even though they
are someone will illuminated two two pitch shirt ball hit
file outside of third. I hold him getting another baseball
thrown out to him. Melton hanging in. They're pretty tough

(02:05:30):
with two strikes on him, keeping the pressure on him
to throw strikes. Here's a line and the right hander
delivers swinging strike three. All the fire was file tip
and Ducking could not hold on. The Empire had runk.
You had to run around in front of the plight
and see if Knucking had the ball. I old them
got that one by Melton, but of his file tip
downwards and ducan didn't that much of a chance to

(02:05:52):
get it. Came across the load of stock with Here's
a pitch mountser file owed him as from I have
straight strikes to this guy and he's fouled off four
us two balls, two strikes to count. Here's all of

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us pitch mounts file again at meltain is a tough customer.
Bill Pol's pitching coach standing next to Hank Bower and
he as dugout. That's where he'll be operating this year.
He will be watching very closely the pitchers out of

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that mountain. His decision will help Hank power make many
two pitch some mountain low ball. Three can't throw stracks
all day, and that mountain's kept the pressure on Johnny.
So it's gone full now three and two. Hold them

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get to signed from Duckings. Here's the pitch. Oh for it.
The first man he's walked tonight, and what a battle
it was. Hold them walks the man and that is
the first walk issued in the entire ball game. Others
one on it. Here's a lieutenant banner Gail Hopkins boy

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owed him threw enough strikes right then to retire the side.
Two innings they threw them all to one. Guy just
kept filing them away. The pressure is on the picture.
Of course, he's the man who's got to initiate the
action by throwing a strike. When that batter keeps piling
them off, it's in his favor that sooner or later
the pitcher's gonna lose it. There's one them's picture, Lieutenant

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Banner inside a low ball one. Dave Duncan is on
his way out to talk to him. Now, maybe just
slow him down a little bit. He had to make
a lot of pitches, and Doc maybe just wants to
give him a little bit of rest here. And I'm
pretty good talking to you about throwing strikes. Here's the

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one and oh pitch call strength and a curve. It's
one and one one one con the pitch strike, two
call a hard sinker. That time the bottom fell out

(02:08:43):
of that one and two cons Odum Setz throws just
outside ball to Danny Katter the Ashburton basement, playing behind
the runner at birt the White Sox trail by three run.
Do not have to do a lot of running right here,

(02:09:05):
sow BNDO as third basement in talking to hold them
from long range. Two balls and two strikes to count
Hopkins Cock's the bat at the plate, So pitch swinging
strike three old, I'm gotting. Oh what a sinker ball
at kit throws six strikeouts for a moon tonight. And

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now with two out areas Dwayne Josephson right in and
batting catcher of Chicago hold them. Mops his brow right
underneath that beautiful Port Knox gold new cap the as
are wearing. Oh that really does top off this uniform

(02:09:53):
with a gold sanatory. O. Here's all thems. Pitch outside
of it, get away from Dave Duncan comes back to
the backstuff. That's gotta go to the past, Paul, I
believe how they call it a while pitch We weren't
trying to second get just looked like it hit Duckan's
mitt and came back to the back stuff. And Dave

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slung his mask down very very unhappily. So there's a
runner at second base now got of one. And oh,
here's a pitch that's low ball too. Here in the
ninth thing. Maybe the pressure of putting it away is

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smither towed him just a little bit here, thinking how
close has come? Now, here's pitch low one outside ball three.
Buddy Bradford is on deck. Oldham's got to come up
with some stritch. Now he has two down a runner

(02:11:02):
at second base. He doesn't want any more traffic out there.
But this is the first inning of the game where
he's showing any signed the control problem. I'm sure he's
getting tired. Here's a three to zero pitch straight. He
got it over there, and he did it with a
breaking ball. Now, Holdum takes a deep breath. What's the

(02:11:24):
end of day, Ducking, who's been trying to talking through this?
The ninth inning, hold Him has set He winds, he
fires strike two, pall out a curveball. Heave Ducking. The
young catcher's found on Odum's pitch is and he has
stayed right with it. Now the big pitch of the
game maybe right here, Folk have three balls two s

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tracks on Dwayne Josephson two down a runner at second.
Holdum brings his hands together, kicks fires there a.

Speaker 6 (02:11:51):
Drive to Kevin AS's left.

Speaker 5 (02:11:53):
He makes his stuff.

Speaker 6 (02:11:54):
He calls the first he got lesson tasting on pay
by Kefan and he's weird.

Speaker 1 (02:12:09):
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Speaker 1 (02:13:34):
Well that's it now, fantastic nineteen sixty nine Major League opener,
the A's win it my score of five to two. Well,
I'll tell you one thing, money, It's been a long
time not seen an openness created and generated so much
enthusiasm as this one has generated here tonight, and the
folks that will believing the ballpark here tonight will be
long talking about the young a's who came from behind

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this ballgame, refused to be beaten and came out on
top with a line score of five runs, nine hits,
and no errors. As far as having men left on,
they had only four and the beating Chicago White Sox
two runs, three hit, say, come into two errors of
the field, and would you believe it or not, they
left only two men on here tonight. It means that
Peters will lose. The first ball game in the American

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League season this nineteen sixty nine, and the one that
preaching he was Johnny Odam who went all the way
and that home run by Green, he really turned the
trick in the fifth inning with two mates aboard. Green
uncart his first home run in nineteen sixty nine. I
guess that was just about size the ball game. Hell,
I guess it was. And I'll tell you the last
play of the ball game was fantastic stop by Campy Kampaniers.
That ball was hit awfully hard to his left. It

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took a hop and Campy, while his back was almost
turned to the plate, snared the ball. I think we
saw more fine defensive plays in this game tonight by
shortstops than I've seen in a game in the Big
leagues in a long time by shortstops. That ratio made
three sensational plays, Kapaniers made two, and well a timely hitting,
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glad I came to money. I'm glad we're able to
say we won the Little Lifter for Hank Bauer, for
Charlie Finlay, for the Oaklands, and for the fans of
the Bay Area. Upon the score again of this ball
game was open five less Chicago White Sox. Do we
hope you enjoyed our broadcast of the game and that
you'll join us again tomorrow, when the A's are due

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to play the Chicago White Sox in an afternoon ball game.
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